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Dark Matter: Entanglement (2024)
I would argue another choice, not a stroke of luck
It is true, there are many Jason 1s at the end who have also fought so hard to get home to Daniela and Charlie. But, from the little that was shown, most seemed to be fixated on stalking the other Jason 1, stalking Daniela and trying to accost her, or stalking each other and solving the issue with violence. Instead, protagonist Jason came up with a plan that neither involved stalking, nor violence, in order to have a quiet and honest - if challenging from her perspective - conversation with Daniela. Whatever trials and tribulations he went through led our protagonist Jason to choose the most peaceful, least stressful and confrontational way of dealing with a horrifying and absolutely incomprehensible situation. This was not luck, but exactly the point of the show, a least in my humble opinion. But I admit I could be wrong.
It does seem strange that it is only after being tied up by one of the Jason 1s that Jason 2 finally understood the horrors and repercussions of his own choices. He already assaulted and kidnapped Jason 1, raped Daniela, essentially left Ryan for dead, kidnapped another Ryan from his world, and killed two other Jason 1s, but okay. He told protagonist Jason and family what we, the viewers learned: it is our choices that inform our relationships, who we are, and the makeup of our lives. And it was Charlie who, earlier in the season, explained how regret is easy. If you are unhappy, you fight forward to change your future. You cannot look backward for the solution. There is only forward. There are only your next choices, and the ones after that
In these incredibly strange times, it is a good and potent message. I am rooting for this family and truly hope we get to see the choices they, Blair, Ryan, and Amanda make in whatever worlds they find themselves, and how those choices shape them in the future.
The 100: A Lie Guarded (2017)
Jasper & Echo, just ugh
Sadly, Jasper did get the best line of the episode: "someday when all this is over, you're going to realize that foam bit was funny." He is also right - though Raven was right first - Clarke should have been honest. Her dad tried to be, she respected him for that and now she's doing the exact opposite? No. Crowd source like Raven told you to do. Basically do whatever Raven tells you to do. At all times.
Other than that, just get rid of Jasper already. And Echo too. They are both just awful. And yes, I think vengeance is wrong, but I still hope Bellamy gets to plunge a sword through the withered husk that is Echo's heart.
And Luna? You just begged the Ark to take your people in, which they did. They also gave away precious meds for your little girl. Have a little grace and gratitude. Instead, you want to live on a hellfire irradiated world by yourself? Sounds like a party. But, of course, no one can resist Raven Reyes, because she is a QUEEN!
So Luna does come around.
And I agree with everyone else. No way Octavia would ever survive a fall like that.
The 100: Perverse Instantiation: Part Two (2016)
Predictable and messy finale
Oh Octavia, you are such a disappointment. She learned nothing from Lincoln. She learned nothing from her own brother's grave mistakes. Monty is now ranked as my second and Octavia very low on the rankings. Raven is still number one. Love her so much! Do not mess with her writers! (I know this show is long over, but I haven't gotten there yet)
Jasper became the most annoying pod person of all time. Murphy has somehow become a more interesting and likeable character. I really don't care what happens to Jasper anymore - pod person or not - and just wanted Clarke and Lexa to kill him.
Speaking of, Lexa showing up to fight with Clarke: meh. At least she finally did. Way too late, of course. Where was that fiery fight in the season 2 finale? Though it's always gratifying to see a character who is not a heterosexual white male save the day and both her entrance and exit were admittedly splendid, her presence as a hero still angers me more than a little given her terrible and senseless prior choices. Clarke's devotion to her makes zero sense and is so not grounded in reality given everything Lexa has done (or not done, as the case has been in several instances, including failing to save her own people from the missile strike and failing to honor her truce and attack Mount Weather alongside Clarke and the sky people). Clarke and the audience were so freaking fast to forgive her and trust her and I am still completely mystified by that. If the writers wrote the characters honestly and treated them as fully formed humans, as opposed to mainly using them as plot devices, Clarke would have never forgiven Lexa, let alone loved her.
The reason why I keep harping on this in my reviews is that it seems like people only love Lexa because she is gorgeous and because she is a lesbian. That is not enough. A character should be authentic and make choices that make sense - even if they are poor choices. A character's choices should be made because of who that character is. The writers did not make Lexa a real person, they made her a pure plot device whose decisions came from the writers' desires to move the narrative one way or another. The actress (who did the best with what she had) and the character deserved better. But just because they deserved better does not make the Lexa that was actually written worth forgiving, loving, and rooting for.
The 100: Nevermore (2016)
Pod people really scare me
A very good episode. The slow creep of Jaha's mission that began in season two has finally exploded in an intense and thrilling way and the stakes have never been higher.
Lindsey Morgan is so great and absolutely terrifying when she is channeling A. L. I. E.
But Jasper really needs to stop his blame game. The truth is, if you want to trace back all of the cause and effect, one could argue that he was the root cause of Maya's death. If he hadn't panicked in season one's Unity Day and shot the two grounders, the grounders may not have escalated their violence against the sky teenagers. That escalation resulted in the final battle of season one, which led to the sky teenagers being vulnerable to capture by the Mountain Men. Had that escalation never happened, capture may have never happened, thus Clarke would have never been put in the position of having to expose the residents at Mount Weather to lethal radiation. Look in the mirror Jasper.
The 100: Stealing Fire (2016)
This is what it means to make a hard choice for those you love
The best of the characters on this show sacrifice themselves for those they love and their people, and that is what makes a devastating and impactful death in a story.
Long before Clarke said "blood must not have blood," Lincoln and Finn preached that very idea. Lincoln was tortured by the sky teenagers, but still sought peace. Finn was stabbed by Lincoln's blade, but still sought peace. These two were the first two non-bigots in this untamed and violent war to choose peace. Finn's character was sorely used by the writers for plot purposes. Initially one of the best characters who acted from a place of reason, they turned him into a monster without any development whatsoever. But still, he turned himself into the Grounders for his people and his love for Clarke. Lincoln was always good. He was made into a drug addicted monster, but he fought it and, aside from those times he was addicted to the red, acted from a very moral place and strived to bring people together. He, too, valued the lives of Octavia and his people above his own. He demonstrated it with his life and it was wholly heartbreaking.
It was great that the show created a lesbian commander in Lexa, but if they wanted to make her death more impactful (beyond the tragedy of once again killing a gay character) they should have actually made her into the wise and strong leader everyone pretended that she was. Instead, they made her into a fickle untrustworthy leader whose choices made no sense. Regardless of what all of the 'shippers say, her character was irrationally flawed to the point of absurdity. That, to me, is the biggest crime against representation in the LGBT community - making her into this unsympathetic character who betrays people left and right. But the deaths of Finn and Lincoln, wow, so hard to bear, but make for riveting tragedy.
Now it's up to Raven (who was sadly missing from this episode) and Octavia to carry the torch of characters worth rooting for. Raven continues to be my favorite, she is wholly authentic, smart, and complicated. Octavia comes in second, but I love her warrior heart. All hail Raven and Octavia.
P. S. Wick, even in his all too short presence on this show, was also fantastic, bringing the comedic relief this show desperately needs. Such an underused and under-appreciated character.
The 100: Ye Who Enter Here (2016)
Love what Lexa represents as a non-heteronormative female leader. Hate that her word is laughably worthless.
What I love: Lexa, a non-heteronormative person is a leader of many factions and wholly respected and revered by her people. Obviously fantastic! Additionally, Clark's bisexuality has not been compromised by the network, nor does the world in which she exists make a thing of it. She just is who she is. Also obviously fantastic! Willow, in BTVS, was not afforded the same dignity by the network and was forced to be one sexuality or the other. Such a shame that it has taken so long for each person's sexuality to be as normal as the sexuality of heterosexuals and not to be the defining characteristic of who they are - at least in TV and movies anyway - but still great that it's finally happening.
But, as one of the first non-heteronormative female leaders on TV, where it is not discussed, it just is, they should have written her better. They should have given her the opportunity to be flawed but in a way that made sense. Instead, they made her flaws senseless. Let me explain:
As part of the truce in season two, the Grounders and the Ark were going to take down Mount Weather together. Clarke killed Finn, the boy she loved (and regardless what people think about Finn the character, Clarke did love him), to ensure that truce and the mission to save both their people from Mount Weather. The Grounders were tortured and used by the Mountain Men for over 50 years, yet Lexa broke her truce with Clarke for the release of the current Grounder prisoners. Clarke would not have had to murder so many innocents were it not for Lexa. Clarke couldn't even forgive herself for that act, she exiled herself from her own people (who she saved with that excruciatingly difficult act) because of the overwhelming shame she felt. Lexa's life is on the line and she's proven she'll do anything to save it, including kneeling before Clarke and swearing fealty, which she didn't even do in public. All is forgiven because Clarke is now Lexa's "people" and Lexa will do everything to protect her people? Um remember when Lexa left her people to die by missile strike in season two? Of course she claimed she did this exactly so they could WIN the war together against the Mountain Men. Speaking of, how many of Lexa's people died in that missile strike vs. How many people did she "save" when she betrayed Clarke and the Ark? Lexa's "strategies" for protecting her people change faster than the speed of light and her word is worth absolutely nothing.
The 100: Spacewalker (2014)
Absolute hypocrisy
What Finn did was horrible and inexcusable, no question. In the real world. But the world of the 100 is a world of barbarism. And even in that world, everyone is forgetting the horrible and inexcusable terror perpetrated by the Grounders prior to the incident at the bridge in season one, outside of the theater of war. They murdered sky teenagers, who had not intentionally caused any harm. They used horrifying biological warfare to "soften" the battlefield, causing both atrocious pain and death. Both sky people and grounders have committed barbaric acts without real consequence. Look at Murphy. I'm not saying Finn did not deserve punishment, but the spectacle of it all is insane given everything everyone has done "in order to survive."