In the eighth episode of the third season of\u00c2\u00a0The 100<\/i>, Kane and his allies go up against Pike. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to watch\u00c2\u00a0The 100<\/i>.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
I think there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a strength to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Terms and Conditions\u00e2\u20ac\u009d that comes from the fact that the entire storyline focuses solely on the Arkadia plots. I thought this was one of the stronger episodes of the season, and the hint of the future we get here is downright exciting. YES TO THESE PLOTS, YES TO PEOPLE FIGHTING BACK.<\/p>\n
Let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s chat.<\/p>\n
Raven<\/b><\/p>\n
I am so thankful that Raven was given a story so complex because I love that\u00c2\u00a0she<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0is the one who makes the choice to do as she wants. So much\u00c2\u00a0of her appearance on this show feels like the writers flinging one horrible thing after another on her, and thus, her decision to fight Alie feels something uniquely suited to her. Initially, though, I wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t sure that she would resist. The bliss that Alie\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s AI gave her was so all-encompassing that even when she\u00c2\u00a0did<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0have challenging questions, she skipped right over them. She manipulated Jasper into helping her by exploiting his alcoholism, and she didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t seem to care about this at all.<\/p>\n
It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fascinating, though, that Jasper\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s pointed questions about the chip are what trigger Raven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s disgust with the technology. I wondered if he was asking her about Finn as a test, but I now realize how desperate he is to move beyond the pain he feels for Maya. He wanted to know if the chip would make him forget her, and he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s shocked to find out that it made Raven forget Finn, someone she loved with all her heart and who she watched get executed. If that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the case, then it might work for him. EXCEPT RAVEN REALIZES THAT HER LACK OF PAIN IS NOT WORTH HER FORGETTING FINN.<\/p>\n
!!!!! THIS IS SUCH A GREAT PLOT TWIST, and now I want to see hacker Raven fighting Alie and building a resistance force against her. THIS IS THE SHOW I WANT, PLEASE GIVE IT TO ME. Also, Jaha is just\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 wow. Alie literally spelled it out to him: she cannot override someone\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s free will or consent. So he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll do it for her? NO, DUDE.\u00c2\u00a0NO<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Pike<\/b><\/p>\n
It is so hard listening to Pike talk because the guy so actively manipulates everyone around him. I realize that one of the major reasons I dislike him is because he reminds me of arguments with my mother. He cannot ever, ever have a discussion because he enters all conversations with one goal in mind: to win them. Everything is a debate, there is no good faith on his side, and there is no chance he is wrong about\u00c2\u00a0anything<\/i>. Even further, he twists events and gaslights people around him so that he looks sensible. I AM SO TIRED OF HIM REFUSING TO ADMIT THAT\u00c2\u00a0HE<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0STARTED THE WAR. YOU DID IT, PIKE, WHEN YOU SLAUGHTERED ALL THOSE PEOPLE. PEACE WAS COMING, IT HAD ALREADY HAPPENED, AND\u00c2\u00a0YOU<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0RUINED IT.<\/p>\n
Thus, the work that Sinclair, Kane, Miller, and Abigail do is\u00c2\u00a0necessary.<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0If Pike succeeds on his next mission, it is entirely possible that hell will rain down on Arkadia. And for what it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s worth, Kane\u00c2\u00a0tried<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0other options! He tried to convince Bellamy that he was on the wrong side, and he tried to compel Pike to back down from his position. The joint prison riot plan only came about after Kane had exhausted his other options, which is about as stark of a contrast with Pike that I can imagine. Pike sees one plan here \u00e2\u20ac\u201c violence \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and sticks to it. There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no mutability, no compromising, just unending, relentless war mongering.<\/p>\n
And for a moment there, I truly thought Pike and the others were going to get away with their plan to hand Pike over to the Grounders. I really did! Instead, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Terms and Conditions\u00e2\u20ac\u009d goes to a much darker place, but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s one where Monty and Bellamy\u00c2\u00a0finally<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0question what Pike is doing. (Well, Monty has more or less been questioning it the whole time, but you get what I mean.) Granted, it should not take Kane getting a death sentence for that to come about, but still. There it is: Bellamy doubts. He sees how willing Pike is to execute someone who has done so many good things for Arkadia, and he realizes he may actually be on the wrong side. I hope Miller\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s boyfriend is also willing to change affiliations, and Hannah\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s conversation with her son and Bellamy might also be a suggestion that she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s willing to re-think things.<\/p>\n
Truth is, this could go a million different ways. We still don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know where Octavia and Indra are, nor do we know how Bellamy and Monty will plot against Pike. I suspect that Sinclair and Lincoln will both be at risk from Pike\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s retribution, too, so will they try to save them as well? I HOPE SO, NEITHER CHARACTER HAS HAD MUCH OF A STORY THIS SEASON.<\/p>\n
Where\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Abby during all of this, by the way?<\/p>\n
The video for \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Terms and Conditions\u00e2\u20ac\u009d can be downloaded\u00c2\u00a0here for $0.99<\/a>.<\/p>\n Mark Links Stuff<\/b><\/p>\n – I am now on Patreon<\/a>! There are various levels of support, from $1 up to whatever you want! You’ll get to read a private blog, extra reviews, and other such rewards.<\/b> In the eighth episode of the third season of\u00c2\u00a0The 100, Kane and his allies go up against Pike. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to watch\u00c2\u00a0The 100.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[643],"tags":[644],"class_list":["post-5689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-100","tag-mark-watches-the-100"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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