{"id":5697,"date":"2016-07-08T08:00:46","date_gmt":"2016-07-08T15:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/?p=5697"},"modified":"2016-06-20T22:43:33","modified_gmt":"2016-06-21T05:43:33","slug":"mark-watches-the-100-s03e14-red-sky-at-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/2016\/07\/mark-watches-the-100-s03e14-red-sky-at-morning\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Watches ‘The 100’: S03E14 – Red Sky at Morning"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the fourteenth episode of the third season of\u00c2\u00a0The 100<\/i>, multiple parties race to stop ALIE with mixed results. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to watch\u00c2\u00a0The 100<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Trigger Warning: For discussion of torture (specifically waterboarding), consent.<\/b><\/p>\n

Well,\u00c2\u00a0The 100<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t wasting time at all at the end of this season. The whole show has escalated ridiculously, and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s nice that I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t feel like there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s any filler here at all.\u00c2\u00a0I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got three separate plots to discuss, so I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m just gonna jump right into it.<\/p>\n

Arkadia<\/b><\/p>\n

As frustrating as some of this plot might be, I actually found myself entertained and satisfied by the writers giving stories to Raven, Monty, and Harper. (Where were Bryan and Miller??? Hopefully having lots of sex.) I expect that the finale will hinge on Clarke, but for a moment, I could imagine that Raven would be the one to take down Alie. Yes, the finale is still left, but it was a nice thought! Still, Raven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s discovery here is\u00c2\u00a0very<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0important: ALIE is hiding a killswitch within her programming, and that most likely means that ALIE 2.0 allows someone access to the Citadel.<\/p>\n

And it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Raven who discovers that. The narrative forces her to a point where everything is left to Clarke, which is a bit disappointing, but I still enjoyed that she got her time in the spotlight. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not even irritated by how Monty affects this storyline either. First of all, he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s FINALLY allowed to be with\u00c2\u00a0someone<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0after tons of episodes where he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s largely ignored. HE IS SUPER CUTE WITH HARPER. A nice thing actually happened on this show and it\u00c2\u00a0wasn<\/i>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0immediately followed up with one of the two people involved dying. But Monty\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s delay here makes absolute sense. After killing his mother a few episodes ago, the temptation to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153save\u00e2\u20ac\u009d her, since her consciousness is still there, is very real. His hesitation is heartbreaking because he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s deciding whether or not to kill the hope that he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d ever see her again.<\/p>\n

So I get his anger when Raven isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t able to shut ALIE down. In his mind, he ended his mother\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s life for no reason. Of course, it wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t for no reason; they now have information they didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t before. At the same time, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not enough for Monty, and I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s an irrational response. After losing so much, Monty just wanted something more.<\/p>\n

Polis<\/b><\/p>\n

Which is why I wanna call foul in regards to the writers using the\u00c2\u00a0exact<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0same trope for John Murphy. Watching Indra take down the two guards? YES. Everyone escaping? YES. The unbearable tension of Indra, Pike, and Murphy trying to find Jaha\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s backpack so that they can destroy Alie\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s power source? Oh, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just fantastic. Expertly plotted, all three actors are convincing and emotional, and I felt like the stakes had been truly raised. And I know that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s partially because Alie was being attacked on three fronts in this episode! Would any of them succeed? Who would fail? There was also a surreal nature to the sequence in the Flamekeeper room because WHO WOULD HAVE EVER PREDICTED THAT INDRA, PIKE, AND MURPHY WOULD BE IN THE SAME ROOM?<\/p>\n

What doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t make sense to me is Murphy, who has developed zero connections to\u00c2\u00a0anyone<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0aside from the superficial, who is still alive specifically\u00c2\u00a0because<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0he is such a self-serving and callous person, who lectured Indra about thinking of the future and what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s best for everyone, suddenly being NONE OF THESE THINGS just so that the tension can be drawn out. He is attracted to Emori, but how the hell is he suddenly emotionally distracted by her or what she says? Nothing Alie has ever said has ever worked on him. Why this? Is there a change in him that we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re just\u00c2\u00a0now<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0getting to?<\/p>\n

It felt artificial. It felt like the writers realized they had to create a delay so that Alie could successfully make it to the Ark, so they just stuffed it in there.<\/p>\n

The Water Clan<\/b><\/p>\n

GOD I LOVE LUNA AND PRACTICALLY EVERYTHING ABOUT HER. (Except her getting waterboarded. Jesus christ, is this show going to throw every horrible, trigger-y image at us for shock value?) Y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all, she created a haven for people who are done fighting. Blood must not have blood on that oil rig, and she\u00c2\u00a0sticks with it<\/i>. This whole society is so loving and affectionate and genuine, and that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s important. The writers and crew spend a lot of time building this world for us in a very small amount of time, and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s so that we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll understand Luna\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s eventual choice.<\/p>\n

But I should have known once Clarke failed to implant the Flame on Luna that she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d made her decision then. Clarke\u00c2\u00a0seriously<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0miscalculated the situation\u00c2\u00a0and<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0Luna in that moment, so I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t feel all that bad about her failure. Yes, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s important to take down Alie, but the whole point of Luna\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s story is to make the point that it might not be worth it to be willing to do\u00c2\u00a0anything<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0to get what one wants. When Luna rejects Clarke\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s offer, look at what had already happened. Shay was murdered with an arrow through the chest. Derrick takes a chip to stop her being waterboarded, only to be killed\u00c2\u00a0by<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0Luna in self-defense. Luna\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s whole life was torn apart, and yet she still chose peace. She still chose a life without violence.<\/p>\n

I respect that, even if there is a larger issue at hand. Clarke, seriously, WHAT WERE YOU THINKING TRYING TO IGNORE HER CONSENT???<\/p>\n

The video for \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Red Sky at Morning\u00e2\u20ac\u009d can be downloaded\u00c2\u00a0here for $0.99<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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