#shoutout to everyone who draws him more than me and does that shit regularly my ass could never

[ryvdraws]

his tboy swag and autistic coding have captivated me sorry

[alwaysaprille]

Anyway...

I’m back for my regularly scheduled “April Attempts to Break Down the Trailer” post. This will be a long post (obviously) as I like to do these frame by frame. I’m going to be honest, I thought the trailer was good, but also that it lacked a certain punch. I’m pretty sure this is mostly due to the fact that nothing actually new was revealed, but we’ll continue on with the speculation (This will be a two parter btw):

Our opening shot is a barren wasteland, lots of dirt and sand and hot sun, with a lone figure walking across the screen:

The first lines are “Bellamy, I doubt you can hear me on this piece of crap radio....” which (in my opinion) confirms the theory that Clarke has been sending her radio communications almost exclusively to Bellamy and Bellamy alone.

We hear lots of bits about Clarke’s time alone on Earth, but some of the opening narration we’ve heard before (in the S4 finale), which leads me to believe that these are VARIOUS lines taken from multiple radio broadcasts.

Here we’re given our first of (many) parallels with the line: “Please don’t feel bad about leaving me, you did what you had to do.” Reminiscent of Bellamy telling Clarke the same thing around the fire after their 2x05 reunion.

I’m a big fan of this shot of Bellamy. It appears that he is alone (although we can’t see around the corner so this could be misleading). I’ve stated numerous times over the course of the hiatus that I’m really excited to see Bellamy’s development as a leader and I think a part of that is bearing the weight of that leadership alone (even if you don’t have to). I like the idea of a story line where we really get to see Bellamy as a leader (alone) and what that means for him-in both a negative and positive light.  (I’m also a fan of the fact that both Clarke and Bellamy are wearing blue shirts here)

As I suspected, this image:

overlayed with the words “By now Monty should have the algae farm producing, how bad does it suck.”, confirms that they’re not mourning anything but their taste buds and good food.

I wonder if this is the moment that Clarke found “Eden”. Terrible CGI aside, it is nice to look at.

The following two images are some of my favorite of the trailer:

This one I love simply because of the symbolism found in the fact that Bellamy’s page is the only one (that we see) that has come free of it’s bindings. This typically means that someone has spent a long time looking at or manipulating that particular page in a book. I wonder who that could be.

This one I enjoy because it confirms that Clarke didn’t just tell Madi the fairy tale we heard in the S5 Sizzle Reel, she also created the book. These four images taken together tell a story in almost chronological order, Octavia in her war paint with her sword at her back as she prepares to begin the conclave, Bellamy as he looked when he chastised Clarke and Jaha for considering cheating, Octavia after she won the conclave and created “Wonkru” and that last page is a bit unclear, but it’s Clarke running into Becca’s lab as the Death Wave approaches. I can’t help but wonder if Clarke didn’t draw a scene for every part of the 8 months she spent with her friends and family on the ground.

I don’t know if anyone has pointed this out, but in this shot you can clearly see the small patch of green where Clarke and Madi reside, and it makes my heart a little warm to know that Clarke’s friends are looking at the place where she lives even if none of them recognize the significance of it.

The lines over this scene:

“We should light up the ring so they can see us.”/”First we find out who they are and then we ask them for help.” confirm what a lot of you all have been saying from the start, Eligius and SS7 arrive together. If that is indeed the case, then this sets us up for a Clarke and SS7 reunion no later than Episode 2. I’m also a fan of Raven and Emori in the back near the computers, and the general blocking of this scene (with Bellamy to the front and centered-showing that he’s the leader).

The Eligius ship is HUGE. A lot bigger than I thought it would be when we originally saw it coming in for landing in S4. There are probably a lot more people than we expected to be in that behemoth.

 My man Zeke makes his first appearance in the trailer (but not his first appearance in my heart), and we can tell there’s already some division between his ideals and those of the apparent leader of Eligius, Charmaine. She’s certain they have to go to war to maintain their piece of green and Zeke doesn’t understand why they have to go to war at all.

These next to screencaps are posted out of the order in which they appear, but that’s because I believe this is their actual episode order, i.e. I think several of the scenes in this trailer are from the same episode and these particular scenes fit into a certain order that’s undeniable (this part compiled with the help of @octanakin ):

We see a shot of a small white craft heading towards a spot labeled “Docking Bay A”. I believe the craft contains several members of SS7 and they are docking on the Eligius. Recall Bellamy’s earlier line about figuring out who they were and asking if they can help? It seems they get right on that and physically head over to the Eligius.

This is definitely Bellamy entering the Eligius ship. Note that he’s not wearing a suit, and his face is not bruised here. 

We have a moment that matches this scene:

Raven and Echo have joined Bellamy outside of the rocket. They’re clearly in an airlock, and Echo has pulled her knife, so she must see something threatening or at least wants to be prepared. 

This scene is next:

I think Bellamy’s line about “Clarke didn’t die so that we could get back to the ground and make the same mistakes.” probably comes after someone in the group expresses doubt about trusting Eligius. I say this because the largest issue over the previous seasons was that it was always someone vs someone else. Grounders Vs. Arkadians Vs. Mt. Weather Vs. The Planet. Maybe Bellamy thinks it might be wise to try to work with people instead of against them. 

Then this shot is likely next:

I imagine they’re exploring the ship and find at least 30 Eligius prisoners in sleeping pods, with Echo saying: “What happens when these guys get to the ground.” implying that they’ve perhaps wandered into something they shouldn’t have or that everything isn’t what it seems. 

Murphy saying “What the hell, let’s be good guys” to Echo and Bellamy here could be in space or on the ground, although I’m leaning towards space because of the outfits and locations. So perhaps after they realize Eligius is up to no good, they decide to sabotage that somehow which leads to: 

Bellamy is fighting for his life here, he’s definitely on the Eligius ship, but he’s no longer wearing his jacket. So I’m thinking they initially believe everything is all good with Eligius, stumble across the cryo pods, Echo being the spy she is realizes this is literally a sleeping army, a Trojan Horse if you will, and then everyone else is like...”Oh, shit!” 

A continuation of the fight here, this is definitely Echo as she’s the only one wearing short/cap sleeves and she’s slashing him with something (probably the knife she pulled in the beginning of the episode). 

This tragically blurry snap of Murphy and Raven running is also in Eligius, so I imagine this is about the time they also realize something is just..not right.

Here we have Murphy, strangely  not wearing a jacket (but carrying a bookbag) telling Emori (or maybe the whole group) “See you on the other side.” (Nice Jasper shoutout here).

Emori looks understandably worried, and you can see that she’s wearing the orange suit, while Echo (and someone else, likely Raven) put on their suits, on Emori’s other side are Monty and Harper, both already in their black suits.

And that means that the above shot, with only 5 figures in it, one piloting (likely Raven), another copiloting (likely Emori), two black garbed figures sitting closely together (Harper and Monty) and one figure behind Raven) are heading to Earth, without Murphy and Bellamy.

Now, we’re going outside of the trailer and to a picture JRoth posted a while ago:

Bellamy is bruised here, they’re still on Eligius and he’s wearing the same shirt he was wearing in the scene with Raven and in the fight. Murphy is wearing his jacket again, so I’m wondering if  they managed to make piece with Eligius by keeping the leader of SS7 and Murphy volunteered to stay (here I’m thinking of Richard saying that Bellamy might be Murphy’s one real friend). 

Which leads me to believe that Clarke’s first glimpse of Bellamy will actually be relatively early on in the Season perhaps episode 1 or 2, through the scope of her rifle, as he exits the Eligius ship as a prisoner, similar to this shot:

This ends Part 1! Part 2 coming in a few hours!!!