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March 31: Thoughts on 4x08 God Complex

Finally watched 4x08, like about half an hour ago. I’m actually quite looking forward to the hiatus because this show is too stressful.

It occurred to me earlier today (when I was wondering if I’ve been unnecessarily harsh to The 100 in some of my week-to-week reactions) that I really almost never watch tv shows as they air and I kind of don’t know how to do it, intellectually or emotionally. Usually, I pick up a show that’s already completed its run, or, if it’s still being produced, I wait until a whole season has aired and then I watch it at my own pace. Which is a much better way to get the whole narrative together and make a fair assessment of it, good and bad. It’s harder to read a story that’s not been completely told yet and I find it very...tiring trying to do so here.

Anyway I don’t have much to say on this ep, or at least, I’m going to try not to. I generally found it... frustrating. There were little things I liked and little things I hated and the overall picture was... I don’t know. Like a lot of this season, if it gets pulled together by the end I’ll be pleased and if it doesn’t I’ll be annoyed but I just can’t predict anything and I don’t want to try. (On a related note, my reactions to the episodes have been so all over the place that I really have no idea what I’ll think of this season when it’s all said and done.)

I didn’t like almost anything in the Science Island story. I’m too tired and it’s too late for me to explain why but mostly I’m just...sick of people pretending they have no choice. I’m not entirely sure the line “we have no choice” was uttered in 4x08 (I don’t think it was), but plenty of equivalent lines were uttered, and it was there in all of the silences. I didn’t really think Emori would be experimented on--it was too gross and obviously wrong. But in the build up to the final resolution of the problem--the exact contours of which I didn’t predict--I was basically just annoyed with everyone. Except Murphy, I liked Murphy. He had some good scenes.

I liked the other two story lines quite a bit, and don’t have much bad to say about them.

A few small things I liked:

Kane’s ‘Indra used a gun’ face was second only to Monty’s ‘I’m not a virgin anymore’ face in the excellent expressions hall of fame.

Monty got to save the day!

Indra: killing it.

Jaha: killing it. (Though I did laugh when he tried the key all dramatically and nothing happened omg.)

I like seeing something of what a party on the Ark would look like.

Really really liked the Jasper and Bellamy in the woods scene. For pretty obvious reasons.

I also love Niylah and I liked her little scene with Jasper, like ‘do you want to get high off this medicine?’ and he’s like UM YEAH HAVE YOU MET ME?

This isn’t something I liked or disliked but I just want to point out that I’m about 95% certain that Jasper and Bellamy were ingesting drugs, not drinking alcohol, in that last bit of scene when they knock back the solo cups. Just putting that out there for the record.

Miscellaneous obnoxious things:

I literally just clicked to another tab during the Monty/H*rper scene lol and pretended it wasn’t happening. Still hate them, going to go to my grave hating them.

Speaking of, if H*rper is becoming nihilistic and prone to alcohol abuse, and is going to join the DNR Squad in the next ep, then LITERALLY WHAT IS THE POINT OF MONTY/H*RPER?? This question is both serious and rhetorical. Like literally if that’s where she’s going, and it’s where Jasper already is, then why even introduce this new relationship in Monty’s life when an already established, considerably better thought out, and miles deeper relationship that does the exqct same thing ALREADY EXISTS? Because everything’s deeper if two people are fucking? Idgi.

Sometimes I love Clarke and sometimes (like through a lot of 2B, 2x16, and then like a lot of 3A...and 3B) I kind of hate her. And in this ep she was at PEAK obnoxious level. I’m sorry. But she was. She loves to martyr herself and I can’t stand it. (I’m actually referring to her attitude through the majority of the episode, not when she nightblooded herself, funnily enough.) Also I just wanted to rip my hair out at “I bear it so they don’t have to” because even having had all this time to ruminate on that phrase she STILL DOESN’T KNOW WHAT IT MEANS. And neither does this fandom. Get back to me when you can parse context on the level of a college freshman at least. (Also ironically, she was acting more like Dante, and more closely following��‘I bear it so they don’t have to’ at least in its first step, in sacrificing Emori than in sacrificing herself BUT WHATEVER NOT BITTER ABOUT THIS AT ALL.)

I wait ages and ages and ages for my dark horse surprise low-key fave Miller to return from his spa vacation and then he gets like TWO LINES and DOES ALMOST NOTHING like he’s a GLORIFIED EXTRA I mean this is frankly abhorrent.

Why does Jasper want to get the glitter berries when the last time he ingested them he was plagued by frightening visions?

Did he literally make a new Earth Day shirt and if so out of what? Or is this a question of the writers/PTB just not knowing their own show? Because that shirt was ripped up to make a bandage for Octavia, pierced through with a spear, and then stolen by Grounders. There is no way in fiery hell Jasper still has it. And almost as unlikely he had TWO.

Also how many times did Bellamy say ‘whatever the hell we want’ during their early ground days because, by the way, Jasper didn’t hear him say it when the audience did in that scene in 1x01. He was on the Mt. Weather trek with Clarke, Monty, Finn, and Octavia. Guess we’ve just forgotten about that too.

There were probably other annoying things but I can’t remember them and I gotta chill and sleep. I’ve been awake waaaaay too long.