2.7 Long Into The Abyss And in this penultimate episode before the holiday break, that idea comes to the forefront of the show. A throughline of the show’s second season has been how incompetent and meddlesome the adults of The 100 really can be, but even they are acting on what they perceive is logic, reason and experience. Throughout the show, we’ve seen that it’s the teenagers who actually know what they’re doing, and the fight over leadership is a fruitless one. That’s especially apparent whenever we see Abby, Kane and Jaha try to carve out control and, with Kane MIA this week, it was down to the others to butt heads about the big issues the camp are currently facing. Abby strikes me as more logical than Jaha, who just chooses the most noble path over something smarter, but Jaha is much more charismatic. He was elected, after all. The way The 100 has handled Finn’s storyline this year has been a source of contention for fans, and the other characters’ seeming forgiveness for his actions feels a little wonky to me. It’s one of those instances where the Grounders seem to have a point, and I have a hard time believing that people like Bellamy and even Clarke would sacrifice so many lives on account of someone like him. Yeah, he used to be sweet and he feels sorry for what happened, but he still massacred a village. That’s a problem that’s going to define how next week’s climax plays out. So we have two legitimate threats coming from one camp – the imminent murder of members of the hundred in their care, and the revelation that they are in fact creating Reapers. With Lincoln now back to normal, or as normal as can be, they have inside knowledge and gratitude from the Grounders, so it’s almost certain that we’ll be seeing a rescue mission very, very soon. The problem with Lincoln’s storyline, as with Octavia’s, has always been the fact that he’s been tied up with a love story and not developed as a character on his own, but making him a Reaper for a couple of weeks did wonders for both of them. Seeing Octavia not holding back against him just because he’s her boyfriend surpassed expectations for the character, and hopefully the lasting effects of his actions will make Lincoln into a something more compelling. Next week’s mid-season finale will hopefully pay off everything season two has set up so far, which is a lot, and – being ominously called Spacewalker – provide us with a neat (or messy) resolution to Finn’s storyline. Read Caroline’s review of the previous episode, Fog Of War, here. Follow our Twitter feed for faster news and bad jokes right here. And be our Facebook chum here.
