The 100: Day 21: Kass Morgan

“Peaceful and terrifying at the same time, like you suddenly know the answers to questions you never even thought to ask.”

Brief Synopsis:

The sequel to The 100, Day 21, literally begins right where the first one left off. Bellamy and Clarke left the group and they’ve been searching on their own for Octavia. Not only have they found what seems to be pretty concrete evidence that they’re not the only humans, but that materials from the Colony had been sent down before. They’re not sure if that’s in the form of other humans or not. While they’re searching, Clarke ends up getting bitten by a snake and Bellamy has to rush back to camp with her to save her life.

At the camp, they’ve been working hard to make small cabins for themselves, and they’re derailed right now because they have to bury Asher, who was the lone member of the 100 that was killed during the attack from the Earthborn. Bellamy arrives back with Clarke and he and Wells rush her into the med tent, where Wells gives her a dose of the all-saving medicine that was created by some of the scientists of the colony.

Not long after, a couple of things happen in pretty quick succession: members of the 100 begin to get sick, with symptoms that are scarily like radiation poisoning, and Wells captures one of the Earthborn that he happens to see spying on them from the borders of the camp. While many are eager to kill her from the start (morons like Graham) Bellamy is desperate to keep her alive until he finds out what happened to Octavia, and Wells and Clarke both don’t feel right just committing another murder.

When Clarke finds out that Wells used ALL of the all-saving medicine on her, she’s pretty disappointed because it had many doses in it and could’ve saved the members of the 100 that keep turning up sick. Though she refuses to talk to anyone else, the Earthborn begins to speak with Clarke and not only tell her that her name is Sasha, but that they’re not the first from the colony to be sent down to Earth. About a year ago a much smaller group came down and the Earthborn took them in, but it seems that the members of the colony turned on them, though Sasha won’t give details, and in turn it seems like the Earthborn killed them all.

Things are tense enough between the 100 and Sasha before another member of the 100, Tamsin, is attacked by a stray arrow through the leg. They know that it isn’t Sasha, and she swears that a group of the Earthborn strayed and are the ones that took Octavia and have been attacking the camp, but they’re all really hesitant to believe her, especially Bellamy. He just wants his sister back.

Tentative bonds are grown between both Sasha and Clarke and Sasha and Wells, the latter of which seems to be romantic pretty quickly. Wells and Sasha really understand each other, because OF COURSE, her father is also the leader of the Earthborn. Similarly, Bellarke seems to be pretty hot and heavy, but a venture out into the woods to see if they can find more material from the group that came before them has Clarke revealing a horrible truth. She tells Bell that not only did she know the girl that was his first love, Lilly, but that she was one of the ones that Clarke’s parents were experimenting with radiation on and that Clarke had helped Lilly end her life in an act of mercy.

Bellamy is livid and tells Clarke he never wants to see her again, storming off to find Sasha with the decision that he’s done playing games now. Wells and Sasha had snuck away and find the ruins of a home to explore, and on their way home they find Clarke, crying and lost because Bellamy left her behind. Before Clarke and Wells can talk too much, another horror comes to them: Priya, a member of the 100, hung from a tree and clearly dead. They wonder if it was suicide until they find a message on her feet: go home.

Wells tells Sasha that she has to hide but when she screams, he finds that Bellamy has cornered her and has a piece of jagged metal held against her throat, insisting that she tells him where Octavia is once and for all. Wells breaks them apart and tells Sasha to return to camp, where Clarke treats the small wound on her neck. Things seem to be really falling apart on Earth.

Meanwhile, up in the colony, things aren’t much better. Camille had told Glass that she wanted to know how Glass traveled back and forth from Phoenix to Walden (her part of the ship to Luke’s) and when Glass tries to sneak back that way to see if it’s safe for her and Luke before Walden runs out of oxygen, she finds out the unthinkable: Camille has blocked her way back through.

Glass isn’t ready to succumb yet, though, and decides that with Luke’s help she’s going to do her first space walk and enter Phoenix that way. Phoenix is the richer part of the colony and the only one that’s being kept supplied with oxygen until they decide who gets sent down to earth in the dropships. While it’s a harrowing journey, Glass makes it over and opens the bridge. Carnage happens pretty quickly and Glass and Luke rush to Glass’s apartment to save her mom. Together, the three of them travel to where the dropships are in the hope that they’ll have a spot on one to venture to Earth before all of the oxygen is gone.

Clarke patches up Sasha and then the two of them go on a walk. Sasha shows Clarke a hidden cave where she’d gathered a lot of the wreckage from the first group of the colony and made a little makeshift hangout kind of place. While Clarke is perusing the things inside the cave, she finds something that shouldn’t possibly have ever made it to Earth: her father’s watch. (I love that the watch has such a significance in the book AND on the show) She begs Sasha to take her to her father, because she has to have more detail on who was part of the first mission to the Earth. Before she’s able to, though, Graham and his goons catch them wandering off. Clarke gets away and Sasha is saved from brutality by Wells.

Now Bellamy (who Sasha had given coordinates to right before Wells saved her) and Clarke both have different reasons to get to the Earthborn. They end up camping in the same spot for the night and Bellamy is just as unforgiving as before… at first. But when he really starts to think about Lilly, he knows that she would’ve rather died than succumbed to the horror that is a slow death of radiation poisoning, and he seems to forgive Clarke a lot easier than I would’ve expected, and right there in the woods even though there’s a rogue group of Earthborn killing some of them they… make up.

They make it to Mount Weather and are able to enter pretty easily, and are almost immediately attacked and locked away by some Earthborn. Bellarke are livid and believe that Sasha turned on them, especially when she’s the one that comes to them in their little prison room. However, she leads them out of Mount Weather and explains that it’s mostly used for storage these days, and shows them where the Earthborn REALLY live, which is a cute little village. What’s even better? Octavia is there, having been rescued the night before from the rogue Earthborn (or so they say, I guess time will tell).

Clarke and Bellamy speak with Max, Sasha’s father, who tells them that the Earthborn mean no harm to them but are also not willing to mingle and help them farther than what they’ve done so far in saving Octavia, and Sasha showing them where to find some food. Clarke asks the question that’s been burning inside her and is rewarded with the truth. Her parents are alive, were part of the first group down, and also left the Earthborn village when everything seemed to be going south. They’re out there somewhere, and I, for one, REALLY freaking hope Clarke’s mom in the books is a far cry better than awful Abby.

Wells has been kicked out of the camp for letting Sasha go back to her people and is about to embark on his own journey when he runs into Bellarke and Octavia, coming back and ready to tell the rest of the 100 that the Earthborn are good (enough) after all.

Things in the colony are bleak, with people fighting their way to the dropships and willing to do whatever it takes to be one of the ones that get away from certain death in space. Freakin’ Camille finds them and finally tells Luke the truth about what happened to his roomie, and it seems like Luke has finally abandoned Glass for Camille once and for all. They get separated in the huge crowd. Though it’s not easy, Glass and her mom Sonja end up on one of the ships and are about to take off when a guard attacks the ship and is about to make Glass give up her seat for him when her mom steps in to take her place.

Luke comes back for Glass and fights the guy, with the gun ultimately going off in the scuffle and shooting Glass’s mom. She doesn’t make it, but they’re on their way to Earth already, so Glass and Luke settle in and prepare for the crash landing.

Down on Earth, the 100 are enjoying a relatively peaceful night when Bellamy and Clarke see the signs in the sky and know. The rest of the colony are coming, and they have no idea whether Bellamy is safe with them or not.

My Rating:

8/10. I liked this one a lot better than the first one and I’m glad that not only is the storyline starting to pick up and have depth, but so are the characters a little bit.

Devastation Rating:

I mean… the Priya scene and Glass’s mom was so sad. I think I’ll also say 8/10.

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