honest opinions about fav shows :)

This little society brings together two fairly disparate groups - Spacekru (Murphy, Emori, Raven, Jordan) and Wonkru (Octavia, Niylah, Indra, Gaia, Miller, Jackson), but Skyring is the bridge between them. With Echo spending six years with Spacekru on the Ring, followed by five years on Skyring with Hope (plus months on Bardo with Octavia, Hope and Levitt), she’s the one who can bridge that divide because she’s the one who is emotionally connected to both groups.

The spy who belonged nowhere is now the lynchpin who belongs more than anyone else.

Do I wish there had been more moments, more talking about the particulars of how and why everyone chose the way they did, etc.? Sure. But I know we were never going to get that. TV moves fast. We have to leave those character moments to fanfic (and believe me, I will get into them).

I like that most of our characters chose not to transcend. Because from what Avatar!Lexa was saying with regards to Madi and the rest of humanity who did choose to transcend, transcendence is this woo woo Borg hivemind type thing, where sure, there’s no death or pain, but it isn’t really living, it is just existing.

Like Levitt said earlier in the episode, “I would have liked to live a little first”.

and it was a nice parallel to the first episode, clarke’s description of earth ends up being exactly how the show ends.

Like they couldn’t even spend a moment showing Raven and Emori’s reunion or Echo and the rest of Spacekru or any lingering on Octavia literally talking two sides out of a war (which should be a MASSIVE moment both in the overall narrative and on a character level), or Emori and Murphy’s relief at not dying together or ANYTHING.

Even if I give them some grace for the writing of this season overall knowing that various BTS issues caused some problems and forced some very last minute re-writing, this was such an INCREDIBLY badly paced, overstuffed, and incompetently written episode, it’s really disappointing that it’s the last episode of the entire show. There was hardly even any time to BREATHE and process that the main characters actually, you know, survived in the end. And get to be happy.

It’s so odd because on the one hand technically most of the characters I cared about got a good ending, so to speak (good as in they survived and they’re together and happy and there’s no more war now, not good on any kind of satisfying character level), but it was so badly handled it still FEELS like they didn’t.

i sorta liked it?

i appreciated that it was octavia to save the human race and raven, that they realized what it took and saved the world. i appreciated that clarke was shown to WANT the best for them and was okay with staying behind. it was also BEAUTIFUL that lexa was the one to show clarke she was FINALLY her people’s choice and she owed nothing more to them.

the best part? people chose people. they could choose transcendence and forget clarke but they chose the very thing transcendence denies, human love and family and bonds. people carry people...and we saw that was exactly the case.