If you’re on the East Coast, the thrilling Season 2 finale of The 100 just concluded, and you’re probably wondering what’s going to happen next.
Thankfully, The 100 Season 3 will be a reality, thanks to an early pick-up by The CW Network. But what about that finale – specifically, Clarke’s decision to do what she did, and how much did seeing her mother affect her decision?
The show’s Executive Producer Jason Rothenberg gave us some answers. Warning: Spoilers from the Season 2 finale of The 100 are discussed within.
“In the moment when she sees her mother, just in the room, and then ultimately put on the table and under the drill, it just added to the mental calculus that Clarke is undertaking in that moment of ‘is she going to go ahead and pull the lever and kill everybody to get her people out?’ I think that the fact that it’s her mother probably eliminates any chance that she’s not going to do that,” Rothenberg explained during our phone interview earlier this week.
“I she think probably would have done it whether it was her mother or not, frankly, and then of course, Abby was dying in that moment, and her daughter saved her life, and I think when they come together in that scene in the dorm at the end, it’s an incredibly emotional performance by both of them that scene. It’s just awesome. We see it all in both of their faces, and Abby says ‘I don’t think that there are any good guys. Maybe there aren’t any good guys.’ Which is kind of a bleak message, but nonetheless, I think in a war, it’s true. You can go into a war, trying to fight it like the good guys, but ultimately, that’s just not possible. Innocent people die, and that’s why it’s better not to fight a war, period,” he told us.
Another major reveal in The 100 finale was the notion that it wasn’t a City of Light that Thelonious Jaha was seeking after all – but instead, an artificial intelligence.
“It’s not a city [of light], but a person of light, which is why I always said ‘I don’t think anybody’s ever going to guess it,’ because everybody’s guessing Vegas, or Paris, or New York,” Jason revealed. “Nope. It was an A.I.. Ultimately, I think that the reveal that we were building towards is, in some ways, sort of completing the circle and taking us right back to the beginning, which is how this world ended. We never really dealt with that at all on the show before, and in Season 3, we will. Obviously, Ali the A.I. had something to do with that, and the guy who we see killing himself in the video in the bunker that Murphy finds obviously had something to do with that. All of this will be explored in Season 3.”
A start date for The 100 Season 3 has not yet been revealed, but you can bet that as soon as we know it, you’ll read it here on KSiteTV. Our thanks, again, to Jason Rothenberg for taking the time to chat!
