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“Die All, Die Merrily” was one of those episodes of The 100 that again proved this is a show that, for the most part, proudly defies deus ex machina. We were told there would be only one survivor of this battle, and indeed, that’s all we got. It was brutal and resulted in losing multiple cool characters, but it sure was compelling and exciting getting there.
Yes, if you were to guess who was likeliest to survive, it would be Octavia – though I was among those who did foolishly assume that, somehow, she wouldn’t be the only survivor. But I really like how this episode managed to sell her winning without it being “Octavia, despite only a few months training, is so awesome she beats 12 other seasoned warriors.” As Bellamy and Kane noted, Octavia didn’t need to kill 12 people, she needed to avoid being killed by 12 people, then take out whoever was left at the end. And that’s exactly what she did, only getting involved in a couple of direct fights (and in the process, pulling off a couple of her own fatalities).This episode delivered some of the most intense and visceral action ever on the show – including some moments I’m frankly surprised made it through network standards and practices on the CW. Roan using that dude’s giant hammer to smash his head in wasn’t HBO-level gory, but it certainly didn’t feel vague either. And Octavia slicing one opponent’s arm off, then stabbing him through the mouth (all deftly done in one shot, with no edits) was rather amazing to behold. The 100 continues to be an incredibly impressive show in terms of what it technically pulls off with its budget, and this episode was an excellent example of that.
In the end, Octavia killed the incredibly skilled Luna, yes, but only after Octavia and Roan teamed up against Luna – allowing a pretty good argument to be made that Luna was sufficiently weakened and exhausted by this double pronged attack to lead to her dropping her guard enough for Octavia to finish her. I do wish Octavia killed Luna in a more original manner than the “blood trail to a locker she’s not really in” fake out, but it’s ultimately a minor quibble considering everything that happened leading up to it. And Octavia’s final line to Luna – “You’re wrong. There are people worth saving. Just not you” — was terrific regardless.
It’s hard not to lament losing Roan already – it felt like more could have been done with him – but the sequence where Luna kills him was incredible. The black rain beginning to fall and it meaning nothing to her, while burning Roan, elevated her to near-superpowered status, and the depiction of her drowning him was suitably harrowing.
I’d found Luna a fascinating character, but love that they ultimately leaned into her tragic, nihilistic side rather than having her be convinced there was a better way. “I fight for death. When I win, no one will be saved!” was a wonderfully chilling line. She suitably came off as a force of nature here – one it would make sense it would require two warriors to take down.I can’t say I was very dramatically tied to Illian, whose entrance into the Conclave most felt like a direct path towards death. However, that arrow to the neck from Echo was certainly a shocking moment… and the fact that he didn’t instantly die and needed to be put out of his misery by Octavia a wonderfully 100 way to make a harsh moment even harsher.
Following her win, Octavia’s speech about working together was a nice moment, though not surprising – it would have been more out of character for her to simply abandon Indra and the others to their fate, especially after some notably emotional and powerful moments between the two women in this episode.
However… That ending sure threw in a big curveball!
Is it in character for Clarke to make the decision she did? I think it is. She is willing to make the agonizing choice that allows the best path for a select group to survive. She didn’t want Luna to win because it meant death for everyone else, regardless of clan. But when Roan was – at the time — unwilling to consider an alliance to stop Luna, she did what she felt was the most guaranteed promise that some survive, knowing at this point (with no clear winner and not knowing Octavia would do what she did, much less win at all), it would be impossible to get a fair selection from among all the clans. I do hope next week’s episode shows more of her coming to this decision, because man, it sure was harsh, but I can see her doing it given the ticking clock scenario.
It’s such a wonderfully awful thing to do! It dooms everyone else, from every clan. It dooms people Clarke directly cares for like Kane and Octavia (I assume Abby and Niylah, who weren’t in this episode, are in the bunker?), plus Raven, Jasper, Monty, Harper and Clarke’s lifelong best friend in the world, Riley, if they decided to go to the bunker after all. It’s one of the most “villainous” things Clarke has done… and I love the show for going there. Maybe the Sky People are the bad guys! Of course, it’s not so simple as bad guys and good guys in this terrible situation, but the idea of flipping perspectives in this manner and seeing characters we care about truly suffering (and not even simply dying right away, as in Mount Weather) thanks to Clarke’s decision is pretty amazing.
Some bullet points…
-I don’t know if I buy that Roan wouldn’t simply kill Echo for what she did, rather than banish her, but I do like having her character still in play. Plus, no one besides Bellamy even knows she’s banished, right? Also, cool Casey Jones-style mask, Echo!
-I am curious who exactly nabbed Bellamy (and how they knew he was in the arena). Jaha, I presume? Another reason it would be cool if next week’s episode at least somewhat ran parallel to this one.
-There was a lot of great Bellamy/Octavia moments here, but “tell her I was the lucky one” was the most “Awww!” of them all…
-…Though I did love yet another great “May we meet again” retort, this time with Bellamy’s “You’re damn right we will.”
-Indra also got a couple of appreciated emotional beats of her own here, both with her surrogate daughter, Octavia, and with her actual daughter, Gaia, as they absorbed what it meant for Trikru’s Champion, recurring character Fio, to have died in the Conclave.
-Octavia making her war paint look like Lincoln’s tattoo was a great touch.
Verdict
“Die All, Die Merrily” was focused, brutal and intense, and ultimately one of The 100’s best episodes. Octavia winning was an uphill battle — if not shocking given she was at the “most important character” status among the participants — but it felt earned thanks to her evasive tactics, the actions of others being so key, and her using some trickery, even while three notable characters fell around her by the end of the hour. The very end again delivered one hell of a swerve too – one that makes it very hard to root for Clarke, but in a fascinating way that again elevates the “no good decision” scenario these people find themselves in over and over.
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