Jasper Jordan (Devon Bostick) ended The 100: Season 2 in a very bad place. And who can blame him? He’d just seen someone he loved, Maya, die in his arms, thanks to the direct actions of people he considered his friends.

With The 100: Season 3 debuting Thursday, I sat down with Bostick on the set of the show to discuss where Jasper is at when the season begins, seeing Jasper with different characters than we have in the past, the introduction of the AI, Alie, and more.

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Yeah, I think Jasper is -- everything that has happened since they landed on the ground is sort of bottled up inside of him and he hasn’t really been able to release it in a healthy way. This season, for at least half of it, we’re seeing him sort of bottle up all of these emotions and shove them down into a dark surface they shouldn’t be shoved into. He’s a wreck… he’s a wrecking ball.I think a lot of them don’t know how to deal with him anymore because it is three months after the incident but he still hasn’t recovered or come to terms with any of it. His best friends murdered his girlfriend and an entire civilization so that’s screwing him up on a daily basis. A lot of them don’t know how to deal with Jasper and they’ve tried. I think that the wall is just up and it’s a big wall and not many of them are willing to look over it. This is a weird analogy. But he -- I think a lot of them have tried but everyone’s kind of at their last straw with him.It’s very interesting because this season I get to work with people I haven’t gotten to work with over the course of these two seasons. A lot of dynamics are changing. A lot of relationships are being formed, good and bad. The 100 has gone through so much together that it is bittersweet when they get together. It’s not completely chummy as much as it is “We’ve seen terrible things together and I think we remind each other of these horrible memories.” So there’s a weird dynamic where we’ve gone through so much and we are close but we’ve also seen each other do horrendous things and that’s affecting us all in different ways. the dynamic is not like Ross and Rachel from Friends anymore. it’s like if Ross killed Rachel’s brother or something.Yeah. It’s upsetting because I have so much fun working with Chris Larkin when we are friends on screen, as we are off-screen. But it’s fun in another way to see us be so -- we’re consciously in different worlds. I’m lost and he’s very present. He can see his best friend slowly deteriorating and I just don’t give a shit about anything, even if it means I’m going to lose all my friends and I think Jasper feels he already has.It’s nuts. The first season was very much about colonizing, I feel, and Brave New World with this dystopia where we’re free but not really. Then we go into war and destruction and this 1984 world in Mount Weather and now Season 3 is very AI heavy, a lot of artificial intelligence and I think we’re going to figure out how we came to this place, why we even left earth in the first place. We’re going to learn even more of a backstory and also travel into a dimension that I’m still having trouble trying to understand but I think it’s going to become clearer as we get deeper and deeper into it. We have a lot of wild – I don’t know, I can’t even describe it. I’ve never acted in scenes like the ones we’re doing this season. It’s different. It’s very different.

The 100: Season 3 premieres Thursday, January 21st on the CW at 9:00pm ET/PT.Eric Goldman is Executive Editor of IGN TV. You can follow him on Twitter at @TheEricGoldman , IGN at ericgoldman-ign and Facebook at Facebook.com/TheEricGoldman