The 100: Midseason Finale Review

If you’ve seen The 100 midseason finale (and if you haven’t, why are you spoiling yourself?!), you know some major events occurred, as the Grounders demanded Finn (Thomas McDonell) in retribution for those he’d killed – and that Clarke (Eliza Taylor), ultimately, killed him herself, rather than make him go through the torturous, slow death the Grounders had planned.

Thomas McDonell and Eliza Taylor in The 100.

Lindsey Morgan and Eliza Taylor in The 100.

In the wake of this turn of events, I spoke to Eliza Taylor about Clarke’s actions and what this means for her when The 100 returns for the second half of its season next month.This is huge. There’s nothing she can do to come back from this. She killed her love. But we are going to see her evolve into a real leader. I think that Finn’s death makes her shut off her heart and the only thing she knows how to do is focus on what comes next. But at the same time, she’s going to be really battling and moving forward. She’s always going to be right there.All those people out there who are shipping Raven and Clarke can hang up their hats.[Laughs] I know, I know! It’s terrible. I mean, Raven, she’s grieving and I’ve given her a really good way of kind of taking out her anger - and that’s on Clarke, which is fair enough. It’s an unfathomable thing that she’s done.I don’t think it’s going to move forward quite as easily as you would think. Clarke’s not exactly in the good books given that Finn was supposed to die by the hand of the Commander after torture, because that’s their way. So the fact that Clarke has eliminated that satisfaction for the Grounders, that definitely doesn’t put them off to a very good start. But we are definitely going to try to focus on making them realize that our common enemy is Mount Weather.I thought it was really, really cool. I thought it was great. One thing about our show is that we’ve pushed the envelope. I think Clarke doing this, it’s just given me so many more places to go with her and it’s really deepened her as a character and I think it was a very, very good decision. Although, I miss Thomas dearly, of course.

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