The 100 returns for Season 4 Wednesday night, but suffice to say, things aren’t getting any easier for the characters.
On a visit to the Vancouver set of the series this past fall, I watched a particularly intense scene being shot. Because this scene takes place quite a few episodes into the season, I unfortunately can’t give any details except to say it took place on a new and impressive set that will be introduced this year and involved a rather large assemblage of characters from both the main and recurring cast… all witnessing something very bad happening to someone right in front of them.
Season 3 ended with Clarke (Eliza Taylor) being told the end of the world was coming, thanks to all of the Earth’s remaining nuclear power plants melting down. Speaking to some of the cast on the familiar Arkadia sets during their breaks from filming that day, I learned more about what to expect as the show returns and Clarke and the others have to process this monumental news.
Clarke has this horrible knowledge as Season 4 begins -- picking up moments after Season 3 -- and Eliza Taylor explained, “Her next move is to basically figure out whether or not it’s the right thing to do to tell the people that the world is coming to an end again. Especially to save peace, because of destroying the City of Light. There are going to be a lot of angry people who wanted to stay there, especially if the physical world is ending. She stands to get into a lot of trouble. She’s just trying to figure out how to best go about telling everyone.”
Said Lindsey Morgan (“Raven Reyes”), with a laugh, “Well, in true The 100 fashion, no one is happy for long. You’ll find out in episode one that the geek squad gets the word pretty quickly about what happened with ALIE and what happened at the end in the City of Light. Raven is immediately the first one to take control of that situation just because Clarke asks her for intel on it - is it true and is ALIE telling the truth, or was she lying to mess with us some more? Because Raven is so smart, she bears the burden of knowledge and knowing too much and knowing the logistical facts of what is to come and how dire of a situation they truly are in. She also has to bear the burden of sharing the news with everyone else.”
While some characters may discover the truth earlier than others, as more learn what’s to come, the reactions are understandably varied.
Said Taylor, “This season is based around how people find hope in a hopeless situation. Some will go about it really badly and some will go about it the best way they can.”
Clarke has constantly found a way to overcome the odds and solve the problems her people faced, even if the sacrifices were tremendous. Taylor said that Clarke is still in that mindset, “But there are definitely going to be more moments of doubting whether there’s any way of defeating this thing. It’s the second nuclear apocalypse. It’s a little bit of a tall order, even for her. There are a lot of heartbreaking moments and sheer frustration with her not being able to fix things as well as she usually could.”
As Richard Harmon (“Murphy”) put it, “It looks like the world is coming to an end for a second time. That’s a big part of the whole entire season is the individual characters and what they’re going to do, how they’re going to respond, knowing that the apocalypse is coming. Will they fight? Will some of them submit and want to enjoy their last couple months on earth and have a good time? Or are they going to fight? Speaking for Murphy, he’s been on death’s doorstep so many times before. I’m not sure things are going to change for him now as far as being a fighter. He’s never had a whole lot to live for but that never stopped him from living. I don’t think that’s going to change now. You’re going to see Murphy fight with all of his might to survive and not only him, but the person he loves, Emori.”
In the past, Harmon noted Murphy, “Never had something to fight for before but he did anyway because he does not want to die. He’s not going to go down like that. And I just hope he’s not going to die this way either!”
For the Grounders, Zack McGowan (“Roan”) noted that trust factors in, saying Roan’s people wonder, “Do we take their word for it that it’s coming, or do we not? Do we believe in it? We know what happened last time… It killed everyone off, but yet we’re still here. ‘Yeah you said the end of the world was going to happen last time, but me and my ancestors made it through.’ So I think that’s an interesting kind of debate, in Roan’s mind as well as in everyone’s mind, ‘Well, some people did survive!’
McGowan added, “I think that there’s a big part of this season where Roan is trying to understand how much needs to happen and whether or not we can trust them— whether we can all trust each other or whether we’re all just going to fight against each other. And like any good show, I think there’s times where you think it’s all going to blow up and times where you think it’s going to all work out.”
Morgan said the big “How would you respond to this crisis?” moments on The 100 was one of her favorite aspects of the show. “It always makes you question your own humanity and your own morality. I always put myself in the position of all the characters shoes and go ‘What would you if you were Clarke? What would you do if you were Bellamy?’ And so what I love so much about this season is we have an entire spectrum of perspectives on this matter. If you only had six months to live, how would you live? What would you do to survive? Would you fight to the bitter end? Would you give up now? Would you party? Would you create a bucket list? It’s defining of everyone’s true character and their core beliefs of if you have so little of life to live how would you lead it? You get to see Raven make some hard choices and really have to figure out the person she is and how she wants to go out or not go out.”
Continue on for more on the show's group dynamics and how the Grounders factor in in Season 4.
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