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(/!\ Please do not read the following article if you haven't watched the episode 7 of the 3rd season /!\)
Doing this summary was harder than i thought. The 7th
episode « Thirteen » was a shock to most fans but also a
revelation.
Although Thirteen starts with a both humourous and
tortured Murphy, the most eagerly-awaited scene since episode 6 is
the one about the thirteenth station. We discover Becca testing a
chip looking much alike the AI distributed by Jaha. While watching
this scene, I can’t help thinking about a theory I read on the net a
few days earlier (link). Jo Garfein tries to establish a link between
A.L.I.E and the Grounders, but I’ll come back to that later. On
this station we are lucky to witness a nuclear apocalypse and how it
looks like from space. It could almost be magnificient if it weren’t
for the billions of humans dying.
Back to the present, we discover a
Lexa once again in a difficult situation, standing before her
people’s slaughter. She is torn once more between a Titus trying to
show her what is expected from her people and a Clarke wishing to
save her own. Let’s notice here that what the Flamekeeper wants to
do with the 13th clan looks a lot like the 13th station's fate
(apparently even in the futur number 13 is a bad omen). Anew, Lexa decides not to fight the skaikru back but the redundancy
of her choices brings her near her death. I’d like to point out
that in this scene we can see Titus’s motivation : to protect
Lexa. No matter what happens and what she chooses, he will always
keep her safe.
This episode, putting aside the
shock and revelations, is the time of reunions and expected scenes by
many viewers. « I liked the exchange between Clarke and
Octavia » says Alex’. I think that many fans were eager to
see those two women back together. For me, Indra’s return was as
awesome and to watch her being reunited with her second, walking
towards the battlefield made 2 words flickering in front of my eyes :
BADASS POWER.
Of course the peak of this episode
and what made people react on the social network (our article here) is
Lexa’s death. I know you’re going to hate me but I was never a
big fan of her character (what happened in episode 15 of the second
season is still stuck in my throat). Though, during the last 10
minutes of this episode, my crying face was reflected on my laptop’s
screen. I think the brilliant writing and the excellent actors
(especially Neil Sandilands as Titus) can take the credit for my
tears. Suddenly, like Clarke, I couldn’t let Lexa go.
Unfortunately, her death was
necessary. Jason Rothenberg has said it on many interviews. Firstly,
the actress Alycia Debnam-Carey is very busy with Fear the walking
dead. Secondly, and it’s the most important point to me, her
death serves the story. Killing Lexa wasn’t senseless, thanks to it
the story moves forward. Just in this episode, it allows to establish
a link between A.L.I.E and the Grounders.
Before going deeper in this
secret starting to get revealed, I would like to write more about the
reasons of her death. For one of my friends, her death wasn’t
necessary and she deserved a « real death » (understand :
dying from a random shot isn’t worthy of Lexa). Ok, we would
imagine her dying on the battlefield, being a symbol for many
generations. But death (and life) are also this : accidents.
Moreover, I believe that the way she died will be useful for the rest
of the serie (although i hope it won’t turn against Clarke and
Murphy).
Lastly, I’ve read here and
there about how the Clexa scenes preceding the final electroshock
were only an amplifier. It’s highly likely, what would be this show
if it didn’t make us feel like being on a rollercoaster anyway ?
But again, this serie is a representation of what is and what could
be life in a post-apocalyptic world. So why couldn’t this two
leaders have their little moment of happiness before seeing it torn
from them ?
Ok, now I’d like to end this
article about what Lexa’s death truly bring to the story. As
previously explained, it allows to establish a link between A.L.I.E
and the Grounders. Jo Garfein (yeah, remember… he’s the author of
that theory I told you about at the beginning of this 400 km long
article) listed many resemblances between those two groups who seemed
very different so far. On of those similitudes, a same quote said by
two characters in two different episodes (« Death is not the
end » heard from Lexa and later Jaha). In this same theory,
Garfein writes that the nightblood might be a geneticly modified
blood to have control over the Grounder people through their
Commander. The second scene on bord of the thirteenth station when we
notice Becca injecting herself a black liquid has an uncanny likeness
with that theory. Later, Titus call the people surrounding a drawing
of a woman (probably representing Becca) as the « first
Nightbleeders ». It seems that the Grounders’s ancestors were
injected the mix created by our crazy scientist. Thirteen also
reveals that the reincarnation of this people is possible through the
A.I : A.L.I.E 2. All of this leads me to ask myself a question :
Is the Commander chosen only from the Nightbloods because this A.I
only works on a preconditioned body ?
Apart from all these theories and
questions to myself, I’d like to underline my delight before the
approach technology – mythology. I find it amusing and brilliant
that what was part of the grounders’s mythology for so long, had
actually a technological basis (Becca more or less seen as a
goddess). I hope we will see more of that in the future.
Jus Drein jus daun !
What will happen in episode 8.
After Thirteen, nothing is less certain. With Alex’, we apprehend
the fate of our two skypeople Clarke et Murphy. Let’s hope the new
Commander will not reinforce the old Grounder saying...
- Izzy, AJI-Team
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