But what happens when Madi shows up? Among this group it won’t be a problem, but get a few Grounders involved, and if Clarke and Madi disagree, they’re going to follow Madi. Raven visibly bristled at the idea of Clarke speaking for them, something Clarke did on instinct (though it’s not like anyone else stepped up) and Bellamy backed her. The 100 is avoiding the reality that there were still folks loyal to Blodreina by keeping them in cryo and sending her on punishment walkabout. When it comes to power within the Sky People, this episode only just scratched the surface of the tensions. It does make their 180 on her people staying make more sense, and provides some inherent danger and need for secret keeping in the form of Madi, but if Clarke ends up in some sort of weird position of power within the world of Sanctum, I hope it’s a source of friction rather than just status and power. That said, I share Murphy’s disdain for a Princess Clarke scenario. So far, The 100’s ability to believably carry forward symbolism from earth (like Becca’s infinity symbol) has been a strong suit. It’s good to see that being a Natblida continues to be part of the show’s mythology, albeit in a transformed way. That said, we don’t yet know enough about what they faced during that time, but you can at least bet no one was deploying acid fog against them. It’s amazing to think that they were making their palace and crudites in the same time period that Grounder culture evolved. They have decent science and seem good at farming, manufacturing, making palaces, etc. But let’s be honest, O basically handled that solo, so what was that guards’ excuse? Their lives are so good that they have a golden retriever! Their guards turned around from a fight that our people saw as winnable – or at least, non-optional. We know that they’re at least allowed to have one of each gender and the children were referred to as “the hope” (or maybe that was just the future primes?) in the opening scene, but that’s about it on kids. Unclear what happens to extra siblings or if there’s a cap on kids, but this totally strikes me as a “one child policy” or “heir and a spare” kind of place. We learned a lot more about the people of Sanctum in this episode, first and foremost being that they have a clear inherited class distinction based around blood purity – you’re either in a line of primes and will one day be named, or you’re not.
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It’s a fun feeling of discovery to have this far into a show, and one that rarely comes this genuinely. At several points, people from Sanctum or Children of Gabriel say lines where we don’t understand at least 50% of the words in the sentence because this world is so new and fully developed. “Children of Gabriel” is so packed with mythology, politics and new dynamics for the Earthlings to sort out that it makes everything else feel like mere preamble.