The 100 Season 6 Episode 2: 'Red Sun Rising' Review

petermarie (57)in #review • 5 years ago

[SPOILER ALERT! Beware of spoilers from the episode!]

The red sun is up, and our survivors on the ground need to find a way to survive once again. They use the shackles discovered in the houses of the inhabitants to restrain themselves in different rooms--Echo with Emori, Miller with Jackson, and Murphy with Clarke and Bellamy. Just in case, they set aside all their weapons, arm themselves with one doze of tranquilizer, Bellamy holds the keys to all the other shackles, while Clarke holds his.

However, this arrangement doesn't last. Before long, Miller starts screaming. Clarke and Bellamy have no choice but to free each other and rush to his aid. According to Jackson, the bugs had escaped and burrowed into Miller's hand. As their official physician, he had to quickly get it out, and so Clarke released him. But this didn't make any sense-- all the bugs they caught were dead, and Bellamy confirmed this when he saw their smashed container. Despite this, Jackson was intent on cutting open Miller to get the bug out and Miller was screaming hysterically for him to do it. Bellamy and Clarke quickly empty their tranquilizers into them, realizing both were having a shared hallicination. Then they lock Jackson back up and head down to their own room.

But Murphy, who they had left locked up, is gone, along with one of the guns. There's no time to waste. Bellamy and Clarke run to the room where Echo and Emori have locked from the inside and ask for a tranquilizer to use on Murphy. But Bellamy is beginning to lose it too, banging on the door unnecessarily and looking wideeyed crazy. Clarke realizes this and yells at Echo not to open it. Instead, sensing an episode coming on, she uses her tranq on herself.

Before Clarke can coax Bellamy back tp their room, shooting erupts. Murphy has taken aim at them from a high rise, forcing them to separate. Clarke gets back and quickly grabs her bag to get something to defend herself with. But just then, her radio comes on. It's her mother: Raven had managed to solve their comms issue. But Abby sounds strange, and begins to convince Clarke that she is the problem and not the red sun, telling her to just kill herself to save the rest. Fortunately, Murphy arrives just in time completely in his right mind and drags her back from suicide, pointing out that the radio she was talking into was switched off. Together and with a plan, they go look for Bellamy, now completely out of it.

Murphy tackles him and they fight, but when Clarke is supposed to gas them all, her radio begins to speak again, beffudling her. She dismantles it, but it still goes on, even when she puts her hands over her ears. Bellsmy overpowers Murphy and begins to drown him. Clarke regains herself enough to come to his aid, revive him, and after a brief scuffle with Bellamy, gas them all.

Meanwhile, up in orbit, the stolen transport ship docks with Elygius 4. Unfortunately, Abby and the rest of Wonkru don't know the transport ship has been hijacked and allow the docking, and thus are unprepared when the thieves, four persons dressed in stealth suits, gas them and lock them in the mess hall. Octavia immediately begins to cause trouble, and Wonkru warriors gang up on her and begin to beat her up. However, Abby stops them when they are about to kill her, which was very obviously what she wanted.

In another part of the ship, Raven had managed to escape the raid. She wakes up Diyoza and Madi, and together, they take back the ship, killing three of the raiders in the process. Realizing their people on the ground are in danger, Abby, Raven, Diyoza, and Madi, along with a stowaway Octavia take the prisoner and head back down.

Meanwhile, as the eclipse passes, those on the ground wake back up. Murphy is alive, but there are black vein lines on his body. Then, suddenly, a bunch of kids swarm back into the compound. And one comes up to ask Clarke if they are here to take them home, to which Clarke replies uncertainly: 'Isn't this your home?'

So much to look forward to! What's especially thrilling is how Murphy alone wasn't affected by the Red Sun. We better get some explano!