The 100 Season 6 Premiere: 'Sanctum' Review
[SPOILER ALERT! Careful for spoilers from the episode!]
The 100 has returned for season 6 (and book 2 of the story) and kicks off with the end of Monty's message from the end of last season playing back for the just-awakened people on-borad Elygius 4. Well, not all of them, but the central crew, as expected, along with Jordan, Monty's son, and without Octavia. Relationships are still frayed, as the events of last season are still fresh in everyone's mind. But they have a new planet to explore, and they have to put their grievances aside. At least just a bit.
A team is picked to go first. Clarke and Bellamy leading, Miles piloting, Murphy, Emori, Miller and Jackson following. The ionosphere of the new planet is interferring with their sensors so they have to go in blind, though they were getting a rescue beacon signal from Elygius 3 on the surface. Strange, seeing as the occupants of that ship had been down there for at least 2 centuries.
Still, a chance must be taken. The team goes down. At first, the planet seems great and almost without dangers. The air is breathable, the water swimmable. No predators attack them, and the inhabitants don't come out to attack their ship on landing. The only tensions are between the people themselves. Murphy is finding it extremely difficult to cut either Clarke or Bellamy any length of slack and is being even more obnoxious than usual. Miles is still bitter at Clarke for giving him up, resulting in his capture and torture. He tells her straight up that he can't forgive her, unless she earns it through works.
At that point, though, troubles begin. The once peaceful insects suddenly become violent, swarming and attacking the humans and forcing them to run towards the beacon source, which they had previously decided to approach slowly and carefully. But then, Miles, leading the team, runs into a radioactive fence. Clarke is able to pull him out of the clutches, turn off the fence briefly to let the rest in, and turn it back on to stop the insects, but it's too late for him and he passes soon after. The team is a bit more subdued then, going forward towards the source, where they find an awesome looking settlement (including an actual castle on a cliff!) but... totally empty of people. The place is well kept, so its not abandoned, but no one can be found. The team lounge around and look for answers...
Back on the Elygius 4 ship, tensions are running high between Raven and Abby. Raven distrusts her totally after her drug addiction phase, made so much worse because her own mother was a drunk and Abby had become sort of a surrogate to her since Finn. Abby goes to work on Marcus, operating his injuries with an anaesthetic algae mix Monty created cpecially for the purpose. However, despite her instructions, L wakes up Octavia woth the rest of Wonkru, and though the surgery is successful, the former Heda comes in accusing and blaming, and as Murcus responds, his wounds open up again. This time there is no algae to operate him with, and for a moment, it seems, his fight is over. But Abby will not lose her clutch to sanity and puts him back in cryo, determined to find a means to revive him.
Meanwhile, on land, troubles aren't over. The suns are eclipsing, and what seems so beautiful suddenly turns deadly when Emori jumps on and attacks Murphy her love out of nowhere, confirming what Bellamy just read in a children's poem about the red sun rising... when friends become foes and so few survive. In the distance, they see their dropship taking off and realise the inhabitants have stolen it...
What next?! Watch out for my review of Episode 2: 'Red Sun Rising', dropping soon!
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