The 100 3X9: Stealing Fire

Lincoln's death gets me every time. I think it's actually directed so well and I really appreciate that cause I think Lexa's death was kinda eh in that sense. One thing I really love is that his last words are her people's words for separation or death ('may we meet again') but in his language. I think that's really beautiful and also speaks to the struggle they've been having as a couple, and individually, all season. What is their identity, which group is their people, which culture is the one that fits them, how do you find a middle ground between the two, etc. It also reminds me of a scene that I love in one of the first few episodes of this season when Octavia is upset that Lincoln is wearing the guard jacket and what it represents and how they're not truly accepted by skaikru but he's insistent that this is how you make peace and that trikru lives in their hearts and can't be taken from them. While they're talking they go in and out of both languages seamlessly. Something about that exchange of identity and culture shows how they've changed each other and that they are each other's "people". Like they didn't find a home in one group or the other, they found a home in each other. That's really beautiful to me and his final words are a bittersweet representation of that. Luna is actually someone Lincoln has been telling Octavia about since season 1 as like a place they could go seek sanctuary and that's how Clarke knows the name. The 100 in the s1 finale tried to flee there before the grounders attacked but it was too late. Octavia also tries to convince Lincoln earlier this season that they don't have to play the politics of grounders vs skaikru, they can go join Luna now that the Mount Weather stuff is over but Lincoln says that Luna wouldn't take them now cause she wouldn't want the attention and he had a giant target on him cause of Lexa's kill on sight order, The season just gets so unbelievably good from here. I can't wait.

Melissa