15 Questions We Have After Watching ‘The 100’ Season 5 Trailer

By Samantha Coley and Brittany Rae

The 100 Season 5 trailer has finally dropped, and boy has it left our heads spinning and our theories in chaos.

With the season premiere still a solid six weeks away we have plenty of time to analyze every frame and quote from those 3 minutes and 48 seconds. And with the amount of jaw-dropping content revealed we’re going to need every minute left in this hiatus to try and figure out what’s going on!

Here are 15 questions we have after watching The 100 Season 5 trailer. Let us know what you’re questions are in the comments below!

1. How does the green place exist?

Clarke finds a veritable Garden of Eden somewhere around the Shenandoah valley that appears miraculously untouched by the effects of Praimfaya, the death wave that swept the planet at the end of Season 4. How did that one patch of land survive against the entire rest of the world?

How many people can survive there? The valley may become a home to Madi and Clarke over the time jump, but it looks like they’re going to have to fight for it in Season 5.

2. What makes Clarke truly feel alone?

The trailer opens with more of Clarke’s one-sided messages to her friends that went to space as she reaches out to them while searching the desolate planet alone.

Clarke: I’ve been by myself for two months, but this is the first time I feel alone. It’s like we were never here.

What is it that pushes Clarke to finally feel alone? Is it seeing the places they called home destroyed and empty? We don’t know how long Clarke is alone before she finds Madi. It’ll be interesting to see what she goes through during her solitude.

3. How did Clarke become a mom?

This is definitely one of the plots of The 100 that we are most excited about! Clarke has spent the entire time we’ve known her worrying about “her people,” but for the last six years, she’s only had to look after one person.

We can’t wait to see how these two find each other and how their bond becomes that of a mother and daughter over the time jump. How will they build a life together and how will the stories Clarke tells Madi about her people shape how the two of them fit into the world when everyone is reunited?

Clarke’s new perspective as a mom will also give her new insight into her relationship with her own mother. That’s one reunion we’re dying to see!    

4. What keeps SpaceKru from coming home on time?

In the shots where Bellamy and the rest of SpaceKru first see the Eligius prison ship, we can see that they also have a pretty clear view of “the one spot of green.”

Besides our fearful visitors from afar, there has to be a reason that these guys can’t get back home yet. What kind of obstacles have they run into up there all alone? Did they forget to fill up on gas?

It also becomes evident that they haven’t been receiving Clarke’s transmissions from the ground when Bellamy talks about making sure that she didn’t die in vain. She’s clearly left her mark on her friends, just wait til they find out she’s still alive.

5. Who is on the prison ship?

We learned in Season 4 that the prison ship’s population are all nightbloods — Becca, ALIE’s creator, originally created the black blood to combat radiation sickness for long-haul miners (thus: cryopods). Are the miners actually prisoners, serving out their sentences in space? Maybe so.

Also spotted: the patches on the prisoner’s uniforms all say “Eligius IV.” If this is the fourth ship, then three came before it. Perhaps others are also out there in space.

6. How did Diyoza become their leader?

The hierarchy among the members of the Eligius crew becomes evident almost immediately. They’re lead by a formidable woman named Charmaine Diyoza, played by Ivana Milicevic.

She’s got a gnarly scar running along her neck and is described as a visionary among people who cannot see. Clearly, she’s been around the block a time or two, and every word out of her mouth implies that she’s not only ruthless but brilliant, ambitious, and tactically advanced beyond anything we’ve seen.

7. What is the origin of Wonkru’s cage match-fight club system?

Octavia says she’s not a leader, but very few people on The 100 really choose to be one.

Clarke was thrust into it once the delinquents landed on the ground, and though Kane aspired for the crown, he eventually gave to Chancellor’s pin to Abby. Lexa had no choice in becoming heda, either.

Now that Octavia is the leader of Wonkru, she seems to be making the same mistake Clarke did in season 4 — listening to Jaha. The Ark’s punishment system isn’t far off the cage fighting in terms of morality.

If you step out of line, it looks like you get thrown in the pit. Or Octavia stabs you. Sounds a little like how the Ark used to kill its law-breakers, doesn’t it?

The bunker must not have an adequate prison system, or they’re very, very low on resources after six years. One less mouth to feed is one less mouth to worry about, just like the Ark.

Looks like Octavia is blending grounder justice with Skaikru punishment. Yikes.

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