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

8. Why are Raven and Murphy separated from the others?

Even though there’s seven people up in good ‘ol SpaceKru, only five people are on the pod heading towards the Eligius ship. Notably missing: Raven’s big space suit. Since we also see Murphy turning away from Emori in an airlock, and Raven and Murphy both imprisoned by Eligius, it looks like those two might be on an adventure of their own for a while.

9. CRYOPODS?!

Upon some sneaky (not so sneaky?) mission onto the Eligius ship, Echo and Bellamy find rows upon rows of people kept in stasis inside cryogenic pods designed for deep space travel. Echo immediately identifies the frozen sleepers as an army, something she definitely knows a thing or two about. But what Echo doesn’t know is that the “army” is a group of prisoners from our time.

How many people do they Eligius crew have frozen? How long have they been gone and why did they come back now? How did the members who are awake upon arrival make it back?

Did they receive Clarke’s transmissions? How did they know to come home? Okay, this is way more than 15 questions, but we really need to know everything about these new guys!

10. WHAT IS ALIVE INSIDE THAT ONE GUY?

Maybe he should have stuck to an all-algae diet.

11. What have Kane and Abby had to do to survive?

There’s been a distinct role reversal in Kane and Abby’s relationship over the course of the six year time jump. In Season 1, Kane was the one willing to do anything and everything to keep humanity alive, even if it cost him his own. At the same time, Abby did everything in her power to make sure that they deserved to survive.  

This relationship has come full circle by completely upending their respective views of the world. Now it’s Abby who appears hardened and battleworn, where Kane is soft and yielding, desperate to be more human than he had been years before.

With Kane going against Abby’s death wish at the end of Season 4, and Kane being a perhaps unwilling member of Octavia’s new fight club, these two are definitely going to have a lot to work through in Season 5.

What will they have to do to survive? How will each of them deal with the things they’ve done? And how will those survival instincts affect what they mean to each other?  

12. Who started a fire in the bunker?

And when did this fire happen? Since we can see a Second Dawn logo through the explosion, it looks like someone is deliberately sabotaging the bunker. We can also see Octavia and a few others running towards something while a strange orange glow flickers ahead of them, which could be that same fire.

If a fire breaks out while they’re all still underground, that could seriously mess with the oxygen left for everyone else. Maybe this is why Octavia institutes the fight club — once again, they’re running out of air. Everything comes full circle on The 100.

13. Why are the Blakes fighting (again)?

They’re not in the main fighting ring and they’re not armed, so it’s possible they’re sparring. But why? Bellamy and Murphy can be seen fighting up on the Ark, too.

Is it possible Bellamy has been keeping everyone trained up, just in case? Or did Murphy just piss Bellamy off? It’s probably that second one, let’s be real. It’s Murphy and Bellamy, after all.

It seems odd for Bellamy to be training to enter the ring after everyone is obviously freed from the bunker, so perhaps the Blakes sparring is actually how they’ve figured out how to work out the tension between them. Sparring in a controlled environment is certainly healthier than anything else they’ve done comparatively, so hey! We’ll take it.

It’s also evident that while both Bellamy and Octavia have had to become leaders in their own right, they’ve evolved in ways that are completely opposite of each other. Bellamy took to heart Clarke’s dying words and appears to lead with both his head and his heart now. Octavia on the other hand has adopted the grounder philosophy that love is weakness, and rules her people with a cold brutality.

Both Blake’s have carried different burdens during the time jump and have likely become new versions of themselves in order to survive. Will Bellamy’s love for his sister be able to bring Octavia out of the dark? Will Octavia find her way back to her family through Madi and Clarke?

14. How have all our favorite family dynamics changed over the time jump?

The Blakes seem to be working things out via their fists, but what about the Griffins? Now that Clarke is a mom, her perspective on the choices Abby has made will likely change drastically. It’s hard for any teenager to understand their parents, let alone a teenager in a post-apocalyptic world with a mother who makes hard choices in the name of keeping her safe.

Clarke: You’re my family, and family looks out for each other.

Abby is the catalyst for the entirety of The 100. If she hadn’t come up with a way to save the kids by sending them to the ground, all of Skaikru would have died never knowing that the Earth was habitable.

But Abby did what she did to save Clarke — just as she always has. Now that Clarke has Madi to think about, she may understand why the choices Abby made that once seemed incomprehensible to her actually came from a mother’s heart.

15. Who are the good guys? Are there any good guys?

New drinking game: take a shot every time someone says “good guys.” You’ll be smashed in no time!

This is a show where black and white doesn’t exist. There may be characters we consider heroes, but the choices they’ve made clearly make them think they’re not good guys. Clarke is a prime example of that. People are inherently flawed and will always make mistakes, even when they’re doing what they think is right (everyone always does).

It’s less about good guys vs bad guys and more about choice vs choice. What does the Eligius crew value, and how does that make them any different from Skaikru in Season 1? Or from Pike and Farm station? It’s how they go about obtaining and meeting their goals that defines them.

Skaikru spilled a lot of blood before they learned to negotiate with the Grounders. The choices each character makes — like Clarke staying behind, or pulling the lever to burn Anya’s army, or shutting the Grounders out of the bunker — don’t make them good or bad. They make them human.

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What did you think of The 100’s Season 5 trailer? What are you most excited to see and who’s time jump look is your favorite?

The 100 returns on Tuesday, April 24th at 9/8c on The CW.

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