The 100 Season 6 Trailer: 26 Things We’re Screaming About!

The 100 Season 6 Trailer: 26 Things We’re Screaming About! (continued)

11. Niytavia Sparring

Not all of Octavia’s fight scenes look like she’s actively welcoming her own demise though! Intercut with the shots of a bruised and bloodied Octavia are moments where she’s sparring with what might be the only friend she has left, Niylah.

During our first look at Wonkru on The 100 Season 5, Octavia and Niylah made a date to spar later and though that time got interrupted by a pretty intense coup, we’re finally getting to see these two go at it. 

Niylah is one of the few characters that remained completely loyal to Octavia right up until the very end of Season 5. Kane and Abby and several others fled the bunker and Blodreina’s wrath as soon as they saw an opportunity to leave.

Others abandoned her side as soon as Madi took the flame and became Heda. Niylah never gave up faith in Octavia, even going as far as to compare her to the sun. 

While many shows frequently resist writing multiple queer characters, The 100 has shown that they aren’t afraid of having more than one or two characters who aren’t straight. We know Niylah likes girls and if they wanted to introduce a new side of Octavia by exploring this relationship, I certainly wouldn’t be mad about it.  

12. The Path to Salvation 

Our heroes have been searching for salvation pretty much since day one, and this new world just might hold their opportunity to find it. Each of these characters that we have come to love (or hate) has blood on their hands and they each have their own set of sins for which they must atone. 

Shaw: Salvation comes from faith and good works. You haven’t done anything yet. 

The trailer frames this line from everyone’s favorite prison guard-turned-leader of the Raven Reyes fan club as directed at Clarke. Coming from Shaw those are pretty harsh words, given that he doesn’t really know her yet, and that he wasn’t exactly around for all of the good works she did that kept his new friends alive for the first six months they spent on the ground.

But he isn’t wrong; salvation has heavy ties to religion and deliverance from the consequences of your sins. It isn’t a right given to everyone, but a privilege that must be earned through actions and behaviors.

And this isn’t the first time the concept has been brought up on The 100. As early as Season 1, we heard characters like Kane declaring that “salvation comes at a price.”

Will Clarke and company finally be able to find salvation? Or will it slip through their fingers when conflict inevitably arises once more? Or does salvation truly lie in the comfort of knowing that at the end of the day you did everything you could for the people that you love? 

13. We Need a Fresh Start

When we first learned about the six-year time jump between The 100 Seasons 4 and 5, many fans thought that that would give many of our favorite characters the fresh start that they deserved.

And while Clarke, Madi, and Spacekru spent those six years building families and enjoying the reality of being at peace, Wonkru certainly didn’t. And everyone got pulled back into the quagmire as soon as Eligius IV came to town.

Clarke: From what I’ve seen these people are happy. Their world works; we destroyed ours. If anyone needs a fresh start its us. 

The 100 has hit the reset button once or twice before, through a couple of different time jumps, in order to breathe new life into these characters and find them at turning points along their journeys. Season 6 does seem to be going in an entirely new direction as it goes all in with reflections of both classic and new-age science fiction. This line may get pretty meta as the show takes this opportunity for its very own fresh start. 

14. WHAT IN THE NAME OF SAND SNAKES IS THAT?

You’ve heard of wasteland parasitic lampreys, now get ready for whatever the hell this thing is! The 100 does radiation monsters better than anyone we know and while the people on this planet look relatively normal and human, this thing is truly out of this world. 

With a spiked tongue, multiple rows of sharp teeth and at least twelve eyes, this thing gives all of The 100‘s previous apocalyptic beasts a run for their money. While we’re here, who do you think this big guy is about to take a bite out of?

As far as we know, Madi and Clarke are the only people on the latest shuttle from Earth with black blood, but all of the characters on this new planet should be natblidas too. Let me know who you think is on the menu in the comments below!

15. I’m Waiting for It, That Green Light

This eye-catching green wall of flames is previewed as one of the “things on this planet worse than eclipse-induced psychosis.”

The green light is also seen shooting through the sky in another shot, as well as piercing through the pretty blue sky on the poster. No one knows exactly what this threat is and what it does, but it is visually stunning, that’s for sure.

This light/flame/shimmer wall also reminds me a lot of the acid fog from Seasons 1 and 2 of The 100. With that association, it really makes me wonder if this deadly force is a product of this planet thousands of light years away, or if like the acid fog, this weapon is entirely man-made and ready to be deployed at any time to keep enemies at bay. 

16. Living Up to Monty’s Dying Wish

The 100 Season 5 closed out with one of the most emotional scenes of the entire series when Monty laid out the story of his life with Harper as they sacrificed themselves and worked to bring the last of humanity to safety. Ever the peacemaker, he left Clarke and Bellamy with a challenge: be the good guys. 

His dying words are echoed once more over the opening moments of this new trailer, urging his friends to be better than they were in the past. 

Clarke: We can change. 

Russell: I believe you want to Clarke, I just don’t believe you can. 

I hope that Monty’s edict will inform the whole season, but I believe it will especially shape Clarke’s journey this year as she works hard to repair her relationships with her friends and prove that maybe they can be the good guys after all. 

17. Radiation Zones

The civilization that the adventure squad finds when they land on the new planet, the one featured in the poster, appears to be a literal castle on a hill, surrounded by farms, a biodome-style shield, and electrified warning signs all along the edge of the forest alerting you that you’re about to enter a “radiation zone.”

I’m beginning to think that Sanctum isn’t the name of the planet, but this city alone and whatever lies beyond their walls is a mystery waiting to be unraveled. Eligius III was sent to this planet over 300 years ago. Who knows how society has unfolded here and how far humanity has spread?

18. Children of the Woods — New Grounders?

Speaking of the spread of humanity, there appear to be at least two classes of people here: the elite members of Sanctum with their shiny clothes and their beautiful city, and the people with big Mad Max energy that inhabit the woods outside the radiation boundaries.

How did these people get here? Was the planet already inhabited when Eligius III arrived? Could these people be aliens from another world?

Or are these the descendants of Eligius III, while the people inside the Sanctum are the planet’s original inhabitants? Better yet, are they similar to Mount Weather’s reapers in that perhaps they’re monsters created by the Sanctum people to keep something else at bay?

Perhaps this divide can be traced back to another war from another time and the original members of Eligius III split into two factions creating the dichotomy we find on Season 6. 

19. Welcome to Sanctum: New Friends, New Enemies. Which is Which?

If we’re following The 100 trends, Russell and his fairytale of a community may appear to be the good guys, while hiding something much more sinister under their illustrious exterior. Whereas this trailer clearly wants us to believe that the people in the woods are the villains, they, much like the Grounders throughout the first two seasons, could quite possibly be an ally in disguise. 

Russell may welcome Clarke and her friends with open arms, but he clearly loses faith in them at some point along the way. 

Russell: These people are dangerous. They will burn this world down just like their last one. 

When the people of the Sanctum turn their backs on Earth’s last survivors, will they be able to find friends elsewhere? It’s Mount Weather and the Grounders all over again. 

20. Who Took Madi? And Who is Stalking Her Dreams?

The littlest Griffin looks like she’s having a pretty rough time on this new planet; between being kidnapped and experimented on, she’s also getting visions from a pretty creepy commander. Madi’s blood may not be unique on this planet, but if these people find out about the technology in her head they may be interested in taking a closer look. 

Having the Flame in Madi’s head gives her a unique opportunity to expand the world of The 100 by giving her a century’s worth of memories from the past commanders–including Becca Pramheda, who created the flame and worked on the project that sent Eligius III to this planet in the first place. 

The commander that appears to be haunting Madi on Season 6 is gaunt, pale and almost alien-like, from what we see of him. Could he be a trick implanted by whoever is experimenting on her? Or is this truly a past commander with an important message for the latest Heda?

My current conspiracy theory is that this is Bill Cadogan, the doomsday prepper that built the bunker and had a cult-like following before the world ended.

We don’t know who took the flame after Becca was burned alive. Could Cadogan have injected himself with nightblood and taken it from her to regain power after she came to the ground? That would be a pretty neat way to rope in the leader of the Second Dawn now that we’re on a planet with two suns. 

Unrelated, but I really hope Lexa is proud of Madi’s candle collection. 

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