Executive producer Jason Rothenberg answers all your burning questions heading into the final season.
Warning: This article contains major spoilers from the season 6 finale ofThe 100.
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Wait, is magic real onThe 100?!
So uh… what exactly is the anomaly and why is it causing so many weird things to happen?
Where did Octavia go?
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IsThe 100all of a sudden dipping its toes into magic for the final season?
Executive producerJason Rothenberganswers all those and more burning questions below.
JASON ROTHENBERG:B. I can’t really talk about what it is.
For some reason, that’s a thing which has an explanation.
The thing itself does as well.
Any sufficiently advanced technology looks like it’s magic as Arthur C. Clarke says.
That’s what we’re going to delve into in season 7.
I butchered the quote but it’s close to the quote, sorry Arthur!
Clarke Griffin’s [Eliza Taylor] namesake is a sci-fi writer.
Every finale in the past has blown up the world ofThe 100and expanded it in new ways.
So what does the anomaly add to the story that we’ve never seen before?
Well, we’re going to be seeing the anomaly for real.
They’re all going to hopefully be explained.
Because I don’t always know exactly what the next story is!
But we always are teeing up the next story.
There’s obviously a lot to unpackwithin that final scene.
But the biggest question is, what happened to Octavia?
I don’t want to tease anything about her fate other than we will explain what happens to her.
However, in the finale, Clarke floated her body out into space, effectively killing her permanently.
Yeah, quote-unquote [adult] I think is right.
Obviously, at this point, Bellamy [Bob Morley] is 30; Clarke is 26, 27.
These people are all adults at this point.
At some point, we lose our parents and become the parents ourselves.
Will we introduce new adult characters?
Not for the reason of introducing new adult characters, if that makes sense.
There will be new characters whose stories we follow next season.
The finale also introduced a mystery in the form of Sheidheda, a.k.a.
the Dark Commander’s A.I.
Where will we see that story going in the final season?
I would say that is a good observation.
Yes, he’s definitely a ghost in the machine.
He’s lost and they don’t quite know where he is now.
Yes, there will be a continuation of his story for sure.
He’s not done wreaking havoc on our characters.
I just can’t tell you anything about it yet.
The 100will return for its seventh and final season onThe CW.
