Something occurred to me during this episode: What if we never see Bellamy again?
What if when Clarke and Co. find him, he’s a 50-year-old man?
A lot of “Hesperides” made me nervous for our beloved characters actually.
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Let’s get into it…
We start with a flashback to 10-year-old Hope.
Life is fairly normal until she hears the Anomaly start to open.
Four people come through, and only three go back.
One very hot man is left behind.
He tries to enter the house, but Hope stands her ground with a rake.
This is Dev, whom Hope has told us about.
He keeps his distance until she sees him eat a poisonous berry.
And just like that, she’s Adult Hope.
It’s about this time that Clarke and everyone in Sanctum realize Echo and Bellamy are in trouble.
Not culty at all!
She agrees to go if she can get her friends back from the other side.
TIME MOVES FASTER WHERE HER FRIENDS ARE.
What age are you now?
Speaking of, the Sky Ring group is slowing getting Orlando to warm to them, little by little.
Hmmm …. Where have I heard about 12 levels before?
And founder Bill Cadogan’s famous phrase?
“From the ashes, we will rise.”
“From the ashes” was this season’s premiere episode title.
Maybe Jaha was onto something after all…
Despite breaking that rule and getting tossed here for five years of repentance, Orlando still believes.
When they do, he begins to train them for the next four years.
It goes according to plan until Hope stabs a woman who’s about to attack Echo.
Orlando sees the woman’s face and begins to cry.
With everyone else disarmed, Gabriel says they’ll cut Orlando loose so he can follow them into Bardo.
But Echo has other plans: She realizes he’s still loyal to the Disciples, they’re hispeople.
As soon as they wake, they’ll just go to Bardo and ruin their plans.
so you can save Bellamy, Echo has to kill all of these unconscious Disciples.
She starts stabbing as Orlando stands tied to the tree, sobbing.
And it only gets worse when she says they have to leave him behind.
We barely knew Orlando, but I shed a few tears for him.
Back in Sanctum, Raven is able to open up the mask and discover how it works.
Clarke is just arriving at Gabriel’s tent.
He found their bodies along with “a prisoner who spent five years with them.”
He killed himself after they betrayed him.
Was that in the last hour?
Or 10 years ago?
Will we see Echo, Gabriel, and Hope at these ages again?
Anyway, Raven and Jordan swoop in and save the day.
They use the Golden Suit in invisible mode to kill all the other Disciples there.
They decide to pick one and test it out.
Clarke, Niylah, Jordan, Miller, and Raven all decide to go through.
Gaia stays behind to keep everyone posted on what’s going on and to “protect Madi.”
She wakes up just as they are shutting down the Anomaly stone.
She puts up a fight, and they both fall through the bridge just as it’s powered off.
And another problem: They’re not on the same planet where everyone else just went.
Clarke and crew end up on an ice planet.
Only a whole planet to search!
Can we just solve one problem at a time?
