Clarke enters the stone for the final test.
And as the series found its footing over the next few episodes, so did many of you.
Season 2 was flawlessquite literally one of my favorite seasons of a TV show ever.
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As the show grew, so too did its fervent fans.
But what happened in season 3 seemed to strike a nerve with all of us.
Now we’re here in season 7.
There’s yet another thing we all hate.
1, boy, were they wrong.Bellamy’s deathdid not sit well with most fans, including myself.
And I do think the show did that… mostly.
“The Last War” picks up in the moments where the penultimate episode ended.
Jackson, Murphy, and Raven are in Sanctum now and rush Emori to the med bay.
She won’t need to worry about that for too long, though.
Clarke and Octavia are hot on his heels in Bardo.
Clarke grabs grenades and throws them into the group.
That’s the answer?"
“That’s what we do,” Octavia says.
Yeah, Levitt, where have you been for seven seasons??
Callie is a little bit of both to him.
As the judge, “Callie” will present questions to Cadogan.
He’s ready, he assures her.
Oh s. Killing someone before the god/judge who decides the entire human race’s fate cannot be good.
Back in the bunker, Jordan and Hope kiss (love these cute, clueless kids!
), and then they all brace themselves as the green gateway opens.
The plan hinges on Jordan making a machine that can deactivate the Disciples' invisibility shields.
“This would make my father proud,” he says.
He gets to work, creates it in no time, and jumps just outside of Sanctum.
It looks empty, but as soon as he activates his machine, hundreds of disciples appear.
And from behind him, Indra and her Wonkru army and Nikki and her prisoners jump through.
Time for what these people do best: war!
Meanwhile, Jackson is ready to perform surgery on Emori.
As soon as he takes the rebar out, she starts bleeding from the mouth.
Murphy yells at him to save her, but there’s nothing left to do.
Emori diesbut Murphy won’t stand for that.
He tries to take out her Mind Drive when Jackson won’t do it for him.
Emori wakes with a start in the palace bed.
She opens the curtains and sees the sand dunes where she grew up just outside the windows.
Murphy is behind her saying that’s where they first met.
They’re in the Mind Space, and Emori knows what this means and isn’t happy about it.
He says it would be just surviving, not living if she weren’t there.
Levitt and O are worried about starting anactualwar, so they rush off to broker peace.
On the bridge in space, Clarke can’t figure out why she’s still there.
“You know why,” someone says from behind her.
It’s Lexa, nottheLexa, and Clarke knows it, but she hugs her anyway.
“Lexa” wants to know why Clarke killed the Shepherd when he wasn’t even armed.
She explains that he killed her daughter.
“Your need for revenge is more important than the fate of the entire human race?”
But Clarke says it isn’t revenge; it was justice.
She wants the judge to feel these things and decide what she’d do differently.
“I am sorry for all you have lost,” fake Lexa says.
And then she tells Clarke that humanity isn’t worthy of taking the next step.
Raven is there when Clarke comes back through the stone.
She knows it’s not good based on Clarke’s face.
With little time left until they all turn to crystal, Clarke rushes to be with Madi.
Her judge is Abby, her adopted mother.
She pleads with “Abby” to give them more time.
But Abby says it won’t matter, they’re on the brink of self-extermination as it is.
She transports Raven to the battlefield where the disciples and Wonkru face off.
He’s ready to start this war.
With everyone unable to hear or see Raven, she’s powerless to stop him.
The dark commander starts firing just as Levitt, Octavia, and Echo rush to the scene.
Levitt races to the middle and pleads with everyone to stop fighting.
“We don’t achieve transcendence through violence,” he says.
She says that Raven has failed the test just like Clarke and that the human race is done.
As Hope and Jordan tend to Echo and Levitt, Octavia rushes out to tell Wonkru to stop firing.
They do momentarily, until Sheidheda reveals himself and starts chantingJus drein jus daun.
But Indra has had enough.
She grabs a giant gun from a prisoner and blasts him away.
This is certainly not looking great for the already doomed humanity.
But Octavia doesn’t know they’ve already been judged.
They are all one people: “If I kill you, I kill myself.
If we keep killing each other, there won’t be anyone left to save.”
Octavia throws down her sword and asks Indra to do the same.
Raven realizes that O is reaching them.
Raven tells Abby that they can change, they just need more time.
And it seems that the judge agrees.
Then Levitt does the same.
Hope and Jordan go next.
And up she goes next.
Murphy and Emori transcend from the Mind Space, and all who are left are Clarke and Madi.
Madi starts to glow, but it stops.
“I know you don’t want to leave me,” Clarke tells her through tears.
But she knows that it’s her chance to live and she urges her to go.
Madi transcends and only Clarke remains.
All alone, Clarke grabs a disciple helmet and jumps to Sanctum to see if anyone else was left.
She finds Picasso (I guess all dogs DON’T go to heaven!).
She and Picasso jump to the bunker and don’t find anyone down there or up above ground either.
Clarke starts to make a plan for food, water, and shelter when Picasso runs off.
She chases him to the water but can’t find him anywhere.
“kindly come back,” she pleads.
“I don’t want to be alone.”
And in that moment, she’s not alone: Judge Lexa comes back.
Clarke is okay as long as Madi is happy and safe.
Lexa says Madi will never die and never feel pain.
And that’s when Lexa reveals that transcendence is a choice.
Not only that, it’s a choice that no one has made beforeuntil now.
Clarke turns the corner and finds Picasso has joined her friends.
And that’s the enda happy ending.
So that I was happy about.
Do I believe that Wonkru, Eligius prisoners, and Disciples would all give up on war that quickly?
No, probably not.
Do I think Bellamy needed to die for this?
Overall, I’m not crazy that this very sci-fi show suddenly went supernatural/spiritual at the end.
There were certainly rocky spots in this season for sure, just like the series in general.
But honestly, I’m just happy that Clarke, Raven, and Octavia finally get to be happy.
And I’m thankful for all the seasons we’ve got to spend with them.
May we meet again… you know, like in the sequel.
