When Lincoln frees Finn and Clarke from Anya in “We are Grounders” (Ep. 10, Lincoln tells Octavia about a clan that might take them in when they were on the run from both the Grounders and the 100 (“I am Become Death”). Now Clarke can add Flamekeeper to her already impressive resume of titles. Having hidden Clarke, Titus sends Murphy to ‘cleanse’ Ontari while he tells Clarke the name of the young woman she must find: Luna. Ontari enters, demanding that they begin the ritual to make her the new heda. Titus replies that the initiate fled, proving her a coward and not worthy of ascending, though he eventually admits that even a coward is better than Ontari. Rather than leave, Clarke vows to take the flame rather than let it pass to Ontari and doom her people. Catching her in the act of stealing it, Titus blames Lexa’s death (and the current situation) on Clarke. She recalls that Lexa said there was an eighth initiate in her class, one not represented by the 7 circles tattooed on her back (for the 7 initiates killed when she ascended). The trio enter the throne room to find Ontari covered in blood and seated on the throne, a bag of heads at her feet: she’s killed the other Natblida while they slept. Ominously, horns sound in the distance, “victory horns”.
If the spirit of the commander should choose Ontari, the Ice Nation will control everything and Skaikru will face her wrath.” The truth is she was all those things even before ascension. None of them half as wise or as strong as Lexa kom Trikru. Murphy thinks the succession shouldn’t matter if Lexa truly is still inside the AI chip.Titus, of course, knows that Ontari will destroy Skaikru if she ascends as the next commander, so Clarke and Murphy want to help him make sure that Aden wins so that they can protect their people. Clarke confronts Titus about Ontari, urging him to disqualify her because she wasn’t trained at Polis like the others. King Roan arrives with his own Natblida, Ontari-whom we saw in “Watch the Thrones” when Nia threatened Lexa. The initiates, including the young boy Aden that Lexa was so proud of in “Watch the Thrones”, are elsewhere beginning a purification ritual.
The episode opens where Ep7 left off: Murphy and Clarke are in Lexa’s bedchamber under lock and key awaiting the results of the conclave. This myth shapes the Polis arc very obviously, but I think it shapes the Arkadia arc as well, which I’ll get back to later on. (The Greeks were misogynists, what can I say).
Zeus gave men Pandora (literally, “all gifts” in Greek) the first female, who carried a jar with her that released every sickness, ill, and misery upon the world. He was punished by being changed to a rock and having his liver pecked out every day by an eagle (it grew back at night because he was immortal Heracles freed him later). Prometheus took pity on men and stole fire back from Zeus to give to the men. Prometheus was a Titan, who were nemeses to Zeus and his cronies, so he sided with men and helped them trick Zeus into choosing the mostly inedible portions of the animal.Īngry, Zeus took the use of fire away from men, cursing them to shiver and suffer in the darkness and cold.
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For those who are unfamiliar with it, here’s the rundown: in ancient times the Greek gods and men (literally only males at this point) met to determine how to divide up the flesh of sacrificial animals. The title of this episode, “Stealing Fire,” references the Prometheus myth of Greek mythology. The 100 is back from hiatus and hitting the ground running with a return to the Polis plotline post Lexa’s death as well as the Arkadian rebellion with Kane, Lincoln, and Sinclair. Joyce Kilmer, “The Proud Poet” in Main Street and Other Poems (1917) Would be tortured another eternity to go stealing fire again.” “It is stern work, it is perilous work, to thrust your hand in the sunĪnd pull out a spark of immortal flame to warm the hearts of men:īut Prometheus, torn by the claws and beaks whose task is never done,
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