The most addicting new show last season was one that everyone was talking about. The CW’s hit post-apocalyptic series about a group of juvenile delinquents sent down to earth quickly got the attention of fans and critics alike.
The series was such a hit, the teen-skewing network is bringing the mid-season series back this fall with a supersized season order of 16 episodes!
OMFGTV and several other reporters had the opportunity to sit down with The 100 creator Jason Rothenberg at the San Diego Comic-Con to get scoop on the new season as well as an update on some of our favorite characters.
One big surprise we encountered while we waited for Mr. Rothenberg and some of the cast members to enter the press room was the that Isaiah Washington showed up! His character Chancellor Thelonious Jaha was thought to have died at the closing of Season 1, so having him show up to speak with the press about the new season was definitely a shocker.
“It was a tough story to keep going because the character had fulfilled his destiny and delivered his people to the ground,” Rothenberg says. “That was kind of a beautiful, poetic ending for him, I thought. But then I thought about it some more and first thought he’s so good and the character is so strong. We came up with a very cool way to keep that story going and it plays out pretty quickly.”
In the season premiere, we’ll see the fan-favorite pairing of Lincoln (Ricky Whittle) and Octavia (Marie Avgeropoulos) together. And for Bellamy’s young sister, we’ll get to see her like we’ve never seen her before.
When we catch up to them, “Lincoln [will be] taking her somewhere to be safe, hopefully, but she’s been pretty badly wounded and that wound is going to make it hard for them to make it all the way where they’re headed for,” Rothenberg explains. “Ricky is now a series regular and he’s our entrée into the Grounder world. We’ll really begin to unpack that and understand how that world works and that they’re not all bad guys and Octavia is becoming more and more like a Grounder. She does some pretty crazy things in the first couple episodes!”
One person who isn’t a stranger to doing completely crazy things, is Murphy (Richard Harmon), who most of the cast and Rothenberg described as being a cockroach — he’ll never die. “The thing with Murphy is, one of the things I feel is that last [season], I don’t want to say we underserved him as writers but he was a little bit one-demensional. He was just an asshole. One of the goals that I set out for myself in episode one was to add some level of understanding for him. So I think by the end of the episode you won’t like him, you’ll never trust him, but you’ll understand him.”
As for fans who have been stressing out the whole summer about whether or not Finn (Thomas McDonell) and Bellamy (Bob Morley) survived the big blast from last season, Rothenberg reveals that viewers will learn of their fates “pretty quickly. You’ll understand who’s alive, who’s not, where they are pretty quickly.”
“The first two episodes of this season pick right up where 13 left off,” he continues. “So it’s really a very intense, dark, edgy, awesome world. To me, the first three episodes of this season are miles better than the first three episodes from last season, which is awesome.”
The 100 Season 2 premieres Wednesday, October 22, at 9pm on The CW.