One of the reasons why The CW’s post-apocalyptic series The 100 is such a massive hit is because the writers change it up every season, delivering something exciting with each new chapter. In Season One, we got the origin story; Season 2 was about Mount Weater; Season 3 had an AI story. OMFGTV sat down the the sci-fi series’ boss Jason Rothenberg along with the cast where they preview Season 4 and share how it’ll top it all.
“In Season 4, the earth strikes back,” Rothenberg says. “The environment itself starts to break down and our heroes realize pretty quickly that they’re not going to be able to stop this thing that’s coming. This now is going to happen in a huge, global, apocalyptic way. It’s a post-apocalyptic show that another apocalypse is happening in, which I think is cool and that’s how we try to top ourselves.”
Amidst the post-apocalyptic apocalypse, Lindsey Morgan says that she does see her character Raven Reyes in a better place. “We’re really going to see what happens next and how the ALIE possession and the ‘ALIE upgrade’ unfolds for Raven,” she says. “When she fought off ALIE and forced her out, ALIE wasn’t willing to go so she left a little of ALIE behind.
“That made her smarter than ever and just her mind is in the fifth gear now. She can code, she understands new technology and Becca’s work that no one else can. She’s smarter than ever. Everything that she also went through physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually — she went to hell and back and she made it. She’s been through so much; she’s just evolved.. in a whole other place now. She’s ready and she’s ready for it.”
One character who might not be ready is Eliza Taylor’s Clarke Griffin, who last season suffered the loss of the “love of her life,” Lexa (Alycia Debnam-Carey).
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“How does she ever move on [from that]?” Taylor says. “Yet again, we’re faced with another issue, another save the world moment which distracts her from all the other save the world moments, so she doesn’t every really move on. One thing that might be cool about this season is having her actually get to have a moment where she breaks down or gets to process everything that’s happened to her.”
Eliza goes on to say that what she really would like for Season 4 to be is a lot more hopeful. “I want there to be more hope. I think last season was dark even for us and that’s saying something.”
As for Marie Avgeropoulos, the actress says hope in the upcoming season is “not for Octavia.”
“She takes a really dark turn into some really nasty pastures,” Avgeropoulos says. “She is going to do what she does best next season and that’s killing people. She doesn’t enjoy or take pleasure out of it, she just knows that’s her skill set. Her peers are doctors, mechanics, computer programmers — it took Octavia a while to figure what she does best and now she knows what that is. She’s going to use that as an outlet to really excel on being the best assassin she can with a certain group that you’re all aware of. She’s going to have a really dark season.”
Although the new season is really dark, Jason Rothenberg says that “we’re going to ironically find that this season is much lighter than last season in the sense of where do you find hope when there is no hope? How do you react to that terminal diagnosis that they get that they’re all going to die in six months?
“We’ll see the range of reactions — someone like Clark will of course fight until her last dying breath to save everybody and others will maybe just say, ‘F*ck it. We have been fighting too long. It’s time to live. I want to live to the fullest until the end comes.’
“That’s one of the ways that we find light and hope and love and love the people that I love as much as I can while I can because I’m going to be dead six months from now. I think ironically we find a lot of hope and heart that way.”
Season 4 of The 100 premieres tonight at 9pm on The CW.