A new Naming Day and a chance to be reborn on The 100

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Two separate nets go through the sixth season of The 100. There is the thematic thread, which does its best to deal with the deadly and morally complicated actions of the movie The 100s that make up their past and define their era before coming to Sanctum, and the more charged thriller scenario, week after week. this implies that these same people are trying to save each other and get rid of another group of strangers who threaten their lives. These discussions are both interesting to a certain extent, but the "Adjustment Protocol" highlights how difficult it is to create a television that depicts the depravity of violence while occasionally requiring it to obtain a dramatic effect. All shows can not be The Sopranos, you know?

There is a tension that is simply inherent to this season, as the show has difficulty reconciling its meditative aspects with the kind of propelling narrative in which this show excels. On the one hand, Clarke, Bellamy and others are wondering how to proceed following Monty's call to "do better" on this new planet. It is a message they took to heart and spent the entire season thinking about what this message means and how best to apply it within Sanctum. On the other hand, a spectacular push must be made, which means that it is important that the Premiums are bad guys and that everyone wants them to be killed. It's a difficult circle to reconcile.

Despite the thematic gaps related to challenging and participating in violence, this season has been one of the most satisfying since the second season. The threat of premiums, which position themselves as gods to steal the bodies of ignorant citizens so that only one family can live forever, is fascinating. Premiums allow The 100 meditate on the ideas of inherited privilege, identity, social hierarchy and the oppression of the mbades by the powerful. When, at the peak of the episode, Russel says that "the revolution has reached a tipping point", this seems to be a bigger disadvantage for him than for anything else. He does not care about these people unless they blindly follow his orders, and he's more than happy to poison them with toxin so his lineage will live, even if it means transporting the Rewards into space. .

The "Adjustment Protocol" is full of big conspiracies and dramatic issues. Abby not only reconciled with Raven, she was also surprisingly taken as Simone's host. Bellamy and Octavia slowly begin to rebuild the bridge that separates them, as they badail Sanctum and hope to save their friends. Seventy years ago, Gabriel returned to the place where he had gone in protest, hoping to foment a revolution and prevent the Premiums from killing people to stay alive. . This is an episode that beats with activity, which sees The 100 spin all his wheels in tandem and really deliver. Abby's "departure" is emotional, and Clarke's need to reduce what she feels for Madi is just as traumatic. "Protocol of adjustment" makes you feeland it's never a bad thing.

However, in the long run, I'm not sure The 100 can remove the act of balancing. The finale of next week's season will be judged by the judge, but I am not convinced that the series can find a way to make a judgment on its main characters while making them prevail in this precarious and deadly situation. I would love to fool myself. I would like for The 100 that Clarke, Bellamy, Murphy, Echo and all the others are coming out of this situation in a way that encourages them to follow Monty's instructions, but the "Adjustment Protocol" does not give me much hope. It's a big episode; it's exciting, sinuous and beautifully drawn, the heart-rending moments harmonizing perfectly with the sharpest moments. And yet, this is the blow this season. From one episode to the next, it's fun, but what does it mean? There is still an episode to discover.

Observations lost

• Gabriel is the real antidote to everyone's propensity for violence in the name of survival. "I can not sacrifice the few to save the greatest number."
• "Sometimes it's a human that fears." Amen, Raven.
• "We are not here to fight, we are here to liberate." Once again, I wonder how The 100 will deal with this in the final of season six. It's one thing to talk about redeeming one's past sins, but it's an entirely different thing to build a television hour that struggles with such an important theme.