'The 100' Season 3 Spoilers: EP Talks About New 'Hardcore' Threat, Future Pregnancy, And Original Clarke Twist
The CW's popular post-apocalyptic teen drama "The 100" premiered its third season last week, revealing Murphy (Richard Harmon) reunited with Jaha (Isaiah Washington), Bellamy (Bob Morley) with a new love interest, Octavia (Marie Avgeropoulos) butting heads with Lincoln (Ricky Whittle), Raven (Lindsey Morgan) facing off with Abby (Paige Turco), and Jasper (Devon Bostick) steadily descending into madness. Meanwhile, Clarke (Eliza Taylor), looking more feral than ever, has been on the run since the tragic events at Mount Weather, with bounty hunters at her heels. The episode ended with one of those hunters, Roan (Zach McGowan), a resident of the Ice Nation, capturing her.
"The 100" showrunner Jason Rothenberg talked to The Hollywood Reporter about the Season 3 premiere and revealed that this new threat may be worse than The Tree People from Season 2. "Ice Nation is hardcore," Rothenberg said. "They are much more overtly violent and will solve their problems that way."
Meanwhile, as strange as seeing a whole episode of "The 100" with Clarke totally separated from her family and friends may have been, Rothenberg revealed that his original idea for the Season 3 debut episode was even stranger. Speaking to TVLine, the executive producer said, "My initial thought was, 'Wouldn't it be interesting if Clarke never even showed up in the first episode until the very end?'"
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"But I don't think I could have written the premiere without her being in it the whole time," he admitted.
And as for the interesting comment about contraception in one of the season premiere's scenes, Rothenberg revealed that it was something that he had been trying to get in the show for the last two seasons. But does it signal a future pregnancy in "The 100"?
"Yeah, there could be," the "The 100" boss divulged. "I don't love stories like that generally, but that was important to me to put in as a world-building nugget for sure."
"The 100" Season 3 airs Thursdays at 9 p.m. ET on The CW.
