The 100 Season 7 Episode 5 Inside: Exploring ‘Welcome to Bardo’ WatchOnline

0:00 | – [Disciple] On your feet.

0:01 | – Let’s go.
– Move!

0:02 | – So Welcome to Bardo,
episode five of season seven.

0:06 | This was written by Drew Lindo,

0:09 | who’s joining us today, hi, Drew.

0:10 | – Hi, Jason, how you doing?

0:12 | – This was directed by Ian
Samoil, our longtime first AD

0:15 | and a wonderful director in his own right.

0:18 | I think this is maybe his
fifth or sixth episode

0:20 | that he’s done of the show.

0:22 | – [Machine Operator] Hello, Octavia.

0:23 | (Octavia gasps)
I’m gonna start

0:25 | by asking you a few baseline questions.

0:27 | – Drew, this is a crazy episode.

0:29 | This is the episode that
will melt the noodle.

0:33 | – Yeah, it’s sort of a
Mobius strip of two stories

0:36 | happening in the same
space at different times

0:38 | and we’re sort of wrapping up the end

0:40 | of Octavia’s off-screen
story from season six.

0:44 | In season six we saw her
disappear into the anomaly

0:47 | for a short time and come back

0:49 | having no memory of what
happened, and slowly

0:51 | here in season seven we’ve
been sort of going back

0:53 | and retroactively showing what transpired

0:56 | that led to the events of Hope returning

0:58 | and recognizing Octavia
and Octavia’s history

1:01 | with Diyoza, so this is the
episode where Echo’s team

1:04 | goes in to try to find Octavia and Bellamy

1:07 | and we will also get to
see, parallel to that,

1:10 | what happened when Octavia
and Diyoza were taken over

1:13 | to Bardo for the first time.

1:14 | – [Diyoza] Octavia,
don’t tell them anything!

1:17 | – You know, obviously for
the first four episodes

1:19 | we’ve been setting up this new world

1:22 | that we call Bardo that
we’re heading towards,

1:24 | that we go to for the
first time in this episode

1:26 | and Marie Avgeropoulos, Octavia,

1:29 | has an amazing, as you’ll
see soon enough, sort of run

1:34 | through Bardo in the teaser

1:36 | and it really is a totally
new environment for us.

1:40 | It’s unlike any planet or moon
that we’ve been on before.

1:43 | – Yeah, this is our first
glimpse at this culture

1:46 | and this world that we
haven’t really seen up close

1:48 | and we see a lot of it
through Octavia’s eyes

1:50 | in this flashback story that
again is filling the gaps.

1:53 | – [Disciple] Welcome to Bardo.

1:54 | – But we’re also getting a glimpse

1:55 | of just how formidable the Disciples are,

1:58 | their technology and their society,

2:00 | it is very different and very rigid

2:03 | and clearly they are believers in a cause

2:06 | that we have yet to fully understand.

2:08 | Our characters are really
inside the belly of the beast

2:11 | this episode, both in the
past and in the present.

2:13 | – In the light of the
Shepherd, we will not lose.

2:18 | (crowd cheering)

2:20 | – So we meet Anders, who
we’ve talked quite a lot about

2:22 | this season and he’s
played by Neal McDonough

2:26 | in an amazing, sort of very
different again for our show,

2:31 | kind of role and performance.

2:33 | – For all mankind!
(crowd cheering)

2:36 | – And we begin to unpack how
they got here, who they are,

2:40 | and obviously things don’t quite add up.

2:42 | – On behalf of the faithful, I demand

2:44 | the release of Russell Prime.

2:45 | – Nobody knows yet that
Russell is no longer Russell

2:48 | and that Sheidheda is inhabiting the body,

2:50 | having wiped Russell’s
consciousness clean.

2:53 | So far he’s been using
these followers on Sanctum

2:56 | as insurance to keep himself alive

2:58 | ’cause they’ll riot if
anything happens to him.

3:00 | – How does it feel to know they’re willing

3:01 | to die for your freedom?
– Awful.

3:03 | – But now we see in this episode

3:05 | what happens when the flock begin to try

3:07 | to come up with clever plans of their own.

3:09 | – For the glory and the
grace of the Primes!

3:12 | – And instead are actually
going to make everything

3:14 | (woman screaming)
much more volatile

3:15 | in Sanctum, including Russ-heda’s
own safety and security

3:19 | so Murphy and Indra will
have to step up a little bit.

3:22 | – You put them up to this.

3:23 | – Why would I tell my
followers to kill themselves?

3:27 | – Another great performance
from J.R. Bourne.

3:29 | – Watching J.R. Bourne play
characters within characters,

3:32 | playing Sheidheda impersonating Russell,

3:34 | it’s really an amazing performance.

3:36 | – We can’t just let them
burn themselves alive.

3:38 | – We won’t, Russell isn’t
the only Prime in Sanctum.

3:40 | – Murphy, he wanted to
be a god last season

3:42 | and this season is really about him

3:44 | having to grapple with
the consequences of that.

3:46 | He’s now responsible for these
people he doesn’t really know

3:49 | or doesn’t really care about that much.

3:51 | So now he’s forced to try
to maybe save their lives.

3:53 | – I got it.

3:54 | – Yeah, and I think it’s
fascinating to see that

3:56 | beginning to work its way
into his heart, too, you know?

3:59 | As Murphy begins to actually care,

4:02 | I think it surprises him most of all

4:05 | and it’s a really interesting arc

4:07 | that this episode definitely
sort of takes a big step in.

4:10 | – The others better come back soon

4:11 | because I am getting
tired of being the hero.

4:14 | (brooding techno music)

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