501- "Eden" was written by Jason Rothenberg and directed by Dean White.

Welcome back guys! For anyone new here, thanks for joining us. For everyone in general, good to see you, missed fighting with you all, and back by my own demand, it's your weekly morning after recaps!

Valley of the Shadow of Death

42 days after the world went boom, Clarke digs herself out of Becca's lair. Clarke's always been a character who hits the ground running even when the stakes are the worst, and this is no exception, she immediately sets out to find Polis, discovering that the sea that used to stand between Becca's island resort and Polis has evaporated. Clarke manages to dig out a rover left where the old riverbank used to be, and hightails it to Polis, one of my favorite moments of this episode was Clarke seeing a nuclear storm on the horizon and just rolling up the window, my second favorite was her eating bugs. I missed this show, man.

Clarke attempts to dig out The Pit, but her attempts are futile, and the dusty ruins collapse on her efforts, but not before she salvages a stick from the commander twig throne to use as a Moses staff. Clarke gives up her quest and drives back to Arkadia. At this point it's been two months, and Clarke starts to narrate her messages to the Ark. This episode was full of a lot of beautiful call backs to previous seasons, and Clarke's journey was a requiem for the characters and the world we lost. She finds a lock box of Jasper's things, including his goggles, Maya's ipod (which smartly provides some of the episode's soundtrack), and what I presume is a suicide note addressed to Monty, and we see a moment that we missed last season, which is Clarke breaking down to grieve her friends.

Clarke then loses her rover when a dust storm destroys the solar panels, and ends up wandering the desert on foot. Clarke, sunburnt and screaming, appeals to a not-so-forgiving god, and is spared from suicide by a vulture that leads her to the promised land, which causes her to reflect on what she's done to get here. Again, there's echoes here of the pilot with Clarke taking a dip in the water, if any of you are following these Biblical metaphors, Clarke quite literally baptizes herself to wash away the sins of the past and start over.

This patch of green turns out to be the location of the Shallow Valley clan, a brightly decorated commune full of dead bodies (hullo, MW throwback)—because nothing on this show is cute without also being barbed. Speaking of, it's here that we meet Madi, and what a treasure she is, snaring Clarke in a bear trap and shanking her because she thinks Clarke is the flamekeeper come to get her. Six years later, and Clarke is a cool mom to this adorable little dreamer.

Space, where no one can hear you pine

So ground radiation blocks radio signals, and the Ark hasn't been able to reach anyone in the bunker to tell them about the patch of green they can see, nor have they been getting Clarke's daily updates. Relationships have formed and deteriorated during our time jump, and Bellamy slams Murphy into the wall because they are madly in love, but their tryst is interrupted when they spot the Eligius ship ominously floating over the sacred Cabbage Patch.

The gang plans to dock on the ship and all pack up to leave (eta: this was vague? Their plan was to knock on the door and then hitch a ride to the ground?) Monty has some understandable anxiety about returning to their old way of life, as does Echo about whether Ocatvia will accept her, but everyone decides to take the leap of faith and leave the halo together as a team.

INVASION OF THE CABBAGE PATCH

We pick up where we left off in the S4 finale, with Clarke fleeing to hide Madi from the prison transport that arrives.

So our sexy new prisoners land with some nasty-ass looking weapons, immediately establishing that only 3 of them are non-violent offenders and that pretty much a floating Arkham Asylum just landed on Clarke's doorstep. Remember how in the pilot, someone threw a spear at Jasper and it started a war with the grounders? Well, in a bid to save Madi, Clarke kills two of the prisoners invading their home, and just like that, the cycle of violence and retaliation is reborn.

Speaking of violence, our bookend was finding out that The Pit has become the hellscape we expected, with Octavia reigning over a cage fighting match, because this is Octavia, and how else are you going to stave off the cabin fever for six years?

TL;DR for you Kish: Clarke retires from the savior business and adopts a vicious stray, Memori broke up, Bellamy foreshadows his family reunion, Murphy is still a lovable rogue, Clarke is the Grounders now, E-Co. is waking up to ash and a dust and checking out on the prison bus, _____WB$wombat$check$this$function_____(this) is it, the apocalypse.^...whoa

This and that:

I'm hoping Murphy's mention of aliens and anal probes was our S6 breadcrumb but that's just me.

The new title sequence where the tower gets deleted was dope.

The new cinematography is jawdropping. Mad respect for the show for wanting to up their game every season.

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