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Let me (bear it so you won’t have to)

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Love

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Song Lyrics and Allusions: Foreshadowing the Afterlife

On the left, the song playing during our heroes’ reunion on Sanctum is “Other Side” by GAITS. “The other side” is the one Jasper spoke of in his last words to Monty. The “fields of gold” are the Elysian Fields, the paradise where great warriors and heroes spend eternity in Hades. “It’s not the end,” echoes “It doesn’t end here” from the Season 7 promo poster. 

On the right, the title of Episode 14 is “A Sort of Homecoming,” an allusion to the song of the same name by U2. I’ve found so many layers to this achingly beautiful song over the years: returning to one’s childhood home, the return of the refugee, ghosts of soldiers streaming home from war. A final reading is the triumphant journey to one’s “true” home, the final entry to the Kingdom of Heaven after a life of tribulations. 

If the return to Earth was a “sort of homecoming,” what will the “true” one be? Our remaining heroes are still alive and struggling, but I think this parallel foreshadows a third reunion - possibly in the afterlife, but at least in a new existence that could be interpreted as such.

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The Incombustible Blakes

for @osleyakomwonkru

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Judgment Day Awaits

Unleashed Man-made Catastrophes, Primeval Forces? Clear-eyed towards the future, Echo is here for it!

I smell a parallel coming... and I’m here for it

And that stride in #2... is gorgeous Battle Couple - a king and his general surveying the aftermath

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Are we sure?

Devil is in the details: Eliza hits her mark so her head is framed by an expanding constellation of bokeh lights in the background. Her face comes into focus, the background blurs further, and the lights grow larger to emphasize the riot that’s going on in Clarke’s mind. 

In scene: Struggling to keep up the charade, Clarke barely manages a rictus of Josephine’s smile.

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Diyoza? Hope

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Innocence Lost