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[prettyprincesse80]

And this love

Is like nothing I have ever known

Take my hand, love

I'm taking you home

I'm taking you home

[the-suns-also-rise]

Where’s Bellamy?

[the-suns-also-rise]

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.