The Comic-Con lineup will spoil quite a bit about who is alive and who is dead," Rothenberg says with a laugh. "In a few days, we'll know some of the answers. Not all of them, but some of them."
Phew, you hear that? Only a few days separate us from answers! But until the Comic-Con panel on Friday (July 25), here's all the scoop on Season 2 we could squeeze out of "The 100" showrunner during the 2014 Summer TV Press Tour.
Zap2it: When "The 100" returns this fall for Season 2, how is the show going to feel different?
Jason Rothenberg: Season 2 is going to be really different because there's no Ark, there's no space element, so it's a really different feeling for the show. The season starts with everybody scattered to the wind and it's really about getting people back together, and figuring out who's alive and who's not. Nobody knows where anybody went. It's a big mystery as far as the people that got taken to Mount Weather. We know two are there, but nobody else knows what happened.
There weren't any of the 100 hiding in the trees, watching the Mountain Men gas their friends?
No, nobody saw those guys in the gas masks come in except for the people who got taken. There will be quite a bit of trying to figure out what happened. Did the Grounders take them? The fact that they're in Mount Weather, it's going to be a little while coming before they can figure it out. It might even take somebody in Mount Weather getting out to say, "You idiots! We've been over here!" That's not to say that's what happens, but ... well, yeah. [laughs]
What can you tease about what's going on in Mount Weather?
I think it's safe to say that nobody will expect what Mount Weather ultimately is. There are clues, certainly there are little hints and clues in that white room, and when we see Mount Weather, we'll understand what those clues were hinting towards. But it's unlike anything else on the show. It's a unique environment, for sure. I'm excited about it. We spent a lot of money building it and we're going to tell a lot of story there. Who knows, maybe every season we're going to blow up our mains sets and start all over again. That's what we did last year!
I remember talking with you earlier about how even though we're losing the Ark storyline in Season 2, we're still maintaining that scientific, confined feeling for half of the show with Mount Weather.
Mount Weather has the feeling of an underground version of the Ark, although it's a mirror image. It's very different. The culture is different, the people and the way they behave and interact is totally different. But they are insulated the same way. The Ark, remarkably, resembles our world. That was always so important to me. There's a president/chancellor who came from the working class and worked his way up, there's upward mobility, people love their families and they go to school. None of us grew up on a spaceship, but we can recognize life up there. Mount Weather, maybe not so much.
Phew, you hear that? Only a few days separate us from answers! But until the Comic-Con panel on Friday (July 25), here's all the scoop on Season 2 we could squeeze out of "The 100" showrunner during the 2014 Summer TV Press Tour.
Zap2it: When "The 100" returns this fall for Season 2, how is the show going to feel different?
Jason Rothenberg: Season 2 is going to be really different because there's no Ark, there's no space element, so it's a really different feeling for the show. The season starts with everybody scattered to the wind and it's really about getting people back together, and figuring out who's alive and who's not. Nobody knows where anybody went. It's a big mystery as far as the people that got taken to Mount Weather. We know two are there, but nobody else knows what happened.
There weren't any of the 100 hiding in the trees, watching the Mountain Men gas their friends?
No, nobody saw those guys in the gas masks come in except for the people who got taken. There will be quite a bit of trying to figure out what happened. Did the Grounders take them? The fact that they're in Mount Weather, it's going to be a little while coming before they can figure it out. It might even take somebody in Mount Weather getting out to say, "You idiots! We've been over here!" That's not to say that's what happens, but ... well, yeah. [laughs]
What can you tease about what's going on in Mount Weather?
I think it's safe to say that nobody will expect what Mount Weather ultimately is. There are clues, certainly there are little hints and clues in that white room, and when we see Mount Weather, we'll understand what those clues were hinting towards. But it's unlike anything else on the show. It's a unique environment, for sure. I'm excited about it. We spent a lot of money building it and we're going to tell a lot of story there. Who knows, maybe every season we're going to blow up our mains sets and start all over again. That's what we did last year!
I remember talking with you earlier about how even though we're losing the Ark storyline in Season 2, we're still maintaining that scientific, confined feeling for half of the show with Mount Weather.
Mount Weather has the feeling of an underground version of the Ark, although it's a mirror image. It's very different. The culture is different, the people and the way they behave and interact is totally different. But they are insulated the same way. The Ark, remarkably, resembles our world. That was always so important to me. There's a president/chancellor who came from the working class and worked his way up, there's upward mobility, people love their families and they go to school. None of us grew up on a spaceship, but we can recognize life up there. Mount Weather, maybe not so much.
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October 22 is too far away! I hate that The CW couldn't just pair The 100 with Arrow's season premiere :(. Oh well.
ReplyDeleteRegarding the inteview: very interesting things are coming up! I really want to know more about The Mountain Men and it seems we will know. I'm crossing my fingers for Bellamy to be alive. If Finn lives ok, but I can do without him
That Bellamy and Finn are both alive is a given, both actors were at the up fronts in May. J.R. was joking in a tweet recently that he might kill Bellamy just for the sake of getting rid of all this Bellarke questions, but it read as joke, so it is not true..
ReplyDeleteThe only one really in limbo is Raven, I think. My guess is that she was supposed to die but J.R. liked her character that much that Mountain Men somehow save her. J.R. said that the ones left behind don't know that the Mountain Men took the ones from the drop ship, so it cannot be Abby who saves Raven.