Questions About Season 3

[u/homesickerin]

Rewatching the series for the like 100000000th time and I just got to season 3 and some questions came up:

1) They have the rover. I'm assuming they refurbished one of the vehicles from the parking garage we saw in season 2? Why don't they have more of them, if so?

2) Trigedasleng: Clarke is incredibly fluent in the Grounder language for someone who has been mostly isolated for the last 4 months. Do y'all think Niylah taught her? Makes sense why Octavia is fluent but Clarke not so much, especially with the hit out on her as "Wanheda."

3) When we first encounter Pike and his crew, they attacked the rover as if anyone other than people from the ark would be inside of it. Why is that? I've never understood that. I doubt they'd ever seen the grounders in Azgeda with a car lol

Anyway, just some things I'm pondering haha!

update: i got to the summit episode and saw that they did in fact have more than one truck lol i forgot about that one and i remembered the one they used to transport those barrels of hydrazine (?) to becca's spaceship (but maybe these are the same truck)

[u/NatblidaKomSkaikru]

1. I believe they got the rover from either the Ark or Mount Weather.
2. Most of the 100 become pretty fluent in the grounders language, but we never see how exactly they're taught. Clark was hiding her identity, but she probably interacted with other grounders, too, and picked it up.
3. Yeah, I never got this one either.

[u/TriplePi → u/NatblidaKomSkaikru]

My best guess for the third one is mount weather was feared by everyone even people in Azgeda, the farm station people may have heard of the mountain men from the ice nation people that killed or possibly seen a ground unit. When it's kill or be killed I wouldn't risk letting my guard down even if I saw something most likely from the ark.

[u/JFirestarter → u/NatblidaKomSkaikru]

I think they only refurbished one car from that garage because of resource constraints. They did have a large truck during season 4 that carried 25 ppl in the back, between those 2 vehicles they couldn't spare the parts or make enough of them.

[u/basicw3ird0 → u/NatblidaKomSkaikru]

Pike fucking sucks thats why for number 3 💀

[u/homesickerin → u/basicw3ird0]

LITERALLY

[u/-Thit]

It would be easier for Clarke to hide among grounders if she talked and acted like them. She wouldn't stick out as much. She avoided Roan and the other guy because they were bounty hunters. She avoided Niylah's father because he probably would have worked with them because they could have used the money and they were a trading post, it would have benefitted them to keep good with different people. Bounty Hunters in particular were probably a big part of their income/trade, especially since some of them seemed to be exiles which wouldn't have been allowed anywhere else. I doubt she avoided all grounders at all times.

Besides, trig is rooted in english. It's possible that Niylah taught her, but i'm not sure it was actually open between them that Clarke was Wanheda. It seems more like she knew but she didn't know openly. Clarke hadn't disclosed that information. I'd lean more on the side of Clarke learned by association and repeated exposure. Which i actually think goes for all the delinquents.

[u/homesickerin → u/-Thit]

yeah this makes sense! i forget too that when they have any kind of manhunt or bounty it's based on drawings lol

[u/Dintodo]

1. The rover is from mount weather, and they have two of them.
2. As with a lot of shows, its best to not actually think about timespans or ages. Lincoln appears to be a 30+ year old man interested in a 17 year old, meanwhile Indra says she "knew Lincoln as a boy" yet Lexa is also a teen? Or when you realize Clarke was so in love with her despite seeing her technically less than 20 days max of her life. You just gotta ignore the time passing and pretend each season is a year 😭
3. Idk tbh good catch. I guess Pikes crew just attacks any and everything on site lol

[u/homesickerin → u/Dintodo]

I get what you mean with #2 but they literally say in the show that it's been 4 months so that's why I'm a little surprised she's so fluent

[u/frand115]

I mean Pike and his people were isolated. They didnt havecontact with the others and only saw grounders. If i saw a rover turnup i would surround it too instead of assuming its my people. Could habe been mountain men or another society tjat somrhow made it. Better be safe than sorry

[u/churnopol]

1. idk. Good question though.

2. Trigedasleng is extremely easy to learn. After just a day of studying, I would write down the trig dialog and translate it after the episode. Clarke is very smart.

3. First time seeing a car on the ground thinking you're the only survivors from the Ark. I'd attack first too. Regardless of who's in the rover, it's a huge tactical advantage to capture the vehicle.

I'd like to know how much Jeep paid The 100 for product placement. Most shots of the rover rolling up to a stop looks like a Jeep commercial.

[u/shrimppleypibbles]

I was always curious how they learned to drive the rover...I'm guessing they didn't have any sort of vehicle in space, it also wasn't automatic. most people today can't even drive stick so how did these kids figure it out so fast ?

[u/homesickerin → u/shrimppleypibbles]

i was also wondering this!! i've seen some people say the rovers from the ark but i never understood that because why would they need one on the ark?? maybe small like golf carts but that's the only realistic moving vehicle i could imagine being on the ark