Sooooo yeah, it’s Second Dawn, Bill Cadogan’s doomsday cult that also originated the Grounders. He talks about a ‘Shepherd’ who delivered them to Bardo, his prayer later filling in that this Shepherd, “saved us from the fire that consumed the Earth.” He is a “level 12” – the highest tier of believers. Their interactions with Orlando give us a lot of clues about who the Bardo people really are. Slowly, over the next five years, they use Orlando’s inexplicable (I can explain it!) affection for Hope, that we are meant to believe is solely based on a name on a wall and a doll he made himself, to win him over to their side. He rushes to save her, and they invite him to dinner, unwitting of the fact that THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT HE WANTS.* They send Hope out to “drown” while Orlando plays chess with his skeleton friends, thinking they’re trapping him, when really, he’s trapping them, winning the game right in front of us!! He still spooks when Gabriel shows up though (or is that just what he wants them to think?), so they amp up their happy family charade to lure him in. In present Skyrim time, Orlando approaches Echo to give her pumpkin seeds because, apparently, “Hope likes pumpkins.” A) greetings, fellow Halloween loving child, and B) how would he know that? Hmmmmmmmm. Unless the Hercules part is a clue about my Conspiracytheory About Dear Orlando who Got Axed… Not! (let’s just call it the CADO(w)GAN theory for short) that I’ll explain later.Īnd if it isn’t, I guess the show just wanted to hammer home the Greek myth imagery in case fandom didn’t pick up on it, which, fair. (Okay, Echo talking to the plants is very cute, I will give them that.)Ī flashback name-checks the episode title, “Hesperides,” in the context of Octavia nerd-runs-in-the-family Blake telling Hope the Greek myth of the three maidens tending their garden and guarding the golden apple that Hercules steals.Īs great as it was to get a little dose of Octavia, I’m not sure I understand why this scene gave the episode its name (wouldn’t it have made more sense if the titles of “Hesperides” and “The Garden” were swapped?). They start gardening, which is riveting, and really is what I most hoped this final season would devote a lot of time to. Truly both her parents’ child.įorced to confront the fact that this is their best and only plan, Hope, Gabriel and Echo begin playing the part of happy family.
She really is a curious mix of childlike naiveté, fierce emotion, and disillusioned, cold calculation. She genuinely cared about Octavia and Diyoza and Dev now she has Gabriel, Echo and Orlando, and she doesn’t mind performing a calculated reconstruction of genuine emotion with them, if it gets her where she needs to go. Hope is very literally stuck in a loop, following the only blueprint she knows. Not a single word about what she actually experienced on Bardo, even though you’d think that would be relevant information. When Orlando asks why she failed, she deflects and points to her failure to save Dev before going through the Anomaly. The reason we don’t see those flashbacks is probably just because they don’t want to reveal Bardo yet, but it’s weird that she doesn’t even talk about it. Only ‘we’ don’t get to experience that part with her. It is worth noting that Hope actually carries on with the plan: she puts on a suit and goes into the Anomaly, presumably to Bardo, where we know she tried and failed to rescue her mother, and was likely captured and tasked with retrieving Octavia in exchange for her mother’s life. What a brief yet beautiful love story we shared. Hope is, like Echo so rightly surmised, not a killer (yet) she hesitates, Dev dies in her arms and becomes the skeleton we met in episode 2. The game plan that 20-year-old Hope and fabulously aged-up Dev come up with consists of killing the guards when they come to get him, sneaking into the Bardo fortress (!) as ‘disciples’, and basically hoping that nobody questions the fact that Dev has a random new friend nobody’s ever seen before.īut alas, the plan goes horribly wrong.
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