The 100’s latest trailer uses character quotes to allude to what’s to come

Another preview of The 100 season 5 has dropped, and it reveals some major themes for the upcoming season.

After months of silence, the CW has finally started releasing details about season 5 of The 100.  The first full-length trailer for the upcoming season dropped last week, and the official Twitter account for the show released another glimpse of what’s to come this evening.

The characters will need to come to terms with their identities.

While the latest preview doesn’t reveal much visually, the characters certainly have a lot to say about all that has happened to them so far. The video opens with the question, “Who am I?” Clarke, Bellamy and Raven go on to identify the roles they’ve played over the past four seasons.

After restating what they’ve sacrificed and lost prior to the fifth season, the characters begin to question who they are now. For all the time we’ve known them, the kids from the Ark have defined themselves in terms of survival. As Bellamy astutely states during season 1: “Who we are and who we need to be to survive are two very different things.”

It seems likely the characters will do some soul-searching in the years following the Death Wave. Without constant threats of death and war on the horizon, they will have to face the people they’ve become. And they won’t necessarily recognize or like these people.

Nightblood will once again play a major role.

The trailer then launches into quotes that appear come directly from the fifth season. This starts with Octavia’s statement that her blood is “always red and always will be.”

In an analysis of the previous trailer, it is suggested that Madi’s Nightblood could undermine Octavia’s rule over the grounder clans. This quote gives weight to that theory, meaning Gaia could very well be forced to choose between the two. But given the clip of Octavia telling Madi that she doesn’t need to be afraid anymore, it seems unlikely that she’d take action against the girl.

It’s also possible that Octavia will prepare Madi to be a future Commander. She certainly possesses the fighting skills and empathy to be the girl’s mentor. This turn of events would also explain Clarke’s fears that harm will come to her newest family member.

The cycle of destruction and survival continues.

Octavia’s closing words leave viewers on an ominous note: “One garden, two serpents. Eden never stood a chance.” In this analogy, the Garden of Eden is presumably the last livable valley. And the snakes are the two groups warring over it.

Considering those words, as well as the scenes from the previous trailer, more fighting seems inevitable. But Raven also mentions that the world “has ended twice” already, alluding to the idea that destruction comes in cycles. And the fact that Raven lives to make that statement proves that human beings continue to survive in spite of it all.

And let’s be honest, it wouldn’t be a season of The 100 without that message.

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Season 5 of The 100 will premiere on April 24, 2018, on The CW.