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Have ‘The 100’s’ Monty and Jasper switched places?
We’re counting down the days until “The 100” Season 4 premieres on The CW — and while we wait, we’ve been dissecting the trailer over and over and over again.
One thing we couldn’t help but notice is that Monty (Christopher Larkin) and Jasper (Devon Bostick) seem to have swapped places in the new season, emotionally speaking. Last year, Jasper was drowning in his own grief over Maya (Eve Harlow) and Mount Weather, utterly depressed and without hope. No matter how hard Monty tried to get him to move on with his life, Jasper just couldn’t pull himself out of his spiral.
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Now, Monty seems to be the one dealing with the devastation of last season, while Jasper has a new sense of optimism. After being forced to kill his own mother — and then nearly losing Jasper to A.L.I.E. in the season finale — it’s understandable that Monty would be going through a tough time. The few shots we see of him in the trailer depict him as accusatory, violent and closed off. Sound familiar?
Jasper, on the other hand, has made a seemingly full recovery, and he’s determined to live instead of just surviving — always a running theme on “The 100.”
Showrunner Jason Rothenberg admitted that the Season 3 finale almost ended with Jasper committing suicide after being freed from A.L.I.E.’s control, but that scene was eventually cut from the final version for being “too dark.” Now that he has a new lease on life (literally), hopefully Jasper can return the favor and help dig Monty out of his own depression.
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We can’t be sure Monty’s in quite as much despair as Jasper last year, considering he still seems to be a voice of morality and hope in some ways. His relationship with Harper (Chelsey Reist), for instance, might be what keeps him going.
“I do hope they continue expanding his relationship with Harper,” Larkin told us at San Diego Comic-Con. “He only has so many people left, you know? I think this is his fist romantic foray at all, so I think that’s big, not only to ensure his conviction to survive, but also let’s see how he sacrifices for someone else in that light as well.”
Monty can’t be too far gone if he’s trying to reassure a downtrodden Harper that they’ll find a way out of this nuclear apocalypse.
“The 100” premieres Feb. 1, 2017 on The CW.