‘The 100’ season 3, episode 4 reaction: Show boss on Brenda Strong surprise

If there is one thing that “The 100” reminded us of with Thursday night’s new episode, it is that they are not afraid to make big moves, and have them happen to people in a way you wouldn’t expect. What happened to Nia was almost reminiscent of the show’s first season in that you had someone you perceived to be an important character killed off quickly.

So what are the immediate ramifications for all of this? This is something that show executive producer Jason Rothenberg discusses further in a new postmortem interview with TVLine:

“First of all, Nia’s death makes her son — the abandoned prince of the Ice Nation — suddenly the king … He goes from banished bounty hunter to king in four episodes. In many ways, it begins to heal what had been a threatening of an inter-clan war between the Ice Nation and the Tree Crew. Nia’s death puts that on the back-burner; she was the one who had been pushing that.”

Rothenberg also suggested that he intentionally cast a known name in Strong as a way to throw some viewers of the show off the scene. We think that this worked, judging from the way in which some people out there are still reeling from what we ended up seeing by the time we got around to the tail end of this story.

Here’s the fun part of all of this: We’re not even a third of the way through the season yet!

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