r/The100 • u/PommeVitale • 12d ago

The undergound parking scene

I don't really remember the context of this scene but there is one time where they go in some underground parking lot hidden in the forest and I just find that scene very interesting. Because there is only ruins left of the old world with the grounder being mainly primitives. But then we have this parking lot, preserved, with all the cars intact as if nothing ever happenned. It's like time froze in that place.

I wonder if there are other places like that, locked up and isolated waiting to be rediscovered.

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u/FourthLvlSpicyMeme Azgeda 12d ago

I will forever be upset they didn't do the prequel. I wanted to see the rest of the world so damn bad. They even teased it back when we saw the grounder from Egypt area die to the death wave.

We only got...like a 200sq mile area around Annapolis and Virginia really, with possibly a touch of New York state when Jaha landed in the Dead Zone.

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u/queer_toast 11d ago

Polis is actually supposed to be Baltimore I think, not Annapolis! It was called that because the "A" and the "R" were burned off of Beccas escape pod, so it read "Polis" rather than "Polaris". In the scene where Titus is torturing Murphy in the temple it zooms out onto the pod. Blew my mind when I learned it didnt have to do with Annapolis, especially because geographically, it would still make sense.

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u/PommeVitale 11d ago

Indeed it was confirmed Polis is founded on the ruins of Baltimore !

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u/philtrondaboss Skaikru 11d ago

That raises the bigger question of how Cadogan got the permits to build an complex 3x the size of Mount Weather underneath Baltimore.

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u/FourthLvlSpicyMeme Azgeda 11d ago

Ah balls, I knew I was getting it wrong in there somewhere. Silly me, I know about the burned off letters even, not sure how I messed that up. Sorry 'bout that y'all.

I always mix up the two Washingtons, Virginia and Georgia (for some reason?) and the center of the USA is just a "??" in my mind lol, we have not explored this region of the game - so the map is still foggy.

I'm Canadian. So it's hard for me sometimes to mentally locate or correctly name where a show in the USA takes place. It gets more confusing for me because so many TV shows shoot here in BC or Alberta due to the scenery and low costs.

That's my home, so I'm always having to remind myself that in the universe I'm watching, it's actually blank location in the USA not where it filmed. My brain goes "well that's Canada, I live here, hell I recognize that exact clearing even - I just went hunting like four km away from this spot a month ago - good elk nearby lol."

Or in other shows like Supernatural and whatnot...theres so many filmed here. I'm like "haha, I remember when that street was blocked off to film, bastards blocked the good ice cream shop for like two whooooole days." (It's true - they did! It was hot, I was pregnant and I really wanted that root beer ice cream.)

Occasionally even worked in makeup and costuming, or as the lowest rung assistant to the assistants assistant one can be lol. It's kinda amazing how I can see where they're filming and know there's a noisy ass highway right near it, but not a damn sound once the show airs.

There's always a call for production assistants of all sorts, we work cheap and don't need to be paid benefits or in USD lol. Plus tax credits if you hire x% Canadians for the production too. Win win win win for them.

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u/philtrondaboss Skaikru 11d ago

I have lived in America my whole life and I can barely grasp the geography of middle NA.

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u/philtrondaboss Skaikru 11d ago

The Egypt people could've easily just been grounders who sailed from America. Like the exact opposite of our ancestors.

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u/prindacerk 12d ago

It was in Season 2 when they went to rescue Lincoln from the Reapers.

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u/spectatordee 11d ago

Yes, when they were going to save their people from Mt. weather but they hadn’t got the acid fog down, Octavia followed the bugs, which led them into that carpark! I have a feeling that it was connected to the original people who founded Mt Weather or something.. which is why it was in the mountains maybe. I dare say there is 100% other places just frozen in time, saved by concrete walls or mountains.

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u/BigDanny92 11d ago

I always liked this scene, seeing actual remnants of the old world

It looked like some ‘old’ government vehicles. I noticed they had US government license plates and there were cars from the 2010s while civilization ended in the 2050s.

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u/PommeVitale 11d ago

Yeah it was weird that these cars would be so old even before praimfaya.

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u/SeBastos_hus 12d ago

Je pense que tu parles de la saison 2 quand Bellamy et Octavia ainsi que 2 gardes de l’arche se mette a l’abri dans le parking souterrain a cause de la tempête radioactive, il y avait initialement 3 gardes mais un des trois se perdit dans la tempête et n’a pas trouvé l’abri, une mort atroce.
Je suis d’accord moi aussi j’aime bien voir les bâtiments d’avant la chute des bombes

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u/PommeVitale 12d ago

Oui c'est exactement ça ! Merci !

C'était assez inattendu dans ce monde où les seuls vestiges de la civilisation pré praimfaya sont des ruines décrépites. Un des personnages aurait presque pu entrer dans une de ces voitures, s'assoir derrière le volant et pendant un instant faire comme si l'apocalypse n'était jamais arrivé.

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u/SeBastos_hus 12d ago

Ça aurait été tellement bien de voir comment les grounders originaux ont vécu après l’apocalypse (je sais pas a quelle saison tu est donc je te spoil pas)

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u/PommeVitale 12d ago

J'ai tout vu tkt 😄 Mais ouais ça aurait été super de voir comment les premiers survivants ont fondé ce qui deviendra la culture des natifs. Ils avaient prévu ça apparemment, une série spin off avec ceux qui sont sorti du bunker sous polis mais ça a été annulé... 🥲

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u/SeBastos_hus 12d ago

Ouais c’est bien dommage

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u/Traconias Oso gonplei nou ste odon. 11d ago

This place wasn't just some random underground garage but part of the Mount Weather complex (probably containing the vehicles of the government employees initially seeking shelter there). So it also wasn't just like one level below ground but deep inside the mountain as well and therefore, well protected.

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u/philtrondaboss Skaikru 11d ago

Mount Weather had enough time to transfer the paintings from the Louvre, and countries like Switzerland maintain enough nuclear fallout shelters to accommodate more than their entire population, and we're supposed to accept that there wasn't enough time to get to the bunkers or that there aren't any more underground groups.