Few points from this interview I found interesting. Obviously spoilers
IGN: Negotiations are ongoing [for Alycia Debnam-Carey to return in Season 3]. There is hope of some future storylines here, is what you’re saying?
Rothenberg: Yeah, Lexa is still in command on the ground. There will definitely be, I think as a result of what happened, huge, huge storyline ramifications going forward. Had we killed her, that would have been way less interesting. There’s so much more we can play with with her now. There are secrets out there. How is Clarke going to respond? Clarke is f**king legendary. Clarke is Paul Bunyan. Everyone is going to know about Clarke of the Sky People. She got betrayed and she single handedly now goes and takes out Mount Weather. Last year, she single handedly [stopped the Grounders] - obviously she wasn’t single handed in either event but the way legends spread, that’s going to be interesting to play next season.
IGN: She was the 100’s leader and essentially became everyone’s leader after everyone came down from the Ark. Can you say anything about what you’re thinking as far as where does that leadership now fall? Does it go back to Abby? Does Bellamy take over, given what Clarke said to him at the end? Or is that going to be another sort of struggle there, perhaps?
Rothenberg: I do think Bellamy is going to be recognized as the hero that he became this season. I think that Kane, in the very brief moment between the two of them, in the dorm, as they’re freeing everybody - it’s essentially an acknowledgement in so many words of the mistake he made in episode one of this year when he arrested him and they sort of disregarded the fact that these kids had been on the ground for this time and knew way more than they did. Bellamy had always wanted to be a member of the guard. Perhaps we’ll see that ultimately coming to pass. Perhaps we’ll see him getting some real responsibility. I don’t want to talk too much about what my plans are for Season 3 but obviously, the dynamic within the camp… everything is going to change now. What’s left of this alliance of the twelve clans, that Lexa sort of painstakingly put together in order to defend themselves against Mount Weather, when Mount Weather is gone? Are those old animosities between, for instance, the Ice Nation and the Tri Kru. Is that going to become a problem again? It’s much like World War II. After the allies defeated the Nazis, the Cold War happened, because our great enemy that had allied the Russians and the Americans was gone. So I think that’s one of the things we’ll see playing out as I build up this universe in Season 3, which is something I’m very excited to do. Of course, the Sky People represent that 13th clan and who will they line up with? Will everybody agree on the way forward? Probably not.
IGN: What can you say about Jaha’s new holographic friend? She sure seems fixated on that nuke. What can you say about that scenario and is it safe to say it’ll be a big, driving force next season?
Rothenberg: Yeah, to me one of the things that I really wanted to do -- the only stuff I really wanted to dig up with that story was I thought it was fascinating to really kind of key the answer to the question of how the world ended in the first place, a hundred years earlier. I feel like it takes us into a whole other world, which ultimately, I hope, will feel like it makes complete sense going forward, and is part of the tapestry of the world of the show, while being so different. I’m fascinated by artificial intelligence and I’m fascinated by what it means to be human and I think this entity, this artificial consciousness that’s in that house, is trapped in that house. That guy in Murphy’s bunker is sort of the Steve Jobs who created this program and lost control of it, like Dr. Frankenstein, losing control of his monster and he wasn’t obviously able to stop her from ending the world but he did manage to trap her in that house. He cut off all connectivity. So she’s been stuck there this whole time. The questions that we’re beginning to answer and ask ourselves as writers, as we begin to leave now for Season 3, is what does that AI want? What is her ultimate goal? When she says “we’ve got work to do” regarding that warhead, at the end, what exactly is she talking about? I imagine it won’t be what people expect but that’s a tune in next year kind of thing.
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