A few weeks ago Twitter blew up with a popular #BELLARKEISCOMING! The hashtag was even trending for an hour or two on Jan. 16, before it got over-run by other topics. Last Thursday, with the premiere of season three of “The 100,” it trended the entire hour and beyond (#the100 #the100seasonthree).

RECAP: Season two ended with great anticipation for the beginning of the season three. Bellarke shippers were left hanging on when Clarke was going to come back to Bellamy Camp Jaha. She needed to figure out what she was going to do with her life after Bellamy and her pulled the lever to eradicate the Mountain Men. All the ships were coming together in a happy”ish” reunion (minus Bellarke), which brings fans to the premiere of season three.

Season three opener nicely covered all the characters, plot lines and ships. Fans were afraid the show would only focus on just one plot line but were gladly shown wrong. The beginning opened on Murphy in the lighthouse where he left off at the end of season two. One catch: It is 86 days later. Imagine being stuck in a place where a man killed himself for that long! No wonder Murphy was literally going crazy until the door released, and he stumbled out into the light.

He leads us to the next storyline of Jaha. Their stories intertwined at the end of last season when searching for the City of Light. Majority of fans never liked Jaha much and the season premiere did not help. Jaha tells Murphy he can visit the City of Light while, what seems like, meditating with a crystal/gem. Toward the end of the episode Jaha, Murphy, and A.L.I.E., the virtual woman, helps reintroduce Emori, a girl Murphy connected with in season two. Fans grew upset with what Emori did in the end of season two, but eventually forgave her. Fans are super glad that the writers reintroduced her in season three and are interested in where they are going to take the story line. Emori and Murphy have a connection that is brand new to his character, and it is exciting. He has developed as a character (“Pain, hate, envy, those are the ABCs of me”), and it is time he develops more in a healthy relationship.

Next are the characters in Arkadia: Bellamy, Lincoln, Octavia, Marcus, etc. There was little fans were confused about with the season premiere, but Arkadia was one of them. At the end of season two where the Ark landed was called Camp Jaha, but in season three it is called Arkadia. Is this the same place, or a different place, fans are wondering. Theories from Twitter circulate around one: Jaha deserted the Ark. It was called Camp Jaha in his memory as chancellor, since the Ark people thought he died up in space before he did not. The camera zoom out to show the outside of the Ark where there seemed to be a marketplace-type city with beautiful gardens and flourishing vegetation was perfectly timed and wonderful. The audience also got to see the roads that were developed in the past three months throughout the land surrounding Arkadia. The setting was brilliantly shown throughout the episode.

Next Bellamy is first shown training with Lincoln, which grabbed so many hearts of Bellarke and Linctavia shippers. Bellamy gave one of his iconic speeches right away with giving Lincoln a uniform of the Ark to keep him safe. “It means what we make it mean,” is the perfect quote from his speech to summarize what season three is going to be about according to Jason Rothenberg. The Sky Crew is going to make their symbol mean whatever they want to make it mean; just like they were in season two. Next, Bellarke shippers are introduced to a new evil:

No real reason exists for Gina to be a part of the show besides to try, TRY, to take Clarke’s place in Raven and Bellamy’s lives. It is evident though that Gina was not on Bellamy’s mind as soon as Marcus spoke to Bellamy about on Clarke’s trail. How do fans know? The light in his eyes light up like a freaking Christmas tree on Christmas Eve when Santa visits. It was magical to fans of the Bellamy and Clarke relationship. Hopefully Gina does not stay around too long. Her friendship with Raven was “eh” as well. Fans am open to character development, but minimal development in the relationship with Bellamy.

Which leads to Clarke. Clarke is such a sweet girl that does not look good with red hair. Or as Jason Rothenberg calls it:

In season three Clarke is being referred to as the Commander of Death, Wanheda, and every tribe of Grounders wants her dead out of revenge. Clarke’s character is not consistent with the past two seasons. She has changed her hair color, but then she is also written in as a bi-sexual character. For fans, this new development is a stretch for Clarke’s character. Many who wanted Clarke and Lexa, the Commander of the Tree Crew, to become a couple with the two-second kiss at the end of season two, the thought that Clarke might be bi-sexual is among high favors. Many fans of the show, however, believe it to be too big of a stretch in a short time period.

Linctavia is the next major ship shown in the season premiere. They did not get as much attention as Bellarke, but they are still prevalent. They are fighting over Lincoln wearing the uniform Bellamy gives him, and what it means to them individually. Octavia and Lincoln’s characters were separated for a while in season two, and they are trying to find their rhythm again in season three’s premiere. Octavia gets to ride a horse a lot which made fans feel really happy because of one simple tweet:

Her character always leaned towards being a Grounder which is seen throughout the entirety of the season premiere. All the characters are speaking the Grounder language pretty fluently which fans found impressive.

Season three is going to bring a lot of new characters on board, including the trader woman, A.L.I.E., Gina, and Shawn Mendes’ character Macallan. Fans knew he was going to be in the episode from his extensive amount of tweets following up to the premiere, but did not think he would have more than a cameo. He spoke lines! And sang his song Add It Up! It is like he is an official actor on the show! Fans are hoping the writers keep him in the show to be a new character. The cast and writers loved having on set according to these tweets:

Season three is going to be an epic one for “The 100.” Fans are prepared and ready to cry from all the relationships broken apart in the premiere when they rejoin or go through trials like none other. Fans prepared to stick through Clarke’s phases. Fans are prepared for the episodes to follow Thursdays on the CW at 8/9 p.m.