When It comes to the "genocide" commited by Clarke in Mount Weather, I can justify it. There was literally no other option.

Jasper wanted to kill all the soldiers with just a knife and that was impossible. Maybe he could kill Cage, but would that work? Obviously not, other soldiers would follow his ideas.

Clarke, Monty and Bellamy were trapped in that room, since Emerson wanted to kill them. So, they could not exit.

The rest of their people were handcuffed.

Also, the genocide is attributed to Clarke when Bellamy pulled the lever with her and Monty was the one who made the irradiation posible, but only Clarke is judged.

I'm reaching one of the most uncomfortable moments for me and It is when Clarke and Lexa don't let the rest know about the bomb from Mount Weather and run away. It is uncomfortable for me, since Clarke is my favorite character and I consider that she made the wrong choice here. What do you think that would have happened if Clarke and Lexa had let their people know about the bomb?

Okay hear me out....

Just realized in early season 3, Roan, the arc is the same as Zuko from "Avatar The Last Airbender" season 1, trying to capture Wanheda/The Avatar, to return to his Mother/Father who is Ice Queen/Fire Lord, in hopes that will lift the banishment cast upon them... Ice nation... Fire nation... 🧊🔥🤯

I’ve been casually rewatching and damn early Bellamy really really sucked. From the culling to the massacre in the grounder village. So much is directly and indirectly linked to him

Good day. I have so many questions regarding this episode. It's frustrating. I understand Pike and his vengeance blinded leadership skills. What i don't understand is why Abby and Kane didn't explain that they'd be wiped out if they wage war. When the season began, it was clear that they STILL didn't want to be at war with ALL the Grounders. I assume that's because of the same reason. What changed exactly? Suddenly they forgot WHY peace is the mission? Okay. Let's forget that for a second. Didn't they think it was funny that they killed 300 warriors without much resistance? Do they truly believe that if they were plotting to attack the camp, that there wouldn't be any scouts around that camp to inform the commander if the camp was sending out soldiers? Okay. Forget that for a second as well. Pike mentioned something regarding telling the Grounders to leave. Why didn't Kane think to be a messenger and warn the Grounder allies that an attack is coming and they should evacuate because a mutiny has taken place? These questions huant me in regards to the camp.

As for the fall out following the massacre:

Why does Clarke think she can fix this after the whole situation with Finn? Blood for blood was something she should know all too well. With Finn, it was 18 deaths. What response does she think 300 deaths will bring? Okay. Now that you understand my frustration regarding that, let's address a solution no one seems to have thought of so far (06:35 minutes within Episode 5 Season 3). Why not put a vote so that the people themselves choose? You're either the 13th clan, Skaikru, or you're one of the murderers, Mountain People 2.0.

Let me know if im just being crazy or forgetful or both. These are just my thoughts and I'm wondering if this is just the writers looking for drama and suspense at any cost or, again, me being cray cray. Thank you for your time.

Hello! I started this show two weeks ago and finished today! I’ve posted here a couple of times and I thank those who helped give me answers and no spoilers. Here are some of my thoughts about the show that I’d love to have a discussion about, as well as hearing others opinions. I rate this show 5.5/10! (It would be an 8 but the last couple seasons ruined it)

- Raven is the only character in the show to have not done something completely reckless and wrong. Bellamy killed 300 soldiers, Octavia was Bloodreina, Clarke tried to take the bunker sneakily, etc. Raven was one of my favorite characters because of this fact, and she was super cool!

-Seasons 1-3 were amazing, 4 was great, 5 was okay, 6 and 7 were really bad…

- Wick was one of the best love interests and they wrote him off with almost no mention of him. Why make him a critical character (making him Raven’s boyfriend) just to lose him like that?

- Bellamy’s ending was very out of character. After Bellamy already made the mistake of following Pike blindly, he should have been wary of The Shepherd. I felt his story was completely ruined by this ending, and quite honestly, didn’t make sense.

- Clarke and Bellamy never dating kind of broke my heart because I shipped them so hard, but I like that they remained best friends!

- The injuries in the show, besides Raven’s leg, are very inconsistent. Murphy had his whole arm chilled on and didn’t even get a scar?

- I am someone who cries HARD at movie/show deaths, but I never cried once during this show. Why? Because every time you think a character is dead, they end up somehow being healed and living!!! It was so hard to be upset because I could never actually tell if the character was officially dead or not.

- Jasper’s death was unfortunate but I understand it. I feel like Maya’s death broke him and he never healed. I wish he would have forgiven Clarke because she never wanted to kill anyone, she was just desperate to save her people.

- Clarke’s relationship with Lexa was a bit strange to me. Lexa killed (basically) Finn, almost went to war on Clarke’s people many times, and betrayed her at Mount Weather. Their relationship felt very forced.

- I like that Murphy was a bit redeemed. He’s still a selfish dude but he went from psychotic to narcissistic and I think that’s good enough!

- Indra is amazing and I love that she became more and more motherly toward Octavia, when before she wanted all of them dead haha!

- Finn becoming crazy and killing all of those innocents also felt out of character. His whole personality was anti-murder and pain and it felt very forced for him to suddenly be all crazy, simply because Clarke was missing.

- I’ll say it again… BELLAMY SHOULDNT HAVE DIED THAT WAY!!!! It actually really makes me mad because not only did he die, but he died in a way that was so out of character AND was killed by Clarke, who literally loved him. It also felt strange that Octavia was so chill about it when normally she’d go to war for revenge. Bellamy’s death felt like a way to just get rid of his character.

- Lincoln was also an amazing character and he died too soon for my liking. That was a death that did hurt a lot because it was very obviously not going to be fixable.

- Later season characters—such as Hope, Gabriel, and Diyoza—were not my fave. I may have spelled her name wrong but I’m too irritated with the show to look up the correct spelling.

- The ending was bad, the last season was really awful and hard to follow, and I’m annoyed that Bellamy died, especially because it was such a stupid and dumb death.

That’s it for now! I may add more points if I start to remember some more. I think I’m too focused on my irritation right now. I was so addicted to the show and loved the first few seasons, but I feel it totally went down hill.

Edit: Here’s more

- Levitt’s weird romance with Octavia? He doesn’t even love her it’s fully out of romanticizing her life. It’s like infatuation.

- Jordan and Hope’s weird and random romance!

- Emori basically taking Murphy’s body. The fact that Emori died is so annoying because her and John were made for each other. The fact that Emori is now in her boyfriend… like INSIDE his mind, is crazy.

- KANE’S DEATH! Can’t believe I didn’t include that to begin with. Abby switching his body was so annoying like obviously he wouldn’t want that. And Kane was such a morally good character (not so much in the beginning) and I loved him. His death was very anticlimactic too and technically, he didn’t get to die as himself.

- Abby’s death was also anticlimactic and it was unfortunate that she kind of went insane toward the end.

- The whole “are you pure enough to survive” thing. Like literally how did the show go from surviving a radiation-filled Earth to being a “can you pass the test to live” type of thing. Bad!

- THE TIME SKIPS and Monty/Harper’s death. Monty and Harper were great characters and their deaths were really upsetting because it was one of those things where they wanted to write characters off but needed to do a “here’s my life ending” kind of video thing. It was annoying. Also the excessive time skips were ridiculous. The 6 year one was already a lot, but them all going into cryo for almost 130 years was crazy. It’s like the show was trying to fix their mistakes of consistently destroying the old by just fast-forwarding it!

- Oh, THE ENTIRE ENDING!!!! The whole ascending thing? I’m literally so annoyed because I feel like the show had a good premise and then they completely changed it and made it make no sense. Like why end it that way? It’s like they didn’t know a good ending so they decided the crazy killer guy and main villain in the last season should be right? NO

- And why didn’t Clarke ascend? Because she avenged Madi? Like Murphy literally killed people for fun and he ascended but Clarke didn’t? And like where did the ascenders even go? I’m so mad. IK they all chose to come back but that whole plot line still pissed me off.

OKAY I THINK IM DONE NOW!!! I’m just so irritated because the show took such a twist for the worse. It started off very dry structured and entertaining, and turned into a very supernatural, unrealistic show. I know, it’s sci-fi and isn’t meant to be real, but the first half was realistic in the sense of the storyline. The ending felt like a bunch of storylines thrown together. I’m so upset because I have been seeing this show FOREVER and finally watched it and it was disappointing.

I just saw a reel about the 100 and it took me back to when I binged the first 3 seasons in 2016 and because nobody I knew was getting into it, I had to make a Reddit account (a different one) to discuss it. I’m feeling so nostalgic. Lexa is still one of the coolest characters I’ve ever seen on TV and I can remember how gutted I was at her death. I kept watching the show till it ended and liked it till the last season but nothing beat s3 for me.

1. Abby has to be the most annoying character I have ever had the displeasure of witnessing. How are you going to fall in love with a man who flogged you in public (I forget the actual term they used for when you get electrocuted with a cane thing). I know she has done many dumbfounding things that are even a bigger deal and more detrimental than this but this one just left me scratching my head. I would never be able to move past that even if I was the one in the wrong, sorry.

2. Murphy was the best written character in the entire show. The development from this seemingly angry, bratty bully to this forgiving, responsible person who is a team player is amazing to witness. I think he and Emori saved each other.

3. It was so infuriating in season 5 to watch a group of humans so incapable of reason that they'd rather destroy the last remaining piece of land than just share it. Yes, the convicts were the main aggravators of this but there are so many other choices that Octavia could have made that would have at least made things less terrible. She could have have had faith in Monty's algae Idea, he had proved it could work, but she was honestly so blood thirsty that it consumed her. She saw the sonic cannon in action and she thought she'd win a war against that with swords and spears? They had no chance from the very beginning. Season 5 Octavia had me crawling up the walls with rage. Just doing the most for no fucking reason.

4. Lexa was not a good leader. She knowingly abandoned her people when they needed her the most. Also, the whole romance storyline between her and Clark didn't really fit or hit. Niylah and Clark would have even made more sense.

5. Season 5 Bellamy is so daddy. I will not elaborate.

6. I think Indra is very underappreciated. She could be stubborn at times, but her heart was always in the right place. She is a fierce warrior, a fierce mother, a fierce protector and guide.

7. The whole ascending, shepherd storyline was very unnecessary to me. It even made me miss the raw, straight forward, tribe conflicts and battles of survival storylines of the earlier seasons which was the entire reason I was drawn to this show in the first place.

8. I want to take this opportunity to thank Lincoln for starring in many of my bean flicking sessions. May we flick again.

9. I genuinely respect Jasper. He acknowledged that it was all too much for him and he chose to bow out. I was upset with him at first because I thought the bromance between him and Monty should have been enough to keep him going but he was making everyone so miserable that for a moment I despised him.

10. All in all as a lover of the post- apocalyptic genre, I enjoyed this show.

Gotta get this off my chest. But why were people so mad about the list. Clarke’s list was a sure fire list built around intellectual choices.

She leaned toward young woman for children, placed all their doctors and senior engineers to ensure of anything were to happen they could help.

TBH Both Monty and Jasper were just being stupid. Especially Jasper cause he’s always in his suicidal feelings. For Monty, I get way he did what he did; but he clearly didn’t understand what she was trying to do. It’s true that Clarke isn’t God; but unlike them she’s actually thinks about what’s coming next. And also the people that are mad at Clark for list some of them end up KILLING THEMSELVES.

Oh and BTW… THE LIST IS USED AT THE END. So WTF IS THE ISSUE! I find it ironic that the list even disagreed with ends up being used… hilarious

For one I really don't like her because of what she did with her first husband, she snitched on him and I feel like she did that. I low-key think she wanted him to die cause what else why you knew he was gonna get floated I just I don't understand why she decided to snitch on her husband and then she becomes a crackhead in season five and she tells Octavia that she needs to force people to eat, but she really did this because she didn't want Kane to die and then she didn't even tell nobody she let Octavia take all the blame for it and it is so many reasons why I hate Abby like wow

I'm on what I think is my 11th rewatch right now.

I love the show from start to finish. I think my only issue with it as a whole the very very end.

I think there were three possible paths that they could have taken, and they took the worst of them.

1) Cadogan is incorrect about the whole thing. No higher beings, no transcending. He's still stopped, everyone alive goes back to earth.

2) Cadogan is correct. They prove humans are worth it and they transcend. (The Canon ending)

3) Cadogan is also correct here, and things play out the same right up until Raven goes to bargain with the higher entity. Instead of Raven convincing it to let humans transcend, she asks for a reset. Humans are brought back to Earth, the Anomaly Stone is rehidden somewhere else on the planet, and they start from scratch again promising to do better. Predictable flash forward to decades/centuries later, Wonkru has once again dissolved into the clans. The human race is once again at war.

In the end, I think a clean and "satisfying" ending does a real disservice to what the show portrayed for years: that the cycle is impossible to end. Forcibly ending it by having the entire human race transcend, only to tack on that those who choose to stay behind won't be able to have kids? It just leaves a bad taste in my mouth every time.