Her character honestly deserves better than this, and so do the fans that love her. It’s peace, of a sort, even if The 100 doesn’t do much in the way of interrogating or explaining why the characters who chose to reject apparent eternal peace in a hive mind consciousness in favor of one last lifetime on Earth.īut it’s also a final condemnation of Clarke Griffin, which feels deeply wrong – and quite frankly, cruel – after her journey thus far. And, to be honest, this finale is probably the best ending we could have expected for most of these characters. Such a bleak conclusion is par for the course for this show, which loves to remind us that every joy can only be achieved through the application of intense pain. Our favorites get a happy ending, of a sort, but they are also the last of the human race. Beloved characters return, but aren’t really themselves, they just sport familiar faces. Technically, everyone dies, but also (almost) everyone lives. Long story short: If you can’t entirely explain what really happened at the end of this show, you’re probably not alone.Īs a proper ending, The 100 series finale hedges its bets in multiple directions, counting on years’ worth of viewer affection for these characters to do a heck of a lot of emotional lifting and narrative gap-filling that the writing doesn’t support. The series wrapped up its seven-season run with an hour that saw Lexa return (sort of), Octavia save the day (sort of), and most of humanity choose to completely abandon corporeal existence entirely rather than continue to suffer through life on the ground (again…sort of).

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