u/_Apostate_

Just finished watching all 4 seasons for the first time last week. It's an okay show, frustrating at times and I have a feeling the mysteries are full of red herrings and things that won't be wrapped up. Anyway, here's some of the things I suspect and have suspected across the runtime of the show:

• >!The ravens are the souls of the dead. Trapped in this realm, they try to help and warn others.!<

>!I am stumped on what the injured bird represents, though. To me it looks like a juvenile raven but I could be wrong. I think Ethan is correct to interpret it as a sign, but of what? And what injured the bird?!<

• >!The lights flicker a lot in the earlier seasons in a way that seems significant. This could either be a sign of Julie visiting that "chapter", or some other spirit being present, or something else, but multiple times we see the lights flicker at convenient moments.!<
• >!Tabitha and Jade cannot be killed directly by the monsters or the Man in Yellow. This is why all of Jade's past lives were killed by the townsfolk and why Man in Yellow tries to turn the town against them.!<
• >!The buildings and animals also can get lost in this pocket dimension or realm. This is how the cows and goats appear, and where the random buildings, motel sign, etc come from. They get pulled in somehow.!<
• >!There is definitely a significance to the numbers that appear over and over in the show. 47 residents in the town. After a bunch of people die, a bus comes to replace all the lost people. The town tries to maintain that exact number of residents for a reason. Then there's the 7 children from the ritual. I would guess that the 8 markings on the talismans correspond to the original 8 children who were supposed to be offered up, but one was saved - probably the Boy in White. Spiders are also a repeated theme of the show, which have eight legs.!<
• >!Music seems to be important, with a code for the song that summons the children included on the Bottle Tree, and Jade being musical probably in every reincarnation. We see other instruments in the storage room that I would guess are all from his past lives. I would guess that the song was used as part of the original spell, and perhaps plays a role in undoing the spell as well.!<
• >!Alternatively, I think the music could be part of the apparent duality of the magic in this world. The faraway trees and the Boy in White don't seem like dark magic, and could have been created by Jade and Tabitha when they went against the original sacrifice plan and used the spell to create good things instead.!<
• >!I don't think Julie can change the past or will end up having started the whole thing or some other time travel paradox, but I do think she will find out some key information by traveling back to the original ritual or something.!<

So those are just some of the thoughts tumbling around inside my head. An entertaining enough show to keep watching but not as great as the newer Widow's Bay or Yellowjackets. I also love a spooky show though!

The 100 is an excellent show and one of those shows that makes you care about the characters and their decisions. A study on human nature, I was often yelling at the screen and asking “why can’t you people get along??” It’s a show full of people you love to hate and people that start out doing hateful things only to learn from their mistakes and become better people. Very much like Battlestar Galactica!

However, there were some moments in the show where the characters did things that were just outright dumb. Not frustrating dumb, but immersion breaking stupid where I knew they were smarter than this. They make the decision they make for plot and writing reasons and not because it makes sense.

A few examples:

Season 5: Raven and Murphy have taken Eligius IV, and Bellamy is negotiating with Diyoza. This is a critical moment where Bellamy’s threat of killing all the cryo prisoners is their main bargaining chip. Plain and simple, this was an obvious time to bluff and say that they had a hundred soldiers up on their spaceship. Instead they say “hi it’s literally just the two of us up here :)” which leads to their capture.

Season 6: The gang decides to fly down to explore the planet so quickly that they didn’t even get a chance to realize it was a moon, not a planet. Like seriously guys, you spent a 100 years getting here, just take a week up in space to observe the planet and sleep on it! Season 6 had several other dumb moments from various characters, like Russell deciding Sanctum was “too far gone” and it would be easier to board their mothership with some hostages to start over on a new planet.

I’m sure there are more I could think of. This happened a fair few times while watching.

What defies your belief? What do you think the characters WERENT dumb enough to do that they did anyways?

I don’t get why the Nemesis Lair Portals only last 30 seconds. It’s not enough time to collect or manage loot at all. And since you can’t go back you’re kind of choosing to pass up on everything you leave behind.

Earlier we finally got a Greater Nemesis Lair portal inside our Nemesis Lair, but there was two 2GA Mythics lying in a giant pile of rare and legendary garbage so we were trying to sift through everything to get the Mythics.

We started teleporting with the portal and were ALMOST DONE TELEPORTING when the 30 seconds timer ended and it disappeared. Better luck next time.

So what is the point of all this rush? Is the idea that you are supposed to deliberately abandon the loot from the first and second fight to go onwards? Why?