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i think there are way worse characters than abby but for some reason she gets all the hate. correct me if im wrong im on season 2 right now (im rewatching) but i dont think shes done anything horrible till now except snitching on her husband (which wasnt because she was trying to be a bad person she just was naive enough to think they would spare him). ive seen people hate on her for sending clarke to the ground but if they didnt do that shed be floated anyway. she was the reason skaikru found out that the ground was survivable, if it wasnt for her theyd still be rotting in space while the kids on the ground probably died. she saved numerous lives by just being a doctor. she announced that the ark was dying so that they wouldnt have to kill people without them knowing. she didnt take dianas bribe and decided to not betray her people and her ideology. ofc she wasnt the best mother or wife, yeah the drug situation sucked but she was pretty good in the early seasons, im not saying she was perfect (most characters suck) but shes way overhated.

Just doing a rewatch and I have started season 5. In episode 1 when Niylah opens Octavia’s pod it says Bellamy Blake rather than Octavia. Is there a reason for this I have overlooked? It focused on it to suggest the detail was of importance?

Finn is a good guy. He has a good heart, he’s fun, funny, he’s loving and so thoughtful with the girls he’s with (I mean - he went out of his way to make sure his girlfriend could take a spacewalk because she got rejected on the test - and then took the fall when it turned badly - what a sweetheart!!!!).

After the village slaughter, he had the chance to murder another grounder and he didn’t - he let him run away.
I really do not see any “bad” or “crazy” in Finn. He went through a scenario most of us could never fathom - losing the person you love and truly not knowing if they are alive or dead, hoping they are alive and searching for any proof of it. From a third-party perspective, he found the people who had Clarke’s dad’s watch and their peoples’ clothes. I would not be so forgiving in that moment either. The proof he was looking for was all there.

I wanted Clarke and Finn to end up together. RIP Finn.

Hey : ) I've been a huge fan of The100 since 2020 and currently I'm on my 5th rewatch. I've been wanting to buy the books for a while now, but I'm not sure if they're as good as the show. If anyone's read them, can you please tell me if the books are similar to the show? Is it as dark as the show? Are they overall worth reading? Thanks!

If the 100 were a D&D campaign, what class would Lincoln be? I'm thinking barbarian, but i'd love to hear other opinions! Just for reference, the way I'm doing this, there is no magic, so bards, druids, wizards, sorcerers, and warlocks aren't a thing.

Do you guys think there were other viable bunkers around the world?
Jaha mentions the eventual Bunker after they discuss Mount Weather and other gov’t bunkers, but I always wonder if there were legitimate other civilizations.

Hello! Im gonna be graduating high-school in a couple of months or weeks from now. I've been thinking of getting a fun quote from the 100. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Idk if I'll use smth from here unless its like really good but I wanna see yalls favorite quotes

I rewatch the 100 once a year. It’s my absolute favorite show of all time. But even after all these years, I still LOATHE the vast majority of Season 7. The superior alien storyline is the worst. Just, WHY.

However it’s satisfying to watch Clarke barge in the testing area, shoot Cadogen and then challenge this idea of moral superiority the alien race has.

And the dead don’t transcend? Wtf. I’m still upset over what they did to Bellamy’s character, and the fact he’s not back with everyone.

Ugh. I could rant about so much, but the real nail in the coffin was the dog not transcending. HOW DARE THEY. If anyone deserved it the most it was that dog.

Anyway, I love this show…but I will always hate how they ended it.

Hello all, I haven't watched this show BUT unfortunately I know all about how much the finale was hated, especially for fans who really liked the main couple. I'm in a completely different fandom (which I will leave unnamed) and I just want to know how did y'all manage to cope with the anger and betrayal you felt. Like genuinely, what do you think is a healthy way to process this stuff when it comes to fandom. Sometimes characters and stories mean so much to me and I have no idea what to do with the intense negative emotions.

Someone once said they printed a picture of the showrunner and threw darts at it and I just wanna know your tips and tricks 😭

Hi! I recently started binging the show and am nearly done with season four now - really enjoying it so far! Anyway, I was wondering if anyone had read the books the show is based on.

In most instances, the books are usually better than a the live-action adaptation and I was curious if that held true for The 100. I’ve got some banked Audible credits and want to spend wisely.,,

Thanks in advance!!

What are some of the best times that the Traveler's Blessing was used throughout the show??

I have always wanted to start this show somehow it still remains in my watchlist and recently I saw people saying that the the last season was trash and that the ending sucked? Is it true ? I always wanted to start the show though

I have just finished a binge of 'The 100' after discovering it accidentally. I didn't even know I was watching it (I thought it was the next episode of the last show I was watching), until a few minutes into the first episode. I was hooked pretty much immediately, and I've just finished the finale! Fell a bit flat for me, but I tend to appreciate things like 'The 100' in their entirety rather than how they ended. I absolutely loved the show. Solid 9/10 for me.

I have loved reading all of your contributions, and I wanted to make one of my own that I'm quite passionate about. I've been reading a lot of discussions about John Murphy lately, and one thing I keep seeing repeated is that he starts the show as 'the asshole character' before eventually earning a redemption arc.

Introduction

I am just off the back of the show, and my immediate reaction is that I completely disagree with that framing. Not because I think Murphy was secretly a saint or a great guy, but because I honestly don't think the show ever gave me a good reason to see him as uniquely bad in the first place.

I think the audience has bought into or been captured by the rest of 'Skykru's perception of Murphy without ever really asking themselves whether the group was actually right about him.

People talk about Murphy like he starts as 'the asshole', and slowly becomes more human or 'good' over time. That was never how I experienced the character at all. Maybe it's my natural bias for the underdog, but watching the show, Murphy felt less like the dangerous outcast and more like the group punching bag, the easy target.

The Hanging Scene

While it didn't affect my enjoyment of the show and I understand why they did it, the hanging scene completely broke my suspension of disbelief.

The group falsely accuses Murphy of murder, literally hangs him for something he did not do, and after that the social framing of the show STILL acts like Murphy is the one who needs to earn everyone's trust back.

Realistically, a group that literally lynched someone unjustly would either fracture over it or become deeply apologetic to the victim. Instead, everyone basically moves on and Murphy somehow remains the 'sketchy, untrustworthy one'. I can't even remember if he got a damn apology for the whole incident xD No one seems traumatised over it, and yet everyone demonstrates a capacity to be traumatised at their actions, Bellamy in particular. If John had died, Bellamy would been a murderer from that point forward. I never felt the 'weight' of that from anyone but John himself.

Bellamy

Ballamy and Murphy BOTH participate in the early 'Lord of the Flies' spiral, but Bellamy gets framed as a conflicted leader while Murphy gets framed as fundamentally rotten. But if you actually strip away the music, the charisma, the narrative framing, and the plot requirements, I struggle to understand why Murphy is treated as or seen as uniquely awful compared to basically everyone else. John is also framed as uniquely sadistic during this period, which was something I kinda judged him for earlier until the Pike flashbacks, but at the same time a huge amount of that comes from presentation and charisma rather than an actual comparison of actions and motivations.

Let's also not forget before ANYTHING was said or done, Bellamy shot Jaha. As much as I love Bellamy, I don't understand why I was supposed to root for him or assume he's any better than John.

The Pike Flashback

The Pike flashbacks just reinforced the view that John was never uniquely or fundamentally bad. Murphy wasn't some uniquely broken sociopath dropped into an otherwise healthy social environment. The Ark had already turned him into the kid everyone was comfortable humiliating and abusing long before they ever reached the Earth. He lost both his parents, which again I'll come back to, but that meant he was vulnerable. From his perspective, his teacher beat the living shit out of him, literally pummelled the guy, and his classmates mostly stood and watched.

I just never bought into the idea that I was supposed to even expect John to act in the groups interest.

John's Parents

Granted this happens much earlier in the show, but on the ground there are a few scenes where John is treated with contempt for the crimes of his parents. I think one or both of his parents were floated for stealing medicine for him, one of the most sympathetic 'crimes' committed in the entire show. That's not greed. It's not ambition. Not violence. Desperation. And yet I vaguely remember a few snide remarks being made to John about him thinking he 'deserves to live more than anyone else'.

A crime, by the way, that Abby committed too when she saved Jaha. That is framed as tragic, compassionate, morally difficult, whereas Murphy's parents doing the exact same thing gets lumped in with the general perception that Murphy comes an inherently selfish or criminal background.

Almost every other prisoner receives sympathy from one another for whatever draconian rule landed them in jail. Octavia for example, is framed as a victim of Ark law. The audience is encouraged to see her existence as evidence of the system's cruelty. Murphy's family are also victims of Ark law, but somehow the emotional framing around Murphy often remains "he is selfish, of course he's trouble". Heck, if John is gonna be treated as selfish because his parents stole medicine to keep him alive, why on Earth does Raven get redemption for her spacewalk?

Conclusion

What actually makes Murphy uniquely bad?

A lot of people say Murphy became trustworthy later in the show. I felt almost the opposite. Murphy was one of the ONLY people I would've trusted from early on, because he was emotionally legible.

He usually says what he means. He rarely hides self-interest behind morality. He reacts to betrayal like any human being actually would, and whenever someone genuinely treats him like one of their own, he almost always responds accordingly by becoming more dependable, more group-oriented, and he demonstrates with Emori that he can be fiercely loyal and actually completely selfless, if he feels someone has earned it by giving that back to him. It would have been unreasonable for me to expect him to act in any other way at virtually every point in the show based on how other people treated him.

John usually became exactly what people expected him to be. Treat him like one of yours, and he acts like one of yours. Treat him like an outsider and he acts like an outsider.

The more I think about it, the more I feel John wasn't a force for bad in the show at all.

He was a mirror.

I posted this purely to generate discussion and to share my thoughts - please let me know what you think!

Finally. I can rewatch now!

Basically what the title says!! I really want to rewrite the show/do my own version of it, but I don’t know how many people would be receptive to it/even read it.

My biggest problems with it are how they use South Asian concepts of spirituality/reincarnation without actually having South Asian actors spotlighted (it’s pretty much only Sachin Sahel and Dichen Lachman). I’m South Asian so that aspect really bothered me! There’s South Asian characters in the books, so I want to incorporate them too.

I think the show falls into a trap of focusing on fantasy forms of oppression (ie. the entire Nightblood system & placing emphasis on how only they are able to be commanders— even if it IS because of the flame) and also just… confuses me? I guess it makes sense that “traditional” human life/life before Praimfaya is forgotten, but at the same time, it feels completely different!! The Grounders are largely descended from defectors who realized they didn’t want to be in a cult. It’s always confused me how they didn’t pass down knowledge of life before Praimfaya at all (or at least not MUCH of it).

If I keep going, I’ll start rambling, so, TLDR: I’m thinking of rewriting the show and incorporating elements of the book into it, but want to hear people’s thoughts on that.

I can’t do this show! They keep bullying the Black guy! (Chancellor’s son) and someone just shot Jasper! No thank you.

I am actually surprised this hasn't been done yet. Not that I've found anyways. But a fic where Lexa and Clark are reincarnations of Xena and Gabrielle. I'm an awful writer but this would be amazing. I mean a fierce brunette warrior whose horrific experiences make her strive to bring peace that mentors and falls in love with a spunky blonde who wants nothing but peace who slowly descends into darkness to become a capable warrior. It's almost too perfect. Someone please write this.

All grounders (except the obvious, Mountain Men) are a result of withstanding radiation, adapting, overcoming. Right?

But the people on the Ark are also survivors of the radiation, they just didn’t know it… (Side quest: shouldn’t some of them have died and some survive - just like on the ground? Anyways…) It would be likely that Sky People could/would also produce Frikdrena’s.

Right? Thoughts?

Maybe distance from the radiation would have different effects?

I finally found an active The 100 server, feel free to join if your interested.