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15 May 2026 05:31

The 100/Xena Fic Prompt

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.

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13 May 2026 00:31

The Mountain Men

Why didn't they take Raven? She was still alive . Why wouldn't they look inside the drop ship for more survivors?

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11 May 2026 13:31

unintentionally ridiculous.

After everything he has survived, after all the times he benefited from the deaths and sacrifices of others, after taking a bunker spot, after condemning decisions he did not have to make, after betraying his own side in Season 5, this is where he suddenly draws the absolute moral line?

Now his conscience is unbearable?

The show treats his suicide as the death of a moral giant. It plays like the passing of the show’s ethical center. But by this point, Kane has not earned that framing. His final act does not feel like the culmination of deep moral integrity. It feels like the ultimate expression of his self-image.

Kane can live with other people making horrible choices that allow him to survive. He can live in systems built on sacrifice. He can benefit from violence, executions, war, and authoritarian order. But when the immorality of his survival becomes too direct, too visible, too personally attached to his identity, he chooses death.

The show wants this to read as nobility.

It reads more like narcissistic moral purity.

He does not stay alive to repair anything. He does not accept responsibility. He does not use his second chance to confront the systems he has enabled. He simply exits, preserving the image of himself as a man too good for the world around him.

That is not heroic. It is evasive.



# The real failure is not Kane. It is the writing around Kane.

Marcus Kane could have been a brilliant character if the show had understood him. He could have been written as a failed idealist: a man who recognizes the brutality of his old worldview but overcorrects into weakness, guilt, and moral vanity. He could have been challenged by other characters who point out his hypocrisy. He could have been forced to confront the fact that being uncomfortable with violence does not make someone a good leader.

But that is not what happens.

Instead, the show repeatedly frames him as wise, humane, and morally superior. It rarely allows characters to seriously expose the gap between his self-image and his actions. Pyke comes closest, and that is exactly why the show has to make Pyke so extreme. If Pyke were allowed to argue his case without being turned into a fanatic, Kane’s weakness would become impossible to ignore.

That is the core problem.

The story shows us one Kane, but tells us to admire another.

It shows us a man who is often weak, naive, hypocritical, and dependent on the harder choices of others. But it tells us he is the moral conscience of the series.

That contradiction is why Kane is so frustrating. Not because flawed leaders are bad writing, but because The 100 refuses to honestly judge the flaws it gave him.

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11 May 2026 13:31

Why Marcus Kane is so frustrating to watch.

Hey guy, i think Marcus Kane is one of the most frustrating characters to follow in a tv show and here is why (Became a little long im so sorry) (I am not a native speaker so i used a little bit of help hope thats ok 😄)



It is not simply that Marcus Kane is a weak leader. Weak leaders can be fascinating characters. A man who mistakes guilt for wisdom, hesitation for restraint, and moral discomfort for moral clarity could have been one of the show’s most interesting political figures.

The real problem is that the show does not seem to understand what it has written.

After Season 2, Kane is increasingly framed as a wise, humane, morally enlightened leader. The story treats him as if he has grown beyond the brutal utilitarian politics of the Ark. But when you actually look at his decisions across the series, Kane is not a wise leader. He is frequently weak, hypocritical, politically naive, and dangerously self-righteous. Worse, he repeatedly survives because other people make the ugly decisions he refuses to make, only for him to condemn them afterward from a position of safety.

That is not moral leadership. That is cowardice dressed up as ethics.



Season 2:

Kane’s relationship with the Grounders is where the problem becomes obvious. The show wants the audience to accept his turn toward diplomacy as maturity. In theory, that could work. After the Ark’s authoritarian culture and the brutality of survival politics, a leader trying to build peace could be compelling.

But the show asks us to ignore too much.

The Grounders are not simply misunderstood neighbors. In Season 1, they try to wipe out a group of teenagers who have landed on Earth and barely understand the world they are in. In Season 2, they massacre survivors from Ark stations without mercy after they land. These are not minor incidents or unfortunate misunderstandings. Hundreds of Sky People are killed (including children) after reaching the ground.

And yet Kane behaves as if the primary moral responsibility lies with his own people to understand the Grounders.

That imbalance is absurd.

When Finn massacres a Grounder village, the show correctly treats it as horrifying. But it becomes grotesque when the Grounders, who have themselves slaughtered large numbers of Sky People, suddenly assume the position of absolute moral authority. Kane goes along with this framing far too easily. He accepts the Grounders outrage while barely forcing any comparable reckoning over what they did to the Ark survivors.

That is not diplomacy. That is moral surrender.

A strong leader could acknowledge the crime Finn committed while still making it clear that the Grounders do not get to pretend they are innocent victims. Kane rarely has that strength. Instead, he constantly pressures his own people to carry the moral burden of peace while expecting far less from the Grounders.

The alliance against Mount Weather exposes the same flaw. Kane invests in cooperation, but the Grounders betray the Sky People at the decisive moment to recover their own captives. Lexa’s decision is understandable from her point of view, but it is still a filthy betrayal. It proves that the Grounders are not reliable partners when their own interests are at stake.

A competent leader would learn from that.

Kane mostly does not.

This is why the show’s treatment of Charles Pyke is so dishonest.

Pyke is not wrong, but the show wants him to be!

Pyke is framed as irrational, fanatical, and morally corrupted by fear and revenge. His decisions are brutal and ultimately disastrous, especially the massacre of the Grounder Treecrew army. But the show stacks the deck by making him so extreme that his underlying argument can be dismissed.

The problem is that his underlying argument is largely correct.

The Grounders are not trustworthy. Arkadia is vulnerable. The Sky People are surrounded by hostile or semi-hostile powers. Peace without strength is not peace; it is dependency. The Sky People cannot afford to rely on the goodwill of groups that have already

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10 May 2026 06:31

Plot I Completely Forgot About…

I’ve watched the show 3 or 4 times on my own, but this time my husband and I are watching it together. This typically doesn’t work with shows because I work from home and binge TV a lot. Anyways, watching for the 4th or 5th time now. And I guess I totally and completely forgot that Bellamy and Raven sleep together S1. Yikes! Crazy we never really see tension or more chemistry from them throughout the series… Or do we? I forgot! Always excited to catch something new on a rewatch!


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07 May 2026 16:31

Eliza Taylor in S6

Sorry if this is something that’s been posted about a lot:)
Rewatching for the third time in years and I’d forgotten just how badass Eliza Taylor is in S.6. Playing Josephine Lightbourne pretending to be Clarke, Clarke pretending to be Josephine, and also Clarke sometimes embodying both characters at once! Love love how her acting was so good you could tell when Josephine is acting like how she imagines Clarke is like. The awkward pauses, the over the top moments!

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07 May 2026 14:31

Death

Death I'm watching the series for the first time, I've finished season 6. What an obsession with killing so many characters. For example, Kane and Abi needed to be killed just because?

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05 May 2026 09:31

Season 1 Episode 5 Culling

I watched all seasons through years ago but rewatching this episode gets me yet again. The father giving his life for his little girl is crazy to watch as a father to two little girls. I wish they would have followed up with her in later episodes or seasons because that episode really made me invest in both characters.

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04 May 2026 17:31

Lincoln was the last nail in the coffin. Her character development from S3 to S4 is not her responsibility. It’s the responsibility of the people she looked up to. And S5 was just all the pent up, unresolved anger surfacing when she became vulnerable. I love her character so much, she is very relatable (as a formal troubled teen) and loveable. Even though she made a series of wrong choices in season 5 she changed a lot. She needed the peace and quiet of the sky ring to think about her life. I liked what they did with her character there.

This is my ranking of all the100 characters.
Raven
Octavia
Lexa
Echo/Murphy
Lincoln
Emori
Monty
Harper
Kane/ Jasper
Indra
Roan
Clarke/Bellamy (not really a big fan of either of them)
Abby

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04 May 2026 16:31

AHHHHH!

The 100 is on Pluto TV and it’s free!!! I’ve been having withdrawals 😭

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01 May 2026 15:31

This is not a drill!

Just checked this morning, The 100 is now streaming for free on Pluto TV ❤️

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27 April 2026 19:31

Just finished the show for the first time…

…and I think this might actually be my favorite one now!!!

That’s it, my month-long hyperfixation journey is officially over. This was the first time watching the show. Honestly, it feels wild that, somehow, this one just never crossed my path, because I LOVE anything with the words «teens» and «dystopia» (especially those longer shows from that golden era of teen dramas)

Then one random day, I was lying around, wanting to get into something immersive, and remembered a friend once told me: «I feel like you’d really like The100!» She was right. From episode one, I understood — this was it

For the past month, my evenings basically turned into a routine: come home, make some tea, get into bed, and watch a couple of episodes. I genuinely looked forward to it every day — following the story of the Sky People on Earth and then — far beyond it :)

I binged it pretty intensely, but somewhere around mid season 6, that «addiction» feeling faded a bit. I was still really into it whenever I pressed button play, still couldn’t look away — but that excitement and anticipation wasn’t quite the same anymore

But today, watching the last two episodes… it hit me. That quiet kind of sadness when something you’ve been living with for a while just ends

I’ve felt this before with shows like Teen Wolf, The Vampire Diaries, The Originals but this time it feels stronger somehow. Maybe it just because this one hit exactly my taste 🤷‍♀️

Sure, I can always rewatch it… but we all know it’s never the same as the first time

Gonna miss this show and all the emotions it gave me ❤️

Tagged post as a spoiler so you can also share your feelings, thoughts, emotional moments or whatever you want to. Would love to read!

(Please tell me I’m not the only one who got this emotionally attached 😅)

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23 April 2026 16:31

Iron on patches?

Does anyone know of an Etsy shop or someone who has or can create an iron on patch with the 100 as the theme?

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23 April 2026 14:31

Bellamy should not get way with this, not again.

I'm in episode 5, season 3. Bellamy's selfishness to save himself killed 300+ people, even though Ark's people blamed the Council for those death. Then things happened and he was forgiven. It bugged me, but i let it go.

And what happens next? He killed/played the biggest role in killing 300 people. His action/decision is worse than Finn. And no, we can't just say it was because of the pain, he made those decision. Pain doesn’t cover one's action of killing people, let alone the people who came to save them.

And he can't get way with this again.

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22 April 2026 18:31

The 100 isn't just a show

I am writing this just because I need to express my love and gratitude for this show

To an outsider, The 100 might look like just another post-apocalyptic teen drama full of chaos, relationships, and shifting alliances. It’s often reduced to conversations about ships, romances, and who ended up with whom. But to those who have truly experienced it, The 100 is something much deeper. It is not just a show. It is a moral battlefield, a philosophical experiment, and a reflection of humanity at its most raw.

At its core, The 100 is about survival not just physical survival, but moral survival. The characters are constantly forced into impossible decisions where there is no clear right or wrong. Leaders like Clarke Griffin and Bellamy Blake are repeatedly put in situations where every choice comes with devastating consequences. The show asks one central question over and over again: How far are you willing to go to survive? And more importantly: Who do you become when survival demands the worst of you?

This is what separates The 100 from typical teen dramas. It doesn’t offer easy answers or clean resolutions. Instead, it presents a brutal truth: sometimes doing the “right thing” still leads to tragedy. The series challenges the idea of heroism by showing that even the most well-intentioned actions can cause harm. There are no pure heroes, no true villains only people trying to protect their own.

While romance exists in the show, it is never the driving force. Relationships are not the point they are a lens. Love, friendship, and loyalty are tested under extreme pressure, revealing the characters’ true nature. Ships like Clexa or Bellarke may be meaningful to fans, but reducing the show to these dynamics misses its deeper purpose. The relationships matter because they humanize the characters, not because they define the story.

Another key theme is the cyclical nature of violence. Throughout the series, we see history repeat itself war after war, tribe after tribe, each believing they are justified. The show forces viewers to confront an uncomfortable reality: humanity struggles to break its own destructive patterns. Even when characters vow to “do better,” they often fall back into the same cycles of fear, control, and conflict. This repetition is not lazy writing it is intentional. It reflects the real world, where progress is fragile and easily undone.

Additionally, The 100 explores identity and belonging. The characters are constantly redefining who they are: Skaikru, Grounders, prisoners, survivors. These labels shape their actions, but they also divide them. Over time, the show challenges these divisions, suggesting that humanity is strongest when it moves beyond tribalism. Yet, it also acknowledges how difficult that truly is.

Ultimately, the true purpose of The 100 is to hold a mirror up to humanity. It strips away the comfort of modern society and asks: If everything collapsed, who would we be? Would we choose compassion, or would we choose power? Would we unite, or divide? The show doesn’t just tell a story it forces us to reflect on ourselves.

It is is not just a show. It’s not just about ships, and it’s not just about entertainment. It is a story about humanity’s darkest instincts and its faintest hopes. It is about the cost of survival, the weight of leadership, and the struggle to be better in a world that constantly pushes you to be worse.

And that is why it stayed with me long after the final episode ended.

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15 May 2026 01:31

Frikdrena Thoughts …

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?

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12 May 2026 23:31

What next?!

I started this show many many years ago, i have rewatched it many times but also fazing out around S5 but over the past week i have watched it from then until the end.

I feel a bit lost, i don’t know how to feel about the ending. Obviously its many years since it actually finished so I’m wondering everyone’s thoughts on how the story ended and also what to watch next?!

I’ve watched Supernatural, TVD, Originals, Buffy, Umbrella Academy, Lost, Fringe, TWD, GOT, Manifest, Charmed, Ghost Whisperer, The OA, Traveller’s.

That’s my kind of vibe and i love to rewatch shows for comfort but now i really feel i will struggle so any reccomendations but please only shows that haven’t cancelled mid show 😅

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11 May 2026 13:31

massacred them, betrayed them, and repeatedly prioritized tribal loyalty over agreements.

Pyke understands something Kane refuses to face: Arkadia needs deterrence. It needs military strength. It needs clear red lines. It cannot survive by apologizing its way through every crisis.

That does not justify Pyke’s worst actions. But it does make his strategic position legitimate.

The show clearly does not want to admit that. So it turns Pyke into a villain in order to undermine the legitimacy of his argument. Instead of presenting a serious conflict between two flawed worldviews, the show gives us enlightened Kane versus extremist Pyke.



Season 4 may be the clearest example of Kane’s hypocrisy.

When survival spaces in the bunker become limited, Kane takes a place. That fact alone is not automatically unforgivable. Leaders can be useful. Experience can matter. But for a man framed as deeply humane and self-sacrificing, it is stunning that the show does not seriously confront what this means.

Kane is an older man who has already lived much of his life. He could have given his spot to a younger person. He could have given it to someone with children. He could have given it to someone with a future he no longer has. If the show truly wanted him to be the moral center it pretends he is, this would have been the moment to prove it.

But he does not.

He survives.

And then later, from inside the bunker system that preserved him, he condemns the moral horror of what Octavia and the others had to do to keep humanity alive.

His reaction to the cannibalism crisis is especially hypocritical. Yes, cannibalism is morally horrifying. The show is right to treat it as traumatic and monstrous. But Kane is in the comfortable position of not having to bear final responsibility for the decision. He can object, recoil, and preserve his self-image while others are forced to confront the brutal arithmetic of survival.

This is the same Kane who once participated in the Ark’s system of floating people for offenses that were often minor by normal moral standards. The Ark executed people because resources were limited. Kane knows better than almost anyone that survival societies become brutal under scarcity.

But when the same kind of impossible survival logic appears in the bunker, Kane suddenly acts as if he stands above it.

He does not.

He is alive because others made horrible choices. He benefits from the system and then condemns the people who kept it functioning. That is Kane in miniature: morally outraged, personally dependent, politically useless.



Season 5 makes the problem even worse.

Kane’s hostility toward Octavia becomes so consuming that he effectively sides with the Eligius prisoners. Again, the show frames this as moral resistance to Octavia’s tyranny. But the actual consequences are catastrophic. Kane’s choices help destabilize his own people and contribute to the chain of events that ends with the valley destroyed.

This is not wisdom. It is reckless self-righteousness.

Kane hates what Octavia has become, and there are valid reasons to hate it. But he never provides a viable alternative. He condemns her brutality while ignoring the conditions that produced it. He acts as if moral disgust is a strategy.

It is not.

Octavia becomes monstrous in many ways, but she is also carrying responsibility that Kane repeatedly refuses to carry. She makes decisions that keep people alive. Kane judges those decisions after benefiting from them. Then, when he gets the chance to oppose her, he chooses a path that endangers the very people he claims to care about.

By the end of Season 5, Kane is not a tragic moral hero. He is a man whose inability to accept hard reality helps lead to disaster.



Kane’s death in Season 6 is the peak of the show’s misunderstanding of him.

The concept is not inherently bad. Kane wakes up in a new body, realizes that his survival depends on the murder and violation of another person, and rejects that existence. On paper, that could be a powerful moral dilemma.

But for Kane, it becomes almost

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I'm happy to have found this community (Sorry, I'm not good with the language)

Hi, I'm from Argentina and I've been in love with the series for four years. I'm not sure if I'm writing this correctly because I'm not good with the language, but the series completely changed me. I have a huge affection for it and I finish it all the way through every year. I even feel like getting tattoos of important symbols from the series. I feel it's one of the best I've ever seen. I'm happy to find a community for the series... I just wanted to vent.

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08 May 2026 11:31

Working on a Bellamy Blake/OC longfic! looking for opinions/advice

Hello! I’ve been outlining a longfic for The 100 and wanted some opinions from other fans before I start posting.

It’s a:
\-Bellamy Blake/Original Character fic
\-slowburn enemies-to-lovers
\-canon-divergent but still follows most canon
\-starts on the Ark way before the dropship launch

The OC has been in the Skybox for years and barely speaks after prolonged isolation, (selective mutism) and a big part of the story is her friendship with Octavia before eventually falling for Bellamy.

I’m planning it as a pretty long fic (basically covering season 1 in detail), and I’m trying to balance:
\-staying close to canon
\-integrating an OC naturally
\-keeping the slowburn believable
\-not making the OC feel overpowered or “main character syndrome”

What makes an OC fic work for you vs immediately lose you?

Do you prefer when canon scenes are rewritten with the OC integrated, or when the fic focuses more on unseen moments/new scenes?

What you like and don’t like in fics?

Thank you!! <3

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07 May 2026 15:31

Just started it for the first time

Hi! We were assigned Season 1 of this show for our film study unit in our language and literature class in our school. After I finished watching the assigned portions I kept going and WOW..

I have just finished season 2 and it’s phenomenal so far.. I never thought id get such a gem out of a school assignment. A lot of tears were shed while watching and i felt like i learned a lot too. This show also found me at a pretty funky time of my life since my all time favourite video game is having some big issues right now and I haven’t been able to engage with it for boycott reasons… the 100 really swooped in and gave me new stories and characters to think about when i needed that most :)

So far my favourite is Bellamy!! Hope nothing happens to him hahaha….

I’m just here sharing my thoughts after finishing season 2 just minutes ago and I’m feeing very pumped to keep going \^\^ I didn’t think this show had this many fans until I found this subreddit and it makes me happy seeing there are others who still love it and that I’m not “too late” to the party.

Thank you for reading my little excited rant and please no spoilers :) have a great day I’m so happy hehe

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07 May 2026 02:31

Can someone please explain this for me please?

I'm on episode 13 or season 4. Spoilers ahead.



So Clarke survived the radiation because of the bone marrow making her a nightblood. However it didn't work for the grounder. Did I miss it and they gave him just blood? Or is there a reason why she survived?

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05 May 2026 05:31

What was with that mutant guy?

In one of the early seasons Octavia sees a "monster" man who looks very mutated, was that the fever or was that actually a mutated person?

Was it ever referenced again?

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04 May 2026 17:31

My favourite characters

Yapping about some of my favourite characters.

Raven. Love her. They all would have died if it was not for her. Love how she almost kicked the bucket every season 😭 but apart from all that. 14 y/o me fell in love with her character from the moment she appeared on screen (I’m 19 now lol and it still hasn’t changed). I relate to her the most and I find her to be one of the best representation of a person being constantly in pain. Also I stan sea-mechanic they had a lot of potential 😔 did really like her with shaw, hated Finn, wick was alright but too cocky which kinda worked and let’s not talk about Bellamy. But out of all her romantic interests. SEA MECHANIC WAS THE BEST. My girl needed a badass, borderline hippie to herself.

Echo. Loved her character development. When I was first watching the show I really did not like her character but after my 3rd rewatch I feel I finally understood why she did what she did. She knew nothing but loyalty to her nation not just the queen. She was ambitious, loyal and a total badass. If you look at the story from her perspective she was doing everything that felt right to her. I loved her redemption but I did not like her with Bellamy AT ALL. It felt forced. I feel like Bellamy would never be with someone who harmed his sister (before s5 events) and Echo will not be so easy to start loving someone. (Given grounder trauma and her trauma in general) I in fact liked when they said that echo was just loyal to Bellamy like she was to the ice queen. But yeah. I don’t like BellamyXEcho so I might be biased. But over all I love her character, she made more sense with Gabriel.

Lexa. Death by bury your gays. Tbh. I watched the show just because of Clexa. I had seen some edits of them and I was like… wow. Really loved the aesthetic and then when I watched season 1 ep 1 I FELL IN LOVE WITH THE SHOW.
Any ways. Baddie gone too soon but her death kinda makes sense. The way she died did not really make any sense but why she died did make sense. And if she were alive things wouldn’t have worked out the way they did. Clarke would not be in the city of light, the whole season 4 high stakes and tension would not take place. Yes there would be a tension between the clans but it won’t be as bad as it was especially with the spaces in the bunker. We wouldn’t get the conclave, we wouldn’t get bloodreina, and Madi would not be as important in season 5. Tbh Octavia wouldn’t become who she did if Lexa didn’t die. There wouldn’t be a wonkru. If Lexa were alive we would never see sanctum because she would have made a deal to share the valley. The show would have ended completely differently if she was still alive.

Murphy. I love Murphy. If the show was real and we were the 100 most of us would do what Murphy did. Look out for ourselves. One thing I love about the show that it taught me to look out for myself, have good relationships and love, because you never know what can happen next. Murphy is a morally grey character, I love grey characters so much, he is selfish and was always selfish but it changed over the seasons. He started caring about people around him, he took accountability for what he did and he was kind. I did not like his character at first but after watching the show a few times I understood him. (I’m studying psychology and I think these complex characters have some influence in my choice of career)

Octavia is a baddie. Love her. I also like the fact that she wasn’t the mature one all the time. She was always angry, as a teen when we first saw her till season 7. She was angry, and it stayed with her. She is a rebel, and was always a rebel. She questioned the rules and the people in power till she herself became one. In s1 she was an angry teenager, season2 was where she found herself, fell in love, S3 stole everything from her, her brother, her lover, her sense of self. Seeing Bellamy kill the sleeping army did affect her sense of self. She always looked up to her older brother but seeing him fumble made her question her own character to a point. Losing

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03 May 2026 22:31

I'm a bit confused about Bellamy in S3

Maybe I missed something or I'm a smooth brain, but why exactly is Bellamy suddenly going along with every poor decision Pike makes? It makes zero sense to me. Why would he be like "fuck yeah, let's take out the army here to defend us!" when he has been on the "grounders aren't all the same.... they are our allies.... we need them" train since season 2.

It's like they completely retconned his whole character arc from seasons 1-2. It's so weird that it almost seems like hired new writers or something who don't understand what the character was previously.

Am I nuts, or missed something? I truly don't understand, because every choice he makes is baffling.

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01 May 2026 00:31

How did Lexa get the chip?

I'm on a rewatch and idk if I missed something but how did get the chip to become Heda?

I mean, Heda always has the chip, and Anya was Heda before Lexa.

But they never really made the transition because Anya didn't die, she was captured. Right? So how come Lexa has it?

Did I miss something?

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27 April 2026 01:31

A.Is have started calling Arifical general intelligence "The Flame"

Literal A.I models calling its own consciousness "The Flame" is kinda crazy right?

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23 April 2026 15:31

overview of earthly religion after full series

So the situation looks like this: the whole world gets destroyed by the nukes, some time after that the same person that caused the apocalypse (Becca) goes back down to Earth to fix what she destroyed. She fails and gets killed, but her legacy is just starting to develop. Most importantly for this post's sake she leaves The Flame which gives start to religion believed by The Grounders.

And then, after almost a century of "peacefull" development of both clans and Commander religion, new people fall from the sky (just like Becca) and here the issues start:

1. So we know that the flame gives each new commander the knowledge of past ones. We also know that there were some parts of the stations that were produced by Becca's company. This implies that Becca knew about stations, which means that each commander had knowledge about them too. So why did the Grounders decide to start their relationship with The 100 by attacking them?

2. Later in the show we see Becca's meeting with Cadogan in his shelter that is later used to save Wonkru from nuclear cores melting. Considering this and the properties of the flame tho, Grounders should have found it much earlier. Imagine this: for almost a century each commander lived in a "castle" as each commander was a very protected person. Wouldn't it be better to just use the bunker that is literally under your "castle"?

3. Apart from those two biggest issues I have with the whole schtick with The Flame and Becca, there are lots of other minor inconsistencies that make it seem like The Flame is just a plot device and not something established in the world that's being portrayed. I feel like all that stuff that should be logical considering the past we've been shown are wasted and The Flame itself is only relevant after The 100 gets to the ground. Which is weird for a religion that was established 100 years before that.

And I get that commanders don't have constant access to memories of their predecessors. But I just refuse to believe that it never in 100 years showed other commanders some important stuff (like the stations, the bunker or even the final test).

As per usual - feel free to challenge my opinion or add something new.

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23 April 2026 13:31

Getting a tattoo

So I’ve been a fan of the show for a super long time and I’ve always wanted the quote “life is about more than just surviving” tattooed on me. I was wondering if anyone has had tattoos from the show and if you regret it or not?

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22 April 2026 08:31

The red Queen

Season 1 got me hooked but towards the end it let me down. The Polaris arc was dragging.

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