r/The100 • u/Taylorsredbottoms • 5d ago
SPOILER-The 100 ending Spoiler
I just finished the 100. I was told when I first started that seasons 6-7 and 3b were HORRIBLE but those were actually my favorite seasons? I can see that the whole "transcendence" thing was a little stupid but I don't understand why they're hated among the viewers. Can someone explain the hate lol
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u/EqualConstruction 3d ago
The reason I don't like it is because I view it as just a rehash of the City of Light plot but with murdering aliens that think they're superior. And yes they get the "choice" to not transcend, unlike with Allie but they still wipe out human existence as we know it.
It just came off as half baked and completely underdeveloped.
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u/bvanevery 2d ago
Must admit, having the omnipotent beings being fuckers, is kinda hard to wrap my head around. Like what do they have, some big genocide committee?
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u/SmallAppendixEnergy Skaikru 1d ago edited 1d ago
Taste differs... I loved the transcendence thing in the end. To each their own, it gave me 'closure' in the end. I have no 'more or less' favorite seasons, loved them all. Still scares the bejeezus out of me that I actually genuinely enjoyed Octavia killing Pike in the end.
Favorite lines...
- "Do you see her too?", Clarke to Madi standing next to the rover after Madi got the flame...
- "Don't worry Murhpy, hell is big enough for both of us..."
And Indra eating soup :-)
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u/MsMercury 1d ago
It’s not so much trancendence that bothers me. It’s how it was awkwardly jammed into the storyline. I also didn’t like that only live people could transcend. It didn’t seem right that Bellamy had such a deep, spiritual experience….. for nothing. And just Clark could never transcend? She made a lot of mistakes but she wasn’t evil. What about Murphy? To me he was a way worse person than Clark was. I really liked the backstory about Becca and all of that. I would have liked the story of the second Dawn if it was written better.
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u/I_amnotreal 4d ago edited 3d ago
I am also one of the few who didn't hate the ending. More so, I like s07 more than s06 and I think the whole transcendence thing wasn't really as "out of the blue" as many people claim - not only it's a sci-fi staple trope, but the show already toyed with a similar idea in the city of light. Plus at this point it was already pretty much obvious that the humans in the show's universe are gonna start a war as soon as you put more than two of them in the same room (if there's just two, they are either gonna fuck or kill one another) and to have an ending that really felt final you had to remove that problem off the board, so either everyone dies or something like what we got happens.
I also get why so many people hate the last two seasons. First of all, s05 ending felt like a fully serviceable ending to the whole thing and s06 and 07 in their entirety feel like a set of contrivances that were thrown in there just to keep the show running (even though that's how most of the seasons after season 2 are constructed), while taking away most of the familiar elements. All that's left are some characters and even they don't all act the same way as before, because they've been placed in this new setting and had those new complications placed in front of them. Plus I can see how the ending could feel underwhelming if you were expecting a happily ever after.