r/The100 • u/CalendarNo8591 • 5d ago
Your Alternate Ending Spoiler
If you could choose how the show ends, what would you change? Anything? Nothing? Everything? I honestly don’t know how I expected it to end but transcendence was not it!
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u/Pasteldefleur 5d ago
I find it hard to believe that our protagonists would just give up and accept their fate so easily. Idk how I would change it but if they came back with a new short season/movie of them fighting back I would find it more believable
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u/VEyeDoubleNWhy 5d ago
I would end the show after season 5 with Monty and Harper’s video message.
Yes it would’ve been a cliff hanger but that imo would’ve been a perfect ending to the series.
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u/555Cats555 5d ago
Yeah, I think season 5 is a valid way to end it. Season 6 was interesting but unneeded.
Either that or have humanity continue on that planet after solving the issue of the primes without the other nonsense that happened after.
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u/Indiana_harris Skaikru 4d ago
Almost at the end of S5 finale with some tweaks.
Clarke and Bellamy wake up from Cryo to Monty & Harpers message…..except that as the messages go on we suddenly see middle aged Monty & Harper, with their adult son and a bunch of characters we vaguely recognise as remaining Skaikru from the Bunker (let’s say 40 or so people) with what looks like some grounders thrown in.
Monty tells Clarke & Bellamy that 35 years into the journey one of the power stations for the cryo system failed, waking one of the 4 segments that houses the cryo pods.
As such neatly 100 people were woken up, unable to go back to sleep. The last of Skaikru and some of the last of Trikru in particular. They can’t go back to sleep, so they’re all going to work together to try to survive.
They won’t wake the others, even if everything fails the sleepers will reach their destination.
Clarke & Bellamy exit the bridge to the main corridor of the ship which looks as though there have been repairs and partial modifications to various systems.
There’s someone waiting for them, this Jordan Green is a descendant of Monty & Harper, a several times removed great grandson. He was chosen to help “transition” the sleepers once they woke up.
He leads them to the main hanger/dinning balls/barracks areas of the ship and we see a bustling thriving society akin to the Ark from S1 but apparently less restricted, more content.
He informs them that those who woke managed to survive, and thanks to Skaikru knowledge, gradually retrofit the ships systems to allow a larger population to survive.
There are nearly 600 people living on Eligius IV…and they’re excited to meet those who sleep, and set foot on a new world.
It ends with the same view looking out from a window to the planet below but this time it’s a large bay window in the hanger, where all the Sleepers, and the community onboard are gathered together.
There’s a hint, that everything’s really going to be ok.
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u/TrueObsidian11 4d ago
While S7 was a huge pain to watch, I actually don't hate the lore we got introduced to in it, with the origins of Callie and the Grounder language and all that. The main thing I would change is instead of humanity transcending at the end, the judge just leaves and tells them they can retake the test when they're ready. Like others have said, I would've loved to see a kind of cliffhanger ending where humanity now has an intergalactic trade system, the Bardoans stay on Bardo under new leadership (Octavia? Echo? Hope?) and the others go back to earth to rebuild. That last scene on the beach is honestly perfect, just take away the whole "they chose not to transcend and now everyone is sterile" BS. Just let us watch them fade into the sunset on the brink of humanity's rebirth, basically.
That also opens the door to spin-offs later on of generations later when their grandchildren's grandchildren are rediscovering the history of what their ancestors went through to get there.
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u/CornucopiumOverHere Fleimkepa 4d ago
I think most people would agree to cut out season 7.
I think the traveling to Sanctum is fine considering Earth became inhabitable again, so I would have played on the struggles of adapting to trying to survive on a new, unknown planet to the group. Could lead into a sequel of future descendants trying to make it back to Earth after x amount of years.
Personally, if I was a writer for the show since they didn't follow the books much, I would have adapted it to end it with the second death wave and Monty and Harper's video. It would have left a huge cliffhanger, but it would have given the audience more to think about and the possibilities of what the group would be like had the story continued. What happened to Clarke? Did she survive? Where did the crew end up? Will they survive on this new planet (moon)? Maybe there's a time-skip and the future generations travel back to Earth to find out Clarke and other Nightbloods did survive and they were able to make something out of the rubble for their future descendants?
Think that could have given the writers more time to create a more intriguing and narrative driven sequel or continuation of the show rather than "Human bad. Can't transcend."
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u/X-OBSERVER-X 4d ago
I would have rather them explore Grounder Culture to a far greater degree. Instead of just erasing it and not really bothering with it. Less on the technology side of things.
Praimfaya 2 is where I would have ended it so Praimfaya 2 becomes Season 7.
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u/Historical-Dot-8320 3d ago
The ending would be that Echo and Emori both find out they are pregnant from previous times with Bellamy and Murphy so life has found a way to go on and humans do get another chance to "do better"
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u/bvanevery 2d ago
Or Raven figures out how to make reproductivity work again, with some motor oil. Or maybe a special electromagnetic jar. And some campfire sticks, since they don't have much to work with. Maybe some rusty metal scrap from the bottom of a river, and some coconuts.
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u/giotodd1738 Natblida 3d ago
Humanity never transcends after it turns out to be a fanatic’s lie. Then, Eligius III finally makes a debut.
They go back to Sanctum using the anomaly stone and from there they crack the Eligius III mission files and find the ship on Planet Epsilon. On board, there’s some people and we discover the fate of the other missions as failures. Instead of being a full bust however, there’s at least 1,000-10,000 embryos on board and they’re all still viable.
Humanity finally makes peace, deciding to repopulate and realises a good path forward. Some different groups begin settling the planets in the stone network discovered by The Second Dawn with a new age of technology and cooperation.
We pan out in the finale to a view of a few developed worlds, in particular Earth and Sanctum, what we see is a rebuilt civilisation on each world before the screen focused on Earth. The final few scenes begin with a modern to slightly more advanced civilisation with people walking around a city and what looks to be a museum. Outside of it, we see statues of Clarke and those who played an important role. A guide begins to tell us: “597 years ago a nuclear apocalypse killed everyone on Earth, or so we thought…”
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u/Hoosierologist Podakru 4d ago
Everyone dies in the big final battle, Clarke snaps back into the season 3 finale where it is revealed everything thereafter was ALIE simulating what would happen to Clarke, and she decides NOT to pull the lever, and everyone lives dystopianly ever after in the City of Light after ALIE 1 and ALIE 2 merge, including Clarke and Lexa.
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u/lent8738 5d ago
My preferred ending is probably S1 without grounders. So change basically everything about the show (not that its bad)
I would just like to imagine a peaceful earth where the 100 and the other ark citizens could thrive.
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u/Azh_adi 5d ago
So basically a sitcom set in the 100?
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u/bvanevery 2d ago
you know I did the damndest thing with a knife this morning. YUK YUK YUK! I stabbed this poor bastard through the neck. He looked like my mother. Or maybe it was my father. I forget. Anyways, he bled all over the place! I feel so much better now. [canned laughter]
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u/TECHFOURNINE 4d ago
If it were up to me it would still be on air and going farther into the ships, planets, portals and Calliope and how the 100 would live in all of these new worlds together trying to keep the peace
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u/CalendarNo8591 4d ago
Jason Rothenberg has a prequel planned “Anaconda” was supposed to be the introductory episode but it never happened for some reason
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u/bvanevery 2d ago
I thought perhaps everyone participating in the final war would get crystalized. But perhaps people we like, would get skipped somehow and be left in a tiny survivable enclave, rather much like the valley that got skipped by the fires. And this time, there's only a few dozen people left, so perhaps it works this time? Especially if they have memory of how badly it went the last time more people squabbled over it.
I don't think this is a good ending, but I thought it would be reasonable.
So basically the show is left unfinished, people just go on. Isn't that how it's gonna be until the heat death of the universe anyways?
I think I'm implicitly rejecting transcendence as a load of BS.
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u/Ok_Acanthisitta6285 5d ago
Erase season 7, maybe even season 6 because it was good not nearly as good as the seasons before
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u/WhoDoBeDo Trikru 5d ago
Life would be about more than just surviving. A theme of the show that I think was forgotten by the writers in season 7.
I don’t know what the writers would think that looks like but here’s my take on it: everyone becomes part of wonkru, with the flame and primes gone there’s no more religious extremism. They start colonizing on multiple planets including earth and sharing natural resources through the teleportation stones. Blood must not have blood.