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/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…”