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Eliza Taylor, Richard Harmon, Marie Avgeropoulos, and Lindsey Morgan in The 100 (2014)

Set 97 years after a nuclear war destroyed civilization, when a spaceship housing humanity's lone survivors sends 100 juvenile delinquents back to Earth, hoping to repopulate the planet. Set 97 years after a nuclear war destroyed civilization, when a spaceship housing humanity's lone survivors sends 100 juvenile delinquents back to Earth, hoping to repopulate the planet. Set 97 years after a nuclear war destroyed civilization, when a spaceship housing humanity's lone survivors sends 100 juvenile delinquents back to Earth, hoping to repopulate the planet.

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Clarke : [v.o] I was born in space. I've never felt the sun on my face or breathed real air or floated in the water. None of us have. For three generations, The Ark has kept what's left of the human race alive, but now our home is dying, and we are the last hope of mankind. One hundred prisoners sent on a desperate mission to the Ground. Each of us is here because we broke the Law. On the Ground, there is no Law. All we have to do is survive. But we will be tested: by the Earth, by the secrets it hides, and most of all, by each other.

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‘The 100’s Final Season Swings for the Sci-Fi Fences in One Last Take-No-Prisoners Adventure | Review

The CW's hit sci-fi series wastes no time getting down to business in a reenergized final season.

It’s hard to believe it all began with a bunch of hot teens and twentysomethings crash-landing on Earth to the dulcet sounds of Imagine Dragons. For the last six seasons, The CW’s high-concept sci-fi survival series The 100 defied expectations every step of the journey, quickly dropping the pop songs in favor of epic scores (though of course the teens and twentysomethings stayed hot, as is the CW way,) sending its characters through several apocalypses, and fearlessly tearing through the ensemble cast with a knack for heart-wrenching deaths and character betrayals to rival Game of Thrones . Now, with one last season to bring it all home — and bring the series to a fitting if a bit cutesy 100 episodes —  The 100 leans all-in on the sci-fi trappings for one last breathless, break-neck paced adventure.

If you need a quick recap, Season 7 picks up after one of the biggest cliffhangers yet. Which is to say, what the heck just happened to Octavia and Bellamy, what the heck is the anomaly, and what the heck is Clarke gonna do about the mess on Sanctum? Oh, and where did that pesky warlord Sheiheda upload to after the Flame was extinguished? In the first four episodes of Season 7 provided to the press, some of these questions are answered outright, some answers are teased, and some are clearly the mysteries around which the season will be framed. But what’s abundantly clear is that, in The 100 tradition, none of the answers are easy.

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The sixth season also marked a major change in the arc of our core characters. Sure, The 100 has had no shortage of devastating character deaths before, but by finally killing off Kane and Abby for good, the series lit the fuse on a thematic evolution they’ve been building towards for seasons. Because no matter how many impossible choices Clarke had to make in the previous seasons, no matter how many triggers she pulled or levers she pushed, she always had her mother to fall back on. Her mother, a morally opaque and deadly determined woman in her own right, who was a core architect of the broken society in which Clarke and the rest of the 100 were raised. But now, those architects are dead and buried. Kane, Abbey, Jaha; the “parents” of the show are long-gone, leaving our heroes to step up and finally, fully become the architects of their own new society. Can they do better?

Season 7 gets off to a bit of a rocky start with a dialogue-heavy establishing episode that’s understandably focused on set-up but frustratingly inert until its final moments. Fortunately, from those last scenes of the premiere forward, The 100 Season 7 moves at a breathless clip, infusing world-building with tense action, a firm embrace of all the exciting possibilities sci-fi storytelling has to offer, and another batch of impossible odds for Clarke and Co. to overcome. The characters are trying to build a house of cards with a deck that’s already been set on fire, and in the pursuit of good drama, the writers relentlessly throw fuel on flare-ups that put the heroes to the test.

That includes some exciting new challenges for all the favorites, and more than any season in recent memory, Season 7 is quick to find a balance in the narrative for most of the core characters. Eliza Taylor’ s performance as Clarke has anchored the series for the entire run, and as the character processes the death of her mother, Taylor gets to show off her range early and often. A special side shout-out also goes to the costume department, who has consistently redesigned the character's iconic lewks to match both her character journey and the new sci-fi subgenres in each season.

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Elsewhere, oft-sidelined standouts like Lindsey Morgan’ s Raven and Tasya Teles’ Echo finally get some well-deserved meaty material to work with, while regular scene-stealers Richard Harmon and Louisa D’Oliveira do what they do best as the wily wildcard lovebirds Murphy and Emori. Newcomer Shelby Flannery , who made quite an entrance in the Season 6 finale, continues to shine as Diyoa’s mysteriously aged-up daughter Hope. Flannery is a commanding performer and Hope is a curious character, and all that intrigue pays off when Hope is given one of the most fascinating and tightly-scripted origin stories in the entire series.

And because I know you’ll be wondering by now if you didn’t just outright scroll to find this answer; what of the beloved Blake siblings, Marie Avgeropoulos ’ post-Blodreina Octavia and Bob Morley ’s Bellamy? Their fates were left with a big ol’ question mark hanging over their heads at the end of last season, but sorry to tell ya, everything surrounding those mysteries is embargoed to filth, so my lips are sealed.

What I can say about Season 7 as a whole is that, more than ever, it’s not just Clarke who has to make the impossible choices. Every character is forced to pull their own personal lever of sorts, placed in a position where they have to make a snap survival judgment that puts their values to the test. Some of their choices may surprise you.

At the same time, The 100 continues to surprise and delight with the ambition of its genre storytelling. As always, it swings for the fences, bounding into a new sci-fi subgenre that once again reframes the mythology of the show. If there’s one legacy The 100 is guaranteed to leave behind no matter how the final season shakes out, it’s as a work that embraced the genre label rather than shying away from it. And, in doing so, found a way to constantly redefine itself with fearless pivots and big, bold swings.

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I’ll admit, I was bummed to hear that The 100 would be ending so soon after the Season 5 finale changed the game and Season 6 never quite lived up to the potential of the journey to a new world. The Primes turned out to be yet another rival with whom our heroes could not find peace – just like the Grounders and Mountain Men before them – history repeated yet again, and it all boiled down to destroy or be destroyed. The 100 is always building itself compelling new worlds, but the characters keep making the same bad choices.

But with the now impending endgame in mind, the writing feels invigorated and sharpened. And it has to be, because this time they’re playing for keeps. The 100 has always prodded at moral grey areas and the seemingly impossible task of building a peaceful society. Have our heroes been refugees or colonists? Can the word "hero" even be appropriately used anymore in their cut-throat, do-or-die world? Who tells those stories, and how do the stories of the past shape the realities of their future? How The 100 ends will be the closest we get to answering those existential questions, cementing the themes in the show.

There have been countless quotable phrases on The 100 throughout the years (Do I sometimes still shout “You are Wonkru or you are the enemy of Wonkru — choose!” at random? Who’s to say?) but I bet if you tallied it up, the real prize winner would be the ongoing refrain about what we’re willing to do to protect “our people." Skaikru, Wonkru, Sanctum; the definition of “our people” may change, but the survivalist instinct towards self-preservation remains the same. When Monty and Harper sacrificed themselves (and their life with their son) to shepherd their people to a new world, they showed there was a way to stand up for what they believed in, not through violence, but through sacrifice. Arguably, they’re two of very few characters in the show to earn that “Hero” title. With their final words to the friends and family they saved, they implored them to “Do better.”

While we’ve only seen four of the final season’s extended sixteen-episode run, it’s evident that challenge is more relevant than ever to the themes of the story The 100 wants to tell. Aside from some clunky missteps out of the gate, the show is telling that story with a reenergized focus and a confident hand. Perhaps at the most timely moment possible, when the real world is rocked by staggering loss and an uncertain future, The 100 is honing in on the endzone by forcing its characters to confront the difference between doing what's right for their people and doing what's right.

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The sci-fi drama presents The CW's ultimate vision for humanity: an Earth populated only by attractive teenagers, whose parents are left out in space.

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The 100: TV Review

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Man cannot survive on bread alone — he must have kissing. Ninety-seven years after a nuclear holocaust wipes out life on Earth, the only survivors of the human race number 400: those left in space. Three generations later, the international space stations have been cobbled together to form “The Ark,” whose now 4,000 inhabitants are ready to return to Earth, but still fear its potential cloud of radiation. Unfortunately, their Ark is running out of oxygen because of a fatal malfunction. The solution is simple: Send 100 teenage criminals down to Earth. If they live, then the others will follow. If they die … well, they were going to be killed anyway (on the Ark, all crimes are punishable by death).

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The 100 is, in many ways, a metaphor for The CW itself. The teenagers escape to a planet that is all their own, where only the most attractive among them survive. Who needs adults? Who needs rules? After all, as lead character Clarke Griffin ( Eliza Taylor ) states in a moment of spontaneous philosophy: “Reality sucks .”

The Bottom Line A sci-fi pastiche filled with pretty faces, 'The 100' is an exploration-based series that never gets below the surface.

Totally. Which is why, when the hundred land, they’re more interested in stripping down and hooking up than finding food, water or shelter. As they trample the lush ground cover and pristine ferns (it’s remarkable how well the Earth has rebounded from the nukes; aside from a two-headed deer, a very large snake and some glowing fungi, things are Eden-like), the sky-born children scream unto the fertile landscape, “We’re back , bitches !”

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But the bitches of Earth 2.0 appear to give little protest. From there, the ragtag band begin splitting off into factions, a la Lord of the Flies . Like its cobbled-together Ark, the series itself is a pastiche of many other shows and stories: There are shades of Battlestar Galactica , Lost (including a hatch), 1984  and that aforementioned tale of ill-fated teenage governance. But these complex ideas are overshadowed by something much more important: Is Clarke going to fall in love with the daredevil Finn ( Thomas McDonell ) or the pushy leader Bellamy ( Bob Morley , whose face shall launch a thousand Tumblr GIFsets)? And what of Wells ( Eli Goree ), son of the much-hated Chancellor Jaha ( Isaiah Washington ), who has loved Clarke since they were tiny sky tots?

There are other love triangles, squares, hexagons and other permutations that form among other characters — like between Bellamy’s kissing-focused sister Octavia ( Marie Avgeropoulos ) and the goofy Jasper ( Devon Bostick ) — which drive most of the action (literally and figuratively) on Earth 2.0. Meanwhile though, in the sky, the adults are arguing over silly things like governance, population control, failing oxygen levels and the fate of humanity. Why don’t they spend their time figuring out important things, like how Bellamy’s abs are so perfect ?

The 100 has a lot of interesting things to play with in terms of its narrative and world-building, but it chooses to gloss over them. There are whispers of class struggle and of injustice, but those things aren’t as interesting or sexy as radioactive butterflies. Most unfortunately, the show has an incomprehensible issue with race. Minority characters (it’s interesting how delineated race continues to be three generations into a reduced population) are either given stereotypical roles (a “nerdy” Asian guy spends all day working on tech stuff, while a “feisty” Latina is a mechanic) or just silent ones (or even worse, dead). The Chancellor is black, but one character who hates him starts side-eyeing every black character she sees, because they remind her of him. Earth 2.0 seems to be back in the dark ages.

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As the series continues with all of these issues, there are also new threats to both those in the Ark and those on the ground, from within and without (for instance, the teenagers may not be alone on Earth). Unfortunately, most of the one hundred are a muttering mob of criminals without a lot of brainpower, which is both convenient and frightening. They agree with the person shouting the loudest, until someone else counters. They also employ the show’s favorite early form of exposition, which is “character traits explained by unidentified crowd shouts.” When Octavia runs up to embrace her brother (it is illegal to have more than one child on the Ark), an unseen town crier makes known, “Hey! That’s the girl they found under the floor!” 

It’s unclear yet whether the adults will follow the teenagers down to Earth and crash their party (it is notable that they didn’t even send one chaperone with them, which means the teens are free to rebel against the Ark pretty quickly in order to establish a place with no rules, as explained by their awkward “We’ll do whatever we want!” chant). The one hundred are, of course, “liberating” themselves from the doctors, farmers, engineers and others up in that Ark, which might set humanity back a few paces. On the other hand, procreation shouldn’t be a problem. Finding an audience for The 100 shouldn’t be, either, though that audience should demand a lot more from the series. Instead, like the initially driven Clarke, it’s so much less work to just settle for a kiss under a radiation-filled sky.

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