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Clarke Griffin Deserved Better Than The 100’s Final Season

This THE 100 article contains MAJOR spoilers for the ending of the series. For The 100 fans, our fight is finally over. The series wrapped up its seven-season run with an hour that saw Lexa return (sort of), Octavia save the day (sort of), and most of humanity choose to completely abandon corporeal existence entirely rather than continue to suffer through life on the ground (again…sort of). Long story short: If you can’t entirely explain what really happened at the end of this show, you’re probably not alone. As a proper ending, The 100 series finale hedges its bets in multiple directions,…
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The 100’s Decision to Sideline Clarke is Part of a Larger Season 7 Problem

The following contains The 100 spoilers. Heading into the final season of The 100, most fans didn’t really know what to expect. After a penultimate season that catapulted the characters we knew over a century into the future, deposited them on an unknown planet and introduced literal bodysnatchers pretending to be gods, pretty much anything seemed possible. For the most part, Season 7 has swung for the fences, establishing new and complex sci-fi concepts involving teleportation stones, time dilation, and a planet inhabited by another, completely different human civilization. It’s been a ton of fun to watch, but it’s often…
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The 100 Season 7: How is Clarke The Key?

This THE 100 article contains major spoilers for Season 7, Episode 7. While Clarke was only in this week’s episode of The 100 for an emotionally-devastating minute at the end, her presence strongly bookended the portion of “The Queen’s Gambit” that was set on Bardo. At the start of the episode, Gabriel—who panicked and turned in himself and his fellow jailbreakers Echo and Hope, plus Octavia and Diyoza—decides to take Anders’ deal and work for Bardo’s Disciples in trying to decipher the secrets of the Anomaly Stone. While much of the Stone is a mystery, they do know about the existence of…
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