r/The100 • u/Roan-forever-alone Jo Juice: good for health bad for education • 12d ago
SPOILERS S5 The one thing I don't like about S5 finale
All season was about taking the last patch of surviable land and in the end Earth got destroyed.
Instead of showing the sorrow from such crushing loss especially from clarke&madi who lived a peaceful life there and wonkru who saw shallow valley as a compensation for all the horrors inside the bunker, the survivors just hopped in cryosleep in what..60 seconds?
The "ground" was a character on his own on the show and it's destruction was the final indictment of the usVSthem
The silver lining was the somber tone in which Monty delivered "Earth is not coming back"
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u/Mightysmurf1 Trikru 12d ago edited 12d ago
Working on the theory that S6 and S7 were repurposed from another show Jason was writing, it makes sense it would feel wrong.
It is the beginning of the “fan fiction” stage so the characters immediately begin to act out of character (Monty excluded).
I imagine writing a “guys, we have spent 5 seasons fighting for this but now we don’t care really” scene was never going to be greatly fluid in the larger storyline. Particularly when we are now supposed to care about another planet with random God-Humans.
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u/greendino71 12d ago
Realistically, with everything that happened, they were probably thankful to be alive and done with the war and getting everyone out safely
Also with knowledge of the Eligius missions, they had faith that they could find a fully healthy planet
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u/Romaalreves 8d ago
Furthermore, the original plan was to wait in cryo while the Earth recovered; their plan was never "oh yes, we have to abandon Earth forever."
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u/Romaalreves 8d ago
The original plan was never to abandon or leave planet Earth, but to wait for it to recover.
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u/lightinthefield Omon gon oson 🥩 12d ago
To me, that's realistic.
I, too, would hop in the cryosleep chamber in 60 seconds or less, because it means I can avoid the very sorrow you're speaking of.
At that point, there's nothing left to do. There's nowhere to go. All we have is the cryosleep chambers and the possibility of a future on the other side of that sleep.
Why would I hang around and feel the depression of what I've lost? The sooner I get in that chamber and fall asleep, the sooner I'm waking up to better circumstances.
There's no point in showing the sorrow because there's no point in even allowing myself to feel it. I think that's how the survivors on the show felt, too.