The 100: 9 Questions We Still Have After The Series Finale

After seven seasons and, fittingly, 100 episodes, CW’s The 100 has come to an end. Fans watched humanity struggle to survive in a broken space station, a radiation soaked Earth, and on a hostile planet in the far reaches of space. What began with 100 delinquents dropped on a potentially dangerous planet ended with a journey into what it really means to be human.

As is the nature of science fiction shows, and especially those that hold a mirror to humanity, there were a lot of questions posed and story arcs started over those seven seasons. Showrunner Jason Rothenberg (who also made his directorial debut for the series finale) and his team of writers tried their best to answer every question in the final stretch of episodes, but some still linger.

9 How Was Mount Weather Even Established In Time?

The backdoor pilot episode for The 100 prequel series gives the audience a few hints at the beginning of the Grounders’ time on Earth. It shows how Nightbloods began, the origins of the Flame, and more. What it doesn’t give the audience is an explanation for Mount Weather.

“Anaconda” made it clear that there was a very narrow window for humanity to find shelter and try to ride out Praimfiya. Becca’s invention of a serum to create the Nightbloods allowed people to live above ground, beginning the Grounder race. It stands to reason that the serum never made its way to Mount Weather, so when and how did so many people, artwork, and pieces of history end up there?

8 Were The Reapers Rehabilitated?

During the second season, The 100 revealed that the Mountain Men were essentially drugging Grounders to create the Reapers that attacked people outside of the mountain. Lincoln was one of the Grounders that the audience got to see rehabilitated during that time. Indra even recognized one of the Reapers that attacked at one point.

Once season two ended and the conflict with Mount Weather was over, however, the Reapers were never mentioned again. Were they left to fend for themselves? Did the medical team at Arkadia help them?

7 Why Did The Unworthy End Up Dead?

The 100 did a great job at answering early questions, but the final stretch left a lot of new ones. When Clarke met the Beings of Light in the middle of the test for all mankind, she found out that if humanity didn’t pass, they would all be eradicated. The same crystalized pathogen that killed the Bardoans would destroy them.

Clarke pointed out the hypocrisy of them deciding humanity shouldn’t join them because of their penchant for destruction when the Beings of Light themselves were callously committing genocide based on their made-up standards. Why destroy an entire people instead of simply not allowing them to join?

6 Would Bellamy Have Chosen Ascension?

Thanks to his experiences in the final season, Bellamy Blake was a firm believer in the “The Last War” and the Beings of Light he saw. Bellamy and Clarke didn’t end up on the same side, but she was able to see what he believed in after his death. Despite Bellamy believing in ascension, would he have chosen it?

Leavitt, after all, spent his entire life being taught about the importance of the many outweighing the few, but he chose to stay behind on Earth because he never had the chance to live for himself. Octavia, likewise, was always placed in a box by others and finally had the chance to live on her own terms. Raven, Emori, Echo, Murphy, Niylah, Indra, Miller, Jackson, and Gaia all had different belief systems and just wanted their family as long as the rest of humanity was safe. Would Bellamy have chosen to stay with that family as well?

5 Was Everyone Woken From Cryosleep?

Because so much of the final season focused on a handful of familiar faces, it wasn’t clear just how many of the last humans from Earth were actually left. During the events of the sixth season, most of the members of Wonkru, and the Eligius prisoners were still in cryosleep.

As season seven progressed, there were a few larger groups of people spotlighted, but it’s never made clear if everyone was woken from their cryosleep. Was the whole of humanity — Eligius prisoners, Wonkru, and Sanctomites — present to stall the Bardoans before the “last war” in the finale? If so, there really wasn’t much of humanity left.

4 Why Was There An Azgeda Symbol In The Bunker?

During The 100’s final two episodes, the core group found themselves back on Earth in the bunker where Wonkru spent their time. Dynamic duo Raven and Murphy needed an anomaly stone to get Emori back to the medical facilities of Sanctum, and an Azgeda symbol on the floor showed them exactly where the stone was. The question, of course, is just why that marked the spot for the stone.

Was there something in Azgeda history that hinted at its existence that Echo or Niylah might have known? Was the person who covered the stone the founder of the Azgeda tribe? These questions might be answered in the prequel series if the CW decides to move forward with it, especially since the symbols for all the Grounder nations featured in a now deleted image from Bill Cadogan’s office.

3 How Did Emori Survive?

Emori, despite Jackson’s best effort, didn’t survive having part of the bunker collapse on her. Murphy, who put Emori before everyone else, had Jackson remove her mind drive so that he could spend a few more moments with her, knowing that placing her mind drive in his mind could kill him. Interestingly, once humanity “ascended,” Emori was included.

She and Murphy’s consciousnesses experienced the ascension just like everyone else. It begs the question of what these beings consider “alive” to be since Emori’s body was dead. Their rule was that the dead couldn’t ascend, but Emori, Echo (whose heart stopped), and Leavitt (who was shot through the heart) were able to ascend, though they didn’t choose to.

2 Where Did The Beings Of Light & Stones Come From?

The Beings of Light traveled the cosmos to install the anomaly stones all over the place. Only those beings of higher thinking who figured out the code would be judged on whether or not they were worthy to join the collective consciousness.

This begs the question of just where these beings came from to begin with, and as Clarke pointed out, what gave them the right to decide whether or not a species should be eliminated because they entered a code in a stone. Their origins were never explained.

1 Was Ascension Just The Cosmic City Of Light?

There are a lot of commonalities between the City of Light created by ALIE and the collective consciousness of the Being of Light. When they (with Lexa as their Avatar) talked about themselves with Clarke, they mentioned that there’s no more pain and that the people who joined them live forever. That sounds an awful lot like ALIE’s sales pitch to get people to take her chip.

Since ALIE was formed by Becca’s code and memories, was some of her knowledge of these beings in ALIE’s programming? The timeline doesn’t seem to add up, but it looked like ALIE’s City of Light was a test run for ascension. It makes sense that people like Emori, Raven, and Murph — whose lives have been defined by tragic experiences — wouldn’t choose to ascend then.

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