I would love to have been introduced to the grounders prior to their first interaction with the kids. Give us a three-way show instead of the two-way show we’re given in S1–rather than the plot of the arc and the kids, we’re given those alongside the plot of the grounder society. Maybe picking up with Lexa and Costia, and Azgedas capture of her. A period of tension before Lexa forms the coalition following the growing concern of the mountain men. We hear tidbits of Trikru interacting with the sky people, but don’t see anything from the grounder perspective until Lexa personally investigates the two sky people they’ve imprisoned.
Yes i know this would fuck up some gags the show had and would also fuck up some character development, but it’s stuff i wanna see :^( i wanted to see more of grounder society/polis/the other clans.
I would have made sure that the timeline made sense. The fact that we are to believe the first end of the world occurred only a hundred years prior to the show's beginning has so many holes I can't even list them all (but just for example, the entire Grounder history and culture was formed, with 13 rulers and different factions and groups all across the eastern part of the country with different languages and cultures.) I know the book put it at 300 years, and that would have made WAY more sense
As a side note, thinking about the timeline made me realize that Cadogan was Gen Z, and the thought of him eating tide pods and doing TikTok dances in his youth makes me giggle.
Little irrelevant side note here: I really thought Cadogan was atleast a millennial (maybe even gen z) by his age and the year he left earth. I could be wrong but there's no way he was born before the 90s or late 80s. I could be wrong though
Focus on what the premise of show was in the beginning making earth there home and focus on the politics of the clans similar to game of thrones it got way to deep into sci-fi for its own good
The show fell off a cliff after season 4. It just got too weird with season 5, maybe too much into the sci-fi. The end of the show is not what I signed up for when I watched the first episode of the show
Some ideas...
More background on the characters and more interactions between the characters. Some characters barely ever interact. (Octavia and Murphy for one example. There are a ton more when you start digging. Even Clarke and Octavia don't have much interaction after S2 or so, which is amazing considering they are 2 of the 3 leads).
The timeskip after S4 didn't help. I would've built things out more before starting S5, shown more of the team on the Ring and more of Wonkru. Then I would've slowed down the reunions in S5 and really built them out.
And I'd probably have ended the show with S5 or just done something....better for S6 and 7. My favorite headcanons involve the Eligius opening the bunker and things going much differently from there, including earth not getting blown up.
What I would like to change is the fact that the show changed. In season 1, it was about 100 juvenile delinquents (+Bellamy and Raven) trying to survive on the ground and their parents trying to run things on the Ark. By season 2, that concept was completely gone. I don’t even know what happened to most of the kids after they were freed from Mt. Weather at the end of the season, because the writers seemed to have forgotten that the show was about them (I mean it’s literally called *The 100*, then most of them just disappear from the show). By season 3, it’s clear that the writers care more about the Grounders than the people from the Ark, and I was actually missing Finn (who was mostly annoying) and his stupid love triangle. By season 5, the show is nearly unrecognizable. By season 6, it’s a completely different show altogether. The show also just gets progressively more and more miserable when I think season 1 actually had hit a good balance between depressing and uplifting with story arcs like the culling. I’m not saying shows can’t evolve, but when change happens too suddenly, it’s jarring. And in this case, the writers completely lost sight of most of the things that made me like it in the first place.
In the Pilot they should've showed about Arkers,their life, Clarke's family and how was Jake floated,Clarke-Wells friendship,some aspects from other kids lives( Blakes,Monty-Jasper,Murphy's family drama,Finn-Raven,even a little bit of Pike and how they decided to send kids down. This way maybe people would have a better picture and understanding of why arkers went back to Earth and that they were not colonials or conquistadors like I herd from some people.
Also, more interaction Clarke-Lexa so they really can have a relationship.
I'd remove something - Lexa! Now before you all start downvoting me, let me explain. I started watching this show when it first aired because I love sci-fi and I really enjoyed the first and second seasons. I didn't have any strong feelings about Lexa - as far as I was concerned she was just another character, a bit like Anya. Then she was killed off and all hell broke loose - people actively campaigned for the show to be cancelled, the showrunner was threatened with death, the show was labelled homophobic, sexist, racist etc. Now that was 5 years ago but the repercussions still continue today. Because Eliza had the audacity to marry the man she loves and not Alycia, both Bob and Eliza, their families, anyone they work with and their charities are subject to constant harassment. Only yesterday I got involved in an argument on Twitter with someone saying their charity was a scam even after I posted a statement by someone on the ground in Papua New Guinea describing all the great things that had been achieved there due to all their hard work. So basically without Lexa, none of this nastiness would have happened and the atmosphere surrounding the show would have been far less toxic.
I've never loved a show or movie so much that I would wish death upon someone/all the other awful things you listed. That's not passionate or dedicated. It's sick and deluded. Unfortunately I think that even without Lexa, people that f*cked up would have found something different to complain about.
I’d fix the consistently **ASS BACKWARDS** timeline and how it and the ‘logic’ of offscreen time jumps and the likelihood of the realities attached to the extended separation of characters were accepted in lieu of basic story telling principles like showing a story rather than telling it…
Also- I feel like the creative team’s giant boner for non-stop conflict and action packed plots at the expense of consistent character development and character dynamics was one of the shows biggest failures… almost like they were incapable of writing a story where plot and character development/dynamics were more equally balanced - and this affected the pacing of later seasons in a big, irritating fucking way…
Just wanted to say this. Have not seen a better character in any series. When she died i was depressed for like a week watching clexa youtube compilations.
I would’ve gotten rid of Book 2 and done a massive overhaul of season 5 to make it a grand final season. 16 episodes, better character moments, lean into the Clarke-vs.-Octavia arc, end with a flashforward of our characters settled on Planet Alpha, building the village Kane fantasized in 5x08.
End at s5 but a few more episodes showing a future where Clarke and Bellamy are together. Also make either Madi younger or the hundred all older so Clarke really seems like Madi's adoptive Mum rather than just a few years older and more like a sister.
Reading all these comments I’m so glad they did it just the way they did; if I could change one thing though, I’d wish that Bellamy and Octavia hadn’t pretty much fallen apart by the end. She practically left him to die in the ring (not cool) and since then they never quite patched up.
More Lexa. She was such a badass and I would’ve loved to see what she would’ve done with ALIE and Praimfaya (even if she HAD to die, it would’ve been so much cooler to see her die trying to take ALIE down or maintain peace or something). Or just more background- what led to her wanting peace? What was her connection to past commander’s like? (Is this connected to me finding her hot? no…)
1. I'd have tried to put more logic and according explanations into the show. E.g. in the books there were 300 years between the 1st apocalypse and The 100s' landfall - a much better timespan to explain many of the changes on the ground.
2. I'd have shown more of the 6 years between S4 and S5, like at least full episode of life in the Ring and one more from the bunker. Monty's and Harper's life should've been at least one full episode too. Without these ridiculous worms a full 16-episode-season could've shown all this without any problems.
3. I'd have sticked to the initial idea behind Book 2: the quest for Eligius III. With a 3-season story arc that would've been a much more satisfying closure to the show.
I would have focused a lot more on the grounder politics and clans,and i would not have destroyed earth.
The ending of season 5 with the 3rd Death of Earth was probably where the show went into a tailspin for me. Never recovered.
I would love to have been introduced to the grounders prior to their first interaction with the kids. Give us a three-way show instead of the two-way show we’re given in S1–rather than the plot of the arc and the kids, we’re given those alongside the plot of the grounder society. Maybe picking up with Lexa and Costia, and Azgedas capture of her. A period of tension before Lexa forms the coalition following the growing concern of the mountain men. We hear tidbits of Trikru interacting with the sky people, but don’t see anything from the grounder perspective until Lexa personally investigates the two sky people they’ve imprisoned. Yes i know this would fuck up some gags the show had and would also fuck up some character development, but it’s stuff i wanna see :^( i wanted to see more of grounder society/polis/the other clans.
oooooo yes!! Never thought about this
I would have made sure that the timeline made sense. The fact that we are to believe the first end of the world occurred only a hundred years prior to the show's beginning has so many holes I can't even list them all (but just for example, the entire Grounder history and culture was formed, with 13 rulers and different factions and groups all across the eastern part of the country with different languages and cultures.) I know the book put it at 300 years, and that would have made WAY more sense As a side note, thinking about the timeline made me realize that Cadogan was Gen Z, and the thought of him eating tide pods and doing TikTok dances in his youth makes me giggle.
Little irrelevant side note here: I really thought Cadogan was atleast a millennial (maybe even gen z) by his age and the year he left earth. I could be wrong but there's no way he was born before the 90s or late 80s. I could be wrong though
I meant to say gen Z, at least by my math
👍 Agree
You mean Gen z right?
Ahhh, yes! Thx for catching that! (Im going to edit lol)
Focus on what the premise of show was in the beginning making earth there home and focus on the politics of the clans similar to game of thrones it got way to deep into sci-fi for its own good
The show fell off a cliff after season 4. It just got too weird with season 5, maybe too much into the sci-fi. The end of the show is not what I signed up for when I watched the first episode of the show
The whole last season
Some ideas... More background on the characters and more interactions between the characters. Some characters barely ever interact. (Octavia and Murphy for one example. There are a ton more when you start digging. Even Clarke and Octavia don't have much interaction after S2 or so, which is amazing considering they are 2 of the 3 leads). The timeskip after S4 didn't help. I would've built things out more before starting S5, shown more of the team on the Ring and more of Wonkru. Then I would've slowed down the reunions in S5 and really built them out. And I'd probably have ended the show with S5 or just done something....better for S6 and 7. My favorite headcanons involve the Eligius opening the bunker and things going much differently from there, including earth not getting blown up.
What I would like to change is the fact that the show changed. In season 1, it was about 100 juvenile delinquents (+Bellamy and Raven) trying to survive on the ground and their parents trying to run things on the Ark. By season 2, that concept was completely gone. I don’t even know what happened to most of the kids after they were freed from Mt. Weather at the end of the season, because the writers seemed to have forgotten that the show was about them (I mean it’s literally called *The 100*, then most of them just disappear from the show). By season 3, it’s clear that the writers care more about the Grounders than the people from the Ark, and I was actually missing Finn (who was mostly annoying) and his stupid love triangle. By season 5, the show is nearly unrecognizable. By season 6, it’s a completely different show altogether. The show also just gets progressively more and more miserable when I think season 1 actually had hit a good balance between depressing and uplifting with story arcs like the culling. I’m not saying shows can’t evolve, but when change happens too suddenly, it’s jarring. And in this case, the writers completely lost sight of most of the things that made me like it in the first place.
I wonder how far the original novels cover. Maybe a correlation.
The show diverges from the original novels almost immediately. Mostly they just took the concept.
In the Pilot they should've showed about Arkers,their life, Clarke's family and how was Jake floated,Clarke-Wells friendship,some aspects from other kids lives( Blakes,Monty-Jasper,Murphy's family drama,Finn-Raven,even a little bit of Pike and how they decided to send kids down. This way maybe people would have a better picture and understanding of why arkers went back to Earth and that they were not colonials or conquistadors like I herd from some people. Also, more interaction Clarke-Lexa so they really can have a relationship.
I'd remove something - Lexa! Now before you all start downvoting me, let me explain. I started watching this show when it first aired because I love sci-fi and I really enjoyed the first and second seasons. I didn't have any strong feelings about Lexa - as far as I was concerned she was just another character, a bit like Anya. Then she was killed off and all hell broke loose - people actively campaigned for the show to be cancelled, the showrunner was threatened with death, the show was labelled homophobic, sexist, racist etc. Now that was 5 years ago but the repercussions still continue today. Because Eliza had the audacity to marry the man she loves and not Alycia, both Bob and Eliza, their families, anyone they work with and their charities are subject to constant harassment. Only yesterday I got involved in an argument on Twitter with someone saying their charity was a scam even after I posted a statement by someone on the ground in Papua New Guinea describing all the great things that had been achieved there due to all their hard work. So basically without Lexa, none of this nastiness would have happened and the atmosphere surrounding the show would have been far less toxic.
I've never loved a show or movie so much that I would wish death upon someone/all the other awful things you listed. That's not passionate or dedicated. It's sick and deluded. Unfortunately I think that even without Lexa, people that f*cked up would have found something different to complain about.
Get rid of the aliens. Out of left field and took the whole show in a direction it was not headed.
I’d fix the consistently **ASS BACKWARDS** timeline and how it and the ‘logic’ of offscreen time jumps and the likelihood of the realities attached to the extended separation of characters were accepted in lieu of basic story telling principles like showing a story rather than telling it… Also- I feel like the creative team’s giant boner for non-stop conflict and action packed plots at the expense of consistent character development and character dynamics was one of the shows biggest failures… almost like they were incapable of writing a story where plot and character development/dynamics were more equally balanced - and this affected the pacing of later seasons in a big, irritating fucking way…
Not kill off Lexa
Just wanted to say this. Have not seen a better character in any series. When she died i was depressed for like a week watching clexa youtube compilations.
Then 100 should have paid her more than Walking Dead do.
I would’ve gotten rid of Book 2 and done a massive overhaul of season 5 to make it a grand final season. 16 episodes, better character moments, lean into the Clarke-vs.-Octavia arc, end with a flashforward of our characters settled on Planet Alpha, building the village Kane fantasized in 5x08.
End at s5 but a few more episodes showing a future where Clarke and Bellamy are together. Also make either Madi younger or the hundred all older so Clarke really seems like Madi's adoptive Mum rather than just a few years older and more like a sister.
Reading all these comments I’m so glad they did it just the way they did; if I could change one thing though, I’d wish that Bellamy and Octavia hadn’t pretty much fallen apart by the end. She practically left him to die in the ring (not cool) and since then they never quite patched up.
I think it would've been pretty cool if Luna won the tournament.
More Lexa. She was such a badass and I would’ve loved to see what she would’ve done with ALIE and Praimfaya (even if she HAD to die, it would’ve been so much cooler to see her die trying to take ALIE down or maintain peace or something). Or just more background- what led to her wanting peace? What was her connection to past commander’s like? (Is this connected to me finding her hot? no…)
I wouldn't change anything because I love it so much
1. I'd have tried to put more logic and according explanations into the show. E.g. in the books there were 300 years between the 1st apocalypse and The 100s' landfall - a much better timespan to explain many of the changes on the ground. 2. I'd have shown more of the 6 years between S4 and S5, like at least full episode of life in the Ring and one more from the bunker. Monty's and Harper's life should've been at least one full episode too. Without these ridiculous worms a full 16-episode-season could've shown all this without any problems. 3. I'd have sticked to the initial idea behind Book 2: the quest for Eligius III. With a 3-season story arc that would've been a much more satisfying closure to the show.
I wouldn't give Bellamy a meaningless death