24 Best Moments from The 100 Season 4
The 100 Season 4 was a nonstop thrill ride we just can’t get enough of, and we can’t wait for Season 5.
To make the hiatus a little less painful, we’re taking a look back at the best moments from this season. Here are the moments that we loved the most from The 100 Season 4!
24. SMASHING THE FLAME
This fake out makes me anxious even thinking about it! We all know how deeply important the flame is both to grounder mythology — and to Clarke — so to see it smashed to pieces (even if it was a fake), is shocking, especially so early in the season.
23. DAD MILLER SACRIFICES HIMSELF
Though he’s not on screen very often, David Miller is consistently the best dad on this show. He’d give anything if it meant Nate would be safe, including his life. It’s one of the smaller moments of the season, but it speaks volumes when David gives up his place in the bunker so that Nate has a better chance in the lottery.
22. HARPER CHOOSES LIFE
When everyone else at Arkadia chooses death, Harper makes a miraculous turn around and chooses life and love. I’d love this moment more if it hadn’t been placed immediately after the loss of Jasper. Nonetheless, it’s still moving and uplifting to see Harper come back from the brink and continue to fight.
21. RAVEN AND LUNA TAKE DOWN THE DRONES
Luna had very reasonable apprehensions to teaming up with Skaikru, but Raven is able to get through to her in a way that none of the rest of them could. This team up launches a ship and keeps us on the edge of our seats as Raven and Luna raced to save the others from ALIE’s drones.
Raven: It’s not your blood that defines you, it’s your heart.
20. MEMORI TALKS ABOUT HOME
Murphy and Emori share several lovely, small moments over the course of Season 4, from hand holds, to the revelation of Murphy’s skills as a good cook. One of my favorite of these scenes is on The 100 Season 4 Episode 12, when they discuss the concept of home.
Emori: I never felt that way before, like I had a home.
Murphy: Hey, your home is with me, okay?
These two are easily one of the best couples on The 100, and little moments like this are the reason why.
19. ABBY TELLS CLARKE SHE’S STILL GOOD
When I first saw this scene I was conflicted about it, but that’s one of the things that makes it such a good scene. It’s the last time we see Clarke and Abby together in Season 4, and in the story, it’s the last time they’re together for over 6 years.
Abby: I told you there were no good guys, but that’s not true. There are. You are.
With the amount difficult decisions often resting on Clarke’s shoulders, it’s easy to forget that she’s still an 18 year old kid. Abby’s right, at her heart Clarke is still good. Knowing now that it’s their last interaction for so long, this moment is more satisfying and hopeful than I’d originally thought.
Samantha Coley
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Lmao imagining having such little integrity that you’d include a throwaway line from the first episode that didn’t pan out into a great storyline as one of the top 5 moments of the ENTIRE SEASON! ?? Meanwhile an exhchange between the SHOW’S LEADS that actually had greater impact throughout the rest of the season is #10…? So embarrassing. Maybe if you had a little more integrity you’d be able to get a job with a real publication! PS. Clarke’s EXISTENCE as one of the only bisexual leads on TV is good for the LGBT+ community…we don’t need to her to be an extension of a guest star for her to matter, but nice try!
First: that moment was no.6 not in the top 5
Second: you know what else is good for the LGBT community? Seeing a parent accept her daughter was in a wlw relationship and supporting her after the woman she loved die, instead of ignoring her or their relationship. Grow the f— up. Not everything is about ships. That moment was about a mother and daughter more than anything and meant a lot to LGBT viewers who have difficult relationships with their parents bc of their sexuality.
Hi there, I actually included that moment because of Abby’s reaction to Clarke’s confession. It isn’t about Lexa, but about Clarke’s sexuality being made textual, and then acknowledged and accepted by her mother. So as a bisexual person myself it was really important to me to see my favorite character (Abby) being accepting and loving of Clarke in that moment. Clarke’s existence as a bisexual character is fantastic representation for myself and the greater LGBTQA community. And part of what makes her good representation is that her sexuality is more than just kisses and love scenes with her love interests, and it includes actual conversations with her family and friends, which is something I wasn’t sure we’d get in such a fast paced show!
Thanks for reading!
Imagine having so little integrity that you write such a nasty comment on an article based on a writer’s harmless OPINION?
First of all, the moment between Clarke and Abby in 401 does carry on throughout the season. Clarke has conversations with multiple people about Lexa – including Niylah and Roan. It’s important for her character to have these conversations, so she can grieve and move on.
Secondly, they may be talking about Lexa in this scene, but the reason it’s so beautiful to watch is because it shows a mother accepting her BISEXUAL daughter. That may not mean anything in the world of The 100, but in our society it sure as hell does. It’s a small moment, but it’s still significant. That moment is about showing that all love is the same. It’s not just because it’s about Lexa.
(Though, Clarke’s love for Lexa WAS important. Just as important as any potential love she feels in the future will be.)
Clarke is a blessing as a character on TV. I think she’s great bi rep, and obviously so does the writer of this article. Your argument makes no sense. You think a moment between her and Bellamy should be higher – fair enough, but is not your article. There’s no need to accuse anyone of not understanding character representation just because you aren’t happy with the order of a list.
I think it’s pretty childish to take an article giving an overview of the season as a whole and demand that it be custom-tailored to fit the characters you like and don’t like. I’m primarily a Kabby shipper but I also ship Bellarke and love their relationship, and I never shipped Clexa, but it might surprise you to realize that you don’t have to ship it to realize how much that relationship matters to the narrative and to Clarke. I one hundred percent support that moment’s placement on this list. For those of us who care about the relationship between Clarke and Abby, we have been waiting a long time for them to get a moment of such emotional intimacy, and the “I loved her, Mom” scene was exactly right. The show’s refusal to allow Clarke to talk to the most important people in her life about her relationship with Lexa was one of the most frustrating omissions of Season 3. I also, by the way, would have loved for her to have such a conversation with Bellamy too, where they could have talked about Lexa and Gina and the losses they have in common. It’s a pity that the fandom’s insistence on filtering every single interaction Clarke has with anyone – even her mother – through the lens of a ship war spooked the writers out of allowing characters like Lexa and Bellamy to apparently exist in the same universe at the same time. Poorly-reasoned and intentionally antagonistic comments like this one are a great example of how that mindset can warp a beautiful, affirming moment between mother and daughter into a weapon to score points against a ship you don’t like. If you claim to be a supporter of LGBT+ audiences and the representation Clarke provides, surely you can understand how very much it matters to young queer TV viewers who may not have supportive families to get the chance to watch loving parents on this show like Abby Griffin and David Miller fully accept and love their queer children. I would suggest you consider looking at that scene again, not from the perspective of someone trashing a ship they don’t like, but from the perspective of a closeted LGBT+ teenager who watches this show every week sitting next to her mom. Context matters.
Also, thanks for educating the bisexual writer of this post about how bisexuality is important, I’m sure she’ll be happy to get that memo from you, as it will surely be news to her.
We get it, you love Bellarke, hate Clexa, and only find bisexuality relevant when you can use it to prop up your ship. The author of this article found meaning in a scene in which a parent openly accepts their LGBT child. If you find that to be despicable and an attack on your fictional ship, that says a hell of a lot about you and who you are as a person. You don’t get to pick and choose how people embrace representation. And you do NOT get to dictate how they communicate that to the world.
You’re right about one thing though — Clarke is so much more than her sexuality. And she will continue to be. She also will continue to not date Bellamy. Sorry you wasted your time on this little temper tantrum.
imagine having a world where bellarkes don’t exist. what a utopia.
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