24 Best Moments from The 100 Season 4
12. KABBY SAYS I LOVE YOU
After watching their romance develop for the past four seasons, and especially over the last two, an “I love you” between Kane and Abby was inevitable. We just didn’t expect it to be like this.
Kane: I just got you back. Don’t say that.
Abby: I love you, Marcus, but I’ve made my decision. My life isn’t worth more than theirs. I need you to pull 81 names.
Abby asking Kane to give her place in the bunker to someone else is nothing short of heartbreaking. Fortunately, he goes against her wishes and saves her life, just as she’s saved his many times over. Though we don’t see hear Kane say the words back to Abby, his love for her is clear in everything he does.
11. OGEDA
When Octavia wins the conclave she gives one of the best speeches of Season 4. This is the Octavia I wanted all season, an Octavia that was able to come through to the other side of her grief and become someone Lincoln would’ve been proud of.
Octavia: Skaikru will not take the bunker alone, we’ll share it, equally. Because we are one people, we are one clan, and we will survive Priamfaya together.
10. BELLAMY AND ABBY TEAM UP
I’ve been dreaming about this partnership since Season 2. Abby and Bellamy are both often motivated by their hearts and by their love for the people closest to them, so the two of them working together to save those people is extremely satisfying.
Abby and Bellamy sharing scenes had been long overdue and their team up leads to one of the best episodes of The 100 Season 4.
9. FINDING THE BUNKER, INDIANA JONES STYLE
After Jaha finds a false bunker early in the season, I had been dying for this plotline to come back. I love the way that Monty is the one to actually figure out the clue and Kane’s determination to find a place for all their people.
I still want a lot more from this story, and I hope we get a lot of background information when we come back to the bunker in Season 5!
8. OCTAVIA’S LOTR MOMENT
When Octavia falls off that cliff, we almost can’t believe it, and seeing her rise from the river like Aragorn in Lord of the Rings is easily one of the best moments of Season 4. It’s fantastic to see Octavia get such a badass moment, mirroring something that had only been done by a man before.
This moment also affirms that Helios is the best horse in the world, and I really hope someone snuck him into that bunker.
7. CLARKE CLIMBS THE TOWER
Clarke goes to a dark place in The 100 Season 4, carrying the burden of leadership on her own and isolating herself from those that care about her. But in the last two episodes of Season 4, she reaches a turning point.
Clarke climbing the tower to save her friends, even though it means she won’t be going with them and she may not even survive, is the culmination of all of that.
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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