24 Best Moments from The 100 Season 4
6. “I LOVED HER, MOM.”
This is a smaller moment in the grand scheme of Season 4, but it’s one that speaks volumes for me. Abby has that beautiful, motherly instinct to know exactly what’s in Clarke’s heart and be there for her.
Seeing Clarke tell Abby about her love for Lexa, and seeing Abby be there for Clarke and accept her, means a lot to LGBTQ+ fans, even in such a short scene.
5. MURPHY BEGS FOR EMORI’S LIFE
Murphy and Emori have one of the strongest relationships on The 100, and this scene is one of the most emotional moments of the series. Murphy has had an incredible character arc over the past 4 seasons, and seeing him truly love and care about someone to the point that he’d die for them is breathtaking.
Richard Harmon gives one of the best performances of the season on The 100 Season 4 Episode 8. I can’t wait to see where Murphy and Emori are when we find them again.
4. SPACE 7 SAVE EACH OTHER
This scene from the Season 4 finale is one of the best in the entire series. It keeps the audience on the edge of their seats as the 7 people who made it into space race against time to install the generator and get oxygen flowing again.
Murphy and Emori sharing their oxygen with Raven, Monty, and Harper clinging to each other and Echo tearing off Bellamy’s helmet so he can breathe is the best team building exercise of 2017.
3. RAVEN SAVES HERSELF
Raven is arguably the most amazing character on The 100, and it’s hard to see her edge close and closer to choosing death in Season 4. In the end her brain won’t let her give up. Raven’s always been equal parts brilliant and badass, but restarting her own brain/heart takes her to a whole new level.
Raven: This is Raven Reyes…and I’m alive.
2. TERRIBLE INFLUENCES
Kane and Abby have perfected the slowburn, and after watching them fall in love for the first three seasons of The 100, this scene is well earned. As the leaders of their people they don’t get a lot of time alone together, but with the end of the world fast approaching, they take advantage of the time they have left by finally acting on their feelings.
The chemistry between these two characters is through the roof and this is arguably one of top love scenes on the show. It’s equal parts tender, sweet, and emotional, as Kane and Abby fall even more in love with each other every moment.
They don’t fare as well for the rest of the season, so I hope we get more scenes like this in Season 5!
1. TIME JUMP CLARKE
The time jump at the end of Season 4 isn’t exactly a surprise, but it is a brilliant choice. Clarke survives thinking that everyone she’s ever loved is gone, she finds another survivor and has come to protect her like she’s her own.
This is a Clarke that hasn’t had to lead, or fight, or make decisions for hundreds of people for 6 years. She’s able to smile and draw and become a mother of sorts. And she hasn’t given up hope that she’ll be able to get her friends and family back again.
I’ve never been unsatisfied by a The 100 Season finale, but this moment made me more excited than ever for the next season and made me fall in love with Clarke Griffin all over again.
What were your favorite moments of The 100 Season 4? Share your thoughts with us in the comments below!
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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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