Season five of The 100 aired in America on The CW yesterday (Tuesday, August 7). Channel 4’s E4 will be airing the season five finale this evening (Wednesday, August 8) at 9pm. The 100 season five finale is a huge one for the show and sees some of the biggest plots twists ever. But who were the causalities of the season five finale and who survived it?
WARNING: This article contains major spoilers from The 100 season 5 finale Who died in The 100 season 5 finale? There were a number of big deaths in The 100 season finale, which is unsurprising given that a war was raging for control of the Shadow Valley. The most notable death was that of the season’s big villain McCreary (played by William Miller), who was killed by an infuriated Clarke (Eliza Taylor) after he nuked the last inhabitable place left on Earth. However, there were some unexpected deaths with Monty (Christopher Larkin) and Harper (Chelsey Reist) both passing away of old age. In one of the most peaceful ways to kick the bucket in The 100, the couple eventually died as they flew the spaceship towards a new planet that was set to become their home while the rest of the crew were in cryo-sleep. WILL THERE BE ANOTHER SERIES OF THE 100?
Monty was sadly killed off in The 100 season 5 finale
Harper was sadly killed off in The 100 season 5 finale
Clarke and Bellamy (Bob Morley) were left devastated after learning their friends had sacrificed themselves so that the others might make it to the new world. While Miller was only really in season five, Larkin and Reist had been part of the drama since the first run which made their exit emotional not only for fans but the cast and crew. Speaking about writing out the characters of Monty and Harper, The 100 showrunner Jason Rothenberg told TVLine: “On the day we shot it, it was the most emotional anyone has ever been on set. “Dean White, who did a fantastic job directing, knew that as soon as Chris [Larkin] started reading his lines, everyone would just burst into tears. “So we had our first [assistant director], Ian Samoil, read Monty’s part — and people were still crying. The camera guys were crying, I was crying, Dean was crying. It was crazy!” THE 100 SEASON 6 RELEASE DATE, CAST, TRAILER, PLOT
He added: “You see it on camera where Bob and Eliza are just … the tears are pouring. I actually had to edit it down, because there was too much crying. I needed to pace it.” Apart from these deaths, most of the characters survived the season five finale with Rothenberg confirming that everyone that went into the cryo-sleep would be returning. He teased: “[…] I love Gaia [played by Tati Gabrielle] and I think there’s a lot still there to explore. “And what can you say about Henry Ian Cusick? He’s a legend, he’s amazing. He was great all season, and for the last five seasons. It’s been an honor [sic] to have him on the season. And he, too, will continue to play a role in season six.” HOW TO WATCH THE 100 SEASON 5, EPISODE 13 ONLINE
McCreary got the chop in The 100 season 5 finale
Season five, episode 13 of The 100 saw the show taking another major twist and changing the narrative direction drastically. If fans of The CW show thought that the six-year jump between seasons four and five was a leap, then it's nothing compared to the end of Damocles Part II. Season six is going to see the characters thrust into new and unknown territory and contend with a brand new world. Here is our recap for The 100 season five finale.
WARNING: This article contains spoilers from The 100 season 5 finale Damocles Part II picked up the baton from last week as the battle for the Shadow Valley raged on. However, it looked like season five's chief antagonist McCreary (played by William Miller) was on the back foot and to ensure that no one could have the valley, he dropped a devastating nuclear bomb. Unsurprisingly, McCreary was killed by Clarke (Eliza Taylor) after his evil decision to destroy the last habitable bit of Earth. Clarke and Bellamy (Bob Morley) were forced to flee onto a spaceship, taking with them all of the remaining members of Wonkru, the Grounders and Skaikru. They even heroically saved the criminals aboard Diyoza's (Ivana Milicevic) spaceship as they sped away from a nuked valley and safely into space. WILL THERE BE ANOTHER SERIES OF THE 100?
Clarke and Bellamy took on McCreary in The 100 season 5 finale
The 100 season 5 finale was a gamechanger
When they were out of harm's way, Clarke and Bellamy made the difficult decision of entering cryogenic sleep for 10 years, hoping that the Earth and the Shadow Valley would be able to recover from the effects of the devastating bomb in the interim. Everyone aboard the ship went into cryo-stasis for a decade and hoped to awaken in a brighter future. But as always things didn't go to plan and Clarke and Bellamy were awoken by Jordan (Devon Bostick), who revealed that he was the son of Monty (Christopher Larkin) and Harper (Chelsey Reist). In a series of video messages from the couple, Clarke and Bellamy learnt what had happened while they’d been sound asleep. It turned out that Clarke, Bellamy et al had actually been asleep for 60 years rather than a decade and that Monty and Harper had stayed awake during this time to monitor them. THE 100 SEASON 6 RELEASE DATE, CAST, TRAILER, PLOT
The couple had seen that after 10 years the Earth still hadn’t recovered and was basically dead, so they kept everyone asleep while they hoped for the best. During their time asleep, Monty also managed to access the encrypted Eligius III mission files and discovered that the ship was never headed on a mining mission as first thought. Instead, the mission was to travel to a new planet and allow the human race to continue after Earth. After making the game-changing discovery, Monty set the coordinates for the ship to head to the new planet with the journey taking approximately 75 years. THE 100 SEASON 5, EPISODE 13 PROMO
The 100 villain McCreary played by William Miller
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Be aware there are full spoilers for The 100 Season 5 finale below.
Few series have the guts to reinvent themselves as frequently and fearlessly as The 100. The CW drama just wrapped its fifth season with a banger of a finale, “Damocles – Part Two,” and once again reset the stakes for the long-running tale of survival with a soft reboot that opens countless doors for world-building and evolution. Somehow, it’s about the fifth time The 100 has pulled off that trick — though this one is definitely the biggest reinvention yet.
Let’s back up a bit. The 100 debuted four years ago, looking like another fresh-faced dystopian narrative spun in the height of the YA fiction boom. But a few episodes and a lot of moral grey area later, it became clear that the latest CW series wanted to go deeper and darker than your average post-apocalyptic adventure. Rooted in themes of survival, xenophobia, and cycles of violence, The 100 introduced us to the space-bound remnants of the human race, removed from their humanity by mercenary survivor’s logic, and thrust back on Earth where they learned they weren’t the sole survivors of the nuclear apocalypse after all.
With each new season came a new realm to explore and a new science fiction narrative to employ. The 100 introduced us to the Grounders, then the Mountain Men, constantly expanding the mythology and reframing the story by using each new reveal as a launching pad to explore a different science fiction subgenre. We learned about their cultures, cults and religions, and ultimately the sad truths behind those beliefs. The 100 has taken us from space to underground bunkers and back again, using every trick in the arsenal to deliver new ecological, biological, emotional, and technological terrors with each new frontier. We’ve seen the wonders and horrors of post-nuclear Earth only to watch it fall to another nuclear apocalypse and die again. And now, in act of truly spectacular self-one-upsmanship, The 100 is taking us to a whole new world. Literally.
“Damocles – Part II” picked up in a moment of peril. Blodreigne’s war finally arrives and it’s not going well for Wonkru, thanks to a last minute betrayal by Kane and Diyoza. Big bad McCreary is going all in on torturing Raven and Shaw, waiting for either to break, pilot the ship, or end it all with some well-aimed missiles, but Clarke puts a gun to Diyoza’s pregnant stomach and stops McCreary dead in his tracks. Well, kinda. Madi assumes her rightful responsibility as the new Commander (and Octavia wisely takes a knee, uniting her people), and the remnants of Wonkru take the valley. The only problem is McCreary’s a real crazy asshole — an actual villain, unlike our principled if morally ambiguous antiheroes. “If I can’t have the valley, no one can,” he says and launches a missile straight at the last habitable land on Earth.
It’s over. To survive, they’ve got to leave Earth once again, and the clock is ticking. After a last-minute boarding by Monty, Murphy and Bellamy (who refuses to leave his friends behind this time, saving their lives in the process), the remainders of McCreary’s crew, Wonkru and SpaceKru journey back to the final frontier together, if not united. In a refreshing change of pace, everyone makes more or less morally sound choices in the Season 5 finale (well, not McCreary, but Clark kicked his head in, so let’s let bygones be bygones.) Emori and Abby chose to stand by the men they love rather than just survive. Octavia lets go of her grudges and helps Abby try to save Kane’s life. At Bellamy’s urging, Madi choses to let McCreary’s men live and prove their worth. Raven choses to let Bellamy wait for their friends, rather than rocketing into space without them. It seems The 100 finally wants to say that humans, sometimes, can work together instead of tearing each other apart.
With no planet to call home, Clarke and Bellamy decide the fate of the human race… “again,” Bellamy quips. They’re all going to cryosleep, with a plan to wake up a decade down the line when the Earth has healed itself. But this is where The 100 makes its biggest swing yet. When Clarke and Bellamy wake up, things clearly have gone off-book. For one, they’re the only ones awake. And they’re met by a kind young man they’ve never seen before… who introduces himself as Monty and Harper’s son, Jordan. They never went to sleep, opting instead for a quiet life of peace together. Monty and Harper explain over a series of video missives that the Earth never recovered, and we watch them grow older with each new entry until Harper is gone and Monty is old and frail. Remember when that six year time jump seemed like a big deal? Well, brace yourselves, because Clarke and the rest of the survivors have been asleep for 125 years. Now that’s a time jump.
How's everybody doing? You good? Got your jaw back where it should be?
Bob Morley promised that tonight's finale of The 100 would take "a turn" and a turn it sure did take. Gone are the days where we fight for control over valleys. Gone is the valley itself, and gone are all of the characters from the no longer habitable earth.
Towards the end of tonight's finale, McCreary, seeing that he was going to lose against Madi's forces, decided to live up to all his asshole potential and unleash some prepared missiles on the valley, destroying it completely and forcing everyone to evacuate on a spaceship.
Clarke managed to kill him before he could also evacuate (and it was damn brutal), but otherwise everyone escaped with minimal losses of the minimal numbers they still had. Upon the spaceship, they realized the best way to save the dying Kane was to put him into cryo sleep, and then realized it was actually the best way to save everybody.
After some sad goodbyes and heartbreaking moments—like Bellamy telling Octavia that a part of him loved her, but a part of him wanted to kill her—everyone went to sleep for the next 10 years. Or so they thought.
Clarke and Bellamy were the first to wake, only to discover that they had been awakened by a young man they had never seen before. He explained that it had actually been 125 years since they had gone to sleep, and that his parents, Monty and Harper, had stayed behind to figure out where all of these people could live.
