The seventh season begins as Clark and her friends try to rebuild the sanctuary again. Things get worse in this period as the new threat increases in the woods, and at the same time Echo and Gabriel learn more about hope and its mysterious past which means a lot to it. Someday, Raven faces an unexpected threat as things turn into a different path.
While we've only seen four of the final season's extended sixteen-episode run, it's evident that challenge is more relevant than ever to the themes of the story The 100 wants to tell
This season has a lot to live up to, and saying farewell is notoriously difficult. But if this episode (and the three others critics could view) are any indication, we're in excellent hands.
Season seven seems to additionally have the capacity to recycle a considerable amount of the same threads and concepts from past seasons, while seemingly not proving that they can tie them together to make a cathartic ending.
The 100's new season hits the ground running -- literally -- barely giving its characters and, by extension, its audience, the chance to breathe as the stakes are raised once again.
There's a new set of mysteries and stakes this season that will keep fans on the edge of their seats, and which will end, fittingly, on a full one hundred episodes.
Listen, I am here for this futuristic alien vibe that's going on with the anomaly. It's weird, and I think we deserve a break from the us vs. them / "are we good? are we bad?" themes that this show has overdone a bit by now.