The 100 (TV Series) Blood Must Have Blood: Part 2 (2015) User Reviews

Entertaining, Keeps you guessing ...

[rhilderb-63435 · 10/10 · 27 August 2015]

I like the filming and writing. I think that it is consistent with the first season and the rest of the second season.

Consistent in that everything is way over the top: 1) many survivors from multiple crash landings from a failing space station; 2) multiple crash landings in the same area; 3) teenagers from a space station surviving against brutal savages; 4) Mountain Men surviving on the blood of the Grounders; 5) Mountain Men rapidly degenerating when expose to the outside; 6) Mountain Men, obviously needing the space station people, but choosing to consume them (like the Grounders) instead of attempting to make some kind of deal. 7) Kane waltzing into the Grounder stronghold with the expectation of treaties, compromise, and survival. 8) Jaha on an apparently religious quest to a "City of Light", that I assume he never saw from space. 9) an artificial intelligence (I guess) that apparently destroyed the world, and apparently guided Jaha to it, that is apparently played by Erica Cerra (who's great, from Eureka, which was great), and is apparently planning some more destruction. Of course, the list goes on and on; but it's great.

But some things could be viewed as realistic: 1) the ruthlessness of the Grounders, trying to survive; 2) stupid decisions made by teenagers trying to survive; 3) ruthless decisions by Clarke, when she's trying to survive and save someone/something. I don't see where humanity and being a good person comes into play. It's like Dante said: "None of us has a choice here, Clarke". 4) and, yes, I think that Lexa's decision to betray Clarke to the Mountain Men, can be viewed as realistic. Why is this? Lexa and the Grounders definitely wanted to destroy and kill all of the Mountain Men and she probably didn't really care much about the survival of the Grounder prisoners held by the Mountain Men, so why betray Clarke? The only way it makes sense is that, since Lexa knew that Clarke did not want to kill All of the Mountain Men (Remember her, Clarke's, pre-battle speech: "this is a rescue mission, we are not here to wipe them out, there are people inside that mountain that have helped us"). Instead of going against Clarke about saving the Mountain Men, Lexa pulled out and let Clarke take care of "the rescue", leaving the strong possibility that either Clarke would win and have to destroy the Mountain Men, or lose, suffering major losses while possibly crippling the Mountain Men.

I was going to give it less than 10, but the show's great, the writing is great, and I really would like to see how the third season plays out.

Stupid Decisions All Around

[RevvedReview · 10/10 · 18 October 2020]

OK so the Mountain Men built a *defensive* missile silo that cannot be used on a 3000-man army marching on their base because they're "too close." Gotcha.

They also made level 5 the safest level in the facility but put the control room on a different level.

They also left their energy supply (the dam) completely unprotected. Then the war-strategist Clarke didn't send any soldiers to help Raven and Wick. Talk about stupid vs. stupid here.

Somehow Wallace/Cage were able to arrange a secret meeting with Lexa while Lexa was standing next to Clarke the whole time.

"Blood must have blood" is a Grounder saying that apparently doesn't apply to the people who blew up your village, turned your warriors into reapers, and bled 1000s of your people to death. The saying only applies to teenagers who killed 18 of your people who he thought were imprisoning his friends.

Anyways, I love this show.

A notable end for a notable season

[tenshi_ippikiookami · 8/10 · 10 February 2016]

Jaha's quest is at an end... Well, after the kraken has eaten two more of his followers and it's just him and Murphy. On a far far away land, Clarke has to deal with the Grounders leaving the fight. Mount Weather people won't stop at nothing to get back to the ground and the Ark people the same to stop them.

There're no good people.

That a character has to remember us this is unnecessary, but forgivable. Shows tend to self-reference and talk too much.

But that's the only problem one can find with this last episode of season two. If you leave Jaha's search for god on the side (full of surprises, and a terrible outcome most probably), this last episode has everything that a show may desire. The Ark people are afraid for their own, but the Mount Weather people can't wait anymore, won't wait anymore. Everyone becomes blind but for their own desires and motives. It makes for great moments, as you can see characters (as Kane) trying to dialogue, and the other side making the three-monkeys thing. It's very real and very human, as has been studied that people react with their most basic instincts to the need to survive. Clarke and Bellamy (they really act as a team, even if everyone seems to believe Clarke is the leader)'s decisions are justified, not by long discourses, but by situations, actions, consequences. But everyone else's too (Lincoln, Octavia, who has some great moments, Monty, Maya...). Even if the viewer doesn't agree with what happens, they won't be able to say that the show doesn't explain why they do what they do. Everything keeps being dark, bleak and hopeless, with little chance that sunny and bright days are to come.

And now, about that crazy Jaha...

Well-doned.

[ououzaza · 10/10 · 12 March 2020]

This really lives up to my expectation. Again with decisions and the aftermath. The 100 teaches about lives, decisions and what comes after.

Seriously, Lexa...

[perspectives-46531 · 8/10 · 31 December 2016]

What the hell, Lexa. Pretty much the worst leader in history. Her decisions just don't make sense. First, she massacres an entire village by letting the missile hit without doing anything. Then, she completely destroys an alliance she worked so hard to build. Without the alliance, her people won't get the Reaper treatments and any tech help from the sky people. Furthermore, she doesn't get to take down a ruthless enemy and screws her friend (Clarke), forcing Clarke to kill everyone on Mount Weather, even the innocent.

As for Clarke's decision, there was no alternative. Everyone in that room, except the children and the Mountain Men that helped them were guilty because they knew that their leader was torturing and killing people just so that they could go to the ground. It's not like their lives depended on the bone marrow; they could all wear hazmat suits when they wanted to see the ground. For Clarke, it was us or them.

Also, Dante Wallace AND Jaha got completely ruined this episode. I thought they were good guys.

Other than that, I still like the show overall.

That last scene was extremely eerie though. I wonder what's coming in Season 3; hopefully it doesn't go downhill from here.

Now the difficult path begins for Clarke as Wanheda,

[Neptune165 · 10/10 · 22 September 2022]

Dante, He was a good leader and one of Clarke's teachers, same as Lexa. She learned about leadership from him. I love that Clarke is perceptive of other people's strength and virtues, learn from them, even if they are technically her enemies. It's a great part of her character in this show. This is one of my favorite finale. A lot of people hate Clarke for pulling that level. Personally, I felt like she did what she had to. I mean, seeing your mother laying here being torture would get most people to react and do something. Jasper is stupid for thinking he could take out Cage and end everything. There were a couple of Mount Weather men inside that torture room with guns. The second Jasper went for Cage, one of those men would have started shooting, kill Jasper and other Sky People could have been collateral damage. Not to mention Cage already saw the little knife in Jasper's hand and was backing up. So, I really don't think he would have been able to do anything. And Bellamy is right, the Mount Weather people would never stop until they got what they wanted. It was only going to end badly for one side. This is the 100. Every place is darker than the last. Maya's death was sad (she is one of my favorite characters), but she was going to die either way. If Clarke and Bellamy had not irradiated Level 5, Cage and the other Mountain Men would have drilled and killed all of the people from the Ark they had captured, plus Clarke, Bellamy and Monty, and then would have murdered Maya, just as they had murdered her father and all of the other rebels. She would just get a bullet in the head instead of dying of radiation.

Jasper's plan was naïve - even if he had managed to kill Cage, the others would have just continued and he'd get killed alongside everyone else. As Maya's dad pointed out (and Bellamy quoted in this episode), they never would have stopped, they all wanted to go to the surface and didn't care who they had to kill for it. Did you notice in Clarke and Bellamy's goodbye scene that he used the same words she told him in season 1 when she convinced him not to leave the group (when he thought the Ark leadership would execute him when they come down): "If you need forgiveness, I'll give that to you. You are forgiven."

I love show BUT writers fail Character Development 101 in the most staggering breach ever in this episode!

[liowik · 4/10 · 29 May 2015]

After getting very hooked on this show, I was utterly flabbergasted when the writers sanctioned complete treason to the ENTIRE founding character development of the tribal grounders. The grounders were terrorized, captured, chemically poisoned by fog, and turned into monsters by the mountain men for long stretches of time.. and the grounders finally had them on a silver platter - the front door open, their defenses all down. The grounder's ENTIRE mantra is BLOOD for BLOOD, having restitution - there must be restitution - at all costs! Its a consistent built-in founding element of their culture! In fact its even the EXACT TITLE of the episode!! So finally in that situation they just say to the mountain men 'hey yeah... just give us our tortured men back and we'll just be on our way'?? Not only this but in doing that they 1) violate and betray their alliance with the sky people! 2) and even more important: risk the mountain men possibly returning back to power to threaten them in the future! The grounders are all about bravery and instead this was the exact opposite - the most cowardly thing they could have possibly done... make a deal and screw their friends and themselves. Would the writer who sanctioned this please be fired immediately! And even as a some kind of poorly-conceived plot-driving mechanism it fails - because the mountain men die anyway - they should have died by the tribal grounders! If you violate character development to this extent it seriously hurts the show because it destroys believability and meaningful anticipated continuity - without realism you might as well have the characters all sprout wings! I barely bought letting the village get destroyed by the missile - hundreds died so they could just have a mere chance to get back their wounded caged men in the mountain (and apparently without even retribution no less?). And now Clarke running off to who knows where also seems off as well - she has shown herself much stronger than that! My message to production: As your show professes, please weed out your weak writers - make your writing team stronger and remove any writers who show the need to place the consistency of the characters second to plot-driving. It will seriously save your show from deteriorating!

Not impressed by Season 2

[alexleizerovichcoaching · 5/10 · 17 June 2022]

I can't understand how this series received such a high score. Overall season 2 is better than season 1. But yet again the writing is pretty bad. This season is focused mostly on Clarke. The other characters are there just to orbit around Clarke. And frankly Clarke isn't a likable character. And when did she become a master military strategist?? All the "grown ups" from the ark are basically side characters in this season.

Now as much as I don't like Clarke shes nothing compared to the commander. Lexa must be the weakest leader ever. So many stupid mistakes that make zero sense. Not to mention her truce which goes against everything grounders are about. Their number 1 rule is blood for blood. They never broke this rule and suddenly Lexa breaks it so easy and makes a deal with the mountain man. And thats when they are about to win.

The final episode was better then the first part. Besides that the most likable characters now are Bellamy and Octavia. They became brave and heroes. Frankly I'd rather have them as the main characters. So sad they made Bellamy Clarke's side kick now. Beats me how this get 7 seasons.

they ruined the show in the finale of the second season

[marcusdumitru · 4/10 · 14 June 2015]

I really enjoyed the show so far. With all the teenager aureole of the leading characters... I made my peace, even though it's illogical or counter-cultural. So many people died in this conflict trying to get SOME out of Mount Weather. I made my peace with it. I was shocked, betrayed, when Lexa left with all the grounders, and it was so illogical. Man, they had the mountain-men at their feet. There was no need for negotiations... only if... they already had the prisoners to be executed and the point was to save them. At least the grounders, because the Ark guys had too precious blood to be let go, so they were no part in the negotiations. So .. I made my peace with it. But in the LAST episode... ahhh... the shock turned into anguish, because AGAIN Clark faces a decision that's impossible, and has no head for negotiations or peaceful solutions, she is so impetuous, deciding based on emotions... And so, helped by Bellamy, She does the unforgivable thing, becoming a moral monster. I really don't understand the decision of the script writers, to transform one of the main "good" characters into a monstrosity. And, they let her mom say in the end that THERE ARE NO GOOD PEOPLE... so, that would justify everything. I really finished with a bitter taste. There was no need for EVERYBODY to die... well at least I know that ONE escaped.