Octavia and Diyoza were the leaders of opposing armies in season 5. That fighting doesn’t work because, in the end, even the people we oppose are still human and we’ll all share in the same fate. By refusing transcendence, Clarke’s friends chose to live as humans, with all the messiness that it entails. While survival was guaranteed in transcending, there’s a difference between surviving and living, as Murphy emphasized earlier in the episode talking to Emori in the Mindspace.
They were also choosing to live on their own terms, rather than surrender themselves to a greater power, paralleling the City of Light from season 3. Given the chance, they’re not going to leave her alone again. This already happened at the end of The 100 season 4, with Raven, Murphy, Emori, and Echo going up to space and Octavia, Indra, Gaia, Jackson, Miller, and Niylah remaining in the bunker, leaving Clarke alone on the surface for six years. Without them, Clarke would be left alone on Earth without any of her friends. No one explains why they chose to come back rather than transcend, but it’s not too difficult to see some reasons why. Everyone in the past had chosen to transcend, but it’s revealed that many humans opted out (which the Judge considers a strange curiosity), and audiences see that many of Clarke’s friends have returned to Earth: Raven, Murphy, Emori, Octavia, Indra, Gaia, Jackson, Miller, Echo, Niylah, Jordan, and Hope. Ultimately, since neither was a major character until much later in the story, leaving that loose end untied isn’t a big issue.Īfter Clarke finds herself seemingly alone on Earth, the Judge explains that transcendence is actually a choice, not something forced upon everyone. Is just having the Mind Drive enough to transcend? If so, then Ryker and Gabriel should also have transcended, as there was never a confirmation of either of their Mind Drives being destroyed.
While it’s satisfying to see Emori get the chance to transcend, it leaves the fate of a couple of other characters unclear. This makes sense considering Madi transcends as well, despite her being completely paralyzed - which the Judge doesn't think of as dead, which Clarke rebukes. Instead, Emori is allowed to transcend, meaning that however the Judge determines who’s alive or dead isn’t just tied to their original body - it's likely their mind. Jackson installs Emori’s Mind Drive in Murphy’s body after Emori dies, intended to give them just a short time together. She and Murphy took over the roles of Daniel and Kaylee Prime at the end of The 100 season 6 in exchange for the Mind Drives. This just asks the question of how Emori transcends, since she dies early in the episode. Here, she stood between two armies, who were ready to open fire indiscriminately, and talked them down from fighting, proving Raven’s point that people can be saved - even those who have fallen into the deepest pits of despair. Back in season 5, Octavia led Wonkru into a pointless war that destroyed the last remaining survivable land on Earth because she didn’t want to lose. While Raven made the case to the Judge that humanity was worth transcending (or, at least, being allowed to live and be retested later on), Octavia proved humans were indeed good. Raven didn’t do it alone, though, with Octavia also playing a pivotal role.
The best example comes from season 4, when Raven even went as far as killing herself and rigging up a defibrillator to revive her because that’s what it took to help save people (which was referenced in the finale), and that persistence paid off in saving humanity. Raven didn’t give up here when it looked like Sheidheda would cause war to break out, as she’s always done. Clarke failed, but Raven wouldn’t let that be the end and was insistent that humanity could be saved, going back in and forcing the Judge to test them again. Earlier in The 100 season 7, Raven was pushed towards being more ruthless like Clarke but stopped herself short because she didn’t want to be that kind of person. Raven, meanwhile, passed the test because of her perseverance.
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