Top 10 The 100 Plot Holes You Never Noticed
#10: Becca’s Lab
Becca Franco, the creator of the dangerous artificial intelligence ALIE, is infamous in the 100 universe. Her creation caused the first nuclear apocalypse that forced humans to go to space because the Earth they had once known was destroyed. But all of this started in her lab on Earth, which the crew eventually rediscovered. While the discovery of the lab brought the storyline full circle and saved many characters, it also left us wondering: how did Becca’s lab survive the initial nuclear apocalypse, completely untouched? In the century before they found it, it seems unlikely that no one had stumbled upon it. The pristine condition of the lab just felt a little unbelievable to us.
#9: The Class System Before the 100 Are Sent to Earth
In season 1, the 100 are sent to the ground and chaos erupts, with Clarke Griffin and Wells Jaha its center. Because their parents were in government, the two were seen as higher class and other characters from the 100 see them as spoiled rich kids. Bellamy Blake, Octavia’s older brother, is seen as lower class, which leads to a lot of conflict with Wells. Aside from this initial tension, the class system that developed on the Ark is never really explained. How was class even distinguished? Was it based on jobs or on ancestry? Even though the class conflict adds to the plot of season 1, we know so little about life on the Ark before the 100 were sent to Earth. We would love a prequel that could fill in these gaps!
#8: Why Are There Not More Doctors?
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One of Clarke Griffin’s most important roles on the ground is being a medic. She learned medicine from her mother and is constantly called on to save her friends, and even sometimes her enemies. We love seeing Clarke save the day, but it makes us ask, where are all the other doctors? Throughout the series we see Clarke’s mom, Abby, mentor Clarke and fellow Ark medical officer Jackson, but they’ve been in space for almost a century. You’d think that medical officers would be some of the most important people on the Ark because the future of humanity depended on their survival, so we want to know why there are so few. This is one plot hole we would have loved to see addressed.
#7: Mount Weather Guards
At the end of Season 2, we got an intense standoff between the Grounders and the Mount Weather people. Mount Weather had just started their bone marrow treatment on their residents, which they were taking from the 100 to give to their people to survive the radiation. When Clarke acts and irradiates the mountain, all the Mount Weather people - except for Emerson and Cage - die. However, we previously saw some people, including a Mount Weather guard, having the supposedly life-saving treatment performed on them. This would have made them immune to Clarke’s actions. Was there something wrong with the treatments the guards received, or is this another plot hole?
#6: The Science Never Makes Sense
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Set in a world after a nuclear apocalypse, you would think that the technology and science on the 100 would reflect a future world with significant advances. But from episode to episode, the science doesn’t add up. The reactions the characters have to different environments are inconsistent and hard to believe. Even though the 100 spent their entire lives in space, they don’t seem to notice a difference with gravity on Earth. There’s also the huge question of radiation immunity and the inconsistencies surrounding it. Even though we love this scifi make-believe world, we wish the science made a little more sense.
#5: The Grounders Speaking English
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The 100 first meet the Grounders, who are the humans who survived the first apocalypse on earth, in Season 1. While they become the main enemies in their initial time on Earth, Octavia Blake befriends a Grounder warrior named Lincoln. At first, the 100 think that the Grounders are unable to understand them as they speak their own language, but it’s then revealed that some of them speak English. Lincoln and Octavia are able to communicate for instance, but Lincoln says that that is because their warriors learn English. However, we actually see other Grounders speak English throughout the series, regardless of age or job. Did this change over the course of the Grounders’ interaction with the 100, is Lincoln lying or is this another plot hole?
#4: The Grounders After Praimfaya
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After the nuclear apocalypse known as Praimfaya, some of the people left on Earth formed a new society. Becca, the scientist behind the disaster, ends up returning to Earth from space and is greeted like a god when she arrives. What we don’t get is why the ancestors to the Grounders didn’t know that she was just another human. The people left on Earth would have survived a society that resembled ours pretty closely, from technology to religion, and would have had a good grasp on space travel. A spaceship arriving on Earth would not have been anything new especially since not that much time had passed. We understand that Becca being seen as a god sets up the storyline for future seasons, but we find it hard to believe that this is how she would have been greeted.
#3: Radioactive Animals
Season 1 introduces us to an entirely new Earth through the eyes of the 100, from new environments to changed plants. A huge aspect of this new world is the radioactive animals. The 100 meet many animals who have been altered by the radiation on Earth after the nuclear fallout and it has altered their appearance, showing us new mutations. However after season 1, we see few, if any, animals, even though the show is mainly set in forests. Surviving the elements is a huge part of the first season, but later, the characters seem to forget the dangers they faced at the beginning. Have the 100 figured out how to better deal with the animals, or the writers just forget about them?
#2: Lexa’s Blood Was Red in Season 2
Near the end of season 2, we see Lexa, the commander of the Grounders, hurt and covered in blood. From later seasons, we know that Lexa became commander because she is one of very few Nightbloods, a special group of people with black blood who are not affected by the radiation on earth. However, we see her bleed red so very early in the series! This makes us wonder whether Nightbloods were a plot device added later or if it was someone else’s blood that we saw. We want to give the writers the benefit of the doubt, but this looks like a clear oversight to us.
#1: Main Characters Forgetting About Other Characters
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The 100 has given us some of our favorite TV sci-fi characters. But it seems like some of the characters disappear for seasons at a time with little explanation. There are so few people left on Earth during the time and place that the show is set that it seems unlikely that these characters would not pop up every now and again. Why do characters like Jacapo Sinclair and Kyle Wick disappear or are killed off without a proper goodbye? Callie, Abby’s best friend from the pilot is also never seen again. We get that sometimes disputes with the actors or changes in the cast lead to things like this, but we just wish these plot holes were dealt with better - or at least given proper closure!
