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You really have. 
Another great review (non-spoilery extracts from it) :
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What is clear in all of these scenarios — on the ground with Clarke, in the air with Bellamy and in the bunker with Octavia — is that The 100 has found its way back to the spark of inspiration by getting back to the roots of the kind of story the series has always told best: one about the foibles of humanity and the inherent cycles of violence that come with it. And it has does so through a narrative device that has always made it one of the best pieces of genre fiction on television: reinvention.
Through its highs and lows, The 100 has always excelled at expanding and evolving the world it plays in, shifting the landscape in drastic yet natural ways. It did so first in its very concept, taking us from space to post-apocalyptic Earth, and then with the introduction of the grounders and Mount Weather, crashing the the Arkers to Earth, the City of Light, and so on. The 100 embraces the freedom of genre storytelling fearlessly to constantly uncover wondrous and despairing realms to explore (ok, mostly despairing). In keeping with series tradition, the end of Season 4 saw a significant culling, both of characters and dragging storylines, and as painful as it was to see them go, it was a necessary and a due evolution. This season’s time jump seals the deal, and once again The 100 drops us in a new reality where the ground has shifted under our feet.
Even for a series that always embraced change, we’ve never had such a head-spinning reset; essentially a mid-series soft reboot. It’s a brilliant move, thrusting the action forward toward the future once again, rather than spiraling inward toward the secrets of the past. That’s not to say there weren’t clever strokes in the way The 100 expanded its mythology in recent seasons, but the deep dive into the history of ALI and the secrets of the first apocalypse always felt like it was bringing us to where we already were. Now, The 100 feels like its forging forward again. The series hasn’t forgotten its past, to the contrary, the parallels between Season 5 and Season 1 ensure every moment is ripe with remembrance of it, but it is narratively free to move in exciting new directions.
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That’s the magic of The 100’s story, the way it inspires empathy for its characters despite their hideous actions and forces you to explore morality from a place of emotional complicity. It’s a high-wire act that can easily topple over into perpetual punishment, and the series hasn’t always nailed the balance, but it has never shied away from the complexities.
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I don't agree with this bit however:
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“There are no good guys,” Clarke says as she fires off a killing shot at one of the intruders — an interesting reversal from the Grounder attacks in Season 1. This time we’re on the side of the people defending their land, but it’s certainly not the moral high-ground.
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I'm not a huge fan of Grounders in general and they're definitely flawed too but they were defending their land against the perceived intruders (the delinquents) at that time, and I kind of dislike comments like this.
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