just had an idea for another alternate ending to t100...i've said before that bellamy should have just been an inside man and that he should have just faked his death to escape, but i hadn't really thought about the details...
i was just thinking though and the thesis for this show for so long was: earth. living and not just surviving, yes. but specifically on earth. it was always, first and foremost, about earth.
monty said it wasn't coming back, but season 7 literally introduced the idea of time moving differently on different planets. so, the storyline very easily could have brought them back to earth in the end.
it should have gone like this:
bellamy is an inside man so that he can stall and give them some time to figure out how to get everyone back to earth. he brings clarke in on the plan during their argument and she trusts him instantly (because it's bellamy).
i honestly don't remember much of the plot of s7 at all or how any of this wormhole shit works, but bellamy and clarke and everyone literally could have just made it seem like they all died in an explosion and meanwhile they just traveled through a wormhole back to earth. raven being the genius that she is finds a way to close it forever, just in case anyone doubts that they actually died.
so there you go. all the annoying people are stuck on all the other planets, and bellamy and co get to spend the rest of their lives living peacefully on earth. they have the choice to have kids if they want, or not. the point is, they get the choice. they get to have agency. they get to live life to the fullest.
and best of all, they get to do it on earth.
and of course, after seven season of build up, bellamy and clarke finally get together and get the happy ending they deserved. there would be a montage then of everyone's lives and we'd even get a little flashforward a few years to see how everyone ended up. if any of them had decided to have kids. what hobbies they found to enjoy. beach days and parties by the bonfire. literally just living any way that they want now that they're not fighting for their lives.
and then we end with clarke narrating, calling back to "i was born in space" and summarizing the story. eventually, the screen pans to her watching all of her friends and family having a splashing fight in the water. someone calls "mom" out to her, getting her attention. she sees august (bellarke's 4 year old) with bellamy and madi. she makes eye contact with bellamy, they're both smiling so wide, and there is this look in their eyes that just says, we made it, didn't we. we really made it.
clarke then runs in to join in on the fun. bellamy splashes her, grinning at her. clarke smiles and says, "oh you're gonna regret that."
"oh really, what are you gonna do, princess?"
no hesitation, she tackles him into the water. he's sputtering when they surface, not quite believing she just did that, and then they both dissolve into a laughing mess along with madi and august and all their friends.
bellamy wraps his arms around her from behind and kisses her on the cheek. the camera zooms in so that only clarke's face is in the shot, she is wearing the brightest smile of the entire series, and that's the final shot :)