The 100 (TV Series) A Lie Guarded (2017) User Reviews

LOTR: The Two Towers. Oh, no wait. The 100 4x04.

[ilklucg234 · 8/10 · 24 February 2017]

I'm really struggling right now between 7 stars and 8 stars. This was definitely an enjoyable episode, but it definitely had a few flaws.

Ice Nation ends the allegiance. Jasper gets a hand on Clarkes list. Abby and Raven are attacked on their way to another bunker.

Overall, this is definitely a solid episode. The acting was very good, especially Bellamy had a very big moment. All the others were solid to good.

Camera wasn't bothering me too much this time, still had a few moments that felt a little amateur-ish, but nothing major.

The story overall was good. My fear that this season is going to be running in circles was disproven. We actually get a few new things and a few new interesting story lines that are interesting to follow. But also, we had a few scenes where our main characters had a whole lot of plot armor. That took me a bit out of it. Every time the characters were in danger, not much nothing happened to the main characters, which got a little boring since it didn't happen just once in this episode. And, the cherry on top, was the last scene that reminded me a whole lot of Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers. Not saying it was stolen, but it's definitely awfully similar.

Still, this episode is highly enjoyable and definitely suspenseful at times. Not as good as the previous one, but it still has me looking forward to the next one.

A good episode.

[ououzaza · 8/10 · 25 March 2020]

We get closer to the solutions to survive the Praimfaya. The plot development is fun and not boring. Each episode story gets progression. Life lessons is also really good. How people deal with lies and truth.

Non-stop plot developments

[tenshi_ippikiookami · 8/10 · 9 March 2017]

I had had the feeling that "The 100" had started this fourth season a little bit insecure of where it was planning to go, the feeling that the story was starting to be stretched thin. The third episode, fun but slow, seemed to confirm the situation. The focus wasn't there and it was running in circles.

Well, here it comes the fourth episode. The pace is still a little bit shaky, and some of the dialogue could be improved. However, so many things happen that the viewer will not know with which twist the story will surprise them next. And all those developments help the story progress and focus.

Marcus and Roan have some relationship issues. Octavia is angry (surprise). Bellamy has problems. Clarke has her own problems, with Jasper and Monty. And Raven, Murphy and others go on a quest to Becca's lab. So many things happen from that moment on that it will not be a surprise if you lose track of all of them.

This episode shows the strengths "The 100" has. The dialogue is good (again, a couple of exchanges could have been improved), and it shows the ambivalence of the characters, the difficulty in taking decisions, the fear of violence and death. Decisions have consequences, but decisions also have reasons. Kane and Octavia's or Clarke and Jaha's scenes clearly show this strength. The atmosphere is great, and the feel of danger, threat, permeates every frame. It all hangs on the good shoulders of the actors, who again deliver and the direction that keeps all in place.

And if that is not enough, the show reminds us that it is not scared to getting rid of characters.

Early-season full of action episode

[jimmyishere-37748 · 10/10 · 26 February 2021]

Naiko died but still the episode is interesting.

Abby's Team arrives in Becca's Island while Clarke gets exposed for making a list of people that will survive Praimfaya. In the meantime, Octavia is in peril after Echo almost killed her

Ridiculous

[Abdulxoxo · 6/10 · 11 August 2020]

How come Octavia survived that fall? Haha if it was an extra or a supporting character they would surely have died. But hey it's O, she's one of the main characters. She's not supposed to die yet. Haha

Well... I don't Really Know.

[joeboy-36122 · 6/10 · 9 March 2017]

Well I did like this episode overall However I'm uncertain if this is a 6 or 7.

Major Plots just keep coming at us keep us as an audience on the edge of our chairs however their is one major Disappointment which I actually laughed at when I saw this. Octavia a Strong Character but I saw this one coming in a mile. I actually said to myself If she jumps and survives I would laugh in a matter of fact I did laugh.

Octavia was stabbed by Ice Nation and fell backwards down a drop bigger than the grand canon and survives because she landed in a river, well it may be 100 years into the future and they may be able to survive the radiation but their not made out of steel the way she fell would of made her the rocks as the cliff face slopes towards the bottom. Even if she did hit the water the impact of especially as she fell backwards we wouldn't know how she landed But the impact would of been too great to survive.

For the record, I understand why she was kept alive. However other than that the other major plot lines were brilliant again we have so much to process at once making us keep watching.

That fall?

[Nikeclassic24 · 6/10 · 7 April 2019]

Overall it was an action packed episode with some twists and turns along the way but that Fall by Octavia? You've got to be kidding me... I just knew somehow she was either going to jump or fall in and I hadn't even taken into account of a possible stab wound completely in one side and out the other. I'm sorry but the writing for that scene was absolutely terrible.

Jasper & Echo, just ugh

[CG17RH13 · 4/10 · 13 March 2024]

Sadly, Jasper did get the best line of the episode: "someday when all this is over, you're going to realize that foam bit was funny." He is also right - though Raven was right first - Clarke should have been honest. Her dad tried to be, she respected him for that and now she's doing the exact opposite? No. Crowd source like Raven told you to do. Basically do whatever Raven tells you to do. At all times.

Other than that, just get rid of Jasper already. And Echo too. They are both just awful. And yes, I think vengeance is wrong, but I still hope Bellamy gets to plunge a sword through the withered husk that is Echo's heart.

And Luna? You just begged the Ark to take your people in, which they did. They also gave away precious meds for your little girl. Have a little grace and gratitude. Instead, you want to live on a hellfire irradiated world by yourself? Sounds like a party. But, of course, no one can resist Raven Reyes, because she is a QUEEN!

So Luna does come around.

And I agree with everyone else. No way Octavia would ever survive a fall like that.

And the Octavia thing was dumb

[Neptune165 · 6/10 · 2 October 2022]

Octavia surviving that through n through wound and cliff fall is biggest plot Armor of the 100. "Octavia dies and the show keeps going ?!" That's me right there lmao. 1 in 20 people have survived jumping off golden gate Bridge at 250 feet. Octavia surviving is plausible. Guinness is 30k feet though not into water. Octavia ia tiny, maybe 110 pounds, so her velocity much slower than an average or larger sized person. She was also splayed out when falling which, due to wind resistance, would slow her further. Would most people survive? No. But people love to say "so and so would not have survived that fall" in these movies when in actuality, there is a chance and many are well-documented. As a matter of fact, depending on how she feel she may not have even broken bones if she was incredibly, 1 in a million lucky. Basically they made the fall look worse than it was as a way to trick the audience into thinking she's actually dead, the drop was supposedly much smaller. Regardless, as much as the way they've done it sucked and took many people myself included completely out of it, the show as a whole does not suffer from it, it just keeps getting better. Monty sort of mess up, I like him but that was beyond stupid. What do these people think they'll do without doctors? People who know how to work the technology? This is why keeping the secret was so important, people are stupid and selfish by nature. Octavia shouldn't have survived but I've never liked her anyways so I'm a bit biased the Mary Sue didn't die.

The Octavia fall is still one of the most unsurvivable things I've ever seen

[Neptune165 · 6/10 · 2 October 2022]

Not to mention she literally doesn't bleed out on the journey home and survives a close range explosion in the next dang episode.. I mean unbelievable. Most of the time, people put Clarke in the lead and not her. She just goes along with the current and suddenly she's deciding who lives and who dies. As for "Clarke put herself on this list." Anyone who has ever seen 2 people's handwriting can tell the first 99 were written by one person, and the 100th was written by an obviously different hand. (As Bellamy put her on the list) I know my handwriting varies from day to day, and may even look completely different some days, it was more consistent before I took a bullet in my forearm. The style of the lettering, the natural leanings of one hand vs another were pretty obvious when we saw Bellamy put Clarke on the list.

Monty really didn't give Clarke a chance to answer his questions. He even said he might agree with him not being on the list, but why does Clarke think she gets to decide? If he gave her a chance to answer, he would know she didn't want to make the list. Raven and Bellamy and others made her be the one, and I also refer back to my previous point that Clarke did NOT put herself on the list, so she didn't decide that she gets to live and Harper has to die.

Not to go on a dark sideroad from your mid-episode discussion about what would happen if everyone knew... If the list were made public, you mentioned work stoppages, why should I work so someone else gets to live, and even suicides... But what if there's even 1 or 2 who would look at the list and decide who they "don't think should be on the list, someone else should be" and actually kill people on the list to "make room for others" ?

If you watch during the drone perspective sequences, the drone disengages when the target passes beyond the markers, i.e. Their security perimeter. The drone shooting at Raven disengaged and let Raven go when she crossed the boundary. Between the boundary markers, from the drone view, each time, we see a red 'barrier' extending from one marker to the next, anyone inside the boundary is subject to being fired upon, anyone outside the boundary is an invalid target. [which would be a logical safety to place on security drones, to insure they do not fire on someone near the boundary that isn't in the boundary.

Even though it is extremely unlikely to believe Octavia would survive, regardless of how deep the water was, in real life people have fallen from over 10,000 feet and hit solid ground and survived. But this is HOLLYWOOD. [references search for: Nicholas Stephen Alkemade (British Royal Air Force 18,000 feet, no parachute) and Alan Eugene Magee (United States Army Air Forces 22,000 feet, no parachute)