There's no real comparison. The 100 is a cheesy show with a shitty showrunner who compressed the storyline beyond all believability and made awful storytelling choices. He also treated a young impressionable audience like shit, offering them nothing but condescension when they protested the narrative choices.
Contrast…

I don't think I could have handled Root going down in the blood spray Peckinpah ballet they gave Shaw in ITE. (Which was gorgeous and heartbreaking and fitting for a warrior such as Shaw.) Root was more mind than body, with a seeming ambivalence re corporeality which in addition to making her a bullet magnet, likely…

Harold at least admitted that he couldn't do without helper monkey muscle. But until Reese, I don't think he saw his associates as fully human, just muscle. And he resisted opening up to Reese for a good long while.

I don't think the show has examined his motives deeply or pointed out the shortsightedness of his moral code but neither has it tried to avoid just putting it out there time and again.

I'm thinking just Shaw and Bear. Have money riding on a bet that Shaw, at the end, reprises the very first lines of the pilot- John's "what do you become then?" voice over.

Between Root behind the wheel and Harold, backed up by Reese and Shaw, Samaritan is dead. It just doesn't know it yet.

Cried last night. Late to work because I had to pull off road and cry some more.

Respectfully, the comparisons between Root "becoming" the Machine and Fred becoming Illyria are surficial at best. Root repeatedly, from the beginning, and at the very end, demonstrated a zeal for what she saw as the transcendence, the way forward, the Machine offered. See the first time the Machine speaks thru Root…

In one of the promos released today, one of the Team takes out, very unambiguously, a Samaritan operative with a shot to center mass.

And set up for what's to come. Shit is getting real, fast. Harold is due for a big change. Elias is a wild card. They have the Fusconator on board. Shaw is back but with a major unpredictability factor. Reese and Root are both turned up to 11.

But another important character is in the shot: NYC itself.

Exactly. And not unlike its analogue interface, it's very young. It's also been very badly parented/supervised.

A big missing piece for me, plus the manner in which she allowed herself to get caught irks me. They take all the trouble to show her realizing the truth, then she gets caught because she's careless and underestimates Greer.
Still hoping she resurfaces and has been working to bring down Samaritan from within.…

She was a big smoker, maybe emphysema

Sure it can recognize them but they would have to coincide with motive and opportunity and other contextual factors. Root's actions were likely only in a Root/ Shoot context.

Yes.

And tonight is the end of the doubleheader weeks. After this one, we'll have to wait a whole 7 days.

By bringing along your own cold-blooded murderer. It felt to me that Harold knew how lame he looked by not acting.

He'd be quite a step up.

I love them but I'd say The National is nothing if not heavy-handed.