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[The 100] Criminal Teens, No Parents, Mutant Deer. Smells like the CW.
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http://youtu.be/DM_2LwEtgkgThe 100 is the new show on the CW about teens send to Earth after mankind had to escape it after we blew it up. Its been 100 years or so and now we on the International Space Station Ark to wait out the radiation except supplies are running out. So all the kids who broke the law and sent to jail are now guinea pigs to see if we can survive on the Planet.
Like most of the shows on the CW, its aimed to collect the Twilight fan base and you can expect your usual mix of love triangles, violences, and extremely pretty people, but it could have a bit of a Battlestar Galactica with a pinch of Lost as those on the Ark play a political game with both the Ark survivers and the 100 in the mix while the 100 fight themselves and the Earth to create the anarchist society of their dreams. Will it be good? It comes on Wednesdays after Arrow, one of the better CW shows going right now, so who knows. It can't be worst than the Tomorrow People.
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But otherwise this show is pretty bad so far.
Alas.
The big bads for Earth and the Ark were intriguing. Nice contrasts.
They need to give Kelly Hu a reason to be relevant on this show. Was she the VP's wife?
Like, yes there are a lot of shows that are way worse than this.
But neither is this super compelling. The entire group dynamic and character interactions with the kids was instantly tiresome to me. Forced drama based on personal bullshit and not any sort of logical competing interests, conflicts caused by a complete lack of communication, bizarre decisions with no rational. This show might turn out to be entertaining but it will almost certainly not turn out to be good.
Also main character girl is an expert cartographer having being raised on a space station... somehow.
The personal bullshit, while melodramatic, had logical consequences. Teens acted like teens - who aren't rational, short sighted, unknowingly self destructive and
Someone's got to read a map right on the show.
This is not particularly a thing I want to watch shows about. The sci fi premise is kind of interesting, and if that is the focus and it is actually done well, I can see watching this show.
But if the focus is teenage lord of the flies, I'm out.
It's... on the CW.
I found it perfectly adequate. But like, I wasn't expecting The Wire or anything.
The review I read said that Kelly Hu was unfortunately only there for the pilot.
That's all this show has been marketed as: future lord of the flies with good looking teens.
It's ok so far, but time will tell if the teen-drama will outweigh the drama.
Enough for a few seasons, then.
Short seasons...
Seriously! It was kind of funny when the maintenance girl took one look at their board of the 100 and who they thought was dead and was all like, "um, you sent down criminals of course the first thing that they are going to do is say 'fuck you' and take the bracelets off." Also calling it now, her boyfriend that she is worried about and wanting to go down with main girl's mom to see is totally the space walker guy so we can get some classic CW relationship melodrama going, even their best shows can't avoid this stable.
This comment was really negative, but I am still liking this show for some unexplainable reason, I blame my weakness for watching good looking people doing cool looking things.
I mean, I thought that was obvious when they did the fade between the sculpture he made for her and the one the other girl had as a necklace. Nothing to call, that was straight up established.
The stuff on the station was actually pretty interesting. And the actual power struggle thing going on on the ground is pretty interesting as well. In fact, I tend to agree with rebel dude. Fuck those people on the station.
Heh, guess I missed that part.
Its horrid how the government on the station has handled the situation.
There aren't that many to take, and if too many of the anarchist die, the station will assume earth is unlivable
How would anyone who lives in space not be intimately familiar with radiation and its effects on the human body? For that matter, why the hell would you design medical monitoring wristbands to send down to the irradiated planet and not put a dosimeter or a Geiger counter in there? Or at least an automatic "the wristband has been damaged or removed" signal? They've been on the planet for at least two days at this point with nothing to eat except one pumathing split among 90some people and presumably limited access to water. How are they still running around whooping it up and hanging people out of trees instead of chewing on random plants out of desperate hunger? Or, y'know, heading en-masse for the one place they're given to understand food exists? I get that teenagers are idiots but come on. Hell, why is anyone looking up to Captain Badass the Criminal King when he is literally the only person there who (to the best of their knowledge) has never broken the law?
I get that they sent the criminals because they were expecting everyone to probably die, but not a single adult member of the leadership who know that they've got a matter of months to live regardless was willing to go along to make sure things on the ground didn't go completely and immediately sideways?
The adults sent the kids who would have been killed anyhow once they became 18 to the radioactive place. The wrist bands were designed just for the basics, vitsl signs. The station and techokid are trying to jimmy rig it to act as radios, which is something they aren't built to be. I doubt that the original designers thought someone wouod put it on kids who would rebel. They were built for explorers.
The box is already broken. Your options are go to the ground and maybe survive or stay in the box and hope you aren't among the other few hundred people who will have to be executed in order for anyone in said box to live. They obviously thought there was a non-zero chance that the Earth might be survivable, so you're just playing the lotto either way.
Skipping over how ridiculous it is to put kids in detention until they turn 18, using up valuable resources, so that they can then be executed, given that you execute all criminals in order to conserve resources, 'how irradiated am I' is a critical piece of health information for someone in space. Keeping people living in space from becoming too irradiated to live is difficult. Living on an old-ass space station that's gradually falling apart would tend to increase the likelihood that some piece of shielding will wear down or break off and flood your compartment with radiation. So even assuming that the wristbands weren't made specifically for the Earth mission you'd think that would be a feature. And if it wasn't, coming up with a way to monitor the kids' radiation dosage as they move around down there seems like it would be important enough to devote some time and effort to. I mean, it's not like radiation is just distributed uniformly. There would be hot spots and cool spots. If they don't all just immediately start dying of radiation poisoning and if your goal isn't to just murder them in an extremely expensive fashion, giving them a way to tell if they're walking into a pile of highly radioactive rocks would tend to be a priority.
Are they "coming up" with anything. It's more like these are the descendants of actual scientists and engineers who know enough to - barely - keep things running. I'm not seeing much evidence of manufacturing or innovation - just kludges of old tech.
Maybe not. They apparently have the engineering know-how that one teenager can refit a century-old spacecraft alone in a week and a half and that another teenager at least believes he can build a radio out of a wristband. Even if they have no idea how any of the stuff works or how to build or modify it, though, I still find it completely unbelievable that a space station has no working, remote-monitorable radiation sensors. Assuming they haven't all stopped working (and thus making it a certainty that some of the space-walking engineers will periodically die of unexpected radiation poisoning) there ought to be exactly such things built into all of their EVA suits. Maybe not enough of them lying around to put one on every kid, but at least a few of them.
And if, somehow, they simply can't get their hands on radiation sensors, their doctors ought to be intimately familiar with diagnosing and treating radiation sickness. At least enough to recognize it in a vital stats feed.
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Yeah the ending definitely shocked me,
Arrow.
Vampire Diaries.
Supernatural.
The Originals.
This is the tip of the iceberg to human casualties on those shows. Kids have died, too.
It'd really suck if 30, 40 years in the future when they decide Earth is finally safe enough, but 300+ people have to stay here because grandpa decided to try and colonize early. Lot harder to get volunteers then, I'd imagine.
As to the radio thing, yeah, dick move. But dude's been a dick since before they landed, so it wasn't particularly surprising.