The 100 TV
Show…What a let down
Spoilers
included……..
Well after
seeing a couple of gripping adverts on TV for this new show “The 100”, then a
couple of good reports from some work friends, we decided to give the show a
go!
As you would
expect we started with episode 1 – the Pilot then quickly followed by episode
2.
Now the
concept of this show is great, love the idea of it and the background story to
why they are in space and why they have sent these 100 criminals (under 18) to
earth.
So the first
episode is a bit of plot building, background is that 97 years ago there was a
nuclear war that destroyed pretty much the entire planet, the last remaining
survivors are all on a space station called “The Arc”. They find out that The
Arc needs 6 months of oxygen to fix the outside air pumps, but they only have 4
months of oxygen left, so to give them more time they send these 100 under 18
criminals down to earth for them to check if the planet can be lived on once
more. Each of the 100 have a wristband on which tells the arc the vitals of
each of them, so if they remove the wristband, they are seen as “Dead” due to
no signal or pulse can be detected.
So this first
half of the episode I can handle, very well done and makes complete sense…..now
soon as they reach the planet, I start to get annoyed with these “Youths”, they
are down there for a mission and to help save the entire human race, but no,
they rebel within seconds of landing remove the wristbands, this is where it
becomes very teen/pop/Small Ville/90210 style TV show and it loses its appeal
for me.
They all
start beating each other up, picking on the weak of the group and not actually
doing much to survive, no real shelter, water supplies or food supply or ideas.
It’s also like the kids of peter pan, but at least in peter pan they had a
rough idea of what was going on, these guys are just douche-bags.
We then
watched the 2nd episode, I’d say around 50% of this one was actually
good and the other 50% of the time it was more annoying or stupid. I’m sure if
I was 18 and in that situation, things would have been very different! They
soon find out they are not alone in this area of the planet and find some weird
shaped skulls of what they expect to be a “mutated” human skull.
We will give
episode 3 and possibly 4 a watch and see how it goes, but as it stands we won’t
be “committed watchers” or even “if it’s on watchers”.
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