The 100 [CW - US] [** Spoilers **]

Richard Dower

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNK5RkQ3F3Q

Richard Dower

Revolution meets The Hunger Games

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bum7f5XAbkE

Mr E

Started last night.

The series is set 97 years after a devastating nuclear war. The only survivors were residents of space stations orbiting the earth. The space stations banded together to form a massive one called "The Ark". Resources are scarce and all crimes are punishable by death. 100 juvenile residents convicted of crimes and considered "expendable" are sent on a mission to test if Earth's surface has become habitable again.

Agent Coulson

Lord of the Flies meets typical CW show it's on Netflix Canada weekly now.

Mr E

Didn't think it was too bad. Pretty decent cast among the grown-ups, and some familiar faces among the kids too. I like the split between what's happening down on the planet and what's happening on the Ark. The 2 headed deer was pretty cool too.

Agent Coulson

Mr E wrote: »

Didn't think it was too bad. Pretty decent cast among the grown-ups, and some familiar faces among the kids too. I like the split between what's happening down on the planet and what's happening on the Ark. The 2 headed deer was pretty cool too.

That deer was cool.

It wasn't that bad at all.
I didn't mean it in a bad way when I said typical CW show.

Rob30888

I was really hyped for this, but the pilot left me a bit cold. The pacing felt completely wrong and I found the lead actress incredibly irritating. It's the first time I've watched a CW show in a long time so maybe my expectations were just too high? The scenes from the rest of the reason looking promising at least.

expectationlost

sped through alot in the first few minutes, but i thought it was cool, this might be a CW show i could actually watch

although there looks like lots of silliness to come

mewso

Hilarious stuff. Bad boy with a heart of gold wins over our leading lady by saying "We have to warn them". "That's what my father said" replies our heroine seeing there is more to this bad boy than she originally thought. Meanwhile a sexy "bad girl" decides seeing as they are on a radiation poisoned earth it's a good time to strip to her panties and take a swim. Deep and meaningful stuff with a strong message of...stupidity.

TerrorFirmer

Pretty dumb so far with cheesy characters but very watchable, already know I'll be watching the whole thing.

My only real complaint would be the serious overuse of ill fitting music!

the_syco

Not bad. I like the new threat. Possible

radioactive

evolved

monkies

, although it'll be instresting what the radiadtion did to them...?

GottaGetGatt

Actually pleasantly surprised with this show,gonna keep watching anyway.Seems to be a few familiar faces from Home and Away and Neighbors from a few years back(And no i dont watch them anymore:p)

CastorTroy

And the guy from Continuum.

I know it might be nitpicking, but for ones who've been living on a spaceship all their lives, they all seem pretty capable of living in a forest.

I'll keep watching for another episode or 2 and see where it goes, but already entering love triangle territory with Finn, Clarke and Raven.

Maybe it's his hair, but Finn's head looks too big for his body.

I wonder how long it'll be before they start to need necessities. They've aleady pointed out that Jasper needs medicine and highlighted that the chancellor's son's wound may get infected.

Agent Coulson

Jasper did well to survive a big bloody spear to the chest.

Mod Note: Please use spoiler tags

the_syco

CastorTroy wrote: »

I know it might be nitpicking, but for ones who've been living on a spaceship all their lives, they all seem pretty capable of living in a forest.

In the 2nd episode, they find out that

some took tracking classes

, so I'd say some know the basics.

CastorTroy wrote: »

I wonder how long it'll be before they start to need necessities. They've aleady pointed out that Jasper needs medicine and highlighted that the chancellor's son's wound may get infected.

In the 1st episode, you learn that one of the lads got jailed for growing

drugs, as it seems his family grows the medicine

on the Ark?

Agent Coulson

Agent Coulson wrote: »

Jasper did well to survive a big bloody spear to the chest.

Mod Note: Please use spoiler tags

The title of the thread say spoilers in this thread so why use spoiler tags for an aired episode?

AlmightyCushion

Agent Coulson wrote: »

The title of the thread say spoilers in this thread so why use spoiler tags for an aired episode?

Yeah, as long as it's aired on the CW spoilers shouldn't be needed. Pre-airs or leaks should still be spoilered obviously.

Agent Coulson

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

Yeah, as long as it's aired on the CW spoilers shouldn't be needed. Pre-airs or leaks should still be spoilered obviously.

My post was 1 day after it aired on the CW so I don't understand why the mod spoilered it.

the_syco

Agent Coulson wrote: »

My post was 1 day after it aired on the CW so I don't understand why the mod spoilered it.

I think that was my fault. I thought (perhaps wrongly) that spoilers were to be used for shows shown in the US, but not yet shown in Ireland. Didn't know that it had been shown in Ireland, and if so, my bad

Agent Coulson

the_syco wrote: »

I think that was my fault. I thought (perhaps wrongly) that spoilers were to be used for shows shown in the US, but not yet shown in Ireland. Didn't know that it had been shown in Ireland, and if so, my bad

If it has spoilers in the title of the thread and it has aired it is fair game to talk about whatever happen in that episode without spoilers. It doesn't matter where in the world it aired.

GottaGetGatt

That was a very unexpected ending

JohnK

Yeah that ending took me by surprise alright, I would have thought he'd have been in it for the long haul.

CastorTroy

And then there were 95.

Very surprising ending. If anything I expected Charlotte to be the one who died. Either that or she was somehow a Grounder who snuck in among them, as unlikely as that was. Unless it was a Time Machine scenario with Morlocks and Eloi.

GottaGetGatt

CastorTroy wrote: »

And then there were 95.

Very surprising ending. If anything I expected Charlotte to be the one who died. Either that or she was somehow a Grounder who snuck in among them, as unlikely as that was. Unless it was a Time Machine scenario with Morlocks and Eloi.

She's not a grounder, sure didn't see say she killed Wells because his father floated her parents.

CastorTroy

Yeah but up until that point I thought there was something off about her.
And she mustn't have got fed the last episode since she still had her wrist monitor on.

I wonder how many kids around her age there are to not have Clarke and Bellamy notice Charlotte until now, since they're both protective of her now.

Agent Coulson

Maybe they will use the magic herb that cures a spear in the chest to save him yet.

Sudden Valley

I really thought they were going to go with the CW favourite Trope of Love Triangle but obviously they've decided against it. I half think its due to networks dislike of having black males having relationships with White females but i suspect in this case they are going to reveal that the black commander is having an affair with the mother.

Ken.

My god I hate Richard Harmon as an actor. If he doesn't die by the end of this episode(I'm watching #3 now) I'm gonna quit watching.

sok2005

I expected far too much from this series before I watched it but I still stuck with it, at this stage I think it's mostly just to have my "Ah come on" moments as it progresses.

I'm still incredulous as to how a child who was kept under the floorboards of a craft orbiting earth for the first 16 years of her life doesn't have any spinal or sensory issues or the like, all you get is a perfectly toned tum and sculpted eyebrows. How did they build a bonfire, unless they had bonfire building classes on the Ark.

PhiloCypher

sok2005 wrote: »

I expected far too much from this series before I watched it but I still stuck with it, at this stage I think it's mostly just to have my "Ah come on" moments as it progresses.

I'm still incredulous as to how a child who was kept under the floorboards of a craft orbiting earth for the first 16 years of her life doesn't have any spinal or sensory issues or the like, all you get is a perfectly toned tum and sculpted eyebrows. How did they build a bonfire, unless they had bonfire building classes on the Ark.

You are taking things far too literally she wasn't literally kept under the floorboards in the dark, I imagine she was only hidden away when any of the neighbours or Ark officials dropped by , "under the floorboards" " in the dark" were merely a turn of phrase. As to your second point the whole point of the ark is that its a sanctuary until such time as they can go down and repopulate the earth. While the faults with the life support systems may have forced their hands early its entirely believable that some of this generation(the 100) would have been the first on the ground any ways (albeit as adults) so were in the early stages of being trained in practical survival skills.

sok2005

PhiloCypher wrote: »

You are taking things far too literally she wasn't literally kept under the floorboards in the dark, I imagine she was only hidden away when any of the neighbours or Ark officials dropped by , "under the floorboards" " in the dark" were merely a turn of phrase. As to your second point the whole point of the ark is that its a sanctuary until such time as they can go down and repopulate the earth. While the faults with the life support systems may have forced their hands early its entirely believable that some of this generation(the 100) would have been the first on the ground any ways (albeit as adults) so were in the early stages of being trained in practical survival skills.

I imagined they didn't have big roomy areas to live given the fact that the place is overcrowded already, I'd also imagine food would be rationed per family so it would've been tough to actually hide a fully grown child in your bunker.
Regarding the bonfire, i assumed as oxygen levels were monitored rigorously in the Ark they wouldn't be practising fire lighting in that environment but they arrive on earth and bam, a huge raging fire in moments!
Ah there's loads of inconsistencies in the show, how are all the kids getting their hands on make up? Hair straighteners? Brushes!
Why keep prisoners alive til they are 18 then float them? No rehabilitation or organ harvesting or anything just pump a load of money and resources into them for a few years then kill them?
Are they all wearing their great grandparents clothing?
Where are they getting water from in space?
Why has nobody up in space started darning their clothes? Surely its fairly simple to stitch a hole in a jumper?
How did a cave protect anyone from the acid cloud?
On another note, the goggle wearing kid gets speared in the chest and survives with a bit of seaweed but a little imp of a girl stabs a kid at the end and its just game over for him.

PhiloCypher

sok2005 wrote: »

I imagined they didn't have big roomy areas to live given the fact that the place is overcrowded already, I'd also imagine food would be rationed per family so it would've been tough to actually hide a fully grown child in your bunker.

Was she fully grown when she was discovered ? I can't remember, the younger she was the smaller the portions she would need and the easier she would be to hide. If the parents and her brother Bellemy each gave a portion of their rations to her she'd be ok granted at the cost of the family overall nutrition. Then when she was discovered and incarcerated she began to be fed normally.

sok2005 wrote: »

Regarding the bonfire, i assumed as oxygen levels were monitored rigorously in the Ark they wouldn't be practising fire lighting in that environment but they arrive on earth and bam, a huge raging fire in moments!

No obviously they wouldn't have practical experience in lighting fires on the ark but honestly how hard can it be throwing a load of combustible material in a pile and lighting it on fire with whatever passes for a lighter in the future(or do you think they only sent them down there with the cloths on their backs). Earth studies probably consisted of Ray Mears and Bear Gyrlls boxsets marathons .

sok2005 wrote: »

Ah there's loads of inconsistencies in the show, how are all the kids getting their hands on make up? Hair straighteners? Brushes!
Why keep prisoners alive til they are 18 then float them? No rehabilitation or organ harvesting or anything just pump a load of money and resources into them for a few years then kill them?
Are they all wearing their great grandparents clothing?
Where are they getting water from in space?
Why has nobody up in space started darning their clothes? Surely its fairly simple to stitch a hole in a jumper?
How did a cave protect anyone from the acid cloud?
On another note, the goggle wearing kid gets speared in the chest and survives with a bit of seaweed but a little imp of a girl stabs a kid at the end and its just game over for him.

Recycled piss as for the rest you got me. I guess I can just see a bit of potential in the premise despite the flaws(it may never be fully realised granted) whereas you can't look past them , which is absolutely fine . I've been kinda like that with walking dead , I just happen to be rooting for this one for some daft reason.

sok2005

PhiloCypher wrote: »

I guess I can just see a bit of potential in the premise despite the flaws(it may never be fully realised granted) whereas you can't look past them , which is absolutely fine .

I'm still watching am I not.? I'm just noticing flaws is all. I really want it to get better but I'm not going to ignore the fact that it's not living up to it's potential either.

CastorTroy

94. Surprised they went through with it.

Surprised they skipped finding the body and all. Don't remember the fingers being cut off though.

Dunno how the doctor will avoid getting floated this time. Twice in a row will be a bit much considering how easily people seem to get floated.

So are we meant to hate that guy more in this or in Continuum?

One complaint is how the threat of Grounders is supposedly always there yet everyone wanders the woods with no problem.

As for the trailer for next episode

Are we to assume the pod lands safely right beside them considering they're not where they were meant to be?

the_syco

CastorTroy wrote: »

As for the trailer for next episode

Are we to assume the pod lands safely right beside them considering they're not where they were meant to be?

Yes. In the "next week" segment, it shows that they

meet up with herself in the pod

.

Couldn't figure out why the fingers got chopped off either, but loled at the kid doing a base jump, minus the parachute :pac: Didn't expect the network to allow that :P

TerrorFirmer

This fits the bill for me perfectly after 'Helix' ended. Plot holes you could fly a starship through but at the end of the day, just entertaining and sometimes that's all that matters for some shows.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

Just watched the first 4 episodes and I'm surprised to say I really like it. It's got potential to be a great show if they carry on as they started. The only worry being, as it's a CW show, they'll ram a big old love triangle, or hexagon, into the middle of the other more interesting plot lines. I was also surprised how the jumping back and forth between Earth and the Ark didn't bother me. Usually shows like that have me more interested in one or the other but they've got a good balance with it so far. Obviously if you think about anything for more than a few seconds there's loads of questionable stuff but if you don't think it's very enjoyable.

Oh, and I also appreciate the fact they film on location for the Earth stuff and not just have them running past the same plastic tree every 2 minutes. Plus, for a story half set in space it's refreshingly light on the CGI.

The most recent episode was pretty dark and intense! Very interesting how the angry mob were all too happy to string Murphy up but weren't so happy at the thought of hanging a child. I still don't get why Murphy was banished though? He was just doing what the rest of them had done to him earlier. Charlotte jumping off the cliff was a clever way of tying that up, she's dealt with without any of the "heroes" having to make any difficult choices. I liked too how Clarke was trying to save Charlotte but at the same time let rip at her when she tried to hold her hand.

Lots of complex stuff going on, so, as I said above, I hope they don't go down the love triangle path now they've taken a few steps in that direction.

Oh and to answer some questions above... Well's lost the fingers when he swung at Charlotte after she stuck the knife in his neck. And, not this week, but the following one, the episode has flashbacks to Bellamy and Octavia on the Ark so I assume we'll find out if she was literally living under the floor in that one.

CastorTroy

Think he was banished because he was a dick, or because he wasn't as good looking at the others.

Or probably just because they believed he was the reason Charlotte jumped.

Sadly, the love triangle is inevitable. At least they avoided the Octavia/Clarke/Finn triangle, which Jasper's happy about.
And not every CW show has one. Nikita, Supernatural, Arrow. Even the ones which centre around romance like Beauty and the Beast(unless it happened in the second season)

More importantly, where'd Kelly Hu go?

Sudden Valley

CastorTroy wrote: »

Think he was banished because he was a dick, or because he wasn't as good looking at the others.

Or probably just because they believed he was the reason Charlotte jumped.

Sadly, the love triangle is inevitable. At least they avoided the Octavia/Clarke/Finn triangle, which Jasper's happy about.
And not every CW show has one. Nikita, Supernatural, Arrow. Even the ones which centre around romance like Beauty and the Beast(unless it happened in the second season)

More importantly, where'd Kelly Hu go?

Haha there was a love triangle in the second season of B& and the B. But yeah not in every CW show. I'm enjoying this so far I presume they will stop the practice of introducing characters and then killing them off in the next episode soon enough. I hope they introduce some Europeans since I thought the space station had the peoples from a number of countries like Russia and France.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

CastorTroy wrote: »

Sadly, the love triangle is inevitable. At least they avoided the Octavia/Clarke/Finn triangle, which Jasper's happy about.
And not every CW show has one. Nikita, Supernatural, Arrow. Even the ones which centre around romance like Beauty and the Beast(unless it happened in the second season)

Yeah, it's not even the triangle aspect that worries me, it's the romance in general. It can take the focus away from other things and on a show like this with so much going on it'd be annoying to lose focus. I did see a tweet from the guy running the show though assuring someone that even though characters may fall in and out of love, or beds, the staying alive aspect of the show will remain at the forefront.

Sudden Valley wrote: »

I'm enjoying this so far I presume they will stop the practice of introducing characters and then killing them off in the next episode soon enough. I hope they introduce some Europeans since I thought the space station had the peoples from a number of countries like Russia and France.

I think they wanted to keep killing people off to prove that it's a serious business staying alive down there but they can't kill the main cast members, other than Wells, so it'll probably happen every now and again. Expect the guy Murphy peed on to die next week

I was wondering about the multi cultural thing too. One episode where it zooms in on the Ark you can see a Union Jack and a Russian flag on the outside of some of the pods. I don't think 2 generations would be enough to get a uniform accent going, would it? It's kind of weird they have two Australian leads doing American accents when they have the perfect reason to just let them speak with their own accents.

Noticed that episodes appear on Netflix Canada shortly after they air. It's handy given that it's exactly the kind of show I'd keep meaning to watch but never get around to it. The set up seems interesting if familiar and honestly it could be the most generic show imaginable but ill give it a chance as there's not much sci-if out there

JP Liz V1

The CW sure loves their love triangles

rockbeast

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

The CW sure loves their love triangles

Finn sure isn't the brightest.

Standing in clearing beside large metal object with open doors.

Finn to Raven: "How did you get here?" :rolleyes:

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

Bit too much Ark stuff this week but I suppose it was necessary to show how dire the situation is up there too.

I know the people they killed volunteered themselves but isn't Bellamy still responsible for their deaths, or would they still have had to kill them even if they knew the kids on Earth were alive?

Bellamy's sleeping arrangements were interesting too

CastorTroy

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

Bellamy's sleeping arrangements were interesting too

It's good to be king.

Well that's one way to show they're not playing around. Just a mass execution. Most shows would've had it stopped from seeing the rockets just in time. Or I expected Kane to see the rockets and not say anything.

Though was surprised after Clarke saying Belamy would do anything to protect his sister, that he didn't seem to notice her missing.

rockbeast

CastorTroy wrote: »

It's good to be king.

Well that's one way to show they're not playing around. Just a mass execution. Most shows would've had it stopped from seeing the rockets just in time. Or I expected Kane to see the rockets and not say anything.

Though was surprised after Clarke saying Belamy would do anything to protect his sister, that he didn't seem to notice her missing.

Tom Petty ref?:)

Was surprised and impressed CW let them die.

CastorTroy

Um... yes?






Didn't even know it was a Tom Petty song.

rockbeast

CastorTroy wrote: »

Um... yes?






Didn't even know it was a Tom Petty song.

Bit of a stretch for a reference, I know:o

Although, Tom Petty survived in the post-apocalyptic world that was The Postman.:D

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

rockbeast wrote: »

Tom Petty ref?:)

Was surprised and impressed CW let them die.

I read a comment from the creator guy, can never remember his name, where he said the CW had actually encouraged them to be darker if they wanted. They're making all the right noises about this show and where it's headed, I just hope that they can keep it up.

They managed to steer clear of the love triangle in this episode too, thankfully. It's there, a bit, but was nowhere near the focus of the episode.

It's looking fairly good for renewal too, for now. Fingers crossed.

rockbeast

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

I read a comment from the creator guy, can never remember his name, where he said the CW had actually encouraged them to be darker if they wanted. They're making all the right noises about this show and where it's headed, I just hope that they can keep it up.

It's looking fairly good for renewal too, for now. Fingers crossed.

Hopefully...

The young girl stabbing/killing him was shocking, seriously. If that was on HBO people would be raving about it IMO.

CW are trying at least. Which is good.

Where they've been clever is to, especially in latest episode, maintain a focus on the orbiter(or whatever it's called) so it's not an archetypal Lord of the Flies show...

It's certainly better than Agents of Shield was after 7 episodes...

***Although having seen a certain trailer today for the first time it would be hilarious if Eli Roth directed the rest of the season:)

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

^ Yes, the stuff on the Ark is as compelling as the stuff on the ground and adds to what's happening on the ground too, as the stuff on the ground affects the Ark. It's all very clever!

Showing that they've no problem offing people makes you kind of wary about getting too invested in any of the characters too

You have to think Abbey will bite it eventually, no? She's escaped being floated twice now, she can't have that many lives.