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So I kind of fell down the rabbit hole into The 100 over the past week. Watched all of Season 1 in 3 days, and now I'm 4 eps into Season 2.
Anyone else watching this?
It starts as a deeply stupid show about stupid but pretty teenagers abandoned on Earth after a nuclear holocaust (they grew up on a space station and this is the first test to see if the radiation levels have gone down enough to survive). But within about six episodes it gets a lot more morally complex, the characters accidentally start a war they don't know how to stop, and I realized I need to pay much closer attention.
I won't say the cast is amazing, but they're pretty good, reasonably diverse (most of the leads are white, but not all, and many of them are female), and I have the feeling that the showrunners did a bait-and-switch on the CW.
It is, I have to admit, super violent, and occasionally icky, but not explicit. Thankfully by now the teen-romance factor has gone way down and the adult questions of "what do we do to survive?" and "does torture actually work?" and "how do we manage prisoners?" are coming to the fore.
Consuela, you'll be happy to know that Javier Grillo-Marxuach is on the writing staff for The 100 next season.
I heard that, Tom! In fact, that's one reason I decided to give it a try. That and my narrative kink for post-apocalyptic stories.
I was somewhat unprepared for how violent it is, though. Like, that is the single primary conflict in the storyline. I'm hoping that at some point they'll branch out a bit. You can make drama out of other things, after all.
I watched it but kind of lost track towards the end of the season. I appreciated that the love triangle and teen angst faded away in the face of trying to survive.
I've given The 100 a try and then gave up I think I have to get over the hump of bad episodes. Based on some of the gifsets I've seen on Tumblr there looks like there are some interesting plot developments.
I don't think those gifsets were manipulated to make an AU. I've gotten fooled by a few AU gifsets that weren't clearly marked, so I went into a show or movie expecting something that didn't happen.
Isaiah Washington was in that show back when it debuted, so it was on my automatic Do Not Watch list.
I haven't watched The 100 (and really don't have time to add another show) but I've seen several "You should watch The 100 (yes, really)" articles at sites I trust.
I'm out of TV. Is Bitten worth watching?
ETA: Nevermind, I watched two episodes and didn't like it.
I just watched this week's iZombie, and -- how much of it was a hallucination? Everything, including the investigation with Clive? I got that telling Major she was a zombie was a hallucination (along with not!Cliff weather guy), but was there anything that wasn't a hallucination?
I don't think everything she
did
was hallucination, just parts of her experiences. The Major who stayed at her apartment and Johnny Frost were not really there. She told the empty air she was a zombie, for example, and everything Frost told her were either actual memories from Scott E's brain or made up delusions from Scott E's brain.
