Do we talk about The 100 in this thread? I started watching on Netflix a couple of weeks ago, and I just started S2, and continue to be impressed with how well this show does social psychology. The elevator pitch of "100 unsupervised hot teens alone in the woods" does not appropriately set expectations of the kinds of issues this show is dealing with!
Sorry, Captain. I'm real sorry. I shoulda kept better care of her. Usually she lets me know when something's wrong. Maybe she did, I just wasn't paying attention...
Kaylee ,'Out Of Gas'
Boxed Set, Vol. VI: I am not a number, I am a free thread!
A topic for the discussion of Doctor Who, Arrow, and The Flash. Beware possible invasions of iZombie, Sleepy Hollow, or pretty much any other "genre" (read: sci fi, superhero, or fantasy) show that captures our fancy. Expect adult content and discussion of the Big Gay Sex.
Marvel superheroes are discussed over at the MCU thread.
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Jessica - Aug 02, 2017 9:01:16 am PDT #672 of 2020
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
Dana - Aug 02, 2017 9:53:43 am PDT #673 of 2020
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
I like The 100. It's often kind of bonkers, but it commits.
Beverly - Aug 02, 2017 11:02:44 am PDT #674 of 2020
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
I enjoyed The 100 until diminishing returns on emotional investment sometime in S2.
I continue to be infatuated by Shadowhunters: the diverse cast, the well-integrated and casual addressing of class, racial, LGBTQ, and other driving social issues, and some resolutions, and my god, the pretty. Plot? NSM, but it's so gorgeous I really don't mind, at all.
beekaytee - Aug 02, 2017 5:06:50 pm PDT #675 of 2020
Compassionately intolerant
I'm liking Midnight, TX, though I have to agree that some of the acting is WOOD-EN. But the bad actors are pretty (Winged Dude, I'm lookin' at you.) and the Grandma cracks me up.
I pop into the 100 every now and then but it is emotionally exhausting in large doses.
Did anyone watch Dominion?
Like Midnight, I had not read the source material, so I don't know if it was any good from that perspective. It was emotionally daunting at times to, but ASH! In a ever so very NOT Giles role.
Consuela - Aug 02, 2017 7:19:56 pm PDT #676 of 2020
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I really loved The 100 for the first 3 seasons but the level of emotional trauma kind of exhausted me. I saw the first 2 eps of s4, and I might just skip to the end.
My summary statement on The 100: it is a show in which there is no way to cheat the Kobayashi Maru test. There are no good solutions, just varying levels of bad decisions. Which I respect as a storytelling maneuver, but after a while, it gets hard to watch.
quester - Aug 08, 2017 4:13:14 pm PDT #677 of 2020
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
Consuela is me when it comes to The 100. felt the same about The Walking Dead.
There is only so much I can take.
Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 08, 2017 6:37:54 pm PDT #678 of 2020
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I never got into it because the amount of Isaiah Washington I can take is zero.
Beverly - Aug 09, 2017 12:10:47 pm PDT #679 of 2020
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
there is no way to cheat the Kobayashi Maru test. There are no good solutions, just varying levels of bad decisions. Which I respect as a storytelling maneuver, but after a while, it gets hard to watch.
I find I'm reaching that point of diminishing return sooner these days.
I used to mock my MiL for being devoted to My Three Sons and the Brady Bunch. I'm afeared that's where I'm headed. RL has enough tsuris already. I'm not wanting it in my mindless entertainment, too.
Steph L. - Aug 09, 2017 12:18:25 pm PDT #680 of 2020
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
I used to mock my MiL for being devoted to My Three Sons and the Brady Bunch. I'm afeared that's where I'm headed. RL has enough tsuris already. I'm not wanting it in my mindless entertainment, too.
I'm SUPER enjoying watching Brooklyn Nine-Nine on Hulu this summer. (I know this is not the correct thread to discuss it; just popping in to agree that some low-key good-hearted comedy is awesome.)
Beverly - Aug 09, 2017 12:27:59 pm PDT #681 of 2020
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Well, intrigued by Harry Shum, Jr.'s character in Shadowhunters, I just mainlined all of Glee (sorry, wrong thread I know, but in the spirit of the discussion), which I'd never watched before. And felt better for having watched it.