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The 100 - Season 2

I haven't been watching lately, but I don't see how killing off a character constitutes a daring or surprising move for this show. Killing characters is their go-to move, their first recourse for drama. That's part of why I stopped watching -- because I got sick of seeing violence and shock value used as ends in themselves, and just because I felt they'd exhausted their bag of tricks and didn't have anything interesting to offer me anymore.
The difference is that this time they killed off a character that people actually cared about, in a way that was unexpected and poignant.
 
I haven't been watching lately, but I don't see how killing off a character constitutes a daring or surprising move for this show. Killing characters is their go-to move, their first recourse for drama. That's part of why I stopped watching -- because I got sick of seeing violence and shock value used as ends in themselves, and just because I felt they'd exhausted their bag of tricks and didn't have anything interesting to offer me anymore.

Hard criticism for someone who hasn't been watching. It's not at all that they killed off a character it's WHY they killed the character off. The point of the death wasn't for violence and shock value. In fact, it was almost the exact opposite. The entire point of the character's death was that one can't just commit unjustified violence without their being real world consequences.
 
Yeah, this was a lot more than just a shock death for the hell of it, and it should have some pretty big ramifications for quite a while.
 
^ Yea, it was pretty good. If I hadn't been channel surfing right as it started, I would have missed it. Pretty poor advertising on the CW's part to let folks know it was coming out of the winter break with new episodes..

Q2
 
Yeah, that was a good one. The big reveal for who really tried to poison the Grounders' leader surprised me.
 
When she mentioned "Ice Kingdom" I may be remembering wrong I was more intrigued with the world outside what was going with The 100 main characters.
 
Yeah, I'm hopping as time goes on we'll get see more outside of the Washington DC (tondc) area. We've been getting quite a few references to other places, so hopefully at least some of them were set up for a future season. So far we've heard about the City of Lights, which was apparently withing horseback riding distance of where Jaha first came to the ground, The Ice Kingdom, and I think Lincoln and Octavia originally planning on going to some other tribe by the ocean.
 
Is it my imagination, or is this series becoming really really good? I mean, it started good, got a bit bogged down, then just keeps getting better.

I loved the "They're being led by a kid!" "So are we." bit. The adults, so in charge in space, are relegated to supporting roles--but it's being handled in a good way. So nice to see a show with focus on young adults not be all about sex, but about characters--cause there's just too damn much for them to do to be worrying about sex all the time.
 
The ones stuck in cages are going to be having a lot of sex.

What else passes for entertainment while they're waiting to be murdered?
 
SO I finally caught up with this, I had kinda forgotten about it. There were a few points it seemed to be sliding deeper into YA territory but it never gets mired. I like how it is moving closer and closer to Mt. Weather.

The Commander is terrible, terrible acting. Terrible.

:lol:

I was terrified for a while there that Finn was going to be some Lost type mystical farking thing but THANKFULLY it seems this is not the case and it was all in Clarke's head.

But the cages are stacked on top of each other and right up against each other.

With NO TOILETS.
 
Last night's was pretty good. Didn't expect Jaha to break away like that. And I kind of liked Clarke and Lexa taking on Gorilla Grodd.
 
And they seem to be listening to anyone who complains about a woman Grounder Leader with the reincarnation thing.
 
Infant mortality?

They probably go through 15 infants before they finally luck on one that makes it to his or her first birthday.

Hmmm?

Is the new body expected to remember the old bodies adventures?

That would require conditioning/brainwashing children into believing a lengthy oral history of adventures and high points are in fact their own memories... Unless the kid/s are in on it?

Is the new body expected to keep the sexual orientation of the original leader?
 
Really, enjoyed the last episode. The stuff with Lexa and Clarke vs the Gorilla was fun, even if the Gorilla CG wasn't that great.
Really curious to see where they go with Jaha and Murphy's group searching for the City of Light. I read some interviews that made it sound like this will be an ongoing thing, at least for the rest of this season, and possibly even into next.
Poor Lincoln, I was really hoping he would be able to resist the Red, but sadly he didn't. I wonder if this means he'll be turning back into a full on Reaper?
Looking forward to Octavia's training with Indra, that should be interesting.
 
I mean it's possible that Red is super heroin, but it's also possible that these peoples lives have been so chemically deprived, that they could be going apeshit over lollywater.
 
I thought gorillas were vegetarians.

Pretty excited about that group going off to the city of light. I like the different streams of stories in this show. Hopefully they build rafts and go downstream until they are believably far away from everything we've seen already and new stuff and peoples pop up. And also hopefully we never hear about the reincarnation again and it doesn't turn into some real ass spiritual thing.
 
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