I would say more like being shot in the toe compared to the head. As one is better than the other, but its still painful and you'd rather have not been shot to start with.
It's a fun show. It has the best pacing of any show ever. Does it have some stupid stuff in it? Sure, but so does every other show too. It also has a lot of cool and surprising stuff too. If you find the teenagers annoying, well they're almost all going to die. Teenagers are annoying so that is very realistic. I don't judge it as a CW show I judge it on it's own merits and it's one of the better shows period. It's not as 'good' as LOST but it's more fun to watch. Is season 7 bad? Maybe I lost interest halfway through season 6. Never seen it. But up until then it was a very entertaining show. Which is weird because the first two episodes of season 6 are incredible. Some of the best television ever. I don't know how it went downhill so fast.
And everyone is looking like they have an unlimited amount of lotions, shampoos and stuff. Maybe it's the executives that want everyone who's in frame to look pretty, or just actors don't want to get dirty. I hate to be that guy, but back in the day many actors used to go through a lot of struggles. For example, look up soviet movie "Battle on the ice" from 1920s and how its production went on. It was a literal hell. And Hollywood had it even worse, cause it wasn't state sponsored like soviet cinema
I mean, the Jeans I would think that they would last, because usually good jeans last a while and a lot of abuse, but leather jackets? nope, those things wouldn't last a decade.
And also somehow periods don't exist anymore (neither do any other bodily functions). Only guys can pee, and they only do it against a tree, away from the group so that they can hear a plot-progressing noise.
I’m going to challenge this. Most costumes were pretty well handled on the show. Most costumes were looking pretty rough towards the end of earth… season 6 was a new start.
I live in Canada and most CW stuff is either aired on random cable networks or on Netflix/ Crave. The biggest stuff, usually superhero stuff goes onto a major network. As far as I am aware no Canadian company even cared enough to buy broadcast rights, so it was a Netflix show.
@@EglomHistory same here in Michigan. Once I saw season 1 on Netflix I thought “oh yeah, this shit ain’t gonna last for more than 3 seasons” And it didn’t even make it to 2. And if it’s a sci-if film, where the very best and brightest members of our race had to save the species 100 years ago, then they should have known earth would be mostly habitable in 5 years, 10 years tops. Also what are the SHEER ODDS that a bunch of nuclear reactors are only built to last 98 years without humans, and humans return 98 years after earth was abandoned.
“It’s simple: everyone else evolved to metabolize radiation.” Ah, yes. An obvious example of the widely documented scientific phenomenon known as “Godzillacization.”
@@seanmakura yes but this fictional world depicts a post apocalyptic Earth, founded on universal principles and laws of physics. If it was a show in a different dimension of reality where physics works completely differently, and our understanding of laws of nature need not apply then fine. But the show never goes out of its way to make such a distinction, so it doesn't really make sense to give it that much leeway in the disbelief arena.
@@seanmakura look, i'm a physics student with particular interest in nuclear physics and even then i'm not *conceptually* against stretching the way radiation works since as you said, it's fiction. my problem is narratively, i don't get why they'd have earth be in the aftermath of a nuclear apocalypse and have everyone on the ark think they can't go down to the surface because of radiation only for everything to be magically handwaved away by the idea that they somehow evolved to metabolize radiation. not just because that's not how radiation (or evolution) works, but also because it feels like a waste of an interesting plot.
@@etherealsalad2698 you're right that it is an interesting plot point to wave away but it wasn't "evolution". Clarke mentions in season 2 that the Ark people are genetically engineered in the womb to be mildly resistant to radiation - just in case the shielding on the space station is damaged and they need the spare time to do immediate repairs, I guess. The Grounders have an inate resistence to radiation, that varies between individuals because the majority are descended from Nightbloods. Mount Weather are loosely based on vampires so they're weak to solar radiation... because they lived in a bunker for 4-5 generations or something?
I kind of wish that the show had stopped at the end of season 5. Seasons 1-5 weren’t perfect, but the finale of season 5 was pretty strong thematically and seasons 6-7 really went off the rails imo
l quite enjoyed S6 (my favorite minute in the entire series is the scene of Raven waking up Diyoza from cryo lol), but yeah the show could have left off with a nice vague inspiring cliffhanger at the end of S5 and that would indeed have been fine and neat. I'd have been left wondering what could have been, for sure, but I'd rather than than having had to end on the fiasco that is S7
@@Jayden-fg8on why not just watch seasons 1-5? Also season 7 was going to be a lot better but most of the season had to be rewritten at the last minute due to Bellamy wanting time off and Clarke had a miscarriage. That's why episodes 3, 7, and 9 are the closest things the 100's done to filler episodes and Bellamy was originally not supposed to die in the script
I liked it. Had plenty of flaws, but with all the garbage these days, it was still one of the better shows. Ending absolutely sucked, although admittedly I have no idea what I expected. Up until the very end I still though the 'transcending' stuff was bs and thought the endgame was to unite the last humans, find a new home-planet and build a new, better civilization, having learnt the errors of the past. But nope, all they fought for was to disappear entirely. Felt so... meh.
I think the Only Transcendence anything that worked was Babylon 5 and at least they Introduced the Concepts of Transcendent beings in the Lore with Shadows and Vorlons.
@@jatzi1526 Believe it or not. I know Some Stargate. But I never took a deep enough Dive to know it was about Transcendence as a major plot point. I only got as far as The Goaluds replace Humanity's Ancient Gods and the Previously Ons and In this Episode Previews Spoil Damn near every Episode's Twist.
@@mitchellalexander9162 It wasn’t the driving for if the show but sometimes it came into focus other times it was in the background. Some member of an ancient race ascended to a new plane of existence and sometimes others could join them. But they had strict rules about interfering with other races. And those who broke the rules usually had some kind of consequence they had to deal with (usually being knocked by down to the mortal world without their powers and all their knowledge.
Language changing so much is super unrealistic, but the swapping between languages at the drop of a hat is pretty realistic. Bilingual and multilingual people (source; i am one) often just switch languages in the middle of a conversation. Not the craziest thing.
@@joshuaadams1178 Not exactly. There's a backstory involving Bill Cadogan's daughter having been making up a language for a long time before the first praimfaiya. I'm sure it served useful purposes later once Calliope and her comrades were on the surface again and dealing with other groups like Mount Weather, though, of course.
I love the new languages in the 100 Like I their English and trigedasleng and I can even speak some of it and still learning it just trying to find some way to learn it faster
@@ItsAsparageese I dont get why they felt the need to retcon that. This show has plently of goofy stuff in it so saying that they adopted a code language so Mt Weather couldnt understand them worked fine
"What about people outside the US" Every post apocalyptic show/movie doesn't acknowledge the world outside the US. Headcanon: it's fine, Asia, Australia, Europe, Africa and South America are all unchanged and relaxing not having to deal with the US any more.
It's how I headcanon every postapocalyptic fiction that doesn't say anything about the rest of the world too , just a perfect utopia with a quaint USA barbaric natural reserve
People outside the us don't matter if the main characters are in an apocalpytic Idaho. Its not like theyre gonna hop on a plane and go to Japan lol. What's really weird is when its like in Texas or Minnesota... Those are border states so surely something would happen with that.
Well the Ark consisted of like 7 or 8 of the largest countries in the world so those countries were pretty destroyed. The rest of the world was most likely in the same state as the nukes were sent all over the world and destroyed pretty much everything I think.
Note that the copyright bots for this one were really persistent, so I had to chop up the footage to stay monetized. Apologies if this confuses things.
Yessssss! Big fan. . I didnt watch the first season thou but it gets really good, the antagonists have reasons, even if they are hatable, and the heroes, are no heroes. It a blast. And good character driven things And that ir keeps within the mythology, other than the aliens. That are ok. And the morbid when will things go wrong, is fun. With consequences. And murphy and ocrttavia, are the best. And the YA aspects makes that is a bit trashy and , believable by not being hard sci fi. Lexa was brought back and clarke did remember her obvious, and the season fiale, sh was ther. Fun and fascineting is probably praise, and yeah season was the series finale, before a network change, which is felt. Not that the later 2 seasons are bad, well great characters carry the show. Why aliens dont break it.Honestly its fine, is a good finale criticism not great, but fine. You should try z-nation its an asylum show but is really going of the rails, ith a strong cast, and that creativity. Murphy the really fun anti-hero not that murphy but he is a innocent of death row with by experiments gained immunity to zombies. He understandibly, is very grumpy an anti social. And he isnt really up for helping humanity he isnt entirely unwilling, but he is very reculant first and wants his share and is outt for himself now, if he isnt uncaring. He gains a zombie half daughter . There is warren a strong female soldier in charge and she is a good foil for murphy, they gain respect for each other. Then ther is doc, an old dude who is excentric and trading and also fun.There are others, but murphy and warren are all time mains. And doc. And its a fun show, and the series is, its fun, and the characters carry that and are fun. And the show is very creative regarding zombies. There is even a not-umbrella organisation. The show does really a lot as zombie show. And the actors, are mostly good, especially main. And the finale, that the show is weird gives it a lot of leeway. And its somewhat reinstating a society. With talking zombies that now, have self awareness and can be medicated The show starts of cheap, i mean with a baby zombie so creativity already, but cheap, but it gets better and better. And ther are, the sho really is creative, and even a loke wit zombies and viagra.
Sorry its long i think you migh have stuf to say aboout z-ations that gets better and is a fun trip with good fun main characters.And its an intereting counterpart, and ilike it more, than the walking dead. Because its never not fun. Its probably weird at times, but never dull. And from asylum that laterfigured, hey we can make a good show. why the budget gets higher over time. Maybe a good topic. It has that seldf awareness with a good core cast.
You should check out Crazy Ex Girlfriend, it's technically a cw show but it is genuinely one of the best shows (and it's a musical) that have dealt with mental health
The very first episodes have some of the worst dialogue. The way they deliver exposition is just so bad. And then... it gets good. It gets engaging. The 100 is a wild show, that got repetitive despite its completely bananas plotlines, but still - it got repetitive surprisingly late. Def a show worth of... analyzing, yeah. I had a good time with it.
This is exactly how felt. The show was dumb and I loved it. That is until season 7. Which I found to be bad but not in a lovable way, just bad. Needless character assintaions and of the rails story even for this show. It just ruined it for me
Yeah, I watched the first 2 episodes and gave up immediately. It was like 2 years later that someone told me it got good later on that I watched the whole thing. Not great but pretty descent and entertaining, last season was rushed tho, should’ve ended at the end of season 5.
Although it had many many flaws I think The 100 was a special show. It raises interesting discussions such as "Do the things we do to survive define us?" "Does loving someone make us weaker or stronger?" "Should decisions be made only with the head?" "Is ruthlessness justified when you are doing it for the good of the many?" "Is there a way to preserve your morality and still survive in a world where mercy is considered weakness?" and so on. I frequently found myself discussing what I would in the position of the heroes and the antagonists. Would I do the right the "good" thing? Would I ensure the survival of myself? Would I ensure the survival of my loved ones?, my people? and honestly I couldn't find a straight answer which is another reason why I think this show is different in a way that there is no good or bad or evil. There are just people, humans. People aren't evil for the hell of it. Everyone has their reasons for doing bad things. This show's ability to realistically portray what it is to be human is that thing that makes it special I guess is what I am trying to say. Being selfish is human. Protecting who you love is human. And sometimes killing to save what is important to you is human. (this is for the first 5 seasons the rest didn't happen and was a fever dream you can't convince me otherwise)
Wholeheartedly agree. I also dismiss the last 2 seasons as weird fan fiction. It can't be taken seriously. Season 5 ended the show where it should've ended.
CW is absolutely cursed. And as much as i'd like to see a video or two exploring just how bad the writing is in pretty little liars/riverdale, I don't think James deserves that kind of torture.
“The 100 is basically just seven seasons of Eliza Taylor refusing to put on a bra” I had to pause the video cause wtf kinda comment is that, I was so caught off guard by it. I’ve watched the 100 at least five times through and can honestly say it never once occurred to me nor have I ever noticed if she was wearing a bra…what a weird fucking thing to say
The Hallows were shoved in to the last book,The Wand should have been mentioned earlier. The Hallows are in a fairy tale that the Wizarding World knows like the back of thier hands,but the fairy tale Was never mentioned by any wizard or witch before? Puh-lease.
Just a note on the one-child rule of the Ark: The entire point was to breed down the population because there weren't enough seats to drop-ship survivors safely back down to earth. (I also feel the show should have ended on Season 5. The writing was good up until then, if with the occasional pitfall.)
Different things appeal to different people. I just feel that the writing decisions in S6 were questionable at points, and that the writers pulled a Game of Thrones stunt with several of the deaths for pure shock value rather than properly handling character arcs. There WERE some high points, I'm not arguing that, but the lows were also undeniable. S7, though ... let's not go there.
S6 and S7 were good to me if nothing other than watching Murphy's character development. It was the reason I went back and binged all 7 seasons after watching the series finale
I remember watching this and being genuinely awed by the ballsy ending where they had main character chick wipe out the mountain full of people after being betrayed that kinda impressed me as far as endings go
I was kind of impressed with how they handled the Culling in S1. 300 people willingly sacrifice themselves for the well-being of everyone else, and that sacrifice turns out to be absolutely worthless in the end. Any other CW show would have just had the main characters get their good news to the Ark just as they're about to do the Culling, thus saving everyone.
@@Jayden-fg8on I stopped at season 3 because the amount of stupid decisions people kept making and the foxes plots sucked. Important characters were disappearing because of that stupid A.I but the shows ignores it until it’s convenient. Imagine if everyone (including the people who all hate each) other had to hand together earlier to deal with the problem.
I will say in the 100's defense that the "population halving every generation" thing wasn't a plot hole. it's made clear in season 1 that the drop ship, which was supposedly their ONLY way to the ground besides what they used for the 100 in the pilot, could only fit a fraction of their current population. the population control wasn't (just) because of resources, but so that in another 100 years when they thought the Earth would be survivable again, no one would have to stay behind and die in space
I'd argue that a story not working with in the rules of what we know about the world currently is kind of a moot critique. Whats important is if it stays consistent with the rules it gives you instead of the rules of what we currently know or believe about the universe
@@dinakisa1049 Yeah but then again a show in my opinion should go all in on that so that you don’t have to “try” to suspend your disbelief. Explain that this is how it works HERE. Instead of trying to play it off like real life.
I quite liked the show, but it definitely felt like they ran out of actual ideas after season 3 or 4 when they re-nuked the world, and destroyed all the interesting group dynamics they had set up S1 repeatedly had them talking about mount weather, the main focus of S2 S2 had a character searching for the city of light, and introduced the basic setup of the grounders society, two of the main focuses of S3, it didn’t do anything with Pike, but it wasn’t unreasonable to assume others had survived the arc falling But from S3 onward all they did to introduce the focus of the next season was a single scene near the end of the final episode, and even those were pretty vague. I think there was a mention or two of eligius 3 (however you spell that) in S5, and they were looking at the weird portal thing in S6 but no hints at what it did at all, and while S4 made it fairly clear everyone was gonna die to the re-nuking, the new society and eligius 4 were not at all set up till the end
as a former fan of the show i agree with this completely. but i still think if they would have ended the show at season 4 or 5 i would have still liked it. but instead they decided to drag the show out even more and absolutely destroyed any love i had for it with season 7
Actually season 4 had a couple of blink and you miss it moments set up for eligius 4 sprinkled throughout the season. They were scarce but they were there.. It also set up a surprising amount of the crap you see in S7.
Eligius is sprinkled throughout the series in computer screens and stuff maybe little symbolism here and there but you dont notice it till you watch early seasons after later seasons. Sure its hard to watch sometimes but the subtle little details throughout the show are pretty decent tbh they do hint stuff alot though
@@bigbrisk8423 i’m pretty sure the only Eligius easter egg was in one of the earlier episodes of season 4 and then they were introduced at the end of that season
@@samatar6852 The only thing I will credit season 7 for is tieing in Bill Cadogan and the Second Dawn from season 4. Other then that it’s a garbage season
I’d like to correct you on something really quickly, Lexa wasn’t killed off because Alycia wanted to leave, she said that she would split her time in two, half for the 100 and the other for FTWD, but Jason rothenberg did not like that idea, so he instantly decided to kill her off. Alycia loved and adored her character, and really wanted to stay, but Jason was being an asshole and then he regretted the decision of killing her off, and I know you said that there were other bisexual/gay characters on the show, but none of them were like Lexa/Lexa and Clarke. I’m also quite sure Jason did this for shock value.
Exactly! Also Isaiah( Jaha) wrote on his twitter " I want to make one thing clear, Lexa doesn't have to die" so its mean that they had other things in mind, but Jason was as.shole and killed her, just like he did with Lincoln and Bellamy
As a lesbian, I don't think killing off Lexa necessarily constitutes as bury your gays. In a show where so many characters die, it's not a hate crime to kill off a gay one, especially since, like you said, there are plenty of other LGBT characters who don't die. However, I still think Lexa's death was handled poorly. Killing her off right after she had sex with another girl was a bad, homophobic choice. Also, the writers were very clearly teasing the fans that Lexa would be alive when they dropped a promo of Lexa still alive in the finale, only for her to come back for one episode in the flame.
I agree with you. It would have been fine if lexa had just died in the fight she had in the previous episode where she easily could have died. The problem is that the writers kept her around just long enough to hook up with Clark and die effectively for Clark. Her dying wasn’t the problem, the way they made her die was the problem
You know Alycia (Lexa) asked for her character to be written off as she got a job offer as the lead role in the AMC’s Fear The Walking Dead, Any actor/actress on CW would leave in a heartbeat for a huge contract with AMC
@Cristo Alba the reason it can be considered bury your gays is because it happens right after she is involved in a gay relationship and more or less as a punishment for being in that relationship. If she had died in a fight, it would’ve been just another character dying. Because she does basically because she is seen as being in a relationship with Clarke, that’s the whole reason it is potentially the trope. No one is saying the character shouldn’t have died. But if you can’t acknowledge that there were better ways and reasons this character could have died then there is no conversation to be had with you
nitpick of your vid but grounders not having guns was explained in the show- the people from mount weather would wipe out any grounder villages with firearms
I am aware that The 100 is maybe not on the level of the breaking bad but personally I think that show is quite good, it made me question the morality of every single decision I’ve made especially during this pandemic.
Never watched but knew fans. A big part of the Season 2 bury your gays discussion was about how her death occurred nearly the next scene after she had sex. Also, if I remember some of the other LGBT characters die very soon after being open/out. And again, this occured at the same time as some other shows (can't remember which ones) WERE Burying their gays all around the same time so it was way more noticeable when the main/only LGBT characters of like 4 fairly popular shows died for stupid reasons all within like a week.
There's also the implication, if there are no other happy successful romances, it can have the implication that being gay means you can't have a normal relationship. I havent watched this show so idk if this even applies but yeah there's more layers to this particular discussion
@@joshuaadams1178 to be fair, I’ve seen MANY people who claim to be gay for attention and so they can dress ridiculously without being called weird. I think this is so common that people stereotype gays as people who take advantage of common decency to look ridiculous in public. The thing is, being gay is your sexual identity. But many gays, regardless of their legitimacy, refuse to leave it at that. Many gays walk out their homes looking more colorful than a nightclub ceiling, and this becomes a stereotype many people take as what all gays are like
The thing about Lexa's death, though, is they jobbed her out like a massive loser. She goes from being this insanely powerful warrior queen who commands respect and submission from her subjects to being accidentally shot instead of Clarke. It was literally Libby from "Lost" except she was a main secondary character and not the fun side character that existed only to propel the story and give Hurley a romantic companion to make her death meaningful. Also she and Clarke just had sex to fulfill their relationship arc and that is a BIG BAD in terms of how to kill off an LGBT character in media. (See Buffy for the exact same thing and the same amount of backlash) Had it been an episode or two later, I don't think the backlash would have been quite as bad, but it would still be pretty not well-received. If she had gone down fighting or even just been assassinated by someone workin against her, it would have been one thing. But an accidental gunshot from her friend (again, see Buffy and Lost) was the worst way for a character like this to go. If they wanted to do something with how weak her final scene was, it should have been like the episode of Game of Thrones after the Red Wedding where Roose Bolton and Walder Frey laugh at Robb after they betrayed him. Have some bad guys who conspired against Lexa get together and just maniacally laugh at how evil they are for so easily killing the great Commander Lexa. Then we can have some meaning behind her death and actually want to see her avenged. It would have worked so well to propel the rebellious clans trying to depose her and the oncoming rise of the A.I. controlled faction who want to install their own leader. If I was in the writer's room, I could deadass make this show shine despite the insanity that arose with every passing season. I reworked the entire final season and I think I did a fantastic job of it. Anybody ever wants to read it, I'll copy/paste it below.
@@Jayden-fg8on Lincoln's death was so poorly handled. And Bellamy was just pathetic. If the rumors of Rothenberg doing it because of personal feuds with the actors is true, he is a scumbag who shouldn't be in charge of a television show. If not, he's still a bad showrunner for booking this crap.
Well that's how death is a lot of the time; you don't get to choose the way you go out. I see no problem with how Lexa died, it's kind of ironic, actually.
Well that's death to you.....it happens when you least expect. Robert Baratheon was a mighty warrior who fought many wars yet he went out by a strike from a boar which is ironic
Ah the CW I was enjoying the Arrowverse for a while, but stopped not because I hated the shows (I sometimes have low standards when it comes to tv shows) it was because all the shows I was able to watch felt too repetitive. Every season of every show was 1) deal with whatever screw ups there were to the status quo at the end of last season and return to the status quo or something resembling it 2) introduce a new villain who’s scarier than all the previous ones, if he doesn’t appear that way at first (likely due to power escalation of previous season) then have him do something menacing that makes him appear that way 3) spend the rest of the season (except the crossover) dealing with said villain figuring out a way to beat him 4) beat the villain and then do some world shattering twist that severely messes with the status quo (then next season it just gets completely resolved in the first few episodes) and rinse repeat This even applies to the dramatic moments where with every single heart to heart moment I could predict every single emotional beat because everyone plays out the same. When watching random clips from a new season of a show feels like I’ve seen them before 100 times somethings wrong. Funnily enough the last season I watched was season 4 of The Flash where Ralph despite only having been a part of the cast that season he already knows how things go with the emotional pep talk followed by returning to the fight. It felt a bit like he was standing in for me there which I did like.
So true! This is especially frustrating in the case of Arrow in my opinion because it started out really promising. I'm actully not a fan of the superhero genre, so to me it was really interesting to see a hero who doesn't have any superpowers, just skill, and who is a more brutal and actually kills people. Season 1 Arrow was interesting! From a moral perspective his actions were very much disputable, but at least it was interesting to watch. Fast forward a few seasons and now all he does is cry about how everything that's wrong with the world is somehow his fault because he wasn't a good enough person or whatever. Oh boy does this get annoying quickly. Combine that with the ever repeating season formula described in your comment and you get a show that's almost unwatchable. It's a shame, really.
Same, I really enjoyed all the Arrowverse shows for the first few seasons, but then I inevitably got bored, and once I was in grad school with less time for TV I stopped watching entirely. I loved Arrow Seasons 1-3, but after that it was meh. I loved Flash Season 1-2 but after that each season got steadily more boring. I really enjoyed all the seasons of Legends of Tomorrow, but around Season 5ish, I just started to get bored with that also. Same for Supergirl. I'm definitely a full season or 2 seasons behind in all of them, and IDK when I'll bother catching up, or even if I will.
You should watch Marvel's Agents of Shield. It feels new every season, while also connecting to the past episodes! Their formula is much more creative, but you'll need to watch it at least past season 1!
“The last bad CW show”. You misspelled Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. Despite a terrible name (and a departure from my typical fare), it’s a solid show - the only CW title I’ve ever enjoyed. Granted, it’s also an outlier among their output.
I really liked it but I felt it relied too much on everyone hating each other for 'justifiable' reasons. Past a certain point it just felt like they were forcing the various factions apart from one another one way or the other to keep up tension instead of actually having an event or specific story they wanted to tell.
Definitely. Madi just became a plot device to make Clarke do dumb shit and turn on her friends instead of the moral/ideological conflicts of earlier seasons.
@@Jayden-fg8on that's why I consider season 5 the ending, that way, I can still re watch and say I love the 100 unlike Game of thrones where the final season ruined the show
Only a few into the video and whilst I agree that it was a little contrived with Clarke accomplishing everything, that last example was false. She didn't convince the alien judge to transcend them, it was the combined effort of Raven and Octavia that got them transcended and ultimately them giving it up at the end was them repaying Clarke for everything she sacrificed for her people
You're totally right, and his language in the video does leave out a lot of context, but I understood his "responsible for" wording as just being about the fact that she gets charged with having to try, rather than indicating that she did it
@@Jayden-fg8on yeah its like season 7 wasn’t meant to be the last season but for some reason they had to end it there, so they threw all this plot they had already written but didn’t give it enough time to be properly developed. It was a mess, idk how they watched that season and thought it was good enough to be green lit.
Tbf I think the reason why the "Bury your Gay" thing blew up is because the 100 was one of the few shows back then to have the main character be in a same sex relationship without the story only focusing on them being gay. I was a 14 year old closeted lesbian back then and I barely knew any YA fantasy/sci-fi media that did what the 100 did so it really meant a lot to me. When they killed off Lexa the moment they got together it kinda hurt and seeing how everyone else reacted I wasn't the only one. Lexa's death isn't the worst offender for "Bury your gays" but considering that the audience was a buch of (queer) teens and that 2015 didn't have the best representation yet, well you're asking for backlash if you suddenly kill off the prominent gay character despite having teased a relationship before. Other than that the show really had potential but the way they used radiation and how much human societies have changed made 0 sense
I understand what you're saying, but I personally don't feel that way. I think this show doesn't deserve the backlash at all for the "Bury your Gays" because, for one, there were other queer characters (the main protagonist!) and also because straight people died all the time too. I feel like when people associate the trope with this show (and particularly with Lexa) they're making it about sexuality, when the point should be to not make things about sexuality. I think it's just a death like any other in the show.
The main reason I had liked this show was how it handled character interactions and development. Rarely do I watch a show where all the characters I initially liked I grew to hate at some point, and vice versa with those I initially hated. The constant strain of having to survive and what that can cause people to do in what feels like lose-lose scenarios and the effects it has on those involved in the decisions I thought was well done. The cast is large and it did a pretty decent job at fleshing out many of its characters. I enjoyed it, even if the plot lines became utterly ridiculous.
At first, I thought I'd die from cringe when I started watching this show, but then I witnessed some unexpectedly fantastic character development and great acting and I couldn't help but respect it. P.S. Murphy and Kane carried the show for me.
i love it when Chika randomly pops in to dance against copyright. Still this seems to have its good things, but i never watch any CW Show. I want to try to at least keep my sanity xd
I loved this show. I didnt care whether the storyline was sloppy, or illogical or inconsistent. It took me to another imperfect world and I liked it. P.S. bilingual or multilingual people switch from one language to the other in the middle of a sentence while speaking to each other provided they both understand both languages.
I don't really understand what people find sloppy or illogical about the writing, it is decent and it was only getting better until season 6, better than so many other shows out there. The only critique people seem to be making is "where they get all those skinny jeans lmao", they have no idea what a good writing is. Or people complain about it being "too unrealistic", bitch, it's a sci-fi show, don't watch it if you don't like the genre.
The most impressive thing about the show to me is that season 5 is basically a retelling of season 1 but with all of the character roles reversed/swapped around, but with way less teenage drama this time around
I really enjoyed this show BECAUSE, as you mentionned, everyone is technically a bad person they re forced to be selfish in order to survive. There was always someone to fuck up something even though everything was alright or just make a bad decision based on feeling alone like how octavia basically burned the only thing that was keeping everyone at ease just because she wanted to have total control despite the fact that she wasn't in danger at all. Those were kinda dumb way to make exciting things happen but at the same time kinda realistic too considering there will always be person to wrong someone just for attention. Also I find it funny how the main cast got so used to killing people that they were pretty much joking while fighting the "crazy" followers by the time season 6 happens. I guess I enjoyed indra as a character the most. At her introduction she was like *eew, a gun, get it away from me* and by the end of the show she was like *Where the hell is my gun? I can't sleep without it* But yeah, I do also agree that the show overstayed its welcome and it did look like they ran out of idea. Overrall, I do wish I could find another show like this one.
I know this is out of left field, old, not a show, and for kids (theoretically), but I earnestly recommend the Animorphs books if you're not already a fan. I truthfully-joke that those books are basically my religion, and The 100 is one of only two other serial fiction Things that mean as much to me on a spiritual moral level (the other being Firefly), and The 100 is the ONLY thing I've ever found that scratches the same "Heavy decisions, no right answers, harsh lessons about gray morality issues, and insane amounts of dark universe-threatening crises and crazy evil foes and epic badassery" itch that I've always loved Animorphs for. So I figure perhaps that "I love them for mainly the same reasons" could work in reverse for other people, and especially you since I agree enthusiastically with your comment and love all the same things about the show. Idk but I hope the recommendation serves you or someone well! 🤷♂️ (Also, my personal headcanon is that a particular central Animorphs character, long after the series ends, is granted a second life by godlike-ish-alien-figure-in-the-series because she's just so special and she mattered so much, and gets to be reborn on Earth as a normal baby except with all her memories intact, and grows up to be the one and only 💕 Charmaine Diyoza 💕 because it just fits way too well lol)
@@ItsAsparageese Animorphs is possibly the best YA series ever written. It doesn't work quite as well now that we're no longer in the idyllic perfection of 1990s America, but it's still absolutely incredible, and one of the darkest and most traumatizing teen-aimed stories I've ever read.
@@ItsAsparageese I ll be honest, I m not really fan of books, I m mainly watching this channel to either see the difference between shows and original source material or just to have a quick run down of "insert serie here" Is the animorph show itself a terrible adaptation of the book or is it going in a different direction?
@@drearydoll6305 The '90s Nickelodeon show is so bad that most fans don't acknowledge its existence and the rest appreciate it for nostalgia value but make fun of it lol. It's essentially loyal to the series but it's reeeeeeeeeally baaaaaad XD And hey no worries, subjective taste in different media formats is a legit thing. I desperately hope that Netflix ends up working on a proper Animorphs serial show in the future, it's a perfect story to adapt and could be adapted really well and would be perfect with a dark gritty nostalgia-laden vibe, like Stranger Things (but '90s) meets The 100 in tone and visual look. Sigh, one day lol
2:40 - President Wallaces (Dante and Cage) 4:14 - Bellamy is 23yo at the start, he’s not one of the kids, he just tagged along 15:25 - Mount Weather wipes out the village of any Grounder that picks up a gun 16:05 - _Trigedasleng_ or Trig was supposed to be a deliberately constructed code for Grounders to speak without Mt Weather understanding them. "Only" the warriors speak English, because only they would need to understand the Mountain Men I guess... but nearly all the named characters are warriors or trained as warriors, so... Also, yeah, that weird retcon flashback episode. Sorry, it's just that I'm actually in the middle of a rewatch... for some reason... _what have I become_ But yeah I once saw the book in a shop, casually read the first chapter... and suddenly all the things that irritated me about the show became acceptable. Not better, but acceptable. I can't truly judge, but based on that one chapter and the books' Wikipedia summaries, the CW did a LOT for this story. And yes, it is very uneven. It definitely deserves more scrutiny from essayists. I'm glad this wasn't just shitting on the show like most people seem to do. I'll happily poke fun at the cringe bits, but the good bits are actually _good_, and I don't think that's acknowledged nearly enough.
I know this is more thought than the showrunners demonstrated, but the massive loss of knowledge could have happened if radiation killed off the generation that survived the blasts via cancer, which would be based in what happened to many Japanese people after Nagasaki and Hiroshima. The cancers would cut the lifespans of these people pretty dramatically. If they had kids in the years after, many wouldn't survive, but the ones that did would become the grounders. The parents likely would died from the mestasitized cancers when their children were still kids. So the memory of the old world would have died with them, and they would have been too sick to make history textbooks or even really tell that much to their kids. These kids wouldn't have grown up in regular society and honestly probably didnt get a ton of socialization of any kind since most of humanity is dead. They'd be nearly blank slates, with only shreds of information about the old world told to them by their dying parents. In that scenario, a rapid cultural and linguistic shift makes a lot more sense. Anyone who remembered died like ten years or so after the blast. Any surviving children born after the blast wouldn't have any detailed history. On top of that, the first generation after the blast likely had high incidences of cancer as well, most probably didnt live past 30 or 40. So the second generation loses their parents relatively early too. By the time the show takes place, the oldest people are probably the third generation with maybe a few really old timers from the second.
That would be smarter but thats been disproven in the backdoor pilot in season 7. Basically the 1st generation of survivors all had “nightblood” which gives you radiation immunity. So all of the 1st gen of survivors probably lived out there lives so it still makes no sense that the grounders have no idea what technology is
I dislike CW shows as much as everyone else. But Superman & Lois is really great, worth a shot for anyone interested in a superman show where he has kids and actually acts like superman.
man, this was my favorite show. aside from the romance and kinda eh written drama, the world, aesthetics, and the people were something I craved growing. I'm much of a worldbuilder freak and seeing a show like this itched every spot no other show could. it displayed a very realistic and immersive world without showing too much action. they can't fight like us without thousands of soldiers, so they have to resort to out cunning each other.
I stopped watching the 100 when the ALIE scientist landed on earth just after the nuclear apocalypse and PEOPLE came up to her. That was the straw that broke the camel's back for me.
@@buckybarnes2026 Eh i actually disagree even though I think this show has many flaws, they actually did it in a smart way. But im not gonna start a twitter agrument about this because we all know those are pointless
I absolutely enjoyed the crazy ride this show put me through. Even though it was a bit outlandish, I was always on the edge of my seat and wondering what was going to happen next. Season six was by far my favorite
okay okay this is nitpicky but at 4:14 bellamy is not supposed to be 17 when the show starts, octavia is. bellamy is like an actual 20 something year old
The Commander United the Clans a few years before the events of season 1 The reason that the ARC could not see the grounders on earth is because they used the technology for survival purposes. Ice Nation is strongly implied to partly inhibit Canada and lots of the northern states Me personally, I think the 100's is deserving of a really high 7 or low 8/10 if you don't count the last 2 seasons. It's a lot better than most people give it credit for and to be fair, I hope if the 100 Prequel gets picked up, Jason Rothenberg will improve and refine his show making and fully deliver on his potential
@@qp7975 also have you seen black lightning or superman and Lois? I agree that the vast majority of things produced by the CW is of lower to okay quality but they have produced some good content from time to time
i agree with most of this video but lexa being killed off got so much backlash because the writers went out of their way to tell and promise us they wouldnt just randomly kill lexa off for plot or clarkes chara development. and then two weeks later they did. and the stray bullet thing was just the tip of the iceberg (see buffy for just one example lmao)
I get suspension of disbelief but the idea that society would change THAT MUCH in 100 years really turned me off from the show and I couldn't continue no matter how much I wanted to like it
It would've made so much more sense had they put longer time gaps throughout the show. The gaps were so small that some things like Octavia's skill in combat were just so unbelievable given the short time spans they were using. Same thing goes for the radiation and culture development.
For years they were the metaphorical punching bag of the west, but now in the post-apocalypse, no one is cracking jokes at the Swiss expense, only running in fear as they steam roll through haphazardly built settlements with imperial might! ALL HAIL OUR NEW SWISS OVERLORDS!
One tiny issue you know that the exclusion zone in Chernobyl is and has dealt with high levels of ionizing radiation for decades and it still looks like a forest so the forest of the show still looking more of less normal isn’t that incredible cuz we know that forest arent that affected by it
Also the hole society and language changing that much in only 100 years thats not unreasonable either just look at current 2021 and compare it to 1921 giant leaps almost unrecognizable right? And you can do that at any point the 1921 looks unrecognizable to someone from 1821 and so and so and languages and cultures change rapidly too you can do the exact same thing by doing the comparison i did
Although you were right about the hole nuclear plant thing nonsense To begin with creating a nuclear plant that is selfsustainable for 100 years is literally impossible without proper maintenance and resources nuclear plants would go critical within about 30 days maximum and they would explode and be dangerous to the surrounding areas but it wouldn’t look like the way the show did it
I thought it was decent, but after they left earth (I forget which season, like 5 or 6), it feels like a different show with the same actors and title lol.
@@alexmurphy7525 The 4400 deserves a continuation. The possibilities are endless of where else they could go. Schools could be opened in order to train those with abilities (sounds a lot like X-Men), lots of more abilities could be introduced, and there could be a visual representation of the doomed future Jordan Collier (I call him the 4400 Jesus) saw
I had to stop watching it. The idea people came up with a new language and forgot like all history and science in 90 years. Also the inventing more did it fit stupid plot ideas. Going from next day future tech, to AI, to suspended animation and space travel which would have been useful. Why didn't the Ark and Mount Weather go into suspended animation? Because that's why
I never got why the ark stayed in earth orbit instead of heading to the moon or the asteroid belt so they could mine resources to make replacement parts and/or build a new ship
@@anthonyramirez9925 I also don’t get why the ark isn’t as advanced as the space minors ship in season 5. There’s no reason why one has cryosleep and can travel across the universe and the other doesn’t even have a telescope
Trigedasleng wasn't invented by survivors (though you'd be amazed how fast distinctive creoles can happen, not that it's a creole per se but just saying). It was invented originally by Bill Cadogan's daughter Calliope as a kid and then came into play later after she escaped her dad's bunker after Becca gave her and her cohorts nightblood.
Also there's not necessarily any reason the Ark would have had cryo tech on the stations that happened to come together to make it up 🤷♂️ They were all orbiting stations, with nobody on them necessarily planning to be off the ground for long. Mount Weather, being a bunker, I can see an argument that there should have been cryo there but still it's not like everyone necessarily included it in everything all the time. It was clearly used for particular industrial and military purposes, and probably cost a lot. I don't disagree that the "science" in the series usually sucked (I'm a medical nerd so I hurt inside every time they say garbage about radiation lol) and the discontinuity issues were problematic, just making some counterpoints to your particular reasoning presented here
The part about dna isn't completely right: Yes there are other bases that could also be used for genetic information.But that doesn't automatically effect for what this info is coding.The proteins could be the same in theory . Also, even if the proteins were different, sugars, petidbound and maybe fatty acids would still be there to digest, if the alien life is based on carbon. For the nitrication bacteria our plants need: As long as they shit out nitrate, their build is pretty much irrelevant.
Because they probably wanted it to match the name of the show...100 years....100 teens... yeah...really dumb idea. The time jump should have been way more significant
Just pointing out that Bellamy is 23 in the first season of the show, NOT 17 as he was not one of the 100 kids sent down to earth, he was Octavia’s older brother (by 6 years) who pretended to be a guard in order to go down and protect her. Which does make you question his having threesomes with (at most) 17 year olds in season 1 but, hey, this is the CW.
I watched 5 seasons of this and I can say that I never had a bad time. It was super stupid at some points but there was always something going on so there was rarely a dull moment. Idk if ill watch the last 2 seasons tho
I kinda wish I would’ve just stopped after season 5. It felt like everything sort of came full circle,wrapped up on a good note and left it open ended(just to me) Whereas the ending we got was kind of the opposite
Dont watch the last two, i got through like 3 episodes of season 7 and had to call it quits, like its SUPER ridiculous on where they went with everything that it was genuinely difficult to keep up
The100 is brilliant. It has problems, but I think the good outweigh the bad by far. Especially, because it does things that most other shows do bad really good. Thats just so refreshing
Let's not forget the endless supply of candles. In Lexa's room in Polis there were dozens of burning candles during day-time. Why. (Besides the obvious aesthetic motivations the writers may have had).
I really liked how every character was complex, with their own sides to the story. There wasn’t necessarily “right” or wrong”. There were different motives, with different reasons. All completely understandable, though! The plot was deep, the characters were complex, the tensions were constantly high! 10/10 show…possibly the only one I’ve seen.
i stopped watching after like season 4? it felt like they kept randomly inventing new problems just to keep the story going. and after they killed of lincoln octavia's character went sooo downhill :/ this video makes me want to rewatch seasons 1 and 2 though lol
Every new menace was foreshadowed long before they revealed it, which is a sign of a good writing, they didn't pull new problems out of their ass like many shows do and I loved it.
I hate The 100. Not because it's bad but because it's nearly good. There's so much potential in it that it is annoying they didn't go just that one extra mile to turn it into something great.
Espicially after season 4 when they destroyed the earth. Which means all the world building was gone, so then they had to start making up aliens and shit
“The 100, CW show. It’s the best show on the CW. Which is kind of like being the tallest dwarf.”
I would say more like being shot in the toe compared to the head. As one is better than the other, but its still painful and you'd rather have not been shot to start with.
@@firemoonalice3117 Twas a Heathers quote but I’d have to agree. Better to just watch another show, but if I have to pick… 😅
Yay an mt fan
Shut up Pareo- I mean Heather.
It's a fun show. It has the best pacing of any show ever. Does it have some stupid stuff in it? Sure, but so does every other show too. It also has a lot of cool and surprising stuff too.
If you find the teenagers annoying, well they're almost all going to die. Teenagers are annoying so that is very realistic. I don't judge it as a CW show I judge it on it's own merits and it's one of the better shows period. It's not as 'good' as LOST but it's more fun to watch. Is season 7 bad? Maybe I lost interest halfway through season 6. Never seen it. But up until then it was a very entertaining show. Which is weird because the first two episodes of season 6 are incredible. Some of the best television ever. I don't know how it went downhill so fast.
Watching this I was always amazed at the amount of skinny jeans and leather jackets that survived the apocalypse 100 years later….
And everyone is looking like they have an unlimited amount of lotions, shampoos and stuff. Maybe it's the executives that want everyone who's in frame to look pretty, or just actors don't want to get dirty. I hate to be that guy, but back in the day many actors used to go through a lot of struggles. For example, look up soviet movie "Battle on the ice" from 1920s and how its production went on. It was a literal hell. And Hollywood had it even worse, cause it wasn't state sponsored like soviet cinema
@@darkleome5409 because cw…
@@darkleome5409 i mean i dont think soviet cinema from the 20s and a tv show for teenagers are comparable 💀💀
@@anjie3048 And I don’t think Hollywood had it worse than than in the Soviet Film industry…
Just a guess.
I mean, the Jeans I would think that they would last, because usually good jeans last a while and a lot of abuse, but leather jackets? nope, those things wouldn't last a decade.
From this show I learnt that in the case of a post-apocalypse, there will be an endless supply of new women's clothes.
And also somehow periods don't exist anymore (neither do any other bodily functions).
Only guys can pee, and they only do it against a tree, away from the group so that they can hear a plot-progressing noise.
Well, the shops are still full. Just go and get yourself a new outfit. It'll be easier than finding food.
I’m going to challenge this. Most costumes were pretty well handled on the show. Most costumes were looking pretty rough towards the end of earth… season 6 was a new start.
@@joshuaadams1178 Sure…especially their hair.
Make up and hair too
Instead of a garbage fire like most CW shows, this show is a recycling fire
You’re wrong it’s not a garbage fire, it’s just plain garbage.
@@reviewman you are 100% correct
I live in Canada and most CW stuff is either aired on random cable networks or on Netflix/ Crave. The biggest stuff, usually superhero stuff goes onto a major network. As far as I am aware no Canadian company even cared enough to buy broadcast rights, so it was a Netflix show.
This is a legendary awesome series
@@EglomHistory same here in Michigan.
Once I saw season 1 on Netflix I thought “oh yeah, this shit ain’t gonna last for more than 3 seasons”
And it didn’t even make it to 2.
And if it’s a sci-if film, where the very best and brightest members of our race had to save the species 100 years ago, then they should have known earth would be mostly habitable in 5 years, 10 years tops.
Also what are the SHEER ODDS that a bunch of nuclear reactors are only built to last 98 years without humans, and humans return 98 years after earth was abandoned.
“It’s simple: everyone else evolved to metabolize radiation.”
Ah, yes. An obvious example of the widely documented scientific phenomenon known as “Godzillacization.”
Lol.
I don't understand how no one understands that this is fiction. It doesn't need to make sense with our science😂😂😂
@@seanmakura yes but this fictional world depicts a post apocalyptic Earth, founded on universal principles and laws of physics. If it was a show in a different dimension of reality where physics works completely differently, and our understanding of laws of nature need not apply then fine. But the show never goes out of its way to make such a distinction, so it doesn't really make sense to give it that much leeway in the disbelief arena.
@@seanmakura look, i'm a physics student with particular interest in nuclear physics and even then i'm not *conceptually* against stretching the way radiation works since as you said, it's fiction. my problem is narratively, i don't get why they'd have earth be in the aftermath of a nuclear apocalypse and have everyone on the ark think they can't go down to the surface because of radiation only for everything to be magically handwaved away by the idea that they somehow evolved to metabolize radiation. not just because that's not how radiation (or evolution) works, but also because it feels like a waste of an interesting plot.
@@etherealsalad2698 you're right that it is an interesting plot point to wave away but it wasn't "evolution".
Clarke mentions in season 2 that the Ark people are genetically engineered in the womb to be mildly resistant to radiation - just in case the shielding on the space station is damaged and they need the spare time to do immediate repairs, I guess.
The Grounders have an inate resistence to radiation, that varies between individuals because the majority are descended from Nightbloods.
Mount Weather are loosely based on vampires so they're weak to solar radiation... because they lived in a bunker for 4-5 generations or something?
I kind of wish that the show had stopped at the end of season 5. Seasons 1-5 weren’t perfect, but the finale of season 5 was pretty strong thematically and seasons 6-7 really went off the rails imo
Yes these are exactly my thoughts. I have lost all interest in rewatching the show again after season 7 and I hate the writers for that
I agree.
R.I.P. Bellamy's Character.
6 was great
l quite enjoyed S6 (my favorite minute in the entire series is the scene of Raven waking up Diyoza from cryo lol), but yeah the show could have left off with a nice vague inspiring cliffhanger at the end of S5 and that would indeed have been fine and neat. I'd have been left wondering what could have been, for sure, but I'd rather than than having had to end on the fiasco that is S7
@@Jayden-fg8on why not just watch seasons 1-5? Also season 7 was going to be a lot better but most of the season had to be rewritten at the last minute due to Bellamy wanting time off and Clarke had a miscarriage. That's why episodes 3, 7, and 9 are the closest things the 100's done to filler episodes and Bellamy was originally not supposed to die in the script
the 100 is actually one of my favourite shows. its got shitty writing, but decent acting and premise and i love it. plus, sword fights.
Yeah same, it might not be the best thing ever made but it's just _fun_
Eliza Taylor’s acting in season 6 is phenomenal!
Pretty good cgi for a CW show though
Plus the language ughhh. *"Jus drein jus daun"* keep on repeating in my head.
For me, the actors were too good for the show. Took such a weird, unnecessary route for no reason.
I liked it. Had plenty of flaws, but with all the garbage these days, it was still one of the better shows. Ending absolutely sucked, although admittedly I have no idea what I expected. Up until the very end I still though the 'transcending' stuff was bs and thought the endgame was to unite the last humans, find a new home-planet and build a new, better civilization, having learnt the errors of the past. But nope, all they fought for was to disappear entirely. Felt so... meh.
Should have ended with season 5
I think the Only Transcendence anything that worked was Babylon 5 and at least they Introduced the Concepts of Transcendent beings in the Lore with Shadows and Vorlons.
@@mitchellalexander9162 What about Stargate?
@@jatzi1526 Believe it or not. I know Some Stargate. But I never took a deep enough Dive to know it was about Transcendence as a major plot point.
I only got as far as The Goaluds replace Humanity's Ancient Gods and the Previously Ons and In this Episode Previews Spoil Damn near every Episode's Twist.
@@mitchellalexander9162 It wasn’t the driving for if the show but sometimes it came into focus other times it was in the background. Some member of an ancient race ascended to a new plane of existence and sometimes others could join them. But they had strict rules about interfering with other races. And those who broke the rules usually had some kind of consequence they had to deal with (usually being knocked by down to the mortal world without their powers and all their knowledge.
"The least bad CW show"
Bold words. They mean nothing.
@@Dangangela6565 lois, why do people struggle to spell her name correctly? lol but yeah i agree
@@Dangangela6565 Stargirl was also pretty good, I think it counts as CW, since it was a shared production thing
Personally I think it is one of the best, but I prefer Legends of Tomorrow and Arrow
@@ActuallyDoubleGuitars I already started to watch it, but for me it is not my favourite
@@mysterytime5200wouldn't it be supernatural? Like by far
Language changing so much is super unrealistic, but the swapping between languages at the drop of a hat is pretty realistic. Bilingual and multilingual people (source; i am one) often just switch languages in the middle of a conversation. Not the craziest thing.
Where I'm from thats just life lol.
The new language was made so people at mount weather wouldn’t know what they’re saying. It was a tactic of war.
@@joshuaadams1178 Not exactly. There's a backstory involving Bill Cadogan's daughter having been making up a language for a long time before the first praimfaiya. I'm sure it served useful purposes later once Calliope and her comrades were on the surface again and dealing with other groups like Mount Weather, though, of course.
I love the new languages in the 100
Like I their English and trigedasleng and I can even speak some of it and still learning it just trying to find some way to learn it faster
@@ItsAsparageese I dont get why they felt the need to retcon that. This show has plently of goofy stuff in it so saying that they adopted a code language so Mt Weather couldnt understand them worked fine
"What about people outside the US"
Every post apocalyptic show/movie doesn't acknowledge the world outside the US.
Headcanon: it's fine, Asia, Australia, Europe, Africa and South America are all unchanged and relaxing not having to deal with the US any more.
It's how I headcanon every postapocalyptic fiction that doesn't say anything about the rest of the world too , just a perfect utopia with a quaint USA barbaric natural reserve
People outside the us don't matter if the main characters are in an apocalpytic Idaho. Its not like theyre gonna hop on a plane and go to Japan lol. What's really weird is when its like in Texas or Minnesota... Those are border states so surely something would happen with that.
LoL there were people in Egypt they shown that briefly.
Well the Ark consisted of like 7 or 8 of the largest countries in the world so those countries were pretty destroyed. The rest of the world was most likely in the same state as the nukes were sent all over the world and destroyed pretty much everything I think.
@@patrickryan1092 they never shown if there any people in those counties that point.
Note that the copyright bots for this one were really persistent, so I had to chop up the footage to stay monetized. Apologies if this confuses things.
Yessssss! Big fan. . I didnt watch the first season thou but it gets really good, the antagonists have reasons, even if they are hatable, and the heroes, are no heroes. It a blast. And good character driven things And that ir keeps within the mythology, other than the aliens. That are ok. And the morbid when will things go wrong, is fun. With consequences. And murphy and ocrttavia, are the best. And the YA aspects makes that is a bit trashy and , believable by not being hard sci fi.
Lexa was brought back and clarke did remember her obvious, and the season fiale, sh was ther.
Fun and fascineting is probably praise, and yeah season was the series finale, before a network change, which is felt. Not that the later 2 seasons are bad, well great characters carry the show. Why aliens dont break it.Honestly its fine, is a good finale criticism not great, but fine.
You should try z-nation its an asylum show but is really going of the rails, ith a strong cast, and that creativity. Murphy the really fun anti-hero not that murphy but he is a innocent of death row with by experiments gained immunity to zombies. He understandibly, is very grumpy an anti social. And he isnt really up for helping humanity he isnt entirely unwilling, but he is very reculant first and wants his share and is outt for himself now, if he isnt uncaring. He gains a zombie half daughter
. There is warren a strong female soldier in charge and she is a good foil for murphy, they gain respect for each other. Then ther is doc, an old dude who is excentric and trading and also fun.There are others, but murphy and warren are all time mains. And doc. And its a fun show, and the series is, its fun, and the characters carry that and are fun. And the show is very creative regarding zombies. There is even a not-umbrella organisation. The show does really a lot as zombie show. And the actors, are mostly good, especially main. And the finale, that the show is weird gives it a lot of leeway. And its somewhat reinstating a society. With talking zombies that now, have self awareness and can be medicated
The show starts of cheap, i mean with a baby zombie so creativity already, but cheap, but it gets better and better.
And ther are, the sho really is creative, and even a loke wit zombies and viagra.
Sorry its long i think you migh have stuf to say aboout z-ations that gets better and is a fun trip with good fun main characters.And its an intereting counterpart, and ilike it more, than the walking dead. Because its never not fun. Its probably weird at times, but never dull. And from asylum that laterfigured, hey we can make a good show. why the budget gets higher over time. Maybe a good topic. It has that seldf awareness with a good core cast.
It's alright. Watching Chika dance is always entertaining
Will you give the dancing anime girls back to Marcus?
You should check out Crazy Ex Girlfriend, it's technically a cw show but it is genuinely one of the best shows (and it's a musical) that have dealt with mental health
The very first episodes have some of the worst dialogue. The way they deliver exposition is just so bad. And then... it gets good. It gets engaging. The 100 is a wild show, that got repetitive despite its completely bananas plotlines, but still - it got repetitive surprisingly late. Def a show worth of... analyzing, yeah. I had a good time with it.
This is exactly how felt. The show was dumb and I loved it. That is until season 7. Which I found to be bad but not in a lovable way, just bad. Needless character assintaions and of the rails story even for this show. It just ruined it for me
Yeah, I watched the first 2 episodes and gave up immediately. It was like 2 years later that someone told me it got good later on that I watched the whole thing. Not great but pretty descent and entertaining, last season was rushed tho, should’ve ended at the end of season 5.
Although it had many many flaws I think The 100 was a special show. It raises interesting discussions such as "Do the things we do to survive define us?" "Does loving someone make us weaker or stronger?" "Should decisions be made only with the head?" "Is ruthlessness justified when you are doing it for the good of the many?" "Is there a way to preserve your morality and still survive in a world where mercy is considered weakness?" and so on. I frequently found myself discussing what I would in the position of the heroes and the antagonists. Would I do the right the "good" thing? Would I ensure the survival of myself? Would I ensure the survival of my loved ones?, my people? and honestly I couldn't find a straight answer which is another reason why I think this show is different in a way that there is no good or bad or evil. There are just people, humans. People aren't evil for the hell of it. Everyone has their reasons for doing bad things. This show's ability to realistically portray what it is to be human is that thing that makes it special I guess is what I am trying to say. Being selfish is human. Protecting who you love is human. And sometimes killing to save what is important to you is human. (this is for the first 5 seasons the rest didn't happen and was a fever dream you can't convince me otherwise)
Wholeheartedly agree. I also dismiss the last 2 seasons as weird fan fiction. It can't be taken seriously. Season 5 ended the show where it should've ended.
CW is absolutely cursed. And as much as i'd like to see a video or two exploring just how bad the writing is in pretty little liars/riverdale, I don't think James deserves that kind of torture.
Cursed with money printing power.
PLL was not a CW show.
“The 100 is basically just seven seasons of Eliza Taylor refusing to put on a bra”
I had to pause the video cause wtf kinda comment is that, I was so caught off guard by it. I’ve watched the 100 at least five times through and can honestly say it never once occurred to me nor have I ever noticed if she was wearing a bra…what a weird fucking thing to say
😂😂😂
Oh man I'm glad I'm not the only one kinda bothered by that...made me feel a little icky
Seriously weird asf. Why does she have to put one on anyways? This dude sounds sus
I agree. That comment was unnecessary
Yeah it's weird. I never noticed either.
"Imagine if Harry Potter had interdimentional gnomes in the last book".
(Heavy Fanfic Writer Breathing)
Ngl I would read it. Better than anything that Jk Rowling brings out these days
I know he was joking but i would legit have liked that more than the fucking horcruxes tbh
@@kat8559 What? The point of them was dude was obsessed with immortality. Wtf is the problem?
@@kat8559 i have never disagreed more with anybody in my life.
The Hallows were shoved in to the last book,The Wand should have been mentioned earlier. The Hallows are in a fairy tale that the Wizarding World knows like the back of thier hands,but the fairy tale Was never mentioned by any wizard or witch before? Puh-lease.
Just a note on the one-child rule of the Ark: The entire point was to breed down the population because there weren't enough seats to drop-ship survivors safely back down to earth. (I also feel the show should have ended on Season 5. The writing was good up until then, if with the occasional pitfall.)
If anything i find s6 writing to be the best.... just my opinion
Different things appeal to different people. I just feel that the writing decisions in S6 were questionable at points, and that the writers pulled a Game of Thrones stunt with several of the deaths for pure shock value rather than properly handling character arcs. There WERE some high points, I'm not arguing that, but the lows were also undeniable. S7, though ... let's not go there.
@@j.s.elliot7121 i also found s7 really good! Up until.... you know 😂 it made no sense
S6 and S7 were good to me if nothing other than watching Murphy's character development. It was the reason I went back and binged all 7 seasons after watching the series finale
@@kleibundguth Our boy Murphy won at the end with so much development ❤️
Not gonna lie , this show lowkey sounds exactly like a heavily modded rimworld playthrough
this is so true that I wonder how I didnt come up with it on my own lol
So true
Idk anything about this Rimworld you speak of but I'm intrigued now
Not enough organ harvesting for profit.
@@ItsAsparageese watch Mr Samuel streamers playthroughs of rimworld
This show had no business being as watchable as it was. They just kept pushing the batshit insane limit and going with it.
I remember watching this and being genuinely awed by the ballsy ending where they had main character chick wipe out the mountain full of people after being betrayed that kinda impressed me as far as endings go
I was kind of impressed with how they handled the Culling in S1. 300 people willingly sacrifice themselves for the well-being of everyone else, and that sacrifice turns out to be absolutely worthless in the end. Any other CW show would have just had the main characters get their good news to the Ark just as they're about to do the Culling, thus saving everyone.
It was mediocrely below average, but by CW standards it is the goddamn Mona lisa
I was actually into the show for the first 4 seasons then it just devolved into complete shit
@@Jayden-fg8on I stopped at season 3 because the amount of stupid decisions people kept making and the foxes plots sucked. Important characters were disappearing because of that stupid A.I but the shows ignores it until it’s convenient. Imagine if everyone (including the people who all hate each) other had to hand together earlier to deal with the problem.
HHahah
@@shayla106 what about the fox holes plot?
The language was changed so the mountain men wouldn’t be able to understand them. I don’t know if anyone already explain this :)
Surprisingly I remember this one. This show has too much info it becomes hard to follow
I will say in the 100's defense that the "population halving every generation" thing wasn't a plot hole. it's made clear in season 1 that the drop ship, which was supposedly their ONLY way to the ground besides what they used for the 100 in the pilot, could only fit a fraction of their current population.
the population control wasn't (just) because of resources, but so that in another 100 years when they thought the Earth would be survivable again, no one would have to stay behind and die in space
I'd argue that a story not working with in the rules of what we know about the world currently is kind of a moot critique. Whats important is if it stays consistent with the rules it gives you instead of the rules of what we currently know or believe about the universe
Exactly. Whether radiation works out like that in real life or not doesn't matter, provided it makes sense in the show's universe
@@dinakisa1049 Yeah but then again a show in my opinion should go all in on that so that you don’t have to “try” to suspend your disbelief. Explain that this is how it works HERE. Instead of trying to play it off like real life.
I quite liked the show, but it definitely felt like they ran out of actual ideas after season 3 or 4 when they re-nuked the world, and destroyed all the interesting group dynamics they had set up
S1 repeatedly had them talking about mount weather, the main focus of S2
S2 had a character searching for the city of light, and introduced the basic setup of the grounders society, two of the main focuses of S3, it didn’t do anything with Pike, but it wasn’t unreasonable to assume others had survived the arc falling
But from S3 onward all they did to introduce the focus of the next season was a single scene near the end of the final episode, and even those were pretty vague.
I think there was a mention or two of eligius 3 (however you spell that) in S5, and they were looking at the weird portal thing in S6 but no hints at what it did at all, and while S4 made it fairly clear everyone was gonna die to the re-nuking, the new society and eligius 4 were not at all set up till the end
as a former fan of the show i agree with this completely. but i still think if they would have ended the show at season 4 or 5 i would have still liked it. but instead they decided to drag the show out even more and absolutely destroyed any love i had for it with season 7
Actually season 4 had a couple of blink and you miss it moments set up for eligius 4 sprinkled throughout the season. They were scarce but they were there.. It also set up a surprising amount of the crap you see in S7.
Eligius is sprinkled throughout the series in computer screens and stuff maybe little symbolism here and there but you dont notice it till you watch early seasons after later seasons. Sure its hard to watch sometimes but the subtle little details throughout the show are pretty decent tbh they do hint stuff alot though
@@bigbrisk8423 i’m pretty sure the only Eligius easter egg was in one of the earlier episodes of season 4 and then they were introduced at the end of that season
@@samatar6852 The only thing I will credit season 7 for is tieing in Bill Cadogan and the Second Dawn from season 4. Other then that it’s a garbage season
"If your value your sanity, do NOT watch this show".
That my secret, Cap, I'm already insane.
I’d like to correct you on something really quickly, Lexa wasn’t killed off because Alycia wanted to leave, she said that she would split her time in two, half for the 100 and the other for FTWD, but Jason rothenberg did not like that idea, so he instantly decided to kill her off. Alycia loved and adored her character, and really wanted to stay, but Jason was being an asshole and then he regretted the decision of killing her off, and I know you said that there were other bisexual/gay characters on the show, but none of them were like Lexa/Lexa and Clarke. I’m also quite sure Jason did this for shock value.
Exactly! Also Isaiah( Jaha) wrote on his twitter " I want to make one thing clear, Lexa doesn't have to die" so its mean that they had other things in mind, but Jason was as.shole and killed her, just like he did with Lincoln and Bellamy
The first couple seasons were legit good. Then the show disappeared up its own ass and was never seen again. Tragic.
As a lesbian, I don't think killing off Lexa necessarily constitutes as bury your gays. In a show where so many characters die, it's not a hate crime to kill off a gay one, especially since, like you said, there are plenty of other LGBT characters who don't die. However, I still think Lexa's death was handled poorly. Killing her off right after she had sex with another girl was a bad, homophobic choice. Also, the writers were very clearly teasing the fans that Lexa would be alive when they dropped a promo of Lexa still alive in the finale, only for her to come back for one episode in the flame.
I agree with you. It would have been fine if lexa had just died in the fight she had in the previous episode where she easily could have died. The problem is that the writers kept her around just long enough to hook up with Clark and die effectively for Clark. Her dying wasn’t the problem, the way they made her die was the problem
You know Alycia (Lexa) asked for her character to be written off as she got a job offer as the lead role in the AMC’s Fear The Walking Dead, Any actor/actress on CW would leave in a heartbeat for a huge contract with AMC
@Cristo Alba because she literally could have easily been written out the episode before she was without making it a kill your gays incident at all
@Cristo Alba the reason it can be considered bury your gays is because it happens right after she is involved in a gay relationship and more or less as a punishment for being in that relationship. If she had died in a fight, it would’ve been just another character dying. Because she does basically because she is seen as being in a relationship with Clarke, that’s the whole reason it is potentially the trope. No one is saying the character shouldn’t have died. But if you can’t acknowledge that there were better ways and reasons this character could have died then there is no conversation to be had with you
@Cristo Alba it reads as punishment because it basically comes out of the Hayes code playbook. Know your history
I wish the show explored other countries. Would’ve been interesting.
Probably couldnt have done that for budget reasons
@@Jayden-fg8on Well I think exporing a few ruin cities in mexico would be cheaper than going to fucking space, but thats just me
Mar P The thing is when they went to "space" they were still clearly just filming in Vancouver forests lol.
Yea....
nitpick of your vid but grounders not having guns was explained in the show- the people from mount weather would wipe out any grounder villages with firearms
I am aware that The 100 is maybe not on the level of the breaking bad but personally I think that show is quite good, it made me question the morality of every single decision I’ve made especially during this pandemic.
I don't get anyone liking this show. The story is just bad and people make no sense. The ending was awful.
Never watched but knew fans. A big part of the Season 2 bury your gays discussion was about how her death occurred nearly the next scene after she had sex. Also, if I remember some of the other LGBT characters die very soon after being open/out. And again, this occured at the same time as some other shows (can't remember which ones) WERE Burying their gays all around the same time so it was way more noticeable when the main/only LGBT characters of like 4 fairly popular shows died for stupid reasons all within like a week.
There's also the implication, if there are no other happy successful romances, it can have the implication that being gay means you can't have a normal relationship. I havent watched this show so idk if this even applies but yeah there's more layers to this particular discussion
@@kat8559 I mean not many straight people got a happy ending either 😕 (I’m gay) I have to admit the backlash didn’t seem fair.
I don't think any LGBT characters died for at least 2 seasons after Lexa died
@@jamestaylor2478 Miller's boyfriend died at the end of Season 4, he was one of the ones left outside the bunker I think.
@@joshuaadams1178 to be fair, I’ve seen MANY people who claim to be gay for attention and so they can dress ridiculously without being called weird.
I think this is so common that people stereotype gays as people who take advantage of common decency to look ridiculous in public.
The thing is, being gay is your sexual identity. But many gays, regardless of their legitimacy, refuse to leave it at that.
Many gays walk out their homes looking more colorful than a nightclub ceiling, and this becomes a stereotype many people take as what all gays are like
I will not stand for this Crazy Ex-Girlfriend erasure!!
Exactly
Between its name and the network it aired on, the show really shot itself in the foot.
The thing about Lexa's death, though, is they jobbed her out like a massive loser.
She goes from being this insanely powerful warrior queen who commands respect and submission from her subjects to being accidentally shot instead of Clarke. It was literally Libby from "Lost" except she was a main secondary character and not the fun side character that existed only to propel the story and give Hurley a romantic companion to make her death meaningful.
Also she and Clarke just had sex to fulfill their relationship arc and that is a BIG BAD in terms of how to kill off an LGBT character in media. (See Buffy for the exact same thing and the same amount of backlash) Had it been an episode or two later, I don't think the backlash would have been quite as bad, but it would still be pretty not well-received.
If she had gone down fighting or even just been assassinated by someone workin against her, it would have been one thing. But an accidental gunshot from her friend (again, see Buffy and Lost) was the worst way for a character like this to go. If they wanted to do something with how weak her final scene was, it should have been like the episode of Game of Thrones after the Red Wedding where Roose Bolton and Walder Frey laugh at Robb after they betrayed him. Have some bad guys who conspired against Lexa get together and just maniacally laugh at how evil they are for so easily killing the great Commander Lexa. Then we can have some meaning behind her death and actually want to see her avenged. It would have worked so well to propel the rebellious clans trying to depose her and the oncoming rise of the A.I. controlled faction who want to install their own leader.
If I was in the writer's room, I could deadass make this show shine despite the insanity that arose with every passing season. I reworked the entire final season and I think I did a fantastic job of it. Anybody ever wants to read it, I'll copy/paste it below.
This show had a problem with killing off big characters like they were nobody’s. I’m looking at you season 3 and 7
@@Jayden-fg8on Lincoln's death was so poorly handled. And Bellamy was just pathetic. If the rumors of Rothenberg doing it because of personal feuds with the actors is true, he is a scumbag who shouldn't be in charge of a television show. If not, he's still a bad showrunner for booking this crap.
@@manband20 100% agreed but it looks like the CW is gonna give him his prequel. So he’s most likely gonna be running another show 😔
Well that's how death is a lot of the time; you don't get to choose the way you go out. I see no problem with how Lexa died, it's kind of ironic, actually.
Well that's death to you.....it happens when you least expect. Robert Baratheon was a mighty warrior who fought many wars yet he went out by a strike from a boar which is ironic
Ah the CW
I was enjoying the Arrowverse for a while, but stopped not because I hated the shows (I sometimes have low standards when it comes to tv shows) it was because all the shows I was able to watch felt too repetitive.
Every season of every show was
1) deal with whatever screw ups there were to the status quo at the end of last season and return to the status quo or something resembling it
2) introduce a new villain who’s scarier than all the previous ones, if he doesn’t appear that way at first (likely due to power escalation of previous season) then have him do something menacing that makes him appear that way
3) spend the rest of the season (except the crossover) dealing with said villain figuring out a way to beat him
4) beat the villain and then do some world shattering twist that severely messes with the status quo (then next season it just gets completely resolved in the first few episodes)
and rinse repeat
This even applies to the dramatic moments where with every single heart to heart moment I could predict every single emotional beat because everyone plays out the same.
When watching random clips from a new season of a show feels like I’ve seen them before 100 times somethings wrong.
Funnily enough the last season I watched was season 4 of The Flash where Ralph despite only having been a part of the cast that season he already knows how things go with the emotional pep talk followed by returning to the fight. It felt a bit like he was standing in for me there which I did like.
CW tries to turn everything into a live-action Isekai anime, with the writing to match.
So true! This is especially frustrating in the case of Arrow in my opinion because it started out really promising. I'm actully not a fan of the superhero genre, so to me it was really interesting to see a hero who doesn't have any superpowers, just skill, and who is a more brutal and actually kills people. Season 1 Arrow was interesting! From a moral perspective his actions were very much disputable, but at least it was interesting to watch. Fast forward a few seasons and now all he does is cry about how everything that's wrong with the world is somehow his fault because he wasn't a good enough person or whatever. Oh boy does this get annoying quickly. Combine that with the ever repeating season formula described in your comment and you get a show that's almost unwatchable. It's a shame, really.
Same, I really enjoyed all the Arrowverse shows for the first few seasons, but then I inevitably got bored, and once I was in grad school with less time for TV I stopped watching entirely. I loved Arrow Seasons 1-3, but after that it was meh. I loved Flash Season 1-2 but after that each season got steadily more boring. I really enjoyed all the seasons of Legends of Tomorrow, but around Season 5ish, I just started to get bored with that also. Same for Supergirl. I'm definitely a full season or 2 seasons behind in all of them, and IDK when I'll bother catching up, or even if I will.
You should watch Marvel's Agents of Shield. It feels new every season, while also connecting to the past episodes! Their formula is much more creative, but you'll need to watch it at least past season 1!
I’ve only ever watched Black Lightning and I doubt that’s ever going to change.
“The last bad CW show”. You misspelled Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. Despite a terrible name (and a departure from my typical fare), it’s a solid show - the only CW title I’ve ever enjoyed.
Granted, it’s also an outlier among their output.
And the show won some emmys. Of course awards don’t mean quality, but considering the average cw show... It’s really well done
@@fallenwarlock2418 I'm gonna go ahead and say that even without the context of being a CW show it's still pretty good and worth watching
jane the virgin is also solid. it went downhill in quality over time but i still enjoyed it a lot
@@mimigigihere I think I've seen a bit of it on Netflix maybe I could watch a couple episodes. By the way, quality reference with that username
@@mimigigihere I haven’t seen the last season yet because i just lost all of my interest in the show
I really liked it but I felt it relied too much on everyone hating each other for 'justifiable' reasons. Past a certain point it just felt like they were forcing the various factions apart from one another one way or the other to keep up tension instead of actually having an event or specific story they wanted to tell.
Yeah i liked the show until season 7 happened…
Definitely. Madi just became a plot device to make Clarke do dumb shit and turn on her friends instead of the moral/ideological conflicts of earlier seasons.
@@Jayden-fg8on that's why I consider season 5 the ending, that way, I can still re watch and say I love the 100 unlike Game of thrones where the final season ruined the show
I love madi
@@experiencefanatic4380 I’m only on season 4 of Got
Only a few into the video and whilst I agree that it was a little contrived with Clarke accomplishing everything, that last example was false. She didn't convince the alien judge to transcend them, it was the combined effort of Raven and Octavia that got them transcended and ultimately them giving it up at the end was them repaying Clarke for everything she sacrificed for her people
You're totally right, and his language in the video does leave out a lot of context, but I understood his "responsible for" wording as just being about the fact that she gets charged with having to try, rather than indicating that she did it
I actually liked this show and then the weird chip thing happened and I was just like eeeeeehh
If you wanna see really weird shit watch the series finale
Yeah i loved seasons 1-5 but it still felt like they ran out of ideas
Actually the least bad CW is Crazy Ex Girlfriend
That was CW? I thought it was a netflix show.
@@noobiusmaximus6314 actually yes it was indeed the CW
@@noobiusmaximus6314 Yep but very different to their normal stuff and Rachel Bloom is great
@@noobiusmaximus6314 It was originally conceived as a pilot for HBO for what it's worth.
I guess Supernatural doesn't exist
There are some not terrible CW shows, like this, and crazy ex girlfriend
I would even say it was an above average show then season 7 happened and I definitely don’t think that anymore
@@Jayden-fg8on yeah its like season 7 wasn’t meant to be the last season but for some reason they had to end it there, so they threw all this plot they had already written but didn’t give it enough time to be properly developed. It was a mess, idk how they watched that season and thought it was good enough to be green lit.
Cxg is so good!
Tbf I think the reason why the "Bury your Gay" thing blew up is because the 100 was one of the few shows back then to have the main character be in a same sex relationship without the story only focusing on them being gay. I was a 14 year old closeted lesbian back then and I barely knew any YA fantasy/sci-fi media that did what the 100 did so it really meant a lot to me. When they killed off Lexa the moment they got together it kinda hurt and seeing how everyone else reacted I wasn't the only one. Lexa's death isn't the worst offender for "Bury your gays" but considering that the audience was a buch of (queer) teens and that 2015 didn't have the best representation yet, well you're asking for backlash if you suddenly kill off the prominent gay character despite having teased a relationship before.
Other than that the show really had potential but the way they used radiation and how much human societies have changed made 0 sense
I understand what you're saying, but I personally don't feel that way. I think this show doesn't deserve the backlash at all for the "Bury your Gays" because, for one, there were other queer characters (the main protagonist!) and also because straight people died all the time too. I feel like when people associate the trope with this show (and particularly with Lexa) they're making it about sexuality, when the point should be to not make things about sexuality. I think it's just a death like any other in the show.
The main reason I had liked this show was how it handled character interactions and development. Rarely do I watch a show where all the characters I initially liked I grew to hate at some point, and vice versa with those I initially hated. The constant strain of having to survive and what that can cause people to do in what feels like lose-lose scenarios and the effects it has on those involved in the decisions I thought was well done. The cast is large and it did a pretty decent job at fleshing out many of its characters. I enjoyed it, even if the plot lines became utterly ridiculous.
At first, I thought I'd die from cringe when I started watching this show, but then I witnessed some unexpectedly fantastic character development and great acting and I couldn't help but respect it.
P.S. Murphy and Kane carried the show for me.
i love it when Chika randomly pops in to dance against copyright.
Still this seems to have its good things, but i never watch any CW Show. I want to try to at least keep my sanity xd
I loved this show. I didnt care whether the storyline was sloppy, or illogical or inconsistent. It took me to another imperfect world and I liked it.
P.S. bilingual or multilingual people switch from one language to the other in the middle of a sentence while speaking to each other provided they both understand both languages.
I don't really understand what people find sloppy or illogical about the writing, it is decent and it was only getting better until season 6, better than so many other shows out there. The only critique people seem to be making is "where they get all those skinny jeans lmao", they have no idea what a good writing is. Or people complain about it being "too unrealistic", bitch, it's a sci-fi show, don't watch it if you don't like the genre.
The most impressive thing about the show to me is that season 5 is basically a retelling of season 1 but with all of the character roles reversed/swapped around, but with way less teenage drama this time around
I really enjoyed this show BECAUSE, as you mentionned, everyone is technically a bad person they re forced to be selfish in order to survive.
There was always someone to fuck up something even though everything was alright or just make a bad decision based on feeling alone like how octavia basically burned the only thing that was keeping everyone at ease just because she wanted to have total control despite the fact that she wasn't in danger at all.
Those were kinda dumb way to make exciting things happen but at the same time kinda realistic too considering there will always be person to wrong someone just for attention.
Also I find it funny how the main cast got so used to killing people that they were pretty much joking while fighting the "crazy" followers by the time season 6 happens.
I guess I enjoyed indra as a character the most. At her introduction she was like *eew, a gun, get it away from me* and by the end of the show she was like *Where the hell is my gun? I can't sleep without it*
But yeah, I do also agree that the show overstayed its welcome and it did look like they ran out of idea.
Overrall, I do wish I could find another show like this one.
I know this is out of left field, old, not a show, and for kids (theoretically), but I earnestly recommend the Animorphs books if you're not already a fan.
I truthfully-joke that those books are basically my religion, and The 100 is one of only two other serial fiction Things that mean as much to me on a spiritual moral level (the other being Firefly), and The 100 is the ONLY thing I've ever found that scratches the same "Heavy decisions, no right answers, harsh lessons about gray morality issues, and insane amounts of dark universe-threatening crises and crazy evil foes and epic badassery" itch that I've always loved Animorphs for. So I figure perhaps that "I love them for mainly the same reasons" could work in reverse for other people, and especially you since I agree enthusiastically with your comment and love all the same things about the show.
Idk but I hope the recommendation serves you or someone well! 🤷♂️
(Also, my personal headcanon is that a particular central Animorphs character, long after the series ends, is granted a second life by godlike-ish-alien-figure-in-the-series because she's just so special and she mattered so much, and gets to be reborn on Earth as a normal baby except with all her memories intact, and grows up to be the one and only 💕 Charmaine Diyoza 💕 because it just fits way too well lol)
@@ItsAsparageese Animorphs is possibly the best YA series ever written.
It doesn't work quite as well now that we're no longer in the idyllic perfection of 1990s America, but it's still absolutely incredible, and one of the darkest and most traumatizing teen-aimed stories I've ever read.
@@SRosenberg203 facts facts and more facts 💚 thanks for validating my obsession haha
@@ItsAsparageese I ll be honest, I m not really fan of books, I m mainly watching this channel to either see the difference between shows and original source material or just to have a quick run down of "insert serie here"
Is the animorph show itself a terrible adaptation of the book or is it going in a different direction?
@@drearydoll6305 The '90s Nickelodeon show is so bad that most fans don't acknowledge its existence and the rest appreciate it for nostalgia value but make fun of it lol. It's essentially loyal to the series but it's reeeeeeeeeally baaaaaad XD And hey no worries, subjective taste in different media formats is a legit thing. I desperately hope that Netflix ends up working on a proper Animorphs serial show in the future, it's a perfect story to adapt and could be adapted really well and would be perfect with a dark gritty nostalgia-laden vibe, like Stranger Things (but '90s) meets The 100 in tone and visual look. Sigh, one day lol
What the hell have I been watching for all these years??? James did not need to come for my viewing preferences like this. I-
I feel like the concept is pretty good, and could make for some extremely interesting stories, it just needs a competent team to execute it.
2:40 - President Wallaces (Dante and Cage)
4:14 - Bellamy is 23yo at the start, he’s not one of the kids, he just tagged along
15:25 - Mount Weather wipes out the village of any Grounder that picks up a gun
16:05 - _Trigedasleng_ or Trig was supposed to be a deliberately constructed code for Grounders to speak without Mt Weather understanding them. "Only" the warriors speak English, because only they would need to understand the Mountain Men I guess... but nearly all the named characters are warriors or trained as warriors, so...
Also, yeah, that weird retcon flashback episode.
Sorry, it's just that I'm actually in the middle of a rewatch... for some reason...
_what have I become_
But yeah I once saw the book in a shop, casually read the first chapter... and suddenly all the things that irritated me about the show became acceptable. Not better, but acceptable. I can't truly judge, but based on that one chapter and the books' Wikipedia summaries, the CW did a LOT for this story.
And yes, it is very uneven. It definitely deserves more scrutiny from essayists. I'm glad this wasn't just shitting on the show like most people seem to do. I'll happily poke fun at the cringe bits, but the good bits are actually _good_, and I don't think that's acknowledged nearly enough.
I know this is more thought than the showrunners demonstrated, but the massive loss of knowledge could have happened if radiation killed off the generation that survived the blasts via cancer, which would be based in what happened to many Japanese people after Nagasaki and Hiroshima. The cancers would cut the lifespans of these people pretty dramatically. If they had kids in the years after, many wouldn't survive, but the ones that did would become the grounders. The parents likely would died from the mestasitized cancers when their children were still kids. So the memory of the old world would have died with them, and they would have been too sick to make history textbooks or even really tell that much to their kids. These kids wouldn't have grown up in regular society and honestly probably didnt get a ton of socialization of any kind since most of humanity is dead. They'd be nearly blank slates, with only shreds of information about the old world told to them by their dying parents. In that scenario, a rapid cultural and linguistic shift makes a lot more sense. Anyone who remembered died like ten years or so after the blast. Any surviving children born after the blast wouldn't have any detailed history. On top of that, the first generation after the blast likely had high incidences of cancer as well, most probably didnt live past 30 or 40. So the second generation loses their parents relatively early too. By the time the show takes place, the oldest people are probably the third generation with maybe a few really old timers from the second.
That would be smarter but thats been disproven in the backdoor pilot in season 7. Basically the 1st generation of survivors all had “nightblood” which gives you radiation immunity. So all of the 1st gen of survivors probably lived out there lives so it still makes no sense that the grounders have no idea what technology is
@@Jayden-fg8on well shit lol. I didn't watch s7
@@allison576 Ur lucky then lol
I dislike CW shows as much as everyone else. But Superman & Lois is really great, worth a shot for anyone interested in a superman show where he has kids and actually acts like superman.
Superhero shows are trash.
man, this was my favorite show. aside from the romance and kinda eh written drama, the world, aesthetics, and the people were something I craved growing. I'm much of a worldbuilder freak and seeing a show like this itched every spot no other show could. it displayed a very realistic and immersive world without showing too much action. they can't fight like us without thousands of soldiers, so they have to resort to out cunning each other.
You should definitely watch Agents of Shieldas as well!
I stopped watching the 100 when the ALIE scientist landed on earth just after the nuclear apocalypse and PEOPLE came up to her. That was the straw that broke the camel's back for me.
@@Jayden-fg8on god, of course they did.
@@buckybarnes2026 yeah since you didn’t watch season 4 it would make absolutely no sense to you
@@Jayden-fg8on I'm pretty sure it wouldn't make sense even if I did watch it
@@buckybarnes2026 Eh i actually disagree even though I think this show has many flaws, they actually did it in a smart way. But im not gonna start a twitter agrument about this because we all know those are pointless
@@Jayden-fg8on don't worry, I'm not gonna argue
I absolutely enjoyed the crazy ride this show put me through. Even though it was a bit outlandish, I was always on the edge of my seat and wondering what was going to happen next. Season six was by far my favorite
The theme song is also a banger.
okay okay this is nitpicky but at 4:14 bellamy is not supposed to be 17 when the show starts, octavia is. bellamy is like an actual 20 something year old
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The Commander United the Clans a few years before the events of season 1
The reason that the ARC could not see the grounders on earth is because they used the technology for survival purposes.
Ice Nation is strongly implied to partly inhibit Canada and lots of the northern states
Me personally, I think the 100's is deserving of a really high 7 or low 8/10 if you don't count the last 2 seasons. It's a lot better than most people give it credit for and to be fair, I hope if the 100 Prequel gets picked up, Jason Rothenberg will improve and refine his show making and fully deliver on his potential
To think any CW Show gets around a 7 is a crime of itself
@@qp7975 have you seen the 100?
@@qp7975 also have you seen black lightning or superman and Lois? I agree that the vast majority of things produced by the CW is of lower to okay quality but they have produced some good content from time to time
I agree with everything in this comment
I rate the 100 as a 9.5 out of 10 and it’s actual rating is pretty close to that
i agree with most of this video but lexa being killed off got so much backlash because the writers went out of their way to tell and promise us they wouldnt just randomly kill lexa off for plot or clarkes chara development. and then two weeks later they did. and the stray bullet thing was just the tip of the iceberg (see buffy for just one example lmao)
I enjoyed binging this show, season 2 was amazing, the rest just goes crazy but it's still enjoyable. I'm surprised it doesn't have much of a fanbase.
I met two of the main actors years ago and still have a signed poster.
I get suspension of disbelief but the idea that society would change THAT MUCH in 100 years really turned me off from the show and I couldn't continue no matter how much I wanted to like it
I replaced 100 with 1000 in my head while watching and it definitely fit the show better.
The books at actually said it was 300 years since the apocalypse which makes a lot more sense
It would've made so much more sense had they put longer time gaps throughout the show. The gaps were so small that some things like Octavia's skill in combat were just so unbelievable given the short time spans they were using. Same thing goes for the radiation and culture development.
Not gonna lie, I would like to see a post apocalyptic, imperialist Swiss empire conquering the neo-heathens of america
For years they were the metaphorical punching bag of the west, but now in the post-apocalypse, no one is cracking jokes at the Swiss expense, only running in fear as they steam roll through haphazardly built settlements with imperial might! ALL HAIL OUR NEW SWISS OVERLORDS!
Explaining how a Science Fiction show is scientifically incorrect seems like a good use of time! 😂😂
One tiny issue you know that the exclusion zone in Chernobyl is and has dealt with high levels of ionizing radiation for decades and it still looks like a forest so the forest of the show still looking more of less normal isn’t that incredible cuz we know that forest arent that affected by it
Also the hole society and language changing that much in only 100 years thats not unreasonable either just look at current 2021 and compare it to 1921 giant leaps almost unrecognizable right? And you can do that at any point the 1921 looks unrecognizable to someone from 1821 and so and so and languages and cultures change rapidly too you can do the exact same thing by doing the comparison i did
Although you were right about the hole nuclear plant thing nonsense
To begin with creating a nuclear plant that is selfsustainable for 100 years is literally impossible without proper maintenance and resources nuclear plants would go critical within about 30 days maximum and they would explode and be dangerous to the surrounding areas but it wouldn’t look like the way the show did it
i started the video and the bra comment caught me completely off guard, that was so weird, unnecessary and uncomfortable wtf
I thought it was decent, but after they left earth (I forget which season, like 5 or 6), it feels like a different show with the same actors and title lol.
Ya know, The 4400 was also a show on the CW that was actually pretty amazing. Even if the ending leaves a bit to be desired
Only because it was unfinished. The potential the 'heroes' weren't what everybody thought was I thought a massive unexpected turn
@@alexmurphy7525 The 4400 deserves a continuation. The possibilities are endless of where else they could go. Schools could be opened in order to train those with abilities (sounds a lot like X-Men), lots of more abilities could be introduced, and there could be a visual representation of the doomed future Jordan Collier (I call him the 4400 Jesus) saw
My dad and I still remember that show fondly.
@@kauswekazilimani3736 it was a very good show
Wait, the 4400 was a CW show?? wow I loved that when I was younger, had no idea
I had to stop watching it. The idea people came up with a new language and forgot like all history and science in 90 years. Also the inventing more did it fit stupid plot ideas. Going from next day future tech, to AI, to suspended animation and space travel which would have been useful. Why didn't the Ark and Mount Weather go into suspended animation? Because that's why
I never got why the ark stayed in earth orbit instead of heading to the moon or the asteroid belt so they could mine resources to make replacement parts and/or build a new ship
@@anthonyramirez9925 I also don’t get why the ark isn’t as advanced as the space minors ship in season 5. There’s no reason why one has cryosleep and can travel across the universe and the other doesn’t even have a telescope
@@anthonyramirez9925 It's an improvised conglomeration of established orbiting space stations, not an actual spacefaring craft
Trigedasleng wasn't invented by survivors (though you'd be amazed how fast distinctive creoles can happen, not that it's a creole per se but just saying). It was invented originally by Bill Cadogan's daughter Calliope as a kid and then came into play later after she escaped her dad's bunker after Becca gave her and her cohorts nightblood.
Also there's not necessarily any reason the Ark would have had cryo tech on the stations that happened to come together to make it up 🤷♂️ They were all orbiting stations, with nobody on them necessarily planning to be off the ground for long. Mount Weather, being a bunker, I can see an argument that there should have been cryo there but still it's not like everyone necessarily included it in everything all the time. It was clearly used for particular industrial and military purposes, and probably cost a lot.
I don't disagree that the "science" in the series usually sucked (I'm a medical nerd so I hurt inside every time they say garbage about radiation lol) and the discontinuity issues were problematic, just making some counterpoints to your particular reasoning presented here
The part about dna isn't completely right: Yes there are other bases that could also be used for genetic information.But that doesn't automatically effect for what this info is coding.The proteins could be the same in theory .
Also, even if the proteins were different, sugars, petidbound and maybe fatty acids would still be there to digest, if the alien life is based on carbon. For the nitrication bacteria our plants need: As long as they shit out nitrate, their build is pretty much irrelevant.
FINALLY SOMEBODY MADE A VIDEO ESSAY ABOUT THIS DUMB YET STRANGELY CAPTIVATING SHOW I'VE BEEN WAITING SO LONG
Grounder Creole just sounds like the showrunners watched The Expanse and said “Ooh! I can conlang!”
Im at the halfway point of this video. Wolves in Chernobyl have evolved to withstand higher radiation with no cancer. Thought you'd find that funny
YES I love Lexa/Clark and I also agree that she doesn’t fit into bury your gays, I’m just regularly upset she died
To me she’s does because of how she died (not the fact that they killed her but they did it after she had sex with Clarke).
The 90-100 years thing is even weirder when you know that in the books it was approximately 300 years... Why change it to less than 100?
Because they probably wanted it to match the name of the show...100 years....100 teens... yeah...really dumb idea. The time jump should have been way more significant
Just pointing out that Bellamy is 23 in the first season of the show, NOT 17 as he was not one of the 100 kids sent down to earth, he was Octavia’s older brother (by 6 years) who pretended to be a guard in order to go down and protect her. Which does make you question his having threesomes with (at most) 17 year olds in season 1 but, hey, this is the CW.
A lot of things my sister likes. You're there ready to rip it apart!!!
The mixing of languages makes sense, it's happens everyday in real life.
I watched 5 seasons of this and I can say that I never had a bad time. It was super stupid at some points but there was always something going on so there was rarely a dull moment. Idk if ill watch the last 2 seasons tho
I kinda wish I would’ve just stopped after season 5. It felt like everything sort of came full circle,wrapped up on a good note and left it open ended(just to me)
Whereas the ending we got was kind of the opposite
Dont watch the last 2
Dont watch the last two, i got through like 3 episodes of season 7 and had to call it quits, like its SUPER ridiculous on where they went with everything that it was genuinely difficult to keep up
@@bravebooks2493 season 7 is a mess it’s good that you didn’t finish watching it
Season 6 was pretty good season 7 was awesome except for one death
With the introduction of aliens it's like the show jumped the shark so high that it went off planet to colonize other planets
as someone who watched up to season 4. nothing could have prepared me for learning what happens in the final season
Only warriors speak English and Trigedaslang. Once wonkru happened I’m sure everyone learned English and trigedaslang both Skaikru and grounders
The100 is brilliant. It has problems, but I think the good outweigh the bad by far. Especially, because it does things that most other shows do bad really good. Thats just so refreshing
When you’re talking about the radiation, you just got to remember that it’s a fiction show
Richard Harmon (John Murphy) really looks like James in the scenes he is being pushed XD
Let's not forget the endless supply of candles. In Lexa's room in Polis there were dozens of burning candles during day-time. Why. (Besides the obvious aesthetic motivations the writers may have had).
Solid video! I really like videos like these.
I really liked how every character was complex, with their own sides to the story. There wasn’t necessarily “right” or wrong”. There were different motives, with different reasons. All completely understandable, though! The plot was deep, the characters were complex, the tensions were constantly high! 10/10 show…possibly the only one I’ve seen.
Bellamy’s death was handled terrible. They could’ve kept him alive until the last episode where he and Octavia would stop the war
i stopped watching after like season 4? it felt like they kept randomly inventing new problems just to keep the story going. and after they killed of lincoln octavia's character went sooo downhill :/ this video makes me want to rewatch seasons 1 and 2 though lol
Every new menace was foreshadowed long before they revealed it, which is a sign of a good writing, they didn't pull new problems out of their ass like many shows do and I loved it.
I hate The 100. Not because it's bad but because it's nearly good. There's so much potential in it that it is annoying they didn't go just that one extra mile to turn it into something great.
Espicially after season 4 when they destroyed the earth. Which means all the world building was gone, so then they had to start making up aliens and shit
The show was great in season 1 & 2. The rest was just absurd and unbelievable. It was hard to watch.
I was amazed by how raven always held on to her hair band. id have lost mine within half an hour of running around
This is the best and honest recap of my favourite show.
Up to s4 this show was great. Then the next 3 seasons happened and I died on the inside
Season 5 is good and wraps up the story pretty well.
WHY DID RAVEN KEEP THE BUM LEG!? EMORI GETS A WHOLE NEW BODY BUT RAVEN KEEPS THE LIMP!?
i love how canada just… cease to exist in every apocalyptic/dystopian series