Can't get over how bad this was. An utterly ridiculous premise with so many gaping plot holes, wooden acting and an ending that's telegraphed from the start. A major blot on Finchers portfolio, certainly his worst film and 3 hrs of my life I won't get back.
You did it "The 100", you did it.
You left us last week with a bait-and-switch bisexuality storyline that possibly and probably hinted towards actual dynamical characterization, only to have those hopes dashed and smashed and scattered to the winds, and then you pulled an almost complete 180 to make everything meaningful and interesting again.
How many times will I continue to fall for this?
Infinitely, if not 100, at least, I'd pre-suppose.
So, last week was basically the worst possible episode imaginable. Everything that was built-up and worked towards was all but obliterated with random acts of blindness as each and every character seemed to forget all notions of sanity and reason, leaving everything at face value.
We even learn that allllllll the bone marrow transplant army mountain dudes, except the crazy Son King under the Mountain and his right-hand generic brutish white-dude-stooge were killed in Clarke's Gambit... which honestly just made it more incoherent as to why Lexa surrendered.
Personally, I'm starting to question the saliency of the feminism in this racistly-depicted matriarchal warrior society, and perhaps Lexa's appointment is a post-apocalyptical role of blame funneling.
In a society of warriors, you can have a small, fancy lady queen, so long as we can all blame her for all our problems.
Point-in-fact, the PCP super-heroin drugging that generates the "Reapers". It's a persistence of the "Mountain Men" society of war-ready American (or, AMERICAN) descendents objectifying the external, the others in society, to be their blood property, while also building a subset of warrior-warring people-pets who maintain the "order" and delineation.
Perhaps -- as is most explicable and rational in the face of the irrationality of events -- Lexa's surrender was an ingrained notion of inferiority to the "Mountain Men", which Clarke entirely failed to recognize.
This, I could understand. It'd be deeply horrifying, but it'd be far more understandable.
And as this episode showed in a near-completely brutalistic manner, Clarke jumps to action out of worry, even without rationale or reason. Not only did she save (some of) her people, but she ended-up doing exactly what she wanted to prevent ... she painfully and horrifically obliterated the "Mountain Men", women, and children. She even all-but-line-of-sight-directly killed Jasper's girlfriend, who spent the last 12 episodes consistently saving and supporting every single one of Clarke's people ... even sacrificing her own friends and family for the righteousness of the cause of anti-blood-slavery.
Yet, what is just soooooo infuriating, but weirdly so exemplified, is this persistent delusion of exclusion that Clarke has for her nearest and dearest.
Finn objectively went entirely insane. He had a Nazi-ish massacre of a couple dozen of people under his belt, all based on noticing Clarke's dad's watch. A flimsier rationale could not be designed. Especially not for everything that happened, with Finn's twelve dozen "oops! my finger slipped" insane and persistent reactions as he kept gunning-down person after person, for absolutely and entirely no reason. And then it took three episodes for Clarke to finally mercy-kill him to spare him from a public flaying (a.k.a., a fully conscious separation of his body from his skin).
The frustration is consistently in the pacing and tone. There is absolutely no distinction between the rampaging idiotic murder of dozens of "Grounders", and the absolutely, entirely boring courtship of emotional reticence between Raven and Engineer McGentleman Scruff, Esq..
Clarke will kill a dad to revenge against -- not even coerce, just fully and irrationally and irreconcilably pre-revenge -- a son, then subject dozens of ostensibly innocent men, women, and children to excruciating and inescapable radiation poisoning, and then apparently reconnect with the mother who sent her to prison and orchestrated her own husband's murder for political maintenance, in the span of all but 20 seconds.
I mean ... hormones and the moon are real things, but like, come on, you guys. Seriously, I mean, come on. Is anyone really this entirely cynical and callous and unstable?!
I mean, even I am entirely subservient to blessed Selenic Sovereign ... but come on ... take a beat. Have a thought. Think about what you're doing, for like, I dunno, 3 seconds, instead of 1. Let's start there at least and see how it feels.
You are literally living in a post-nuclear society ... let's not consistently revert to the nuclear option ... no matter how much we miss our mum.
I, too, would enjoy a hug now and then, particularly in the most trying of times ... but you get a pillow or two, you squeeze 'em and put one between your legs, and you go to sleep and see how you feel in the morning.
Doesn't that sound far more manageable and tolerable than the latest mass-murder of the moment?
Cra'y cra'y, for days.
Anyways, of course Jaha then like tosses dudes to the "Tremors"/"Dune" lake leeches so he and Murphy can follow the drone to the island of lost dreams, where it turns out that there is a playboy bachelor billionaire lighthouse ... fuck you, "The 100", for exploiting my weakness!!!
Ugh, ok, I guess now I have to tolerate this story, though of course I can help but be bored with the stupidity that is a semi-sentient fancy-lady-hologram AI who speaks in abstract illuminati riddles and wants to continue to build this story as a pre-cursor to "The Matrix".
I mean ... sure, technically there's nothing else like this on TV, but also, novelty is not intellect nor entertainment, inherently.
I do like to contend though that Jaha suffered massive oxygen deprivation in his last few hours on the space station, and that explains why he's behaving like he is, because he is quite literally -- and non-mockingly -- brain-damaged. That would just be so wonderful, and would really clear a lot of things up, in terms of characterization.
And that's the thing, "The 100", you got me, I'll watch you next season, I will, and I would even, with much trepidation, recommend you to others to watch. You are definitely no "Hawaii Five-0", but you are assuredly some kind of deformed subversion.
Your pacing is horrific, your tone is consistently insane, and your narrative is like "What if only cynical, idiotic assholes survived the nuclear annihilation of humanity ... what would they do if we stick them all in the same room?".
Not to smash a tofu (vegan for "beat a dead horse"), but It's the nuclear fallout and only 2/3rds of the characters in your show are familiar with CPR and basic First Aid. Reflect on "Donnie Darko" for a hot second and revel in the insanity of "The Knick", antiseptics revolutionized modern society. The 1899 may have well been the middle ages, if not Ancient Egypt (-2999) compared to 1999, because of the societal and technological and medical advances. Never have we ever experienced such revolution to the fabric of our basic cultural and societal reality besides the notions of portable food storage (anti-spoilage) and persistent anti-bacterials.
Focus on that you sexy teen adults. I mean, come on. Have a conversation ... once. Just once. Please.
I love that the dude from "Lost"/"Scandal" is the very first person in the very last possible moment to suggest bone marrow donations. Like, you just went through some insane wars and murders and crazy power struggles, and no one ever thought to just have a fucking blood drive, instead of some kind of ghettoized Reganomic CIA insane doping regimen of creating cannabilistic soldier pets to harvest and dispose of these sanguine people-shaped sacks clambering all around the place.
Insane.
But I'll keeping watching.
So insane.
Bea is a f*cking genius.
What a start! I never thought this show could get better after the first two seasons and then BOOM! This episode was amazing. Queen Bea!
Such a great first episode after the results from season 2.
just when i thought this couldn't get any gayer lol
DID THAT GUY CHRIS REALLY SAY "I THINK IM GONNA COME" AT THE END OF HIS PROGRAM ?????? OH MY GOD
THEY TOTALLY KISSED. I DON'T CARE WHAT ANYONE SAYS.
This anime is so good :D And lmao at what Yurio said. "I'll make you into Borscht in Moscow. You Pig Bastard" HAHAHA WHAT
I thought it was a bit too sappy at times (don't all Korean dramas tend to be?), but it was overall funny and cute, and quite enjoyable. I felt the boys, specially Ji Woon, took a little while to grow on me, but they all eventually did. All actors were quite competent too. It looked like Park So Dam struggled with some scenes, but it didn't ruin anything. Some characters were terribly annoying, and I suppose not everyone's ship will make it to the end, but I promise Ji Woon's smile eventually wins over any heart, making up for any couple you might hope would never happen.
A very likable trait of this drama is that it keeps negativity to a minimum. Even the antagonists who plot against Eun Ha Won or the Kang cousins aren't the overly cruel sort and even they find their own balance eventually, making this is is really a great option for everyone who might be looking for a very light-hearted romantic comedy. The show has been fairly compared to Hana Yori Dango, and though I think plot-wise things really are similar, Cinderella and Four Knights still stands on its own, besides having less of a comedic focus than that other story does. This is mostly a show to make you smile rather than to make you laugh, and I think this is a very pleasant watch I'd recommend to most rom-com fans.
(At the date of this post, the show has been freely and legally available at DramaFever, from December 24 to January 2nd, 2017. There's still time to catch it in case you aren't a premium user already!)
OMG THE END GOT ME LIKE WHAT OMG GTG BRB I GOTTA SHIP THEM
I don't get why everyone insists on blaming Skaikru for what is obviously only Jaha's fault. He was the one that screwed everyone over! Even his own people.
Octavia is still as badass as always, you go girl!
And am I supposed to know who Riley is?
Can't wait for next week!
Of course there's someone who's immune.
Let's take a shot every time we come across an absolute cliché. Or we can create a bingo game.
Not sure how Octavia even lived that... It was obvious she WAS going to live, but the possibility of here actually doing so was nigh impossible... Even for this show.
So, Aragorn−I mean Octavia−got stabbed by an orc−Fire Natio... Ice Nation soldier−and fell off an obviously fatal cliff,
is alive and washed up against a shore
(because rivers have shores),
is omnipotently found by her horse, which was initially at the top of the cliff, running in the opposite direction
(what, did it, after intelligently sensing her exact location, and how to get there, just reverse direction and fly down?),
is tempted to rub her horse's face, in appreciation, giving it a blubbergasm
(also known as neighcrophilia),
and rides it back to Roha−Arcadia
(Skareeta, skareeta!).
Close enough?
Remember the time when I wanted to see more of Monty and Jasper because I liked their friendship and how goofy they were? Long, long time ago. At this point I just don't want to see Jasper anymore. Somehow his whole character is so annoying. And sometimes he even has some good arguments, but even at these times it's hard to accept him. I feel like he'll just drag Monty down with him.
And I don't like how thick the plot armor is getting for some characters. The setting always felt like no character should really be safe, but we're at a point where it seems pretty obvious which characters will stay. Let's be honest - Who really believed that Octavia's dead? I hope we'll get to see one or two surprising deaths in the near future.
Sooooo... where's all the other people that went to the island with Abby, Jackson and Raven? Napping with Luna?
Also sure, leave the strange dude that no one knows alone and unsupervised inside the ship that RN is literally your only chance of surviving the radiation. What could possibly go wrong?
Once again Jaha is responsible, this time somewhat indirectly, for screwing the whole of human kind over #worsthumanbeingever.
And after Clarke, Monty and Bellamy worked so hard to secure a truce with the ice nation! These kids can't catch a break.
This Riley dude is more trouble than he's worth. Seriously.
Lmao seriously tho, who would be dumb nuff to leave a grounder or whatever dafuq he is, in the middle of their base and forget him? And Bellamy, Jesus christ, grab the damn gun already or shove Riley's ass aside or at least shove the gun but noooo he wants to convince and sweet talk his ass out of it. We will get the brain damage for all these kinds of simple stupid things lolol
This episode was more comedy than drama with all the nonsense the characters were doing. The brain damage plot seems very cool though..
i swear to god this looked like an episode from Dora the Explorer, she had to get somewhere but always had something in the path!
"We're all in this togehter" cue the HSM moment!
Bellarke FTW. That chasing/shooting scene was so darn cool!
It pisses me off that Jaha is the one saving the day. No. Just, no.
Everything that can go wrong, will go wrong. That feels like the The 100 motto lately. Silver lining? Murphy and Raven are getting along!
Best párt of the episode?
Monty: "Octavia, you're not a killer" HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Dude! seriously?
what a dumb episode. doesnt octavia have like a 4 inch major wound in her gut area?
Can Jasper just die already? Fuck him, he is annoying as fuck.
Guys it's time we get rid of Jasper!!! He's dragging the show to an unbearable level...
I have to agree. This show was a gem when it was first released. It got better with time, but this season has dragged the best of it into the dirt. The characters in the show mean nothing to me anymore, and whatever emotions that captured me before, are all gone. I'm finishing it, just to finish it... but outside of that, this show is more or less dead to me. For what it's worth, the show is still not as bad as Iron Fist... which is saying something.
Stop cutting your palms, dammit. You use them every day, they'll get infected and you don't even have proper medicine to treat them. Just pinch your finger or something.
"I'm here for the war" Ha! That was awesome.
The 100 just got really Hunger Gamesy, huh?
I was SO disappointed when Clarke's flame ceremony got interrupted. It's completely ridiculous for her to be Commander, but I really want it to happen.
I kept rolling my eyes at the sheer idiocy plenty of characters displayed this episode. Use your brains, people! I get why Raven's making bad decisions (her brain is basically melting), but what excuse do you all have?
I was glad to see that Ilyan's sheep survived. Also, if a radioactive fire scorches the land your crops won't survive, dude. Just sayin'.
I keep wondering what happened to this show.
It's been among my favourites for the first two seasons, the third season was already questionable but it kept moving the plot forward in a way no other show does or dares, even though I stopped rooting for anyone in the process.
While season 4 was downright odd and senseless for the most part. Killing off so many characters or destroying them this season...
Also the introduction of really, really unpredictable characters to stir everything up more was a weird decision. Like Roan, Luna, that guy Octavia fell for, Harper, Riley. Seriously, the Harper and Riley things piss me off so much. For no apparent reason than feeling guilty for this random dude makes Harper willingly stay behind to die, while Riley was obviously not fit to be where he was. The whole story brings enough drama with it, we don't need this senseless drama in the mix. Monty lost his best friend already, why make him lose his girlfriend or his live as well? Just so we could repeat the mountainmen storyline?
Jasper needs to die, Jaha should have been killed seasons ago/never be in a position where he has authority again (yet it always happens somehow) and I really can't believe they make Clarke go to such lengths.
I am curious how many of our extended "main" cast they gonna kill off at the end of this season.
It's probably for the best big characters were killed off. I was hoping the fight wasn't 'canceled' because of black rain.
Also interesting twist at the end.
