It's awful, but somehow in a really great way like Escape from LA/New York, Anaconda, Evil Dead, and Xena/Hercules.. and any number of 1950s and 60s horror movies... Which incidentally have been ripped off by this show; one of the recent episodes blatantly ripped off a key element of the plot of Atom Age Vampire.
In short, the series revolves around the concept of humans living aboard a space station for a century after the nuclear annihilation of civilization on the Earth below. They were beginning to have problems with air, and decided to send down 100 kids to the surface to see if the planet was habitable again. As it turns out, it was, only it's covered with raging mutant barbarians, and other factions...
And the area of DC seems to look remarkably similar to Vancouver Island British Columbia... Similar to Caprica - the well written and slow paced shiny successor to Battlestar Galactica that wasn't at all entertaining, and spent season 2 (err... 1.5) in a ratings decline.
The 100 is the polar opposite of Caprica. In the case of the 100, it is a very fast paced and written like a campy B-film, and it is VERY entertaining; like all great B-films, the poor story telling on top of an amazing concept is a fantastic source of entertainment. There are such gems as "Natural selection is the reason Grounders can survive the harsh radiation of the surface, they can metabolize radiation. Also, the reason why you 100 are able to survive is also thanks to natural selection." Which after three generations didn't seem to deplete the population by any real amount, particularly considering that they were overpopulated after just three generations!
I highly recommend the show, you WILL get hooked if you are into B-movies with fantastic concepts and really campy execution.
During season 1 people loved the concept, but found the show terrible (I assume), and it saw a ratings decline through the entire season. Yet come season 2, I think people really began to love this terrible series! I'm in that boat, I love it!
It is also one of the few shows on American TV that seems to be growing in viewership by the episode: Season 2 began with 1.54 million viewers on the premiere. That dropped to 1.48, but then episode 3 saw 1.68 million, and last week's episode saw 1.75 million.
Everywhere else, it's Netflix exclusive.
Clarke's mother is Paige Turco, who played April O'Neil from the 2nd and 3rd 1990s Ninja Turtles movies.
In short, the series revolves around the concept of humans living aboard a space station for a century after the nuclear annihilation of civilization on the Earth below. They were beginning to have problems with air, and decided to send down 100 kids to the surface to see if the planet was habitable again. As it turns out, it was, only it's covered with raging mutant barbarians, and other factions...
And the area of DC seems to look remarkably similar to Vancouver Island British Columbia... Similar to Caprica - the well written and slow paced shiny successor to Battlestar Galactica that wasn't at all entertaining, and spent season 2 (err... 1.5) in a ratings decline.
The 100 is the polar opposite of Caprica. In the case of the 100, it is a very fast paced and written like a campy B-film, and it is VERY entertaining; like all great B-films, the poor story telling on top of an amazing concept is a fantastic source of entertainment. There are such gems as "Natural selection is the reason Grounders can survive the harsh radiation of the surface, they can metabolize radiation. Also, the reason why you 100 are able to survive is also thanks to natural selection." Which after three generations didn't seem to deplete the population by any real amount, particularly considering that they were overpopulated after just three generations!
I highly recommend the show, you WILL get hooked if you are into B-movies with fantastic concepts and really campy execution.
During season 1 people loved the concept, but found the show terrible (I assume), and it saw a ratings decline through the entire season. Yet come season 2, I think people really began to love this terrible series! I'm in that boat, I love it!
It is also one of the few shows on American TV that seems to be growing in viewership by the episode: Season 2 began with 1.54 million viewers on the premiere. That dropped to 1.48, but then episode 3 saw 1.68 million, and last week's episode saw 1.75 million.
Everywhere else, it's Netflix exclusive.
Clarke's mother is Paige Turco, who played April O'Neil from the 2nd and 3rd 1990s Ninja Turtles movies.
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