The 100
The 100 used to be one of my favorites shows to watch on television. This teen drama, which currently is in its 4th season on the CW network, revolves around a post-apocalyptic world where the earth has been wrecked by nuclear war, and those who have remained have inhabited one giant space station called the Ark. In season 1 of the show, officials from the Ark make the decision to send 100 juvenile prisoners to the ground to test if humans can survive on earth, seeing as it has been almost 100 years since the nuclear war. The 100 juveniles crash-land on earth and have to explore the dangerous, unknown land while trying to make a new home for themselves. I first found the show in December of 2014, and I binge-watched the whole first season within a few days.
The first season features the tension between the Sky People (those from the Ark) and the descendants of the people who survived the nuclear war on Earth (called the Grounders). The Grounders are seen as an unknown danger in the first few episodes because strange events start happening, but the Sky People don't actually come face to face with the Grounders until later. The Sky people start experiencing attacks from the Grounders because they are foreigners in the Grounder’s homeland. The first season of the 100 mainly deals with the Sky People trying to fight off the Grounders, and it also focuses on the tension and drama that builds amongst the Sky People, who have differing opinions on how their group should be led. The season finale features a major battle between the Sky People and the Grounders, which ultimately ends on a cliffhanger. This was probably my favorite season of the show because it was exciting to see how the Sky People adapted to a world they had never seen before.
The first few episodes of the second season had already aired by the time I started watching the show, so I didn’t have to wait for the second season to premiere as did other fans who watched the show when it first aired on TV. The second season of The 100 dealt with the adults from the Ark having to come down to earth because of dwindling resources on the space station. In this season, most of the Juveniles are being trapped by the Mountain Men, a society of people who survived the nuclear war and made their home in an underground government bunker. I highly enjoyed this season because I thought the storyline was intriguing, and it really made me excited to watch the show every week. There was one specific creepy revelation about the Mountain Men, who were at first seemingly nice people, that made the season a very interesting ride. It was also refreshing to see the Sky people and the Grounders group together to fight a common enemy.
The third season of the show, however, was not my favorite. I liked the first few episodes because it was interesting to watch what went down after the second season ended, but I just felt that the season didn’t live up to the first two. There were several deaths in the season that I felt were uncalled for, and I noticed, as did other fans, that the PoC characters on the show were not treated as well as other character and were seen more as the villains instead of the heroes. I also felt that the storyline was more boring and the aspect of AI technology and a chip that controlled people’s minds just didn’t work very well for the show. I’m not alone in these feelings though; other fans felts that this season was lackluster. The 100 has its worst ratings during the third season due to fans boycotting the show because of the season’s storyline and controversy caused by the show’s creator, Jason Rothenberg.
The fourth season recently premiered, and I watched the first episode of the season. I think I've decided to give the show a season chance. I thoroughly hope that the 100 redeems itself and that this season will be much better than the last and comparable to the first two seasons that I enjoyed so much.
Update: I gave the first few episodes a chance, but I just couldn't get myself excited about the show again. There's honestly no telling if I'll watch the rest of the fourth season anytime season.
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