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TV Review: The 100

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Ninety-seven years ago, nuclear Armageddon decimated planet Earth, destroying civilization. The only survivors were the 400 inhabitants of 12 international space stations that were in orbit at the time. Three generations have been born in space, the survivors now number 4,000, and resources are running out on their dying "Ark" - the 12 stations now linked together and repurposed to keep the survivors alive. Draconian measures including capital punishment and population control are the order of the day, as the leaders of the Ark take ruthless steps to ensure their future, including secretly exiling a group of 100 juvenile prisoners to the Earth's surface to test whether it's habitable. For the first time in nearly a century, humans have returned to planet Earth. Among the 100 exiles are Clarke, the bright teenage daughter of the Ark's chief medical officer; Wells, son of the Ark's Chancellor; the daredevil Finn; and the brother/sister duo Bellamy and Octavia, whose illegal sibling status has always led them to flaunt the rules. Technologically blind to what's happening on the planet below them, the Ark's leaders - Clarke's widowed mother, Abby; the Chancellor, Jaha; and his shadowy second in command, Kane - are faced with difficult decisions about life, death and the continued existence of the human race. For the 100 young people on Earth, however, the alien planet they've never known is a mysterious realm that can be magical one moment and lethal the next. With the survival of the human race entirely in their hands, THE 100 must find a way to transcend their differences, unite and forge a new path on a wildly changed Earth that's primitive, intense and teeming with the unknown.
http://eztv.it/shows/1000/the-100/
13 episodes (Season 1) available, currently showing somewhere on satellite TV.

Strange to see one of the villains from Continuum in this running alongside but its pretty good overall.

This is Si-Fi
Worth a watch
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sounds very typical of a syfy channel program. Their description of the program leaves nothing to the imagination and i feel i've pretty much seen the first 7 episodes without watching it... usually a bad sign as well when they have to give each individual main character names and personalities in the description.

Also sounds a very over used premiss as well and has used stock background descriptions for why they are going back to earth. It's like they have said they want people living on a space station to return to earth and be all like wtf when they return... so we'll pick the "hundred years in space" and the "nuclear war" back stories that we have used countless times before... it's like ITV or BBC doing yet another hospital or detective series. I'd accept the back story more if it didn't just sound like people just so happened to be on space stations with 100 years worth of food and water when nuclear war broke out.

tbh i would probably watch if it was on at the time i happened to flick over to that channel, but the characters all sound like rehashed SyFy characters i've seen hundreds of times before in other SyFy series so with the low rating you gave i won't go out of my way for it :D
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2.5 stars is a 7.5/10 score dont forget due to red stars being bad
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