The 100 (TV Series) The 48 (2014) User Reviews

It's getting crowded

[tenshi_ippikiookami · 7/10 · 3 February 2016]

In the first season, when the 100 arrived on Earth, they were supposed to be alone. We soon discovered they were not, and the Grounders joined the fun. Close to the end of season one, the Reapers appeared. The end of the season teased us with a new group, on top of the Ark survivors arriving on Earth.

And here we have the dystopian society that has gone through an end-of-humanity war and have become moles who live underground in a seemingly peaceful and cheerful society.

You know it's gonna end bad.

The idea of a new group, one that has kept its "civilization" but its probably hiding a darker secret than the Grounders is not an original one, and they show will have to tread with care not to become a caricature of itself. On the other hand, correctly done, it can add to the fun. In this first episode, it does, as it adds some interesting questions: how come they need people from over the ground, why are the interested in the people that came back from the Ark, what did they do with Anya...? Some of the 100 seem to like the change, to have a roof, food and be clean. Clarke, being smart, is not.

On the ground, Finn and Bellamy are having another kind of problem. The people from the Ark are back, in with it, both of them are losing their position of power and becoming "children" again. Kane is going to take control, but for how long and how is what the show will have to answer. Bellamy and Finn have been free for too long, and it's difficult to cage a wild animal. Talking of wild animals, Murphy is also alive. The show has used him as a bogeyman, but it seems more humanity will be infused to his character. Another bad that becomes I-really-had-a-messed-time-growing-up-but-I'm-good-deep- down? Let's see.

So many new plot developments, change of pace, and interesting new characters and situations make for a good start for season two.

Not bad and not that good neither.

[ououzaza · 8/10 · 28 February 2020]

The point of this episode is just showing the next chapter of the previous episode. Also setting up a new world, not that interesting. And they could drop more foreshadow in this one.

Let's take a moment to appreciate that Clarke is the only one not letting her guard down

[Neptune165 · 7/10 · 16 September 2022]

The girl at the beginning of the episode, Maya she had headphones on that's why she didn't hear Clarke, The 100 were born in space they are special. They explained their food source in this episode, a hydroponics farm powered by electricity from the nearby dam. You may have missed that comment, but it is enough to assure you that there is no cannibalism in Mount Weather. The only cannibals in The 100 are the Reapers (to this point anyway, as I don't want to spoil anything that happens later). As for whatever other shady activity may or may not be happening within Mt. Weather, I will say nothing. I found the President Dante Wallace's explanation of radiation to be interesting, though you really have to listen to get it (I didn't fully catch on until re-watching the episode after the rest of the season). Basically, they answered an old riddle from the pilot episode: why were the 100 able to survive on the ground a century before the radiation was expected to decay enough to make the Earth survivable? Dante's explanation was that the ground still wasn't survivable for people who lived before the nuclear Armageddon. So, if you or I were to time-travel to their time and be placed on the ground outdoors, we would very quickly die of radiation poisoning. But the non-Mountain grounders developed an immunity to that level of radiation, and those on the Ark developed an even greater immunity to radiation because they had the solar radiation in space. The people of the Ark failed to account for this, and that is why they thought it would take so much longer for the ground to become survivable again. That's not exactly how Natural Selection works, especially in only four or five generations, no matter what anyone believes about evolution (sorry, Dante). But The 100 seems to follow the rule of "Don't let a scientific fact get in the way of a good story". If I wasn't worried about spoilers, I could cite a few more examples from future seasons, but I'll just mention the one which bothers me most from season one. In "We are Grounders, part 1", Jaha in a video explains to a young Clarke and Wells that the Ark spins to produce its own gravity. Some of the individual component ships that make up the Ark look symmetric enough to do so on their own, but the Ark as a whole is too irregularly shaped to make a consistent gravitational field by spinning. But at least, unlike other science fiction, The 100 tends to be internally consistent (they don't break their own made-up rules of science), so I find I can suspend disbelief enough to accommodate them. Plus, unlike some other shows that use this rule, The 100 actually has a good story.

An amazing start!

[nomis94 · 9 October 2015]

Wow, season 2 starts off really good. The writing, the pace, the acting - everything is pretty decent and so much different to the first episodes from season 1 (which I don't really like). There are so many story arcs and every single one of them is thrilling. That's how it should be when we talk about a sci-fi thriller series. I'm so hooked on the whole Mount Weather plot. So many questions and possibilities! I'm also curious about how the people from the Ark will establish to this world. Also the new characters are pretty interesting so far. The President is odd. I'm excited to see where the story leads to. My vote is 10!

I want to kill the director and writer of this season.

[balramshah-29989 · 6/10 · 19 July 2021]

They made a plot such, they sacrificed 250 people in village who could have been saved but they choose to save 48 people locked in the mountain cage. I am not able to handle this logic. And they say 250 people sacrifice is for greater cause.

I want retaliation. Please join me.

This show is very unpredictable

[Neptune165 · 7/10 · 16 September 2022]

Also President Dante explained how their system works to Clarke when they were walking to the elevators. He tells her how all of their stuff works off of Hydroelectric power from the Philpott Dam. They get fresh water from their underground reservoir and Fresh food from their hydroponic farm. They HAVE to live in there because their bodies never went through nature selection and the ones who could live survived aka the "grounders" And the mountain men never got that so they can't handle the radiation at all that's why they freaked out when Clarke tried to open the door and also why that had suits and masks on when they "rescued" the 48 kids. You will soon find out who you can trust and who u can't.. This show loves to throw you off. Well, the only ones in the ground were the grounders and the mountain men, and the grounders, who from the start, were introduced as a non peaceful people, it makes sense that they don't like each other. This is how the mountain works, anybody who lives in the mountain was born there, why would they turn their own people into slaves? That doesn't really make sense. The mountain is run kinda like the arc, they have workers in different sector for different jobs and stuff to keep everyone alive, but they're not slaves. The 48 were the first people they brought inside to live with them, they saw that they were at war with the grounders and wanted to provide shelter for them, that makes sense, there is nothing weird about that. Keep in mind as well, the mountain men don't know anything about the 48, they've just met. And just one last thing, you have to start believing the story you are being told bit by bit every episode, you can't doubt everything they say, otherwise the story is not going to make any sense. Not everything is a plot twist is what I'm trying to say.

The big reveal makes 0 sense

[alexleizerovichcoaching · 5/10 · 11 June 2022]

I've been waiting during season 1 to expose where did the radiation has gone. I mean 97 years ago there was such an enormous nuclear war that made the human kind leave earth. One would it think it covered most if not all earth.

They were supposed to be back 200 years after the radiation was cleared. But they had to come back 100 years earlier.

At the beginning of season 1 they tease us with the results of the radiation. Weird mutated animals, weird mutated human scull, and some weird acid storms. But this was only at the beginning and they all forgot about it later on.

At the beginning of season 2 their explanation is that the grounders were evolved and now immune to radiation. And the humans that came back from space are even more immune to it(not sure how). While the ones that were hold back in that base in mountain are sensitive to it.

The only problem is that as far as we know Cockroaches are the only living creature immune to radiation(because they have slower cell cycles). For humans to evolve in this way it will probably take thousands, tens of thousands of years of slow evolution. 100 years of human evolution is basically nothing. The changes that can happens within 100 years DNA wise are almost non existent(3-4 generations only).

This series is full of plot holes like a swish cheese. I hope it will be better than season 1 at least.