Review: ‘The 100’ S3 Finale: “Perverse Instantiation Pt. 2”

“We’ll figure something out.  We always do.”

OMG it took Clarke soooo long to just get the show on the road with that goddamn kill switch!!  I was about to have a nervous breakdown.  Anyway.  Wow.  That was a pretty damn good finale.  It was a win for me not just because it was a great episode, but also because I actually got to watch it.  I swear there is some sort of TV fangirl curse on me that causes me to always be out of town when finales of my favorite shows air.   I was in London when the Covert Affairs S4 summer finale aired, and I was in NYC last June when Jon Snow got murdered on the shitty low-def TV in my hotel room (but that time I was lucky enough to at least be able to watch the ep when it aired).  This time, I was on a business trip to North Carolina, and I wasn’t sure if I’d be back in my hotel room in time to watch The 100 finale.  But luckily I was and the hotel actually had the CW channel in HD.  Plus I got to watch it in “real time”, i.e. Eastern Time!  When I’m at home I always have to avoid the internet for 3 hours till it airs here.  So, it really was a win all around.

Review: ‘The 100’ ep 3.11: “Nevermore”

Oh my goodness.  My faves are all back together again and working as a team!!  They all worked out their differences enough by the end of the episode that they’ll be fighting for the same side at least for a little while longer I hope!  SQUEE!!!

Honestly I could make that my entire review of this episode and it would be a completely accurate and thorough description of my feelings about it.  As I think I mentioned last week, one of the key weaknesses of season 3 – as it tends to happen eventually with most TV shows – has been the fact that our OG Crew has been so fractured, fighting against each other for reasons that in many ways (<cough>Bell<cough>amy), haven’t even made any kind of sense.  The show has gotten away from one of its greatest strengths, which is the interplay amongst our favorite gang.  You know, the ones we started watching this show for.

Review: ‘The 100’ Ep 3.10: “Fallen”

“She’s so much stronger than the rest of you …” -A.L.I.E.

No doubt, no doubt, ALIE.  Raven, the Job of The 100, has been notoriously put through the ringer every season on this show.  I wrote about it in my ep 3.01 review, as well as in my 3.03 review, and it’s something I’ve seen a certain contingent of fans complain about on social media consistently since I started watching the show.  When I wrote about it back then, I said that while I don’t agree with the idea that Raven should somehow be off limits to play this kind of perpetually tortured character, it is a fine line to walk, storywise.  Because at some point you do run the risk of crossing over into campy territory, or just becoming torture porn, like Sons of Anarchy eventually did (to be fair – terrible writing was their biggest issue).  I just went back and re-read what I wrote about it in my 3.03 review, and in that one, I was starting to get a little worried.

Review: ‘The 100’ ep 3.07: “Thirteen”

WOW.  Ja-HEEzus.  Now there was a good episode of television.

Update: Wow … and more wow.  It quickly got too late for me to write much last night after the episode, so I’m adding this extra note the next morning.  And I still honestly can’t believe that just happened.

O.k. back to what I wrote last night: The thing is, from looking at Twitter, I’m starting to think I was the only person in the universe who was shocked by Lexa’s death.  That’s the upside and downside of watching a show live while following its cast and crew on social media though: It winds up both spoiling you and throwing you off at the same time.  Spoilers are usually a bad thing, but sometimes they can actually be helpful.  For instance, the reviews I read of the first 4 eps of season 3 warned me about the shitty direction they were going to take Bellamy this season, and that’s one of those things that I prefer to be warned about ahead of time, so that I’m not shocked by it when it happens onscreen.  If I’m blindsided by it, and if it’s a storyline I dislike, I tend to be at least 10x angrier about it.  Heh.  Being warned ahead of time lets me brace myself first and I can take in the sting of it gradually.