There seems to be a dull few weeks of Television before the end of September and start October when our screens get chocked full of new and returning shows. Personally I am most looking forward to all the DC comics shows. So with this in mind I had a look around and stumbled upon the take three CW show The 100 (pronounced the Hundred not the one Hundred because insert reason). Now this is the first show I reviewed that I did not actively look for so I knew very little about the show beforehand.

Now the premise of the show is that 97 years have passed from a nuclear apocalypse, a future most futuristic sci-fi writers predict, they seem like a delightful group. Anyway all the survivors are in this combined space station from twelve international ones to from the ‘Ark’. Since recourses are scarce they think it’s a good idea to send 100 (see the link to the title) young beautiful prisoners back to earth as guinea pigs to see if the earth is habitable again. Already I have a few problems with the plot which is actually based on the book of the same name by Kass Morgan, and developed by Jason Rothenberg. The town of Chernobyl home of the worst nuclear disaster to date isn’t inhabitable for between 180 and 320 years. I am only assuming that even Chernobyl wouldn’t be match for a nuclear apocalypse, why would it take less time for the earth to recover? Also why would they send young prisoners wouldn’t it make more sense so send much older prisoners. All these teens are attractive and fertile, if humanity is to survive they kinda need to rely on them to procreate.

Maybe it’s a bit unfair that I’m looking into the science and logic of the show, after all it is sci-fi. I was actually impressed on how good it looks. The CGI is actually pretty good, especially the space station, that is a fine lookin’ space station. As for the characters I don’t care for them. There was an instance when a presumably main character was in peril and I was actually rooting for the thing delivering the harm. They all just seem really unlikeable, maybe it’s because they remind me of a bunch of unpleasant high school students. Maybe they will grow on me when they add some dept to their otherwise one dimensional personality. They did present a mystery as to the environmental status of earth, its mutated wildlife which hardly a surprise. Look the CW actually shelled out money for this show because they have faith in it and it did get renewed for a second season. I guess they need to take the teen drama genre that the network is known for and take to space and back to earth since sci-fi is quite popular these days. I might watch the second episode just to see where they take it from there since it was just the pilot, so I’m not shooting the show down just yet.

This brings me to a score of a: if you overlook logic and science which the genre tends to sometimes as well as they teen relationship drama this can actually be a promising show so soldier on.