It doesn't transcend its genre, but if you are down for a post-apocalyptic adventure show, it should fill the bill nicely. Production values and world-building are good, the creative team is good at posing an ever-shifting array of problems and challenges that don't seem too dumb or out-of-left field, and there's a…

This is not necessarily true. Human history does have examples of societies in which a warrior class excuses itself from productive labor, while often creating armed conflicts to justify its existence. Basically a protection racket.

This is something that the producers have to struggle with. They know it's the CW, so a good chunk of the audience is there to see badass teenagers be badass, but they also have aspirations to tell a more complex story. Sometimes those two things work together okay, other times not as much.

The commander has to be a nightblood, so no. And the grounders' reaction to Clarke's commander gambit suggests that they won't accept an artificially engineered nightblood, either. Just as well. Octavia has grown up a lot in the last couple of episodes, but she has literally no leadership skills.

Yeah, it seemed a little like artificial conflict to have Clarke et al. just assume that the grounders would massacre them if they opened the door. Planning on deathgirl winning the conclave was the right move, but once Octavia pulled off the upset, it would have been perfectly feasible to backtrack. The only way…

The space suicide seemed like a really selfish waste of a potentially valuable resource.

I wouldn't take Indra's advice on anything except how to kill people.

I thought the time jump had been confirmed? It would save us all from pretending to believe that most of the cast members are seventeen or eighteen.

Mathematically speaking, Bellamy is now ahead of the game!

He's one of the stronger actors to have appeared in the series. It was nice to see him (successfully) represent the grown-up side of Raven's personality. Her character is at its worst when she's just another melodramatic,angry adolescent. Hopefully, this episode is a turning point for her, as the last one was for…

I wouldn't have trusted Octavia, though. She was probably the weakest contestant, and also has a history of being an angry, self-absorbed adolescent. Seeing her actually take advice from numerous other characters, play it smart, and then make a morally strong and generous decision after she won was a very welcome…

This, exactly (unfortunately). Badly executed character about-faces have become a 100 trademark.

I enjoy The 100 in spite of the very uneven writing and acting, but Whittle didn't impress me at all, and I'm worried that he might not have the chops for something a little deeper. To be fair, he might be able to do a lot more with better dialogue.

It has a decent premise, solid production values, and plenty of entertaining fight scenes. Also, they've worked hard to build the mythology and the cast of characters. Downside, the dialogue, acting, and character development are just brutally bad, with no exceptions that I can think of. Unfortunately, the two…

Because it's irrefutable?

Wright was excellent in Ang Lee's extra-extra-underrated "Ride With the Devil."

I've got nothing good name-wise for the skull in the mirror… the picture of Dorian Grimm? A view to a skull? Bitsie Skulloch? I would like to suggest that since the cloth is the Shroud of Curin', the stick could be the Fragment of the Blue Cross.

That would break the brood-o-meter!

They need to get kraken.

Huh… weird. Wild animals, by the looks of it.