You could be done with the first book in about the span of a day depending on how quickly you read (I think I did it over two nights). I picked it up purely because of the show - I like seeing how closely stuff hews to the source material.

….Good lord, how did I not catch that?

Well, you have to remember that the original 100 (who formed the 47) were culled from their societies criminal element - while I don't want to make it a debate about the real world's justice system, you have to expect that means that they're pretty disproportionately represented by people who came from a section of…

I'm totally confused. You knocked the show from an "A" to an "A-" on the basis of one line of dialogue from Raven to Finn? As though Raven could ever be expected to be objective about Finn, about anything?

I feel like there's a distinct lack of "Legends of the Hidden Temple" jokes in these comments.

I think the simpler explanation is that Whitehall really clearly did a number on that woman's brain when he broke her into becoming part of HYDRA, and she might not be rationally inclined to consider the merits of cosmetic surgery.

Yeah, so Mack turned into lunatic hulk from touching the… runes(?) for five seconds, which gave him incredible strength and uncontrollable rage. They knocked him back down the shaft (hehe… "shaft"..) where he'll basically be making full-body contact with those same runes for indeterminate amounts of time?

I honestly wasn't bothered by the whole "mystery of the week" format of the first half of the first season (although I think what they've done since is MUCH better), although I know that kind of turned a lot of people off.

Absolutely. The whole bit was meant to contrast Coulson's idealism against the dangers of the reality. Or so it would seem.

Well, the spikes were made out of snapped off pieces of a church organ, that one can't imagine were dug too deeply into the ground (a) because of a lack of time and b) because the deeper you plant them the less they're able to stop encroaching zombies).

An earlier commenter had a thought that might have been a joke but which sounds actually surprisingly compelling - that there's a chance that Katrina is going to step up to be (or always was but was just hiding it) the next "big bad" of the series.

Actually, I wonder if they're intentionally trying to keep Katrina's power limited in application. She could very easily have veered in the opposite complaint direction - if she was solving all their problems through magic, wouldn't it be just as bad as her apparent inability to solve any problems through magic?

"ABRAHAAAAAAMMMMMM!"

I feel like this is the first time I heard Katrina actually talking during the casting of her spells - the incantation? I find it a little… sad(?) that the magic word for the spell that "extends the power of the magic amulet" is seemingly.. "extendsis." I guess because apparently everything sounds magical if you add…

I'll be honest that my biblical knowledge is pretty limited. I actually had to Google Methuselah to refresh myself on which one he was - but I'd say the handwave explanation is that (per Wikipedia on Methuselah) that someone who lives to be 900+ years old is probably "immortal." And Henry established at the end of the…

All the speeches. All the damned speeches. They set my teeth on edge.

They say it a few times, but specifically I know in the S1 recap at the start of S2, Clarke does a voiceover where she says 97 years.
Random thought- maybe someone thought a century had symbolic ties to "The 100." 100 years, etc.

Before this season I would have said no, that Maggie's character was too different from that other Maggie. I had always thought that Season-2 Beth's suicide attempt was the nod to Maggie's in the comics, and TV-Maggie's disappointment at it an attempt to differ the characters, and moved on.

My complaint as well. If you're going to have Beth get killed doing something incredibly stupid, at least let her approach it in an ostensibly competent way. Otherwise you're just kicking her on the way down.

I wasn't a huge fan of the hospital myself. Like the author said, there just wasn't enough effort to give the place an identity other than "generic sinister setting." I -suspect- that to some degree the whole plan was used as a vehicle to a (likely modified) plot point with Maggie that would take place around here,…