tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13727952.post3478839341281330573..comments2024-03-28T15:33:02.296-04:00Comments on Doux Reviews: The 100: The Tinder BoxBillie Douxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17141769005175631213noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13727952.post-50934542480325951862018-01-11T22:34:26.225-05:002018-01-11T22:34:26.225-05:00both Riley and Illian are characters from the Pike...<i>both Riley and Illian are characters from the Pike school of character building created only to create conflict.</i><br /><br />Yes. And that's why they were so extremely boring. Jasper in season one started firing against grounders out of nowhere and that led to war. Finn in season two went crazy and that almost led to war. Pike happened. Can <i>The 100</i> just stop with one character ruining the hard work of everyone else? Those characters' actions are dumb, contrived and not interesting to watch at all.<br /><br />You have more sympathy for Ilian than I do, Laure. I understand that he went through great trauma, has limited knowledge and believes all tech is evil, but he practically erased humanity's chance of survival, therefore I can only see him as immensely dumb. I was surprised he went through with his plan, though. I thought the writers were just squeezing some tension into the plot, like on Riley's case. Now, what?<br /><br />I thought it was kind of ironic that Roan and Echo watched Arkadia go down in flames right after they came to conquer it. It just goes to show how stupid is war.<br /><br />So... Abby and Raven are dying. Then again, everybody is on the brink of death. It's hard to worry about them when you already have to worry about everyone, which is a problem with this type of high-stakes storyline.<br /><br />Also, how rich was Becca?Lamounierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00225447169375363236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13727952.post-15926643425153345342017-03-15T16:10:02.516-04:002017-03-15T16:10:02.516-04:00To be honest both Riley and Illian are characters ...To be honest both Riley and Illian are characters from the Pike school of character building created only to create conflict. While both have sympathetic reasons to act like they do I just don't feel any sympathy and I was rooting for Echo to kill both and be done with them and their interference on the plot. The world of the 100 is such a crapsack world that sob stories just don't have that much of an impact like in normal world shows. Especially if all of the characters have them.<br /><br />Maybe i'll get my wish with Illian in the next episode since I can see Azgeda pushing for an execution for what he did. Also I think they just lost all the rocket fuel so no synthetizing Nightblood in space.Patrykhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13662838711958747484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13727952.post-15533036781503752622017-03-04T13:10:21.964-05:002017-03-04T13:10:21.964-05:00Anonymous, no offense taken. You make excellent po...Anonymous, no offense taken. You make excellent points. <br /><br />As a big fan of The 100, I just didn't like this episode (obviously). It felt too sloppy. But, hey, at least we can agree that Riley is annoying AF. Laure Mackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00692780015410946019noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13727952.post-21590518991376800062017-03-03T18:05:46.648-05:002017-03-03T18:05:46.648-05:00The Riley character is incredibly annoying so far....The Riley character is incredibly annoying so far. I did like the Echo and Bellamy scenes surrounding it though. <br /><br />Within the context of the show Raven's 'powers' and explanation was pretty simple, straight forward and already suggested literally the episode after Clarke saved her last season.<br />Roan is likeable because he is capable of lashing out but also being unreasonable at the same time..I guess that's an accurate King.<br /><br />Ice nation grounders battled Pike and Farm stations, the grounders have been aware of Skaicru's guns since early season 3..<br /><br />It annoyed me at first that no one payed attention to Ilian but he had just carried in Octavia (only person who knows his true agenda) who had warnings of war in that moment he was a hero and easy to overlook in favour of the massive army marching towards you.<br /><br />This is not an attack on this reviewer because its a pretty fair and well reasoned review but i have noticed a trend with many other 100 reviewers that they tend to criticise, highlight and constantly refer to the shows flaws current and past way more than any other show..Even ones on the same network...I mean i love all the comic book shows on the CW for instance but they are rife with many more flaws and worse flaws than the 100 and they rarely get called on it..even when they are the 'but it was fun' excuse comes out.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com