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Post by AntiArbitrator on Oct 23, 2014 21:14:16 GMT -5
2.01 The 48
Clarke frantically tries to make sense of her surroundings; an enemy returns.
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Post by AntiArbitrator on Oct 23, 2014 21:39:13 GMT -5
I was glad to see so many of my favorites return. I do not remember the two young people who were in the woods.
I can accept Clarke not trusting the rescuers, but her reaction was more violent than necessary. It was obvious they had not harmed her, but she never gave them a chance to explain their intentions. Clarke’s assumption that they are prisoners will probably prove to be correct, but it might not be for an onerous purpose. Perhaps they need fresh DNA breeding purposes.
Meanwhile, outside those walls, the young survivors are suffering. I was surprised, but very happy, to see the adults come to the rescue.
I will chat more tomorrow.
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Post by KyleEl on Oct 24, 2014 16:05:23 GMT -5
Can't read. Haven't watched yet.
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Post by AntiArbitrator on Oct 24, 2014 17:25:06 GMT -5
The adult's craft will be used as home base and is called "Camp Jaha" to pay homage to the Chancellor who stayed behind. That is a nice touch. There was no explanation why Jaha lost communication with those who landed. He had given up...then...surprise! We heard a baby crying.
Lincoln has become one of my favorite characters. He is willing to go to any length to save his lady. The penalty for getting caught is 1000 cuts so I hope he returns before the monster man takes her, or he would go through that for nothing.
Raven is fortunate she can get medical help now.
I wonder what the adults will do if/when they find the facility where the children are being kept.
It was a good episode.
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Post by KyleEl on Oct 27, 2014 13:55:55 GMT -5
I did find the underground world interesting. One of the problems I have with the show now is that I only know Clarke, Octavia and Octavia's boyfriend the Grounder, whatever his name is, and the black man still on the Ark who used to be in charge, whatever his name is. I can't remember who anyone else is.
The new place where Clarke is made me think of Hyacinth Bucket.
I'm totaly lost because I don't even know where the people who came down from the Ark are.
And the one man who used to be in charge is all alone with a BABY?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2014 0:10:49 GMT -5
How come Octavia is always finding these random grounders? Seems Clarke was right to be suspicious. That ending reminded me of the terminus camp. EEEK.
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Post by KyleEl on Oct 31, 2014 14:54:36 GMT -5
I haven't had time to watch yet and don't know when I will.
Wait. Is BadWolf referring to this week's or last week's?
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Post by AntiArbitrator on Oct 31, 2014 18:29:37 GMT -5
I need to watch the second half of the episode. Octavia does have luck on her side.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 2, 2014 17:59:17 GMT -5
I haven't had time to watch yet and don't know when I will. Wait. Is BadWolf referring to this week's or last week's? The most recent episode
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Post by AntiArbitrator on Nov 2, 2014 19:46:41 GMT -5
How come Octavia is always finding these random grounders? Seems Clarke was right to be suspicious. That ending reminded me of the terminus camp. EEEK. The 2nd half of the episode was very exciting. Did you recognize the random grounder (Nyko) as Ty Olson, Dean Winchester's vampire BFF from Purgatory? Fooling around with Octavia has gotten both of the friendly grounders in serious trouble. They are in an impossible situation, but I am sure Octavia will come to the rescue. I have grown to really like Lincoln so I hope he survives. I smiled when I saw the statue of Abraham Lincoln at the entrance to their camp. I wondered if Octavia recognized the significance. I know Clarke appeared to be ungrateful and a trouble maker, but she was right. Are they using the children's blood as a transfusion to give their people immunity? The guy was recovering quickly from the radiation burns. The scenes with Jaha certainly held my attention as I wondered what the heck was happening. Watching him free fall over to the missile was surreal. Poor Raven...she loses her boyfriend to Clarke...then she gets shot by one of her own people...then surgery with no anesthesia. They are really torturing her.
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Post by KyleEl on Nov 3, 2014 13:30:34 GMT -5
I wonder if the Lincoln statue meant they were in Washington, D.C.? No, couldn't be. There'd be so much more of the city left standing.
The black man's son wasn't real because on Earth. So I guess the baby wasn't real, either?
I'm having an easier time follwing this but it still doesn't make a lot of sense.
The people underground seem to be having a good time and want it to stay that way, and have terrible taste in music (but there probably haven't been any new recordings in 100 years).
I'm still hoping for Clarke to accomplish what she wants to.
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Post by AntiArbitrator on Nov 4, 2014 15:50:01 GMT -5
I thought someone hid a baby like Octavia's parents did and that the baby was unintentionally left behind. I was truly surprised that the baby was a hallucination. The bad air caused confusion in Jaha. The upside is that "the baby"motivated him to devise a plan to get to earth. I do not think it was his son's spirit because he died on earth.
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Post by AntiArbitrator on Nov 8, 2014 20:00:24 GMT -5
2.03 Reapercussions - Clarke joins forces with an unlikely ally after discovering a horrifying project in a medical ward. This episode was very dramatic...
Clarke and Anya had a close call while trying to escape the weather station. When they thought they had the exit, they tumbled into a holding bin full of Reaper food. Clarke could not find her way out of the tunnels and was surrounded by Reapers. Men wearing masks rescued her from the Reapers, but that did not mean she was safe. After another fight for freedom, Clarke and Anya both made a daring jump over a waterfall. That was very exciting.
Abby's day did not go any better than Clarke's. She committed a felony by releasing Murphy and supplying Finn with guns. When she was tied to a post, I thought Chancellor Jaha would arrive in the nick of time to rescue her, but not this time.
Finn has changed from the cool dude who gets the girls into a killing machine who shows no mercy.
Octavia is still the luckiest person on the ground. She survived in spite of the odds being against her.
Back at the weather station, the woman assigned Lincoln to the Cerberus Program. What is that?
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Post by KyleEl on Nov 10, 2014 16:31:54 GMT -5
Haven't seen it yet. I had no idea I was so far behind. I was only expecting to see "About a Boy" on the list of what I hadn't watched on the one machine. "Two and a Half Men" was also there.
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Post by AntiArbitrator on Nov 12, 2014 22:38:26 GMT -5
2.04 Many Happy Returns
Finn, Bellamy and Murphy race to save a stranger; tension rises between Wick and Raven.
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Post by KyleEl on Nov 14, 2014 16:43:38 GMT -5
I finally saw last week's. I was pleased Clarke was so nice to that Grounders leader, but then it backfired on her.
I didn't like seeing Clarke's mother get what they called lashes.
The table lamps in the underground world are strangely comforting.
I worry about Octavia.
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Post by AntiArbitrator on Nov 16, 2014 18:11:07 GMT -5
When we see the Weather Station again, I will pay attention to the lighting, but I do remember that the lighting in the dining area was like a fine restaurant. I watched "Many Happy Returns" and thought it was mostly tragic. The constant battles between Clarke and Anya was disheartening because I wanted them to work together. They had some brutal fights. When they arrived at the camp, I remembered the Police Captain saying "Shoot Grounders on sight" and Clarke's face is covered in mud like a Grounder. The group of children with Bellamy and Finn had an awful trek through the woods. They ran across one of the missing groups from the ark landing. They crashed into a mountainous area and all but one died. I did not enjoy the scenes where they were climbing down and up the cliff. But I did enjoy the brother-sister reunion. I do not remember Wick when they were on the Ark, but Raven was certainly rude to him. I liked him trying to help her in spite of her attitude and they were able to accomplish something by working together. Then, the mean ol' Captain spoiled it. She had a point, but the Chief was right when he said there is no way the Grounders did not see the Ark fall from the sky. (The Chief was also called "Chief" on Battlestar Gallactica". ) I was happy that Jaha was rescued and befriended the boy, but that also ended badly. Like I said - mostly tragic.
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Post by KyleEl on Nov 18, 2014 17:07:54 GMT -5
I liked that Clarke and Anya were working together. And Anya saying Clarke reeked? How must SHE have smelled given the way she was treated?
I didn't notice anything wrong with the boy. You tend to expect people on this show to look strange, so that's all I thought it was. I didn't realize it was something for which he'd be ostracized.
He didn't call himself "Jaha". And now I don't remember what he said. And I'm not clear on just what hapened to him.
I liked the way Raven and the other man worked together. And I want to know where they got such professional looking parts for that tower. I've been wondering this for a long time. How did they manufacture everything on that ark? Without Earth's resources?
I was surprised they didn't work together when the girl was falling. And I was relieved they didn't have to cut them loose. I saw a movie about rock climbing where the father of some kids had to be cut loose or they would all die. I was relieved when Octavia showed up. Im still not clear on her situation.
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Post by AntiArbitrator on Nov 21, 2014 22:39:32 GMT -5
2.05 Human Trials
Kane attempts to make peace with the Grounders; Jasper participates in a risky experiment.
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Post by AntiArbitrator on Nov 21, 2014 22:50:19 GMT -5
I must be honest and say I am not truly enjoying the show because there is too much violence…extreme violence. I still like the plot and the characters, but the violence is escalating. Finn is out of control and I do not think it was necessary to make him homicidal. He has become worse than Murphy.
Lincoln is being tortured and turned into a soldier and I do not like that either.
Jasper was manipulated into giving his blood to his friend, but I do not know if she was in on the plan. Someone needs to rescue the children before they are locked in cages.
Well…we know what happened to Jaha and that it is not good. Kane's attempt at peace making led to him joining Jaha in the pit. Did anything good happen?
People on the internet have been shipping Clarke and Bellamy.
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Post by KyleEl on Nov 25, 2014 16:56:29 GMT -5
I agree about the violence.
Even the reaction to radiation in those not prepared for it.
These makeup people really have to work hard. And they have to do all that before each day of filming.
These kids could be so much better loking if they weren't constantly being beaten up or whatever.
Underground, I didn't see those lamps that looked comforting. Instead i saw harsh blue light where the kids sleep.
Whether the guy should have shot those people I don't know. He had reason to believe his life was in danger. It's probably too much. I was sure I'd remember his name. They kept telling him not to do it.
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Post by AntiArbitrator on Nov 26, 2014 14:16:22 GMT -5
I think you are talking about Finn.
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Post by KyleEl on Nov 28, 2014 16:40:22 GMT -5
Now I can't even remember what happened on the last episode.
Oh, wait, I came here on Tuesday this week. I probably saw it by that time.
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Post by AntiArbitrator on Dec 3, 2014 16:54:30 GMT -5
2.06 Fog of War (12-3-14)
Tension grows between Finn and Clarke; a betrayal looms for President Dante Wallace.
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Post by KyleEl on Dec 5, 2014 17:30:02 GMT -5
I was surprised Jasper was so cooperative, but I don't think the others will be, even to help those who helped them.
Hearing "Carol of the Bells" ought to be comforting, but like so many versions, it sounded more like Halloween than Christmas. My feelings for that song have changed as a result, and not just because of the disaster that Trans-Siberian Orchestra created.
At least Lincoln is alive, though I'm not clear on what that means.
I wonder if 100-year-old cars will run?
So the Mount Weather people cause those storms? And there is now a way to listen in ...
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Post by AntiArbitrator on Dec 6, 2014 18:58:43 GMT -5
The most important revelation for me is the relationship between the weather station and the reapers. In a previous episode, we saw that the weather station was providing humans for food for the reapers. We also saw that the reapers had the run of the same maze-like tunnels that the weather station used. None of that made any sense to me, but now it does and it sickens me. They are creating reapers that they can control and use to fight for them. I was also surprised to learn the weather station sent that radioactive cloud to kill people. The President wants to use the young people from the space station to mate with their people and hope it will strengthen their bodies. I guess that is better than what he is doing to the grounders, but if he has permitted keeping the grounders in cages and turning them into reapers, he deserves the same retribution as his son and the doctor. I have always realized Raven loved Finn more than Clarke did and Raven showed that in her gentle manner with him. Of course what Finn did was tragic, but if Clarke loved him, I think she would have tried harder to understand. I had no clue how Jaha and Kane were going to survive their predicament, but they are fortunate the main leaders of the grounders are women.
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Post by KyleEl on Dec 8, 2014 15:54:58 GMT -5
I thought the young people were going to be used for their blood.
I still don't know who Jaha is, but I'm glad Thelonius got out of his predicament.
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Post by AntiArbitrator on Dec 11, 2014 14:15:21 GMT -5
I thought the young people were going to be used for their blood. I still don't know who Jaha is, but I'm glad Thelonius got out of his predicament. The scientist wanted to use the young people for their blood, but the President's original plan was to mate them so their children would hopefully be able to live on the surface. Chancellor Thelonius Jaha
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Post by AntiArbitrator on Dec 11, 2014 14:19:25 GMT -5
2.07 Long Into an Abyss (December 10, 2014) Bellamy persuades Clarke to accompany him to the drop ship; Dr. Tsing oversees a deadly experiment.
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Post by AntiArbitrator on Dec 11, 2014 14:29:24 GMT -5
I did not like seeing Lincoln suffering like that. I know why Octavia was protective of Lincoln, but I think Bellamy really goes out of his way to help his sister. He should wear a halo. I am glad they reached a solution rather than drag it out to another episode. If the show wants to retain any credibility at all, they need to let Finn volunteer to give himself up to the grounders. No nation would give him a pass after what he did. I am saying that even though Finn was one of my favorites. I must have an extremely low opinion of the mountain people. When the son walked on the surface with his father, I expected him to run back inside and leave his father to die like they did with the girl. Research scientists are notoriously heartless, but Dr. Tsing is sadistic. I fast forward through those scenes.
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