As far as post-apocalyptic shows go, this one is pretty fun. Not funny, it’s not a comedy. But it has a way of sticking in my head. It drives my imagination. It’s also great timing. This winter has been so awful and so long, I too feel like I’m finally feeling the sun and nature in what’s seemed like a lifetime.
And, if you’re going to have an unrealistic show about hormonal teens, you have to make it totally unrealistic to be any good, which I think they do here. I take it with a grain of salt because it is on the WB or CW whatever, and it’s going to be a show full of teens making dumb decisions in contrived circumstances. For what it is, I like it.
I do have a major issue though, there’s too much dying. Killing Wells was awful, he didn’t seem like an expendable character. I thought there was a lot more that could be explored with him alive than dead, least of which would be a love triangle. Not to mention all the others on the ark or on the earth, that you just get to know and like… then already they’re dead.
Do they really expect me to put in the emotional effort for all 100, only to have them die? They oughta calm down and do some real writing before I lose interest. Killing off one character after another makes for a good, mindless action movie… not a tv show.
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