There are two possibilities; you either give people a work punishment or you float them. Anything like putting them in prison would be a waste of resources. The only reason why they did with the kids was a showing that they couldn't be ruthless enough.
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The 100 S3 |OT| Adventures In Character Assassination - Thursdays 9/8c
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Supermanisdead
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sending them to earth was basically killing them. i honestly don't believe the same jaha/kane/abby/etc. would agree to life in prison/sent to earth for someone like octavia who didn't commit any crime or the 12 year old charlotte who's crime was attacking a guard... after both her parents were killed.
the whole society just seems half-baked. all these people who were being floated and yet none of the remaining people harboured grudges except a couple of the kids? you'd think that people wouldn't be loyal to jaha and kane or anyone who was part of the leadership from the ark. all the parents who thought their kids were dead or who's kids actually died on earth... where are they?
it just feels like they did a 180 early on in season 1, but the main catalyst for the whole story can't be changed so now they're just handwaving it away.
Well, the whole thing for the kids who were imprisoned was that they would have been floated once they hit 18 anyways. So it was, well, they're going to die for sure (and potentially all of us too) or they might have a chance to survive on Earth, and save everyone else in the process.
It is basically cowardice. They might want to be outraged but they know why it is being done, they don't want to sufficate on board. I think the main issue is the numbers. The amount of people in jail just doesn't make sense with the amount of people on board.
Cornballer
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JacketsNest101
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There's also the issue of them only ever having grown up in that society and knowing nothing else. I guarantee that when the second generation was growing up, their parents showed a ton of dissent toward the government.
I don't think they forgot at all, that's how the Ark inhabitants described executing someone, it makes total sense for Clarke to use the same terminology. Technically its incorrect but plenty of words in the English are like that.
PHOENIXZERO
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That's just their version of "go fuck yourself" for network TV. Though really that would probably be more like telling someone to kill themselves.
JacketsNest101
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I see the whole "go float yourself" line as more something the characters would actually say seeing as "float" has become slang for kill due to their time on the Ark. (S1E4
) Based on the events in S1E4, I would be hesitant to say that "float" is used the same way Chinese was used on Firefly or "Frakkin'" was used on BSG.
the kids are chanting "Float him" when they attempt to lynch Murphy
It is probably also something that just didn't happen back then except for very serious crimes. They simply didn't have that overpopulation issue, and the war between the stations helped cull people.
I am all caught up! Season 3 took a while to get started but it seems they've set up the big arc now. I'm not much of a fan of the political stuff, I prefer the survival stuff. I want more hard decisions are moral quandaries!
Still have no idea where this City of Light business is heading, but I can wait longer for that provided the main story has enough drive.
Still have no idea where this City of Light business is heading, but I can wait longer for that provided the main story has enough drive.
Cornballer
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- IGN with a sneak peek from tomorrow's episode (please spoiler tag any discussion)
Been looking forward to this fight since seeing a glimpse of it in the season trailers. Lexa continues to be a badass, and her and Clarke definitely seem more friendly. I hope Roans doesn't die though, I like him.
A fight to the death can't be a good idea. Lexa is a strong character, who shouldn't be as foolish to enter that fight while Roan is a surprisingly fun addition that I want to see more of, certainly in combination with Clarke.
Dead Prince
Banned
omg. don't die lexa. because clarke just been dethroned. i found a new spirit animal
BewareTheBatsie
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What the fuck? Is Lexa's blood black? What is up with that?
Dead Prince
Banned
could be the film effect or budget or living in that world so long it made her black inside.
BewareTheBatsie
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I could see the show using the explanation that the amount of radiation exposure might cause all Grounders or anyone living on the planet before the 100 dropped to develop different colored blood.
Cornballer
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- One more sneak peek from CW's youtube channel
- Inside The 100 (producers on this week's episode)
Please spoiler tag discussion.
- Inside The 100 (producers on this week's episode)
Please spoiler tag discussion.
MisterFalcon
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Brenda Strong has ice cold eyes, another bit of spot on casting. They may be the villains but the Ice Nation are rad as fuck with the scars and general attitude.
Don't think you need to spoiler mark it, any episode that has aired is fair game to talk about.
Yes!
I just wanted to be safe. I did started watching this show by reading some comments here so
Cornballer
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Please don't spoiler tag discussion of episodes that have already aired. It gets confusing if people start doing this.
PHOENIXZERO
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Looks
dark red to me like it was deoxygenated blood, Price Iceman has blood on his face and it's clearly red
EDIT: Dammit back to back (with The Flash) top page posts.
JacketsNest101
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BewareTheBatsie
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Haven't seen anything thankfully but apparently a few seconds of tomorrows episode has leaked.
evilpigking
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Just saw last week's. Too good. Between Lexa dealing with the Ice Nation dude and the editing of the Mt. Weather scene. So glad this show is back.
I shouldn't need to spoiler this, two thirds of that can literally describe half of the episodes. Luckily, the pomo makes up for it. As I have already seen LoT, this The 100 episode will have to satisfy my lust for the week.
Dead Prince
Banned
hopefully they don't spend half of the episode talking about mt weather.
we should also see more of monty. where's Monty and jasper. i'm still waiting for deaths.
waiting for a charlotte/wells moment.
we should also see more of monty. where's Monty and jasper. i'm still waiting for deaths.
waiting for a charlotte/wells moment.
Dead Prince
Banned
i keep reading it as Brenda Song
EdibleExplosives
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Dead Prince
Banned
lol someone had the balls to do. they always leave little kids and babies out when it comes to killing.
JacketsNest101
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Jason has said that he actually really hard to show the dead children after the irradiation of Mt. Weather so I think is him being tongue in cheek and getting around the censors at Standards and Practices.
Dead Prince
Banned
i mean you already had a girl jump off a cliff. probably knew where the show was heading.
Dead Prince
Banned
Did he just say she took the hand of the bride?
BewareTheBatsie
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Lexa smart. I mean obviously she bowed for personal reasons but having a 13th clan with Clarke representing means she's got one vote to always go for her.
Baroquemantic
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I don't want the son nor Lexa to go dammit!
BewareTheBatsie
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Imagine if Lexa volunteered Clarke to fight for her.
Dead Prince
Banned
I'm sure Clarke will intervene
BewareTheBatsie
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That kid
is gonna get brutally murdered at some point, isn't he?