The Things I Do To Survive.
th_esaurus came over, played a bit of Life Is Strange 2 and pointed out that Sean has '80085' written on a Post-it by his bedroom door. This is so great. There are two equally magical potential explanations:
- he learnt how to spell BOOBS on a calculator and went 'better write this down so I don't forget.'
- someone wrote BOOBS on a calculator and showed it to him and he didn't understand, and since then he's been trying to work out the significance of the number 80085.
I don't think I'm going to start doing episode-by-episode entries on The 100, but, having talked about 3.09 yesterday, here's a bit on episode 3.10. (It's really weird to be so into a television series! I haven't had a new television fandom in so long.)
The scene where Raven is bleeding out and Abby isn't allowed to help her unless she swallows the brainwashing tablet upset me so badly I couldn't sit still to watch it; I had to get up and pace back and forth in front of the television. I'm really unhappy about this plotline.
There are moments of suffering I'm happier about, though! Murphy's entire role on The 100 is 'be bitter and sarcastic' and 'get horribly beaten up at every opportunity', and I kind of love it.
Also a striking moment in Murphy's storyline:
(Ontari has Murphy collared and chained)
Murphy: (gestures at collar) Want to explain this?
Riona: Because it's hot.
(Ontari takes off her clothes and tugs Murphy towards her on the chain)
Riona: ...oh, the reason actually was 'because it's hot'. I wasn't expecting that.
I was a little torn, during that scene, between 'this is a weirdly light tone for serious dubcon' and 'but I'm not not into collared, chained, still-recovering-from-his-wounds Murphy'. This show goes straight to my id sometimes. I was also pretty into Octavia beating Bellamy bloody and Bellamy preventing anyone who tried to step in, because he felt he deserved it.
I saw someone comment online that Bellamy's very much a follower, despite presenting himself as leader at the beginning of the show, and his decisions make more sense to me now, particularly after Kane's 'did you do that for your sister or because it was the right thing to do?' question. Bellamy is always, always acting on behalf of someone else: Octavia, Clarke, Kane, Pike. The only thing we've really seen him do of his own volition is trying to cut off contact with the Ark in the early episodes, for self-preservation. He's a good soldier, a valuable asset to whichever side he's on. If someone has enough draw, if they're persuasive enough, Bellamy will follow them, which can result in terrible outcomes if he falls into step behind the wrong person.
That said, attacking the grounder army with Pike was still such a stupid decision that I'm struggling to buy it.
- he learnt how to spell BOOBS on a calculator and went 'better write this down so I don't forget.'
- someone wrote BOOBS on a calculator and showed it to him and he didn't understand, and since then he's been trying to work out the significance of the number 80085.
I don't think I'm going to start doing episode-by-episode entries on The 100, but, having talked about 3.09 yesterday, here's a bit on episode 3.10. (It's really weird to be so into a television series! I haven't had a new television fandom in so long.)
The scene where Raven is bleeding out and Abby isn't allowed to help her unless she swallows the brainwashing tablet upset me so badly I couldn't sit still to watch it; I had to get up and pace back and forth in front of the television. I'm really unhappy about this plotline.
There are moments of suffering I'm happier about, though! Murphy's entire role on The 100 is 'be bitter and sarcastic' and 'get horribly beaten up at every opportunity', and I kind of love it.
Also a striking moment in Murphy's storyline:
(Ontari has Murphy collared and chained)
Murphy: (gestures at collar) Want to explain this?
Riona: Because it's hot.
(Ontari takes off her clothes and tugs Murphy towards her on the chain)
Riona: ...oh, the reason actually was 'because it's hot'. I wasn't expecting that.
I was a little torn, during that scene, between 'this is a weirdly light tone for serious dubcon' and 'but I'm not not into collared, chained, still-recovering-from-his-wounds Murphy'. This show goes straight to my id sometimes. I was also pretty into Octavia beating Bellamy bloody and Bellamy preventing anyone who tried to step in, because he felt he deserved it.
I saw someone comment online that Bellamy's very much a follower, despite presenting himself as leader at the beginning of the show, and his decisions make more sense to me now, particularly after Kane's 'did you do that for your sister or because it was the right thing to do?' question. Bellamy is always, always acting on behalf of someone else: Octavia, Clarke, Kane, Pike. The only thing we've really seen him do of his own volition is trying to cut off contact with the Ark in the early episodes, for self-preservation. He's a good soldier, a valuable asset to whichever side he's on. If someone has enough draw, if they're persuasive enough, Bellamy will follow them, which can result in terrible outcomes if he falls into step behind the wrong person.
That said, attacking the grounder army with Pike was still such a stupid decision that I'm struggling to buy it.