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User Reviews for: The 100

chazTV
CONTAINS SPOILERS1/10  10 years ago
In the opening scenes the viewer is expected to believe a couple things right off the bat; first being that after surviving 100 years following the apocalypse on a space station, beauty care product synthesization has been perfected, and there is apparently plenty of electricity for blow dryers and curling irons -- not to mention lots of water for hair washing and conditioning. On the other side of the scale: overuse of medical supplies is punishable by death.

Take scene 1 for example: teen aged girl, blond highlights & dark roots, lots of mascara and eye shadow -- and she's in space-station-prison. Dressed in teen-Gap spacewear, she must have traded her exercise time for peroxide and hair foil, because after 100 years, there's plenty of that stuff onboard.

No shortage of hair product -- plenty of gel and mousse for all the men and women of the 100 year old space station. And speaking of the men, apparently there's an abundance of shaving stuff as well, making it possible to maintain a shave-every-day standard in space. Amazingly, even the young men sent to earth who are struggling through a radiated danger-filled jungle just to find the food locker manage to remain cleanshaven. Similarly, all the girls keep perfectly arranged hair, and manage to change their eyeshadow colors in that same jungle. Clever way to convey the passage of time, change eyeshadow colors. All this without carrying a single supply box, bag, or container of any sort off the ship they landed in.

The genre of SciFi should be offended, but then again, it's CW ;-)
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Reply by laoliqin
8 years ago
I absolutely love your review, but I also love the show and the CW. But then, who am I to talk, I brought my beauty box, my notebook and my player with me when I went on a (longer) trip. I even brought a powerbox and a powerbank with me and refused to leave civilization without equipment. Nature is fun and all but just like you can't spend all your life doing one thing, it is impossible to not get bored with nature. I am happy I had it on me or my life would have sucked for the duration of the trip. What I didn't take was some of the necessary stuff because "Dude, I don't have space for that". I am like the CW, a living contradiction. But hey, my hair was always perfect, my evenings played music, yay! You are not blind and surely see where our civ. is heading(like it or not, accept it or live until your last breath complaining about "where this world is heading"), beauty products can and are used in a way older folks couldn't have imagined. I can see Clark changing her eye shadow in the jungle, IF she has a kit on her(and yes, I know she doesn't). I totally get the Arc and its inhabitants! To me, Clark's highlights are a necessity! It doesn't make sense she has them, but I can get past that. I didn't even notice until a moment in season 2...yea.<br /> <br /> The show's awesome if you can get past the setup.
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Reply by Harrisjohn6
2 years ago
@chaztv I supposed it would make for better TV to be kind of true to what survival would look like, but it certainly makes for better characters to make them attractive, and probably keeps the viewers coming. I would like a more accurate depiction though.
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