Adam Lenhardt
Senior HTF Member
"The 100" began its 16-episode second season tonight with a strong premiere.I love the world building going on with Mount Weather, and the way an entire culture built up inside the facility. The little details, like everyone wearing nice but old and ragged clothing, really helped sell it. Casting a 75-year-old as a new main character is almost a revolutionary act on the CW, but Raymond J. Barry was as good as you'd expect given his past work. He made President Dante Wallace an interesting protagonist: a man who is patient and understanding, but coming from a completely different world view. Like Clarke, he is a leader. And like Clarke, he will do what he thinks is best for his people, no matter what that does to everybody else.Interesting explanation for how the earth is survivable so much sooner than expected: it actually isn't, but natural selection has changed the parameters of what is survivable. All of the people with lower radiation tolerances, both on the ground and in space, died out pretty early on. That is if President Wallace's explanation isn't just a means of keeping his people isolated and under his control.I really hope Kane and the other adults get knocked down a few pegs for dismissing what Bellamy and Finn have to say. Survival in this world is earned, and Bellamy and Finn understand the facts on the ground.Very cool Logan's Run-esque reveal that Lincoln's village is located where the National Mall used to be. Given the central importance of the Lincoln Memorial to village life, my guess is that Lincoln isn't just any villager. It must be a great honor to be named Lincoln.What language was he teaching Octavia? Is it a real language that I just didn't recognize, or was it a pidgin tongue that developed in the aftermath of the nuclear armageddon?I'm beginning to think that we'll never see Clark wear a top that covers up her cleavage. It's getting to the point where it's almost bizarre.