I also learned that the books weren’t that great. I learned that the show was based on three books. 100 juvenile delinquents are sent to earth wearing life monitoring bracelets to determine if the earth is ready for its spacebound children to return.
Air is precious, which is why criminals over the after of 18 are punished with immediate death by “floating” out into the cold, cold vacuum of space. Lost meets Battlestar Galactica is the easiest way to describe the show (it even features actors from both, which made me overlook my initial frustrations), with an excellent concept at its base: three generations after a nuclear winter, the survivors of the cataclysm have found that their orbital home, the Ark, is dying. It also focused prominently on the adults above, and later below, and how they all deal with this new world together–or apart. Moreover, it wasn’t just about the kids on the ground. It started out proving my fears to be reasonably well founded, but, as the story of 100 young adults sent to a ruined earth to see if it was survivable progressed, the kids started to put their big boy and girl pants on.
I didn’t bother with CW’s The 100 because I am a YA snob and didn’t want to watch a show that reduced young adults to the sum of their private parts with a dash of Lord of the Flies drama, but reviews from reliable sources prompted me to change my mind.
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company (September 2013) Genre: Science fiction, post-apocalyptic, young adult, romance “Although the astronomical event of a lifetime was playing out right before his eyes, he was looking only at her.”
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