'The 100' Analysis #2: Rubicon

If you missed my 100 analysis #1, you can catch that here.  By the way, I'm still in the phase where I call it "the one-hundred" instead of "the hundred" and I just can't seem to get out of it.  I need to convince some of my real-life people to watch so I can say it out loud more often, lol.  Anyway.

Just to re-iterate what I'm doing here, I'm examining this show from two very specific angles.  I'm delving into two key points in the series (or what has aired so far which is the first 2 seasons) when I realized that this show was not quite like anything else I had ever seen on TV ... or anywhere for that matter.  My first analysis was on "Spacewalker", and also on the entire Clarke/Finn relationship, and how it progressed from the pilot through Spacewalker.  For my second analysis, I'm going to focus on "Rubicon".

WARNING: Like my last review of The 100, this review contains SPOILERS.  LOTS AND LOTS OF SPOILERS.  TURN BACK HERE if you have NOT seen the first 2 seasons of this series in its entirety.  Seriously.  If you haven't seen the entire show and you continue past this jump, you're an asshole.

The Plopper Discovers 'The 100'

Hey look at this fancy new show I've discovered!  O.k. fine, "new" might not be an entirely accurate description.  But it's new to me, and that's what matters.  It only took me 2 seasons to discover it!  That ain't so bad, is it?  It's not that I didn't know this show existed; I did.  As a matter of fact, Matt Barber, former editor of Chuck and coincidental friend-of-a-friend, was an editor on it in season 1.  It even got positive reviews from critics, from what I saw on Twitter.  So why was I so skeptical?  Well, it takes a LOT for me to get into a new TV show these days.  There are just sooo many shows on the air right now, how the hell does a girl decide??  What finally swayed me to check out The 100 was Mo Ryan, one of my favorite critics since the Chuck days.  She's always said good things about this show, and they only seemed to get better in season 2.  Plus, someone I know on tumblr started posting a bunch of 100 pics and memes and gifs recently, and it must have wormed its way into my brain.