NETFLIX series - The 100 - My take

Just completed watching the whole series of '100' after about three days of uninterrupted viewing. How the human race fared in the face of extinction of its own making. A brilliant story line that had kept me captivated from the beginning to the end. I am no film critique and so I will not be making any technical comments however as a whole the series is very well done and almost convincing, the cinematography is brilliant in its realism and artistry. However what kept me involved was the story itself that involves the struggle for survival and what it takes to stay alive on a dying planet. An almost prophetic, apocalyptic end to the planet as mankind through its tribal and territorial war mongering from the beginning till the end, revealing all its hubris. frailties and follies in individuals as well as the thirst for power, greed and hatred all in the name of saving the human race from self annihilation. The series left me feeling that mankind is indeed the cancerous parasite that had finally killed its own host and perhaps have found a new host to start it all over when at the end of the series the remaining survivors eventually found a new host or planet to inhabit.

Be it as it may, fiction or otherwise, the series dug deep into the human psychosis and the deep rooted human 'animal instinct for survival; to do what it takes to stay alive which included not only betrayal and brutal social conflict but also leading on to cannibalism. Most of these traits are nothing new to the human race as when push comes to shove, man has proven to himself of what he is capable of and what man is capable of defies even the animal kingdom especially when it come to territorial claims. When it comes to it, trust and integrity, shame and conscience becomes a thing only read about in the books. Although sacrifices were needed to be made most were made out of sheer fear of the alternative being one's own demise or that of ones closest loved one becoming the victim; man will make sacrifice but never willingly or out of a sense of compassion for another. 

The 100 were young adults of juvenile age who had committed a crime on board of the space station where a group of people were given refuge from the catastrophic result of a nuclear holocaust on earth. The 100 were the original sacrifice made to rid the space station of the number of people that it was capable of keeping alive as the resources began to run out for human survival. It was the life of this 100 hundred that became the crux of the story that led to their quest for survival while at the same time learning of the truth and consequences of the actions initiated by their parents on board to space station. Having being unknowingly castrated on to the planet of their ancestors, the 100 discovered that Earth was habitable and that there were other survivors already inhabiting the planet. Chaos, mayhem, treachery, deceit soon followed as the newcomers came to confront the existing hosts and they had to resort to violence as the only solution to their cause for survival. Human history repeats itself now on a micro level however the outcome was just as catastrophic as the last patch of green pasture available was fought for and rendered a wasteland just like the rest of the Planet. The Series is a tribute to human ingenuity at its best when it came to surviving while it also exposed our capacity to being no better than the beasts and demons that we keep locked up within our hearts and souls. These beasts and demons are inherently a part and parcel of who we are and will be manifested when all else fails and only the will to survive matters.