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Its third season is still young, but THE 100 continues to cement itself as one of the best shows on television, week after week.

What began as an easily dismissible Young Adult series is now partially responsible for The CW’s rebranding these last few years, after evolving into one of the most complex and thrilling morality plays just a few episodes in.

A century in the future, humanity’s return to the nuclear wasteland once called Earth is led by a group of juvenile delinquents sent to test the waters for the rest of civilization, but as it turns out, they aren’t alone down there. So many of our modern stories are post-apocalyptic, from movies to books to TV shows, and few of them manage to be redemptive in any meaningful way. While THE 100 is the farthest thing from jovial, pitting people, clans and cultures against each other amidst harrowing wartime dilemmas, it drags its characters through the mud and breaks them down to their barest only to teach them to build themselves back up again.

It cuts right to the heart of human military conflict, not so much science fiction as political-science fiction, and the way its (notably diverse) characters change in both appearance and persona is horrifying, but completely, completely earned.

In The Army They Called Him “Text Box”

There’s also a contingent that thinks Hamilton is made specifically for white people and is a white-washing of Hip Hop, so a good solution here is for people to let folks like what they like.

If people are missing out on certain elements of the show’s cultural recontextualization (one of my favourite things about it), the contingent you’re referring to should write about the show and start conversations about why looking at it through a racial lens might be important.

ok. I made a long-form version of Jean Ralphio’s amazing tale of clubs, ladies, dancing, police, and more. 

I needed some time to think about this because it’s kind of a tough one, and I had all these second options listed out with various reasonings. Mostly villains, like Ozymandias from Watchmen, who represents our ability to compartmentalize in order to justify heinous acts, and Walter White from Breaking Bad, who uses righteousness and familial duty as a mask to commit crimes that lessen his own insecurities, but I eventually went back to my first choice. A simple one, almost bordering on cliche, but I don’t think there was every going to be another answer.

Superman.

The thing that’s made him such an enduring icon over the last 78 years is that he’s a simple, distilled versions of some very universal human experiences - isolation and alienation - yet at the same time, he represents the best of what humanity has to offer, but it doesn’t come easy. Doing the right thing is what defines Superman, but what makes him interesting is figuring out exactly what that right thing is, and making sure to do it no matter the challenge. More than just that, as he continues his struggle with living up to the goodness his parents instilled in him, he tried to instill it in others, inspiring people to follow in the footsteps of the ideal that he’s constantly striving towards, and in some cases, simply inspiring people to live.

                                                   IM GAY!!!!!!