The 100 screw-ups

Fuck The 100. After hearing good things about it, I was going to give that show another try after watching and disliking the first four or five episodes.

But not with storytelling like that.

BTW, The Walking Dead has a storyline with a well-developed and interesting lesbian couple who did not die right after consummating their relationship — and has gay male characters (Aaron and Eric) who are also really well-done, buy they are more in the background as compared to Tara and Denise.

Alanna Masterson as Tara Chambler and Merritt Weaver as Denise - The Walking Dead _ Season 5, Episode 5 - Photo Credit: Gene Page/AMC
Alanna Masterson as Tara Chambler and Merritt Weaver as Denise – The Walking Dead _ Season 5, Episode 5 – Photo Credit: Gene Page/AMC

Bad writing, The 100. Very bad writing.

(Yes, I know there was an earlier TWD lesbian character played very capably by Juliana Harkavy who was killed — but everyone dies on TWD. Everyone. It’s worse than Game of Thrones. And it was a pity, as she was one of my favorites of the side cast — Harkavy played her wild and loose and all chopped up inside, like the world she inhabited.)

1968 DNC reprise

I wonder if the organizers of the protests against Trump at rallies in St. Louis, Kansas City, Chicago and other cities are smart enough to recognize that Trump expected — craved — protest and violence at those rallies?

The best thing those protesters could’ve done is stayed away.

Trump and the protesters — one side in on the plan, the other unwitting pawns — have secured his victory most probably in those states and in the general election. Not that it’s their fault — they just aren’t very savvy, not nearly as calculating as Trump and his campaign.

No, I am not a Trump supporter in any way but I can recognize a damn set-up when I see one.

Trump wanted his supporters and potential supporters to see a bunch of brown people fighting against “making America great again,” wanted to have the media broadcast for free the imagery of “scary” black people taunting little old ladies for supporting Trump.

And he got it.

Good work!