Despite some clunky dialogue, “The 100” is a fantastic piece of post-apocalyptic science fiction

When it comes to science fiction, I have my biases. Mainly post-apocalyptic, dystopian science fiction that has a political element. Spaceship shows and movies are pretty much always better if there are politics involved, hence my love of Firefly and what I’ve seen of Battlestar Galactica. For me, the novels of George Orwell are the roadmap, but I like my sci-fi to be enjoyable as well as thought-provoking. We live in an age where, thanks to The Hunger Games (which I love), there is no shortage of post-apocalyptic fiction. The 100 reminds me of Lord of the Flies, which has teenagers attempting to create a society, as well as Hugh Howey’s Silo trilogy, which dealt with environmental destruction that made the Earth uninhabitable, so they moved underground, and had similar population problems. I’ve seen the first three episodes of the first season (it was a mistake to watch them just before I went to bed), and despite some clunky dialogue, I loved it.