The 100 (Midseason)
Set about a century after a nuclear holocaust, there are 100 troublemaking kids who have rebelled against living in confinement on a space station and since they are totally expendable, they are sent down to earth to see if it’s safe for humans again. Yes, it’s like Wall-E with pretty people. But these are really pretty people, and there’s Desmond from Lost (Henry Ian Cusick) and Isaiah Washington as adults on board the spaceship determining their fates. There are also some creatures on Earth that could be pals with Blinky from The Simpsons along with some more mysterious life forms that managed to survive the nuclear event. It looks like fun, in a generic sci-fi sort of way.
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The Roguish Charmer
Star Wars Version: Han Solo<
Abrams Analogue: James “Sawyer” Ford (Josh Holloway, Lost)
Why They’re the Same Person: In addition to sporting handsome heads of hair, these two minor league crooks offset their criminal behavior with a soulful sensitivity that, inevitably, brings out their latent good guy side over the course of the story. At key moments, they also sacrificed their own well-being for the good of the group (Han via his date with carbonite and Sawyer by bailing out of a sinking helicopter to keep it aloft) in the kind of macho move that makes them catnip to the ladies.
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Lost Hallmark: The Others
The Governor and his Woodbury gang share many parallels with Ben and the Dharma crew, back before they merged with the plane crash survivors and were fighting against the Island. And like some sort of Ben/Charles Widmore hybrid, we immediately know we can’t trust The Governor, though the writers are significantly worse at building suspense around him or just creating any motivation for his character whatsoever. In any event, he and his men sure do like killing people, the same way the Others did.
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Lost Hallmark: The Tough-As-Nails Southern Heartthrob
Hate to break it to you, Shane, but Daryl is totally the new Sawyer, though when he first held Lil’ Ass-Kicker is his arms, he reminded us Charlie, too. Carole isn’t quite as young and perky as either Kate or Juliet, but when she eventually does hook up with Daryl (we all know it’s coming), it’s got the potential to be Polar Bear Cage Sex 2.0. And sadly, before you ask: No, there is no Frank Lapidus counterpart. Dale had a chance, there, but then he had to go ahead and be so… Dale-ish. He’s not even worthy of a Bernard comparison, except for in that episode where Bernard tried to be the new Jack.
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