In the world of teen dramas, there are two main groups;
you can basically divide everything up into Hunger Games and Twilight.
Most teen dramas are either set in small town rural USA, that always suspiciously looks like Vancouver
With the main characters all in high school
and then - you know - something mysterious happens,
or on the other side, you have your dystopian future teen dramas,
the world's been ruined by some catastrophe, and humanity is divided up into high school cliques
with names that literally just explain what they do.
"We sit around a campfire... we're the arounders."
"We run really fast... we're the runners."
"We blow our noses... we're the blowers."
"You know you're right, we should probably rethink that."
Up to now, I've talked pretty much exclusively about the former,
but when you open the "dystopian young adult sci-fi" box, you're in for a lot.
So, let's take a look at one of the most popular post-Hunger Games dystopian future teen dramas.
*deep breaths, Alex*
The 100!
Right from the beginning were introduced to the main character: Clarke, a teenage girl
who's been put in jail because her dad found out that the space station is running out of oxygen
Apparently, some nuclear thing happened like a hundred years ago
And the alleged remainder of all humanity live on this space colony thing.
Anyway one day they decide to send all 100 of the kids in jail down to earth
to see if it's habitable or if it still just looks like my bedroom
"Clarke, you are not being executed,
you're being sent to the ground. All 100 of you."
"What? But it's not safe, no... no we get reviewed at 18."
"The rules have changed."
After the space pod lands on earth, we're introduced to a whole cast of colorful characters
"Stop!
The air could be toxic."
"The air is toxic, we're all dead anyway."
"Bellamy?"
"That's the girl who hid under the floor."
Hey, thanks for the exposition, random dude in the back
"Oh my God, look how big you are."
Well, gee it was a holidays, okay?
Maybe I had one too many pieces of pumpkin pie, alright? Could we all just let it go guys.
Opening the door they go outside for the first time in their lives.
And it just wouldn't be a teen drama without an Imagine Dragons montage.
"Why so serious princess?"
*joker impression* "Why so serious princess? You look tired, you should smile more."
Now their mission after landing is to go to a place called "Mountain Weather,"
and while everyone else is flailing their arms around,
Clarke is busy trying to figure out how to get there.
"Well all that matters right now is getting to Mount Weather
See look, this is us...
This is where we need to get to if you want to survive."
"There's nothing to do that."
She literally just drew a line on a map, I mean
I don't know how things work up in space town,
but I learned how to draw lines in kindergarten, all right
Now, Wells here is the son of the Chancellor, and some people aren't too happy
about the fact that he's here, since his dad is the one who locked them all up in the first place.
"You're not listening. We all need to go."
"Look at this everybody,
Chancellor of Earth."
"You think that's funny?"
"Wells!"
"..that was. Alright."
Well that was totally necessary.
Can we just think about how this happened?
I mean, so this guy - Finn, right?
At some point, he had to climb all the way up the top of this spaceship
but he must have done it from the other side because otherwise,
he would have been in the way of this whole fight in the first place, right?
So, he climbed up the other side, climbed all the way around, and then jumped down
just so he could look cool for like, five seconds? I mean I admire the effort, but like, why.
"Hey Spacewalker,
Rescue me next."
What does that even mean?
So Clarke and Friends set out to find a way to Mount Weather,
and on the way they decided that swimming in a random body of radiated water sounds like a great idea.
Do you ever notice that like, in movies and TV shows and stuff
people would just jump into ANY body of water they find?
And everyone always strips down into their underwear like its "oh so sexy and stuff."
But like, no one ever thinks about what happens after you get out of the water
and you have to walk around in your wet underwear for the entire rest of the day?!
I mean, that's the least sexy thing I can think of, I'll tell you that right now.
"Well that was fun for 10 seconds!
Now let's all walk around looking like we got full diapers."
While this is all going on, Wells is back at the main camp,
I guess he hurt his leg or whatever,
and has a bit of a tiff with the guy whose sister was the hide-and-seek champion.
"Here, there are no laws,
Here, we do whatever the hell we want, whenever the hell we want."
Yeah, no rules, no laws except the ones that say that I'm the leader and everyone has to do what I say,
B-b-b-but forget about that okay? Don't think about it,
no rules, no lies, you do whatever you want, except what I say not to do
B-b-but, tha-tha-that- don't focus on that part.
The next day, Clarke wakes up, and Finn shows her some sparkling plants.
"You call that a sip?"
"You think this means we're all gonna grow two heads?
What do you know, she can laugh."
Oh you think that was her laugh?
Oh, no no, okay, alright kids, let me tell you something right now.
Every girl has two laughs, okay.
The first one is what they do when they're in public, or they're around a boy
eheehee ~stop~ eheehee
The second one is their actual, "real" laugh
ahAhAhaHA *snort snort* ahHAHaHaHa *rrrrrrrr*
"That's a toe, plus near as I can tell, whatever it is, it's walking on two feet - my guess...
Monkeys."
"According to everything I've read, there were no bipedal animals anywhere near here.
Certainly not monkeys."
"Man, you read anything about glow-in-the-dark, forests or man-eating snakes?"
No, but once I read that a long time ago,
people got rich and famous on the internet for trying to eat a spoonful of cinnamon,
so I mean, maybe nuclear devastation isn't so bad.
Eventually, they come to another river, and this time instead of swimming in their underwear,
they "George of the Jungle"-er their way over it,
but, in the end, are caught by some mysterious other people who are already, on Earth
You know there's something I find funny about these kind of like teen shows,
every teenager looks and acts like they're like, 25
and all the bad guys are basically just anyone over 30
But you know for all the weird inconsistencies and all that,
I actually didn't mind the show that much.
I mean I'll be honest, I don't even like any of the characters.
I find them all really annoying
I mean can't they just be like one character who's sitting there like "hey y'all just want to shut up?"
But ehh, you know, maybe it'll go somewhere interesting
Hey everybody! Thanks so much for watching, so this is the final video of the year
and up to now I've been doing around 2 videos a week
as much as I can, pretty much every week - at least this month - and let me tell you: that is not easy.
And starting next January, I think I'm gonna knock it down back to one video a week,
at least, at the beginning, so I can kind of, get my bearings and see how it's gonna work with schedules and all
'cuz you know like my videos are kind of getting longer and more complicated, you know,
the better I get at animating and drawing because I'm just doing it more.
And so that means that the videos are taking longer to make, trying to keep up this "2 video a week" schedule,
while also trying to get better at drawing is a lot to do,
I mean, I still work a full-time job. I'm not a full-time youtuber yet, so you know, time is,
is precious shall we say? So anyway, I hope you're cool with it.
Next year, there'll be one video a week - at least for a while - and then maybe we'll see how things go.
But this year, you know has been crazy, this month has been crazy. I just wanna say
thank you to everyone for watching and sharing and subscribing and all that stuff.
I mean just right at the end of the year, this all blew up. You know, a hundred thousand by Christmas,
and that was, that was, a great little surprise, I want to thank y'all for that.
And just, you know, the way everything is going, like, I mean like, I said who knows, you know?
Maybe it'll get faster or slower or stay the same, or you know, you never know with YouTube.
But it's just right here and right now, you know, it's a really good place to be and I just I want to say thanks
for everyone who watched and subscribed and all that.
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I try to reply to everything I get and have a great new year, and I'll see you all in January.