The most ominous and apocalyptic future of television - Publico.es

SyFy just released in Spain (on Thursday 3 April) 100 , a series of apocalyptic dyes painting a grim future for humanity convicted their own mismanagement of natural resources and nuclear disaster that has left the Earth uninhabitable for humans. With its hostile natural environment, the few remaining survivors can spend years on a space station begins to fail and for which the only solution seems to be an arbitrary population reduction. Oxygen is over and you have to perpetuate the species as.

In desperation they decide to send a group of 100 juvenile offenders to Earth a century ahead of schedule to check on the spot whether humans can survive in their old home despite radiation. Below, the kids fight each divided into two camps: those who want to break all communication with the ship and those who want to fulfill the mission entrusted to them. Meanwhile, upstairs in the space station, there unleashed a battle of egos and power with Henry I an Cusick (Lost ) and Isaiah Washington (Grey’s Anatomy ) faced.

100 , as production for The CW that is, has all the ingredients of a series trademark. Teens handsome, adventure, science fiction and romance . But it also has the added attraction that adult level set in the space station and see an actor like Henry Ian Cusick (Desmond Lost ) in the role of villain in the story. Created by Jason Rothenberg, 100 is a series amalgam remind the viewer a bit of this or that series or movie you saw before. After Earth , Oblivion , The Walking Dead , Terra Nova and even Lost are easily recognizable in the pilot issued Tuesday by SyFy.

But above all, 100 it is an apocalyptic series and as usual in this type of frames in the recent years in the family drama is one of the incentives to engage . Because in this new fiction about life after the holocaust, there are three families at stake. On the one hand the Chancellor, with Isaiah Washington in command of everything and everyone and his son sent to Earth. Furthermore, the family of blond young protagonist (also a cliché itself of such series) that plays Eliza Taylor, Clarke in fiction. She is the daughter of the man who wanted to reveal to the rest of the spatial population the actual situation of the ship and Dr. captained, from above, a risky foray into the Land of the 100 offenders among which is his own daughter. And finally, the villain on Earth with a sister who was locked only by birth (the one-child policy lead to the end) and landed on the planet wanting to give joy to the body.

In this new fiction nuclear di saster is . However, while departing from a different origin, end apocalyptic series coinciding end all recurring themes and similar situations. The family said, is one of them. They come in Revolution , Terra Nova , Falling Skies , The Walking Dead … and up to The boat . Family and ominous future in which the struggle for survival supersedes any other occupation are recurring themes. No professions, except the political, soldier and survivor space . Whether the battle against dinosaurs, pollution, radiation, aliens or zombies, the human being is endangered and has to fight not only to survive, but also show that it is worthy.

One of the great apocalyptic series that television has given in recent years and most successful is The Walking Dead , fiction based on a comic book of the same name whose protagonists are Grimes. He, Andrew Lincoln, is a deputy sheriff who wakes up one day from a coma in an abandoned hospital and infected zombies. An infection that affects not only the medical center where he was, but has spread throughout the earth. Unable to give up their sense of duty and justice, leads a group of survivors in which his son and his wife, who gets to spend together without hardship before they are at first.

If you switch by alien zombies then the result is Falling Skies series premiere its fourth season next month June and having Noah Wyle in the patriarch of the Mason family, consisting of father and three sons. He is a professor of history turned into political and military leader and preferred partner of the alien invaders pro duced by Steven Spielberg, he played with the dinosaur bone Terra Nova and send humans thousands of years ago time to find a solution to the pollution that is destroying the Earth in the XXII century. Terra Nova missed the cut, but Falling Skies . In this alien (at least start) are the enemy of the human race, but in Revelation lived in Defiance after the war become citizens of the Earth which we must learn to live to the point that the protagonist, Nolan (Grant Bowler), adopt one of them as a child. Defiance problems have more to do with the coexistence of races with survival after the invasion and war.

Guilt is not always the aliens

Being very common, not all of the small screen Revelation are the fault of the alien. Many have to do with man and misuse of science . Revolution a power outage and technological returns humanity to those years where the average more evolved locomotion was horse-drawn carriage, the food is cooked on the fire and the Internet was the dream of a visionary madman . They also lacked electricity Jericho , the small Kansas town that looks like a nuclear explosion leaves them isolated from the world.

In this group great Spanish example in regards to apocalyptic series, boat is also part . Although it takes a few years, its mutant fish and avatars students passed a sailboat captained by name Polar Star Juanjo Artero partially recalling the history of 100 . Especially for the young and handsome cast of characters, genetic mutations of the local wildlife and the existence of ‘other’ of uncertain origin. Of course, here the blame for everything was blissful particle accelerator located in Switzerland which causes a sort of Big Bang Earth dipping under water as if it were the Great Flood.

Fringe , classified by some as apocalyptic series, you might say instead that it is rather preapocalíptica. Precisely because of its protagonists mission is to prevent that disaster to come for Humanity and have not caused other than themselves. Specifically, Walter Bishop (John Noble), a scientist mad genius that after killing her son decides to open a portal to another universe to be another version of its stem and rebuild their broken family and triggering a series of catastrophes that years later investigate one division of the FBI in the name Fringe involved him, his son Peter (Joshua Jackson) and Agent Olivia Dunham (Anna Torv) trying to avoid the end of the world.