Rewatching is interesting because I'm kind of remembering some of my first reactions, but also watching it with my fandom feels too. So a few things.
When I first watched the show, I was lukewarm on the pilot. I was really worried it would be high school on the ground, and Octavia's characterization in particular didn't help since she is the one shown as boy crazy. The line that endeared Clarke to me was her saying in response to Octavia calling dibs on Finn, was "Just so you know, I don't care."
I liked Clarke from the beginning. Mostly because even when her approach of telling everyone what to do for their own good - which I definitely rolled my eyes at because that is not the way to handle a group like this - she went off to Mount Weather anyway, getting stuff done. I really liked that. And I really liked the adventure team for the most part. Jasper being girl crazy was annoying, but him and Monty together are gold. I liked Finn well enough, and Octavia's unique situation was definitely worth sticking around for.
This might be an unpopular opinion, but I never really warmed up to Wells. Our introduction to him is when he tells Clarke, he got himself arrested for her, which just burns of man needing to protect woman. And then, like Clarke, he kept approaching the rest of the group the wrong way. Keeping in mind some of marina's point above, yeah, Bellamy totally wins at how to take control of a group. Appeal to their identity, don't bother with logic. (Now that I think about it, it plays the same way current politics in the US plays.) Wells comes across as better-than-thou and it just rubs me the wrong way, even though he's right. Clarke doing it too bothered me, but then she goes off pretty quickly, leaving Wells, who to be fair is injured so he couldn't go wtih, to be the unsuccessful voice of reason with the rest.
Murphy I did not like from the start, and Bellamy I was ambivalent about and definitely wary of. They did a good job setting him up as the antagonist on the ground. (On a shallow note, I definitely do not like his hair.)
Up on the Ark I was a fan of Abby from the start, and also enjoyed Kane as the antagonist. Watching it now, I love how far he's come, and knowing how their relationship will evolve.
Also, in my headcanon, Callie and Kane were an item for a while, but by the time of the Pilot have been broken up for a couple years. Then the reason we never see her again is she volunteers for Section 17.
What kept me watching after the first episode was wanting to know who had thrown that spear at Jasper - which I don't think in the show we ever get an answer for. I mean, they think it's "grounders", which at that point means everyone. But given what we know post season 2 I've seen the idea that it was a reaper guarding Mount Weather, and I like that idea. Also, I noticed this time watching that the track Finn finds in the glowing night forest is bipedal - was that the guy who through the spear who was tracking them? *makes silly inquiring face*
The other thing that kept me watching was the blue glowing forest. That's one scene with imagination that made me feel like they were taking the future radiation soaked Earth seriously. It wasn't just a mutant deer, it was mutant other stuff, and it was pretty. That and the Ark, which I also thought was cool worldbuilding enough to stick around for.
Watching it again some of my favorite scenes are still my favorite: Octavia and Clarke's exchange when they set off to Mount Weather Abby being put in Clarke's cell Clarke waking up in the blue glowing forest Clarke explaining why they were sent down while they're hiking.
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Date: 2015-06-26 01:46 am (UTC)When I first watched the show, I was lukewarm on the pilot. I was really worried it would be high school on the ground, and Octavia's characterization in particular didn't help since she is the one shown as boy crazy. The line that endeared Clarke to me was her saying in response to Octavia calling dibs on Finn, was "Just so you know, I don't care."
I liked Clarke from the beginning. Mostly because even when her approach of telling everyone what to do for their own good - which I definitely rolled my eyes at because that is not the way to handle a group like this - she went off to Mount Weather anyway, getting stuff done. I really liked that. And I really liked the adventure team for the most part. Jasper being girl crazy was annoying, but him and Monty together are gold. I liked Finn well enough, and Octavia's unique situation was definitely worth sticking around for.
This might be an unpopular opinion, but I never really warmed up to Wells. Our introduction to him is when he tells Clarke, he got himself arrested for her, which just burns of man needing to protect woman. And then, like Clarke, he kept approaching the rest of the group the wrong way. Keeping in mind some of
Murphy I did not like from the start, and Bellamy I was ambivalent about and definitely wary of. They did a good job setting him up as the antagonist on the ground. (On a shallow note, I definitely do not like his hair.)
Up on the Ark I was a fan of Abby from the start, and also enjoyed Kane as the antagonist. Watching it now, I love how far he's come, and knowing how their relationship will evolve.
Also, in my headcanon, Callie and Kane were an item for a while, but by the time of the Pilot have been broken up for a couple years. Then the reason we never see her again is she volunteers for Section 17.
What kept me watching after the first episode was wanting to know who had thrown that spear at Jasper - which I don't think in the show we ever get an answer for. I mean, they think it's "grounders", which at that point means everyone. But given what we know post season 2 I've seen the idea that it was a reaper guarding Mount Weather, and I like that idea. Also, I noticed this time watching that the track Finn finds in the glowing night forest is bipedal - was that the guy who through the spear who was tracking them? *makes silly inquiring face*
The other thing that kept me watching was the blue glowing forest. That's one scene with imagination that made me feel like they were taking the future radiation soaked Earth seriously. It wasn't just a mutant deer, it was mutant other stuff, and it was pretty. That and the Ark, which I also thought was cool worldbuilding enough to stick around for.
Watching it again some of my favorite scenes are still my favorite:
Octavia and Clarke's exchange when they set off to Mount Weather
Abby being put in Clarke's cell
Clarke waking up in the blue glowing forest
Clarke explaining why they were sent down while they're hiking.