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(They’re also super useful for pulling off shocking plot twists and/or playing with the passage of time in a given series – looking at you, Westworld.) From Orange is the New Black to This is Us, regular flashbacks have become a standard tool for exploring what makes specific characters tick, as well as to illustrate how they’ve been molded by their life experiences in ways both good and bad. Sci-fi series Lost is rightly credited with pushing this storytelling trick into the mainstream television toolbox, but it’s been a fairly regular feature on many shows in the decade-plus since we were all stuck on an island together. After all, it lands differently when someone chooses to kill if they were a pacifist all their life before that moment, doesn’t it? The idea of letting us see them as the people they once were in the real world is appealing and will provide necessary layers to their post-apocalyptic experience. At the moment, most of them don’t even appear to be connected to anyone from the current world of The 100. Though we’re familiar with the general scope of the prequel series’ universe, we don’t know any of these characters. This is, in fairness, the sort of narrative environment in which flashbacks could be an extremely useful tool.
As one group heads into a literal nuclear wasteland, the other journeys to the stars, But both will surely be asked to make difficult, if not impossible, choices almost immediately. “Anaconda” is no exception, and the proposed prequel series will certainly be much the same, as the two ragtag groups who depart the Second Dawn bunker build new societies in two very different situations. The 100 has always been a series that shines brightest when exploring stories of characters under extreme duress, using nightmarish circumstances to show us what humanity is capable of – for both good and ill – when pushed to its limits. “So, much like Lost used flashbacks, I think we’ll do that as a device in this series.” “Getting to kind of go back and show that, to me, was part of the fun of this, and certainly will be part of the-fun might be the wrong word-but part of the drama of this show will be flashing back consistently to the pre-apocalypse to show all of our characters who they were before this, our global catastrophe struck,” Rothenberg said. Given the brief glimpse we see into the world of 2052 on the Cadogans’ television screen, with its overpopulation, large-scale climate protests, and police brutality – not to mention the imminent global thermonuclear destruction – there certainly seems as though there will be plenty of timely and uncomfortably familiar story there.
“I’m also fascinated by the world that led up to the apocalypse, which sadly feels a lot more like our world every day,” showrunner Jason Rothenberg told Den of Geek. Unlike its predecessor, however, it would also employ a narrative flashback structure to introduce viewers to what the world was like on pre-apocalypse Earth. The planned The 100 prequel would explore the story of what happened after the future Disciples and future Grounders part ways, with one faction led by Cadogan himself and the other by his daughter, Calliope. The 100 Season 7: Bill Cadogan & Second Dawn Explained By Kayti Burt
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