Like trying in a mirror? Syfy’s The Ark tells a narrative of people attempting to outlive in house in an try to rebuild their planet — an idea many followers consider sounds eerily just like that of The CW’s The 100.
The Ark, which premiered in February 2023, centered on a gaggle of people that had been on a mission to search out an inhabitable planet. Sadly, their house journey took a flip when an unexplained catastrophe woke them up early and compelled them to attempt to reside lengthy sufficient to make it to the bottom.
Forward of The Ark‘s premiere, showrunner Jonathan Glassner opened up concerning the imaginative and prescient for the sequence.
“It’s set solely in all probability 100 years from now. So, it’s previous know-how that has been pushed to the restrict to make these ships attempt to rescue individuals off of Earth which is collapsing. And we go along with one of many ships and have every kind of enjoyable adventures,” he instructed The Companion in September 2022. “It’s actually a survival present. It might virtually be set on an island someplace and be simply the identical.”
On the time, eagle-eyed followers seen the attainable connections between The Ark and The 100. The post-apocalyptic present, which ran from 2014 till 2020 on The CW, explored survival by way of the lens of minor delinquents being despatched to search out out if Earth is a secure setting a century after a nuclear catastrophe compelled humanity into house.
After seven seasons of loss of life and destruction, creator Jason Rothenberg mentioned how he tried to finish The 100 on a constructive observe.
“We wished the ethical of the story to be, merely acknowledged, ‘Till we cease preventing, we’re doomed.’ Till we cease killing one another within the identify of nation or tribe and even household, we’re doomed to maintain repeating that cycle of violence,” he instructed Leisure Weekly in September 2020. “And as soon as we do and we hyperlink arms and we understand we’re all on this collectively, then we are able to get to no matter comes subsequent.”
Rothenberg continued: “As darkish because the present has been at instances, I really feel just like the ending — and I all the time say I used to be not attempting to make individuals really feel good more often than not and the present shouldn’t be a present that was presupposed to deliver you pleasure, it’s supposed to maneuver you and make you are feeling unhappy or offended even — however right here we had been positively aiming for individuals strolling away feeling uplifted.”
In response to the present’s controversial storytelling selections, the screenwriter mentioned he didn’t strategy the finale with followers in thoughts.
“To begin with, the entire present is written, season after season, lengthy earlier than it airs, so there’s nothing we might do as soon as individuals begin reacting to episodes as they air, actually inside a season,” he shared with KSite TV that very same month. “The present clearly is difficult to look at typically. It’s not designed to be a nice, gratifying, blissful journey. Should you can’t join a journey like that, realizing that you simply’re going to lose characters that you simply love, as an illustration, then you definately shouldn’t. Don’t watch the present should you can not deal with dropping characters that you simply love.”
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