Brianna Taggart gets way too emotionally invested in TV shows and loves to bring her love of stories and writing to her work in journalism. She has two degrees in journalism and communication from the University of Minnesota Duluth and works full time at a weekly newspaper in Minnesota. When she’s not covering community news, she’s covering entertainment for Bri’s Binge right here on the Daily Planet.
Frustration. Sadness. Confusion. Overwhelmed. These are all emotions characters experienced in the The 100’s season seven premiere. Oddly enough, they’re all emotions I experienced right along with them as I watched the story unfold from the comfort of my own couch. But there’s one word in specific that comes to mind when I think of this particular episode: disappointment.
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Two-headed deer, mountain men torturing people, a viral city to house people’s consciousness, a radiation death wave, body snatching and a green fog that seems to exist outside the realm of possibility. Each season of the CW’s post-apocalyptic show “The 100” delivers more and more unexpected things for the characters to face and overcome — surprising the audience left and right since its start in 2014. The series is based in a future where Earth has been destroyed by nuclear bombs, leaving the radiated land uninhabitable and the last of the human population living in space. But, when their spaceship
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COVID-19 has taken over not only our physical world, but our virtual one. I go to the grocery store and see shelves empty. I drive past my university’s campus and see the once packed parking lots now full of available spaces. I pass houses with college students moving out and moving back home to their families.
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A 13-year-old girl with fiery red braids, almost as fiery as her temper and imagination, sits impatiently on the 1890’s steam train with her eyes focused on the prairie of Prince Edwards Island in eastern Canada.
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Sacrifices come in many forms. Many times people recognize them as someone choosing to die in order to save the greater good. However, a character can also sacrifice their time and comfort in order to help others. The media represents these different types of sacrifices all the time in TV shows, comic books, movies, and books. Today, the Daily Planet team came together to celebrate and share some of their favorite and memorable sacrifices in the media for Supreme Sacrifice Day. The remainder of this article may contain potential spoilers.
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BOOM! POW! KABAM! The disguised hero skirts around a building keeping their eye on the villain wreaking havoc among the city, waiting for their next move. They pull out their superpower from within and capture photos of the criminal in order to seize the truth on film.
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