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“Zoo” Poses a Terrifying “What If?”

Erin Nathan
March 21, 2017

Since the dawn of time, mankind has been the dominant species. We have locked up animals, beaten them, have used them for sports, and domesticated them. What if one day, the animals just decide they’ve had enough? In the exciting thriller, Zoo, animals across the globe decide to fight back.

Zoo is more or less, “an animal takeover.” It is interesting because, if you think about it, it’s not so hard to believe. Could you picture yourself being an animal? If you saw others like you in cages, getting beaten and starved, wouldn’t you want to stop it? Wouldn’t you want to fight back instead of rolling over and dying?

Have you ever talked to your friends about a zombie outbreak? Different shows are talking about this and giving their points of view on different things that could happen. The chances of this happening are obviously none, yet that doesn’t stop people from talking about it. However, have you ever thought about animals, things we abuse daily in unimaginable ways, striking back? Is it possible that humanity is discussing the wrong apocalypse?

The show starts off with an animal expert, Jackson Oz, and his Mother in Africa. They moved there because his dad drove himself insane with theories about how animals are going to be the ones ruling us one day. They left because they thought he was just crazy. However they started to have a second look at his theories when Jackson’s best friend, Abraham, was attacked by a pack of Lions. It was confirmed; animals were striking back. The pair ended up meeting five other people who were animal experts, and together they worked to try and find a cure. The season was closing with them finding a cure, but, while they were in a airplane, it crashed with the cure inside it.

With the only cure they had now gone, the military started to step in. Millions of people were dying, and they came up with a “solution,” the Noah Objective. This plan was to release a gas in the air that would kill all the animals in the world. The team had to figure out a way to stop this before it was too late. At first, it seemed that this season was going to have a happy ending with the team finding a cure. However, at the last second, the military released the gas and the Noah Objective was a go. Luckily, the team used the cure before they did so and the gas didn’t kill the animals. The thing is, somehow, the gas made it sure that mankind could not reproduce anymore.

Overall, Zoo is about surviving a hard world, just like The 100. In the new season of The 100, they found out radiation was taking over and they were predicted to be dead in three months, so they had to work and find a cure. In both shows they’re trying to find a cure in hopes of living a long and happy life.

What makes Zoo so utterly fascinating is seeing how some of the smaller animals attack. We all have a good idea of how a lion or tiger would attack, but it was cool to see what they did with the insects. Take, for and example, ants. One ant seems harmless. What about 1,000? They made an episode about them that involved a numerous amount of them gathered together to create a electric current that could electrocute you. It was just amusing, and you could tell they put a lot of thought in it.

Zoo is amazing and shows us how poorly we treat animals. It’s all fun and games when humans kill and abuse animals, but what if they decide to attack back? Zoo is one of those shows that will have you making popcorn, wraped up in a blanket, and thinking of “what ifs.” Zoo is an awesome show easy to recommend to anyone.

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