The 100 - Season 2

[The Master of Tarquin Hill]

Is it my imagination, or is this series becoming really really good? I mean, it started good, got a bit bogged down, then just keeps getting better.

Same here. Like all sci-fi shows it has some errors.

But, it is pretty damn good. I don't think I am anywhere near their target audience and I am really enjoying the show.

Lotsa people have been killed that I expected to be seeing for a long time.

I am pleasantly surprised.

 

[Taylirious]

Last night's was pretty good. Didn't expect Jaha to break away like that. And I kind of liked Clarke and Lexa taking on Gorilla Grodd.

I wouldn't be surprised if they don't use the CGI for Flash.

Part of me thinks Clarke & Lexa will kiss at some point. Don't know why.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Training the children on the ark to grow up homosexual, from birth, would really help with their population issues.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

I would like Lexa better if the acting wasn't so abysmally dull. I like her second a lot more.

 

[Dr. Funkenstein]

I think she's doing a fine job considering her role. She's supposed to be wise, diplomatic, compassionate, and intelligent. The only thing she's lacking is the show of strength she should have, but they sort of explained that away with the reincarnation malarky.

 

[Guy Gardener]

The wise men elders must have a method for turning a baby taken from their parents, and hammering at hir until by their 18th birthday, they can assume leadership. This would create a decades long period where said wise men elders would be Regents holding power but no final responsibility. If they cock it all up, a 5 year old gets thrown off a cliff and they find the new body that that soul had transmigrated into.

But Lexa fears immediate replacement from her peers?

Each village could have a reincarnated leader eligible to take the crown, which would mean immediate succession if there are dozens of eligible leaders from dozens of districts all carrying the immortal souls of a historic and great former leaders, from when the first families founded their system and the radioactive dust settled.

By the way?

When did they establish that the fog was a weapon and not weather?

 

[cylkoth]

Clarke discovered that the fog was weaponized when she was escaping from Mt Weather.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Thank you.

 

[Dr. Funkenstein]

Clarke discovered that the fog was weaponized when she was escaping from Mt Weather.

If I recall, it was from overhearing some of the guards talking about how they deployed it.

 

[Lucky]

Felt bad for Bellamy tonight, but he persevered. Clarke really stepped up as leader, there's no doubt about that. I really enjoyed tonight's episode, but next week's looks even better. The show keeps gaining steam.

 

[Guy Gardener]

They're positioning for wars end already before its even started.

The old president can now pick up the pieces and get his chair back when Mount weather is defeated.

No, he's also a war criminal, but then so is Clarke.

What ex el presidente has going for him is that he has the missile codes, he has all the codes. He can declare enough is enough, and kill every one in the mountain which will probably include most of the grounder army?

But as far as his crisis of conscience goes, will he kill all the children as well?

I think G'kar said it best...

"I will confess that I look forward to the day when we have cleansed the Universe of the Centauri and carved their bones into little flutes for Narn children. It is a dream I have."

Seriously, if they had just been harvesting grounder sperm for the last century and interbreeding, they'd be fine with the outside too. Oh? You think that grounder sperms were too toxic, and cleaning the sperm would make it unusable?

Bellamy needs to spend more time with his shirt off.

 

[Dr. Funkenstein]

You make my brain hurt every time the logic of the show comes back to the massive physical changes that inexplicably occurred after only 100 years. That's the one thing about the show that kills me.

Couldn't they have made it a few hundred years at least? I know the show is called The 100, but FFS, that's just the number of kids they sent down. The number doesn't have to permeate the entire show.

Nevermind that, somehow, exposure to stellar radiation made the Sky People immune to fallout radiation.

Ahhhhh! /brainmelt

 

[Guy Gardener]

Clarke said this week that they were genetically engineered.

I watch tv on a massive pc monitor, so I'm usually doing a couple other things at the same time on that monitor, so I'm hardly focussed.

have they mentioned that they were genetically engineered before?

Genetically engineered could mean a few of things, but if their jiggering is done to babies inside mommy, or the best sperms and the best eggs are combined out side mum and dad and then amped with baby steroids, before the kid is put back into a womb, well... Doesn't that mean that Octavia is not genetically engineered?

 

[JD]

I really like this big leadership role that Clarke has taken on. We got some good stuff for her this week. I find it interesting that the Grounders are actually looking at her more than her mother or Kane, when it comes to The Sky People.
It'll be interesting to see what happens with the everybody once the war with Mt. Weather is over. I've read several interviews that referenced The Ice Nation, so I am wondering if they'll be the next bad guys.
The stuff with Bellamy in Mt. Weather was good. I really hope they don't kill off the girl that's been helping him and the other kids, I like her. I wonder if the girl who was in the cage next to Bellamy will be at all significant in the future.
I completely forgot that the (now ex) President's son and the doctor were working behind his back. I wonder what will become of him once the conflict with the Grounders and Sky People is over.

 

[Dr. Funkenstein]

Clarke said this week that they were genetically engineered.

I watch tv on a massive pc monitor, so I'm usually doing a couple other things at the same time on that monitor, so I'm hardly focussed.

have they mentioned that they were genetically engineered before?

The hell?

No, they've said the exact opposite. That they gained their immunity through exposure to solar radiation on the Ark.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Kinda.

Clarke "figured" that out on the fly after she was already on the Earth.

The scientists and leaders in the ark however, probably had a plan in play 50 years before Clarke was born.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

I hope the sky people don't end up giving the mountain people some magic science to fix them so no more blood is needed. Synthetic sky people blood.

We didn't see the break aways this week.

 

[Dr. Funkenstein]

Clarke "figured" that out on the fly after she was already on the Earth.

Nah, the Mountain Men (I think it was the President himself, but don't quote me on that) specifically told her that's what happened. Their exposure to solar radiation magically made them resistant to the fallout radiation.

Nevermind that for that to happen, there had to have been some kind of virtual holocaust on the Ark where most of them died due to the radiation, and only the survivors carried on and passed on that trait, strengthening it as it goes. Yet we've never heard anything about that. And, again, it's only been 100 years, so they shouldn't have had a population control problem in that short of time if that were actually the case. Especially given the reproduction laws they had.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Their population control problem was the the exodus ship can only fit a thousand people, but there and then at year 97, they had 2000 people living on the ark.

When the exodus ship did leave, all it had in there was 15 armed ####s who thought they were more important than taking enough breeding pairs to keep the species viable.

Of course that is an important reason for genetically modifying babies, by "safely" jumbling DNA with magic future science, that means that cousins can keep breeding with cousins, decade after decade without deformity. If they were genetically modifying foetuses, they could also genetically modify tolerance to solar radiation. The first generation of Astronauts up there may have been fine themselves, but when 1/2 their babies who came out were cucumber people. Steps had to have been taken.

You know when a teacher is teaching and they slowly start to say the answer to a problem, as the students figures out the end of the answer by hearing the beginning of the answer and race to say what the end of the answer is so that they seem bright?

That's what happened with Clarke and the President. She worked it out about 3 seconds before he told her, because the preceding 12 seconds of conversation was very clue ridden. In anyregard that she was prodded into developping that answer to why they are radiation resistant, this is something, wrong or right, that she a child did not know until that moment and was never anything any one ever told her on the Ark, or was part of the formal education on the ark that they were not human.

"That guy has ark blood in him" (massive paraphrase)

Ark blood is recognizably different to grounder blood and Mountainman Blood, probably because of the gmodding. So, yes, it seems pretty clear the first generation scientists up stairs in space were smart enough to invent new science that the (first generation) soldierboys and clerks in Mount Weather were not... And that the Mountain men and the Grounders can alike be upgraded. Probably not the existing generations, but their children should be able to live on the ground and be free of mutation. Mutation is still a grounder problem.

 

[Dr. Funkenstein]

The whole problem with pulling the "genetically engineered" card out of their asses is that the Mountain Men, who have time and again been proven to be the most scientifically and medically advanced "race" on the show, should have been able to do the exact same thing. Especially since they had the facilities, talent, and resources to do so, as opposed to a bunch of hobbled-together space stations few of any who would be genetic engineers to the degree needed to pull that off on day one in space.

And it would have to have been near day one if levels of exposure to solar radiation was deadly enough to warrant genetic engineering in the first place, especially since the Sky People are clearly more super-duper-radiation proof that they, and they alone, are the only ones who can make the Mountain Men near-invulnerable through marrow transplants.

It just... it just doesn't make any damn sense, dammit. <cries>