The thing I don't get it is how Pike could possibly have a majority. His people were half wiped out! Everyone else in Arkadia knows about the Finn thing. It doesn't make any sense. The only thing we have to go on is that he was elected BECAUSE he didn't get to campaign and no one heard his plan is literally kill…

The more that I think about it, I don't understand why that wasn't the plan ALL along, even with the Grounders. Fuck, even keeping them alive as baby machines would have been less brutal than the plan they went with.

The more the showrunners say they want to go full sci-fi, the more I suspect the whole "solar radiation" thing is much more of a red herring than we think. Clarke was trained as a triage nurse, but she wouldn't know anything about gene therapy. I think the solar radiation was the reason they needed the treatment, but…

Eh, the book character she's based off of is kind of a dark horse in the beginning too. I just wish they were telegraphing that she comes off as boring because she's the smartest.

I also use "fridging" to describe killing a character's one-dimensional child to develop their character. I think Wells was fridged, not to sketch out Clarke, but to sketch out Jaha.

I think the blood worship is a mix of practical warmongering, Mt. Weather's vampirism, and a specific genetic mutation that has been incorporated into the culture. I have a feeling whatever mutation that causes the black blood a)looks cool as hell b)was useless to Mt. Weather.

The real dramatic irony is in that the Ark was already using gene therapy if not genuine genetic engineering. They could have just asked for the medical research.

I really expected the guy to pick up the poop and throw it at Rhodes. It should have been a reality check - no one gives a shit about a US Attorney and "power moves" in real life. Usually attempting something like that just shows that you have a lot less power than you thought. I was shocked when it was played…

I'm going to be so mad if Murphy doesn't mention that he's seen The Matrix. He's perfectly poised to be the genre savvy one.

But that's the point. There are more people on the planet than the Ark survivors can even really process. It's really interesting to see the point of view of someone who was raised in a closed one-government system trying to grapple with the idea of "other countries." Especially since the *only* experience Farm…