Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-36166241-20180712124751/@comment-2.222.95.255-20181216211559

69.145.120.37 wrote: It wasn't my favorite season. Season 5 felt like one long prelude to season 6. It felt rushed, getting them into the valley, destroying it, getting them onto the ship, then to the Eligius III colony...(though I knew they'd end up there)

I found it harder to engage and care about the characters and the story arcs. I know the show loves moral ambiguity, and I think they missed some good opportunities. For instance, a role reversal of sorts with the Prisoners having a higher moral ground versus the bunker survivors (due to their hunger games and cannibalism); the Prisoners being 'culture-shocked' at the depths of the collapse of civility despite their own atrocious criminal and anarchist histories; the Grounders/Arc survivors trying to defend their survival histories versus the Prisoners having the luxury of 'sleeping' through 97 years of Earth hell....

In any case, the Earthers will be the barbarians when they arrive at the Eligius III colony. I think it's going to be very interesting :) I loved season 5 but I agree. One thing that bothed me was the missed opportunity for the prisoners. Thay are the key to the past and are from are time and could of challenged are characters with social issues that effect us today. Is sexism a thing for them? Is racism? Rape culture?  However I feelt that Vinsom showed us something we Hadn't seen before and helped challenge us and the characters that addiction can take a number of forms, also it helped that he was nero diversed. I hope we meet an autistic character in the near future.