Talk:Mountain Men/@comment-26131697-20150221122047

I am becoming really irritated at the whole MM storyline that has spoiled series 2 for me. I completely appreciate others love it so I don't want to ruin anyone's enjoyment. This is just my opinion and reasons why.

1. Having been trained in CBRN, having worked in the suits numerous times and being well trained about the realities of radiation and its effects, the whole death in a few seconds to a minute or so thing is ludicrous. Radiation at that extreme level (extreme high rems or millisieverts) is fatal to all humans. To claim that immunity can be created or occur in a certain population level is as daft as claiming that if everyone on earth jumped from a ten thousand foot cliff, those that survived would when they mate give birth to children increasingly immune to catastrophic body impact with a solid object from a vast height. At a certain level, and far below that which is fatal in mere seconds, radiation kills and is catastrophic to the body. It's like claiming immunity to having one's heart removed. It would have been much better to have the MM becoming progressively more ill after days of being outside unprotected.

2. Bone marrow has to match donor and recipient or its pointless. A transplant doesn't kill the donor and anaesthesia renders it totally unlike how it is being portrayed here. The easiest, most sensible thing is to say to the 47, "Look kids, we saved your lives and it would be great if you could help save ours through a zero risk bone marrow donorship after which you'll be treated like royalty by us. We can then get together with your parents who have landed and gang up against the common enemy that have just tried to kill you and have been going at your parents like loons as well. What do you think?" Cue titles, series three.

3. Bellamy is becoming the Deus ex Machina for every lazy plot turn. Whenever the MM are about to do anything in their own favour he messes it up for them. The MM would surely have made scrambling around the air ducts a lot more difficult than it is and as soon as the kids are loose in the place would surely protect all of their vulnerable areas accesible via the ducts. It's just a no brainer.

4. Emerson has got to be the most useless sod in the mountain. When sniping he and his thick mate pick the most stupid and easily accesible place and act like they're on a picnic. When an arrow has his mate in the neck he pulls out a knife to face the attack. Really! He left a high powered rifle on the grass and putting his back to the direction from which the arrow came and two people on horses goes to fight the ninja Octavia who seems to have picked up sword skills within days. Did these two idiots not even bring pistols? The Emerson picks up the gas grenade from the water and has a dullard moment where it's glaringly obvious they're in a trap and waits until the kids are up and in a throw back to Battle for the Planet of the Apes moment, start killing the soldiers. He even leads the soldiers right into the middle of the room unarmed! Honestly, who writes this stuff? Surely the mountain men would all be dead now anyway because they poke knives into toasters, tie their shoelaces together, use the hairdryer in the bath, run downstairs carrying scissors point out infront of them, eat their food uncooked, have barbecues in their bedrooms and put deadly fluid into empty drinks containers and leave them out on the shelf. They have got to be monumentally thick.

5. You can't just pull a CBRN respirator mask off like Clarke the immortal and Anja the least likely to be a leader who has in any case just tried to wipe out Clarkes entire people and would surely be last on Clarkes, "I'm going to let my enemy out of the cage" list with Clarke highest on Anja's "I'm going to do you mate for wiping out so many of my people" list.

6. Survival of the fittest in this post apocalyptic world appears to be "fittest" as in "best looking".

7. "Pop up" Bellamy is guaranteed to be able to walk through the middle of the dining hall with a sign on his head saying "I'm from the clouds" and still not get caught whilst the entire MM people are having dinner. He can be counted on to use a special radio that can send signals from underground through metres of rock, concrete, metal etc and over a long distance to the Sky people camp and it's a little hand held radio to boot! He has free run of the entire ventilation system that the MM must surely (well probably not because they're thick) be aware of and surely to goodness would have welded up, fitted with alarms or covert cameras by now!

There's a lot more.

Having said all of that, I still love the entire idea of the show, found series 1 to be brilliant and series 2 entertaining, but more comedy than serious drama now. I hope the writers for series 3 are given more time to think things through because they are clearly capable.

Anyway, all said in the best of humour.