Talk:Coup de Grâce/@comment-26269248-20160121022714/@comment-26247132-20160121072235

Oops, I missed this one and commented on the Rubicon one first.

1. Same reason no one noticed Lovejoy was missing? I swear people are clueless on this show. "Oh, I wonder what happened to Octavia? I haven't seen my sister since MORNING on a planet filled with Grounders wanting to kill us." <- that's Bellamy in His Sister's Keeper, not keeping very good track of his sister.

2. Mount Weather was a military bunker pre-war so most of the people in Mount Weather are the offspring of military personnel and officers. Doesn't surprise me Dante would have learned some fencing at some point.

3. Maya was in the room purposefully looking for anomalies because she was helping Jasper search for Harper and Monty so when the person finished her treatment early (a sign Sky People blood was being used), Maya thought she'd find Harper or Monty being drained. I'd say the writers did an excellent job on both sides (with Bellamy kicking his cage to get picked for Harvest) to keep it from feeling too coincidental.

4. You've got me on this one. See #1.

5a. We still don't know fully what "genetically engineered" means. What I've seen that can only be explained by genetic engineering (or magic) is the whole solar radiation in space thing. They didn't have an evolutionary bottle-neck in space; they had a population growth (causing the need for the one-child law). That means they had to already be solar resistant before going into space. Also, they heal super fast, they don't ever sleep, they eat very little, and they suffered no side-effects transitioning from Space to Earth.

5b. There's only been mention of a general long-term contraceptive, nothing as specific as genetic engineering to prevent multiple births. But that does make me wonder: if a woman has already had a child, do they sterilize her immediately because she's done or do they waste resources and use the long-term contraceptive on her?

6. Since it's my headcanon, yes I do feel that Mount Weather was quickly dying from the inside. ;)