Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27850379-20160222233524

So what really bugs me about this show is that the way grounder society became is unrealistic. Only 97 years passed since the apocalypse and yet there are 12 clans, a new language (although it seems like a creole) and lots of new customs. 97 years and 3 generations is too short a period for a new language to develop, not to mention there was no outside influence (like for example when someone colonises something and a creole language emerges). Why would they develop a new language in such a short period? No real rational reason to be honest.

Why are they so different from the humans pre apocalypse? Why 12 clans that are treated almost like different countries/people? Too short a period for people to lose their identity as americans (since its based in murica) and create another as 12 clans. Think about it. First generation were regular citizens that struggled to survive. They would still teach their children their culture and identity and then their grandchildren since they would still be alive at the start of the 3rd generation. All these changes are virtually impossible to appear in 97 years. It looks like 200-500 years passed not 97. I get people would form some communities and become savager since they have to survive but they wouldn't all of a sudden get completely new customs, language, 12 tribes and all sorts of crazy things so fast.

Also, the 12 clans are in a coalition, have armies and a freakin commander. Yea I really don't see how any of this could happen in 97 years especially since the first few years would be total panic, chaos and anarchy....

I really wish they would have said more than 200 years passed so it becomes a bit more believable since it bugs me to hell. 