Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27850379-20160222233524/@comment-27754434-20160223115518

while thinking about it, i got a couple of theories, as to why the world is so diffrent:

1) number of years is higher, and there is a reason why the ark thought only 97 years have past. clarke said that ark believes that it takes about 200 years to get back. if noone on ark thought there was enough time for radiation to end, why would the send people down, except if the twist here is that the leadership knew about the real numbers and lied to the rest, to keep everyone on the ark, remember excedus protocol. the leadership probably wnated to solve that before telling everyone the truth, but with the ark dying they had to expose the truth about the earth being survivable, at least that is why jaha would logically allow wells to go, and why abby would allow clarke to go where she was suppost to die of radiation. a small group of people, knowing the truth, that would explain why things have changed so drastically, as for MW, that is my theory, that the same reason why people on the ark came to the idea of only 97 years. ALIE. the ark, as we know, was able to communicate with the ground, so if alie, being the AI, somehow knew they were up there, which she probably did, 13 stations she knew about, and after the ark formed, she might have contacted them or did something else to make 97 yers or she did it a long time after, after all, 300 years, she noticed them and said hey tell everyone it has only been 97 yers, to connect the only two groups of people that have te3chnology, yes, the same way she contacted the ark, and maybe even be responcible somehow for the arks oxygen problem, she mighht have contacted MW and did the same thing there... as for the grounders, the probaly do notz even have calenders anymore by now, so...

2) ALIE again. she could have made the entire command structure of the grounders as a away to control them. but trough titus not actual control. 3 generations of people changing, think about it, if there actually were no that big of holes as there would have been, cances are, us is on the ground taht has not been hit by the biggest missles, so people in the first generations of all over the world would travel, meaning, groups formimg, that would eventually become the calns, were not made entirely by americans, think about it. nukes, world gone, what next? you travel or you make a community, and the calns probably were not formed instantly, but trough time, with multiple types of people, azgeda with canadians who were visited by army or something, relying on strenght. trikru by people, who were learning to survive in the woods, you have to combie everything, the ground were they were, migrants, first encounters with people after the bombs, people formimg societys and of course, ALIE. 97 yers, generations of adapting to diffrent terrain, diffrent languages, people aand being watced by ALIE, who made their command structure.

3) bad writing and piss poor plotholes...