User blog comment:FloaterJ/Nitpicker's Nook/@comment-25869525-20150225024024/@comment-26131697-20150225085759

Give the way the plot goes and the regular "Then it just so happens" and "luckily" that could be put infront of every part of the script relating to the actions of everyone except the mountain men who are the cliche "bad guys" despite the so called "good guys" being equally or sometimes more deplorable, the writers just are not putting much thought into Season 2.

It strikes me that they have so little time between starting to write each episode and the filming of it starting, that they can't gather their thoughts to close loopholes, shut down cliches, check on repetitive bias and so on, that what gets churned out really doesn't stand up to anything but the most superficial viewing.

This means that they just haven't worked out back stories, they haven't checked to see if something is credible or realistic, and although that makes for perfectly fine first time viewing, particularly from an inexperienced audience more focussed on "Will Clarke and Bellamy get together" or "Will Clarke and Lexa get together" or "will Clarke and (insert any name from the show excluding her own mother and possibly the two headed deer) get together" when people look back over the series and become more inquisitive about the issues and "science" raised in it, "The 100" will be remembered as great viewing but poor quality writing.

For that reason I think they just came up with an arbitrary number for the quantity of mountain men and have probably hamstrung themselves in that they are now in a quandary.

With a few thousand mountain men they can keep sending up the kill count and still have the MM not too security conscious. They can also accept that forty or so people can get hidden away, they can also accept that Bellamy might blend in for more than thirty seconds on a busy corridor or strolling around the place, and more so going to see the president alone!!

With a few hundred mountain men, all of the above is beyond improbable and becomes ludicrous to the point of ruining the integral reality of the show. We always know that Bellamy, Clarke et al will be the heroes or be able to justify any act no matter how hideous and they will always "just get away" "arrive just in time" etc.

With all of this in mind I think the writers just plucked a number out of the air of about "400" mountain men and are now kicking themselves and wish they could go back and change it. At the current rate of stupidity and over-lucky Bellamy and insider delinquents, the sky people make up more than an eighth of the entire Mount Weather population and can still be hidden, fed, watered, use the toilet, wander around and not get seen on CCTV whilst the MM are happy to continually send woefully outnumbered guards on a "lets go die through our own ludicrous stupidity" mission.

Poor writing, very poor.