Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26247132-20160223183610/@comment-27885062-20160228204649

Skyzy wrote: Pike (and all the rest of Farm Station) is still so one-note. I keep waiting for more backstory. Maybe we'll get it in the Arkadia-centric episode that is supposedly coming up but that backstory should have come sooner. Right now, it's hard to believe we're supposed to sympathize at all with any of them? It's too little, too late.

Agreed..

The CoL plot is pretty much the only thing they haven't screwed up too badly yet. Most of it is stuff I speculated on back in April-June so I'm happy to see all my ALIE speculations coming true and maybe that's why I like it still?

I will read your speculations and get back to you.. But personally I just wish the writers would invest more time and effort on one plot thread at a time rather than hastily moving on or jumping around so much.. it risks watering down everything accomplished to this point which is basically what is happening now..

"Turn off the ventilation until they couldn't help themselves, and then turn it back on again once everything was clearly in their control."

The problem with this is that it's like being a little bit pregnant. The second she (and Bellamy) opened those vents, the Mountain Men were dead, no matter how quickly they closed them again.

Now the science guy in me says that background radiation can not have such a drastic immediate effect on anyone.. even severe doses don't become physically apparent until hours after exposure.

And according to this chart https://xkcd.com/radiation/ .. to receive a fatal dose of radiation in such a short time frame of less than a minute would be equivalent to being on site of the Chernobyl blast for the same period of time. ..and for blistering of that severity to occur - within that time frame, the intensity of radiation would have to be 3 TIMES that of Chernobyl!

Not even the Sky peeps could survive that level of exposure!! let alone anyone!