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This episode clearly put their goals (which are absurd by the way) in danger. As I see it their only change to meet those goals is to go to the house where Jawa met ALIE and get the technology they need and more there. After all the bunker Murphy found and was stuck in, worked perfectly.

I loved it how they bothered to explain how and why those nuclear power plants held on for so long completely unmanned.

Octavia although becoming one badass killer, os becoming too comfortable in her role. I really doubt that this Octavia was what Lincoln wanted her to be. She's become too cold too fast. And we all know how the living by the sword thing goes...

I found it interesting that ALIE "upgrades" remained even after ALIE is gone. Like we saw with Raven. It does raises the question "May ALIE still be alive, inside someone else? That she taken over a body or is buried inside someone else's consciousness, and will emerge eventually?"

But the entire plot has one major flaw. If such reactors really already went into meltdown mode, then the Earth will remain uninhabitable for at least a thousand years. So, no matter how much they can rebuild of the Ark it simply will not be able to withstand people for so long. Not without some really amazing technology. Because for one thousand years no critical system of the Ark can fail. Just one major failure and everyone dies. So in that regard the show is really pushing credibility to its maximum.

Honestly if this show is to have any future or any more seasons, it will most likely be because in ALIE house they'll find some nanotechnology technology. Raven uses her prodigious programming skills to program them to feed of the radiation. Convert it into other non lethal elements, and thus the world is saved very conveniently. Raven does the work, Clarke pulls a lever and the world is saved in the last episode.

And for a possible next season. The same nanomachines used to save them, evolves beyond its programming. And that's how season 4 ends. We see some animal or group of animals being swallowed up by some sort of goo or mass, and from that we get new cybernetic creatures. And from there on we could call this show Horizon. Because it would be basically the same as the game. Humans having to fight against the machines.