Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26153610-20150305125025/@comment-50.153.116.136-20150314015317

The holes in the plot one are so large one could fly an Air Force C-5 through any of them with room to spare.

I'm bothered there's never been any discussion of the wholesale die-off of the majority of original Ark residents, since they were suddenly exposed to intense radiation all the time instead of cycling their time in space as current astronauts do. So HOW did the Sky People develop immune systems that prevented/purged cancers from radiation-damaged cells, didn't get the cataracts real life astronauts do after comparatively short times in space, didn't miscarry most fetuses due to congential deformities, and didn't bear a large number of deformed children? My only thought is Ark doctors developed some gene therapy that allowed original colonists systems' to mutate less often and cleanse themselves of mutations that did occur. But if that's the case, those at Mount Weather should have been able to do the same thing.

It's also bothersome that Cage etc was so set on NOW. If Mount Weather used current medical techniques to destroy the existing marrow of recipients, then transpant Sky People marrow, once that was estabished and growing, they could eventually donate for transplantation into other Mountain Men. There was never any mention of compatibility between donors and recipients. As tough as it is today for some to get transplants, surely some Mountain AB- Men was going to be SoL. Nor was their mention of anti-rejection treatments or medication.

All these gaps serve as a reminder that this is a CW show for teenagers, not a real one for which someone, somewhere on staff checks for inconsistencies. Or blatant stupity.