Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-30425200-20161106122650/@comment-58.6.87.233-20161122134705

I'm worried this show has backed itself into a corner it can't get out of. This "all the nuclear reactors are going to blow up in 6 months" thing can go 2 ways:

1. They somehow stop them all from blowing up. This seems near impossible and the show has been based on conflict and war. How are they going to tie in conflict and war with stopping nuclear reactors all around the place from blowing up is going to be a either a stroke of genius or total flop.

2. They run and hide. I think this would be lame option that would make a season 5 impossible. Let’s say they find some bunker and only limited amount can be saved, then what? There basically stuck there and back to where they started, just not in space, for another 50 years?

Option 3! If I had to think of a passable story line it would be, that they set off to find the closest nuclear reactor to find out if ALIE is really telling the truth or it was just another trick of hers. It’s in unknown lands that no one knows about. They finally find one and discover that ALIE was telling the truth BUT it is not melting down because of age and disrepair but because a semi advanced mutant/cyborg grounder group is running the power plants in a crude and unsafe manor in order to power there body’s.

Backstory – in some deep dark bunker a group of scientists modify and merge their bodies with technology in a bid to deal with high amounts of radiation so they could surface, they become half human half cyborg. To power there half robotic body’s they use the radiation as a power source, but as levels of radiation around them dropped over time they found that there body’s were now depend on the radiation to survive so they sought out and became attracted to old nuclear power plants. As levels dropped even further they had to go to more extreme measures to produce high levels of radiation. The mutant/cyborg grounder group is controlled by the last of the original scientists in a hive mentality. His aim is the reradiate the world so his people can once again roam the earth freely.

Is it perfect? No but it’s the best most insane thing I could come up with given what’s on offer. i.e

Why are all the nuclear reactors all going to fail at the same time? Because someone is behind it.

How do you stop all the reactors at the same time? The leader has a hive mind – stop the leader stops all the nuclear reactors going bang.

Does it have conflict and war? Yes.

Or option 4! They set off to find the closest nuclear reactor to find out if ALIE was lying and turns out SHE WAS but they get them self’s into whole lot of new trouble with another grounder group plotting something crazy, or maybe they find some more people in bunkers and the story has nothing to do with nuclear reactors.

I would be ok with this