Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25176701-20160312023538/@comment-26247132-20160328055912

Okay, my latest crazy theories about ALIE. From this page:

Skyzy wrote:

And Jason was very specific how Ontari might have won the Conclave but she doesn't have the flame in her neck yet. Makes me think the flame doesn't choose her and Clarke someone else is chosen by the flame to become Commander. Recent comments from Eliza Taylor now make me think that Clarke steals the flame so Ontari can't get it and protects it because she thinks Lexa is still in there. She probably ends up having it inserted in her neck and has to destroy ALIE 2.0 in order to destroy ALIE 1.0*, thus "killing" Lexa permanently and ending the reincarnations of the Commanders.

My guess is ALIE 1.0 infects 2.0 and/or merges code with 2.0, thus entangling the two systems so in order to destroy one, you have to destroy both.... Maybe there's more to the black blood business and ALIE 1.0 infects Ontari in some way with Ontari tied into ALIE 2.0 through her nightblood...which might be more than anti-radiation side-effect and might also contain AI components, thus the reason ALIE 2.0 can only latch into Nightbloods.

Also, how does Nightblood appear in the local population? I really hope they address this. It can't be genetically passed on because it seems none of the other Nightbloods reach adulthood and the Commanders don't seem to live long enough, either (Titus is fairly young to be on his fifth Commander already). But Becca injected herself to turn her blood black, meaning those other syringes she used to inject other people. So how does it get passed on???