Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-212.56.135.17-20160525143405/@comment-27779933-20160527225343

Just a big flaw of the show from the beginning would have made more sense if they took the years from the book or close to it which was 300 years since a nuclear apocalypse. Second like Bugthe said people don't have general information about everything and a lot of people only specialize in specific fields that not most people don't know and even if they survived the nuclear fallout they wouldn't focus on how to make paper to pass on their knowledge when most likely in a situation like that they would try to find food, get water and find other survivors, trying to stay alive and defending from predators which doesn't give you a lot of time to sit down and write everything you know. The Mountain Men didn't lose tolerance to radiation they just never adapted to the new high levels of radiation like the Grounders and Sky People. The Ark didn't have cars they built them between the second season and third season most likely from that underground parking garage where some Reapers were.