Talk:Human Trials/@comment-26269248-20150630001038/@comment-26247132-20150630052011

1) Casting, probably. I noticed the people in SotF who left with Jaha didn't look at all like the same people in Rubicon.

2) I know! I joked about that scene that all it would take is a wayward two-headed deer to trample it.

3) Because there were no warriors there. There was chaos with the fire in their food stores. The Mountain Men had ingrained a fear of guns into them. When you're in a hostage situation, it's best to be cooperative and comply. Etc....

4) There are different types of drugs (like herbal, synthetic, chemical, etc...). The Red appears to be basically like suped-up heroin. The initial onset is harsh and painful and deadly for weaker individuals, hence why they're so selective for who goes into the Cerberus Project and how Cage is doubly-dead. The high must be particularly euphoric to cause Grounders to crave it so bad they're willing to capture their own friends and family. There's probably an added element of something akin to PCP to cause the cannibalism. The mutations on the Reapers' skin might be caused as a side-effect of the drug (like meth-heads) and/or it might also be body mutilations while high. Does that help?

5) Cage and Tsing also never considered bone marrow donation or what to do about their future children who didn't receive bone marrow transplants. They've proven they don't think too far ahead. The radiation must have damaged their critical thinking skills.

6) I thought Abby slapped Raven for flat-out lying to her and I took it as more of a "Mom" reaction than something like Raven punching Byrne or Clarke. I said it on a previous post but I haven't been too happy with the adult representation this season, especially Abby. I understood one of the underlying themes was separating from your parents and making a name for yourself and all that, but did they have to do it at the expense of Abby's optimism and hopeful and independent spirit?

7) He was about 200 miles from the DC area. The bounty hunter took him on horseback so that would have been enough time to arrive at Rivo's village. (Btw, where were they if they weren't in Tondc? Who else is from that village? Maybe that village was closer to NY than Tondc?)

8) Murphy tried to stop Finn but wasn't too successful. 18 out of 26 Grounders is still a really high mortality rate (I'm going with Finn's count since I'm doubtful Murphy can count much better than he can spell). What I really appreciated from a literary perspective was the the complete reversal of character between Murphy the Despised and Finn the Beloved. As Finn became more and more unhinged, Murphy tried harder and harder to be a little less of a dick. As an aside, in the next episode when Clarke tells Murphy he should have tried harder to stop Finn, I always wonder if she subconsciously meant that Murphy should have killed Finn right then.