Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25176701-20150219133545/@comment-26131697-20150223110451

The mountain stuff has my vote for, most potential, least realism, most cliche award. I find this whole mountain thing far too predictable now. The mountain men are doing no more or less than anyone else in trying to stay alive. There are strong associations with real world politics in that whatever the mm do is deplorable and leads to internal dissent, whereas no matter how hideous an act is committed by the surface dwellers it's spun as being somehow justifiable or at worst part of character development. The writers weight the deck and luck heavily against the mm in every eventuality having them do the most stupid thing in every event and totally oblivious to the obvious. Snipers who use knives and leave the gun on the ground, soldiers who entire hostile environments without cover or even decent weapons, throwing gas into a room where they can't see if it has an effect or not, ad infinitum, nothing more ludicrous than pop up Bellamy acting as the dues ex machina, able to move around with impunity, colossal amounts of luck and always getting there just in time. I hope the mm pull something out of the bag to level the score that doesn't involve blowing up a load of inconsequential secondary characters or background nobodies.