Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-212.56.135.17-20160525143405/@comment-28398720-20160528020435

I have been thinking about this since the grounder came into the story...I thought season 3 would explain why SCIENCE became a spiritual belief I actually really liked this mythological element.

However this stops making sense the moment Becca came down with the flame in season 3 as up till season 2 the commander did not even know how to cure reapers and that the sky people knew how to do this was a big thing for all. And mind you I am not saying that they should have built a future city like the virtual one built by ALIE 1.0. However do not tell me that they could not build a wind turbine and have some sort of electricity?

To be fair, many of the sky people successes weren't due to knowledge but just having the right tool for the job and dumb luck. Also building wind turbines and setting up an electric grid from nothing isn't that simple, it takes a lot of effort to set the neccessary infrastructure and decades to refine even low-tech production lines, a knowledge that ALIE may not possessed. Or maybe was unable to exercise for various reason e.g. we know that MW has been very adamant about the grounders not using tech, bombing them into submission.

Overall we don't know exactly how the flame works or ALIE2 motivation. The commanders ignorance can be either a limitation or imposed ignorance (self-preservation to avoid ALIE1 ). Basically its a god and you know what they say about gods, they work in mysterious ways ;)