Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-98.231.46.205-20151112031449/@comment-190.189.5.103-20170228050917

There is an in-universe explanation for Lexa: commanders are chosen based on religion, not strenght.

That said, in this show women would often fight, physically, toe to toe with men and even beat them on ocassions. That is not realistic nor believable. Yeah, those women are trained, but so are the men and they have a huge physical advantage over the women.

I'm not sold on the Ark's first generation raising their kids to be genius. Those people lost their friends and relatives in the nuclear war. They've expended years, if not decades, trying to put the Ark together, to set up rules. Violent clashes between them, either due the Ark's governance or any other thing, could have very well have happened. They lived under a huge amount of stress. They had to create the genetic engineering to make sure they survived radiation in space. Under such stress and workload, their children might have very well been neglected. And even if they were geniuses in their fields (and since the stations also doubled as military ones, not all of them would have been scientists and engineers), that doesn't make them good teachers.