Talk:Mountain Men/@comment-26131697-20150221122047/@comment-25869525-20150222034459

This post is just brilliant! I only wish you'd posted it to my Nitpicker's Nook thread. But, I guess here is as good as there. Now, I will respond to some of your thoughts:

"As a CBRN trained responder, this whole killer radiation thing is just plain daft and wrong." - Well, as a person with at least some grasp of reality, I must agree with the 'daft and wrong' assessment. Hell, even after the failed attempt at a treatment, Keenan lasted just over four minutes outside. And as we saw recently, untreated Mountain Men IN Mt Weather, during a containment breach, which still would be far less exposure than outside, were dropping in about a minute, less than two minutes for sure. For the radiation to be that lethal to Mtn Men, yeah, NO person, Grounder or Sky would last more than maybe ten minutes. And even if given 97 generations, rather than years, it's unlikely at best, that a human could be made to resist such high levels of radiation. Even if it were possible, this radiatio resistant "human" might not look very much like anything we'd recognize as human.

"Bone marrow has to match donor and recipient and the operation is not murderous to the donor." - I'll give them a pass on matching marrow, because it is sciece fiction, which allows for some advances in medical sciece that may make it possible, just like the modifications to make all Ark people blood type O. But as far as the procedure being lethal, you're right. I thought it was ridiculous from the start. Mountain Men have waited 97 YEARS to be able to walk on the surface, they find a way to make that possible, yet they can't wait a few more weeks to allow the donors to provide marrow for a treatment, recover, then be healthy enough to repeat?

"Emerson has got to be the most useless sod in the mountain." - That is saying quite a bit, since as yu've done such a great job of pointing out, the bulk of Mtn Men do seem to be competing to be dimmer than a closet with the door closed, during a power outage. - "When sniping he and his thick mate pick the most stupid and easily accesible place and act like they're on a picnic." - And just sit there, for I'm not sure how long "in show", but I thought I did see a change in lighting, indicating he could have been sitting there for hours, sniping with impunity (which doesn't speak well for the intellect of the Grounders or Sky People either). I guess the concept of "shoot and scoot" was lost to them?

"Later on Emerson has another dullard moment when he picks up the gas grenade from the water and stands there like a clot where it's glaringly obvious the gas didn't work. So what's he think? The kids are sleeping?" - Maybe he assumed they fainted from the stress of the situation. (Hey, as dumb as you've pointed out he is, it's possible he thought that.)

" ninja Octavia who seems to have picked up sword skills in short order." - Maybe she learned the basics while she was living under the floor boards on the Ark, picking up her skills from watching videos of old samurai movies.

"He can be counted on to use a special radio that can send signals from underground through metres of rock, concrete, metal etc and over a long distance to the Sky people camp and it's a little hand held radio as well." - I thought they McGyvered it into the MW communications system, so it's transmitting from their antenna.

"Shooting someone with a pistol is more likely to see the bullet travelling around the body and coming out of the neck, armpit or anywhere than going straight through." - I would have missed tis one if not for you. But I extrapolated from the entry point of left sholder, like where Clarke shot 'through' Lincoln, and realized yeah, the shoulder blade would be in the path of said bullet. Now, if it had been an assault rifle firing 5.56mm, I might have been able to let this go, since there are real world reports of shooting enemy combatants who keep fighting because the round passes through.

"I've not seen anyone doing much training with their weapons but they're crack shots when the plot demands it." - Ever seen the Back to the Future movies? In those, Marty learned how to gunfight from a video game he played in 1985. Maybe they had that same game on board the Ark.

"Clearly the decider for putting someone in charge is that they are: a) under 18; b) fairly good looking; c) not the strongest or smartest person "  - Except for the under 18 thing, just like the real world.

"I would not be shocked to see the search for the delinquents reveal a whole load of them in a room, one with a lamp shade on the head standing in a corner, three sitting in a drawer, half a dozen under the bed, two standing pretending to be old store manequins, one hanging from the ceiling with a light bulb in the mouth, and still not get spotted!" - One with MOUNTAIN PERSON on a cardboard sign around his neck. Guards ask him to let them know if he seen any Outsiders. "Sure, no prob bro." he says, and off they go, in search of Outsiders.

It wouldn't take long for under 400 people, only a portion of whom are males of fighting age, and so used to seeing each other and no-one else that the minute Bellamy rocks up in a corridor someone would shout "who the bloody hell is that?" - (Well, he's got a uniform! He must be one of us! How else could he get the uniform? Hell, it fits him!)

"Anyway, all said in the best of humour. Can't wait for the next rib tickling episode." - And I will look forward to your post about the episode.