History Fridge / The100

* If the 100 made it to Mount Weather in the first episode like they were supposed to, they would never have escaped the [[spoiler: bone marrow treatments]]. It would've been before they'd become hardened killers, before they'd become more ruthless, cautious and resilient. They wouldn't have the unity that comes from being FireForgedFriends. In short, they would still be a bunch of foolish, naive teenagers, and would be picked off easily as a result.

* Why do the Grounders spear Jasper in episode one? If they wanted to kill the teens, they would have done it before, right? Why switch from watching to killing? It's only after he picks up the Mount Weather sign that they do it. Perhaps they feared that the Sky People are somehow connected to Mount Weather, and don't want the mountain people receiving allies?

* If the 100 made it to Mount Weather in the first episode like they were supposed to, they would never have escaped the [[spoiler: bone marrow treatments]]. It would've before they'd become hardened killers, before they'd become more ruthless, cautious and resilient. They wouldn't have the unity that comes from being FireForgedFriends. In short, they would still be a bunch of foolish, naive teenagers, and would be picked off easily as a result.

* Octavia's tendency to run about and leave the group seemed another plot point, until we see in episode six she spent sixteen years living in a room no bigger then a garage . Of course she's the first to step out of the Drop ship, she's been imprisoned in one form or another ninety nine percent of her life. Which explains her tendency to go on walkabout and follow butterflies. She has a lot of catching up to do.
* On an Earth where blending in and stealth seem a way of life, the Reapers and their bright red colours stand out like a sore thumb. The brilliance comes in when you realize that they are a bunch of AxeCrazy roaming cannibals. They consider themselves on top of the food chain, everything else is prey. They don't hide , you hide from them. Furthermore, they're probably ''the reason'' the Grounders had to learn to be stealthy in the first place.

* On an Earth where blending in and stealth seem a way of life, the Reapers and their bright red colours stand out like a sore thumb. The brilliance comes in when you realize that they are a bunch of AxeCrazy roaming cannibals. They consider themselves on top of the food chain, everything else is prey. They don't hide , you hide from them.
** Furthermore, they're probably ''the reason'' the Grounders had to learn to be stealthy in the first place.

* A major part of the second episode is the dilemma faced by the Council back on board the station of whether or not to start culling people to stretch out their life support- the systems are deteriorating, there are only 4 months of air left, and repairs will take 6 months. Okay. How the heck is this a dilemma? They just sent 100 kids to the ground, and as far as they know ~70 of them are still kicking. But not one person- not even the doctor who's desperately trying to prove the kids aren't all dying horribly -speaks up and says "Hey, instead of outright killing 200 people, let's send them down to Earth where they have a chance of surviving. Yes, they may die, but the other option is killing them anyway."
** Given Abby's recruitment of Raven to repair a second hundred-year-old drop ship, it seems to be a problem of there being not a lot of drop ships with which to get people to the ground. Which raises another question: even if the Earth is habitable, how do they plan to get the entire population of the Ark down there safely?
** It was intended that some future generation of humans would return to Earth, so presumably the Ark itself has a re-entry mechanism. How safe it is under the circumstances remains to be seen.
*** It does have a re-entry mechanism [[spoiler:but there's too many people to get on board.]]
*** Even if they can't send everyone, sending the ~700 people they have space for could buy everyone else a lot of time.
*** Basically , two drop ships. One was used to determine life was sustainable. Instead of using it on 200 useful citizens they used it on a hundred disposible ones. Also the drop ship they used the first time could only house about 100 for the drop. The second could only drop 700 so it came down to selecting the best who had a chance to make the survivabilty of the human race possible. So they where making their decisions based on neccesity and logic.
* Why would they not send radios (or some kind of two-way communication, instead of a life-signs detector that can't tell the difference between "removed" and "dead"?) with the kids? So they could, you know, ''actually find out about conditions on the ground''.
** They ''did'' send them two-way communications. A scientist in the Pilot mentions that radio and video link functions were programmed into the drop ship, but they were rendered inoperable due to the rough landing.
*** OP: Wouldn't it still make sense to have portable radios or comm equipment of some kind? The wristbands transmit some kind of signal to the station; adding two little buttons for Morse code would make more sense than putting all their communication eggs in the dropship basket.

* Octavia's tendency to run about and leave the group seemed another plot point, untill we see in episode six she spent sixteen years living in a room no bigger then a garage . Of course she's the first to step out of the Drop ship, she's been imprisoned in one form or another ninety nine percent of her life. Which explains her tendency to go on walkabout and follow butterflies. She has a lot of catching up to do.

* On an Earth where blending in and stealth seem a way of life, the Reapers and their bright red colours stand out like a sore thumb. The brilliance comes in when you realize that they are a bunch or {{AxeCrazy}} roaming cannibals. They consider themselves on top of the food chain, everything else is prey. They don't hide , you hide from them.

* On an Earth where blending in and stealth seem a way of life the Reapers and their bright red colours stand out like a sore thumb. The brilliance comes in when you realize that they are a bunch or {{AxeCrazy}} roaming cannibals. They consider themselves on top of the food chain, everything else is prey. They don't hide , you hide from them.

** They ''did'' send them two-way communications. A scientist in the Pilot mentions that radio and video link functions were programmed into the drop ship, but they were rendered inoperable due to the rough landing.

* Octavia tendency to run about and leave the group seemed another plot point, untill we see in episode six she spent sixteen years living in a room no bigger then a garage . Of course she's the first to step out of the Drop ship, she's been imprisoned in one form or another ninety nine percent of her life. Which explains her tendency to go on walkabout and follow butterflies. She has a lot of catching up to do.

** They ''did'' send them two-way communications. A scientist in the Pilot mentions that radio and video link functions were programmed into the wristbands, but that they stopped working during the flight to Earth.

** There are limited resources on The Ark, so they may not have any kind of two way communication. For all we know, those bracelets were a luxury. Also, sending a radio would rely on the assumption that the kids would be willing to share information them, which is a pretty big assumption when you're talking about a bunch of delinquents that you've written off as "expendable". Using the bracelets (theoretically) ensures that you ''will'' receive information. (Though obviously no one anticipated that any of The 100 would find a way to remove theirs.)

* Why would they not send radios (or some kind of two-way communication, instead of a life-signs detector that can't tell the difference between "removed" and "dead"?) with the kids? So they could, you know, ''actually find out about conditions on the ground''.

* It might seem strange at first that Clarke was surprised by the body of water the group found, considering that she's holding a map of the area. Once you remember that nobody has been down to Earth in almost a hundred years and that The Ark has no way of seeing what's happening on the surface, this makes sense: That map is probably out of date by ninety-seven years.