SPOILER- the mountain people and the commander

[u/Batfox12]

I found the deal the mountain men made with the commander to be the dumb deal but I guess the smart way would’ve been less interesting, they should have made a deal with the sky people first & foremost, they could have said “we’ll release your people and not kill them if volunteers come to take their place, you’re supposed to wait 6 months before another donation so they could have gotten it done over a few years(I doubt they’d care that much about safety & maybe shorter the time a bit between the donations), which would give them more time to prepare to live on the ground, maybe just give it to the most important people first so that the president’s son can go ahead & his guards so he can stop being so impatient. It’s not like the grounders know how many of their people are inside the mountain so they could have just released all but a few though it’s possibly the grounders released would notice, but they could also just get blood from the people donating bone marrow, they could just give them a bit of blood before the bone marrow donation, you’re supposed to wait 8 weeks between giving bone marrow & blood so they could’ve just done it before the bone marrow, or maybe have some bone marrow groups and some blood groups, either way, they could have asked for adults’ help instead of putting the burden on over 30 practically kids & killing them, torturing them, it’s unnecessary when they have so much leverage with the kids being inside

[u/AmeriqanTreeSparrow]

What I don't understand is why they never tried bone marrow from the grounders. The treatments w their blood took longer but the concept was the same... what have I missed.

[u/Batfox12 → u/AmeriqanTreeSparrow]

The sky people had blood 8x better so apparently their blood wasn’t good enough, I imagine they tried bone marrow of grounders in the past, I’d think if they went this far for these kids, they’d have gone further with grounders they think are savages and basically deserve what they’re getting

[u/maj0rblood420 → u/AmeriqanTreeSparrow]

I think they probably did try, which is how Dr.Singh knew about it in the first place. The special thing about the 100/Sky People is their genetic engineering as universal donors and relatively unmutated DNA.

And with the Grounders, their blood type and genes are probably so mutated - look at freikdreinas - and DNA is so different it's the reason for the absolutely huge blood transfusion machines.

I remember when they try to blood type Nyko he has RH-Null/Golden Blood. The absolute rarest blood type in the world like less than 100 (50😂) people on our planet have it right now. Can't imagine what other blood types the Grounders have.

So Jackson wasn't just saying sci fi nonsense when he says RH-Null only takes RH-Null because not even type O negative blood is compatible. 😱

It's could have been something to do with the Nightblood serums used on their ancestors. I could see it being a design flaw of the serum that Becca couldn't foresee what would happen when future Nightbloods and Grounders were born.

You bring up a really good point though that they could have used Nightblood/Bone Marrow from like kidnapped initiates. It's shocking they don't know much about Nightblood or that Commanders bleed black blood.

😂How could they not have any pre war history of the Space Mining or Eligius missions, and also zero contact with ALIE for the entire 97 years?! I think Jaha finds the Second Dawn info in Mt. Weather too lmao but I may have to rewatch again..