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I just started the first season, 3 episoes in... What about germs ?

posted 8 years ago by rohonnag
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The thing that is bothering me the most is that, a people who grew up on the space station will have zero immunity to earth.

so do they address this further down the line ? Coz it seems impossible that these people will be sitting on the ground, eating local food without dying of infection and a billion other microorganisms.

Also, what about the gravity ? how does the space station have gravity ? is it same as earth gravity ? how did they solve the issue of long term exposure to space and it effects on muscles and organs.

Maybe I am over thinking it, but I like it if sci-fi is bit more based on realism, not ignoring all laws of physics and logic totally!

This ain't that Kinda movie!

[–] linbrikat 8 years ago

You are overthinking it a bit. With this show you have to be prepared to suspend your disbelief.

I don't remember the issue of germs and lack of immunity ever being brought up but what are they supposed to do? It wouldn't be much of a show if they came down to earth and all immediately contracted infections and died!

I assume the space station has artificial gravity equivalent to Earth's as there was never any problems with people having trouble moving about or falling over. How they generate the gravity, I've no idea but I've read plenty of SF where spacecraft or space stations spin to produce gravity so I assume it's theoretically possible. If they had normal gravity and worked out on the Ark their muscles and organs would be normal.

I hope you stick with the show. The first few episodes aren't that good but it improves greatly by the middle of the season and (in my opinion) season 2 is terrific.

[–] hihihi-42 8 years ago

Kind of irrelevant, but you're right about the artificial gravity thing. The space station just has to have spinning parts and a force equivalent to the force of gravity will be directed outward (imagine spinning a yo-yo on a string, force points out) so the people will be able to walk all along the outside

[–] rohonnag 8 years ago

6 episodes in, I am seeing this isn't the kind of show which has put ANY thought into its own premise at all.

which is fine, its dumb blockbuster type thinking. Its like LOST but dumber (at least on the logic, practicality and science angle)

I mean in a 100 years from now, the people would speak differently, have unique customs due to confinement to close quarters, feel a sense of giddiness and sense of falling when encountering open sky, have trouble walking on uneven ground (coz they NEVER seen uneven terrain EVER!)

But this isn't the show which has any such logical thoughts, the space station might as well have been a huge ship in the ocean ala 2012 (the movie) and the result would be the SAME...

also germs dont come only from people, it comes from animals, the plants, the ground itself... in episode 1 one guy eats a flower, that should have killed him... but again. this ISNT that kinda show it seems !

This ain't that Kinda movie!

[–] There_Is_No_Sayid 8 years ago

The Ark was spun to simulate gravity.

As for immunity, they've got almost no contact with the Grounders from whence they'd pick up any diseases.

Also, the first three seasons only cover a couple of months, so the first eps are only a few days at most.

[–] malexandria 8 years ago

I hate people who come up with the dumbest nitpicks to complain about a form of entertainment. Usually it's done so people can think they are so scary "intelligent." IT'S FICTION! If this is what is bothering you then just don't watch the show. Heck don't watch any sci-fi show, don't watch TV, movies or read books (unless it's a text book) at all. I'm serious.

But to somewhat take you seriously, I'd assume it'd have something to do with their radiated blood. The same issue would apply to the Grounders as well.

[–] rohonnag 8 years ago

Despite the earlier part of the comments,

I would buy the whole irradiated blood / some kind of explanation.

or even the small explanation that they have a broad range vaccination before going down... which is mostly what they did, but didnt mention.

Look, for me these small attention to details is what makes a great story more plausible...

add in one line bout this or that and it more immersive.

take for example Inception and how its various themes were so damn immersive, by the end it had so many plot holes that we just forgot or forgave.

anyway, I got my answer...

thanks 2 all.

This ain't that Kinda movie!

[–] Kolegus 8 years ago

Dude.. This is a CW show. Even then, explaining all that throughout scenes is boring. And pointless that the show is 90% on the ground.

[–] jwkfh 8 years ago

Wow, saying you "hate people" for THEIR nit picks and then saying your serious (about said hatred?).  Come on, lighten up and let people have fun on silly comment boards. Life is too short to hate. You don't have to defend the actors and/or the production company, for them any advertisement is good advertisement. Screaming "it's fiction",  is useless too, unless of course you believe the commenters don't know it is fiction.  Your going to give yourself high blood pressure before you turn 12! 

[–] linbrikat 8 years ago

LOL, you're absolutely right but that's just the way Malexandria is. Most of us here are used to it.

[–] Cosima324 8 years ago

I'm also just starting this series and I am now 5 episodes in. I know they haven't been exposed to every type of virus or bacteria, but on earth- who has? I know they had been exposed to some illnesses because Dr Abby mentions the possibility of another strep outbreak, so clearly they've encountered some germs/viruses/bacteria. I read through the thread and I agree- suspend disbelief and enjoy fiction. I'm guessing that far into the future, because they were already ahead of us when the nuclear fallout happened- maybe they figured out a way to deal with space and gravity in space stations. Not every show is meant to be 100% accurate, it's entertainment.

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[–] rohonnag 8 years ago

I gave up on the show and stopped watching, wasnt my cup of tea!

nothing against those who liked it, but I didnt like it. !

This ain't that Kinda movie!

[–] hihihi-42 8 years ago

Not sure how much farther you got but S2 is generally considered the best of the series - so it does get better than the first season.

[–] rohonnag 8 years ago

season 1 episode 10 or so... and I hated every stupid thing in the show...

just my opinion, not saying the show itself is bad. but I hated it.

This ain't that Kinda movie!

[–] pixiesticks013 8 years ago

Season 1 episode 12 explains gravity on the ark.

[–] mhrist 8 years ago

well there are a lot of holes in the science. how'd they get clothes for a hundred years to look so spanking new and there were more people in the end than in the beginning so what they just brought thousands of spare suits?

as far as germs are concerned you have no clue of how they work but suffice it to say that generally there is no smallpox or flu just flying all over the place. majority if not all germ diseases like viruses mutate from livestock or whenever there is a sizable interaction between wild animals and humans. once a virus has a global foothold (like flu) then it just kind a moves back and forth like waves. if most humans died out and populations stopped interacting with each other flu will disappear pretty quickly from the face of the earth.

bacteria on another hand doesn't change, so if humans have aquired immunity to certain bacteria that immunity stays.

[–] ebonyruffles 8 years ago

Germs didn't even occur to me till Clarke did Finn's surgery & cleaned the incision with that filthy rag in season 1. Being a nurse, I notice stuff like that. But hey, no big deal. I'm only on the 8th episode but I like it pretty good so far.

[–] dm1499 8 years ago

Creative license & centrifugal force.