The 100 : Why blow up the hydrogen generator?

Why blow up the hydrogen generator?

It seemed like Bellamy's crew was able to take down the ice nation people easily in hand to hand combat. They were already all on the ground by the time they set the bomb. They could have freed their people and brought back the hydrogen generator. The bomb only served to kill the people that they had already defeated in combat.

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The bomb killed more than some of the Ice Nation and was a distraction. They would not have beat them in hand to hand without it.







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They only defeated the handful around them not all of them in the station. they defeated the warriors around them and ran in to the one room in the station that was built to contain hydrogen explosion. so detonating the hydrogen generator outside that one room blow up the whole ship killing every one but those in the one room.

problem the with the whole thing is its a generator it is not a storage device so there was little to no hydrogen in the device for it to explode like it did.

IMDB the only site that sabotages it's own forum by deleting content. No wonder no ones here.

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I'm always amazed that people need to ask these things. it's not a real life, it's a tv show. worst of, it's only 2nd episode of the season. they can't solve all of their problems in 2nd episode. that's why they had to blow it up.

further, Clarke promised Rowan she'd find a solution for everyone, not just skikru. generator and the station they now live at, couldn't house all of the grounders, so it wouldn't be a solution anyway to have a generator.

they will need to think again, to find something to save all of the skikru, not just 100 of them, and in the process they will find solution for everyone.

better question is why Clarke lied to her people. it's similar to how when scrubbers on ark were failing, jake wanted to go public with it, in hopes that all of the people on the ark, would come up with a viable solution. but after he was silenced for way too long, the only solution left available, was for people to sacrifice their own lives so that others might live. now she had chance to do what he would do, to say "we have a problem of this variety, we need solution, think of something", but instead she chose to lie to them. it's not even likely someone would think of a way to build new generator, but they could work together on finding alternative solutions, while Clarke works on finding the ultimate solution. why make her betray her dad like that, in 4th season even, is beyond me.

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Re: Why blow up the hydrogen generator?

EXACTLY. Clarke literally told Bellamy before he left that this was only plan B, that she has to stay home to come up with an actual solution to save everyone. Shortening the timeline by eliminating the easy solution makes the show more interesting. It's also showing the characters finally separating from the "end justifies the means" mindset. Bellamy's saving who he can save today, because that's all they can guarantee for now (just like when he saved the girl on the cliff in S2).

Even if you disagree with what he did, I think it was absolutely in character for Bellamy. He was one of the meaningless lives on the Ark that would have been sacrificed, it was his sector that would have been culled by Jaha. He knows what it's like, whereas Clarke has always been privileged and hasn't ever been in that position. I think the show illustrated all three mindsets (Bellamy, Clarke, Raven) well and you're not absolutely supposed to agree with either of them.

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It explains why Octavia & Clarke always butt heads with each other

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I always like that between the 2 girls one is previlged and was just arrested for being in the wrong place at the wrong time where's as the other shouldn't even have been born but there also the same because there innocent people who had no clue how to survive on their own when they landed on the ground showing that everything in space stayed in space on earth everyone is treated the same way

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It's a good occasion to create a war with a new ally. They couldn't resist.

If you made a vital business trip to middle east, and had any occasion to blow up your hosts, you would do it, no ?

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If you made a vital business trip to middle east, and had any occasion to blow up your hosts, you would do it, no ?

LOL, they weren't their hosts - they were keeping innocent people, including children, as slaves.

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LOL, they weren't their hosts - they were keeping innocent people, including children, as slaves.


Yes they were. They show the 'laissé passé', and the grounders agreed to let them take the machine.

That was the deal. When you agree to let people have business in your turf, your their 'host'. If anything had happened to their group, the king would have punish them.

But well, creating a war AND destroying the main chance to save skycrew was too much an opportunity for Bellamy.

He HAD to save 20 random people and one friend, even if it mean destroying 80% of Skycrew and the whole Humanity.

Because...reasons..lots of them... in fact, the same reasons that Pyke had... they were bad people, i guess. Subhumans. They need to be crushed, and damn the conséquences...

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But well, creating a war AND destroying the main chance to save skycrew was too much an opportunity for Bellamy.

He HAD to save 20 random people and one friend, even if it mean destroying 80% of Skycrew and the whole Humanity.

Because...reasons..lots of them... in fact, the same reasons that Pyke had... they were bad people, i guess. Subhumans. They need to be crushed, and damn the conséquences...



yep typical decision for a shortsighted character, he can't resist to make dumb decisions over and over again THEN feels guilty about it, then try to redeem himself with more dumb calls, then make a poor sad face, and goes get Clarke who will just pat the murderer idiot while fixing all of his bloody errors...

And of course, no one blames him, but blames only Clarke, cause he's just a poor fragile soul.....
and still trust him to make decisions....

He can't see the big picture, just make him guard a truck and guns. He's just only good at that

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It was rather that they managed to surprise them and knock them to the ground. Don't forget, Skikru they had been disarmed and killing somebody with your bare hands is not that easy...especially not if that person can just pull a knife while you are hitting them and stab you.

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Because *beep* plans and long term survival when you can be a stupid hero for a few minutes and get adrenaline rush for that.

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Why not try to fix MW...is it really completely destroyed?!

And the area is full of underground buildings.
Take this parking lot with almost entirely intact cars...or the railway stations/Tunnels which were connected to MV; you know: where the Reavers lived.


But this entire idea of super nuclear power plants is *beep*
If they can last 100 years, they would have safety mechanism to shut them down automatically.
And if the could take the nuclear hits, the staff inside would have survived too and shut them down.
But when I heard "Fukushima"...



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