Talking Finn Collins +Thomas McDonell

You can catch Thomas McDonell in The Long Road Home, airing on The National Geographic channel beginning this Tuesday November 7, 2017 at 9:00PM. The 8 episode series has an ensemble cast, and Thomas may not have that big a part; but I’ll take it after a nearly three year drought.  BTW, he had to cut those lovely locks of his for the part.

Out-takes from the past season of “The 100″ appeared on my home page.  Again, all that does is frustrate me that Thomas wasn’t there and having fun with his cast mates, too.  It would help if he could get another TV series.

Does it make sense that those 26 villagers that included children and old people would be left unprotected?  Wasn’t the danger of reapers always present?  Yet, not a single warrior was left to defend the civilians while the other warriors were gone.  It seems Niko was left in charge; but he was a healer, not a warrior.   There were those foolish teenage warrior wannabees like Artigas, who went after an emotionally charged intruder carrying an automatic rifle.  That turned out well.  It never made sense to me that the old man would try to get away when the invaders were leaving.  How convenient for the writers.

It looks like “The 100″ will have a 5th season.  All that means to me is that I got cheated out of seeing Finn for that many seasons.  I haven’t watched the show since season 2 because Finn’s absence was too frustrating.  That’s why I don’t like it when writers kill off main characters.  One heart breaking episode (that Rothenberg could brag about because he dared to be like Game of Thrones and The Waling Dead) left viewers like me without the character we loved for the remainder of the series.  Rothenberg said that Thomas McDonell has a great career ahead of him.  All I’ve seen in almost three years is a short call Ciao Lola, and what looks like a small role in an upcoming mini-series “The Long Road Home”. I don’t even see Thomas’s name in the cast list for the latter.  So it can’t be much of a part.  So thanks, Mr. Rothenberg.  You put Thomas out of work and you took away my joy in “The 100″.  And I still miss Finn.

#15  There are many unanswered questions on this show.  It seems that the females received some kind of implant to prevent pregnancy.  I assume that’s why all the sleeping around those kids did didn’t result in babies.  The implants had to be removed, however, when a girl married in order to allow for one birth and then re-implanted.  So how did Bellamy’s mother get pregnant with Octavia? Did she somehow remove the implant or did it malfunction? Where was the father?

# 14 The nature of the reapers in season one seemed a little different than in season two.  The season one reapers in the cave were wild and primitive; but they seemed able to relate to each other in some kind of group dynamic. They seemed to have a modicum of intelligence. However, when we see reaper Lincoln in the parking garage, he was more like a mindless zombie, instinctively intent only on killing and feeding. Hmmmm

#13 How on earth is it possible for Jaha to ride to earth on a missile? There was no parachute to slow down his descent, and landing in sand is not like landing in water.  He should have burned up or exploded.  Apparently, when Jason Rothenberg likes a character, he’ll save him in any ass pulling way.  Remember Jasper?  If that spear didn’t pierce his heart, how did it miss his lungs? It knocked him backwards and down to the ground.  That’s pretty forceful.  But Rothenberg decided he liked him, too.  But Finn had to go.  No saving him.  It wouldn’t have required an ass pull. . .just some decent and stronger negotiations.  But Rothenberg had to be like GOT and TWD, and prove that a main character could die.  It didn’t matter if there were viewers who liked him.  We don’t count.

#12 When Octavia ran into the search party, she had just come from Lincoln’s village.  She saw Finn headed in that direction.  Why didn’t she ask where he was going? She  didn’t even bother to look at the map.  She could have warned him that Clarke and the others weren’t at that village. Odd, I think.

#11 What could possibly be the justification for sending Octavia to skybox for her mother’s crime?  Octavia didn’t do anything wrong.  She had no control over being conceived and born.  Was she suppose to turn herself or her mother in once she was old enough to understand that a capital offense had been committed?  It makes no sense. 

I’m definitely not a Bellarke shipper.  What’s on your mind?

#10 When the meeting on the bridge went bad, why did Lincoln deliberately raise his shoulder up to catch the arrow?  He wasn’t blocking anyone who might have been hit.  Octavia was on the other side.  Who was he protecting???

#9 How is it that the acid fog could blister and burn skin, but apparently had no affect on the trees and other foliage? Also, why would tent material not be eaten through, too.

After Lincoln was beaten and kidnapped, It made no sense for him to keep silent.  He had to hear Bellamy say that they needed to know why the grounders were killing them.  What did Lincoln have to lose by explaining it to them, and letting them know that he had saved both Octavia and the group.  I can see that he might have feared being tortured for intelligence if he let them know he spoke English.  But letting Finn die was not protecting himself when they were already torturing him.  Showing good will would have made more sense, IMO.  It seems to me that the lack of communication is what perpetuates animosity.  

#7 Clarke said that Tris needed clean blood, i.e, a transfusion.  One syringe does not a transfusion make.  She didn’t even know the blood type.  Funny that Clarke sterilized the needle with bleach, but gave no attention to the dirty tube.  If Tris didn’t have blood poisoning already, she soon would have.

#6 How does a girl fall out of a crashing space station and grab a limb on a cliff? Even if she were alive to catch it, wouldn’t the momentum pull her right off? And shouldn’t they have already gotten a hold of Sterling’s rope in preparation for pulling him up?

#5 According to Lincoln, Lexa would be killed for being weak if she spared Finn.  Yet, she feared no such consequence for withholding retaliation for Bellamy’s premeditated murder of 300 sleeping warriors sent to protect the Sky People.  Indra got all pissed because Finn wasn’t made to suffer the pain of 18 deaths, but didn’t even give so much as a pout over those 300 warriors. I guess life had no worth for them.  Indra didn’t get upset when Lexa made a deal that let the Mountain Men off the hook for all the murder and suffering they had inflicted on the Grounders, either.  Inconsistent much?