SPOILERS S6 Season 6 plot hole or am I missing something about nightblood Spoiler
I’ve seen this whole show like 10 times, and on another rewatch just got back to season 6. Abby went to space to make nightblood because it requires zero g then they float it. B But then they extract Maddy’s bone marrow to make more without zero g because they said that’s how they made Clarke a night blood.
But I swear Raven had to go to space in Becca’s lab before they could make Clarke a night blood or am I forgetting something? Did Ravens trip fail and they had to resort to bone marrow or something? I can’t recall.
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u/ReganX 7d ago
I’d say that the bigger plot hole with Nightblood is that the writers managed to forget that every single Eligius prisoner should have been a Nightblood, given that Nightblood was invented to protect them.
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u/birdsmom28 Skaikru 7d ago
Exactly
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u/ReganX 7d ago
Such a wasted opportunity.
It’d have been pretty hard for the Grounders to see Nightblood as sacred if they knew that it was invented to allow the worst criminals Earth had had to offer to serve their sentences as slave labour.
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u/birdsmom28 Skaikru 7d ago
I was hoping that would be addressed but they wanted to sheidheda plot line.
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u/ReganX 7d ago
The two didn’t need to be mutually exclusive. Sheidheda could have had the support of a minority of true believers plus a majority who no longer bought into the myth of the Commanders but weren’t about to get on his bad side by going against him.
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u/555Cats555 5d ago
Also, just because there's a scientific for something mean people stop believing in it. Sure some will lose interest but plently will still stick by their existing understanding and rituals.
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u/winnie314 6d ago
It wasn't for the prisoners, the whole reason they used the prisoners was because they were disposable. It was used for the exploratory groups.
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u/ReganX 6d ago
Jackson: Abby, listen to this. According to the record, Becca first developed what we know as Nightblood for the Eligius Mining Company.
Abby: Mining?
Jackson: Long duration space missions. Criminals were put into hypersleep and given Nightblood to protect against solar radiation.
(From “The Tinder Box”)
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u/heathelee73 Skaikru 7d ago
They used Luna's bone marrow to make the nightblood, they didn't have enough fuel to take the rocket into space in season 4.
They realized that after the grounder died in the radiation tube , they could remove something from the bone marrow, which would make them not negatively react to it.
That's how Clarke became a nightblood.
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u/AsparagusDry6516 7d ago
Raven never went to space to make Clarke into a night blood. They took out a protein enzyme that was causing some issue and Abbey was able to create it that way but they weren’t sure if it would work or not. Clarke thought it wouldn’t work and wasn’t willing to risk another’s life (after killing the innocent grounder) so she injected it into herself.
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u/Remote-Excitement502 7d ago
You need zero G to make artificial nightblood, bone marrow already has the final product in it so extracting it transfers it (kind of like how in mount weather they were taking the 100’s bone marrow to help their immunity) and Clarke became a nightblood from a bone marrow treatment they got from Luna
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u/Away_Librarian_9951 Skaikru 5d ago
I need to ask is it really artificial nightblood if Becca made it the same way and it's the only way the grounders even had nightblood?
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u/Remote-Excitement502 5d ago
It’s still artificial, nightblood passed on from generation to generation would be normal nightblood, nightblood made and injected Into someone would be artificially made
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u/555Cats555 5d ago
Its a genetic modification that was able to enter the germ line and became heritory. Likely would have been more common if it weren't for night bloods killing each other as kids to ensure no later fights for power.
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u/immalurking 7d ago
They didn’t have enough gas to go to space, and return to earth. So. Mass production of night blood was no longer an option. It was also the reason SpaceKru was stuck in space until eligius prisoners arrived.
Clarke became a nightblood from injecting Luna’s bone marrow.
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u/CptPlanetG14 6d ago
Another question? Is that dog a clone? Are they freezing it?
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u/TrueObsidian11 6d ago
I have a theory that since the Primes were sent with 1000 Nightblood embryos to colonize the planet (these embryos are the ones Gabriel destroyed, making him the "demon"), they were probably also sent with animal embryos for farming. Russell's dog is most likely the last living canine they have from those embryos. There were likely other earth animals on sanctum we never got to see.
I'm writing a fanfiction on the Primes origins and this is a detail I added to my story. Dogs were the first animals Russell incubated because of his personal fondness for them.
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u/PhucherOG 6d ago
The bigger plot hole for me is when Becca is in space creating night blood presumably for the first time, right before she jumps ship and lands on earth to get burned at the stake by Bill, trying to push night blood as a solution…yet they had already sent the elegius teams out before that scene would have taken place so how did those elegius guys get nightblood again?
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u/TrueObsidian11 6d ago
That's actually an excellent question. It is heavily implied that her going into space before the bombs was the first and only time she did so, since she didn't need Nightblood for Alie 1. However, it doesn't explicitly say that was the first time she ever did it, considering she already had an operational rocket and space station, so she could've developed Nightblood before she ever created Alie just for the Eligius missions, then later decided to create the Flame and just carried over her research since the same rules applied. Maybe creating the mind drives is what gave her the idea to create Alie 2 and merge it with the human mind.
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u/Remarkable-Syrup1788 7d ago
do you mean when Clarke had the flame in her head? they were pumping ontari's blood into her.
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u/Pasquale_NL 7d ago
The way I understood is they are trying to make nightblood artificially. The bone marrow is already the "finished product", that's why they can transplant it without issue.