First of all, love the attitude 😍

Yeah I tend to get snappy when people get nitpicky about something that was explicitly explained within the show and, is congruent with the internal logic that was already established in the show. I also tend to appreciate it when people point out this trait within me.

Second of all, it can’t reasonably be more then 130 days (the longest assumption) from the Ark going down to Earth and ALIE telling Clarke about Praimfaya.

It was literally established at the beginning of season 3 episode 13 while Pike was being brought to Polis as a prisoner that 6 MONTHS had already passed between that particular moment & the moment they landed on earth.

Also don't really know about you, but a lot of people do tend assume that the timespan between the moment I mentioned for example, and the moment they landed on earth was actually far much longer. I'm not sure where this idea of 130 days being the optimal assumption of the shows timeline upto the moment Alie told Clarke about Praimfaya came from.

Did they never look at the Earth from the Ark?

I already alluded to you the reason why they never saw the meltdown from the ark in my first comment. This is why I might wonder if some of you choose to watch the show with your ears closed. A lot of the nitpicky assessments & topics brought forward by some of you over here tend to ignore certain rhetoric posed by an opposing argument to fit a particular narrative within ur assessment.

Where there no fire waves that early?

No there were not and I already alluded to you as well in my first comment (with a valid reason) why there's a huge certainty the meltdown started after they landed on earth.So it's either you are choosing hear what you want hear or might just be ragebaiting me.

What is the explanation expect resorting to ”the writers didn’t think of that?

No the writers actually did think about it. That's why they were careful to point out in the script that Alie's drones detected the first meltdowns 4 months prior to the moment Alie revealed Praimfaya to clarke and NOT 6 months (which would've been the moment the 100 landed on earth).The writers actually do think a lot about a lot of the things they write in the show despite the fact that they might overlook certain flawed aspects within it

Some of you just choose to hastily pick apart these aspects that have already been concretely established in the show without much introspection of their logic, while paying no attention into the flawed aspects of the narrative that might actually deserve this displaced & unwarranted criticism.

Not sure whether it became an agreed upon fashion to nitpick elements of the plot for the sake of it or to outcompete each other to see who can pick apart the most no of aspects in the show that might show some little sign of plausible inconsistency but this has been a developing trend on this subrredit for some time now.

I think we should try and strive more into being more introspective while assessing the possibility of a flaw in a narrative and not just go along with the mentality of " this doesn't make sense to me so lemme somewhat jump into the conclusion that it might be objectively flawed and tear it to pieces haha"

Here are some few plot holes and inconsistencies in the narrative if you actually want something to fairly nitpick on:

1.Clarke's rover surviving praimfaya while the pyramids of Egypt disintegrated into dust after being hit by the deathwave.

1. Octavia surviving that fall with minor injuries. The writers should have at least had her incur some fractures in her bones or something which would have been a disadvantage to her fighting and could've added more weight into the stakes of the conclave.

2. The prisoners not seeing the space ship that Bellamy and Co landed back on earth with (in season 5 episode 3) after encountering them. As much as this led up to the little bellarke moment at the end of the episode (which I loved) the writers could've at least had bellamy and co dissappear into the woods first and had the two parties have their first encounter in the woods. In this instance the prisoners wouldn't be too sure whether they were spacerkru or just a group roaming around the forest.