Why the Ancients should survive?

I agree. It was ridiculous to kill them by bomb. I'll be even more pissed if Quinlan died. I haven't seen any promos so if he's in them then thank god.

Quinlan got out before blast.

All of the ancients (including the master) are supremely arrogant. I mean the fact that they didn't do anything till there was thousands of enemies in front of them showed that. And then the fact that they could have easily escaped easier than Quinlan did from that bomb too, but didn't.

In the books, the Ancients would have survived the nuke. They can't be killed by physically attacking them. The only way to kill an Ancient (including the Master) is to destroy their 'birthplace'. That is why the Lumen is so important. It reveals the point of origin for all the Masters.

..Killing of Vaun was stupid in season 2,

killing off the ancients is beyond stupidity.

The whole setup was stupid to start with, Einchorst appears carrying a flashing red light case, what sort of idiot hints his enemies so? He should just have said his piece, went back to activate the HIDDEN CASE and then flee, let Quinlan+Ancients fight while they die at an explosion, barely realizing what happened.

Quinlan could have tried to reach/chase Einchorst and see him from a distance while he was activating the case, that would be a more decent/realistic scenario in which Quinlan fights his way to escape the blast.

Detonating a nuke inside a closed area exponentially increases the damage inside that area, I don't think even the ancients would survive, not even Quinlan unless he had a good 1-2 minutes worth of "superspeed" to fully run away. But the fact Einchorst+case sort of hinted what was going to happen could provide time for ancients to search some cover and reduce the damage (if the ancients knew enough to realize it was a bomb), and Quinlan to get a head start with speed racing.

Given the whole inclination of the script for stupidity, it's possible the ancients didn't die and Quinlan is just saying so because he made an agreement so that they will help from the shadows, as long as Quinlan tells Setrakian+allies they died. But it would be even further stupid if the master knew that ancients couldn't die from a nuke blast and went on with it anyway.

Why is every show nowadays plagued by endless levels of stupidity? I was watching Outcast and it started pretty well then... Gosh I wonder if all the smart people went to fields such as engineering, medicine or politics, leaving only the stupid ones at writing scripts and producing poorly thought entertainment. Is the pay from these areas so bad?