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ALSO! BABY BORN WITH THREE HEADS! SEE THE PICTURES HERE FIRST! Just two bits a pape, sir!
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EXTRA! EXTRA! READ ALL ABOUT IT!
The final part of chapter 28 drops in just about 3 hours! Discuss here!
ALSO! BABY BORN WITH THREE HEADS! SEE THE PICTURES HERE FIRST! Just two bits a pape, sir!
Can't wait.
I've been checking the podcast since 12:00am EST. I had no idea what time it would release today.
Here's to hoping we get a reveal about Burt!
Tick, tick, tick, tick.....
Color check: COMPLETE.
Bold check: COMPLETE.
Italics: ALL GOOD.
Font check: OPERATIONAL.
Ok Kc, we're ready to roll! (limbering up...) I got the day off today, so let's DROP THIS PUPPY!
In this episode we have a new enemy that we have not seen before. Time.
The time given for an air tank is for normal conditions. If one is working very hard and breathing heavy, than it is a lot less. Like the highway millage per gallon for a car is measured at 45MPH. Since most people on the freeway go much faster than 45mph,
"Your results may very"
Run out of air and try the local variety?
Or something noble like, we will never both make it. You cannot carry me, take my tank and go
Or something hideous: Hmm... Two tanks two people is not enough. One People and Two tanks, yea thats the ticket...
don't they have monitors for the tanks? i'm sorry, it hits 50% and i'd be initiating GTFO protocols. honestly though, the smartest thing would've been to hit a fire house and pick up some rebreathers. light (comparitively) functional and designed for intensive labor.
when does it come out?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
It's downloading now from iTunes.
I found a link for Dunbar Apartments in LA at 4225 S. Central Avenue. It's got the fire escapes... looks to be about right for Tower #2.
Quick thoughts:
Cracks & Zombie Gas
Seems to be the result of some underground explosion. Interesting that the air around there not only makes one nauseous, but also turns one into a zombie. Vic had a close call, there.
Saul Immune?
More evidence here by the fact that he was not affected by the zombie gas, although I'll have to listen again to see how long he was actually breathing it. The first thing I thought of when he tripped was that he was going to pop his air line and not realize it until later. That still may be a discovery when they get back to CJ's place.
Vic a Maller?
Intimations here that there is something in Vic's past that is going to haunt him, and others. The insurance salesman bit seems unlikely, but what seems more likely is that he is some kind of criminal covering up.... could he have any connection to the Mallers?
CJ's Information Control
Here she goes again, with her convenient 'forgetting' to tell the boys that too much bad air will cause them to turn. Nice going, CJ... now we know why you didn't want to go yourself. I see a big blow-up between she and Saul coming...
More later....
Slightly anti-climactic episode. We didn't learn very much nor were too many questions asked. I guess it was a little naive to think we'd find out that much at Ground Zero, and I did highly enjoy Saul and Victor's banter this episode. Those two are fast becoming the most enjoyable aspect of this show. I particularly enjoyed their zombie theories - I think KC must have had fun writing those. I also liked how KC focused on their story for the entire episode - it would have felt too disjointed had he cut back to Ft Irwin.
However, there is significant detail if nothing too overt was mentioned:
a) Obviously, those damn cracks. What the hell are they???
b) We now have another indicator that there is something different about Saul and Tanya. However, we still don't know if this is due to their blood or due to the drugs, so all the "immunity" theorists ain't got nothing yet.
c) CJ definitely wasn't initially trusting, and as predicted, had knowledge that she chose not to reveal. Will be interesting to see how much she tells, and indeed how much she knows.
d) The Zombie Smoke Monster does actually infect you, although we don't know how much exposure is required, which seems strange, as zombie infections generally operate on the principle that as soon as the infection enters your body you will begin to turn/die.
Oh and nice use of music too in this episode. Overall, interesting episode, but hard to take much away from it. Another piece in the puzzle, in which we'll gradually learn what's wrong with Tanya, what's the deal with Ft Irwin, what CJ knows, what the new trio plan to do, etc, which will probably take place over the next two or three episodes, before Burt, Angel, Lizzy, the Mallers and maybe even the Colony re-enter the plot and shake everything up.
You forgot that Englewood has crack joke. LOL Saul. Your sense of humor is back :)
And KC, you had me going that we were going to lose Vic. Please don't kill him off, he only the spanish person I have hear in the post-zombie age. I don't know what the matter with Hollywood but apparently we can't live through these. :(
All we got is a Spanish gang in Walking Dead. >: /
It seems obvious now that we're dealing with an incredibly ancient organism that was released from far below the surface of the Earth through the cracks as a result of shifting plates or a sink hole. Kc answered the eternal debate: What really killed the dinosaurs?
Zombie T-Rex!
I am very interested to see where the story is going with Saul. I don't think the antibiotics had anything to do with it, but rather his genetics. It could explain a little about Tanya. Perhaps she knows she is immune (may have been scratched by a Zed at one point and realized she didn't turn). Maybe she is afraid the physical at Ft. Irwin will show that she has had an encounter with a zombie and she is afraid they will kill her. I'm thinking she and Saul have the cure in their blood. But I don't want to go too far out on a limb with what little information we have. It's just something to stew over.
Regarding the cracks in the ground, I immediately started thinking that it could have been a bacteria laden gas that escaped from deep in the Earth. If tectonic activity released it all around the world, that could explain the seemingly simultaneous appearance of zombism internationally.
"Talk to me Goose!"
CJ has:
1) A Secret Lair.
2) Weapons and supplies galore.
3) A 1960's movie Woman-in-charge-of-a-secret-organization-hell-bent-on-world-domination-or-fighting-evil-doers voice.
4) Had an army of henchmen.
5) Mad Doctor-like intelligence.
6) Secrets, secrets, secrets....
I imagine her wearing a skin-tight leather suit, smoking a cigarette with one of those long extended filters with a 'That Girl' hairdo. All she needs to do is end every sentence with "DAHHHH-ling":tinfoil:
First Impressions:
1. The give and take between Saul and Victor is nothing short of amazing. I could listen to them two bicker for hours and love every second of it!
2. Saul's little "joke" with his arm in the crack made me bolt upright, everything was building for something to happen with the slow music build up. Then when he came out with "just kidding" I was yelling at my iPod with the same intensity Victor was yelling at Saul.
3. Anyone else think the Saul and Victor's discussion about the outbreak was Kc's way of poking fun at all of us? As soon as they said aliens that's all I could think about. Now I just want to know, who called the giant squid?
4. The evidence is building for the whole Tanya/Saul immunity thing. There have been too many clues now starting with Saul's wound in season 2 and now with Tanya's freak out and Saul not being affected by the ground zero miasma.
Actually, I'm starting to think CJ is right about the medicins in Saul's blood. It would make sense for Tanya to be on a IV as well, easy to cover up underneath some clothes.
Also because this might jumpstart some experiments with antibiotics and Ground Zero.
Although I understand Vicky for freaking out, I still think it's strange he's so suspicious of Saul.
Maybe Tanya experimented on some more people at the colony, people Victor didn't trust?
Maybe he has seen this before. He was pretty sure Saul would be able to breath the entire way.
Tanya did say that they tried those antibiotics on the slow turner at the Colony and they didn't work. Of course that's assuming that Tanya was telling the truth when she said that. But I'm more inclined to believe her on that account. I just don't buy the whole antibiotics made Saul immune thing.
saul is an asshole. "oh... oh my god... oh... oh my... it's... it's... a crack." "no, you have lizzie." "yeah, good point, keep going." "we found crack in inglewood, big surprise."
It's looking quite nice for the family immune theory to be true right now.
We know Tanya was against a check up from last time, and she has a bandaged arm which she brushed off, and now this episode Saul is unaffected by the zombie gas and he potentially has Tommy's zombie blood in him. Possibility?
I love the one-liner movie references.
Anyway. Interesting tid-bits here. We learn that Saul is immune, and like stated above, Tawnya is too. And has probably been bitten (by the whole coat hint). But, there's something more here as well. Maybe there is something to the cocktail drip that Saul is on. Remember how the anti-biotics didn't work for him? And how it was only after his ma's show up that Saul gets better? Tawnya may have found a way to use their blood to counter-act turning. Time will tell.
Maybe we'll get a mostly Ft. Irwin episode next time dealing with Tawnya and meet the "Colonel"? And a cut-scene of Burt and Angel in the clutches of Scratch outro? (crosses fingers).
This Dunbar Hotel, now a low-income housing apartment building, is actually a famous historic site in LA. Here are a couple of links:
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar_Hotel
LA County Historic Site Info: http://lahd.lacity.org/lahdinternet/...ic%20Study.pdf
Note the outside fire escapes, the grand lobby and the proximity to Inglewood! The Dunbar Hotel is not as tall as the Other Tower in W.A., it only has 4 floors. Everything else is a remarkable fit.
HOLY shit! that's all I can say now.
The Two Things that struck me about this episode are:
1) Seems like we might have an idea about the source of the explosion heard in "It Begins: Part 1" I always wondered what was the deal about the explosion. Michael was insistant that it had nothing to do with the new construction as suggested by the professor. Obvious tell tale signs are the cracks and the haze. A more subtle sign was the comment by Saul about a fire not having been put out.
2) It looks like KC is taking the zombie-origin theme into a new direction with Saul and Victor joking about the theories of zombie origins. Can we, now, cross out Aliens, Witchcraft and Voodou chicken bones & puffer fish magic, Goverment experiments with 2-4-5 Trioxin Gas, Harry Potter, Rabies, and yes GIANT SQUIDS (Cthulu?)?
Also, a geological origin involving the cracks could explain the world-wide impact of the (virus/gas/bacteria/prions/ectoplasm/radiation/pixie dust?) Not only did they find crack in Ingelwood, but a pervasive haze. My bet is that INK is SnoopDawg. Woof Woof Mutha F...
But if the cracks would have spread worldwide, would they not have seen some cracks outside Inglewood??
I think it might be an impact-crack., and it is possible things have landed all over the world.
Khalani was in Hawai and he did not mention any cracks there. So did the zombies swim?
The Cracks would be the source of the localized outbreaks before they spread to outlying areas. CJ mentions in 28 part 1, that the reason there are no special kinds of zombies (Sorry Michael) down south near the colony is because something here is different from something there. That something is ground zero. Also, Hawaii is a volcanic island. Perhaps more/better outlets to the surface for underground zombie gas.
naturally? all around the world? at once? i find that a hard sell. cthulhu, giant squid not withstanding, would actually be a great explenation. well, maybe not cthulhu himself, but some eldritchian horrors akin to him. after all, R'lyeh was a city submerged under the ocean. i find it plausible that if a number of these eldritchian cities were to surface at the same time, it would cause tectonic activity, perhaps releasing some cursed horror from the depths of the earth. mwahahahahahaha