I love this podcast. I get home download the latest episode and just relax. This podcast is my food. After listening to it I swear I gain energy!
Awesome episode as usual. Saul's back! With his mum!
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I love this podcast. I get home download the latest episode and just relax. This podcast is my food. After listening to it I swear I gain energy!
Awesome episode as usual. Saul's back! With his mum!
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Originally Posted by Kc
Hey! I'm already in my fox hole!
Ra1th.. my man. Why so serious? It's all how "I" feel and MY PERSONAL observations. I haven't said you were wrong. I'll apologize for stepping on your feelings. I'd send you flowers and a gift certificate to Angel's favorite Thai massage parlor if it would help!
Yarri Yarri!
It was only an my answer to your question.
Ok.. I am going to say it.. Kc... forgive me and be gentle with the hose..Quote:
Originally Posted by HaveCrowBarWillTravel
Then we can have a happy ending..
Yep! Angel for President!
I wonder if Kalani knows how to fly a helicopter. That would be much easier to insert into a storyline. I'm guessing that most military bases would have at least a helicopter landing area than an airstrip. Can any US Armed Forces ppl confirm this?
Guts,
Helo's are mostly Coast Guard and Army. I know that Ft Irwin is an Army training base and that's all. KC is ex Army, I'm USAF so we're gonna have service bias. LOL. They have way too much stuff and people to fit in a 'copter.
Edward's AFB will have transport sized aircraft like a C-130's or larger.
They can also grab a couple semi and rig them with cow catchers to move stuff if needed.
I haven't been to Fort Irwin since '96 (wow, that was long ago), but back then they had helicopter airstrips. I remember F-16s and A-10s flying around out there to help with training, but I think they took off from Edwards AFB.Quote:
Originally Posted by HaveCrowBarWillTravel
As much as I'd love to see them move out to the National Training Center, I don't picture all the Tower residents moving out there. There's too much to do in the sunny LA area.
To be honest, the first thing you need to do is send a scouting party. There is no guarantee the base is safe enough to inhabit. And if it is, it may be similar to the Colony. Michael is or was Intelligence he should know the importance of knowing what you have before you start jumping into a big endeavor such as this.
Agreed. But you know what? We've seen Michael make some tragic intelligence/tactical mistakes so far (see Crowbar's multiple complaints about the Tower's Noise and Light discipline). It's another situation where it may be something that gets overlooked to advance a plot point.Quote:
Originally Posted by timberwoof
Good point. That reminds me, was there ever a rule made about windows after Pegs flowerpot incident? I can't recall.Quote:
Originally Posted by nikvoodoo
Rule #3- Everyone must stay off the balconies at all times. (Chapter 4 Part 1 ~14:30)Quote:
Originally Posted by Zombiehead
Thank you. So nothing regarding lights and noise. A lit tower in a dead city should attract attention. Not just zombies either.
SIGH I'm ready for Monday.
Too lazy to read all 9 pages of posts, so this has probably been pointed out already: what's with the impossible coincidences? Less than 0.1% of the population survived this disaster- but Hope turns up alive then Saul's Mom shows up? What are they, part of the 'Final Five' from Galactica?
[CAUTION gotta get some mild meanness outta my system]
Now that it's been explained to me that Saul is black (he still sounds like a white guy from Brooklyn to me) it seems the only other decent black survivor in CA turns out to be his MOTHER? I'm reminded of a Danny Glover line (in Grand Canyon?) "We must be the only two black people he knows"
I have a shirt with that on it...Quote:
Originally Posted by nikvoodoo
I bet there's also some black people who lived in the colony.
As far as I'm concerned Kc's managed to keep the cast amazingly inclusive. I may be one of the few people who've actively noticed (only?) but he's got a little bit of everything represented. It's kind of amazing.
Is there anyone from the middle east? We're alive needs a "Sayid" from lost. He could just show up randomly torture and shoot some ppl and then be on his wayQuote:
Originally Posted by mascaria
Edit: that's not meant to be racist or anything, it's just on the show lost, there's an Iraqi special forces commando/interrogator, and every time Sayid shows you know someones about to die or be tortured. In short he was a badass
I see a lot of Lost references in the forums. Never watched it; not because I thought it boring or something but because deployments have a habit of messing up my TV time. There's a bunch of shows I used to watch or wanted to, but never got a chance to see them from start to finish. I do plan on watching it at some point thru Netflix. I guess a lot of people's problem with Lost is somthing similar to the X-Files... too many writers throughout the series diluted the overall story. But X-Files is so 90's and Lost is still fresh in everyone's minds. Whoa, tangent there. Sorry.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ra1th
Anyways, Southern LA is a melting pot, so I expect some diversity in the survivors. I mean, it's not like Shaun of the Dead which takes place in the UK, where the population is over 92% Anglo-Saxon and everyone else is, at best, 2% something else.
And since we're kind of on the subject of what people sound like, I always pictured Scratch looking like Michelle Rodriguez from Lost. Yes, I haven't seen the show, but I have seen articles on her short time on it.
Bringer,Quote:
Originally Posted by Hellbringer
Yah, most of the air support came from Edwards. The Hogs are mostly Reserve and Guard pilots. I agree that just up and moving is a bit crazy and I've complained A LOT about Mike's lake of following his training, but i'm really starting to chalk that up to him just being an ass.. or some real deep issues.
Nik's probably correct about the forward progress of the show though.
Wolf,
That's a long roundtrip journey for the scout team and how long would they give them to return? Would they be allowed to send a larger team that consists of a team that would set up camp there then the other half return?
Does anyone think they'll go ask Skittles if he wants to tag along this time? Would he go?
Mascaria! Long time no see!Quote:
Originally Posted by mascaria
I've thanked KC a few times for having and keeping a diverse cast. We have Kalani, whom I think is Native Hawaiian and our fan favorite Asian Datu! I envision your girl Riley as being East Indian or Pakistani.
Oh crap! I almost forgot about Victor being Hispanic!
Those are some pretty good demographics when compared to..em.. 100% of anything else in entertainment media.
Lisa Lampanelli loves Kc for giving her so many diverse people to make fun of. :p
Ok listening to WND gave me a thought. Tanya mentions a lot of trouble was gone through to get hold of her powerful antibiotics. I believe it means both the trouble to get out of the colony and the trouble the colony had in originally getting the medicine.
Where would you get such drugs? A hospital! In chapter 17 Skittles warns Angel and Kalani to stay away from Hospitals or the "doctor's places" as he calls them, because Doctors are SMART! Thus they become smart zombies by Burt's logic
I highly doubt it, it takes a lot of training to be fixed wing certified, and going over to rotary wing takes a little longer. So, I don't think he'd even know how to take off in a helicopter, let alone fly it. Aside from that, they're noisy - really noisy, which'll bring unwanted attention to them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Guts Malone
That is true with the stuff - but they also have too many people to ferry. Let's say you cram (it'll be like sardines) 20 people into a Blackhawk, doing a rough guess, Ft Irwin is roughly 100mi from the tower, which means it would take about a 40 min flight. Problem is you'll be hard pressed to find a LZ in an urban environment like LA to put it down. Then you have time against you, because figure the moment that you touch down, you'll be bring everyone one in the area to the tower, and they'll probably be attacked while the helicopter is outbound.Quote:
Originally Posted by HaveCrowBarWillTravel
With that being said, the units at Ft. Irwin are armored Cav and Recon, so there's bound to be some Humvees and Prime Movers that can be convoyed to and from the tower in just one trip.
I hadn't even thought about doctors becoming smart zombies, but it makes sense.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pikepaw
Plus there's also the fact that when outbreak started and people started panicking many of them probably headed for the hospitals to treat injuries or if they were sick and turning (we know that turning times vary: some are near instantaneous, Tommy took a little while to turn, and Tanya revealed some people can take days or weeks to turn.) And of course once those people turned all those panicky people in the hospitals became an all you can eat buffet. End result: hospitals = BAD news! So it probably took a fairly large effort by the Colony to assault one to get meds as powerful as the ones Tanya used to treat Saul. At least that's how I interpreted the "it was a lot of trouble to get these" comment.
I thought this had already been established pretty clearly way back when angel and Saul went to raid burrs store. The one hunting Burt was a top clearance scientist from radon labs. And Burt says "I guess the matter u are in life the smarter u are in death". Scinetifically accurate and tested? No but usually The story expects you to just go along wih some factsQuote:
Originally Posted by Pikepaw
I had an image of him being half black, half Latino.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pteranodon
Oh no, I totally believe the smart people=smart zombies since I listened to Chapter 3 the first time. Really I was just covering my tracks in case someone who is the opposite of you came along and was all like, "It was just a theory of Burt's, we don't know for SURE..." and blah blah blah. Hospitals, libraries, universities, and scientific facilities would all be death traps due to all of the smart peopleQuote:
Originally Posted by Ra1th
....now lets not get crazy.....not everyone in a University is actually smart ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Pikepaw
Yeah it's more than likely there's going to be some death especially with the addition of other characters into the fold. I would vote for sauls mom to go because that voice actor...wow I can't stand her line readings.Quote:
Originally Posted by nikvoodoo
WAIT, WHAT?! Saul's black? Could somebody let me know when was that disclosed (reference/link)? Yeah Tanya does sound black to me, but I thought Saul was Latino... maybe Puerto Rican? Reading that made my head feel like that Klan member's on Chapelle's Show after Clayton Bigsby took his hood off.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pteranodon
When they first found the colony, and Michael first met Tanya, he describes her as being black. Then when you find out that Tanya is Sails mother, that would make him at least half black. Couldn't tell it from listening to him. I'd guess he's also part Hispanic. BTW, funniest part I've heard so farQuote:
Originally Posted by Aerock
She's a vet?
Wait, she's your mother?