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This is the wayne gretzky episode! Only 1 more to the landmark #100!
In honor of this, the great one will be shown as a survivor who escaped to boulder. He will survive the attack by Griggs by standing behind the net and rifling pucks off zombies heads.
Happy monday!
I'm calling it now... in this chapter we are going to see a flash back to when the Towerites landed in Boulder up to and including the attack by the Little One.
So Leedo is not onboard with the Gretzky survival theory. Anyone else with me??!!
Fuck yeah! And there will be a spin-off involving Gretzky and Corporal Puck! Gretzky and Puck! A match made in heaven, then reforged in hell, and finally solidified on ice!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by nikvoodoo
I would like to have this chapter unite the story lines of Saul and company in L.A. with Michael and his crew in Ft. Irwin. But with the events unfolding at Boulder, I don't know if that will happen in the next three episodes. For 34-1 I expect things to pick up with Michael and/or a crew investigating Boulder.
I don't see how my prediction would really negate Gretsky showing up in this chapter...Quote:
Originally Posted by nikvoodoo
The two stories won't unite until the sat phone is fixed by Glenn. Gatekeeper said he could get the phone after dark and he did go out that night to get his guardians in position for the next day. Maybe he already has it but it will still be a little while before it gets back to Glenn.
Alright taking all bets!
What are the odds Boulder gets nuked?
And if it does what are the odds we just end up with radioactive Inklings?
Would be the creation's crowning glory in a very odd sense, wouldn't it?Quote:
Originally Posted by HardKor
It would definitely be epic.Quote:
Originally Posted by LiamKerrington
And I got a feeling one or both of those nukes end up going off at some point.
Like Anton Chekhov said "If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it's not going to be fired, it shouldn't be hanging there."
And those are two really fucking huge guns hanging on the wall.
You bet.Quote:
Originally Posted by HardKor
Something in the back of my head points me to the gun in Fort Irwin being fired ...
Boulder evacuates to the soon freed colony.
*Skids in*
I'm here! I'm here!
I a little "big" ones invasion the last to people I expected to here from was King Datu the Resourceful and Hope. I expect Kelly to be holding people off with an assult rifle.
I have no idea what's going to happen and who's going to make it out alive. Since Angel "ate a bullet salad" KC has shown that he like Boardwalk Empire will shoot any main character in the cheek. No one is safe.
Would be like this:Quote:
Originally Posted by Penguine
"I .. I ... I can see? I see ... light!"
zwwwappp
I thought the inbound chopper was going to be piloted by pegs for a minute there. At least i got one assumption right, robbins was still alive.
Waiting to hear the resounding "CALLED IT" from the people who named pantex chapters ago, good call guys...
So, do we think griggs retained enough memory to know to hit comms first? And that said, what if one of the guys turned in boulder....knows the launch code? Could be bad for irwin. Zombie nuclear warfare!
Also, im taking bets, who thinks the launch code will be 56221. If its not that, its got to be : 1.2.3.4.5.
Amazing....same as my luggage
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Originally Posted by HardKor
Oh god..."ignore this idea KC"
...
that would be kind of awesome though: Kimmet makes zombies meaner, stronger, and they GLOW IN THE DARK!
Yeah, Kimmet is so in "the bigger picture thing" that he misses the forest for all the trees ... I keep facepalming about him.
But I also like him. He not only sees the big picture, he also thinks big ... Like Nukes? How awesome is that? Next step would be the BFG9000, right?
And the code for activating the nuke should be this one: 0118 999 881 999 119 725 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ab8GtuPdrUQ
And about infecting the wrong person: If that's gonna happen, it really could be "Byebye Fort Irwin", I guess ... What a blast!
So I happily hopped over to the best Podcast evar to listen to the next installment.
"It Only Takes One"
*whimper*
I was thinking the 'private line' might be some Black research facility or something, but noooo, people called it right. Somehow though, we all saw the option on the table. Just a phone call away. All it would take is a code. Do inklings retain That sort of memory? Cause things might get very bad for Irwin.
All this kinda overshadows the human drama over 200 folks at the colony. But I'm rather glad Michael said it! if Boulder goes, That's it, There's no goddamn point anymore, to Irwin or to their Operations. Society is done.
Trying some maths:
Sometime within the last two hours between the last contact with Boulder and realizing that the coms are down it all started ...
It took the technicians a few hours to realize that the com-problems are not at the end of Boulder, but need to be at Boulder then ...
Another like 20 minutes to half an hour later the first contact is taking place between team Echo and Robbins's blackhawk ...
At that point already less then 8.200 men (national guard, veterans from Iraq and other soliders/ forces) at arms in Boulder have hard times dealing with already a few hundred infected within the walls of Boulder ...
Let's crunch numbers: How quickly there will be thousands of Infected in Boulder?
@Liam: Naaaa, that's neither simple nor dramatic enough!
Please pay attention to the timeframe between 0:40 and 0:53 seconds. Well, thanks a hell of a code sequence!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dB4l5hqh0dc
Question:
Robbins speak of three units ben taken down by those things within minutes. What is the size of a unit? One man, a group of 5 or 8 or 10 men?
All the best!
Liam
Recall the chapter art with the big jet leaving Ft. Irwin? Remember how it looked like it was flying towards a giant mushroom cloud? In your face foreshadowing!
So I loved it when Michael put it into perspective by saying that Boulder could be the very last human civilization in the world and now, we are going to nuke it. The zombies got us by the short and curlies. Also, I'm thinking Michael may have stumbled onto something when Robbins said, "These things are like the soldier versions of them." I'm think either of two things ran through Michaels head when he said, "What did you say?" He was either thinking, "Fuck, the Inklings made it to Boulder after all. Just as I had thought." or he was thinking, "Soldier zombies? Fuck, these things ARE created by something else? A general? Is that was the creature in the pinstripe suit is? Holy falcon shit, too much to digest right now. I'd better keep this to myself for now, and potentially reveal it to my friends at a moment that is most inconvenient to everyone."
I think an opinion poll is very much warranted; we should be placing votes on who from our original tower crew is going to survive the exodus from Boulder? I'm hoping that Hope eats it. She'll remove her bandages and the first thing she'll see with her fixed eyes is an Inkling running at full speed to tackle her. Datu seems to have shed his paralyzing fear and become quite the bad ass. Kelly...I hope getting laid hasn't made her soft. Put a semi-auto in her hands and I'm sure she could bring swift justice to the biters. As for Pegs....um, hopefully Lady survives! :D
I'm curious as to what the title refers to, aside from the one Inkling that infected a great number of Boulder's population. Possibly it refers to the nuke? It only takes one to destroy a city? Or does it refer to Datu, the hero who will rise up with his mighty pick-axe and decimate the entire Inkling population running rampant in Boulder? It only takes one...pissed off Filipino with a pick-axe!
I'm wondering if in the long run, Michael will be forced to make a very tough decision to nuke L.A. or Ft. Irwin. A Beneath the Planet of the Apes type ending would rock.
Michael: "Damn, you...damn you all to hell!"
*cut to muted explosion mushrooming up through the clouds*
fade to black and credits crawl
Usually a unit is somewhere from around 100-200 soldiers. But in the case of such a dwarfed military size it's probably 20 soldiers or so I would imagine.Quote:
Originally Posted by LiamKerrington
Thank you, Pillars.
Yeah, maybe 20 ... At the end of #34-1 the Ms. Uhura tells Kimmet, Michael and Puck that a few units got back into headquarters (at Boulder I assume) ... That supports small sizes for the units ...
Ok. Now, the Irwin-Knights are going to mast the impossible ... How would they try to perform the rescue-mission? Simply giving specific orders to Boulder-HQ? Or by flying there and trying to transport as many as possible out of Boulder?
And how long will this take?
Since we are already at at least half a day of zombies rampaging in Boulder and having pressed the military services there pretty hard, how much longer would Boulder be able to keep people alive?
We have noticed several situations in which zombies simply did as they pleased - they have little trouble taking down units of military personnel, and they also have little trouble with breaking into fortified houses ... So, if they have at least the scent of the regulars or - as some of us assume or fear - they retain their knowledge from their human-life than it would be a safe assumption that Boulder is already down and only a little miracle will safe lives.
Since Kelly, Pegs, Hope and Datu played a major role so far I guess they will have their share and probably survive this - well except maybe for Kelly (I would be sorry about her going down with Boulder though). And how many more people would stand a chance to survive?
Since Kelly and Pegs are in the North of Boulder and IF the North of Boulder has not been hit by 'em Zeds so far, then maybe a good portion of Boulderites could be saved - somehow-ish ... But how do you rescue people with only few choppers, planes and especially a lack of gasoline - and all of that in the middle of stormy weather-conditions?
Well ... Call me a pessimist ... But I think Boulder and the survivors there are done ... There will be no more then maybe two- or threehunded who would stand a chance to survive - if that many at all ...
Chapter #34 / December 16th is a dark hour for the survivors - even darker then what has happened on May 8th ...
I think Pegs is going to to be one of the pilots that flies out of Boulder with a decent sized group of people. It sucks though because in the attack, everyone is going to be in a panic to escape. The "lifeboats" are going to be over crowded and likely won't be able to get off the ground.
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Originally Posted by Adventureless_Hero
If thats true then I picture Pegs telling everyon eto sit down and shut up, she's taken initative in paniced situations before.
My thought...Kimmet will let boulder know they are going to try and extract people out. Boulder will be respobsible for getting people to the airport. The military will reinforce the airport and hold it at all cost. Once the on station aircraft are full they will departn and anyone not onboard at that point is going to be SOL (Shit outta luck). When the last aircraft is off the ground the military will split from Boulder and when they reach a safe distance Kimmet will blow the Nuke.
Excellent episode KC, cast and crew! You guys are awesome.
All Hail King Datu?
This was it! At long last, I finally thought we would be rid of Datu the fairy once and for all... they got stuck in that house, a Beastie busted in, and I'm like, "Cue the piano music, Kc! CUE THE PIANO MUSIC!" But no- dude whips out a pick-axe and goes all Jean Claude Van Datu...
Ok, let's get this straight: all hell is breaking loose in Boulder, heavily-armed soldiers are going down left and right, yet among those still surviving is a blind girl and Datu THE PUSS. And yet he somehow manages to single-handedly take out a bulletproof Robo-Zombie with a... pickaxe? I mean 'cmon... really?
Tenuous Cord of Believably- SNAP!
Yo Kc, is Jay like paying you to stay in the cast or something? DATU NEEDS TO DIE, LIKE NOW. Isn't this the same sissy that got himself locked in an elevator back in Season 1? And was rescued from being put in the menu back in the arena??? And now he's suddenly the Terminator? Bad writing, Kc. BAD WRITING. The most realistic situation for him in the Boulder scenario is to end up as LUNCH for Mr. Longnails. But no, the guy's got more lives than Mr. Whiskers...
If Kc wants to preserve any integrity left as a writer he must KILL DATU NOW.
But not Burt, though. Burt needs to bust out of confinement, munch down a few energy bars to regain his health, then grab him a Piece and start going to town on all the Mallony folk down there, culminating in a showdown with Scratch where he ends up tossing her into an active volcano. And then spout off a cool one-liner and ride off into the sunset... Let me know, Kc, if you need any more writing advice. I'm sure you are more than willing to listen to my opinions on how you can improve your craft. :)
**Disclaimer: The above commentary by Litmaster was written in jest, and was in no way meant to seriously imply that he considers Kc Wayland to be an inferior writer, although he reserves the right to question why said author seems partial to little wussy characters who serve little purpose other than to continually annoy the Readership. Any insult, either explicit or implied, was directed soley at Datu the character and not to Jay Olegario, the person, lest the aforementioned take offense and seek retribution in the form of an ass-whupping or some other equally unpleasant course of action. Litmaster, Inc., reserves the right to deny any of the claims made in this written document, despite their written nature, and to confuse, confound, misdirect, and otherwise deflect any criticisms that may come from the sniveling Datu-worshipers out there, and any opposition to this written statement will be defended on the grounds that it was taken out of context. Please direct any such complains to 7oddisdead, Adventureless Hero, or Witch Doctor, or anyone else who is willing to listen to your patently wrong opinions on Datu.**
I dunno. I was able to believe in Datu's transformation. He gained a lot of confidence over time. His character has been through a lot and was on the verge of giving up all together. But I think Hope changed that. Despite thier arguing I do believe his fatherly instincts are kicking in and he's ready to take on an Inkling when armed with nothing more than a pick axe. This is the same little dude who beat a zed to pulp with a piece of a chair leg.
As for how they are still alive. It seems to me the wave hadn't hit their part of town yet. It's almost like the front line of infected arrives just as we are listening. So it stands to reason they would make it as far as they did without incident.
Also, I loved the disclaimer!
Disclaimer FTW! LOL!
As for Datu, he really didn't do anything spectacular. Think about it. He ran in to a garage, grabbed a pick-axe and swung it as the Z busted through the door. He was aiming for the head and hick the neck. Not the best aim, but it works. Its not like the it was Datu vs. Inkling 1 on 1 in an open arena, it was Datu getting the jump on the Inkling.
Datu is a character archetype that survives deep into stories like this. If he's going to die, its not soon. Be happy he's advanced as a character.
So I was right about boulder getting nuked. I was wrong to think they weren't already there.......wtf??!!
Also, some pure evidence that Inklings/aldo/little ones retain memory. The former military inkling takes out power and comm first. Irwin spins its tires for hours, inklings get a strong hold in the city.
By the way, I hope no turned humans retain the knowledge to disarm the nukes. If they do.....that could be one hell of a season finale.....mission to rearm the nukes and detonate.
I was punchy this morning. :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Leedo2502
I defend my position. :bunker: He did kill several with a chair leg when he was by himself; like he was here. Datu is very capable when he's not depending on someone else to take care of things.Quote:
Originally Posted by Litmaster
Then again he could have been just very lucky.
I've been taking a close look at Boulder, trying to figure out how an attack would have unfolded. Here's how I think it happened.
The terrain around Boulder makes defense against a zombie threat challenging, but manageable.
• West—The dominant terrain feature in the Boulder area is the Rocky Mountains mountain range, which rises like a wall along the entire western flank of the city. There are a handful of roads and trails through the Rockies, with the most important being Canyon Road, that runs from the city’s hydroelectric power plants straight into downtown Boulder.
• South—This is the direction where the greatest threat would seem to lie. Denver is less than 30 miles to the south, and it is a source of potentially endless zombie hordes. Luckily there are only a handful of roads between Denver and Boulder, passing through a region of rolling hills. Assuming the zombies tend to follow the roads, it would be possible to build a strong defense by blocking the roads where it passes between hills, and covering these blockages with fire from military positions.
• East—This direction features a number of lakes and reservoirs, which channelize movement into the narrow areas between them. Once again it would be possible to build a strong defense by blocking these routes and covering them with fire from military positions.
• North—There are larger hills and more lakes and reservoirs in this direction, which provide a basis for defense. The Boulder Airport sits outside the main metropolitan area northeast of the city. The greatest threat from this direction comes from the zombie populations of small cities like Longmont, Greeley and Fort Collins, which are more than 50 miles away.
Because of the terrain the largest concentrations of military forces are probably going to be to the south and east of Boulder, with lesser forces to the north and very little covering the west.
Here’s how I think the attack took place:
1. Zombie Griggs comes over the Rockies from the Chinook crash site and approaches Boulder from the west.
2. It comes across the hydro-electric plants that support the city, attacking and turning the maintenance crews and guards and knocking out the power.
3. With its new posse, Zombie Griggs travels down Canyon Road into downtown Denver, just blocks from the City Council Building. The people at the command post learn of the attack when the zombies charge into their building.
4. At this point Boulder is effectively split in two, with zombies spreading out in all directions from the city center. Troops from the southern defenses attack into the city, retaking the City Council Building, and drawing the attention of the zombies in their direction.
Datu and Hope are probably in the northeast area of Boulder, south of the airport. This is where most of the medical facilities in the city are located, and it will facilitate their eventually making it to the airport and evacuation. Pegs and Kelly are also described as being in the north side of the city, so there is a chance they too will make it to the airport.
