Chapter 43-2 The Darkness Ahead

[Red Shirt]

You know, I thought Raydon was making body building stuff, but having a genius like Ink on staff seems way above body builder supplement level know how.

True, but it makes sense actually. If Radon was simply in the business of manufacturing pharmaceutical grade body building supplements, then Dr. Roberts was overqualified for the company... However if Radon was not only manufacturing but also engineering them, researching for the next big breakthrough for better living through science and chemistry, with the ultimate goal being designer humans... then yes, Dr. Roberts was exactly the man they needed.

[Eviebae]

Unless it's been modified in some way whatever this is causes awfully complex and uniform changes. Maybe it's something that was previously undetected but made people more aggressive when they gathered in groups--causing road rage etc.

7Odd, you don't have to look hard to see real world examples of people who've had their brains rewired by trauma or disease. "The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat" would be a good source to build up from. The thing that would interest me is people finding ways to find common ground. Like the little girl with aphasia, she is communicating, not just with words.

[Gooer]

Episode 43-3 is going to be crazy..........

Lets keep in Mind the Chapter is called "The Darkness Ahead"...............

As we currently sit there seems to be(a least for the current situation) a lot of "Happy" things ahead..... A Baby is Coming, A Wedding is in the works, Plans are being made to spread out so that everyone can keep living, etc, etc, etc.........

Now........ Somewhere in all of that............ The Bad Things(or Darkness) need to start happening........

I'm gonna say hang on to your seats for 43-3 Ladies and Gents!!!!

I'm thinking Scratch and Tardust will do something that'll rustle our jimmies..... Hopefully Saul doesn't die; not sure how i would cope.....

[Zombie Yeti]

I heard it, but I think it's more on the order of him planning something that he thinks could/would get himself killed--something to keep his family safe. I'm hoping he gets some information instead. KC doesn't often conform to the status quo so I am hoping. I enjoy his character and the actor so I would miss him lots. On the other hand Saul's shown excellent instincts before (like his Mom and dog were still alive).

What if he's attacked and doesn't change?

He can get his own zombie army then they can fight west side story style there's the musical episode.

[Tar Heel Fan]

Zombie: The universal language! I wonder if all zombies can read/speak this new language, no matter what language they spoke before turning.

[Zombie Yeti]

Zombie: The universal language! I wonder if all zombies can read/speak this new language, no matter what language they spoke before turning.

Have you ever wanted to speak zombie now you can with Rosetta Stone zombie language software. Wow your friends with moans and groans and learn to shuffle or run just like a zombie.

[Witch_Doctor]

@mr.redbeard

dimensions is a strong word. lizard or animal puts me in a reptilian mindset.. an I got hosed the last time I even mentioned the word "alien"

think of it this way, our senses feed their input though our body and into our brain. what if your brain began to process that info in a different way? and what if that change happened uniformly to everyone bitten/infected? I admit its far out there stuff. but it still retains some level of plausible explanation. while I could totally see the misdirection in the cliffhanger being we jump to these conclusions of a zom-diction, when its just tagalog hes reading...


think about just how well set up this situation is... datu, the only character (I believe) to have any type of "exotic" language in his background. so either way could be right, but its a crapshoot as far as guessing which. im just hedging my bets on the fun answer

Babayin, the writing script of Filipino. baybayin-alibata.jpg

I don't think it is widely understood there. Probably like Germans trying to read runes. (LiamKerrington? YABC?) Anyway, the symbols described by the characters seem to be like the ones we see in the Story's artwork. I'm not sure if any of the symbols in the story were described as being anything from the Baybayin script. We can speculate how Datu can read it based on what we know so far. But, it would be a pretty vast and open ended number of possibilities.

I can tell you for certain what are not the reasons he can read it.

1. Datu is a scholar of ancient script and symbols.
2. My Pictionary theory.
3. Some of the writing is Baybayin or one of its derivatives and Ink had some Pharmaceutical research involving the Philippines (a la Sean Connery in Medicine Man) and Datu actually understands it because he was a Tattoo artist catering to tourists.

None of these will be the case because they seem plausible and KC Knows exactly how I think, so he writes the story so that I will ALWAYS be surprised.

[Grognaurd]

Well, Datu means Chief, so he might nor be Robert Langdon. But he may have studied his tribal script, but I cannot think of a good reason why Ink/Randy/??? Would know it and write it on the paper.

A case could be made for altered perception, but it is more of a reach than we have seen this far.

What if Datu was a free mason, part of the Elks Club, or maybe even the knights of Columbus. They might have a ceremonial script or something. Knights of Columbus would have a reason to link to the Church we see in the cover art. I do not remember if Protestant churches have the stations of the cross on their walls. Catholic churches do and I see what might be them hanging on the walls.

Yea, all of this is thin, but gosh darn it, we are running out of episodes to pull everything together. Michael says that Datu does not have his heart in the pump repair and I could see him bringing Datu to a Catholic Church.

[Storm]

So Datu Means chief? Hmm...
...Looks like Mata Means eye, at least that's what I found...
Chief's eye? O.o

[Witch_Doctor]

Datu the Freemason! I like that. Or maybe answered one of those Rosicrucian ads in the Old Farmers Almanac. Actually, Ink could also be a Rosicrucian. There is no real magic involved but he could be a modern day alchemist. Or maybe he's a modern day Doctor Victor Frankenstein.