Chapter 30- Short Term Memory Part 3

[Adventureless_Hero]

Hey Adventureless, I gotta agree with you. A lot of little things to savor on this one. I mean, isn't this the first time we see Saul actually admit he's gotta think things over? Has our Saul gone and grown up? *getting all teary eyed*

Nah, he just found out his girl is pregnant and that kinda made him wonder if he's ready to give up his bachelor lifestyle. The dude is in an apartment surrounded by pussy...cats. Get your minds out of the gutter, cabrones!

[reaper239]

Someone a couple pages back pointed out that the tattoo would have been huge and distended past the point of recognition. Sorta like that joke that when you are young you get a tattoo of Madonna and when you're older it looks like Marvin Hamlish.

The first behemoth we saw was there within 2 months. Not weeks. We first saw a behemoth at the end of June/early July. If the little ones are still being made, the ones we are seeing could be still growing. For all we know behemoths are an accident. If they are being numbered for the purpose of keeping track of versions it could be that Behemoths are the accident, but the 6'7" skinny powerful version might be what was being sought after in the first place.

but when we saw the lab at the hospital it was abandoned. if they were still being built, why abandon such a valuable lab site for something that, unless it was previously stocked, probably doesn't have the same medical resources. so, let's say also that they have still been under contruction and that the little ones turn into behemoths: why are they still at 12? if the numbers are there to help keep track of them, why only at 12, shouldn't it be higher? and what about during the ambush in the tankers? lizzy made it sound like there was more than 12, so we should be seeing much higher numbers. and why haven't our heros been seeing more behemoths? i'd imagine that during idle conversation over the last chapter, it would've come up at some point that there has been a surge of behmoths in LA, that just seems like something important that KC would've worked in there.

now, i'm totally willing to concede that the thin mints were the real objective all along, or are a step closer to the real objective, but it doesn't make sense to me, based on the evidence on hand, that thin mints turn into behemoths.

[Bullethead]

I have a hard time wrapping my head around the shear physics of a little one biting a normal human and turning him into a little one.

Lets say Big ol' Burt is bitten. Does he all a sudden loose 50 lbs and grow a foot?

I'm not saying its impossible I mean we are in Zombie world so I suppose anything is possible. I just don't know how a bite, if we were to look at it as an infection of some sort, could cause human bones to grow.

[7oddisdead]

but when we saw the lab at the hospital it was abandoned. if they were still being built, why abandon such a valuable lab site for something that, unless it was previously stocked, probably doesn't have the same medical resources. so, let's say also that they have still been under contruction and that the little ones turn into behemoths: why are they still at 12? if the numbers are there to help keep track of them, why only at 12, shouldn't it be higher? and what about during the ambush in the tankers? lizzy made it sound like there was more than 12, so we should be seeing much higher numbers. and why haven't our heros been seeing more behemoths? i'd imagine that during idle conversation over the last chapter, it would've come up at some point that there has been a surge of behmoths in LA, that just seems like something important that KC would've worked in there.

now, i'm totally willing to concede that the thin mints were the real objective all along, or are a step closer to the real objective, but it doesn't make sense to me, based on the evidence on hand, that thin mints turn into behemoths.

i just went on a massive tirade about this similar thing in the vip box...if little ones become behemoths...why do we have evidence of both of them at the workshop? if they are created at the same place and in a similar window of time....great. but the evidence now does not look that way. i dunno man...its quite the mess when you stop to think about it..kind of a chicken or egg scenario.

look at it this way..say the behemoths are accidents...big ole giants that mutated instantly...little ones grew more in the proper way....slowly. but now we have this roman dude...who by the time this chapter was over sounded more like a behemoth..in the course of what?..a thirty-six hour period?...yea..something does not compute here

[Kc]

I have a hard time wrapping my head around the shear physics of a little one biting a normal human and turning him into a little one.

Lets say Big ol' Burt is bitten. Does he all a sudden loose 50 lbs and grow a foot?

I'm not saying its impossible I mean we are in Zombie world so I suppose anything is possible. I just don't know how a bite, if we were to look at it as an infection of some sort, could cause human bones to grow.

To answer that: It didn't grow overnight- But there were some reputable changes to give off the appearance dissimilar to the normal "biters". Roman didn't go from 5 foot 7 to 6 foot 7, if that makes sense, but it was enough to see a change.

[Adventureless_Hero]

To answer that: It didn't grow overnight- But there were some reputable changes to give off the appearance dissimilar to the normal "biters". Roman didn't go from 5 foot 7 to 6 foot 7, if that makes sense, but it was enough to see a change.

I don't know why, but that made me picture Zombie-Roman running, pausing, putting on high heels, then shambling after the gang.

Anyway, I'm keeping an open mind. If I can picture Bruce Banner hulking out, then I have no problem watching a person turn into some twisted and nightmarish creature that once resembled a man.

[Kc]

A major thank you to Otto. I've been pondering all day if I wanted to start a thread similar to the "Save the Podcast" thread for WND because of the two individuals on facebook who have been complaining for the past month or so and have people sound off. But I think this just about covered everything that needed to be said.

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Thought regarding the patch: Wouldn't Saul have seen that before? Wasn't he stationed there at some point for training?

I feel like in an answering mood after listening to the complainers on Facebook. I could respond to them directly, but I don't see any benefit to it. They want A->C and don't care about B, even though without it, nothing will make sense. Just one chapter back they were saying "best episode ever!", and then turn on you. OH, and also, for the record, I've been in charge of the outline of the story since day one. Moving on.

The patch... When you're there for training you are there with your unit, and the trainers sometimes aren't even seen by some of the troops sent there. So even thought Saul went there, it's feasible he wouldn't have seen the patch enough to remember it. And in the military there are so many- you lose track.

[reaper239]

To answer that: It didn't grow overnight- But there were some reputable changes to give off the appearance dissimilar to the normal "biters". Roman didn't go from 5 foot 7 to 6 foot 7, if that makes sense, but it was enough to see a change.

so, in other words, the changes happen slowly, but faster than would normally happen, enough so that it is noticeable that a change is occuring. is that about right?

[reaper239]

I feel like in an answering mood after listening to the complainers on Facebook. I could respond to them directly, but I don't see any benefit to it. They want A->C and don't care about B, even though without it, nothing will make sense. Just one chapter back they were saying "best episode ever!", and then turn on you. OH, and also, for the record, I've been in charge of the outline of the story since day one. Moving on.

The patch... When you're there for training you are there with your unit, and the trainers sometimes aren't even seen by some of the troops sent there. So even thought Saul went there, it's feasible he wouldn't have seen the patch enough to remember it. And in the military there are so many- you lose track.

zactly, my old man was in the army for 23 years and i remember like, two of his unit patches. and one was first cav, so that's like, obvious. during the time we were at hohenfels in germany (training base) i saw hundreds of units pass through for woodland training, but i can't remember a single patch. not only that, the NTC patch is one that would have only been seen a irwin, unlike other units you might see in transit, or at training, or on deployment.

[nikvoodoo]

Like I said earlier, I've been trying to be a good little boy about the facebook comments....but here's the one thing I'll say about that:

How is it that people can simultaneously complain that the story is moving too slow, but is also too fast and jumbled together as in we're rushing to the end?

First of all If the story is too jumbled, you aren't smart enough to follow. And should that person read this line: Good move not responding to my loaded compliment two weeks ago because I was about to destroy you no matter which way you responded.

As for the lady's critique: .....how is this going out with a putt? There are 5 chapters left this season and (in theory) 12 more. THE STORY HAS JUST REACHED THE HALFWAY POINT!!!!

Can we make these people grovel for forgiveness when they want to compliment the production again?