Chapter 31 Family Ties part 3

[Luna Guardian]

I think you all are wrong I think it's victor she was trying to entice. Victor needs love too!!!

Victor has his balls

[Vlarken]

I think you all are wrong I think it's victor she was trying to entice. Victor needs love too!!!

Poor Victor. One would think though, in all that time that they lived together, with Saul not playing ball, that Victor and CJ would at least get together for sex without commitment, even if they weren't attracted to each other in the relationship sense. I mean, people have needs. Even CJ's cats are getting more than she is.

Forget about that, you can become a porn star at 18 and yet still only drink at 21

Oh I know that... From experience.

[yarri]

Victor has his balls

He needs more than just his balls!

[Litmaster]

Isn't there some kind of water shortage at the Colony right now? I thought I remember Lizzie saying something about rationing...

Good point about the water shortage. We know now that the colony isn't placed near a good water supply.

CJ is so rad. I've loved her since we first met her. It's looking doubtful that she is SWAT now. What SWAT member would only have a Katana sword in their apartment? Maybe one that specializes in planning or something but that still seems like a strange weapon to keep around as your only defense.

Edit: Do you think the katana was just decoration?

Yes.... I'm thinking the katana was a decorative sword she had on her wall or something. Don't think that Chinwe was prior SWAT. Maybe she was an event planner?

I for example wouldn't have problems taking my shirt off around people I don't know, but that may be a cultural thing as well.

Not too late to change that avatar.

im willing to bet next time we hear from the dunbar crew, we learn that the way cj was able to sneak up on saul at the secret garden was well placed cars over open manhole covers.

Yeah, we never did get confirmation on that, did we? But it seems unlikely that nobody from the colony ever thought of barricading the manholes, or setting up traps down in the sewers. Vic might be in for a nasty surprise...

[Luna Guardian]

Not too late to change that avatar.

Oh you dirty, dirty man. I think we might have some underage members on this site though, and I'm too pretty to go to jail. You can envision me topless if you wish though

[HarleyQuinn]

Just a thought, I don't think it is going to be easy for Victor to form any alliances in the colony if he is seen due to the lies that were spread about him after he ran. Riots/rivalry against the Mallers may be difficult to form if they don't fully trust him.

[Hellbringer]

KC could you pretty please get Nate Geez to sing a full "Oh Fernado" song? I would listen to that all day. Plus Victor and Saul reacting to Chinwee's boobs was PRICELESS!

I'm torn on this... on one head, no self-respecting grunt should know about disco, much less Abba. But on the other hand, I love Abba renditions. And I ain't a grunt.

Heck, let's get a "Saul's Greatest Hits" album out there. Oh yeah!

[Cabbage Patch]

Isn't there some kind of water shortage at the Colony right now? I thought I remember Lizzie saying something about rationing.

Westminster, California gets 58% of its water from groundwater wells in the city limits. I couldn't find any pictures of the wells there, but if they're like the one I'm familiar with the ones I've seen they sit on a small lot with a pump house and storage tanks for several tens to hundreds of thousands of gallons of pumped, processed water. When the power goes off the pumps stop, but the tanks stay full till someone empties them.

I'm thinking that the Colony has been living off the stored water at the well sites, and that the tanks are running low. Sean's ill-fated project could have been an attempt to restart the pumps at one of the wells by installing a generator, or potentially a wind turbine. Meanwhile scavenger teams would be out tapping smaller privately owned wells in people's back yards, which can be run off a portable generator. They couldn't produce the volume that the city wells can, but it would be better than nothing.

**Edit**
Here's a picture of a government-run groundwater well site in Los Angeles, CA. It's probably similar to the ones in Westminster.

[nikvoodoo]

I am suddenly struck by the memory (based off HarleyQuinn's post above) of a certain assault on a certain prison in a certain comic book series and can see Victor being sat on top of the Guardian wall being tortured by Scratch who are making CJ and Saul watch.

[Stuv]

Interesting episode. I think we may be overanalyzing the topless thing. I think that was inserted for a bit of comic relief and to humanize CJ a bit more. She is always so serious and uptight. This action broke the tension and helped everyone relax. I am more interested in why Victor got so frustrated and lost it, this certainly is not the only time he has had a period of inactivity. I would think Saul has more reason to be jumpy and he seems the most relaxed of anyone. Perhaps Victor knows something more about the Colony that he hasn't revealed yet. He seems almost to be waiting for something to happen. Maybe he needs to hear the details of CJ's plan before he gives up this info.