Chapter 35-2 The End is Near

[Osiris]

1. Burt's Back!

2. Saul is still funny.

3. Lizzie + Saul = AWWW...

4. CJ: At least you're not dead yet.

5. Scratch: Epic Fail. You should've paid more attention in Anatomy class...

6. RIP Gatekeeper, Bixby. You will be missed.

7. Thanks, Pete...for being an epic dick and bringing down a zombie entourage with you.

8. It's Randy. He brought friends. Lots of friends. I'll betcha he's Ink's bestie.

9. "You didn't think it would be that easy, did you?" "Yeah, for a moment there, I kinda did."

Great Chapter, great acting...please let this next deluge of zombie badassness be relatively painless...

One more thing:

I hope Lizzie doesn't go into labor while Randy's knocking their doors down.

Epic fail? No. She found what she was looking for. It just took her a while.

[Drannix99]

Well the episode end with the return of Randy, the reunion of Saul with Lizzy and Burt, and the non death of CJ. Which brings me to my next point. I officially love Scratch. Her cynically evil mind is out standing. She doesn't go for the kill...she goes for the suffering which in my opinion is 10x worse. But I agree with some of the posts, she is either going to die soon or be turned into a Zombie and either way it doesn't bode well for any of the remaining characters because you can bet she is going to take someone with her.
That said...
CJ will become this universe's version of Oracle (like BatGirl after she was shot in the back by the Joker). Once Stabilized, she'll probably get a station where she can communicate with everyone and assist in coordinating the defense of the colony from the Zombie menace.
Lizzy will be killed in the Zombie assault (why?...I don't know but I really don't like her character).
Victor, Saul, and Burt are gonna go all Rambo, until Michael gets there.

[LiamKerrington]

About Scratch:

The number of allies grows thin (less and less slaves, er, Mallers to support her), while the number of people having enough reason to kill her rises: Riley because of Angel, Burt because of Shirley, CJ because of her leg, Michael because of destroying what he built up, Saul because of Lizzy.
And yet: Will it be the clash of Pegs and Scratch that decides about life and death of Scratch? No, I don't think so. I'd like to see a picture in which Scratch tries to kill Pegs, but then everyone else from the list above shoots or stabs Scratch making it uncertain who actually got his revenge, but certain that Pegs survives (unless she didn't die in a mushroom of light back at Boulder)... This gives the word "mass-murder" a completely new understanding ...

Maybe it's too early in the morning ...

All the best!
Liam

[Osiris]

About Scratch:

The number of allies grows thin (less and less slaves, er, Mallers to support her), while the number of people having enough reason to kill her rises: Riley because of Angel, Burt because of Shirley, CJ because of her leg, Michael because of destroying what he built up, Saul because of Lizzy.
And yet: Will it be the clash of Pegs and Scratch that decides about life and death of Scratch? No, I don't think so. I'd like to see a picture in which Scratch tries to kill Pegs, but then everyone else from the list above shoots or stabs Scratch making it uncertain who actually got his revenge, but certain that Pegs survives (unless she didn't die in a mushroom of light back at Boulder)... This gives the word "mass-murder" a completely new understanding ...

Maybe it's too early in the morning ...

All the best!
Liam

And people have the nerve to call her a sociopath.

[Christopher kitto]

Hm, Scratch did quite a sloppy job, I am a bit disappointed.

Close range with a knife and she still can't take out CJ? Clearly your darling scratch needs a bit of practice, but oh we'll she's on the run with no followers and no knife. How very unfortunate.

[sos63]

P.S. Scratch is heading straight for Irwin. She won't bother coming back to try and get at Burt, Lizzy or Saul. Now that she has the information she needs... it's time to launch herself toward the series finale.

WHOA. I guess I missed something? How did Scratch figure out Irwin? Sucks for her since the military is there and she has... What? A handful of convicts?

I sort of thought she was going to stick around and watch the zombies take The Colony.

[Witch_Doctor]

that still does not rule out the possibility of a separate "tribe" if you will...of behemoths at Randy's command...

Angel hypothesized about Zombie cliques after they tagged the zombies with the trackers and some went a different direction than the others. One seemed not to be able to make up it's mind on where to go at first.

B:think of it as different groups under the same banner coming together for a "team meeting"...just because they don't get along does not mean when the big boss calls they start fights in front of him...if that was the case I would have punched several co-workers already...
Carry on, citizens.

Sounds like a Zombie version of the movie from the 1970s called The Warriors. Can you dig it?

[7oddisdead]

Angel hypothesized about Zombie cliques after they tagged the zombies with the trackers and some went a different direction than the others. One seemed not to be able to make up it's mind on where to go at first.



Sounds like a Zombie version of the movie from the 1970s called The Warriors. Can you dig it?

so dig it...pretty much where the idea came from..haha

[Witch_Doctor]

No, I KNOW I will live forever. You see, I was sent back from the future by Saul's unborn baby who will eventually lead the rebellion. I am a ZYBORG T2000, a hybrid Zombie Cyborg created by INK himself and rechipped by Saul Jr. to kick ass and take names!

Makes total sense. You posted this on the day that time travelers travel through time. Back to the Future 11-5-1955, The Time Rider, and Time After Time.

[7oddisdead]

full disclosure; ive just now listened to the entire episode. and damn i gotta say finally some theory fuel! so much to go over...facts brought into theories


burt:
--cliffs--use your noodle old man, and i dont mean your penis.
so as much as i hate to say it, burt perhaps would have been better off had scratch killed him. the main issue i see is, scratch essentially created another version of herself in him...it was discussed back when scratch took his finger, but the main reason the destruction of shirley was actually a "good" thing was the acceptance of facts...shirleys gone. now, with scratch surviving this, as well as burt...he's no different than her. his only reason for living is to end the life of the one who took his loved one away. if burt was smart, he would not let his desire for revenge cloud the fact that a:hes in no condition to go after her. b: the shirley he loved died long ago, the ones who love him are still very much alive and all around him (saul/lizzy/child).

cj:
--cliffs--thats one tough chick
wow, im seriously impressed by her resiliance. almost borderline not believable impressed. but so long as they manage to keep her alive her brain could be a major asset. specifically from the "base of operations" or whatever..as eluded to previously, her as an oracle type character seems very fitting..and her planning mind seems much more suited to that sort of thing anyways. but seriously i dont care how much morphine your on...spitting out orders like that is fairly like impressive.

mallers:
--cliffs--27 down, 2 to go
so at this point we really have no idea how many mallers are actually left. two we know for sure( well, even they are speculation), scratch and tardust are seemingly the only two from the former regime left. so the idea of the "mallers" as a viable threat has been effectively put to an end.(ninja edit: by viable threat, i mean as a group. not dicounting scratch and whoever may be left.simply mean the group itself as a "large" threat)..think of it this way, even if a half dozen mallers managed to escape,(also remembering the mallers themselves were devided into two factions..some may have to answer some things.) the best asset the mallers had before was their "grunts" or slaves....and unless there's some magical group of survivors just floating around out there waiting for somebody to lead them...yea. done

the family dynamic:
--cliffs--together again
while the story is sold on the tagline of "of story of survival", to me the segments of saul/lizzy/burt are perhaps the most endearing. while individually i truthfully dont care for lizzy or saul..and the romance just kind of drives the manly man in me up the wall...the family aspect of the three of them really strikes a cord with me, has since the beginning. to me this story really is about these characters, and the fact that reguardless of relations blood or otherwise...family always finds each other.

where's scratch?:
--cliffs--who the fuck knows?
so a few people have speculated on how scratch could have gleamed the information from say, bixby or gatekeeper about where pegs/michael/the rest of them are..well theirs a few issues with this...to our knowledge, nobody specifically mentioned "where" they planned to place the call to. now, perhaps saul/vic did tell gatekeeper why he was grabbing the satphone..but heres what we do know..

bixby: we cannot assume he knew what the phone was needed for, nor where michael/others are/were..think of his comments just last chapter part...his snide comments about "what, no michael?"(paraphrase).he knew michael claimed to be military and if they told him "hey bro, we're gonna call the armies and shit" im certain 2+2= he's no dipshit. he would have no viable information to pass on..and of anyone, he seems the most likely to have ran into her..knife to the throat.
gatekeeper: he's a bit of an unknown entity as to what he may have actually have been told. but...the one thing we can at the very least speculate on is his character as a stoolie...the gatekeeper we meet in the return to the colony is a broken man. one that seems to have no reason to live, i have to question if gatekeeper would actually roll over and turn on the people who gave him what seemed to be a new reason to live...no. he would take a bullet.

whats next:
so we have randy (aka: me before coffee and a baaaad trip to singapore) and his behemoth team about to beat down the doors..im thinking they found pipebombs in tar's house (and for the record, i said they could be timed bombs in another thread before i actually heard the part in the episode)...but that gets me to thinking about the "what ifs" now that we have an on the mend burt with us...while burt may not be tardust, i certainly believe given a few minutes and the plethora of gizmos in glenns shop several walkie talkie bombs could be improvised to make quite the game changer when it comes to the meat mountains outside the gates...and what the fucks up with randy? getting a tat on his face? hes never gonna find a real job now...people can be so judgemental these days....

thats all i have, now get out of my office