Chapter 35-2 The End is Near

[Witch_Doctor]

ah...you seemed on the other side of the coin with your initial statement..now only witch doctor is wrong...as usual.

Ha HA! I'm never on the wrong side of the coin because I use a QUANTUM QUARTER!! When flipped, all possible answers are correct in superposition.

[7oddisdead]

[zombeh-kitteh]

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

Oh, I'm just joshing around with my favorite psycho knife-wielding bundle of joy...

But in all seriousness, it would have been easier for Scratch just to plunge that blade into CJ's heart, neck, gut...but she chose the leg? Maybe it was a matter of positioning, but it seems to me that Scratch decided to shred her leg up just to make her suffer. Suffer like she suffers?

Hmmm....

[nikvoodoo]

Not necessarily. The reason she could have gone for the leg is that was what was available. As we don't know the positions they were in at the time it's hard to say, but I'm pretty certain just before Saul's groan we hear scratch get disarmed (you hear a small tinkling of steel to the floor too small to be a katana).

So scratch could have been on the floor with CJ standing over her with Saul behind them. Saul groans, CJ turns, and gets a knife to the thigh.

[ferroaj]

I totally forget who it was that argue so passionately that Scratch was not the last voice heard... that Cj was the one heard coming out on top.... all I have to say is:

Osiris, I have no problem admitting I was wrong. Good call on the voice actor...


With that said, how did Scratch get out of there? She sure didn't go out the way Saul was, since he was shooting off rounds at her... If there were two ways out, CJ should have just called someone to come in the back and flank Scratch.

[buzzbros2002]

First off, the forum is much more entertaining this week compared to most weeks. Thank you for that. Now for an honest prediction we will see CJ wanting to kill Scratch, along with Burt And Riley. Needless to say there is a waiting list for a chance to kill her. Wild prediction, all this is in the post war PTSD mind Of Michael. Many of there people he knows now or knew overseas.

[YetAnotherBloodyCheek]

CJ will be soon dead as I deduced from Saul's diagnosis. If not, it would be a miracle though.

[Litmaster]

Here we go, baby: matching one big-ass episode with one big-ass Lit-Treatise!
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Cat Fight!
I don't know about the rest of you, but I had a hard time visualizing this one. I must have gone back and listened to all the scuffles, groans, grunts, and screams over a dozen times and still cannot figure out exactly how the fight went down between Scratch and CJ. It sounded at the end like Scratch must have somehow kicked CJ's sword away, then pinned her to the ground (Saul later yells "Get off of her!") and stabbed her in the leg. It didn't help that both actresses have a similar vocal quality so I had a hard time parsing who was doing what to whom. This is one of the definite drawbacks of having no narration! Some lingering questions:

1. Why did Scratch just leave instead of finishing CJ off, if she had the upper hand? She said something like "you're not worth it", but I couldn't tell if this was directed towards CJ, Burt, or Saul.

2. Why didn't Saul shoot Scratch? Again, a problem with visualization here, but was he around the corner or something? He had a gun, and we heard several shots at the end of the fight, but I still couldn't make that one out.

3. I wonder how Kc made those nice blood splatter sounds, which really gave me the artery-spewing willies! Let me guess: ketchup squirted from a squirt gun?

4. Why would the alarm even matter if the good guys had the Mallers on the run anyway? After Kc misled me to think it might have been a bomb instead of an alarm, I was expecting something more climactic than just yanking a wire and kicking the door open.



BURT! At laaaast!
Freeeeeeeedom, baby! About time the old dog got cut loose! I am so STOKED that my man Burt is back in action again, and can't wait to see him kick some serious ass!

It was mentioned that the only thing that kept him going was the thought of lasting "long enough to end her" (i.e. Scratch). So, Kc, this sets in motion an iron clad plot thread, which cannot be violated or deviated from until it is ultimately fulfilled (most probably at the conclusion of Season 4, when Burt gets to enact his skull fantasies on Scar-face....)



Another Theory Bites the Dust
The revelation that Burt simply fell in a tree after the zip-line broke was a bit of a letdown for me, as I was expecting something much more elaborate. It also proved that my Dangling Burt Theory from last January was a big fat load of falsified dung. Oh, well....



CJ Takes Charge
Damn, CJ is really in her element when she is bossing people around, isn't she? I am surprised that she survived the attack (so far anyway), but she will be key in getting all these jamokes organized enough to mount a defense vs. the Zom-Army



Tardust's Loot
Based on the slight clinking sound that I thought I heard, it seems like the goodies the guys found in Tardust's house are either RPG rounds or pipe bombs, either of which will come in real handy vs. the encroaching behemoth's...



Randy's Army?
I was trying to find the part awhile back when Zombie Randy had the attempted kidnapping of Tanya, but I couldn't find it yet. Does anyone remember if there is mention of Randy having long hair and a beard?



Lit's Criticism
Ok, it seems a bit of a stretch at this point that a whole zombie army would mobilize and chase after one fleeing car with a couple of guys in it, so I'm going to have to call bullshit on the rationale for the zombie attack unless Kc reveals a bit more feasible explanation (such as, that it was just a handful of stray zombies that followed and not a full, organized ZomArmy). Damn, is food really that scarce in LA nowadays?

By the way, I am developing a new theory that, apparently, one's status in a zombie hierarchy is directly tied to one's ability to climb up on rooftops. This, together with the piano music for the death of a significant character, are two semi-cliches that Kc might want to stray from in the future...



Final Sound
To me, it sounded like that final sound was one of the Little Ones (aka Inklings). It would be interesting to 'see' an attack with both the behemoths and Little Ones together, which I don't think we've seen yet. Anyway, we are lacking a lot of information on the zombies themselves... information which I hope will be provided in abundance in the next season...



PEACE!

[harm-many]

I have always been a fan of girls that are fighters and currently in this story there is scratch, who is an amazing character but not exactly one to root for.... and of the two I really like, Riley is currently a cook and at best it seems CJ looses a leg. I am so sad over this. I love the story and the latest turns but dam this is harsh right now,

[Witch_Doctor]

By the way, I am developing a new theory that, apparently, one's status in a zombie hierarchy is directly tied to one's ability to climb up on rooftops.

Ah, here is the gem.


I think the Randy Zombies are in search for a few necrophiles. Hah? See what I did there?