Chapter 35-2 The End is Near

[Kc]

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?

One thing I'll throw out there- As I tread lightly in my responses. There is a delay of when the episode has the false ending. In other words a small amount of time has passed between the two scenes when Victor sees the things and when they first arrive.

Not much to give you, but, well, there it is.

[IamPaul]

rip

hahahahahahahahahahahaha!......

Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

[IamPaul]

Tanya's abduction takes place in Chapter 23, Part 1, The Devil's Workshop



Michael describes the Smart One that grabbed Tanya as having, "long brown hair and dirty beard," right before he shouts, "Randy!"

Here's an artist's impression:

Actually laughing at this, not the RIP above.

RIP

[SmokeyZombified]

One thing I'll throw out there- As I tread lightly in my responses. There is a delay of when the episode has the false ending. In other words a small amount of time has passed between the two scenes when Victor sees the things and when they first arrive.

Not much to give you, but, well, there it is.

Started listening to this podcast last week and I'm already caught up. Love it, doing a great Job KC keep it up. Anyway to the point. I am of the opinion that this attack has been planned for a long time. Through out the series we have seen Zombies "following" (Boulder, Colony, Fort Irwin) people to their strongholds. I think that Ink has been planning an attack on the colony/Boulder/Irwin but could not find them.

As we have seen, all of the Zombies had almost entirely dissappeared from the story. This tells me Ink was not only doing more experiments, but also gathering his forces for a large scale offensive. The only issue was, he didn't know where the strongholds were (Colony, Boulder, Irwin). Therefore, we can deduce that Ink knew there were human strongholds, but didn't know where they were.

So, He firgured "Why not follow them" thus we have those nasty bastards hanging on to Choppers and following survivors to figure out where their strongest holdouts are. You could even say some of the "late changers" are creations of Ink i.e. maybe he created Zombies that, when they bite, their infection is a slow reaction kind of infection. That way he can plant infected into large populations and take them out from the inside out. Look if Ink can create whatever the hell those numbered little guys that change into 10 feet tall freakshows then I wouldn't put it past him.
Opinions? Theories?

[bue52]

Great episode, I wonder how the Colony will be able to handle the zombie attack. With the previous episode as foreshadowing there are probably two ways in which this will probably turn out. One is total annihilation, the colonists call Fort Irwin, but before they can get help, they are killed. Two, the sat phone isn't working right, but the colonists try to call for an SOS, Irwin can't receive the message properly, so they have a delayed response. I see the story going in either of these two general directions. Also, I really hope CJ survives to the next season, we may potentially see ourselves with another handicap character.

[Witch_Doctor]

But having it on this episode this raises another question: based on what Tanya found out them zeehs are living beings after all with full metabolism and stuff ... And considering the odds that most likely about 50%, or just maybe half of all of the zeehs were male humans, what about their beard-growth; and what about at least about 100%, or just all zeehs having having hair ... What about theirs?
Having the marked hairy zeeh here may point towards a totally new species/ kind of zeehs ...
All the best!
Liam

I wondered about this too. Wouldn't they have long hair and beards. In fact, I would have expected EVERYONE to have some issue with rampant hair growth. We hear Michael mention his overgrown beard in the Colony but that seems to be all that I remember. There were discussions of the women tying to keep their hair clean without water and the use of baby wipes, so hygiene has been discussed.

[Condor]

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?

chapter 23-1 at approx. 11:00 "long brown hair and dirty beard" Michael shot his arm which made him drop Tanya.

Michael also says he fired several shots as Randy ran away and "might have hit him again, but I couldn't tell."
Now Victor describes the bearded zombie as having "markings on his face", telling Saul it "has a tattoo mark on his face, I think" "this one's just got one mark on his face..." Victor is looking at a long distance through binoculars, so maybe he is seeing where one of Micheal's bullets hit Randy in the face and is mistaking it for a tattoo.

Tanya's abduction takes place in Chapter 23, Part 1, The Devil's Workshop



Michael describes the Smart One that grabbed Tanya as having, "long brown hair and dirty beard," right before he shouts, "Randy!"

Here's an artist's impression:

lol

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!

Good thought. I wondered about that little sound; a word? A howl? Maybe I'll run it through some software.

OK I'm back. It was indeed Macho Man (Randy) saying Ooooooooooooooyyyyeeeeeaaaahhhhh!!!!

lmao

Just remember this. If CJ gets amputated, we'll have two pegs's on the show. I'll show myself out now.

rofl

[Dark-_-Angel]

Who else really doesn't care much for CJ? I didn't really like her from the get go. I found her annoying and just plain to bossy. I understand the need for control and order and someone to be the lead but I hated how in earlier episodes she didn't want go help lizzie.

[LiamKerrington]

Now in this case I would see it less as an oddity among the undead and more as an oddity for people in general..at least in current (2009) L.A. A man with long hair and a beard will stand out far more prominently than a regular dude...

Ok, didn't know that. Makes totally sense and renders any of my thoughts about it as meaningless. Pointless. Not to mention: senseless. Inferior.

[Deacon_Tyler]

This brings up an interesting point - all of the male zombies should have beards, which makes the description of Randy odd. It will be intriguing to see where he's going with this, using randy instead of Ink as a plot device/antagonist.

It's odd that the whole "families" subplot is turning into a dead end though, as all of the family members aside from scratch are now dead (at least that we know of, but it would be mighty coincidental to see a new family member pop up)