Chapter 35-3 The End is Near

[Witch_Doctor]

It's not empty, the animals are still there. You know the chickens and the...... cats.... Did anyone remember to feed the cats?????

CJ said that they eat the rats but there should be plenty of chickens. That is, IF they can find where the coops are.

[7oddisdead]

There is a lot of coughing, not just Burt and Victor (Otto Sturcke even coughs throughout his We're Not Dead interview). Characters can be heard coughing in the background as the guys walk to and around the watch towers. Of course this could be KC's way of portraying the was weary. Also, there wasn't a lot of coughing at the arena, but............ CRAP! Did I just shoot down my own Zombie Cough theory? UGH, it's bed time. G'nite y'all.

any coughing theories going forward shall be stricken from the record...and just for your information gentlemen, your guest "consultants" in FBI territory. please try to keep your liberal conspiracy theory type reporting where it belongs..in the little known paper you publish. just because agents mulder and scully enjoy your company...does. not. mean. i do....

now get out of my office....

(this has been this weeks x-files moment...nothing but <3 for the doc)

[YetAnotherBloodyCheek]

(this has been this weeks x-files moment...nothing but <3 for the doc)

So there happens to be another bromance in this forum, feel free to express your true feelings. Back to the coughing: maybe Burt and Victor are just smoking some pot in contemplation of death... But of course they do not inhale!

[7oddisdead]

Um.....no.

[LiamKerrington]

So there happens to be another bromance in this forum, feel free to express your true feelings. Back to the coughing: maybe Burt and Victor are just smoking some pot in contemplation of death... But of course they do not inhale!

Probably, if not most likely, five* of those theories being negligible ...

(* #1 bromance, #2 Burt smoking pot, #3 Victor smoking pot, #4 in contemplation of death, #5 inhale)

[YetAnotherBloodyCheek]

Do you mean negligible or refutable?

[scbubba]

One last coughing post: Saul and Victor are outside at ground level for several minutes before Victor coughs the first time. It sounds like he only coughs twice (right before Lenny goes over the wall and not long after). Sounds like Burt coughs once before they head up the stairs. Don't seem to hear anyone else coughing.

Leads me to believe it doesn't really mean anything...

Coughgate scandal over..... (or is it?)

[YetAnotherBloodyCheek]

And now to something completely different:

I know that the next episode will be the final episode of season 3, there will be a lot of drama, many losses, a lot of threats waiting at the doorsteps. But, as I am currently listening again to season 1, I - possibly naive - think, that Michael deserves his one positive moment of the season. He endured so much, Boulder, the zombie attack on Fort Irwin, Riley's complaints and so on. And yeah, his our little martyr of WA. All I want to say - let Pegs return unharmed. Otherwise, I guess that Michael will simply implode psychologically in the near future.

[scbubba]

And now to something completely different:

I know that the next episode will be the final episode of season 3, there will be a lot of drama, many losses, a lot of threats waiting at the doorsteps. But, as I am currently listening again to season 1, I - possibly naive - think, that Michael deserves his one positive moment of the season. He endured so much, Boulder, the zombie attack on Fort Irwin, Riley's complaints and so on. And yeah, his our little martyr of WA. All I want to say - let Pegs return unharmed. Otherwise, I guess that Michael will simply implode psychologically in the near future.

It seems to me that Michael may be dealing with some PTSD from his time in the sandbox and the whole Z-day thing hasn't helped him out much. He's always pushing stuff down by staying focused on mission (hence the while reason he and Pegs went splits)...

Right at the end of Chapter 35, it sounds like Michael has just been hit with the enormity of the situation of Fort Irwin being overrun and the sun going down on humanity.

I see Michael on a knife edge at the moment - he can rise one more time to the challenge and lead the survivors in a mad scramble. Or he can break, and break bad, and basically throw in the towel for real and someone else rises as the leader (Saul maybe...)

[YetAnotherBloodyCheek]

+1

But Saul has Saul the ability to "glue" people together as Michael does? Burt failed on this miserably.