Quote Originally Posted by Grognaurd View Post
I guess this gets at what is this medium? When we listen to the events, is KC providing the sound of what happened and where he cannot paint the picture with sound he overlays narration or is KC providing a soundscape from a master journal pieced together from multiple accounts?

I have been in the camp of hardcore journal. Someone observes, comprehends, remembers, records. This section has thrown me for a loop because of the importance and ambiguity of the soundscape. Datu seems to have survived the attack, buried his friends, recorded the events in his journal and then spoken to Michael about the events.

There does appear to be a cognitive component to the outbreak. Maybe the smarter a person is the harder the contagion has to work to rewrite neural pathways. Maybe Datu is stuck in the middle. I think it is critical to remember that Datu has two wounds. A scratch which I think of as a little one attack. The little one is surprisingly killed, because they do not have a gun truck I am sure they thought the humans would be easy pickings. I get the impression that the little one is killed and then Randy bites Datu.

if the little one was not killed, I do not think it would have let Randy bite Datu.
Quote Originally Posted by 7oddisdead View Post
I don't buy the imperfect narrator theory. to think that some aspects of the story we cannot rely on the person telling us the story to accurately tell us what happened is completely infuriating. if kc came forward and said something like "certain scenes are not entirely accurate because x,y, and z...plus Kelly screwed up and put some datu info into one of Riley's entries"...yea, I'd be done here. theres already a cornucopia of information here...so much so that we are LOST as to whats gonna happen next. I get the occasional thing like the angel line when lizzy was being kicked out, and the recent Kelly ad-lib on michaels entry. I can even overlook the fact that scratch has several parts that could not be "journalized" (at least not yet). but the idea that we cannot at least 95% rely on the info in the entries? nope...no sir, no way.

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I don't know if I can buy the imperfect narrator either...... I mean if we can't trust KC who can we trust?!?!?




Also, the way I picture the attack is like this.......

1-2 zombies, 1 little one, and Randy...... The little one is shot by the Jay/Datu with the Mata gun, the other zombies are attacking Datu when Randy tells them "Mine" and makes them get away....... I think somewhere in the middle of all that Datu gets scratched up pretty bad, and then bitten by Randy.