alright now that im at a legit pc (with my first beer of the new year. what? ive been sick since December?!), lets cobble together some thoughts.


stupid pump,*kick*!

with the speculating about datus anger, I have to wonder if everyone forgot that the stupid pump is part of the reason datu is in the situation hes in. were that me, I WOULD have scrapped the whole stupid thing.

datu's mental stability

I have to agree with vic onthis one. the pipe inside a pipe (o) solution really should have been obvious to him sooner. I know, I know...weeks to live..blah blah blah. stress does do interesting things to ones ability to reason out problems quickly. this I can say from faaaar too much experience. multitasking is a joke, and stress affects the mental faculties probly more so than the effects of a bite on the neck. datu is cracking, they need to use him in a 'consultant' role more going forward. but, the likleyhood of that? 0.0

damn dirty hippies

good to hear burt and riley back, but I both agree and disagree with the recent comments. were Michael et al a lil harsh on them during the conference call? absolutely. but the way I see it, burt has been out there wasting time. when it became clear that the trail had went cold, likely after a month or so. they should have came in. thaats one thing burt has never seemed to grasp, regardless of IF he wants help...he needs it more often than not. hopefully he is holding on to a few nuggets of info, otherwise im kinda disappointed in the ol' fart.

what?

its been said already, but the bit with everyone talking at once was really awesome. ive noticed this season that the production levels have really stepped up. it seems like the last few chapters have had some type of really cool audio bit included. id be interested to test out red shirts spectrum analyser idea on this part especially.

'they're all dead'

I said this earlier today, but now ill clarify. ive been waiting for the ft. Irwin guys to get killed off for a while now. the thing is we NEED some type of loss's to start happening for the story to be believable.(in my opinion)...IF they really are dead(more on that in a sec) then we should thank our lucky stars that it was them and not someone like victor that went first. the 'kings of komedy' while loved, were perhaps the most expendable characters at this time. making them the first of our main people to go is the natural progression this story needs to take.

wha??

so what happened? many are now speculating that it was mallers, not biters that got em. not sure how I feel about that. while I agree we need closure to the maller storyline, I don't know that it should come now. perhaps directly after this, when our group out in the field is at a low point(morale wise). but to me plugging the mallers back into the story now feels...predictable.

what I would rather "see"...is that puck didn't actually "see" them killed, but taken. much the same way datu was taken, and Tanya was grabbed. robbins,carl, and Muldoon could have simply been grabbed in a big ole ambush dogpile. pucks natural reaction to this would be to call them "dead" as hes yet to experience that sort of thing firsthand. IF that's the case and they COULD still be alive. datu would be the one to send in there(wherever THERE is..) to get them. as he is currently "ignored" by the typical biter.

I have no clue what the hell gonna happen next, and im loving the hell out of that. good work Kc and crew!

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