Quote Originally Posted by airrunner View Post
Great points Liam and having a purpose did seem to make life more bearable for survivors and prevent them from wallowing in their despair. In fact wasn't this one of those two or three things Michael said everyone needs to have to be productive in a zombie apocalypse world? I'm lazy, so I don't feel like checking the early season one episodes to confirm. I do plan on listening to the whole series again when I get all the CDs though.

As for the Mallers, an alternative ending with them maintaining control of the Colony and expanding seems quite bleak, but I'm guessing they didn't have a Tanya among them to figure out what was motivating the zombies nor the military training and weaponry that enabled them to bury the zombies underground. The Mallers did a commendable job of taking out the Arena, but how would they have fared against the zombies in their more advanced stages with the army of Little Ones at full strength? Actually, let's just pretend Durai never tries to kill Scratch and the Mallers remain in control of the Colony. At some point Ink and Randy would have made their way over to the Colony, whether Glenn and Pete led them there or not. Would the Mallers have been able to manage victory against the zombie horde the way the Towerites did in chapter 36? They did not have access to a mini-gun or a helicopter to take out the Little Ones. I'm thinking the Colony would have been decimated had it stayed in Maller hands.
I thought about this myself for a while and simply decided to "ignore" the zombie-factor, because my point was about the Mallers having their own agenda and sticking to it; this would not change with the zombies around a lot, especially because the Mallers would not have recognized the special ones as special threat - their weak spot, if you like. But this is just an assumption, because we have nearly no knowledge about how well the Mallers were informed about the variety of threats within the ranks of the zombies. But I think, as soon as I add the zeeh-factor into this scenario then the Mallers would have had really hard times survivng against an attack from the zombies trying to overrun the COlony. And it is kind of a safe assumption that the zombs would have overrun the Colony with at least most of the inhabitants dying in the end.

As for Michael: It is exactly what Michael has said in the beginning that people needed to have tasks or purpose in order to keep them busy and not to let despair and sorrow overwhelm them.

Best wishes!
Liam