This was definitely my favorite episode of Lockdown so far...
We got Ink, we got new info on his experiments, more survivors...that didn't last...
The scenes between Bogart and Jeremy were just right Down awesome. Funny, sad, thought provocing... I liked the bit with the cracked Water bottle, nice Little comic relief...Before dropping the bomb and telling us that they're trapped :P
I can't wait for NeXT episode. I'm starting to think that maybe they won't all die...Maybe some will survive...Maybe......But then Again, you're Kc Wayland :P It sounds like I might as well think that GRRM won't kill off any more main characters... XD
And now I think I'll go relisten to 5/6...Love it! ^^
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OK, we know where the behemoths come from, but what about the other special ones? The Runners and Jumpers? No one mentioned the runners wearing any kind of jail jumpsuits, so where did he develop them? Did he find UCLA's track and field team somewhere? We do know from Puck's account, that one behemoth had huge legs, though.
Maybe the hospital is where the runners and jumpers were first created?
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Did anyone else notice that Simon stayed quite during the final plan? He didn't volunteer or have any part to play. Maybe his part is to wait in T block and when the doors open get the bus started.
Crazy prediction: he panics and leaves before the others get out and drives away without them. Then flash to him and CJ talking and she believes that he left because everyone else died but then Jeremy(who has just been found and brought back to the colony) comes in the room with Puck. He tells a similar story but how Simon is bad and caused a lot of the group to die.
What do y'all think?
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Never thought of the Simon abandoning the group for his own hide scenario until you just mentioned it. It certainly fits in nicely with his seemingly survivor's guilt when CJ starts to interview him. I desperately hope that others will be found alive somewhere at the end. One thing that gives me pause is that Simon says "take two steps forward" (Sorry, couldn't resist)... OK, Simon says that he was on his own for a couple of weeks before the Mallers snatched him.
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Ladies and Gentlemen, straight from Mysterical Island, it's the Shaman of Schiznick, the Mofo with the Mojo, the Mad Scientist of the Jungle, the Doctor is in!
Doctor? Doctor who?
NO! Witch Doctor, fool!
Yes!! That's right, he did do work there too. Ink's a busy mofo, the jail, the hospital, the arena, under ground Pasadena... Plus, he wasted no time making zombies 2.0, 3.5, 95, 2000, XP, Vista, 7 and 10 that I'm beginning to question whether his motive is protection as suggested by Tanya. It's like he immediately saw the new shape of the world like Tardust did. if you control the drugs (or the outbreak in Ink's case) you can control the people. He always had plans for his very own Zombie Empire.
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Ladies and Gentlemen, straight from Mysterical Island, it's the Shaman of Schiznick, the Mofo with the Mojo, the Mad Scientist of the Jungle, the Doctor is in!
Doctor? Doctor who?
NO! Witch Doctor, fool!
Stop that noise, you're hurting my ears!
But we can't die in here, there HAS to be a way out!
There is NO EXIT!
This episode's comparison to WA: A Story of Survival is Bogart and Jeremy being trapped in the room just like Datu, Samantha and Kalani. One pious captive desperate to escape debates a pragmatist who is resigned to their fate. With existential discussions about their predicament that would have Jean-Paul Sartre looking for an exit.
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It certainly seemed hopeless when they were shut in and the rest of the group cut off communication with them. I started to suspect that an Arena type situation was brewing where the others would watch them get experimented on or harvested for food and or zombie training.
This is, no doubt, the most emotion inducing chapter. The angst of getting to Solitary, the fear of getting cornered then trapped, finally when no escape seems possible, the most interesting duo of the bunch is abandoned by their co-survivors to there own fate.
I have to admit that I was completely surprised that Dani was so quick write them off. She seemed to take the inmates' safety, comfort and well being to heart at the beginning of the story. But I wonder if she was also motivated by the realization that they needed the inmates' help to survive in addition to her compassion. Gavin wasn't much of a surprise but Jodi quickly gave up hope too, albeit hesitantly it seems. Simon was the only one to even try to offer a suggestion on how to rescue them.
When Jodi offered a suggestion on a possible rescue, that brightened this chapter's mood...... until it's revealed that it would come to her own peril. I'm right there with you now that it looks bad for Jodi and Fredo. However, in that same scene, everyone else begins to step up and offer their on butts on the line to help the others (Except Simon. Then again, he didn't get the chance. The inmates in the dining hall getting attacked changed the conversation.) The guys volunteered in the least expected order; Fredo first offers to escort Jodi to make the rescue even possible, Gavin offers to be the bait to draw the zombies away and Dani volunteers to take Gavin's place as he is still too weak. Looks like this might be a team effort. Unlike Jean-Paul Sartre's play, No Exit, there is an exit and Salvation is other people, not Hell. Any thoughts?
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Ladies and Gentlemen, straight from Mysterical Island, it's the Shaman of Schiznick, the Mofo with the Mojo, the Mad Scientist of the Jungle, the Doctor is in!
Doctor? Doctor who?
NO! Witch Doctor, fool!
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