Chapter 45-2: Distorted Truths

[Kc]

Yeah, no shit! Those pictures are horrifying. Don't understand why the hell anyone was start using that shit. There's a lot easier ways to kill yourself...

Moral of that story... don't do drugs, kids. Seriously. At least not those.

[Red Shirt]

Now, if it turns out skittles worked for raydon in ANY capacity....my theory hat will be hung up. Just enjoy the ride going forward.

I've kinda hung mine up already. I take it out once in a while to dust it off and try it on but... yeah.

This is literally what I was doing in the car while listening and driving back to work. Pretty sure the lady next to me thought I was crazy.
SKITTLES!!!!

That's nothing new for me... I was in the front yard cutting the grass when the Raydon 'bomb' dropped.
aaaaand they think I'm nuts.

Oh! Oh! Something else I just thought about, the Rh+/- factor. I mean, it could be as simple as the mom died ("re-died"?) in childbirth and the baby was stillborn, but what if the Rh thingie came into play as well?

Blood types and factors... now there's a can of worms. When I looked into it, I found it to be far, FAR more complicated than I though it was. Too complicated to not have relevance IMHO... and after an extensive search, I can't seem to find the damned post about it.

It's bit of a complicated love-triangle/shape. CJ loves Saul. Saul loves Lizzy. Riley loves Lizzy. Lizzy loved Saul before she died.
What shape would that be.....?

That, I do believe, is referred to as a Despair Rhombus.

Don't forget that Riley had a thing for Angel. Angel liked Riley. CJ was possibly sleeping with Sean.

And now we have a Sadness Heptagon with numerous codependent variables.


And now for something completely different:

It is so desperately time for some J-E-N-N-A M-c-C-O-M-B-I-E action!

So I've seen the ads for the return of 24. (#jackisback or whatever) I never really followed it the first time around, though I did watch a bunch of season two during a marathon of it... so other than Kiefer Sutherland, I don't know who the heck all the actors are in the show.
The trailer commercials had me do a massive double take... I saw the brunette actress wearing heavy mascara and thought,
"No. Effing. Way. Is that Jenna McCombie? Is that why we haven't seen heard her on the show?"

I immediately pulled my phone out to do a search for the cast... yeah, bummer. It's someone else.
Who ever that actress is (can't remember, don't care), I thought that her resemblance to Ms. McCombie was spooky.

[Gooer]

Don't forget that Riley had a thing for Angel. Angel liked Riley. CJ was possibly sleeping with Sean.

Oh of course, i forgot. Now it's even more complicated!

[Storm]

Oh of course, i forgot. Now it's even more complicated!

Starting to sound like a love tesseract... Or maybe a love möbius string...

[LiamKerrington]

I might have missed someone..... But the only people still alive that have had contact with Skittles are CJ and Riley Right???
Just interested to see how the other will put up with his peculiar ways.....

And Hope... She just needs to get her sight back to recognise him...

The subsequent question would be: How would Skittles relate to each of those.
We know for certain: He was inferior to CJ as his superior; and he somewhat "befriended" with Riley, when she emotionally attached with him and gave him socks as a present. But we have not a single information about his relation with Hope.

So: How would he react to one of those three? And how with anyone else?
And all this considering the real fact that Skittles survived on his own for quite some time.

Best wishes!
Liam

[LiamKerrington]

Am I the only one who's really hoping Tardust will help our group? Don't get me wrong, it doesn't make up for anything he's done. I'm just crossing my fingers that he's being honest because his intel could lead to the downfall of Scratch ... preferably before she gets Pegs.

Well, Tardust's mentioning of Scratch did not help anyone. And the big mistake everyone is doing, is taking Tardust's words as spoken: They assume that Scratch might follow the groups, but they don't seem to consider that Scratch might as well nter the Colony to get hold of the few people remaining there.

Do you remember Michael saying that there are no controls at the Colony entrance anymore? Hell, what an invitation for Scratch.
Why would Scratch follow the one or the other Colonists' treck to any place? She has one specific target: Pegs. And she knows that the most important thing she needs is information. If I were in her shoes, I would not follow some random group of Colonists, but I would simply stay put at the Colony, wait for the right moment to catch someone, and then I would strike. The poor guy or gal I caught would be the tragic victim tortured like there was no tomorrow, because I would want to know where Pegs is. And this poor fellow would tell me everything I need to move on - and if not, well, *bam* next one!

So, what I am telling here is that Scratch is not chasing some random group in order to find Pegs; this would be way too desperate for Scratch.

But to brake a lance for Tardust: He told Burt and Riley what he knows - that Scratch is after the Colonists; and I think he does not know the exact plans Scratch would like to perform, because after all: Scratch does not tell anyone what she is up to; she is used to having people follow her. So Tardust is a very unreliable source for any information about Scratch. The big mistakes happening here are how the Colonists understand what he says.

Tinfoils up: Scratch wants Tardust to get caught; and she wants him to tell the Colonists that she follows some random group of Colonists. This he has done. And he was successfull in giving the Colonists no hunch about where exactly Scratch is. Now she can act with the Colonists' defences down.

Best wishes!
Liam

[LiamKerrington]

It's bit of a complicated love-triangle/shape. CJ loves Saul. Saul loves Lizzy. Riley loves Lizzy. Lizzy loved Saul before she died.

What shape would that be.....?

Something like this ...

[LiamKerrington]

Who would hide under the Humvee? A zombie, or what? Would or could be possible ...

[Storm]

Do you remember Michael saying that there are no controls at the Colony entrance anymore? Hell, what an invitation for Scratch.
Why would Scratch follow the one or the other Colonists' treck to any place? She has one specific target: Pegs. And she knows that the most important thing she needs is information. If I were in her shoes, I would not follow some random group of Colonists, but I would simply stay put at the Colony, wait for the right moment to catch someone, and then I would strike. The poor guy or gal I caught would be the tragic victim tortured like there was no tomorrow, because I would want to know where Pegs is. And this poor fellow would tell me everything I need to move on - and if not, well, *bam* next one!

.....Pete, Max, and Puck... Ahem! I said nothing!

[Bullethead]

15 Pages, less than 24 hours good lord. Ok below are my take aways from the episode after listening a 3rd time. The first listen was live chatted up with KC and Liam, so you two may have already seen me discuss this.

Radios
This is about the 4th time someone has brought up the radios, relays, weather, etc. causing a lack of reliability on the radios. Keep in mind when we last saw Tardust and Scratch they were getting all upset over how they knew our heroes were using radios but there was no way to listen in. I'm thinking that they went with plan B and destroyed what relays they could find. This would force our heroes to resort to unsecured lines for communication. That would be my plan if I were Tardust.

Oops! I 'accidentally' deleted a photo.
Highly unlikey but I'm going to hold judgement on whether or not Tanya purposely 'accidentally' deleted a photo from Michael's camera. My reasoning for suspecting this is, well KC has made me paranoid but hear me out. They asked if she could read the signs, her or Saul, and I am curious on this as well. Michael then brought up "I want to make sure you didn't delete one" after plugging it into his laptop and speeding through the photos, clearly he has his worries. Lastly, she's kept secrets from the group before. No one knew she was bit for the longest time, then she had Vic keep the Ink-lewood trip a secret as long as they good as well. Do not put self preservation past big mama.

Skittles!
Like all of you I'm amped to "Taste the rainbow". But poor guy! Not even the zombies will kill him now? He is in some kind of Hell all his own if that is true.

Pregnant before or after turning?
Well we won't get an answer to this one. Thanks KC. I mean Tanya. @26:05 "Just one of the many blanks that won't get filled in". I think this was KC's way of telling us we won't be getting 100% closure. At least we can lay this one to rest.

Very Un-CJ
Leaving Phil, Max, and Puck behind...no safety protocol...oh and Phil and Max are going to work on the water tower...whats Puck to do? Yea your right Storm this is bad juju waiting to happen.

Cover Art
Has anyone analyzed this to death yet?

Thats all I really got for now.