SPOILERS: We're Alive Discussion

phill106 wrote: »

New episode today, and looks like maybe a live episode next week?

Actually forgot that there was a new episode today :eek:


Am downloading it from itunes as I type.

Hold the phone, this episode has female nudity!
Where the hell are they going with that? Not much happened, staking out the colony, sticking up some cameras, some homophobic soccer jokes etc...

And it is available on itunes now.

Damn I miss when the show used to be good on a consistent basis, and when episodes like the new one used to be the filler episodes in a season rather than having a season made up mostly of episodes of filler level or worse.

DakotaYoda wrote: »

Yeah this felt like another 'transition' episode. Not much going on - only the hope that it is setting something interesting up in the next episode.

The problem being that the majority of episodes this season could be described the same way

Didn't there used to be zombies in this?
Anyone remember? Anyone....?

phill106 wrote: »

Didn't there used to be zombies in this?
Anyone remember? Anyone....?

Yep used to be a time that any loud noise like driving a car or truck came with a strong chance of some creature attention and the same creatures were to be found no matter how far the group ventured from the tower.

MarkR wrote: »

Snoozefest. Brick got dirty. Lizzie finds out about Burt and Angel. Brick leaning towards the rebel alliance. Guy attempts to sneak into colony in water tank and found out by possible friendlies. Did I miss anything?

I was listening to it on my phone with headphones, found it very difficult to hear while (vic?) was in the tanker.

Think it was supposed to be difficult to hear there, as heard from victors ears inside the tank. Was VERY annoying though!

DakotaYoda wrote: »

New episode day.... I think?

It is indeed.:D


I am slipping up.


Just checked itunes and it is up.

DakotaYoda wrote: »

Huh... interesting. Gatekeeper is still about and none too happy with the current situation at the Colony, or how the Mallers treated him. I'm still not sure I trust him but at least he gave Victor back his gun.

30 well-armed Mallers vs 110 others with no real weapons?

Sounds like it's phone retrieval and get Victor out. Lizzy is on her own for now... so that CJ can hit on Saul?!?! REALLY??

Looked like the plan was going to go off without a hitch - until they called everyone to a role call.

Better episode and at least we heard a few zombies...

Except for the zombies/creatures can now bleed out and die within seconds, whereas for the first two seasons they could take bullets and arrows and keep coming without dying from blood loss.

Guess needing to get a headshot or inflicting huge damage is no longer needed to kill the zombies/creatures.

muff03 wrote: »

Yeah, that's a bit strange alright. Bit more substance to the story this time round though, and I'm calling it now: CJ will be killed in the finale, and she'll do a big heartfelt bit before she goes.

Yeah I think CJ, Vic, and Burt are all at risk of getting the chop either before or during the season finale.


Still cannot figure out why they went with the zombies/creatures suddenly being so easy to kill. Just seemed so stupid to have them bleed out so quickly.

CJ and her sword really seems a rip off of Michonne in the Walking Dead.

I'm sorry, bleeding out?! Bleeding out?! Zombies do not bleed out, how could she not know this!Grrrrr


as for her advances on saul, you would swear she never had a relationship before!

Meh episode.


Durai gets taken out easily. This is the guy that Scratch and all the other mallers gave no shyte to in any way for the past two and a bit seasons.

Now a few words from Scratch and Durai gets a punk death? Just seems a very lazy way to get rid of a character or voice actor. Also seems a lazy way to balance up the "teams" as each side has now lost their best marksman with Durai now dead and Burt having had the fingers cut off of his good hand a number of episodes ago.



Same goes for Bricks. Just shot and gets the lame "it's a sad moment" music.

The battle was useless as well. Just mostly background gunshot noises and Scratch shouting that they need to get to the guns before the others do. The battles at the tower, at the arena etc were proper battles in terms of how they were acted and scored.

Saul and CJ are in and they do a little cliffhanger moment with a loud shot ringing out, then at the end of the episode we hear Saul talking so we know he was not shot.:rolleyes:

The only thing that I found even slightly interesting with the most recent episode was the choice of image used for it on itunes. Suit wearing arrow catching creature was used. A nod, maybe, towards him/it being on the chopper?

Two years ago we had a small group of survivors we all knew and cared about scrounging around for weapons, working cars, and of course food. All the time worried about keeping hoards of zombies away from their little patched up apartment block.

Now we have a squad of soldiers we never heard of before today flying about in a blackhawk complaining about using too much fuel because they are getting fat and then killing a super zombie with some sort of a chain gun. Finally the ep ends with them worried that one zombie may have escaped and is limping towards their major city 30 miles away across deep snow and freezing conditions.

I miss "We're alive" whatever happened to that show. That was a good show.

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Makes you wonder what was the point of the journals they all kept.

The hospital episodes were down as being a massive event and Kalani, Riley, Angel, and Burt all wrote about it in their journals.

Riley was actually there to see the tattoo equipment. Michael read the journals, and since they got to the army base and were in quarantine there has been a few mentions of Tanya going through the journals. So it is baffling how it has taken until now to twig the tattooed numbers.


Guess we are totally gone from them being zombies as well. We had Saul and co being able to kill them by making them bleed out, and nowwe have the medical report that they need to breathe, eat etc just like regular humans do, and that they are just tougher versions of humans and just as killable.


Wonder how they are going to tie that in with things like a stone cold dead Tommy coming back as a zombie during season two.

I suppose mutants is a more correct term for the creatures now.


Also the base commander gave in very easily to Michael's request to contact Boulder. Given that we were told in the episode that two weeks or so had passed since the last episode, surely a high ranking commander would have wanted to know where all this new information came from and how they had so much on the new creature given that it was ordered to be destroyed two weeks ago.


Just seems a long stream of set up episodes that go nowhere. During seasons one and two there were a number of characters that I wanted to survive and did not want killed off, now it is at a point that I really don't care what characters are got rid of as so little has been done with the established characters and there has also been nothing done to make the new characters anything more that space fillers.

I am interviewing Jenna McCombie later tonight for our TV and Film podcast Is It A Bicycle?, any of you have any questions you would like me to ask her?

Bugger it is not. Nothing to see here folks, come back next Monday instead.

MarkR wrote: »

Odd about the living sleeping breathing ****ting zombies. When did that happen? Wonder are they trying to go from undead horde to sick but treatable humans?

If they go that way, we seem to have a lot of mass murderers that we listen to each week