SPOILERS: We're Alive Discussion

The long wait until the next chapter (chapter 43) continues.

We are actually very close to the end of the series now ( Chapter 48 is the finale) and so much is either up in the air or just has been forgotten about/left unresolved.



Means everything from Mallers to Skittles to Ink to creatures to Datu to Randy to whatever Victor was meant to have done and a long list of other stuff that was just left hanging has to be crammed into 5 chapters.

Oh yeah and that stupid baby is still waiting to be born.

Downloading it myself at the mo.

Did not get back from the UK until a few hours ago, and was too busy to add the usual



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Dunno bout a Dallas moment, but I hope they go further with Datu's backseat moments and they find out they've been killing people who were aware the whole time!

Is there any point in going on about the " year pregnancy but because we never bothered to get the gear now we have to do an emergency surgery at the Hospital of the Dead?"

Listened to the new episode last night.

Cannot believe that the hospital bit was true. Such a stupid storyline. And they blabbed where they were going over the unsecure landline (actually how do they have working landlines between the colony and all of the safehouses?), so no doubt that will bring Scratch into play at the very least. But the very idea of going to the hospital to have a noisey birth when they know that at least one behemoth hangs around the place makes little sense, especially when they will be bringing no real firepower of note with them. My guess is that Scratch arrives, maybe some creatures arrives, then Burt and Reily arrive. Still think someone is going to get killed saving Lizzie and the baby.

And isn't amazing how unprotected/unmanned the Colony is now? Yes they are leaving it, but there seems to be no guards (Scratch being able to stand looking over the wall a few episodes ago), nobody listening to the radio or phone ( The call from Dunbar going unanswered) and so on.

Also why do they bother to keep mentioning that the pump needs fixing if they are all leaving the Colony. Michael and Victor mentioned the pump at the start of the episode.


The writing thing I just don't like at all. Said it a few episodes back that I hoped they were not going to try and bring a supernatural element into it, and now it looks as if they are going down that route and if they do then it will be at odds with a lot of what we learned about the creatures in the opening seasons. Then again we have gone from the creatures being the humans who died but who returned, to the creatures being mutated humans who need to breath and who can bleed to death.


And the church with the hole in the ground that the creatures seem to be using as their new home? Meh just another sign for me that the writers don't know what they are trying to do with the creatures.

To date we have had LA as Ground Zero for the outbreak, we also have had the news reports on TV saying it was a worldwide outbreak, we have had Kalani confirm there was an outbreak in Hawaii, and at Irwin they found out the outbreak was all over the US as well as abroad.

I'm back to hoping the creatures kill everyone , but we know from seasons one and two that certain characters survive due to them recounting stuff from their diarys in a manner that suggests they were talking about it all as if it had all ended. The diary pieces for characters like Angel never had him talking as if he made it to the very end.

MarkR wrote: »

So the zombies are coming out of the hellmouth below the abandoned church? I hope buffy can save the day!

Is it just me, or does everything hope says come out as a petulant whine?

I want Hope to get eaten by a behemoth.

Now that you have mentioned Buffy, maybe WA will have a musical episode. :D:D

Yeah, this hospital storyline isn't agreeing with me, seems a really stupid idea. If someone was critically injured and then Lizzy went into labour then that'd be somewhat okay.

And judging by the name of the chapter we're probably loosing someone and the child will finally be born. So who'll it be? Datu looks the obvious choice so I'd say not. Lizzy in childbirth? Or the Burt sacrifice? Scratch is making an appearance since they made a deal of saying the location over the radio.

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Will be baby finally be born? Will the behemoth be asked to be it's godfather?

What kind of property insurance did the arena have?

Will Datu ever just die?

Just how exactly did they manage to evacuate pretty much the entire colony so quickly with one helicopter and a supposed shortage of gas for the ground vehicles?

All these questions and many many more will* be answered in today's episode.











*Probably not

Kess73 wrote: »

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Next week should see someone die though. The life and death name to the chapter does suggest that the baby is the life part.
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Still think that Victor is going to get it.
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Datu is on his way out, he's either gonna turn completely and join the hordes or Michael will go through with his promise at/before that point. I reckon that's the "death" in the chapter title.
I don't see why we'd spend a huge chunk of the last chapter saying goodbye to him if he's only gonna end up hanging around for ages afterwards.

Not saying Victor mightn't go as well, but Datu's death is a given at this point.

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Yep it may be time for something new today

Yeah, enjoyed that. With this being the final season, the end has to start coming at some stage. KC has a blog up talking about the planning behind the episode where he makes it fairly clear that they are both dead, so there's that.

The baby and Ink thing seems like a definite now with the emphasis they put in finding the pregnant dead one in the arena. Maybe the sacrifice will happen with that so, cause there's obviously a sacrifice death going to happen. Just fits the character arcs of Burt and Vic with Saul.

Also, and its a small thing, but did anyone else feel that Datu just......died? Like he was grand, a little but spooked and sad about Samantha, and then......uh, crap, dead? For something that's being going on with 2 (?) chapters and roughly 2 hours of listening it happened all of a sudden. Like you said Kess, he was even getting stronger this whole time, then suddenly he's dead?

Only thing I hope doesn't happen is we get a whole chapter of grieving. I know its two main characters but time is of the essence now, they need to keep things moving.

NEW EPISODE DAY.

Chapter 45 should be starting today.


Might be some big gaps between episodes in the coming weeks/months.

July 19th will see the premiere of the series finale (chapter 48), and going by their website the broadcasting of the live episode (chapter 47) will be on the same day. The Itunes etc download versions will come out on the 21st July.


So that possibly means we only have two chapters between now, 21st April, and the finale event on the 19th July. So if there is an episode today, and they stick to three episodes per chapter, then after today we will only have five episodes during the the 13 weeks until the finale event.

Awful episode. If they're not gearing up for a proper face-off with Scratch in this chapter, I'll be really disappointed.

At least it was confirmed by Bert that Lizzie and Datu are both properly dead, no lingering storylines there.

Very much a set up episode, but gladly not dwelling on the deaths. Hopefully the fact that Burt is talking a bit ahead of things means we might catch up with everyone else after things have moved on a small bit, maybe meet back up with Saul at Lizzy's grave, rather than actually going through the whole burial bit.

One thing lads, don't rule out Scratch surviving yet! The 'her reading the diaries after the end' theory is still in play! Although with Datu gone, and Hope's eyes having been worked on in season 3, I feel it might be her reading about everything, and not Scratch.

Another set up episode after last week's "cliffhanger" gets sorted out with a few lines from CJ.

Funny how they had plenty of "microwave" communication devices for all the convoys, but a number of episodes back they were saying that CJ would not be contactable due to being with the convoy.

No attacks on the convoys by any of the creatures either. Pretty handy that convoys making noise attracted no creature attention, or how an undefended colony attracts no attention.


And why the hell are people working on the well/water pump if they are all leaving the convoy? When Datu was infected they had him working on it (and saying he was the only one who could figure it out), so now we have others back working on a well/pump that will get to sit idle even if it gets done?

Leaving Dunbar empty seems a pretty stupid move too. Am assuming when CJ said they would hear it if anyone got in means the places was rigged with explosives rather than it being alarmed. Nice of her to not mention anything before to those that went there to live after she kicked then out of the Colony.

Also seems a dumb move to stay in the undefended Colony, complete with it's wide open spaces, when a fortified base like Dunbar exists. What odds that Ink or Scratch have been there since and taken it over and maybe the robot bomb and CJ's never before mentioned explosives blow them all up neatly?