RECAP: The Walking Dead, S06E02, “JSS”

TL;DR version:  Holy crap.  Holy crap.

PREVIOUSLY ON THE WALKING DEAD:  Everybody’s gonna die.  That’s it.  I’ve been a writing teacher, right, and one of the things I’ve done AS A JOKE a few times is suggest that kids end a story with an asteroid strike and just kill everyone.  I mean, it’s final, right?  The third episode of this season is gonna be an asteroid strike, only the asteroid is going to be made of biting, and they’re just gonna kill everyone and go home.  Holy crap.

The episode begins with Enid in a cold open, as we see some of her life before joining the Alexandria crew.  We see her parents get eaten.  We see her find a turtle.  We see her eat raw turtle, which… god, that’s gotta be a salmonella risk or something.  We see her walking through a driving rainstorm but her hair isn’t wet, which is kinda weird.  Maybe she’s Jesus.  We see her bloody and messy and gross and oh she keeps putting JSS everywhere:

RAW TURTLE!!

Eew.

I know that’s a lot of pictures all in a row, but it’s really a quite striking couple of minutes– one of the best cold opens the show has ever done– and it’s also nicely mysterious and gross.  And Enid’s already way more interesting than she was last season.

So, yeah.  Back to Alexandria, where Carol is teasing somebody in a sort of passive-aggressive I really hate you sort of way about her smoking, and that lady’s still looking for her pasta maker, and then Carol gets back home and Sam is sitting on her porch.  Showing that maternal side we all love her for so much, she says “Your dad used to hit you, and he got himself killed.  It happened.  You live with it, or it eats you up” to the kid.  Yeesh, Carol.  Maybe at least avoid the phrase eats you up?

She makes a casserole, sets the timer for 45 minutes and looks out the window.  Smoker Lady is out in her front lawn having a cigarette.  And then she is suddenly HACKED TO DEATH OH CRAP THE WOLVES ARE HERE and this is the rest of the episode:  MURDER DEATH STAB BULLET BLOOD EXPLODE BURN DIE FIGHT MURDER BLOOD BLOOD STAB HATCHET MACHETE BLOOD BLOOD BLOOD AAAAAAAAHHHHH

I could credibly end the recap here: the Wolves attack Alexandria, they kill a whole lot of people, mostly horribly, except they don’t kill everybody because Carol.  I mean, that’s it.  The rest of the episode takes place basically in real-time; at the end, Carl takes the goddamn casserole out of the oven when the timer goes off.

Let’s bullet-point everything else I need to say.

• This scene with Jessie and Ron actually happens before all hell breaks loose, but it’s better to recap it here: Ron’s all I’m angry at you, don’t hang out with Rick, he cray cray and Jessie quite sensibly and appropriately and no-this-isn’t-bringing-a-nuke-to-a-gunfight challenges her brat son to lift his left arm above his head.  He can’t, because Pete did something horrible to him at some point in the past.  More on Ron later.
• Eugene’s line of the episode is “It hams my biscuits.”  That’s supposed to be a bad thing, I think, but I think ham and biscuits belong together.  Be better at Southern, Eugene.
• So the killing starts right away, and it’s mostly Wolves hacking unprepared Alexandrians to death, sometimes taking the time to take their arms off, too.  Carol kills one right off.  This is what she looks like the next time we see her:

• So, in quick succession, she’s killed a couple of Wolves, stolen their clothes, painted a W on her forehead in blood, and figured out to head for the armory.  She uses the disguise to good effect repeatedly.
• The big horn from last episode?  They strapped a Walker into the driver’s seat of a big rig and pointed it at the wall.  It didn’t quite work the way they wanted it to; eventually Morgan pulls the zombie off of the horn and it stops.  Morgan’s back in town already, by the way.
• I don’t think a big rig horn is really as loud as the horn we were hearing at the end of the first episode– that sounded much more like a civil defense alarm, something massive— but whatever.
• Carl actually tells Enid to stay in the house.  For serious.  Carl himself actually stays in the house, for the most part, guarding his little sister, only leaving once to deal with this:

• He shoots the guy, but doesn’t quite kill him, and there’s a brief moment where dude is begging for his life and you almost think he’s going to let the guy live, and the guy goes for his gun and Carl ends up having to kill him.  He tells Ron to come inside (yes, that’s a second person Carl has told to get into the house) and Ron runs off.
• Ahem.  Remember this, assholes?  From Season 3, I think?

• This was basically the exact same situation, except the guy in the .gif had a gun, and the Wolf almost got the drop on him.  I was arguing with anyone who would listen that Carl did the right thing here (shut up, Herschel) and this episode absolutely proves that I was right.
• Incidentally, this is the second time in two episodes that someone named Grimes has saved Ron’s life, so maybe you shut your stupid mouth about how Rick is daaaaaaangeroussssss, you little ingrate.
• HAVE I MENTIONED BLOOD AND DEATH AND MAYHEM EVERYWHERE YES EVERYWHERE HOLY CRAP?
• So, yeah, Morgan’s back in town already, and he really doesn’t want to kill anyone, and Carol thinks he’s a moron and basically keeps killing people Morgan wants to keep alive, at one point shooting a guy in the head that Morgan’s actually got tied up on the ground.  Morgan thinks he can stop people, and they don’t have to kill.  Carol’s having none of it.  She knows she needs to get the armory secured before they find it, and she enlists Morgan’s help to do it.  At one point they walk past Gabriel, who is on the ground being attacked, and she totally doesn’t care, because securing the armory is more important.  Even Rick would have broken off to save Gabriel.  Morgan manages it, though, so Gabriel survives the episode.
• Morgan helps with the disguise:

• Tara and Eugene get some good scenes with the town’s new post-Pete doctor, who isn’t a doctor so much as about half a psychiatrist.  She’s not super effective, but the acting is good.
• Gabriel asks Morgan how he learned to fight.  He answers “From a cheesemaker.”  ‘Kay.
• At some point Jessie has to leave Sam in a closet because she can hear a Wolf breaking into their house.  She feigns unconsciousness for a moment and then kills the shit out of the Wolf with her haircutting scissors.  It’s as gruesome a scene as the show has ever had.  I mean, seriously, check this out:

• Damn.
• At one point I swear Carol puts two bullets directly into a Wolf’s lungs through his back and he’s still able to run off.  I’m not sure how.  Toward the end of the episode, after the Wolves have been driven off, she actually breaks down and cries for a minute.
• Aaron finds his old backpack, the one with the pictures of Alexandria in it.  He realizes he’s probably the reason the Wolves found the compound.  He doesn’t appear especially happy with this information.
• Morgan is confronted– separately– by both of the two Wolves he let live at the end of last season.  One of them is part of a group of five.  He convinces them to leave, but not before one of them grabs a gun, which, hell, I’m sure that won’t backfire on the Alexandrians at all.  It’s actually a pretty badass scene:

• He finds the other Wolf ransacking a house.  This one, he actually kills, or at least I’m pretty sure we’re supposed to think he did.
• The final scene of the episode is Carol and Morgan walking past each other, Carol still dressed as a Wolf, and not saying a word.
• JSS stands for Just Survive Somehow, by the way.  Enid leaves it on a note for Carl; she’s presumably fled.  There are people online yapping about how she’s a Wolf in disguise; I doubt it.  Hopefully we see her again.
• There’s still thousands of zombies coming, by the way.

Is it next Sunday yet?

RECAP: The Walking Dead, S06E01, “First Time Again”

WALKING DEAD’S BACK!!!!!!  WOO!

PREVIOUSLY ON THE WALKING DEAD: Reading through my recaps of last season, I really hated the first half of the season, but the second half was so good it made me forget I hated the first half.  Anyway, they’re in Alexandria now and Rick is sliding back into Ricktatorship.  Go read the recaps; you can find links to some of them at the bottom of this post.

Also, Fear the Walking Dead happened.  I recapped that too!

So, this episode jumps around in time.  A LOT.  So much, in fact, that they’ve adopted a black and white color scheme for all the scenes set in the past.  It means that recapping it in a traditional way is going to be… well, annoying to write, at least.  So I’m gonna bullet-point this one, I think.  It’s actually a deceptively simple episode, to be completely honest.

• FACT:  You can tell where we are in the past by the number of butterfly sutures Rick has on his face.  The “past” starts immediately after the end of last season.  If Rick looks like this, we are in the way-back:

• Tara wakes up from her coma.  Upon seeing Eugene, she says “Thank God.  Nothing happened to your hair.”  I cannot figure out when I started loving Tara as much as I do.
• The basic plot of the episode is that part of the reason Alexandria hasn’t been overrun by walkers is that there’s a huge ravine wrapped around it that the walkers keep falling into.  Both ends of the thing have been barricaded by someone else so that they’re getting stuck in there.  The problem is, uh, there’s a lot of them.  Quite a lot of them.  And at the beginning of the episode, one of the tractor trailers barricading them in falls into the ravine.  Rick had a plan to lead them away from town, and they’ve gotta get it in place immediately.  This is what I mean by a lot:

That’s a lot of zombies.

• The plan basically involves Daryl, Abraham and Sasha leading the herd away at very low speed to… somewhere, because we never really find out where the endpoint is for this plan.  “Twenty miles away,” Rick says, but is there, like, a thing twenty miles away, or did you just pick that number?  The plan’s a bit more complicated than that but that’s close enough.
• When there are four thousand zombies behind the one you’re shooting an arrow at, Daryl, maybe you don’t waste that arrow, because you’re not getting it back.  I know you’ve got a signature weapon theme going and all that but dude somebody’s got an AK-47 with more ammo than your little crossbow.  Use that instead.
• Meanwhile, Morgan’s adjusting to life in Alexandria and there’s a lot of backstory about how Ethan Embry doesn’t trust Rick, and blah blah blah we should kill him blah blah blah no one takes you seriously, shut up, Preston.
• Ethan Embry’s old, guys:

Jennifer Love Hewitt’s totally not dating you now, dude.

• True story:  I spent a week in grad school many years ago basically doing nothing but watching Can’t Hardly Wait three or four times a day.  I suspect that gets you instantly committed nowadays.
• I also suspect I am not the only person who has done that.
• The DVD was a rental, that’s how long ago it was.
• Rick is totally still trying to bang the blonde hairdresser whose name I can never remember.  Pete’s wife.  Except, y’know, Rick just killed Pete, and in any other situation than the zombie apocalypse I feel like that should hurt your chances a bit.
• Heath’s here!  He has a completely hilarious conversation with Eugene when he gets back to town, because Eugene doesn’t know who the hell he is and he reacts to him in a predictably Eugene way.  Eugene’s last line to him is “It’s nice to see someone like me!  I fully respect the hair game.”
• Heath does not appear to think he is like Eugene.
• The actor looks exactly like Heath from the comics, except for the part where I always think Heath from the comics is a lesbian and forget he’s a guy until someone calls him Heath and I remember he’s supposed to be a dude.  Real-Heath looks way less like a lesbian.

• Heath is still alive in the comics.  They also added Morgan back to the regular cast this season.  Therefore: I’ll miss you, Gabriel, because you’re totally dead next episode.
• I won’t actually miss Gabriel.
• The zombies are now so soft-headed that some of them manage to destroy their own brains just by bonking them into one of the walls designed to herd them.  Either that or the group has a sniper that we never actually see, and that seems like a terrible idea because Rick and Michonne and Morgan are on the other side of that corrugated metal wall.
• Nicholas and Glenn are all buddy-buddy now.  Maggie at one point tells Tara about what happened between the two of them and Tara’s all IMMA KILL HIM but it’s okay because Glenn saves people.  Maggie calls Tara “one of the most important people in the world to me,” which initially felt weird.  Being in Team MEATRAG was apparently more important to Maggie than I thought.
• Lauren Cohan totally over-Southerns Maggie’s accent during this bit.  She’s out of practice.
• There’s a lot of yammering online about how Rick should have come up with a plan to kill all of the zombies instead of leading them away to wherever he’s (well, Daryl and Sasha and Abraham are) leading them away to.  None of the yammerers really have a good idea of how this is to be accomplished; there’s lots of talk of molotovs and fire from people who have apparently never thrown a molotov outside of a video game nor dealt with an uncontrolled, ambulatory wildfire.  There’s no good way to do this, y’all.  They don’t have the ammo.
• I reserve the right to decide Rick’s plan is dumb if we ever find out where they were going and it turns out to be somewhere dumb.
• Remember this from last season?

• Anyway, they’ve got Abraham speaking in haiku again.  I swear to God this is an exact transcription of some of his dialogue with Sasha in the car:

Just grabbing the bull
by the nutsack; I’m living,
darling, just like you.

• There’s a brief subplot where Rick refuses to allow Pete to be buried inside the walls and Pete’s son follows him and Morgan out into the woods.  That’s how they find the ravine full of zombies, actually.  It’s kind of dumb.  He’s dead, Rick, and he’s got kids.  Let him be buried in the town.
• Morgan sees right through Grandma Carol.  Which is awesome.
• Noticeably missing from the horde: child zombies.  There was one in the very first episode, and there was Sophia, and the kid zombie that bit Tyreese, and that may have been it for the entire series.  I get the real-world reasons why there are never kid zombies, but there should be some kids in this group.  Lots more than there are, actually.
• Old Ethan Embry gets his face messily eaten, because he’s on some other show.  He won’t stop screaming and Rick stabs him dead.  Bye, Old Ethan Embry.
• I am not convinced that Rick’s knife was angled to even touch OEE’s brain.  He may be a walker by now.  He basically stabs him horizontally in the base of the skull.  That’s a tricky angle to hit brain with.
• Daryl spends the entire episode driving three miles an hour with this look on his face:

• There’s a wonderful conversation between Morgan and Michonne about whether Michonne took one of Morgan’s peanut butter protein bars during “Clear” like three seasons ago.  I almost want to go back and rewatch it to see if they actually show her taking it.
• I got wondering at some point: Does anyone remember what happened to Dale’s Winnebago?  We see one at one point but I’m pretty sure it’s not the same one.  They haven’t had it since… what, before the prison?
• Anyway, the big plan works, mostly… right up until the point where what sounds like an air defense alarm starts sounding from somewhere.  Wait, did I say somewhere?  I meant Alexandria.  For some reason.  And all the zombies– thousands and thousands and thousands of them– turn and start heading for home.  Uh-oh.
• No, srsly, uh-oh.

• Is it next Sunday yet?

RECAP: FEAR THE WALKING DEAD, S01E06, “The Good Man”

The one-word, short review: blech.

There were only a few ways the season finale of this show was gonna go, right?  There was gonna be action.  Daniel was gonna let those zombies out of the arena and all hell was gonna break loose.  Somebody was gonna die.  And they were gonna end up breaking everybody in the main cast out of Troublemaker Jail.  The only real questions were who was gonna die and whether they were going to kill off the black guy they introduced last episode.

Let’s cut to the chase:

• Eliza;
• No.

Because let’s definitely kill the most level-headed, non-dick character on the show.  Why not?  And it looks like Faustus is gonna end up lasting another couple of episodes even though we didn’t really ever get a reason why he was locked up with Nick.

Here’s the gist:

Remember the conversation between Eliza and the doctor about who was going to be able to go with them that I talked about last week?  I must have seen a promo or something, because that conversation happens this episode.  The military’s bugging out, and they’ve got few enough people around that a Chinook helicopter ought to be able to get everyone out.  Eliza negotiates Chris and Travis onto the helicopter.  Left unsaid: just how the hell they’re going to get there.

Daniel and Travis have an argument about what to do with Soldier Andy, who convinces Travis that there’s no way Daniel’s going to let him live.  Travis has a problem with killing Soldier Andy.  Left unsaid: how anything Soldier Andy says is going to help them actually find the people they’re looking for.  Does he know the layout of the base?  Maybe.  Probably not, since he seems to spend most of his time in the safe zone.  Is he gonna lie about it?  Sure!

Daniel shows up at the base:

The soldiers are all, “Raah graah!  Old man!  Approach and die!”  Daniel’s all, “‘Kay.  But, uh, THIS!:”

So, just a few minutes in, and we’re kind of already at earth-shattering this was your goddamn plan? levels of stupid.  Travis, who didn’t want to kill one guy, is apparently fine with the dozens of deaths unleashing thousands of zombies was going to lead to.  And Daniel apparently has brass balls of steel (yes, brass balls of steel) because he just… what, wandered a few meters in front of the mob long enough to pull the entire thing to the soldiers, forgive me for the MMO language?

Apparently.

But wait!  We aren’t done.  Everyone else is in an SUV and they find a parking garage… somehow.  And then they leave Chris and Alicia in the truck, because obviously you leave the healthy teenagers who can totally keep up with the group in the truck.  Splitting your group is something you definitely want to do in situations of total chaos.

Nick and Faustus break out.  Turns out Nick’s a skilled pickpocket, somehow; he has the key.  They don’t let anyone else out of Troublemaker Jail.  Everyone else is like raah graah let us out of Troublemaker Jail! and they’re like nah.

Zombies zombies zombies.  A soldier has the death of the season when he gets bit and, knowing what he’s in for, kills himself by charging directly into a spinning helicopter rotor, which less decapitates him than vaporizes his head.  In other “gross!” news, Faustus discovers the guy who took his cufflinks last episode.  The guy is alive, but being eaten while he is alive.  Faustus takes his cufflinks back but declines to kill the guy, because reasons.

He and Nick get trapped in a hallway, but it’s okay because right then is when everyone finds them.  Their “plan” was apparently just to wander the hell around.  Incidentally, Travis let the rest of Troublemaker Jail out.  Unfortunately, those people are all going to die, because you let thousands of zombies loose, you fucking idiot.

There’s a fight.

Daniel finally gets around to asking Eliza where Griselda might be.  Not sure, maybe somewhere in here:

Yes, those are giant piles of cremains.  It’s… a pretty bleak moment.

MEANWHILE!  The SUV gets stolen by soldiers who are sensibly cutting out, and Chris gets punched in the face, and Alicia turns down an offer of temporary safety in return for nightly gangrape.  They somehow do not get eaten, and the rest of the crew somehow find them again, despite this being a stupid, stupid, stupid plan, and they eventually just find another car somehow, apparently.

In what is supposed to be a tense moment, Soldier Andy finds them, and holds Daniel at gunpoint for a minute, then instead shoots Ofelia, but only wings her, and Travis, who doesn’t like violence, beats the tar out of a younger, stronger, better-trained soldier, because FAMILY!!!, only he didn’t really like Daniel or Ofelia anyway and what did you think he would do if you let him loose?  He doesn’t kill him, though, but he does beat him severely enough that he was probably a zombie snack a few minutes after he’s offscreen.  So, thanks for that, I guess?  Those few minutes of extra life were great for him, I imagine.

Dr. Faustus has a mansion on the ocean, which has not only not been looted it apparently hasn’t even been noticed, and a yacht, and it’s fairly strongly implied that next season will start on the yacht at least, and I’m already having PTSD flashbacks of the Farm, except more boring.  Oh, also, Eliza got… well, it looks like she got scratched, because her wounds are in a really weird place for a bite, and do scratches actually make you turn?  Do we have canon for that?

Travis shoots her anyway, and we’re all sad, and that’s the end of the season, and I spent five episodes defending the show but this really was an Idiot Episode, where no one made any decisions that made any sense and then they killed a sympathetic character because they felt like they had to because it was a season finale and not because the arc earned it.

TWD starts for real tomorrow!  Who’s excited?

RECAP: FEAR THE WALKING DEAD, S01E05, “Cobalt”

HONESTY TIME:  If you pay attention you might have noticed that it’s not currently Saturday.  That’s because I forgot to post my recap on Saturday.  It’s Sunday right now– or at least it’s Sunday if you’re reading this on the day it posted.  You have a 1/7 chance of it being Sunday otherwise, I suppose.

How did I forget to post my recap on Saturday?  Drugs!  I’m on them.  This is actually the second time I’ve had to write a recap while on mind-bending (disappointingly, legal) drugs. The first time, it was Vicodin.  This time, it’s a little thing called Lexapro, proscribed as an anti-anxiety drug.  Basically all it does is make me sleepy and really, really unlikely to, like, do stuff.  There’s really no way I’d have just forgotten something like this otherwise.  But, yeah:  Luther’s doing another drug recap, guys!  (Hilariously, the previous episode was called “Forget.”)

Oh, right, also: There’s been, like, all kinds of family stuff going on today and I haven’t had time to rewatch the episode like I usually do.  It’s possible that this will be at least partially made up.  And it’s totally gonna be completely out of order.  Consider this less a recap and more of a disjointed set of recollections, much like the entire last week of my life.

Let’s start with the hospital people, it’s easier.  Griselda?  Dead, because they had to cut her foot off but she went septic anyway, which doesn’t really surprise anyone.  Turns out that Doctor Whatshername is already fully aware of the rules of the game, those being: 1) Everybody turns, 2) headshots, 3) Bites are gonna ruin your day.  We see one soldier being triaged into the cow-hammer line and Eliza actually puts a… bullet?  Slug?  Cow-killing pneumatic thing into Griselda’s brain after she dies, which makes a smaller hole than you might think it would.  Eliza also finds out that everybody’s bugging out in the near future, and makes a deal to bring Chris and Travis with her.  Chris and Travis aren’t there at the time, though, and we all know how these deals go.

(My wife insists that this conversation did not happen during this episode.  She was there with me while I was watching.  Entirely possible that I made the whole damn thing up.  I dunno.)

Meanwhile, there’s this guy:

I don’t remember his name, so I’ll call him… hmm… Faustus seems appropriate.  He’s in Troublemaker Jail with Nick and the really sad guy from last episode who we all assumed was dead but it turns out he isn’t.  When we first see him, he’s ruining Sad Guy’s day by assuring him that his wife will be just fine after he dies, because she’s hot and she’ll surely glom onto some dude who will protect her so that he can use her body.  For, one presumes, sex. So he’s saying she’ll be Lori, basically.  Sad Guy bursts into tears and the guards haul him off somewhere.  Then he bribes them not to take Nick away (why are they taking people away?  Where are they going?  How does Troublemaker Jail work?) for some reason and explains to Nick that he’ll need him for his particular skills as a heroin addict.  Which include lying, stealing, and basically doing whatever one can for heroin.  Also probably being hard to fight.  Faustus is kinda cool but I can’t figure out what the hell he’s doing there and he’s black so they’ll probably kill him next week anyway.  Also unclear: whether Troublemaker Jail is connected to the hospital or not.

Alicia and Chris break into a house, trash it, and spend the episode playing dress-up.  Yeah, that really happens.  They’re all disaffected and teenagery.  There’s a couple of moments of weird sexual tension, like, eew, your parents boink and you don’t get to, but it goes away. They are rather definitively Not in the House, but no one notices.  Seriously, no one ever pays attention to Alicia.

Travis tries to get taken to the hospital, gets crammed into a Humvee with about a half-dozen soldiers, doesn’t shoot this zombie in the head because he doesn’t wanna, and then the soldiers rush off into a building to get into a fight and it’s really heavily implied that they frag Captain Butthead from last episode.  Anyway, the survivors pile back into the Humvee, tell Travis they ain’t taking him nowhere, and drop him off.  He shows up in the next few scenes I’m going to tell you about but hell if I can remember what he did.  Probably something wimpy.

Everybody else gets the cool part.  Remember Ofelia’s boyfriend from last episode?  She starts by throwing a bunch of bottles at the soldiers and screaming about her mother, which leads him to tell them that he’ll take her home.  Next thing we know her boyfriend is duct-taped to a chair in a neighbor’s house (I ask again: how many neighbors do these people have?) and Daniel’s taking his shirt off.  This isn’t gonna go well.

I can’t quite figure Ofelia out, guys.  She’s basically all oh, so long as you don’t hurt him, Daddy, and Mercedes Mason is 23 but the character sometimes looks like she’s 40 and I really can’t figure out either how old she’s supposed to be or how naive she’s supposed to be.  But… dude, you were okay with the taped-to-the-chair part?  How did he get taped to the chair?  Did Daniel knock him out or something?  We don’t see that part and I have no idea how it happened and I’m really not sure how much Ofelia is supposed to know.

I do know that when she comes back later and Daniel has basically skinned part of soldier boy’s arm, she’s not super happy and kinda runs away screaming:

That looks a lot like a bite, by the way. Good luck convincing anyone it isn’t.

Daniel gets a lot of speechifying this episode, but here’s the gist:  All of his stories about El Salvador were true, only he wasn’t entirely honest on which side he was on, and it turns out– oops!– he’s a war criminal.  I’m trying really hard not to use the word badass to describe him at any point during this piece, because, again, war criminal.  War criminal is bad.  But yeah: Daniel’s a torturer.  Griselda makes it real clear that she knew before she dies, and I still can’t quite put together what Ofelia knows.

Maddie shows up partway through too.  She’s cool with it.

Basically he wants to know what’s going on.  Here’s what’s going on: the soldiers are leaving.  It’s called Operation Cobalt.  Everyone at the hospital and in Troublemaker Jail is gonna be “humanely terminated.”  Oh, and apparently they abandoned a couple thousand people in an arena nearby and just sorta locked the doors and left.

And guess where Daniel’s standing in the morning?

Yeah.

Is it next Sunday yet?  Wait, no, that’s next week.  Is it Sunday yet?  Yes, it is.  Go watch the finale tonight, is what I’m saying.