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James is an interesting case because the heavier you are, the harder your body has to work to maintain basic life functions. Your resting metabolism goes up. So it actually becomes harder to gain weight. Of course it works in the opposite direction too; the lighter you are the harder it is to lose weight. But it's one thing to stall or gain weight slowly because you can't commit to a decent diet. But he gains weight so fast that it takes real effort. It's impressive in a perverse way.

Ick. So it was James K after all? I watched about a minute and I was like "PASS". I don't watch this show for the purpose of laughing at people so I'm not down with this exploitative nonsense. Did James make any progress at all?

The education I could buy as wasteful, but essentially legal. I sort of remember some other living expenses and entertainment things too but the exact nature eludes me. If Charlotte breaks off and partners with Marcus, I guess she loses her initial investment and the money her dad loaned The Casery? Seems like a lot to sacrifice.

Oh yeah, and Charlotte... (I hope that's her name, I forgot). Her dad loaned them $250,000 for the business? How do these peoples' parents have that kind of money to spare? My parents are both retired and they're doing okay. I went to dinner with my mother last week and Mom gave the waitress a $50 tip.... on a bill of only $51. Then they take a bunch of cruises and own a second home (it's in a cheap part of the country and I hear it's a modest home, but still... two homes). Right now I am in a mild financial bind due to some car repairs and want to ask her for $200 (which is actually only 25% of the repair costs) but even that feels exorbitant.

That went in an unexpected direction when Michael, the original participant, disappeared and it shifted to his wife. She was never super-duper obese but she definitely needed to lose weight. At first, I thought getting her fingers slammed in a door was an accident (it can happen accidentally; I did this to my mother once). But then she explained the circumstances and how it severed part of her finger and I was like "omg...". She had talked about how he was verbally abusive before, but I don't remember them showing that. But this is how abuse happens... it escalates. Good for her for leaving so quickly. I hope she doesn't do something foolish and go back to him later.

That was a very interesting episode. Matt seemed like he took every opportunity he could to sabotage the business. Business ownership attracts people like him. They want to be their own boss and call the shots and have that kind of freedom. So when someone like Marcus, Skylar, and Charlotte try to tamp that down, he doesn't take it well. Marcus's connections are always valuable, and they are doubly so in this kind of business which is so saturated and niche. That T-Mobile deal would have been HUGE, but Matt's ego kept getting in the way. WTF was with Charlotte putting so much money into the business but getting almost no equity? What kind of slime ball does that to a person? But what kind of person gets suckered into something like that? What about the legality of Matt using all that company money for his own expenses? Isn't that embezzlement?

There's not really anything after that. Marcus says something like "Maybe this is not the end of the story...", and a TO BE CONTINUED appears on the bottom of the screen.

If they're taking a piece out of the 2043 Splinter Core to fix the 2046 Splinter Core, won't that cause a paradox?

Lisa (reading from a party invitation Homer wrote): "Come to Homer's BBBQ. The extra B is for BYOBB." Bart: "What's that extra B for?" Homer: "That's a typo."

Leland Goines was already an adult and successful businessman in 1987, so that's too young. The baby possibly could be Cole. Even if he was born in 1971, but still a child in 2015, there really isn't anything that rules him out, since time travel is involved.

Why didn't 2046-Jones warn 2043-Jones about anything? Or provide some valuable intelligence? Like that Leland Frost was not the right target, or not to trust Olivia, etc.,? They always talk about trying not to violate causality, but isn't that the entire point of their mission? To change the past?

What a sweet episode. So much nicer than her first episode. A lot more positivity. Her sister was pretty awful in the first one. I understand why the sister was so hostile, and I certainly understand why she doesn't want to participate in the show any more. I hope Erica hits her goal weight soon and that she can have a long and happy life with Jimmy.

I don't recall them giving any indication of how much time had lapsed. Could have had time to digest.

I hated it less than other episodes. Not having wacky Liv brain of the week hijinx was a big bonus. I don't think they get any worse than that LARP episode last month. The more I think about this after the fact, the more I hate this episode and how utterly short sighted everyone is. They were facing a brain shortage, and Liv's human smuggling made it worse. Now it is going to be even worse with literally no brains coming in except through whatever back channels Blaine can figure out. It will be even more worse (bad grammar for emphasis) now that Major has declared open season on human smuggling. Ravi found a promising lead on a cure, but instead of making any effort to study it, he just decided to give the entire supply of the critical orange brain ingredient to Liv. It didn't even seem to cross his mind to think about the 10,000 other people afflicted with this disease. Ravi is such a piece of garbage, and I have dreams where I tell him this to his face. Angus and his cult charged headlong into automatic machine gun fire, but at least this was in character for them. They all had a screw loose. Clive was prepared to charge head long into the zombie life despite the pending severe brain shortage. Thank goodness that never happened. I just want SOMEONE to start acting like a rational human being.

You might be more perceptive on the character than I am. I frankly found it impossible to take him seriously as a character, on account of that cartoonish accent. I tended to shut my brain off as a defensive reflex every time he appeared on screen. He would have to know that a zombie horde with nothing but simple melee weapons would be cut to shreds by a trained army with automatic weapons. I can't see him leading them into that kind of trap by anything but a backstab.

It's a little bit of both. The U.S. army has been so bad at keeping the border safe from smugglers that I really believed a full frontal assault by the zombie cult would work. I did notice there wasn't any sort of gate or wall; the zombies just charged down an open street to be gunned down. Maybe that's what they meant when they said that Gate 6 was overrun? I still think that Inspect Closeau (he is such a ridiculous character that I refuse to use his real name) didn't actually tell them about a weakness. I think he lied and told them this was a weakness to funnel them into a trap.

Good episode. I liked that there were no wacky brain hijinx. I'm glad that Blaine's plan to cause a zombie apocalypse for fun and profit was a spectacular failure and everyone in the zombie cult was killed. Human authorities displayed competence for once. I liked that Inspector Closeau was playing a long game to set the cult up for failure. What did they mean when they said "Gate 6 has been overrun"? It looked fine to me and the army had everything under control. That was a lame ending with Isobel's brain being exactly one dose of the cure. Last week, Ravi cured that rat with zero brains. He just put the brain in a jar of goo, zapped it with electricity, and made a cure out of electrified orange brain goo. Why did the screen keep going dark during the rescue scene? I hope that next season they wrap it up with an actual cure and they don't end it on some stupid unresolved cliffhanger.

I often wonder what the past 20 years of television and film would have been like if Phil Hartman had not died. He would have done a tremendous amount of character and voice acting work. Troy McClure and Lionel Hutz would still be around. Zap Branigan on Futurama would have had a different voice (the role was originally written for Hartman).

Just 4 days ago. I'm a little confused because this episode aired several months ago. Mouth Foods = Southern Culture?

He cured a lab rat, which is a promising start. Isobel's brain secreted an antigen. The smart thing to do would be to share this with the CDC and WHO, which are undoubtedly working night and day to develop a cure for this terrible new disease. Then they can work to study and replicate this antigen through artificial means. Isobel died of a terminal case of SuddenDeathItis, a terrible disease that leaves you completely healthy until you spontaneously die of a nose bleed. While this is an utterly lame disease, it is definitely well known in the universe of this show, so the body of knowledge that the medical community has could assuredly be brought forward as a valuable resource. Unfortunately, as established, every human in this world is a god damn moron so that probably won't happen. Ravi will keep the cure to himself, then it will promptly be stolen again.

I got caught up on this and the previous 2 episodes. I'm confused. The old couple were in Oregon. How were there zombies outside of the quarantine zone? How did Major and Liv get to the safe house Oregon? How is the quarantine border so porous? Why is literally nobody doing anything about a zombie preacher with a cult of fanatics openly advocating murder and the slaughter of humans? How is every human authority so god damn incompetent and cowardly? Fillmore Graves shot up a newspaper for printing a slightly negative article about him. An action which has still had no consequences despite being incredibly illegal. Agreed with everyone who is sick of the relationship between Clive and Dale. It serves no purpose except to be a troubled relationship. It is only ever brought up to show how difficult human to zombie relationships are. The writers are sticking to the bad writing principle of "tell, don't show" and just having Clive talk about how much in love he is with Dale despite there being no chemistry between them. I was glad to see Ravi get back to work on a cure and actually stumble into one. Of course, this not being the series finale, something will go wrong. It would be great if they could come up with some reason to cure the thousands of new zombies but leave a couple original zombies around for narrative purposes. We still need the episode where Liv starts acting like Yosemite Sam for eating the brain of a chili enthusiast.

From everything we've seen from the brains this season, that is debatable. Like that time she at the LARPer and somehow she didn't have the free will to TALK LIKE A GOD DAMN NORMAL PERSON.

I kind of want to see Liv's brain squished. She knew she was committing a capital offense against the ruling military junta. She was terrible at it. She was deliberately infecting people with a terrible virus. There are so many bad guys in this season, and I just detest almost everyone.

I totally forgot about that. I'm not defending this latest action per se, but I'm talking about moral levels. If a sweet and good church pastor beats up a dog, you think "Holy cow! What's wrong with that guy?????" If an escaped serial killer beats up a dog, you think "That's terrible that he beat up that dog, but he did also murder 4 people, so I can't say I'm surprised."

He terrorized a bar full of humans and a newspaper. Both with automatic weapons. Your mileage may vary, but I find that Major crossed the moral event horizon long ago.