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So since they introduced the diseased corpse early on, and it ended up being Olivia, does that mean that everything that happened was always destined to happen?

Because the show was renewed for another season and the writers have to make a cure both ridiculously easy to create (when convenient to the plot) and impossible to create (when inconvenient). It's nuts that a small injection of brain juice could cure a zombie rat, but a zombie human has to eat an entire brain. I wonder if it even occurred to Ravi to try brain juice injections or eating only part of the brain.

That's the zombie's natural look. At least for white people turned into zombies. It was never clear what happens to black people. The normal looking people dye their hair and spray tan.

I haven't noticed them at pizza places but I did go to a calzone place last Saturday that used it. It really is a handy tool to streamline the production process and ensure better standardization.

I watched this last night. Fortunately, Dino was not nearly as bad as Andrew. I kinda didn't think Dino was that bad at all. Pretty controlling, but on the other hand it seemed like Marcus went out of his way to push Dino's buttons. The impromptu focus group was full of people who, I think, just wanted to be on TV and screw around. Cutting down the flavors on the crushed ice novelties was stupid. Look at literally any ice cream shop. They have a wide variety of flavors. Holding extra syrups would be only a marginal increase in costs. Marcus' whole idea seemed hinged on the idea that customers are too stupid to pare down a large menu. A large menu I have no problem with, but those fucking TV screens they have for the menus at McDonalds drive me nuts. How do I decide what I want when the god damn menu changes every 4 seconds? Then that thing where he tells the 2 stores to come up with concepts on a $30,000 budget. He deliberately put Dino with the son and employee he didn't get along with. Stop fucking with them Marcus. Don't introduce extra, needless tension because either A) Amber told you to do so to make better television or B) you just want to be the family therapist you are grossly unqualified to be. From what I saw, Simply Slices was a family owned business doing decent business, if not knockout national franchise business. Dino had hopes, but Marcus was too aggressive with it. It sort of reminds me of the story of McDonalds, and that movie "The Founder". I don't think Dino really needs a Ray Kroc in his life right now. I will give credit where credit is due though. It was nice to see an episode that wasn't about a fashion thing for once. I'm not as sick of the "Doctor Phil-ing" that Marcus does as other people are. I am pretty sick of "This pair of ordinary khaki pants is all about saving people from pancreatic evaporation and 12% of the proceeds go to pancreatic evaporation research. It is very near and dear to the owner's heart because he lost his mother, sister, aunt, uncle, and dog at the age of 7 when all their pancreases evaporated."

They have a drive through at a pizza place around here. I've never used it though. Doesn't pizza take a long time to prepare? I don't know that it keeps as well under heat lamps as burgers and such do.

So how does this Dino guy compare to Andrew from L.A. Dogworks? Because Andrew was a downright honest to goodness psychopath. If Dino is that bad I don't want to see it. It will just make me depressed.

I haven't seen the episode yet, but it doesn't sound good.... I'm at least glad they got to an interesting type of business. I like food products because there's something there that makes sense. A cell phone case or a pair of sunglasses is a commodity I can buy in any Walmart and who cares what "message" is behind it or how hip it is. Food I can relate to because you can make better food than competitors.

Later, while recounting this experience: Lisa: "And then she called me a 'PC Thug'." Homer: "I'm sorry honey. I've been called a greasy thug too."

Jennifer's mocking of Olivia was awesome.

I'm glad that in the end they were able to stop the plague and create a bright future for everyone. Leaving Cole alive felt like a cheat though. By now, he was born of events that never happened. He essentially has no parents because Hannah never met his dad. I was expecting a lot of padding, sort of like the final season of Sons of Anarchy. I was glad that this was actually very well paced. I love Project Splinter's invasion of Titan. It reminds me of a tactic I use sometimes in Starcraft, where I try to take over an enemy's base from within by mind controlling a couple builder units. It's always risky and bloody, but it's pretty cool when I pull it off. I really loved that Olivia eventually became the charred skeletal precursor to the plague that we saw way back in season 1. Does this mean that Deacon, and The Sisters, were expecting to join Project Splinter the whole time?

I think we can make some interesting inferences into Marcus's childhood. His launching of a campaign against bullying, plus his odd obsession with businesses that are "hip", make me wonder what his life was like growing up.

I don't care much if Cole gets a happy ending as long as the world gets a happy ending and the plague doesn't happen.

I don't think you start a business if you don't have a decent amount of courage and confidence. It seems more like he had a lot of confidence but the years of running the business and getting rejected by customers wore him out.

It's almost like the Diaper Dude business failed and they just got new jobs working for Marcus Lemonis.

I liked the episode. The entrepreneur was likable. His wife was beautiful and they seem to have a really good marriage. She had a bad habit of interrupting and could be a little pushy, but I thought her heart was in a good place. The idea of "having a message" or associating with cause is corny, but as the guy in that first pitch meeting pointed out, they don't have much of a choice. A bag is a bag and you need some factor to separate yourself.

I tried to start watching this, but after the last two weeks it just felt like a chore that I wasn't up to. More fashion and fashion accessories! Damnit! I'll give it another shot later though.

I like how there's a certain theme of insecurity around Olivia. She's seen as a bit of a false prophet. There was a faction in the Army of the Twelve Monkeys that called her so, until she violently suppressed that. She even expressed fear and doubt about her ability to lead her followers to The Red Forest.

They did that with the chronologically confusing 4th season of Arrested Development. It was less satisfying than I expected.

I want to splinter forward into Friday evening so I can watch this.

Oh yeah. I forgot that the lab was in a time before she was killed.

I'm confused. Which version of Jennifer was it that appeared and set off the alarms right after young Jennifer splintered away? Was that old Jennifer from 2043? How could that be? She was killed last season.

The interactions between Monk and Harold Crenshaw were my favorites. I think the best of all was in the episode with the election. Monk and the Captain were interviewing Harold as a suspect in the shooting. Monk and Harold get in a fierce argument about how to arrange the donuts in a box, both in slightly different ways reflecting their slightly different flavors of OCD. Then a frustrated Captain crushes the entire box into "one big donut".

That was some serious bull-spit. They spend the whole season talking up this big fancy weapon, only to have it destroyed before anyone can use it.

DISLIKE Cassie and Cole release the virus and cause this whole mess. There goes the happy ending I hoped for. Well there's 2 more episodes. They seem to imply that the solution is to erase Cole from existence. So what are the implications of that? He never releases the killer virus?