Pillar of Salt Pre-Air Speculation and Live Chat

[formerlyfreedom]

This is your pre-air Speculation and Live Chat thread for S02.E12: Pillar of Salt. This thread will close after the episode airs Sunday. Then please go over to the actual episode topic here. Please do NOT post spoilers or discuss The Walking Dead here (that is for over here).

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[rab01]

I've missed this season (half-season?) of FTWD but was thinking of catching up over the weekend and watching this episode ... is it worth it?

[xaxat]

From the promo,

Nick: "The danger is now. It's real!. It's coming!"

Could that be because someone tried to steal from a bunch of ruthless gang members. Told them of a settlement with stocks of Oxy, and then tried to give them adulterated drugs?

Eh, probably not.

Edited September 17, 2016 by xaxat

[Muffyn]

The episode description:

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Madison springs into action when one of the hotel residents gets violent.  Meanwhile, Alejandro shows a darker side of himself at the Colonia.

My speculation - Madison springs into action; her face registers nothing.

[mightysparrow]

If Strand dies, I riot!

[Gobi]

Although it certainly looks in the  preview as if something bad happens to Strand, I don't think that TPTB would give away a character's death in a preview. More likely that the blood on his shirt isn't even his own.

On 9/16/2016 at 1:10 PM, rab01 said:

I've missed this season (half-season?) of FTWD but was thinking of catching up over the weekend and watching this episode ... is it worth it?

That depends. If you enjoy compelling stories with richly drawn characters told in a believable manner, then no.

[SoSueMe]

4 hours ago, Gobi said:

Although it certainly looks in the  preview as if something bad happens to Strand, I don't think that TPTB would give away a character's death in a preview. More likely that the blood on his shirt isn't even his own.

That depends. If you enjoy compelling stories with richly drawn characters told in a believable manner, then no.

Lol, Gobi :)

[mustbekarma]

9 hours ago, mightysparrow said:

If Strand dies, I riot!

I don't like this show enough to riot if anyone dies, I think. I might be slightly miffed if Alicia or Maddie die. I'm starting to like them.

[JackONeill]

You know what this show needs, and it especially makes sense now that they're at a hotel: Basil Fawlty.

[mightysparrow]

9 minutes ago, JackONeill said:

You know what this show needs, and it especially makes sense now that they're at a hotel: Basil Fawlty.

Every show needs Basil Fawlty.

[candall]

Okay, going to let the Emmys pile up a bit so I can skip the thank you speeches and see what's doing with the Scoobies down Mexico way.

[raven]

I predict the last shot of this intro will be the teddy bear.

Er - not a good plan here.

[mightysparrow]

Clearly Mexican children are better behaved than American ones.

[JackONeill]

Now everybody knows about gut camouflage?!?

[NorthstarATL]

So EVERYONE discovers Walker Guts?

[mustbekarma]

If it wasn't for the little girl, I wouldn't care what happens in this intro. I still predict this won't end well.

[calliope1975]

Just now, JackONeill said:

Now everybody knows about gut camouflage?!?

I know, right? Why isn't everyone walking around at all times covered in guts?

[candall]

Missed the beginning!  Bloody bloody people I don't know . . .flashback?

[calliope1975]

Because it's not the zombies we should fear, it's the humans. /somber nod 

/eye roll

[JackONeill]

And once again: it's the living who are evil!!!!

[raven]

Hey they made it through!  Shows what I know.

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Now everybody knows about gut camouflage?!?

It's the go-to look in the ZA!  Obviously they are much smarter about this stuff in Mexico than they were in Georgia.

[nodorothyparker]

Gee, Nick, who could have predicted that advertising you have Oxy might cause armed assholes to come looking for it?

[JackONeill]

It's a young Roger Daltry.

I can see for miles.

[nodorothyparker]

So Ofelia abandoned the crew to go on a reminscing walk about?  That's about par for the course with this group.

[JackONeill]

It seems like everybody this show has become a badass.

[Red Fields]

I was wondering about where she was getting gasoline.

It's a walker, I bet.

[mightysparrow]

Are they getting  ready to open up for business?  And should Alicia be learning to surf with all those zombies in the water?

[riverheightsnancy]

WTF- This is club med of the ZA. Ice, generator, fishing, surfing lessons. 

[raven]

Have fun, folks at the hotel.  It won't last long.

I guess they're taking clothes from the gift shop or dead people's suitcases.

Alicia, Nick isn't worrying about you, don't worry about him.

Edited September 19, 2016 by raven

[JackONeill]

Just now, riverheightsnancy said:

WTF- This is club med of the ZA. Ice, generator, fishing, surfing lessons. 

They could sell time shares.

Just ignore the zombies.

[candall]

Okay, I caught up on the beginning, but now I'm really behind.  Hey, is that Ofelia?  She really did split!?

But back to the beginning people . . . did we know it was necessary to SNEAK AWAY if you wanted to leave Colonia?

Look, Hugh Grant's stand-in got a speaking role.

[mightysparrow]

Oh my god, he's brushing his teeth!!!!!!!

[Red Fields]

Oops!

[JackONeill]

This is like a soap opera. "You took my daughter."

[raven]

Ooh screwed up Strand's nice new shirt too.

[nodorothyparker]

Really, Sue Ellen Mischke?

[mightysparrow]

That bitch hurt my baby Strand.  She better be zombie chow ASAP.

[NorthstarATL]

1 minute ago, JackONeill said:

This is like a soap opera. "You took my daughter."

Desperate Zombie Apocalypse Housewives!

[raven]

Yeah what the hell?  It's not like she was watching over zombie daughter; the husband was.

No good deed goes unpunished, Strand - well in TWD universe, anyway.

"She'll come around???"  She STABBED him, dude.

Edited September 19, 2016 by raven

[ottoDbusdriver]

What would have happened if someone else answered the door  ? Sue Ellen may have easily stabbed the wrong person -- would she have also claimed that that newly stabbed person also killed her daughter ? FFS !!

Were the gang members from the supermarket aggressively patrolling outside the colonia looking for Nick and the oxy ALL THIS TIME ? Because that is just ridiculous that they picked up that family so quickly.

[JackONeill]

It was cute. He called for Madison.

[Straycat80]

Who was the stabby bitch? Strand better be ok! 

[Armchair Critic]

Are they going to kill off one of the least annoying people on the show? But then again they had him flirting with Maddie so maybe they don't know what to do with his character.

[NorthstarATL]

I'll bet she knows where to get Oxy! The storylines merge!

[nodorothyparker]

Bets now on if the place Elena knows of is the Colonia or somewhere close by?

[raven]

Hmmmm....WHERE could she mean, she knows where to get some painkillers??

[riverheightsnancy]

So, they have a doctor on staff at Zombie Club Med? Since when did Strand become Victor? Gotta love how Madison NEVER thinks or mentions her husband or Chris. 

[ottoDbusdriver]

Was that marriage proposal Ophelia's flashback or Luciana's flashback ?  I'm a little confused.

[mightysparrow]

Oh shit, she's going to take them to the Costco of Death.  Poor Strand isn't going to like the painkillers.

[raven]

OK, Colman Domingo has a nice chest LOL.

Hmm, Madison, I've heard this "no violence against people" speech before, somewhere.

Edited September 19, 2016 by raven