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  • Scramm was folded into other characters, with Stebbins getting his bad cold and Olson getting his wife, which the core group promises to care for if any of them win.

    Scramm getting pneumonia was drawn out for quite a while in the book, but Stebbins having the cold was barely a single sentence in the movie dialog.

    There were other instances where character traits in the book were melded into different characters in the movie, but that was to be expected. There’s only so much you can do in a 90 minute movie.

    Why do the walkers sign up for it? Some weird national pride. With the screwed up direction the country has taken in the story, entering the lottery for the possibility of representing your state in the walk is an honor of sorts.

    !Is McVries dead? Yes, but not by the hands of the soldiers.
    With him killing The Major, he might be viewed as a trigger that starts an uprising in the country, and if he is killed, he dies as a martyr to the cause.
    I do think that he would soon likely commit suicide due to PTSD and extreme survivor’s guilt!<.


  • I finally had a chance to see this in the theater.
    Wow.

    I’ve read the book quite literally countless times, so I was fully aware of what to expect.
    Some of the characters didn’t fit my mind view at all, Hank Olson for one, and the characters weren’t nearly as fleshed out as in the book, but that is to be expected.
    With what they had to work with, I think it was all done very well.

    !It was the whole twist with McVries and an expansion of his background that really worked for me. Usually I don’t like it when a movie makes radical changes from the book, but I really liked this ending. The Major shooting Garraty coupled with McVries changing his wish due to the pain he felt in that moment was huge. Absolutely brilliant.!<




  • With cookies like these, you can’t just go right for the center. You have to nibble around the edges a bit and work your way in slowly. Always good to have another cookie in your hand while working on the first. Then trade off… A little taste from this one, a little from the other.

    … Then go full cookie monster.









  • mkhoppertomemesIf you know you know.
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    “So there I was, walking nude on the beach. I tripped and fell right on to one of those new beer bottles that someone just happened to stick into the sand upside-down.”

    “Get out…”

    “No, no, that’s what really happened.”

    “No, I mean, get the fuck out of this hospital.”