u/NotSoHighLander

1. Hal
2. Murray/Paint
3. Thimble

It all crystalized for me after watching Murray sit in the theatre and what she witnessed. I haven't finished the episode, or the arc, but I'd be shocked if THIS is revealed yet.

Conjuration and Necromancy.

A doorway to death.

In Brennans own words, the separation of magic is almost arbitrary and the lines blur. Everybody BUT Hal, including myself, thought this was a summoning circle to some eldritch abonimation but then Hal said doorway. And then I thought abut Hal's role in all this and where Thiazi chose to place this spell. In a theatre. On a mural. A mural of all of those who have passed before him to now. A place where stories are told.

I recognized a hidden component to this answer, and it was laced in Brennan's positioning of who Thiazi is to Murray. The man who wielded the Liar's blade and the one who held all the hope to the end that the sun would one day shine again on the world.

The question posed:

Was Thiazi a good man?

And he asks it for a reason.

A doorway to death. Generations of people.

Is Thiazi a good man?

I believe Hal has the right of it. This is a doorway. A doorway to death. But if Thiazi is a good man then I don't think it's for an eldritch abonimation but rather for the people who have died and had nowhere to go since the fall of the gods.

If Thiazi is a good man then this mural is a resurrection spell that will undo ALL the death that was caused by the Shapers' war with men. It is the falcon's cry. A herald to the dead.

All the hope in the world that things could be better.

Perhaps this wasn't mere faith.

I wonder if Thiazi is among those of the dead and he let himself die as the near final component. A condition to the activation of the spell, as some great spells are want to do, effectively making it a failsafe for him and his wishes.

Because would any wise man or good leader let it all rest on his own head?

Final piece.

Thimble.

His most trusted companion. His right hand man. His sworn sword. The one who carried all his dreams with him, dutifully, seemingly without question. The one who would do anything for him.

Perhaps the one he trusted the most to activate it, if not for her sheer loyalty. She could almost do it without question.

I think Thimble is the key. The question now is how to turn it.

It's a real shame. I was most interested in seeing Matt play this kind of character but I find I am incredibly bored, and really am so with much of C4 so far, buuut, I do seem to be enjoying the clips I get from the schemers and find myself endeared to most of the party quite to my own surprise.

Anywho. The question is what can't I miss?

Big Julien moments, if there are any, I also heard there was a confrontation between Occtis and Thaisha.

Is there anything else I need to know before I just watch Tailgate/skip?

I'm just commenting here in case you guys need a body to the post.

But I am curious to hear your stories.

And if it did help, how long did it take, roughly?

In a nutshell I am stuck between a rock and a hard place. I feel like I am in a somewhat challenging state right now that makes connecting with others difficult, not impossible, but difficult. I feel emotionally volatile. I'm not violent or anything like that, but I think others can tell how cagey I am, and they'd be right. Problem is I'm not connecting with anyone really these days. I don't have much of a support system though I'm trying to establish one. The hard place is that I am beggining to question if the loneliness itself is not actively making it harder for me to engage in the first place, without going into excrutiating detail. So in a sense, it's as if the universe is saying, you have to connect with others, but my body is saying please don't.

Emphasis on the bizareness of the 'what if' factor in these movies.

Some examples of my favourites are Liar Liar and Stranger Than Fiction and Click.

The loneliness is killing me. I have pretty much no one to talk to right now at this moment. I've noticed as of recently that I am really lacking in knowing and having support from other people who have similar experiences as myself. It's just been one experience after another of disappointment.

I'm not necessarily interested in trauma dumping, or a prolonged interaction unless we enjoy eachothers company. I just want someone to talk to who is kind and grounded and not interested in giving me unsolicited advice or pitying me. I'm looking for someone whose done some work and would appreciate the company of someone else like that as well.

Some icebreakers however, is that I like birding, philosophy, talking movies and the benefits of barefoot hiking, among other things.

Hi there, you can call me Ego. I am looking to pal around with some folks. I'm mostly on xbone, but have a ps4 and pc.

Some of my hobbies are movies (I also write them), rock climbing, and learning about how to heal and live well in the crazy world we live in.

I'm open to non-violent shooters, party games or games like gang beasts, or puzzle games like portal 2, trying not to play anything that is too chaotic or competitive for now - I just want to play casually. I am flexible however so happy to chat about other options.

If you're interested, hit me up and tell me a little bit about yourself.

Bye!

If you rewatch the show, you notice pretty quickly how fast the walkers turn from terrifying to annoying. You could argue it shifts with the characters perspectives, which is true, but it also shifts independently. We are all aware of this, the walkers being less of a threat, but I just wanted to mention it is too painfully obvious in season 3.

In season 1 as might recall the zombies are fast, strong, smart, and menacing looking, they seem half-alive still, not as far gone as their later iterations. By the end of season 2 however everyone is headshotting them, in moving cars no less (this is absurd if you know anything about shooting a gun). There's more but I won't bother. This is bad, but not egregious. What is egregious is probably when Glenn literally pushes a pipe through fence and then through a zombies head as if it were made of soft cheese. To the flesh may be stretched thin, and weak, but you still have to put a good deal of effort with that. At best he'd knock it over, and only really have a chance of busting the skull if he was slamming down with it. You might say 'shut up, it's a zombie show,' but then you'd have to explain how Maggie stabs a zombie in the neck and kills it. You know, the neck, where the brain is. Daryl also kills a walker by jamming it through the eye, you know, where the other brain is.

The reality is that the walkers are really just a blunt instrument that the writers and have no fixed identity of their own since Darabont's departure. They spawn beside peope seemingly when someone needs to die, they're terrifying and fast when we need people to be scared and then made of tissue paper when we need the group to look more capable.

Group is too comfy?

Throw a herd in.

Whatever identity and role that Darabont had established for them is long gone by this point and when you have the survivors killing them through inexplicable means you know that production doesn't really care about the zombies anymore. It's understandable that the survivors would get more used to zombies at this point, but my contention is that it's only possible because they made them so useless in the first place.

Edit: I also want to sidebar point out that they brought the only doctor they had out of the secure cell block to clear the prison - that would be Hershel.

She and I went to school together and she basically was abusive the whole time. Looking back it almost makes me sick that I put up with it. She basically only ever talked about herself, or him, she would rarely ask me any questions. Any time I asked her questions it was like she was speedrunning the answers, like she had no interest in making any kind of connection with me. When she wasn't being insulting she would bad mouth others or draw attention to herself in a sexual way. If I ever gave her sass back she would retaliate to the point where I would feel seriously burned by her. She would always retaliate ten fold. Our last interaction she tried to enact some kind of reputational damage on me and tried to assault me. My friend has said nothing about it. My friend is gullible and always thinks the best of people. I think she's still love bombing him. I think he's so in love with her that he won't be able to hear me clearly, and frankly I have enough shit going on in my life that I don't want this woman anywhere near me. I have known this guy for decades it'd be a fucking shame if I lost him, but what's worse is that I'm genuinely concerned for him. I worry she'll pulll a Brynn Hartman on him if he leaves her because he's tried to before.

Do I have any options other than let the sorry situation play out?

Is there any way I can know for sure?

She definitely has high trait narcissism I just don't have a smoking gun.

It's definitely not all of them but enough of them at one point or another will go 'awww' when I confess something sad or frustrating. It's very strange and I wonder where it's coming from. I am a man, and I think even if I was a woman it would still piss me off. It comes off as emasculating and infantilizing. I'm not sure if it's some mothering instinct they can't help suppress but I find it very inappropriate given the context of our relationship.