Author: TJ Provost

I am nearly, almost, 100% sure this was just a photo stunt. For the sake of that woman’s pubis, I certainly hope he didn’t have a live round in that weapon.

The bottom line however is that this is just a bad idea. People make mistakes. Maybe he thought he cleared it and grabbed an empty clip – maybe he picked up a magazine with a single round it and didn’t notice. He pulls the trigger and hurts her, or worse, she falls and as her legs wrap around the barrel it goes off and she loses an arm or maybe her life.

Firearms are not toys. They are not props. They are deadly tools that should be treated like such. I love shooting, I enjoy the range and every time I manage to acquire a new weapon it is like Christmas morning.

I would like to have a lot more moments like that. Which means all of us have to act like responsible adults and not give the “anti Gun” lobby fuel to use against us.

Be safe out there…

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For the record, I am talking about the grenade…

Fear the Walking Dead, Season 3

Episode 5 (Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame)

Summary:

Jeremiah’s Camp

Fear The Walking Dead, Episode 5, Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame, starts with a scene of a remote farm house on the edge of the compound. An old man and his wife were in bed when she passed and turned.He gets up and embraces her, knowing the end has come. He dances with her for a moment as she gums his neck (her dentures are on the table) before putting a gun to his head and taking them both out with a single shot. As they both fall their lantern breaks and the building catches on fire.

The rest of the community rouses, but Jeremiah tells the fire brigade to save the water, it’s too late to save the house.

The next morning Madison packs up to go on the patrol to search for the missing search party. While on the road the convoy sees a small horde and Troy decides they need to clear the undead so they don’t head up the highway to the camp. His team and Madison go down to a bus of convicts and Troy goes BA while Madison just barely holds her own.

When Madison and the convoy get to where the outpost was they find someone hauled away whatever they were expecting to find. Troy loads up his team and they get back on the road to go to the outpost. When they get there is appears deserted. Clothes are hanging on the line but no one is around. They smell smoke and burnt meat and follow it to a pile of dead bodies. I the distance an old man is sitting, his brains being eaten by a crow as he babbles. Madison takes her knife and puts him out of his misery. When the team turns to leave there is a newcomer there – and Indian fellow who look mildly menacing. 

Team Troy is surrounded by the newcomers and they are forced to give up their guns, their vehicles, and even their boots. The Indian wants Troy to tell his father to abandon the ranch or there will be war. Team Troy tries to hump back but it is dark and everyone had their boots taken away. Everyone is tired and hurting but Troy wants to force his men to march. Madison drops some truth bombs on Troy and then kind of pulls rank on him by asking the men if they need to rest. Troy isn’t happy, and he lets Madison know it by putting a knife to her throat while she’s sleeping.

In camp Alicia is hurting from spending too much time with the church study group who just happens to like to drink and smoke pot. After spilling some coffee she goes to apologize for being rude to Jake and they end up in bed together – but Alicia is clearly depressed. Jake tries to give her a book on poems but she doesn’t see the point.

Near the end of the episode Alicia is on top of a stone outcropping, looking at the sun before jumping. She lands in the small lake below and comes up laughing – maybe washed clean of her doubt?

Daniel & Strand

Daniel and Strand are on the road, making their way back to the hotel to get his daughter. Strand is playing a dangerous game with Daniel – trying to hedge on whether Ofelia will be at the hotel or not.

When they finally get to the hotel the gates are open and no lights are on. Victor doesn’t want to go in but Daniel doesn’t let that happen – he has to know if his daughter is inside and if she needs help. They are in the lobby  in the dark and they can hear the undead. To force Victor to talk Daniel rings the front desk bell and then leaves Victor behind when he admits that Ofelia bolted a long time ago.

Things I loved about this episode…

• Alicia using Alcohol and Pot to deal with her stress. I think a lot of people would. I wonder if she is going to fall as hard as Nick did?
• Troy going totally BA on the bus of undead.
• Nick trying to set up a date night for Luciana.

Things that I didn’t like about this episode…

• Alicia just jumps into bed with Jake? Did she at least have protection? Who wants to get pregnant during the ZA.
• Luciana deciding to leave because she can see that Nick wants to stay.

Main Characters:

• Nick Clark – Starts the season off by finding his girlfriend turned into a walker in a church. Has a addition problem.
• Alicia Clark – Nick’s sister. Has already lost her boyfriend to the virus.
• Madison Clark – Mother to Nick and Alicia. She worked at the high school where she met Travis Manawa, her boyfriend.
• Travis Manawa – School teacher and Madison’s love interest.
• Chris Manawa – Travis’s son.
• Daniel Salazar – The Barber who shelters Team Travis in Episode 2.
• Ofelia Salazar  – The Barber’s cute daughter.
• Strand – The Instigator who Nick met in the detention center in S1, Episode 5.
• Thomas – Strand’s significant other.
• Celia – Thomas & Louis’s mother.
• Jack the Radio Dude – Alicia’s radio boyfriend.
• Connor – Jack’s boss and the leader of the boat pirates.
• Louis – Strand’s friend. The one who was going to get Strand into Mexico.
• Alex – Female from flight 462 plane shorts.
• Luciana – Female who ends up helping Nick in S2, Episode 8.
• Alejandro – the leader & Pharmacist who runs the colony.
• Elena – manager at the Hotel who the other guests blame for locking them in.
• Antonio – Elena’s sister who is with the Bandits.
• Jeremiah Otto – Troy and Jake’s dad. The leader of the camp.
• Troy – Crazy brother who was killing people to see how long it took them to turn.
• Jake – Good brother who saved Travis, Nick, Alicia, and Nick’s girlfriend.
• Efrain – Rescues Daniel in Season 3, Episode 4 when he comes “back from the dead”
• Lola – the woman at the water plant who gave Daniel his job in Season 3, Episode 4.

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Trigger Discipline saves lives…

Fear the Walking Dead, Season 3

Episode 4 (100)

Summary:

Fear The Walking Dead, Episode 4, 100, starts with the story of how Daniel (The Barber) survived after the fire in Season 2 where he appeared to die willingly.  He’s burnt up, out on the streets, and thirsty when he gets into a slow race with a walker who is in slightly better shape than him.

It wins the race but Daniel is saved by a dog that starts barking, distracting the single walker who had him.

A wanderer finds Daniel and takes pity on him, taking him back to his hiding place in a mall where he has an old fountain that still pumps some water – once a week. Daniel’s savior puts him in his trike and then turns on a speaker announcing he has water while he rides through the zombies, his speaker drawing the undead to him.

The water an takes Daniel to other survivors who decide to clean his burnt up flesh with a straight razor.

A little bit of time passes and we see Daniel with his rescuer Efrain, who it turns out may be a priest? A priest who likes to drink. Efrain likes to use large nails and his hammer to kill the walkers.

Efrain lets Daniel cut his hair, and then tells him he knows he going to try and run. Efrain tries to understand why and Daniel tells him he’s killed lots of people – 96 to be specific. Efrain tries to make Daniel feel better but he begins to understand why Daniel wants to get back out on the road when he realizes Daniel is looking for his Daughter, Ofelia. Which leads to Daniel breaking down, telling Efrain that he’s not sure if he killed his daughter in the fire, or if she’s still alive. Daniel begs Efrain to forgive him. When Efrain falls asleep Daniel sneaks out into the darkness only to find it raining and dark.

Daniel kills one walker with a shovel handle before encountering a massive dude. The shovel doesn’t even phase the giant walker. Daniel kneels, defeated, leaving it to God – which is when the giant walker gets zapped in the head by lightening.

Daniel and the giant walker go down and are carried away in the run off, only to end up at the dam where Victor is. The people who find him are more scared they will be accused of sneaking him in if they are caught with him than anything else – so they hire him to be a janitor.

Daniel goes to work, does a shift, then ends up in the cafeteria eating his lunch. One of the bosses body guards puts his finger into Daniel’s food only to have Daniel disagree violently.

The fight leads the Boss to recognize Daniel, The Butcher, and just like that Daniel is walking away, no longer a janitor. The Boss asks him what he wants and smooth talks him into staying. A job is better than a jeep to go out into the Apocalypse. The job the Boss wants him to do is to find and kill the water thief – who just so happens to be the man who saved Daniel.

The search party crashes through the gates into the mall and finds the dry fountain – but the clock is ticking and to save the fountain Daniel gives up Efrain. He thinks he’s doing it to protect the girl who gave him his job – but she doesn’t care, she thinks hes a traitor. Which leads us right to where we saw Daniel at the end of Episode 3, giving Victor a canteen of water through the bars.

Daniel wants to know if his daughter is alive, which Victor confirms. If Daniel will let him out he will take Daniel to find his daughter. She’s just down the coast. Daniel doesn’t believe him, he’s convinced Victor will say anything to get out of the cell.

Which leads Daniel to face the reality of what he’s done by handing over Efrain. The poor priest is tied to a chair, getting beaten, but Efrain won’t give up how he is getting water, which would put the head of the water plant in jeopardy as well.

The Boss is happy when Daniel walks in – his expert in making people talk has just showed up. Daniel tells Efrain that he only has two options. Efrain can talk, in which case the priest dies and so does the woman helping him. Option two is he doesn’t talk, and Daniel will kill him. He will try and do it as quickly as he can – it is all he can offer. Daniel is going to kill Efrain when the woman breaks and grabs Efrain, embracing him. both are taken to the top of the dam. It is time for them to go over the edge. Daniel grabs the first guy and the Boss pushes him over. Daniel grabs Lola, the woman who gave him a job next and takes her to the edge where he hesitates before going Jason Bourne and saving Lola, Efrain, and Victor too. He kneels at her feet and asks her for forgiveness.

Things I loved about this episode…

• Slow Walker race with Daniel when he is just about out of juice.
• Daniel turning on the Boss at the end. I was very glad he turned to the good side.

Things that I didn’t like about this episode…

• Why would you cut up a wounded man’s leg with a straight razor?
• Daniel being forced to work over Efrain. That sucked.

Main Characters:

• Nick Clark – Starts the season off by finding his girlfriend turned into a walker in a church. Has a addition problem.
• Alicia Clark – Nick’s sister. Has already lost her boyfriend to the virus.
• Madison Clark – Mother to Nick and Alicia. She worked at the high school where she met Travis Manawa, her boyfriend.
• Travis Manawa – School teacher and Madison’s love interest.
• Chris Manawa – Travis’s son.
• Daniel Salazar – The Barber who shelters Team Travis in Episode 2.
• Ofelia Salazar  – The Barber’s cute daughter.
• Strand – The Instigator who Nick met in the detention center in S1, Episode 5.
• Thomas – Strand’s significant other.
• Celia – Thomas & Louis’s mother.
• Jack the Radio Dude – Alicia’s radio boyfriend.
• Connor – Jack’s boss and the leader of the boat pirates.
• Louis – Strand’s friend. The one who was going to get Strand into Mexico.
• Alex – Female from flight 462 plane shorts.
• Luciana – Female who ends up helping Nick in S2, Episode 8.
• Alejandro – the leader & Pharmacist who runs the colony.
• Elena – manager at the Hotel who the other guests blame for locking them in.
• Antonio – Elena’s sister who is with the Bandits.
• Jeremiah – Troy and Jake’s dad. The leader of the camp.
• Troy – Crazy brother who was killing people to see how long it took them to turn.
• Jake – Good brother who saved Travis, Nick, Alicia, and Nick’s girlfriend.
• Efrain – Rescues Daniel in Season 3, Episode 4 when he comes “back from the dead”
• Lola – the woman at the water plant who gave Daniel his job in Season 3, Episode 4.

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To all those Dad’s out there who always went the extra mile.

Making sure your kids had food on the table and go to school.

Saving to get them that new pair of shoes for baseball or soccer.

Thank you.

Look at all those teethies, that is creepies….

I sincerely hope that was a pellet gun – because in that event the worst your likely to do is put this guys eye out.

If that was a .22 however, you could easily kill this guy – and maybe someone in a boat on that lake just behind them.

The bottom line, leave this kind of idiocy to the CGI guys who work in movies. Recording this makes other knuckleheads think it might be a good idea – and Guns should NEVER be treated like toys.

So don’t do this unless you want to be featured on Bad Gun Handling Wednesday…

Fear the Walking Dead, Season 3

Episode 3 (Teotwawki)

Summary:

Teotwawki started right on time at 9PM Est with a creepy commercial. We find out that the compound the family ended up in last episode was built with the proceeds from selling “How to survive the end of the world tapes.”

The American Experiment has failed. The only way to protect your family is to be prepared. Buy my four part series “Teotwawki” which will tell you how to survive the apocalypse.

When we come back to the here and now the compound is having a funeral for the young lady who was killed by walkers after the helicopter crash. Some of the people are mad that Madison and her kids are there. Others want to know when they are going to find out who shot down the helicopter and what they are going to do about it.

In the infirmary Nick is feeding Luciana. As soon as they let her out of the cuffs she wants to find weapons and run. Nick isn’t so sure yet.

At the family meeting Nick wants to leave, to go out and form their own survival group which creates some friction between the family. Madison wants to stay, Nick wants to leave, and Alicia seems to just want to kill Troy. The reason for Madison wanting to stay is clear – she just lost Travis and doesn’t want to lose anyone else.

After Troy broke into Madison’s bunkhouse she goes and asks Jake and his father, Jeremiah for help. She doesn’t want to fight Troy. Jake goes and tells Troy to stay away from the Clark’s but Troy doesn’t sound like he’s being honest.

Alicia goes to the “Bible Study” only to find that the teens like to smoke pot and drink. It was not what Alicia was expecting at all. She also gets to meet Jeff, a zombie head in a bird cage. At first she looks horrified, then she starts to giggle. The teens use Jeff as a foil to ask Alicia questions about her life. Then the conversation turns to Troy and Alicia tells them they shouldn’t rely on the Troys of the world – sometimes you need to handle your own shit. Jeff then asks what bad stuff Alicia has done and she admits to having killed someone – and that it was easy.

While Madison is in Jeremiah office she sees how Jeremiah was likely abusive to his alcohol addicted ex. Jeremiah and Madison bond a little of their shared experience with alcoholism.

When dark falls Troy pulls up and asks Nick to go with him to hunt a boar that has been getting into the garden. Jeremiah ends up outside with Madison and he tells her Nick went on the hunt with Troy and she doesn’t seem super concerned. Come on, Troy is a psycho. Out in the woods Nick tackles Troy and takes him to the ground. Then there is some weird conversation, a shot into the ground, and Nick and Troy are friends? What the heck?

The next day Jeremiah still hasn’t heard from his team he sent out the day before. He asks for volunteers to go check with his son Jake. Madison and a few others raise their hands to go with Jake and check on the others.

Victor

Victor has found an old friend, Dante, who knew Thomas and him in the old days. Dante takes Victor out to what appears to be a dam where they throw someone over before grabbing Victor. Dante asks him if he really thought they were friends before screaming that the other man needs him.

Dante tells his men throw Victor over before halting them. Victor is going to work off whatever debt Dante perceives he owes him. It sounds like Victor is about to pay for his sins.

The last thing we see at the end of the episode is Victor in prison – only to find out that Daniel may still be alive? Is Victor having heat dreams or is Daniel really there? I guess we have to wait until next week to find out.

Things I loved about this episode…

• They keep Luciana cuffed to her bed in the med station so if she turns she can’t get loose. Finally people being reasonable.
• Jeff.

Things that I didn’t like about this episode…

• Troy is in Madison’s room when she goes back to her hut and she is way to relaxed.
• Really Nick, you get into a truck to go hunting in the dark with Troy? What the hell is wrong with you?

Main Characters:

• Nick Clark – Starts the season off by finding his girlfriend turned into a walker in a church. Has a addition problem.
• Alicia Clark – Nick’s sister. Has already lost her boyfriend to the virus.
• Madison Clark – Mother to Nick and Alicia. She worked at the high school where she met Travis Manawa, her boyfriend.
• Travis Manawa – School teacher and Madison’s love interest.
• Chris Manawa – Travis’s son.
• Daniel Salazar – The Barber who shelters Team Travis in Episode 2.
• Ofelia Salazar  – The Barber’s cute daughter.
• Strand – The Instigator who Nick met in the detention center in S1, Episode 5.
• Thomas – Strand’s significant other.
• Celia – Thomas & Louis’s mother.
• Jack the Radio Dude – Alicia’s radio boyfriend.
• Connor – Jack’s boss and the leader of the boat pirates.
• Louis – Strand’s friend. The one who was going to get Strand into Mexico.
• Alex – Female from flight 462 plane shorts.
• Luciana – Female who ends up helping Nick in S2, Episode 8.
• Alejandro – the leader & Pharmacist who runs the colony.
• Elena – manager at the Hotel who the other guests blame for locking them in.
• Antonio – Elena’s sister who is with the Bandits.
• Jeremiah – Troy and Jake’s dad. The leader of the camp.
• Troy – Crazy brother who was killing people to see how long it took them to turn.
• Jake – Good brother who saved Travis, Nick, Alicia, and Nick’s girlfriend.

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