How it ends - live updates and spoilers.

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Watching How it Ends -

Short of it is: Guy leaves his wife in Seattle to visit Chicago. Unnamed catastrophe happens and the power grid and cell phones go down, so he and his father in law get in a car and start driving west towards the wife/daughter.

Things I like: The genre.

Bad guys approach the husband and Father in Law (the character is retired Marine) (H and FIL from here out). Bad guys (white people) start threatening - FIL goes to 'get his money' from the trunk and pulls out a .45 pistol. Bad guys run.

Things I don't like:

When H and FIL back in the car, H says "You should have told me about the gun!" Then FIL has to defend the fact he was able to defend himself.

Seeing people fleeing the large cities and the heroes trapped in the chaos. Nobody is prepared - and that is not fiction.

Grown man - the husband - does not know how to load and fire a pistol.

FIL sees deer in the road and decides to crash their car instead of just braking and steering.

Military already seems to be the bad guy - set up a road block "For the safety of the people" because "They closed the interstate because there would be nobody to help if you got a flat or ran into trouble" and the citizenry just believed it and were okay with it. and that makes me frustrated because it's like that in real life - people allow their government to close public roads 'for their safety' and restrict travel and commerce. FIL calls a guy wearing 1SG Rank "Sergeant". The 1SG ends up letting the duo through the checkpoint, however.

So far the only nice characters are non-white - the 1SG notwithstanding.

More as it comes to me....


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More bandits - redneck white guys.

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Now a preacher on TV talking about how God is doing this - southern baptist sounding preacher. Its on the radio to mock christianity, as if Christians are just too stupid and backwoods to understand the incident (which looks like aliens now).


Some non-bad-guy white people now. Friends of the H in a small town - husband and wife - but husband is out of town. Town run by white sheriff with good-ol-boys in pick-ups helping him "keep the riff-raff out".


Friend's wife 'walks in' on gratuitously shirt-less H. He's in great shape.



The friend's wife (FW) is weak and scared and emotional. She's too weak to live out in the country. She'll make a move on H pretty soon, am convinced.

Now she is losing her shit and he's hugging her because she needs a man to give her any hope. Lame.

They leave FW alone and continue along their way. Dumb dumb dumb.

They stopped to check out an abandoned waterpark to find anything usefull. FIL says "We should split up"

Dumb, dumb, dumb,

Helicopter flies overhead

"...blackhawk.." is said in reference to the helo.

"you know about helicopters!!?"

Duh. I know what a Flux Capacitor looks like but i dont know time travel.


The girl they picked up at the first stop - forgot to mention her - Native American. Terrific body.

Omg they are so fucking dumb

The come across a lady begging for help...

"Come to us please!" they say

"No, no!! just help me!"


Nobody has seen Book of Eli.

Surprise surprise it's a trap. Fight ensues.

People are stealing their gas now. How are they doing it? Because they have GUNS.

Oh - and the people Stealing? They are all white. Of course.

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The caught up to the bad guys and the bad guys were killed. The girl with them throws a God damn FIT "Omg! I killed them!!" Killing is never right, right? She saved the whole group. Now she's puking and saying all kinds of bad things about coming along "i should have stayed on the rez!" (Indian reservation)...and how (native american right?) when they say "you have to stay with us, we are in the middle of nowhere!"

"I've lived in the middle of nowhere since the say i was born! We will survive this longer than YOU will (white people)"

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Train of Army stuff crashed. So they are looking through the wrecked vehicles (on low-boys etc) for gas for their car.


No - Army uses Diesel. They should know that.

H brings back two plastic 5 gallon jugs to the car - Dude...plastic tan 5 gallon jugs? Water. No mention was made so am assuming they want the viewer to believe they now have gas.

WHY IN THE NAME OF EVERLASTING FUCK DID THEY NOT TAKE A GOD DAMN M1 TANK?? there were maybe a dozen of the tanks on the train cars. Or get a HMMWV??? God these characters are SO DUMB.

They didn't search the train for weapons or food. Or even Personal Protective gear?

(sigh)

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H and FIL do some emotional bonding - which to me means one of them is gonna die.

they blindly drive onto every bridge that comes in their way without even THINKING about recon first to make sure it's not an ambush..

Guess what?

Ambush.

Group of country folk, trucks, off road lights, dirt bikes - dressed in all black.

Now their car is boxed in on the bridge

Gunfire and stuff.

they made it past the ambush.

Doesn't make sense. The bad guys were heavily armed and couldnt stop them; barely fired back.


One of them died.


H driving and car running out of gas. Of course. He shouldnt have put water in the tank. He's he's beating the car up yelling "FUCK!"

Abandon the car, take what you can carry, kid.

WTF?

He's pouring gas from the water jug all over the car and setting it on fire. Must have been a broken engine not out of gas.

Carry the water/gas with you, dude. Barter that shit or use for another car you may find.


He will not, I suspect.


Yep. he left it.