Spoiler Splash - Walking Dead S5E11

Make sure you tune in this week to the Apocalypse Nana show, 9 PM EXT Prepper Broadcasting Network, when we will have a visit from the Spoiler Fairies.

In the meantime, let me share what I have found out.

{SPOILERS AHEAD}

Examine the sneak peak video for this week’s episode and look at second mark 22. Looks to me like Glen comes awfully close to being bit.

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Here is a tease of what they have
- Rick and Judith stay behind at barn, Aaron is tied up. Judith won't stop crying, Aaron offers some apple sauce which Rick believes to be poisoned.

From Wet Paint – This is the episode Rick loses his beard. So that tells me they arrive at Alexandria safe Zone. CORRECTION (As told by SpoilingDeadfans) Rick loses his beard in Episode 12, they only arrive at Alexandria Safe Zone.

So all that hoopla in the barn from the previews is just that.

So let’s deduct. We have seen from the previews that the group runs into trouble. We know from the GN, that Aaron (The clean and neat survivor) is not a bad guy, so who is after the group? Walkers or the Wolves? Wolves being perhaps AKA the Saviors from the GN.

Remember in Episode 5.9 we saw the graffiti on the wall about Wolves and the ‘W’ carved into the forehead of the walker.

Last week, I discovered that information I provided was also placed on another site first. A site I was honestly unaware of. So this week, I received info and was directed to that site.

Allow me to credit them correctly this week.

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Including …

Eric, Aaron’s partner makes an appearance this week. Which again reiterates they get to ASF.

From The Spoiling Dead Fans facebook page (Credited to their own Obi Wan)

The scene opens with the group hanging out in the barn doing stuff and thangs. Daryl is cleaning his BFF aka his crossbow. Rick is sitting on the ground with Judith, while Carl is messing with a piece of wood off the barn's wall.

Maggie comes into the barn announcing to the group, "This is Aaron." Daryl immediately approaches the barn door and makes sure there is no one outside. He then conducts a nice little TSA frisk on Aaron. Maggie states that she has already searched Aaron and removed his weapon.

The group, wary of this stranger, surrounds Aaron with their weapons pointed at him. Awkward Aaron offers an awkward "hi". Rick asks Maggie for Aaron's weapon. She hands over his pistol and officer Rick assertively checks it for ammo.

Rick asks Aaron if he wants something from them. Sasha says that he has a camp that he wants the group to "audition" for. Aaron explains that he believes the group would be valuable additions to his community.

Aaron asks Sasha to hand Rick his backpack and says there is an envelope in the front pocket. Aaron explains he couldn't just come along without some proof that his community exists. He shows Rick a photo of his community which features large walls. He mentions that their walls are strong and nothing dead or alive can get in. He says that security and their survivors are their top priorities. Aaron also mentions that it is his job to convince the group to follow him.

Before Aaron can explain anymore, an unamused Rick walks straight up to him and delivers an unforgiving punch right in the face, knocking him out cold.

AND finally ….

Some interesting Easter Eggs from 5.9 and 5.10.

From 5.9 – Most of us know Glen’s fate from the GN (bludgeoned with a bat). I wonder if the discovery of the baseball bat during the trip to Noah’s home a foreshadowing of things to come for Glen.

From 5.10 – Perhaps it isn’t Maggie that commits suicide. Any one notice in the barn, that Sasha slept under a loop of rope. Foreshadowing maybe she’ll be the one who attempts suicide.

I promise to post as I find more out. Thanks for stopping by!

Walking Dead - Ten Unanswerable Questions You may Want to Ask

I can't resists, it has been eating me. So I am going to write a Walking Dead Vent Blog. I admit I love the show and at times, I love to hate it. Tonight was one of those nights. Where is it going? Another episode of Walking Dead where I not only huffed in boredom, but ended up twice, doing my own version of Mystery Science Theater for Maggie and Sasha. I’m addicted, not only to the  show but to the weekly torture of so-so episodes, all while holding high hopes that at any time it will get better.

I hated Season Four. Hated it. To be honest, the introduction of Gabriel and hopefully, the impending death of Beth, got me to come back.  I have since learned, any character I really like, dies. After watching tonight, I have made a list of question you would love to ask, but will never get the answer to.

Warning Spoilers if you are not up to Season Five Episode 11.

(For the purpose of these questions making sense, I refer to Rick and gang as ‘Our Group’)

1.      Why did it take so long for our group to get out of Georgia. We learned from T Dog in Season 3 they went in circles for eight months. No wonder they couldn’t find food.

2.      And why can’t they find food. If 90% of the population is … dead, who is eating all the stock? Doesn’t Cosco have a warehouse down there or something?

3.      Why is our group the only ones who don’t have it together. Hershel was the key to that. Haven’t they learned that settling and farming is probably their best bet. Why is our group the only ones that haven’t found a solid place yet?

4.      Am I the only one who things our group are the bad guys in the series, not just the Walkers? Hell if I had a community and I saw that raggedy group heading my way, I’d shoot. They live and act dangerously, no wonder no one wants them.

5.      Why is it any place good that our group goes, they destroy? All that time they spent on Herschel’s farm, they really could have erected fences. Everyone else did it.

6.      What does our group have against cleanliness. Obviously getting clean isn’t impossible, every survivor group they run into is clean. - Note to group, if you find five gallons of water, and don’t trust it to drink, damn it … wash your hands.

7.      So it’s been like. What? Eighteen months? Two years? We have established that cleanliness isn’t priority for our group, so why for as dirty as they get are their teeth so damn clean? Someone get a toothache.

8.      What does AMC have against African American Actors? Why can there not be more than one on the show for very long. We had T Dog, then came Oscar and T Dog died. Here comes Tyrese and Oscar dies. Oops, Father Gabriel .. Tyrese is dead.

9.      Is there some sort of contract stipulation that says Daryl’s cry face will hereby replace Beth’s singing. The first time we saw both (Crying and singing) It was moving, but after that it’s annoying.

10.  In what word do the writers live that people actually talk like that. They had to be drunk over tonight’s dialogue. Carol to Daryl “One day you will feel it. You won’t stop it.” In other words, go sit by that tree, smoke  cigarette and give us your best cry face.

And finally, to the reader who was strongly and rightfully disturbed about my kitten scene in The Experiments, I hope you weren’t watching this episode.

Walking Dead Spoiler Splash - Episode 10

You know, sometimes you just can’t wait. Sometimes you just have to know. I am that type of person. I fact check while watching shows and constantly have to seek spoilers.

I am a Walking Dead junkie, like a crackhead needing a fix, I am everywhere, saying, ‘you got something. What do you have.’

Hence, why I am going to be doing this blog. My ‘go to’ site for spoilers hasn’t been, well, as informative, so I contacted the crack team (Crack, haha) of spoiler masters that I knew provided the info to that site. I am pleased and blessed to announce they will be providing me with the spoilers.

They are very reliable. Please do not ask me to divulge where they get them from, I cannot.

Each Thursday morning I will post spoiler sneaks. Then on my show, Thursday night 9 pm, a member of the Spoiler Splash Team will pop by the show, divulge a little more or get more in-depth over what I posted.

Feel free to follow the blog or follow me on Twitter. @gojake

Through the weekend, I will update the blog as Spoilers come in. I promise to give you the most reliable source of spoilers and info you can get for Walking Dead.

After the mid season premiere, I am hoping that episode 10 is better. It should be for those who were disappointed

And now that the intro is out of the way, here we go.  Spoilers as Q & A Format.

S6E10 – Them

{{ WARNING SPOILERS AHEAD}}

SPOILERS – SERIOUSLY READ AT YOUR OWN RISK

Will we see the Daryl Cry Face?

Unfortunately, yes, but we won’t hear Beth singing.

Does Aaron show up?

Yes, he does and is not greeted friendly.

Do they take the water left for them or was that a trick?

We don’t know if it is a trick, but they pass it by. We do get rain.

Speaking of rain, is it true there is some Z nation weather inspired stuff this episode.

Yes. WD has decided to take a clue from Z-Nation and show that the force of nature is greater that the force of a decaying body.

Are there dogs or wolves that show up?

Dogs, and yes, we are left to wonder if it really has become a dog eat dog, or er, human eat dog world.

Will we see Morgan this episode?

From what we have seen, the answer is no.

If anything new shows up, I’ll up date

Why all the Hate? Did WWE Fumble the Champ?

Let me start by prefacing that this is an opinion piece. My opinion based on pretty much years of watching Professional Wrestling for the entertainment value of it.

So much hate over the 2015 Royal Rumble and for much of what I heard, it mainly had to do with one man. Daniel Bryan. His elimination early on in the Rumble was disheartening and shocking. At least he could have lasted until the end to add some suspense. But really? A movement to cancel my subscription to the network because he didn’t win.  Not gonna happen. Not with me.

True wrestling fans will gripe and complain, but they stay with the game.

WWE can rely on their dedicated fans to tune in. Yep, you’ll say ‘I’m out”  and stop watching, but I guarantee, like me,  you will be back. If you are a diehard, true fan, it’s a drug in your system, a part of who you are.

Wrestlers you love and wrestlers you love to hate.

WWE wants to keep their fans, yes, but they also want to draw in the curious and bring back the ones they lost. A great champ is the way to do it.

Now, I am going to give my opinion on why Daniel Bryan isn’t that champ.

Riot and cry, Bryan is out.

Bryan had his chance in the spotlight. Stripped of title or not, he’s been a champ. He got injured, Stone Cold can tell him a thing or two about coming back.  He didn’t become the next … thing, despite what many in the WWE fanhood may say.

Step aside, for me, you didn’t rise to the occasion. Let someone else take the …Reigns.

To be a viable WWE champ you have to be more than a great wrestler.

Daniel Bryan wasn’t enough to keep me tuned in when Punk was out.

To my dismay, unlike the old days, since Hulk Hogan, a champ has to have ‘it’. If he doesn’t, roll over and make room for the next guy. I disliked the Rock (As a wrestler. Personality I loved), disliked Stone Cold even more and John Cena was my detox from the WWE.

Rock, Bret Hart, Hulk, Shawn Michaels … they all had ‘it’

Daniel Bryan is a phenomenal wrestler. A talent to be reckoned with, but he doesn’t have ‘it’. He almost did, then he opted to not work out, skip bathing, turn Grizzly Adams and piss on trees like it was cute to watch on Divas.

Sorry. for me, I don’t want to tune in and see a champ that looks like the guy that fixes my car.

Not to mention, that ‘Yes! Yes! Yes’, irks me as much as the ‘What!?’ of Stone Cold Days.

HOWEVER, he has such a likability to his personality.

Is Roman Reigns … it?

Well RR has the look, oh, yeah, he has the look. He has the skill, albeit he is still green. He has not come into his own as far as having a shtick. Neither did The Rock. Remember they booed him as well when he was green?

Too bad we can’t morph all the good in Bryan and Reigns. We’d have this.

Now that is a champ we can say ‘Yes’ to. UG … did I just go to my pet peeve?

Ebola: Path of Destruction

It has been a while since I blogged, but this is a good cause.

Ebola, while I still do not have a huge fear of catching it. Ebola can do other things. Already, the economic impact is being felt. It started as a flutter and now seems to be moving faster than experts can keep up.

It’s difficult to imagine they are keeping anything from us. They aren’t. They just aren’t being forefront. A simple ‘search’ will give you some frightening facts.

I have created a video that documents where Ebola started, went and where it will go.

Godzilla 2014 Review - Monster with Testicular Fortitude

If you were that Saturday night ‘B’ movie watcher, or Sunday afternoon waiting on Godzilla to play on television, then you may be a little surprised if you go to see the newest version of the ageless monster, Godzilla.

This review may contain SPOILERS, but really how much of a spoiler can it be. It’s Godzilla.

I wasn’t really a big Godzilla buff, back in the day, I thought the Matthew Broderick one was decent, but the best one I saw was the Japanese Godzilla 2000.  But when I saw the destruction, the look and feel of a dystopian world, all in this new preview, I knew I had to see this one.

I went to the premiere showing with my niece and friend. My friend and for anonymity, we call him Tom. Which is not his name, it sounds like ‘Tom’ but it’s not.

Tom is a consummate movie lover. A good one to have around, although I will wager that he won’t go see another movie with me. Especially my niece, who by genetics, talks as loud as I do.

We sat in the very last row in a pretty empty theater watching the 3D version. I took my Tums for motion sickness and Advil for that 3D headache. I was ready to go.

SPOILER – The story is about a monster, a big monster., But there is a twist about it. Not about the creation of the monster, just the monster storyline.

As far as a story goes, hands down this was the most original of all. Pay attention to the opening credits and the opening scene. Don’t blink, you’ll be asking the person next to you what the time line is. To me, Godzilla doesn’t really look different, just less cheesy.

The acting is good, really good and nothing is overdone. Except the Japanese Doctor, who when asked what it was, turned with drama and seriousness, twitched his upper lip, and while looking at his peers, said in a deep heavily lazed Dialect, “Gah-zheeela”

I laughed. No one else did. Tom nudged me to stop. I’m still not convinced that it wasn’t an inside joke on set.

Visually, the movie is stunning. For those who like destruction … it’s there. For those who want a glimpse into a post apocalypse world, it has it (SPOILER) they show a quarantined city, fifteen years later.

If you hate 3D because it makes you sick and the cinematographer goes overboard, than this is the 3D movie for you. Nothing overdone or bad camera movements that will make you sick. I know, I am sensitive to it. At one point I was tricked. First time sitting in the back row, the heads of the guys in front kept bobbing into the picture and for a split second I thought the 3D was super realistic.

The movie is nonstop action and fun, and it pulls at the heartstrings. And SPOILER, you find yourself cheering for Godzilla. And yes, I'll admit it. I teared up. Then again, I tear up when I watch The Voice.

The thing that I liked best was the trailers didn’t give it away. It didn’t give you the whole movie in 2 minutes. They gave nothing away. In fact they were misleading in a good way.

At one point, SPOILER I was watching them battle on the West Coast and I leaned to Tom and said, “How the heck are they gonna make it all the way to the East then  Paris.”

“What are you talking about?” he asked.

“The trailer showed a destroyed Statue of Liberty and Eiffel Tower.”

“Uh, Jack, that was the Vegas scene.”

Ahhhhh. The editors were very crafty.

Anyhow, I highly recommend this move, it’s a fun summer one. And just one final note: I won't say where or when, but I will say, let me know if I am the only one that saw a Giant, swinging, Yellow Testicle.

Living in the 'Spectrum'

I always said, ‘Forty means freedom’. Being a young mother, by the time I reached forty, my kids would all be fifteen and older no need for a babysitter and I could enjoy my life.  If twenty years ago, someone told me that at nearly fifty years old, this would be my life, I would have said, “No way, no how. I am much too selfish for that. When my kids are old, it’s me time.”

Little did I know that in my forties a bright little blonde haired blue eye boy would change my world. Everything about my world. Everything about me.

God is pretty cool. His has this keen foresight, thing.  Like giving me not only the passion and love for writing, but the gift to do so and the ability to make a living at it at just the right time. I am truly blessed in every capacity. But I honestly believe there is a master plan, There’s a reason I am able to be a full time writer. God was like, “She’s got to be home, be available and ready.  Eh.. let’s let her have this writing thing. Her world is about to go insane.”

That’s what happens when you have a child in the home on the spectrum. It’s insane. I searched you know. High and low on the web for answers, for people like me and my daughter. But either they won’t step forward or her and I are the only ones that feel this way.

My grandson is my life. He came into my life at my lowest point, raised me up, restored my faith, made me feel and I promised that I would do everything for him that I could and try to do more for him than I could for my own kids. He has lived with me since day one.

I support him financially and emotionally. My daughter, I want her to be the best mother she can be and she is awesome. I had to work when she was a baby, so since I am blessed, I tell her stay home, be a mom, be here, I got this.

We kinda knew when my grandson wasn’t speaking .. something was up. He would say words then a week later not say them. He babbled like a rush hour traffic driver listening to the radio and singing a song he didn’t know the lyrics to. Noise and sounds no words. He was diagnosed with Apraxia and hence, began speech therapy.

I live by the clock, I sleep very little, have my writing times laid out. What I do, every day is a must to make a living.

Speech fit in, but even though his speech progressed, something was off. He wasn’t progressing cognitively or socially. As bright and funny and smart as he is … He was different, but then so am I.

Okay, so what, he watched Japanese youtube toy review videos for hours on end. I listen to the same song for hours. Recently he was officially diagnosed with PDD-NOS. Pervasive Developmental Disorder. It’s a form of autism.  With that official diagnosis, when you are on Medicaid, in comes the state.

Suddenly, following  the diagnosis comes the throes of people the state says has to help you. TSS Worker, BHC worker, DART. IEP. Ug! Someone take me off of this merry go round.

Not including the speech pathology which I take him to, all of these people are now in my home, every day, several hours a day. And they don’t just work with my grandson, one adult, me or my daughter must be present. Since I have two other granddaughters. Veronica wins baby duty and I sit with the workers. It is draining. I not only watch them work with him, I have to be instructed on how to be a parent and good guardian. God help me if I look at my phone to do emails.

There was so much going on, every day, so many hours a day, that I removed him from preschool. Not so much for him, but for me. I can only do so much. Work all night, get up after two hours, take him to school,, take him to speech, bring him home for four hours of therapy.

I don’t know how parents who work 9 – 5 jobs do this. If I wasn’t a writer, I don’t know how we’d handle this.

Don’t get me wrong, the workers are great, they are sweet, caring and love their jobs. But there’s no instruction booklet with this. No one tells you what it’s going to be like. Suddenly people are in your home, all the time. The bright side is, the house has never been more tidy.

I have one worker telling me , any routine is a good routine. The other telling me, ‘Yes, you have a routine, but it’s not normal.”

Under whose standards?  It’s normal to me. I want to scream at times, “I know how important a schedule is. I HAD one, now I don’t.”

They told me to stop putting the cookies out on the counter and to regulate them. “Kids can only have a snack when you say so, not when they want.”

Help!

Kindergarten is in the fall, and he may or may not get in. Tomorrow is five places for paperwork, a dentist visit with, none the less a dentist who specializes with working with autistic children. All for the K Eval on Monday. Which he may or may not pass  IF he passes, then we now have summer school to get him ready, with therapy, for regular school.

I know it’s all for the best, it’s all to get him where he needs to be. But no one told us what this all entailed. Why isn't there a single support website that tells you how life is going to be AFTER the workers step in.

I want to pull out my hair. My poor daughter is so stressed. My grandson, well, he just talks about what he wants to talk about, Legos and Heroes and tells the therapist, “I’m done, go away.”

I wished that worked for us. I am still looking for answers, someone to say, it gets easier.

As of now, living with an autistic child seemed a heck of a lot easier before we got help.