Whitechapel - CROSSED: WISH YOU WERE HERE -- Episode 39 (Season 2 Ep 17)

CROSSED: WISH YOU WERE HERE -- Episode 39 (Season 2 Ep 17)

2013-02-28T07:56:09-08:00

It's Thursday, it's mid-afternoon in London, it's another wrongheaded morning in Mericky, it's who-the-fuck-knows-when in Australia, and it's time for more Crossed Hideosity.

Episode 39, live and free-to-air.

Remember: Not safe for work, not safe for minors, not safe for people of a nervous disposition, not safe for JPod, not safe for the Golden Bough, not safe for THE MAGICAL AMAZING ROBOT.

GOLUHK.

CROSSED: WISH YOU WERE HERE -- Episode 39 (Season 2 Ep 17)

2013-02-28T08:46:22-08:00

I look forward to somebody articulate taking over shakeys diary –
and the great diarist himself handcuffed on a mobility scooter rolled out the back of a speeding ice cream van playing O sole mio at full blast as it barrels through a crossed hoedown barbecue

CROSSED: WISH YOU WERE HERE -- Episode 39 (Season 2 Ep 17)

2013-02-28T09:00:17-08:00

I want to see Crossed druids. What have these plusfaces done to Stonehenge?

CROSSED: WISH YOU WERE HERE -- Episode 39 (Season 2 Ep 17)

2013-02-28T09:38:39-08:00

Staple gun to the face for their seemingly female "X-Crossed messiah" - good a way as any I suppose if you want to salute in a new and exciting way. I wondered when someone would ask Shaky for his story and what the reply would be...I thought it was perfect from captain lucky only to be shot down in a single "none of your fucking business" breath. Admittedly I was more curious about the asshole from the other group who took off on his own and whether we'd see him poking his head around a tree or if he was already inside the fences. (If he found it, though I imagine he will have.) Maybe he's already snuffed pudgy Jon - he and Rab would be a wicked force against Shaky coming back inside, for sure.

Thanks Si - great work. (And I loved the annual!! Jackson's tell-all was immensely wonderful!!!)

CROSSED: WISH YOU WERE HERE -- Episode 39 (Season 2 Ep 17)

2013-02-28T10:54:57-08:00

I didn't get the staple gun - what was it meant to tell us?

CROSSED: WISH YOU WERE HERE -- Episode 39 (Season 2 Ep 17)

2013-02-28T11:00:15-08:00

Probably hence forth her head dress will identify her office when she officiates at disembowelment and head circumcision ceremonies

CROSSED: WISH YOU WERE HERE -- Episode 39 (Season 2 Ep 17)

2013-02-28T12:11:07-08:00

it's her Crown of "Thorns"

CROSSED: WISH YOU WERE HERE -- Episode 39 (Season 2 Ep 17)

2013-02-28T13:20:54-08:00

Such a strange experience reading this srip - I grew up in Stromness, drive past the Stones o' Stenness most days - really quite odd to see them as a backdrop to the madness.

CROSSED: WISH YOU WERE HERE -- Episode 39 (Season 2 Ep 17)

2013-02-28T14:54:45-08:00

I wonder if she's actually Crossed or if whatever happened to her in the other group was so awful that it drove her into a kind of uber-madness that's so pure that it allows her to influence/rule the Crossed.

CROSSED: WISH YOU WERE HERE -- Episode 39 (Season 2 Ep 17)

2013-02-28T21:15:18-08:00

So when did Richie get Jasper's heat-detecting optical device? I thought Jasper, who had bailed out of the group and stolen its supplies, had possession of that.

CROSSED: WISH YOU WERE HERE -- Episode 39 (Season 2 Ep 17)

2013-03-01T02:32:33-08:00

Richie's using a gun-scope or monocular jobbie there, not Jasper's heat-thingy.

CROSSED: WISH YOU WERE HERE -- Episode 39 (Season 2 Ep 17)

2013-03-01T06:00:37-08:00

Re the staple gun, I thought they were stapling another face on to her as I couldn't see any cross or x, unless I'm missing something. And she has soldiers with guns, looks like Cava's idyll will be violently terminated soon.

CROSSED: WISH YOU WERE HERE -- Episode 39 (Season 2 Ep 17)

2013-03-01T06:07:27-08:00

Just gone back and reread, apologies, there is an X on show, they were just stapling the cloth to her face. Blame my eyes. I wonder if Shaky will willingly become Crossed as he says doesn't want the adrenaline to stop, and in the original series when one of the survivors is infected he says something like 'feels like venom but you want more'.

CROSSED: WISH YOU WERE HERE -- Episode 39 (Season 2 Ep 17)

2013-03-01T06:41:08-08:00

Well..., seems like Viceroy made it.
For now.
I was sure he would be killed off during the sortie..., thought when he volunteered to go along with Shakey to investigate the little mystery there that his end was fast approaching.
His luck hasn't run out just yet I guess..., but luck - oh, such a faithless thing... :)

CROSSED: WISH YOU WERE HERE -- Episode 39 (Season 2 Ep 17)

2013-03-01T08:21:01-08:00

Why does everyone want to see Viceroy come to a grisly end? He might have the charisma of a housebrick, but I fail to see why he attracts the derision he does. And he's "lucky", so he should really take the role of Mascot to those who've been around him.

CROSSED: WISH YOU WERE HERE -- Episode 39 (Season 2 Ep 17)

2013-03-01T11:17:43-08:00

Why does everyone want to see Viceroy come to a grisly end?

I like Viceroy, the Gamekeeper not so much...., but I figure they both will meet grisly ends sooner or later - this being the crossed, a grisly end is pretty much all there is..., I just thought Viceroy would have played his part by now..., glad he's still around :D

CROSSED: WISH YOU WERE HERE -- Episode 39 (Season 2 Ep 17)

2013-03-01T11:23:52-08:00

I was surprised that only Seline didn't make it back. I also have been enjoying the slow build-up of the nun as the main villain. While thinking about how the last pieces of Shaky's story would come out I was thinking that someone else would press him on it. The scenario I had imagined was that the nun would come to Cava and speak to them and ask for Shaky or something like that. At which point everyone turns to him and demands answers(this could certainly still happen though). As far as the nun herself and the X, I had considered the same thing as johnjones above(that she is not actually crossed, just insane), but it doesn't fit. She lives with the crossed now and would definitely have come into contact with the infection. I am now thinking that it is more likely a mutation of the crossed disease. Either the group ran afoul of a crossed with an X and the nun was left behind or something like: they are running from the crossed, and are passing by / over a pit filled with crossed corpses and in all that infectious shit a new strain has emerged. The nun somehow falls in(so yes, she is the Joker apparently lol).

CROSSED: WISH YOU WERE HERE -- Episode 39 (Season 2 Ep 17)

2013-03-01T12:02:51-08:00

I think that the nun might possibly be immune to the crossed infection, though obviously not immune to mental illness.

CROSSED: WISH YOU WERE HERE -- Episode 39 (Season 2 Ep 17)

2013-03-01T12:23:42-08:00

Just gone back and reread, apologies, there is an X on show, they were just stapling the cloth to her face.

In comparison to WIsh you were here volume 1 when we see the Nun on the boat, her appearance in this chapter doesn't actually appear to show the cross... all I see is blood running down from the hairline.

CROSSED: WISH YOU WERE HERE -- Episode 39 (Season 2 Ep 17)

2013-03-01T12:32:42-08:00

I think you can just see the bottom part of one half of the X. Also, this wouldn't be the first time one of the Crossed rashes got left off by the colorist.

CROSSED: WISH YOU WERE HERE -- Episode 39 (Season 2 Ep 17)

2013-03-01T12:50:46-08:00

If you look closely the X is clearly visible under the stream of blood.

CROSSED: WISH YOU WERE HERE -- Episode 39 (Season 2 Ep 17)

2013-03-01T13:05:30-08:00

I had thought it was blood but deffo think there is an X there.

CROSSED: WISH YOU WERE HERE -- Episode 39 (Season 2 Ep 17)

2013-03-01T13:30:16-08:00

Well, bugger me.
Jesus, I must be going both colourblind and dyslexic in my auld age.

CROSSED: WISH YOU WERE HERE -- Episode 39 (Season 2 Ep 17)

2013-03-02T03:41:13-08:00

The "X" is indeed there. We had some last-minute art correx for this page which meant we had to prevail upon the colourist do provide the cross rather than the inker, but - yeah. For the avoidance of conspiracy theories, the X is indeed there.

CROSSED: WISH YOU WERE HERE -- Episode 39 (Season 2 Ep 17)

2013-03-02T04:23:54-08:00

THAT'S WHAT YOU WANT US TO THINK

CROSSED: WISH YOU WERE HERE -- Episode 39 (Season 2 Ep 17)

2013-03-02T10:01:03-08:00

Aye, that's where my comparison fell down, Si. Volume 1 had the X in inks. It wasn't until I actually leaned forward (reading your comics in a slouched position to avoid falling off my chair) that I noticed the change in colouration.
Broke my own rule of double-check everything before posting know-all comments on the interwebs.

CROSSED: WISH YOU WERE HERE -- Episode 39 (Season 2 Ep 17)

2013-03-02T10:05:43-08:00

Is it weird when I saw Selene stapling herself that I immediately thought of my friend and I daring each other to staple each other's foreheads as kids? I guess it means that I found the ending slightly more humorous then normal heh.

CROSSED: WISH YOU WERE HERE -- Episode 39 (Season 2 Ep 17)

2013-03-02T16:33:47-08:00

Just when you start to think, wow, Shaky is kinda jerk the Crossed show up to remind us that hey at least our survivors are HUMAN.

My own (worst) theory is the virus has mutated into something that makes the Crossed even more impervious to infection/disease, making them the next evolutionary step after humanity, and the Nun is the first (second after the GK?), and THAT'S why she's a Messiah to the Crossed.

CROSSED: WISH YOU WERE HERE -- Episode 39 (Season 2 Ep 17)

2013-03-02T16:37:31-08:00

"when I saw Selene stapling herself..."

That's not Selene, unless the Crossed fever burnt off a hundred pounds (sorry!)

CROSSED: WISH YOU WERE HERE -- Episode 39 (Season 2 Ep 17)

2013-03-02T18:10:03-08:00

I'm curious who the bloke in the cape with the beard is. He was in the background of the orgy but I remember seeing him earlier... I think on the boat, flipping through volume 1 right now to see where I remember him from.

Ah...V2Ch1 is where he pops up.

CROSSED: WISH YOU WERE HERE -- Episode 39 (Season 2 Ep 17)

2013-03-02T20:24:02-08:00

Ah right, yeah I really ballsed that up. God how could I get the nun theresha (cannot spell her name to save myself) confused with selene. Ah its been a while. Hey maybe that'll be the big twist next chapter, when she reveals that she only attacks Eden because she ran outta staples :D

CROSSED: WISH YOU WERE HERE -- Episode 39 (Season 2 Ep 17)

2013-03-03T01:00:16-08:00

The person in the 'Doomsday' costume is Crossed as confirmed in an earlier thread but his/her identity is unknown so could be the GK. Will whoever it is be scarred with a X too? earlier

CROSSED: WISH YOU WERE HERE -- Episode 39 (Season 2 Ep 17)

2013-03-03T01:12:29-08:00

when she reveals that she only attacks Eden because she ran outta staples :D

ROFL! haha :D

CROSSED: WISH YOU WERE HERE -- Episode 39 (Season 2 Ep 17)

2013-03-03T06:05:50-08:00

The whole bit with the nun reminds me of something Harrison Ford did. Go to about the 38 second mark.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOv0qKEWMLc

Even with the mission being a relative success. If the "Cava-ites" are still there, Shaky's going to be due some reckoning. As much as Rab and Don don't get along, they do talk and Shaky's done a lot to put himself on both of their shitlists. Especially if Jasper actually made it back to the island, can't have someone leaving notes all over the countryside telling people where they're at. Wouldn't be surprised to see Shaky voted off the island.