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10 thoughts on “540 – Trick Hello”

  1. Scarsdale

    Called it, she figured he’d do this, if by choice or by zombie voodoo. I’m sure the “friendlier” questioning will start soon, if she doesn’t just kill him out-right. Or just add him to the herd.

  2. Crazyman

    Gotcha! 😉

  3. Zombatar

    This turn of events is a surprise only to Eustace. And, maybe, Eustace’s subconscious. After all, this way he doesn’t have to actually risk actually attacking Suzie, which gives him a greater chance of survival than actually attacking her. I wonder what he was promised/threatened with?

  4. ConcordBob

    Not to nit-pick, but since sights are on target, finger should be on the trigger. Especially this close.
    The usual rule is “keep finger straight and off trigger until sights are on target”.

  5. Dr. Norman (not a real doctor)

    Not to nit-pick, but since that was current philosophies regarding trigger discipline have evolved.
    Of course, it will depend on who you get/got your training from.
    Experiments have determined that the fraction of a second to go from finger off the trigger to finger firing when appropriate is insignificant, and the risk of firing unintended is greatly reduced.

  6. Dr. Norman (not a real doctor)

    I did the google thing and I believe I saw how you reached this conclusion … but there are two parts to it – One should not omit the second part.
    “Trigger Finger Discipline: · The practice of keeping your finger “off the trigger” until your sights are on target AND YOU ARE READY TO DISCHARGE THE FIREARM.” (Caps are my own)

  7. Crazyman

    She wants him alive so she can question him; otherwise, he’d already be dead. 💀

  8. ConcordBob

    Good discussion on trigger discipline!
    His skin is very pale / gray. Is this malnourishment, or has he been poisoned with a mind-control drug? I would have to go back and look a t all various of skin tone.

    1. TKG

      On a prior page we discussed what he’s likely got running in his system. I suggested that it’s probably Borrochero (Brugmansia arbora) which is already used by Colombian cartels to eradicate the free will of their victims.

  9. Dr. Norman (not a real doctor)

    Now can we satisfy my curiosity? Colt, Smith & Wesson, Ruger, or other timeline variant?

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540 – Trick Hello
Posted on February 26, 2025 by Dawn

Suzie hearkening back to the last time Eustace was faked out. She probably regrets not being able to sneak the Lawn Ranger into the bedcovers to be the victim of the stabbing.

And with that, it's Episode 23 time! Welcome back to the Ranch, everyone!

Godless: First Impressions

Posted on November 29, 2017 by Clint
Well my Turkey Day binging didn’t go quite as comprehensively as planned, though I did make it all the way through The Punisher and all the episodes of Runaways so far. I found myself actually grateful to Hulu that they don’t follow the Netflix model and only dumped three installments on the public with the rest to be parceled out weekly. I just don’t binge well, after three or four episodes at most I need a break! All that’s a long-winded way of saying I didn’t get nearly as far into Godless as I hoped I might when I brought it up last week, though what I’ve seen so far certainly hasn’t turned me off from continuing. It’s got a very classic Western pacing to it, that “slow burn” feeling that at least one person has also said of Zombie Ranch during its first arc (and I felt it a great compliment). It’s not the same as nothing happening, though there are certainly people who see it that way and tune out in favor of more immediately rewarding fare. The slow burn is never just churning its wheels — there’s some over-arching tension, like a storm cloud on the horizon, which even if the characters aren’t aware of the audience most certainly is. In High Noon for example it’s the clock ticking down to the imminent arrival of Frank Miller. Unforgiven is interspersed with periods of quiet and violence but everything finally comes to a bloody head in Big Whiskey’s saloon as a vicious storm breaks both literally and figuratively. Godless has its own storm on the horizon in the form of outlaw gangleader Frank Griffin (sheesh, between this and High Noon and Once Upon a Time in the West the Franks really get a bad rap!), who is portrayed as a force as deadly and destructive as one of the plagues from the Bible he’s obsessed with. You learn why he’s so obsessed with religion by the end of Episode 2 and it’s a bone chilling twist where he discusses his past and agrees with the accusation of his latest victims that he is a godless man after all, but that’s because the West is a godless country. It’s a hell of a speech, and obviously of enough significance that the showrunners decided to title the whole series for it. In any case, I still have five episodes to go. Then I can share more of my thoughts on how this particular storm plays out.