If Mell and Unity ever met, I’m not sure whether they’d immediately become BFFs or try to kill each other. I’m also not sure which option would cause more collateral damage.
The desperately hungry zombies will attack the larger dogs for their brains, but the little yap dog, having no brains, will be able to attack with impunity.
Actually, picks, shovels, and baskets to haul earth would have worked better.
A good trench and berm can work wonders against just about anything that has to move.
Just out of curiousity, how canon is Lil Mell and Sergio? I know Artie /did/ time travel back to teach Mell’s first grade to study aggression, Sergio /did/ mention knowing a good lawyer, and Project Second Gate /can/ sub in for the time travel storyline, but…
I just really want to know if Mell and Sergio are canonically still friends!
Yes. Because any other possible solution would mean Sergio broke his pinky swear to Mell, and if that were the case Sergio would not today be in any position to be fighting a zombie horde with another man’s pistol.
It’s canon, though we have seen a lot of timelines and we don’t really know for sure which this is. It’s likely the one the Lil’ Mell storyline ended with (which would also fit with some things suggested in Narbonic), but anything could be different because of all the parallel timelines.
Now I’ve got to save the day!
It’s just like Thermopylae,
With the Spartans in 480 BCE!
In BCE, in BCE,
Agnostic scientists agree,
They refer to ancient years as BCE!
Oh, the things that I could do
With Leonidas and his crew!
Kicking Persian ass with just 300 guys!
Three hundred guys, three hundred guys,
They sure gave Xerxes a surprise!
Cut them down to size with just 300 guys!
I wish they were here again,
All those sweaty, muscled men,
Wish I had 300 Spartans at my back!
At my back, at my back,
When the zombie hordes attack,
I need Spartan muscle coming from the back!
Well, he IS a physicist. Not a lot of room for history classes when you’re going all in on a major science degree, doctorates, PHDs, all that stuff, as well as building interdimensional pseudo-portals that turn nerds into Groundhog Day Loopers/infinite respawners.
While yes – Leonidas had 300 Spartans (and 1,400 other mix Greek state troops) to help hold Thermoplyae, and Henry Vth at Argincourt used similar choke-point tactics to win against a larger force — one must ALWAYS remember how Leonidas was defeated and why Henry the Vth was required to order the execution of prisoners to avoid losing… They were taken from the rear.
Somehow everyone forgets all the other Greeks who were there with the 300. At least you imply their existence with “including 300 Spartans”. The 700 Thespians fought to the death to give the rest of the army time too!
I think Homeschool Joe had a lasting impact on Sergio.
!!!
Bah, 300 Spartans.
Just wish for your best friend from 1st grade. She’d be more effective, and more likely to show up.
Though I think if Mell and Unity ever ended up in one place together, I’d be glad to be watching it from safely this side of the LCD.
Don’t fear the Mad Scientists, fear the creatures that survive them.
If Mell and Unity ever met, I’m not sure whether they’d immediately become BFFs or try to kill each other. I’m also not sure which option would cause more collateral damage.
You have failed to consider that they might become bffs AND try and kill each other. That would have the most by far
THIS IS SKIN-HORSE!
Had to be done.
Madness? THIS. IS. …Wait. Yeah, you’re right, this is madness.
so, what are the odds that the little dog takes down more zombies than the other two combined?
Pretty good.
The desperately hungry zombies will attack the larger dogs for their brains, but the little yap dog, having no brains, will be able to attack with impunity.
… and again they forget the thousands of other greeks that stood with them… I mean really, the spartans weren’t alone in the end…
I am delighted to report that Leonidas I’s rearguard also included 700 Thespians.
They allowed women in combat back then?
(SOMEbody had to say it.)
Only men dressed as women. Remember, women weren’t allowed to be stage actors.
Hence Sergio’s “including” line, rather than “a force of 300 Spartan warriors”.
300 is a much more inspiring number than somewhere between 5,200 and 11,200. Also much easier to put on a movie poster
300 sticks of dynamite to bring down a rockfall and block the pass would’a worked better. (Sorry. Transportation engineer. 😉
Actually, picks, shovels, and baskets to haul earth would have worked better.
A good trench and berm can work wonders against just about anything that has to move.
While this is true, 300 sticks of dynamite would be relatively more useful when a single physicist needs to hold off a zombie horde.
Just out of curiousity, how canon is Lil Mell and Sergio? I know Artie /did/ time travel back to teach Mell’s first grade to study aggression, Sergio /did/ mention knowing a good lawyer, and Project Second Gate /can/ sub in for the time travel storyline, but…
I just really want to know if Mell and Sergio are canonically still friends!
Yes. Because any other possible solution would mean Sergio broke his pinky swear to Mell, and if that were the case Sergio would not today be in any position to be fighting a zombie horde with another man’s pistol.
You know, I can’t believe I didn’t consider that!
Well – we are dealing with the author-verse – retcons and parallels are possible.
After all – All the Tenchi sequences were awsome, but mutually exclusive.
Walkyverse rebooted into Shortpacked and now Dumbing Of Age.
I think we’ll have to wait for the proverbial Word Of God(s) (since we have both Shaenon and Jeff) to determine whether Mel is his chosen lawyer.
Mel being Sergio’s lawyer is the only way he’d stand a chance against A-sig in negotiations.
It’s canon, though we have seen a lot of timelines and we don’t really know for sure which this is. It’s likely the one the Lil’ Mell storyline ended with (which would also fit with some things suggested in Narbonic), but anything could be different because of all the parallel timelines.
(TUNE: “Five Hundred Miles”, Hedy West)
Now I’ve got to save the day!
It’s just like Thermopylae,
With the Spartans in 480 BCE!
In BCE, in BCE,
Agnostic scientists agree,
They refer to ancient years as BCE!
Oh, the things that I could do
With Leonidas and his crew!
Kicking Persian ass with just 300 guys!
Three hundred guys, three hundred guys,
They sure gave Xerxes a surprise!
Cut them down to size with just 300 guys!
I wish they were here again,
All those sweaty, muscled men,
Wish I had 300 Spartans at my back!
At my back, at my back,
When the zombie hordes attack,
I need Spartan muscle coming from the back!
Well, he IS a physicist. Not a lot of room for history classes when you’re going all in on a major science degree, doctorates, PHDs, all that stuff, as well as building interdimensional pseudo-portals that turn nerds into Groundhog Day Loopers/infinite respawners.
While yes – Leonidas had 300 Spartans (and 1,400 other mix Greek state troops) to help hold Thermoplyae, and Henry Vth at Argincourt used similar choke-point tactics to win against a larger force — one must ALWAYS remember how Leonidas was defeated and why Henry the Vth was required to order the execution of prisoners to avoid losing… They were taken from the rear.
*Thermopylae Gosh darn fingers
Somehow everyone forgets all the other Greeks who were there with the 300. At least you imply their existence with “including 300 Spartans”. The 700 Thespians fought to the death to give the rest of the army time too!