{"id":36650,"date":"2017-01-20T15:13:43","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T20:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=36650"},"modified":"2017-01-20T15:13:43","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T20:13:43","slug":"until-dawn-ep18-jimmy-flamethrowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=36650","title":{"rendered":"Until Dawn EP18: Jimmy Flamethrowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><table class='nomargin' cellspacing='0' width='100%' cellpadding='0' align='center' border='0'><tr><td><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PI2xcJRm5P0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PI2xcJRm5P0'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>The Firebat tells Chris, &#8220;The Wendigo, he keeps you alive and aware and feasts on your organs one at a time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Uh. Unless the Wendigo has a medical degree, he does either one or the other. There are a small number of organs you can live without, but if the Wendigo begins grabbing stuff based on convenience then you&#8217;ll bleed out, pass out, or otherwise stop being alive before he gets very far into the meal. <\/p>\n<p>But I guess the Stranger got proven wrong less than a minute later. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s obvious he needed to die. Nothing kills the tension like having a hyper-competent<span class='snote' title='1'>We&#8217;re grading on a curve, here.<\/span> badass looking out for you, and nothing raises the stakes like the bad guys taking out your strongest ally. On the other hand, this couldn&#8217;t be more brute-force if the writer reached into the frame and yanked the Stranger off stage like an unpopular vaudeville act. He died pretty much the instant his exposition had been delivered. <\/p>\n<p>If nothing else, cut to some other part of the story for a bit so the two things aren&#8217;t right next to each other in the minds of the audience. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link (YouTube) The Firebat tells Chris, &#8220;The Wendigo, he keeps you alive and aware and feasts on your organs one at a time.&#8221; Uh. Unless the Wendigo has a medical degree, he does either one or the other. There are a small number of organs you can live without, but if the Wendigo begins grabbing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spoilerwarning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}