>>87343491It really did feel like we were headed for the stadium, especially with the foreshadowing in the cellar with the Pep Cola box, but then the comic just went "Nope, they wandered the streets for an ambiguous amount of time and then got fortuitously collected by a walking plot device". Feels like Aaron decided to cut it short because he suddenly realised he was going to go into overtime and it would conflict with Christmas in Endtown, or possibly because he felt it would be getting even more off-track. I suspect that if it had continued we would have seen Doc trying to minister to people at Pep Stadium who were injured in the process of being collected, and becoming part of Walter's group that way - his character feels like he earned his place in Endtown, not like it was granted to him for turning up.
You could see there was an obvious set up for Kirbee (and probably Chic) to be in their own memory-bubbles too, where we likely would have seen Kirbee's past like Aaron said we were going to, but then he cut even more out, maybe after spending too much time on all the Armageddon stuff.
I think the way to do it all would have been to forego the Christmas thing, but then also trim everything after Lyn's death and/or leave it for Walter's probable flashback, either as stuff Doc would mention after they arrived at Pep park (how he found Holly and mutated) or direct transplants (Farx and the duck guy). Then go straight from Lyn dying to Wally both losing Kirbee and Chic (somehow) and getting angry enough to become The Ditto Lord (because he realises that if Holly's being exposed to this bullshit too it's going to damage her even further). Then have Wally find Holly first, and keep her with him as they travel through Kirbee and Chic's memoryscapes to find them, each one giving Holly some critical perspective on things and how others besides herself have been hurt. Something like that, anyway.
