"San Diego 2014: The Last Stand of the California Browncoats" open thread!

Wow.

So I start reading. Oh, look, it's Mahir. Hi, Mahir, nice to see you again. Cheers.

And then the description of Lorelei Tutt -- who has Been Through Some Shit, Y'all. And then we discover she's the sole survivor. The ereader facepunched me. Sole survivor. Ow.

And then we get introduced to Matty and Patty (that's how my brain put them together), and he's British and he wears a bowtie and oh, how cute. And they're on their HONEYMOON?! Cruel! (and how many other couples were on theirs, or somebody was planning to propose, or were celebrating anniversaries...)

Poor blind Lesley -- whose fate gave me the most chills because -- only faint vision?! And then Unis. Another Good Dog. Oh, man.

And Kelly, little badass in a skirt, and Stuart who has a weapons booth but no clue about weaponry. And who tries hard to be so affable.

And Marty -- black man described as brown skinned but NOT described as a food item, yay, bless you, bless you, a thousand times bless you! And Eric! And clever Pris with the tablet!

And the rest of the Tutt family and Rebecca, Vanessa and Robert.

And oh, Elle!

A giant building full of Genre Savvy individuals, and it made no difference. Genre Savvy can't stand against the unbeatable combo of stupidity and mobbing.

I'm a little disappointed that we did not get a scene of Elle's moronic butthead handler getting torn limb from limb by the zombies, but otherwise, I got what I expected. A bunch of characters I would come to care about despite having already been told that none of them make it out.

I managed to hold off the tears until the Browncoats started singing "You Can't Take The Sky From Me".

I don't blame Lorelei from jumping from tea to rum. (And wow, why did her family give her Jezebelle as a middle name? -- that was the one thing that caused me to fall out the narrative if only for two seconds).

Oh, also? What kind of dog was Unis?

Thank you very much Mr. Lorelei's Daddy.

Unis is a flat-coated retriever. If you look at lesliesmith's comments, there's a link to the picture of Unis.