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Why not just bomb central park?


Yes, there are thousands of strigoi down there and bombing from below would collapse the park, but it makes far more sense from a tactical point of view to just drop bombs rather than engage in basically arm to arm combat. Hell, you could drop a whole bunch of those silver grenades down there or use colloidal silver or silver nitrate. I mean there are mainly ways to weaponize silver.

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They could just escape into the tunnels. The Master would keep them from milling around aimlessly.

Also, nothing Ferraldo's people do will ever succeed in stopping them. They are not the heroes of the story. Abe and Fet and Eph and Quinlan and Dutch and to some extent Gus are the heroes. Hell, they only have this opportunity because of Fet.

So this is entertaining, but it's like a Godzilla movie, where this alien monster is attacking the planet, and the Japanese military has this plan, but of course they're gonna need The Big G to save their asses in the end. Because that's the format, man. Stop arguing with the format.

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The season three finale is titled 'The Fall', which is of course the title of the second novel of The Strain trilogy and which season's two and three have been loosely based on. It's a double entendre. The fall of darkness. The fall of humanity.
Considering my report on this weeks ratings, I fear it may have a unintended third meaning. The fall of The Strain TV series. Dammit!

NO MATTER WHERE YOU GO, THERE YOU ARE.

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Are the nukes that Palmer is getting into the country set off in NYC or are they set off somewhere else?

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In the novel they blow up nuclear reactors, thus creating a global nuclear winter. It becomes dark all the time except for brief periods at midday when some sunlight breaks thru.

NO MATTER WHERE YOU GO, THERE YOU ARE.

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A daisy cutter or MOAB would do the trick without going nuclear.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GBU-43/B_Massive_Ordnance_Air_Blast

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Bomb them, with what?

The military would only spare a team of SEALs. And that was when they had resouces to spare.

Now it is even worse. New York has been written off. If there is any bombing to be done, it would be to nuke the entire city

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Strike teams with flamethrowers hooked up to flammable liquids tanker trucks? Even in the book there wasn't a mention of the Strigoi being burned to death with simple waves of fire weapons. There's always the risk of them running around on fire, but small groups of them being hit with flamethrowers from different sides would slow them down some what.

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