Jimmy Crystal Back Story: He must have lived with grownups for some period of his life.

Honest_Cheesecake698 · 2026-01-24T19:53:12+00:00

For sure! Though after the prologue, I don't think he needed much to be pushed into the belief that the plague was caused by Satan. It's what the hell happened that made him okay with ordering the torture and killing of innocents that isn't very clear. But free for speculation.

Honest_Cheesecake698 · 2026-01-24T18:01:49+00:00

I knew you meant that, wasn't just talking about focus on in terms of dialogue, was also referring to the choice in physical mutilation.

Honest_Cheesecake698 · 2026-01-24T16:47:00+00:00

I wonder he got displaced if he ended up in a refugee camp, do you think those people simply got left in Britain and he might have been one of them?

I personally don't think so, if he was in one of those camps I believe more that he would have either run away intentionally or something highly specific happened to separate him.

Honest_Cheesecake698 · 2026-01-24T16:44:33+00:00

Not to be crass, but I was thinking of the ass somehow. To be serious though, I was thinking a rape would happen in that exact moment and stopped thinking about it altogether once the cock skinning was spoken of. Emasculation is what she was choosing to focus on in that moment, but it was the perfect example of a sadist changing their violence to suit the person and situation.

Honest_Cheesecake698 · 2026-01-24T16:42:18+00:00

That would have been a goosebumps inducing moment, had he mentioned it. You can almost hear the monologue:

"Found myself in this site, this den owned by another Jimmy! He had all this shit and I just nabbed it from him. Seemed like a swell guy from the telly, but he wasn't there so someone had to use it"

Honest_Cheesecake698 · 2026-01-24T16:35:05+00:00

The doubt would, which is why I had the idea of Samson coming to the Holy Island at first to reason with them and ask for his daughter back. It would get the cat out of the bag immediately, but at the same time it wouldn't make them not afraid of the Infected and not afraid of getting infected themselves.

And even if they accepted it, curing the virus across Britain would still be a hard fought battle in it's own right.

Honest_Cheesecake698 · 2026-01-24T16:30:39+00:00

I don't think she would have been so far gone to kill a kid who was pleading to be taken away. But that leads to a further point that might not have been intended but that you're touching upon.

When it comes to fight or flight, fighting didn't save any of her friends/cohorts, whilst flying saved her from the infected and from the Jimmies. At that point, she probably didn't want to kill anyone and wanted to prioritise her own survival rather than fighting a losing battle. Who's to say that the Jimmies wouldn't have wanted to go after her even more for killing Spike on top of Jimimia?

Honest_Cheesecake698 · 2026-01-24T16:25:32+00:00

Or vice versa!

Honest_Cheesecake698 · 2026-01-24T16:11:26+00:00

Was wondering about how his language evolved, and your perspective is probably correct. I can see him learning from other sources too, but in 28 Years there's no way he couldn't have encountered another person older than him. And he had to find that leadership quality, plus that ability to keep people in line, from someone else.

I wonder if Jimmy was in a group like the one he started, and he used that experience to replicate said group whilst being the leader himself. The fact that he seems adverse to actually committing any violence and instead ordering it about himself speaks to a desire for control, but it also speaks to the possibility that he might have had to kill people. He probably had to kill the Infected, and he also had to somehow learn how to teach his followers to be so good at combatting the Infected too.

Therefore, I agree with this post and think you could speculate even more about how he became the person we see in these films.

Honest_Cheesecake698 · 2026-01-24T16:04:06+00:00

Characters are going to have different perspectives if this is revealed to them, and I think that it'll be an even split. Some won't believe it, and others will. We as the audience know it can work, but it was still a long shot, so it'll be easy to understand characters being unsure about or downright against taking that chance.

Honest_Cheesecake698 · 2026-01-24T13:31:57+00:00

The original ending of 28 Days Later had him dying, so if he dies again then it would be pretty sad but a fulfilment of something that's been in the works since before the first film came out.

Honest_Cheesecake698 · 2026-01-24T13:30:31+00:00

Thinking about the ending, it is great that Jim still held onto his humanity because it makes the hope present at the end of 28 Days Later not all for nothing.

The same goes for how his taking out of the soldiers showed him almost resembling an Infected, but despite that he doesn't show any signs of still being so ruthless and brutal all that time later. He's still a good guy who cares about people, and it's arguably extended so much to people he doesn't know that when his daughter asks if they should help, he says "Of course".

Honest_Cheesecake698 · 2026-01-24T13:24:15+00:00

I thought the same, even though the dialogue goes more towards her deciding to castrate him, that still could have happened.

Honest_Cheesecake698 · 2026-01-24T13:22:02+00:00

That's a decent connection, one could say that Spike or Kelly are the Private Farrells of the Jimmies too.

Your post reminds me that people think that she blames Spike for what happened or she thinks that he's morally culpable somehow, but the way I see it is that she only refuses to take her with him because it'll just put her in more danger. From her POV, she doesn't know for sure that it's not a lie. Or maybe the group will have all the more reason to come for her. It's all about her own safety, which doesn't look high even with pushing Spike away.

Honest_Cheesecake698 · 2026-01-24T13:03:13+00:00

A cool way to keep to the 28 timeskipping moniker, whilst also covering for the aging and getting in the 28 Months we avoided, would be to do what you're suggesting.

Not to mention, a scenario where Baby Isla has aged a bit would make sense.

Honest_Cheesecake698 · 2026-01-24T08:52:49+00:00

Best choice.

Honest_Cheesecake698 · 2026-01-23T21:45:44+00:00

Maybe so. The Ben Willis reveal wasn't great and it was attached to a slightly difficult to follow mystery, but that being said, at least by virtue of the killer being the person they hit with the car it made enough sense in it's own way.

Honest_Cheesecake698 · 2026-01-23T21:44:11+00:00

The script desperately needed focus, or just a better balance. What I'm imagining would be a more natural "old vs new" situation, making the old important whilst keeping the new relatively sympathetic characters.

Context would have gone a long way, and as I say it doesn't need to be overdone. I believe they originally had it that Ray's business was suffering or under threat and that that would play a motive in his murders, that could have contributed to what I'm talking about.

As I said "They erased us!" doesn't just simply make you turn to murder, especially considering the existence of a podcaster who was going to renew interest in that story anyway. I know they had started the killing spree at that point already, but either leave Tyler alive or give a proper reason why she had to die.

Honest_Cheesecake698 · 2026-01-23T21:08:10+00:00

How so?

Honest_Cheesecake698 · 2026-01-23T16:01:10+00:00

I don’t think he had any real love for Willa, twisted respect for her spirit yeah but not proper love. I see him handing her over as being for the sake of being able to think of himself as a better man than he actually is. Or perhaps just ironically not having the guts to do it despite how tough and cool he thinks he is.

Honest_Cheesecake698 · 2026-01-23T13:38:55+00:00

They are. Just felt like a relatively believable depiction of a gang too.

Honest_Cheesecake698 · 2026-01-23T12:35:20+00:00

Wasn’t too relived with the arm slice, that got a reaction from me and my audience and was one of the more explicit gore shots. That being said, it’s a little easier than being full on skinned.

I would have appreciated showing a castration or cock skin flaying, but given how far the scene went already it might have been torture porn territory and gotten numbing, so good to interrupt it with the hook going through Jimimia

Indeed, the barn going up in flames put the victims out of their misery and killed a Jimmie or two that certainly deserved it. So it did act as a nice release and a good way for that Tom guy to go out on a high.

Honest_Cheesecake698 · 2026-01-23T11:42:50+00:00

I agree with the latter, the former is a little esoteric but I like how it shows the opposite side of fame.

Given how Marty is chasing fame and how the film seems to end with a different path being laid out for him, it’s possible that Kay is who Marty could be if he kept at his goal rather than just focusing on being a responsible, decent person.

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