User blog comment:Wondergirl130191/The Fates of.../@comment-50.135.150.146-20121116030348/@comment-432124-20121118002655

I don't expect them to be dead for long. There's always something that the writers have planned out if things get that bad. But remember that at this point, the time-stream is still heading towards the Reach apocalypse future, as we saw at the end of "Bloodlines". Plus, Greg has said repeatedly that things are gonna get really bad rapidly in these next few episodes.