Pain patrol notes
Whitechapel sign is shorthand for ‘We’re in Jack the Ripper
times’
The copper calls Niles ‘Tea Leaf’, which is the first time
ever that I got Cockney Rhyming slang without needing it explained to me!
‘To Constable Shelby Kincaid for Dedicated Service’ He wouldn’t have gotten that until after
retirement, surely
Why did Jack let that woman go instead of torturing her to
death? Weird that he wouldn’t just kill
her in her own domain. Maybe he didn’t want
the butterflies there.
Larry would be a better cooking teacher.
Rita’s self esteem has taken a serious hit after her first
attempt at superheroing went so bad
I really thought Cliff was shutting down at breakfast
Niles: How about when
my 11 year old daughter is in the room we take the swearing down a notch
Cliff: No
problem. Does she know sign
language? (Raises middle finger)
Is this the first time Niles has classified what he did to
the team as a mistake and something bad.
That’s a step forward from last episode.
Swarm of butterflies- beautiful and dangerous
Rita: Please tell me
this is a seasonal migration, and not something freaky? (long silence) Oh God damn it.
**** This isn’t an invitation. It’s a very polite ransom note.
I expect Larry is the only one Rita would have gone to
rescue at this point.
Cliff is going to reunite with his daughter purely out of
spite.
Oh, Jane didn’t fall asleep, she got pulled into the
uinderground for an intervention
Roni didn’t tell Vic on purpose
that the date had changed for the group.
Support groups do not change their
date or time under any circumstances. Very
pccasionaly they cancel, but that’s it.
The regular dependability is a vital part of the setup
Vic saw Roni’s scars and his
immediate response was ‘wow. You’re
beautiful.’ I don’t think I’ve ever
liked Vic more.
The specificity of where Roni’s
scars stop begs a lot of questions about how exactly her accident went down.
The comparison of where and what
they can feel was really erotic. Where
on the damage can you still feel pleasure?
That’s a theme that’s going to blossom later in the episode.
Larry on hooks. Very Saw.
Oh, of course the Chief created Larry’s
bandages to give him more mobility. Had we
known that before?
Is Jane the research vessel that
Niles had currently lost?
Oh. I asked ages ago what was up with Larry’s
airlock room. Now we learn it was to
contain radiation. Did we know that he
gives off the radiation? Where does the
radiation come from? I thought the
radiation was the negative being? Is it
the being’s substance? Does it have a
half life?
Rita: Have a little faith in Niles. Because he rarely explains himself.
Man, the repeated motif of people
seeing and accepting other people’s scars ix well handled.
Hide and Seek with Darling and
Herschel
Who’s the scarecrow?
This reunion could not be less
about Clara
Cliff: See, some batshit crazy scientist caused our
car crash so he could stick my brain in this piece of shit body. He told me you were dead all this time, then
I found out you weren’t. Now here I am.
Okay? We good? How we do this? You want to call me ‘Dad’? or ‘Daddy?’
Oh – happy belated birthday.
It never even occurs to Cliff how
this might be making Clara feel and he doesn’t care when it’s pointed out. All he cares about is proving he’s a better
dad than Niles
Vic asks if Roni minds if he asks
about her scars and she says ‘yeah’ and he just respects that and lets it
go. OK, NOW I’ve never liked Vic more
The scarring makeup on Roni is
astonishingly well done
How long has Vic been Cyborg? He really hasn’t had sex since?
Roni is being the dude and running
away.
Vic: They’ve got a cheesesteak that’ll make you
feel way better things than I can
Roni: That’s a low bar.
Driller Bill: Dear Jane,
Because you decided to remain in a house with toxic people, I haven’t
felt safe enough to do my drilling, or my billing. And may is our busiest month.
Jane’s role is technically ONLY to
protect Kay. Her self actualizing is
actually in direct conflict with the very reason she exists.
It’s interesting that Rita is our
window into Jack’s palace. She wasn’t on
the team when this happened.
Red Jack wants company and his
take on Niles is that he enjoys causing others pain as much as Jack does. Based
on his observed behavior
Niles is tempted because Jack is
offering eternal life if he’;; only keep causing people pain Pretty direct metaphor
Very Emperor tempting Luke Skywalker
Niles thinks its ok to keep
hurting people in the name of his mission as long as he doesn’t enjoy it
Larry’s bandages being unwrapped
will hurt other people. Not a subtle
metaphor at all
He’s literaly being tortured by hurting
others
1966
Rita really was amazingly
welcoming to Larry. Like, way above and
beyond.
Is the Deborah Kerr references an
in depth movie buff joke I didn’t get?
Gay dude meeting his Hollywood diva!
Larry accidentally hurt Rita back
them by identifying her private pain
Man, Cliff really couldn’t care
less how Clara feels
The cops were actually using
pretty good de-escalation techniques
Jane got an ultimatum to leave the
DP or stop being the primary.
Jack runs Niles through what it
would feel like to be on the other end of being Cliff
First Niles had to be presented
with a clear choice to either keep hurting people and live, then be forced to
experience the pain he’s inflicted on others.
Like a good queen, Larry knows his
Oscar history and leading ladies
Sweet little echo between Rita and
Larry about getting used to it/shouldn’t have to get used to it.
***Let’s be lost causes together.
The butterfly wing effects are
grotesque and beautiful
Transformative pain – into butterflies
Nice structure of the stolen watch
in the beginning pre-mediatating the stolen knife to kill Jack
I wouldn’t hate it if when I died
I exploded into butterflies.
If those are all Jacks victims
turned into butteflies, again why did the woman run out in the beginning
Man, Cliff is acting like a
jackass
Cliff: It’s not fair Jane. I know I wasn’t a perfect Dad, but I did the
best I could. And this? All this? It wasn’t my fault.
Jane: You’re right.
It wasn’t. But this. This is.
The congratulations banner over
crying Clara in the window is a real twist of the knife.
So, was that Jane?
Dorothy accidentally broke
Danny. For all she knows, she killed him
*** Look what I did? Am I a bad person? I said I was sorry, but I don’t think that
made it any better.
Roni: Voluntary Manslaughter
So she killed a tank full of guys
and took pictures a la Abu Grahib
Larry wants Rita to leave so he doesn’t
cause her pain.
God, their friendship is SO SWEET
I wonder how the Ant Farm selected
them for their accidents
Niles crying over the individual
team member files was a great visual confirmation that he fundamentally gets
the pain he caused them now
So now Niles is building Robotman
2.0 Hopefully the black one, and not the
one with Spiderlegs
OK, so who was in control when
Jane talked Cliff down?
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