Notes on - Doom Patrol: Tyme Patrol

Tyme Patrol notes

 

We start again with the circus in London 1927, but from Niles’ perspective.  He did NOT know about Dorothy.  He recognized Ted from the news of the circus

Snows and Toes?  No smalls and talls

Niles doesn’t know what Ted is either.  Spirit or familiar?

And it WAS seeing Niles that distracted Ted and caused the mayhem

***As for what happened next, words fail…

That was a lot earlier than I imagined we’d get a direct sighting of the Candlemaker.  Looks cool

So did he spare Niles because he wasn’t being mean, or did he sense Niles was Dorothys dad, or what?

Why was I surprised that Dorothy could speak clearly. Where did Dorothy get her language skills?

Danny was a young sentient alleyway at the time. 

It’s actually a perfectly reasonable plan to hide Dorothy on Danny, it’s not really a case of locking her up.  Although he probably should have stayed on Danny with her and done his researches from there

It’s a good opening device, but why is Cliff taping the interview with the Chief?

Eric Morden had a longevity talisman, which Niles stole from him at the raid in Paraguay.  Did we know about the talisman already?  It felt like they were making that a point of mystery but now they just throw it out in expository dialogue?

Cliff:  So, you shot up the Nazi lab, stole the dumb monkey paw, and Morden became Mr. Nobody.  I saw the puppet show!

They still haven’t said if Niles caused Rita’s accident and why she didn’t end up at the ant farm?

Niles is not wrong about the importance of helping Dorothy control her powers

Darling:  Good morning!  Rise and Shine!  Our father is dying!

Jane:  What in the Doris Day Ikea fuck was that?

Jane asks herself the same question the viewer’s asking.  Why yare they all still even there?

I don’t understand how the cotton ball works.  Is there a junkie reference service I can ask?

Rita:  Oh for the love of god, what is or is not true?

Cliff is astoundingly not bothered by the news of Niles dying

Niles is 139

Rita:  You don’t have to tell old blobberstiltskin here that Niles Caulder is a flawed man.  But now he is also a dying man.  His teeth are probably loosening as we speak.  Soon he’ll have no memory of how to take care of himself or Dorothy.  We could be mere days away from daddy diapers.

Niles:  Rita!

Jane is still touchy about the home for the old doom patrol.

****It’s every man, woman and brick for themselves now.

Cliff:  Will he yank out that very special brain of his and become the tin man?  And Chief, if that’s your best option, then you better go smell some roses, shotgun a Bud Lite, fuck a watermelon, eat a double-double and take a big ole shit, because all of that is gone!

Larry:  My son is dead.

Cliff:  Oh, did Chief get him too?

Where did Larry get the suit.

Larry thinks his son didn’t even know he existed, but we learn later that Gary was obsessed with what happened to Larry

Detroit, Michigan.  Vic is attending trauma support group.  Does the world actually know Cyborg’s identity?

Roni was using exclusively military terminology to describe her mother’s death.  She can’t really blame Vic for assuming it was a military story.

Lots of weird errors in the CC on this one.  Particularly the backward words

Going by the bar setup, the trauma group is in the basement of a VFW

OK, So Herschel is the spider

Niles knows what the candlemaker is and how dangerous, going by his reaction

Jane’s moving back into the mansion from living in the bus

Jane:  You… can do whatever the fuck you want.  Birthday party entertainer, trash compactor.  Your options are limitless.  But also less than five.

Jane’s out of superheroin

Rita’s trying to be supportive of Niles for the sake of doing a lemons/lemonade thing.

Continuinium – mineral that can bend time.

Good joke about trying to say the name

Dr. Jonathan Tyme.  We hear about his standard super villain origin story

Journal keeping in time travel would indeed be difficult

Why is Cyborg so separate from the rest of the team?

Again, Roni, you were describing everything in military terminology.  Vic’s assumption wasn’t not-understandable

‘Do you want to grab a bite and not talk about our moms’, might be the greatest pick up line ever

Rita’s flip chart

Rita (The Leader) on her flip chart.  That says a lot about how she’s trying to process things.

Was that deliberate reverse psychology or actual?

Jane’s helping not lock up little girls makes sense.

Continuinium makes purple boggle salt when combined with water

August 8^th midnight, 1980

Cliff:  I was in Tampa in the supply closet of the Peking Noodle, up to my nose in boobs and ground up Sudafed with Jalinda the waitress.

One assumes the three BoN agents just chose to saty at the roller disco

Dr. Tyme is actually super chill about strangers showing up in his disco

How would a time ray create roller ska… you know what, never mind.

This is a very fractured episode

Good fake that Cyborg is going to save Roni, but she doesn’t need him.

Neither Vic or Roni are really wrong in their point of view.  How would you feel if you were the next person he mugged

OK, now I want to know what the worst thing Roni ever did was

They do a good job not dragging running jokes out too long.

The Niles and Dr Tyme/Vic and Roni/larry and his sons plots are all too unconnected

I don’t believe Paul would recognize Larry’s voice that easily after that much time.

Gary did kill himself

Pauls actually handling this pretty well.

Couples skate!

There were other disco songs.

LOVE that Doctor Tyme only wants to stay at the best moment of history and roller disco.  So not a super villain

Whoa!  Reveal that the continuinium is Doctor Tyme’s head, not his helmet

No real reason that being frozen in time would make you relive your most traumatic memory, but it’s an excuse to show us the emergence of Janes’s first alter

There’s no real logical reason for moving his clock hands back would reverse time.  But the imagery worked

Rita takes the failure of the mission hard.  What DR. Tyme said really hit her hard

Gary has a whole barn dedicated to what happened to Larry

Gary’s letters were all returned without getting to Larry, and the pain of that moment appears to have summoned a butterfly

She’s older that 7 – is the seven years line referring to when her alters first appeared?  This is where Miranda first came to the surface and made it clear that her mother knew about the molestation

So Jane is giving up control now?

Larry would be a better cooking teacher

Last minute reveal – Niles answered the question that Cliff’s daughter was expendable and is super hard core about anything to protect Dorothy

Not if I can fucking help it… Is Cliff going to try to change time?

It’s unclear what’s happening with the butterflys at the end, other than ‘bad’