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Notes on - Doom Patrol: Finger Patrol

 

The first song line is life is but a dream.  Subtle tell that ths is a dream sequence.

So is Vic’s dream him worrying that hooking up with Roni will bring out the savagery in him like he’s seen in her

**** Sorry to disturb your night terror.

The sex ghosts are still hanging around, and Cliff is just rolling with it.  Will they matter to the overall plot later or just a fun visual?

Jane is back in control as the primary, and is really embracing self pity

Jane does seem to have taken the ‘its about protecting the girl’ lesson to heart.

Is making a map of the underground the equivalent of AA’s making a bold self assessment?

The thought of making the map brought out Baby Doll.  This feels kind of contrived.  Like, they had to get Baby Doll out for the rest of the plot, but wasn’t Jane just beating herself about ditching her responsibility as primary?

Is there something uncomfortable about watching him infantilize Diane Guerroro like that

So, is the candlemakers beef that Dorothy refuses to grow up and keeps acting like a little girl?  Is that what the Baby Doll/Dorothy friendship ep is about?

Meanwhile, Rita turns to community theater

Cloverton Community Players

I suppose Rita can’t just say who she is for cred without raising a ton of questions

Is Rita’s monologue from something famous?  I don’t recognize it.  Just the word mama triggers memories of her mother casting couch for her

Mickie the writer/director/assistment manager

Cliff has lost the VHS of the chief confessing.  I assume the Chief stole it back, right?

This leads to Cliff finding the Cheifs plans to upgrade him.

Nice shout out to the spider body

Niles wants Cliff to have a sense of touch again

Kind of a gross finger drawing

Cliff is a little insensitive, but not wrong to point out that Niles no longer has decades

Larry offering to help Paul clean out Gary’s house was a good step for him.

‘How about you make that drink to go’ is… questionable advice.

Dorothy and Baby Doll are cute together.  Until they aren’t.

Go Vic for attending their tea party unaswhamedly

Cliff:  Those two are cuter than shit

Vic:  Man, you missed out on a killer tea party.

Cliff:  What?

Vic:  What?

I wonder how much Dorothy understands about what Baby Doll is?

Candlemaker is ‘t wrong, Baby Doll skews a bit younger that Dorothy in taste of games and playing.

Niles should know better than to leave two girls with infinite power and no impulse control alone together to play

It seems like Dorothys imaginary friends and Janes alters are going to be a bonding point. 

Ted is apparently called Manny[MH1] .

When Momma was gone?  What’s that mean

So what did Baby Doll do wrong exactly?  Tap him on the nose?

Manny didn’t like it, whatever it was

So Manny is independent from and predates Dorothy

Cliff:  They put stickers on us.

Vic:  Oh, I know.  The puffy ones are hard to get off.

Interesting that Cliff thinks of asking Vics dad

Cliff’s description of remembering feeling is more poetic than he usually gets.

Paul, Dex and Toby.

Rita, my dear friend.  Awww

Hammerhead turned out to have the best grasp of the situation

Hammerhead:  Kids fight, Jane.  And when that happens, whose side do you think Dorothy’s own fucking father’s gonna choose?  Do you think Baby Doll can handle that?

Dorothy’s hiding from Baby Doll after BD hurt Manny

Niles is at least trying to do some damage control with BD

They got to Detorit to meet Cyrus pretty quick.

That scenario about Cyrus redoing Cliff and rubbing it in Niles’ face is exactly what happened in the comics

Being Nagative man ‘hurts sometimes, but not right now.’  I wonder if he’s speaking physically or emotionally

Paul:  Wife’s idea. She got it from some TV show about a Japanese condo or something.  If it doesn’t ‘spark joy’ it must go.

Larry’s mom lived with Gary for awhile and got Gary into all the conspiracy theories.  Sheryl just got a lot more interesting.

Should we worry about Rita’s drinking?

Rita:  There is a cute, absolutely mint pencil skirt in the ‘keep’ pile.  Perhaps it could wind up in the ‘give to Rita’ pile.

We used to play that same game with the metal jarts.  Probably why they got banned

Cliff:  Don’t judge.  Not until you hear our superteam name.  ‘Steele and Stone’!

Cliff:  I’m so glad you feel comfortable sharing this.  There’s been this unspoken bet between all of us about whether or not you have a schlong.

Ah, Vic stood her up in the way he dreamed she was going to stand him up.  Nice touch.

Cliff’s romantic advice is actually solid and healthy.  His calling it verbal astroglide doesn’t speak well of him though.

I LOVE the huge apartment number on Roni’s door.  Do places really have those?

So is ythat Jane making the sandwiches now?

Baby Doll is PISSED that Dorothy dumped her as a friend.  Such standard little kid stuff

I’m reminded of my oretty floral bonnet by Cliff in the wig

The entire Steel and Stone montage serves to allow the sad stuff later to really hit.

Man, they nailed the late 70s buddy cop vibe to a T

Morilar production?

And of course Cluff instantly tries to do 70s buddy cop in real life and tears a guys finger off

Oh, so Cliffs arm really was malfunctioning

Good job on the gross finger prop.  Very realisric.  And nice segue to the hot dog on the grill

Rita got in the play thanks to a castwide breakout of mono.

Does Vic realize Cliff is just hanging out outside while he has sex?

**** So you made some bad choices.  Everyone does.

Vic, she told you she didn’t want to talk about the scars

Oh, so it’s basically Deadpool’s origin/The Boys

Quorum.  Bet we’ll hear about them again later.

Did Paul genuinely have no idea that Larry was gay?

Paul had already sold Larry out by the point Larry came out though

Some guy named Wayne started Gary and Sheryl on the path to conspiracy theories.  Is he going to resurface?

Does Rita’s metabolism keep her from getting drunk?

Paul has just been covering his anger all this time

Paul:  No one survives Larry Trainor

Rita saved Toby’s life from the gunfire

Dex died though.  Your own fault Paul

And speaking of consequences for your actions…

Baby Doll sees the map of the underground.  Does that help the Candlemaker find Baby Doll to kill her

Baby Doll takes revenge by spilling the beans on Niles to Dorothy, So Dorothy takes revenge by scaring her with Manny.  So Baby Doll takes revenge by killing Manny, so Dorothy has the Candlemaker kill her

Did we know that Baby Doll’s power was telekinesis?

Which personality has the human torch gig that killed Manny and then gets killed?

Man, Dorothy blowing out a candle looked sinister

Really great duel Diane camera work

So what happens now??  Is the flamey one dead?

 

 

 

 [MH1]

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