Notes on - Doom Patrol: Space Patrol

 

Space Patrol notes

 

Dorothy sitting alone by the boiler is really the only place they could have started.  Why is there wax all over Jane?  Has the candlemaker ever killed just one aspect of someone before?

And we also pick up right where the damage is with Jane in the underground

So Human Torch Jane is dead

And Niles has no idea what happened yet, which is heartbreaking

What help does Cliff think the human finger will help the chief program sensors

Niles:  Table the finger and help me find her.

Don’t freeze dismembered appendages.  Wrap them in cool wet towels

Larry:  Apparently they’d all be better off if I were dead.

Rita:  Well, that may be true, but I would be bereft.

Our Town

Larry:  First, I’m not in a time of need.  I’m in a time of regret and self loathing.

Anxiety meds are indeed different from PTSD meds.  And they are all expensive.  Good on the show for acknowledging real life problems

Vic:  Hey, can I look inside you?

Roni: Ew.

Vic:  To see what’s broken, I mean

Roni:  A hundred times ‘ew’.

So Cliff finally finds Jane after we’ve almost forgotten what happened

Cliff is not delicate to Chief about not caring about Dorothy

Larry:  There’s something else you should see.

Cliff:  Is it Dorothy playing dress up with Rita’s skin?

And now suddenly there’s a spaceship.  They are really not letting us stop to think about the repercussions of what happened with Dorothy

So the Immortus initiative had Niles send a spaceship into space to do research in the 60s for… reasons…

Pioneers of the Uncharted.  Zip, Specs, and Moscow ‘The Russian One!’

They are SO 60s.

Jane is asking all the questions the audience is.  What does death even mean there?  Are they gone?  Are they just dormant?  The only thing we know for sure is going into the well = Destruction and that’s what the others are doing with the bodies.

What would Dorothy have done if there hadn’t been a handy spaceship?  And how does she know how to fly it?

Cliff:  Man, when that kid runs away she really runs away.

Cliff:  You had a fucking spaceship in this garage the whole time?

1955 – space travel – His spaceship uses vacuum tubes and a goat head.

**** I’m not in a rush to get stranded in space in your homebrew devil ship.

There’s something kind of admirable about Cliff’s insistence on staying with Jane and not caring about Dorothy.

The little scritch Niles gives to the goats chin is adorable

Zip and Specs homoerotic horseplay

Valentina:  We’ve been in space for 65 years.  It’s gotten… weird.

Valentina Vostok – Negative Woman.  Nice reveal of her negative spirit

Rita is still going by her real name.

Isobel:  I see where you’re confused.  We’re not doing Our Town.  We’re doing Our Town.

Director:  And then we’ll tackle Act 3: ‘What we talk about when we talk about The Donkey.’

SO Valentina’s mission was a test run for Larry’s accident

Valentina took 5 years to reach harmony with her negative spirit while living in the airlock

Man these plots are super separate.  I do like Vic and Roni exchanging vulnerability

Roni doesn’t want Vic to make himself the hero of her story.

So Niles and Silas combined to make Roni whatever she was

Candlemaker wanted to get rid of Manny.

Why is Dorothy growing up now, per Candlemaker?

Jane continues to be the voice of the audience in the underground

Wait, she can just go see Kay?  Isn’t that like having access to God from her point of view?

Jane’s biggest fear is that she hurt the girl.  Makes sense.  Jane;s job is ‘to know’

‘Smooth little pip’ is an… interesting thing for straight buddies to call each other…

Valentina is an example of ‘the other way Larry could be.’  She’s anti-Faith.

They address how to move on from last cliffhanger by delaying everyone finding out and overloading other incidents to cloud what’s going on.

Niles implies that Candlemaker is Dorothy’s creation

Ah.  Niles needed Cliff to come with because he doesn’t have a space suit.  Makes sense.

Those must be Candlemaker’s footsteps

This looks like the Web Planet set.  Does the moon really have Kryptonite spars like that?

OMG Rita having to watch Isobel be ‘her’ in the play and subscribe all the worst motivations to her actions in the pilot.  And not being able to tell them about her experience

Who is Rita playing?  The Beekeeper?

Good on Rita for not denying the truth about what Isobel is saying and correcting to ‘Mother’

Wow.  Isobel was SO close to being helpful

So Zip and Specs were corrupted by plant spores which are making them repeat a homoerotic loop

Is that a comment on the shallowness of the 60s concept of the characters?

Valentina:  We have seen much, and Earth is still the most beautiful place in the galaxy.

Larry: Because it’s a spinning orb of constant suffering?

Valentina:  Yes.  Exactly.

Is the grave marker for Manny or Baby Doll?

Dorothy finally gets how dangerous she is.

Oh, it’s for Manny

Dorothy’s mom gave Manny to her.  OK, that fills in some gaps

Cliff’s speech about pain is lovely.  Is this episode about beauty in suffering?  Is that what it’s about?

I hope it was all painless.  Interesting

Beauty comes from meaning and pai  has meaning.  OK.

Larry has recommitted to mending ties with his family.

That wax face effect is… unfortunate.

OK, that’s three times I’ve asked something and the show immediately answered me

WTF with Niles throwing Cliff out of the airlock?