Dada Patrol notes
I like the opening needle drop on the ‘charred in effigy’ Chief.
Kay is seeing the psychiatrist inside the underground.
Why is Kay growing now?
New shoes/injured feet as a metaphor for Kay growing in relevance to herself.
Kay wants to go up and ‘drive’
Love Jane standing up for Kay’s right to grow up and run her life
Missing on the milk carton – Isabel Feathers. Do we know her? Is that going to be Mme Rouge based on the feather association?
Cliff is going gaga over online baby pictures.
Cliff: L. M. F. A. O.
Vic: DO you even know what that means?
Cliff: Yeah. Love My Fucking Awesome Offspring.
How does Cliff not know not to click on popups? OK, it is Cliff
Hey, Cyborg got his powers back
And Cliff isn’t patient enough to wait for the pills to help so he figures they’ll work faster if he takes more. Idiot. But very on brand.
So how did Silas now manage to turn Cyborg back on? Cyborg’s no longer trackable by S.T.A.R. labs?
This would be a touching reconciliation between Vic and his dad if I cared at all about that plotline.
This all is telegraphing that they’re about to kill Silas off.
Of course Larry would turn to Rita for help with his bump. Apparently it can move around in his body.
Rita’s correct, clearly it’s not a tumor as tumors do not move
Madame Rouge isn’t holding up her agreement to leave the team alone if Niles gave her the info.
Jane: Hey Doctor Who. Did you call us all in here so we can watch you do your Kegels, or did you actually have something to say?
Again we call back to their raid on the Ant Farm.
There’s something very sinister about the way she cautions Jane to raise her hand before asking a question
So the Sisterhood of Dada was imprisoned at the Ant Farm and escaped thanks to the teams raid back in season 1. What have they been doing all this time then?
Vic: We are not the kind of people that kill people.
Cliff: Unless they’re Nazis. Or butts.
Vic: What exactly is Dada?
Rita: Uch. It’s just this insufferable thing the French came up with so they could make crude nudie films and call it art.
The eternal flagellation is coming. What’s that drawing of? Cliff mistakes it for flatulation
I kind of like Madame Rouge as team director.
So Madame Rouge has determined that she came through time to stop this eternal flagellation. OK.
Madame Rouge wants them to go infiltrate the sisterhood and get intel if they won’t just kill them.
Love the way Jane raises her hand before the next question and how not offended Mme Rouge is by her asking to go away forever.
Oh, right. Mme Rouge wants Rita to stay behind to ask her about appearing in the movie as the camera operator. How refreshingly direct
Rita of course takes this as confirmation that she’s a world renowned time traveller. These two are just so much fun together
Even knowing that Mme Rouge is a time traveller it hasn’t occurred to Rita that she was the one who locked her in
What’s happening to Mme Rouge?
So Darren had the location of the sisterhood written in his notebook
Stoned Cliff is drawing penises
Dopamine stimulators. Is that really used to treat parkinsons?
Huh. Just looked it up and they slow or prevent the progression of motor problems. Somebody did their research.
He thinks the bump on Larry’s neck is a zit and causes the bus to crash trying to pop it.
Uh oh. Fog. I remember enough from the comics to know that’s bad.
Larry: How does this crap keep happening to us?
Jane: Because no one else gets sent on a mission by a time travelling bird lady to go hunt down some art freaks who pissed off a half-man, half-butt monster who may be trying to destroy the world.
Larry: Yeah. Got it.
They really did just comprehensively split up. Larry still doesn’t have powers, that right.
Rita and Madame Rouge day drinking!
Oh and she’s telling Rita about the letter instead of hiding it. Nice.
God Michelle Gomez is good. She’s crushing this monologue and it’s all over the place. Self doubt, absurdity, loneliness, slightly drunk.
**** Apparently, I’m a time traveler who makes films and has allies in the afterlife.
Rita: Eventually, my purpose or destiny will come and snatch me from this infernal stasis. In the meantime, I drink.
Rita confesses to sabotaging the time machine, Madame Rouge doesn’t seem too mad about it
Bicycle: Toad bonnet bee. Thatcher’s blue bum. Toad bonnet bee. Thatcher’s blue bum.
Cliff: I am so fucking high.
Ooo, what was the sleepwalker one’s name again… That has to be her.
Wait, who was the woman spiraling out of the ice cream truck? Wtf?
Why did Hammerhead yell out for Jane? Was it an illusion?
And now she’s in a candy store
Jane’s different alters are calling out to her to come back?
The others in the underground can’t reach Jane while she’s in the candy store.
They’re inside Shelley Byron’s head. Shelley wants to talk specifically to Jane. With or about Kay
The actress playing Shelley has an interesting energy.
Jane wants to join the sisterhood – right, she was sent by Mme Rouge to infiltrate
‘Why are you’ is an interesting question
The Japanese woman in the box has to be the one who has every superpower you haven’t thought of.
What does Shelley Byron actually want?
Jane: Wow. That is some art school level pretentious bullshit.
Sounds like the eternal flagellation is some sort of apocalypse
Interesting view on how Vic sees his purpose in life
They’re being asked Who are you, Why are you, and what are you.
Cliff being translated into Japanese instead of the expected her being translated into English is a fun choice
Cliff surprisingly comfortable being philosophical with the Japanese woman
Cliff wants to hug the woman in the box because she’s experiencing existential despair
Nice call back to Admiral Whiskers
Larry seems to be the only one not meeting a member of the Sisterhood.
Paul’s the one that’s still alive and sold him out, right?
Apparently Rita can fix time machines now
The dancing is cute. Should they go to 1949 or 1917? The film or the letter?
Rita’s really trying to make Madame Rouge feel better about herself.
This is Rita’s latest attempt to craft an identity for herself.
The ant farm apparently used Shelley as a weapon. She absorbs people and then their minds are in hers.
I hate the whole ‘you have to tear the world down so we can re-build it’ trope, but it does resonate with ‘make something from your pain that Kay’s grandma advised.
The stuff with Larry and his son feels like a retread that isn’t really going anywhere.
What’s he sculpting. Is that supposed to be Cyborg’s face?
Are the sisterhood of Dada also immortal?
Bicycle guy spent 100 years imprisoned and was disappointed to find that racism hadn’t gotten any better in all that time, is that what they’re saying?
I feel like I’m not understanding a lot of this scene.
They seem to all be talking about finding or realizing your essential self in various ways
Cliff saying the name Laura De Mille seems to trigger all of the Dada members
Does Shelley want Jane to break free from the other alters, or for Kay to be one personality, or what??
What was the sleepwalker woman’s name again.
Nice realization of Frenzy’s whirlwind powers interpreted as wind from the bike wheels
Nice pairing of the breaking glass imagery.
Kay wants to stay with Shelley. What’s Kay’s journey this year?
Now after all the mind trips no one wants to go anywhere near the Sisterhood again
How did Paul actually get there? Is that really him?
‘Approximate Man’ written on the inside of the mask.
Exactly how many of those pills did Cliff order? And how did he pay for them, come to that.
Is that pop up for casino games or porn?
The psychiatrist doesn’t seem to want Kay to grow up. That makes sense, keeping her safe in stasis.
Who’s in control of Jane’s body there when she’s eating the candy? Is it Kay? Is that Jane metaphorically giving in to Shelley’s argument?
Larry’s bump is glowing now. It has to be a negative being offspring
Mme Rouge calls Rita out for her world renowned time traveler thing being a fantasy and not who she really is, which drives Rita to steal the time machine.
It’s a little convenient that Rita can figure out how to operate the time machine
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