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Notes on - Doom Patrol: Dead Patrol

 

Dead patrol notes

Open with the ferryman.  Reveal all 4 behind him.  Nice

***  I mean, if one ignored the fact that we appeared to be dead, it’s almost… peaceful.

Why didn’t Rita collapse with the others when Jane smelled eggs?

Rita pretending to faint.  Classic

I like the little dangly light like an anglerfish

So Larry must be back at the real mansion.  And doesn’t know everybody else is dead, poor Larry

Uh oh… those have to  be the bodies being shipped back, don’t they.  They don’t seem big enough

Just getting your friends dead bodies delivered to you without warning.  Yikes.

OK, Larry’s back on Earth, but the negative spirit is gone.

Hell is a curious mix of styles

So all the dead are just hung on racks and left?

Rita’s blaming herself for not taking up Niles task he left her

Is that the same road Cliff walked last season?

Cliff’s dad picks him up

Cliff’s dad must have died before Cliff’s accident.

Cliff:  Actually, since you’re asking.  Sort of became a minor superhero since you last saw me. 

RJ:  Uh huh.

Cliff:  Didn’t think it would be Garguax the Decimator’s alien death ray that finally got me, but here we are..

RJ:  Alien death ray, huh?

Cliff:  Yup.

Cliff’s hell is with his Dad, Vic’s is with his mom. Jane is reverted to Kay and seems to be visiting a nanny or something? Oh, Abuelita.  Granny

Jane and Kay are fully separate here, as separate beings

Dorothy’s back from dropping off Niles’ body

Larry’s cheese has slid entirely off his cracker, he’s set up their bodies wrapped in bandages like his around the table.  Matt Bomer doesn’t get much chance to do comedy, which is too bad.

The cracking noises as Larry makes Jane’s hand give them the finger.  Oh my god.

Dorothy:  Larry?

Larry:  What?

Dorothy:  Why did you arrange our dead friends at the dining room table?

Larry: because leaving them jammed in shipping boxes was weird and morbid.  Seriously, Dorothy.

Larry really sells the pressure of having to deal with all this alone until Dorothy returns.

He’s hearing Rita yell for help from the pancake batter and sees her face.

Thank God Dorothy is sensible enough to know they need help.

Wait, is that Jane or one of the alters with the ghost boy detectives?

OK, now I’m really confused.  Is that not Jane?  When is this?

Wait, they call her Crystal.  She sure seems like Jane

OK, back from research, differenct actress, different character.  Sure sounded and looked like her for a minute.

Charles Rowland knows Danny

Danny went to find them.  Presumably to help Dorothy

Crystal, Charles and Edwin seem genuinely surprised that Larry and Dorothy can hear them

Crystal:  Why would you do this?

Larry:  I don’t know, comfort?  Jesus, isn’t it clear that I’m not doing ok?

Rita’s reaching out means she’s conscious which means Larry is the conduit

Cliff’s dad RJ is in his happy place, hunting and eating Pegasuses.  Apparently they taste just like chicken

RJ seems to really love Clara

Interesting that Kay’s grandmother understands exactly who and what Jane is.  Their discussion is fascinating.

I adore that they left this scene in Spanish and didn’t cater to ‘speak English this is ‘murica!’ types

Ah, they;’re all getting a chance at closure.  I wonder who Rita would have seen

Vic is admitting his feelings about Roni to his mom.  I guess lying isn’t a thing in this realm

Giving roni another chance was what felt right to vic.  And Elenore affirms it.

What’s the rock Elenore gives vic?  Looks like granite

I visualized the dead boy detectives as younger.  Labor law workaround I supposed

Edwin can sense if something other thsan them comes back, and Charles has weapons to deal with those things if Edwin senses them

Crystal:  All of your sex ghosts have the same safe word.  Just FYI.

Love that Charles and Edwin are so distracted by the sex ghosts.  Love that they keep bringing the sex ghosts back

Rita’s talking through Larry.  I love the aesthetic of all this

They’re in the tunnel of souls being processed

Aw.  Death, get her attention.  Wouldn’t a crossover be amazing

Crystal lost somebody too, that resonated.

Larry’s going to astral project.

I used to love those posters at the mall

Did they just temporarily ‘kill’ Larry?

Cute scripting that Edwin calls Larry out for using humor to hide anxiety

Charles:  Death’s quite nice actually.  And she is super fit.

Cliff’s pissed that Clara reconciled with RJ after his ‘death’

RJ casually gutting and cleaning a Pegasus during the conversation

Cliff found his slot car and it lit up on the table in the real world, waking him up in the tunnel of souls

The internal logic of all this feels sound

Edwin has to take the pain because he’s the only one this place knows

Ah, nice little callback to Edwin’s description of hell in Season of Mists

You’ll take this pain.  Youll make something of it.  You’ll survive

Aw.  Kay named her strongest alter after her grandmother.  And grandmother made dolls of all the alters which I total want to collect now.

Jane’s totem was the paintbrush, and now she got pulled back too.  Now we’re just waiting for vic to find his shoe

Larry’s putting feelers out to see if the dead boys detectives are in love with each other.  Edwin is full of typical 1916 it’s not normal though

Cute – crystals flashlight prop was a fake to reassure him

So the rock was just to put under a tree to commemorate the hike/journey

Apparently everybody’s afterlife begins with a short time in a loved ones afterlife to acclimate you

Ah, Niles icon is a chocolate bar

A demon named David posseesed crystal for over a year.  Edwin and Charles freed her.  She must have killed her parents.

I’m guessing we’ll see David the demon at some point later.  They’ve set up Crystal’s quest too clearly to not be planning on following up on it.

So who pulled Rita up into those tunnels?

Cliff:  Who brought Judgey Harry Potter?

I was hoping for a second we were going to see Death.

Is that Edwina from Supernatural??

Burned guy is calling Rita Mindy and isn’t surprised she doesn’t remember him.  What now??

I was not expecting spider face woman to vomit like that

It’s just vomit!  Cheering!

How did they know how to get their spirits back to their bodies.  I supposed Charles and Edwin helped

Was decomp not a problem for their bodies during that amount of town?

Is shooting a Pegasus worse than shooting a unicorn?

What’s with the memory of Madame Rouge being tied to the burnt face man who called Rita Mindy?

Dorothy’s leaving to join the Dead Boys detectives. 

The whole last exchange with Larry and Edwin and Charles calling them for being alike.  No subtext there.

Enter Madame Rouge who’s been upstairs this whole time

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