Notes on - Doom Patrol: Undead Patrol

 

Undead patrol notes

Oh yeah, Willoughby stole Niles’ head.  I’d forgotten.

I love how inexplicably specific Willooughby’s magic is

Peach what?  What’s he drinking?

Nice detail of sewing the speaker into the mouth.  No CGI lip matching required.  Plus, cooler.

Hebrew letters to make Niles a golem

Way to dodge the traditional head through the table trick

*** I’ve got loads of important shit for us to do.

Willoughby’s continued quest to get love from Baphoment.

So nice that Baphomet isn’t fooled at all.

Who just walked into Willoughby’s room??

Jane:  So, are you gonna tell us who you are, or does someone have to jam a foot up your pee-hole?

So nice how completely non-offendable Madame Rouge is.  She just rolls with everything

Larry’s the first to start scratching, but he wasn’t even there for dragon lady vomit

Jane:  Why are you looking for Chief?

Madame Rouge: Can’t remember that either.  But when I think of him I am filled with an overwhelming and immediate urge to punch him in the face.

Rita: That’s him.

Cliff: Yup.

Jane: Word.

Larry: Sounds about right.

So time travel in this case caused amnesia.  How does she know she came in a time capsule?  And that time travel causes amnesia?  Is she just guessing?

After the afterlife Cliff can’t believe in time travel?

Cheeto dick.  Huh.

Michelle Gomez is a fucking treasure.  Her shrug at being asked what year she came from.  Priceless.

Why did they bother bringing the time machine inside?

Ah, Rita recognizes the coat from the woman that locked her in to die, only of course she was shape shifted into Rita at that point.  Why though?

Vic is quick to piece together the connection between the alarm and Mme Rouge arriving.

Super love how practical the plan to just go back to when Niles was alive is.

Cliff:  I don’t know, things were a little hairy around here two weeks ago.  Kaiju candle-demon on the loose.  You might wanna go back a little further.

Mme. Rouge: Right. Well, I shall go back three weeks, then.

Larry:  Ooo, yeah.  This place was lousy with sex ghosts around then.  I don’t recommend it.

Vic:  True.

Cliff: That’s right.

Mme Rouge: Well, four weeks?

Everybody: No, no, no.

Mme Rouge: OK, well how about five?

Vic: Hell no.

Mme Rouge: Seven?  What about seven? Give me seven. Anyone for seven? You want to give me seven?

So Rita broke the TT machine to keep her around to find out why she locked them in to die.

Kind of a big assumption that Vic would be able to fix a time machine.

A significant portion of this cast are Doctor Who Alumni

Cliff is committed to actually getting help.  Nice development

Makes sense that Mme R. would want to see the alarm that is connected to her somehow.

Why is Larry the first to start turning?  Why is he turning at all?

She just assumes Vic will do what she says.  Nice.

What is Larry puking up?  Is this really to do with the Negative spirit?

Cliff:  Cyborg’s not really my buddy.  I don’t know why I said that.  He’s more like this lesser version of me that lives in my house.

So Cliff, the direct and inept way he just starts facetiming with Doctors and throwing all the ridiculous backstory as if they won’t be thrown by it.

Why would Cliff’s metal body be affected like the was living tissue RE: Zombification?

Why is jane building a scarecrow.

I suppose the fly must be CGI, right?

See, now the bio parts of Vic going rotty makes sense.

I’m so over Vic arguing with Silas about being made a cyborg.  Oh right, his mom said it wasn’t.  I’m still not very interested though.

Silas is losing his job because Vic helped Roni.  I’d feel bad if he wasn’t such a dick.

You’d think Silas would believe that Vic went to the afterlife after all the other shit they’ve seen.

He had an untested option for synthetic skin but chose to use the tech instead.

Rita calling Mme Rouge Shannon is funny

Mme. Rouge:  Do you have a question for me, or is your neediness some kind of holistic condition?

Rita really wants Mme R. to confirm that she was the one who locked her in.

So did Niles leave the film inside the chessboard for Mme. R to find or for the DP to find?

Creepy bob ross fan art.  Ha.

Nice subtle build up of zombie indicators.

Jane tried to make something out of her pain like Abuelita said.

Love that Cliff is totally ready to roll with Jane burning the chief in effigy.

Cliff feels cathartic about his talks with his dad and ghost niles.

So Larry just assumes he’s dying

Nice reminder from Rita of the mystery as to who or what was the guy who helped her in the afterlife

Larry’s willing to but the time travel after everything.  At last!

Puking up blue crap.  Oh, Larry assumes that with the NS gone his body is finally giving out.  Makes sense.

Why is Larry zombifying like everybody else??

I wonder how gross licking the bandages was

The Sisterhood of Dada presents.  Woman painting cat

Laura De Mille as cat

Everybody’s comic timing is right on in this one.

Nice rotting arm effect

Good sound design with Larry’s bone breaking

Mme. Rouge doing that weird modern Dance in the light of the projector is such a haunting image

Cliff says it’s because of the spider lady puke, but that wouldn’t effect larry

Maggot puke!

Nice way to confirm that she’s a shapeshifter where does the mass go?

They’re really using the camera and lighting techniques of zombie movies well here.

The captioning of the zombie grunting and the fact that they all can understand one another is genius. Her name is Shannon.  She remembered her name?  No, that’s just what we’re calling her.

I bet Michelle Gomez and Mark Sheppard had a freaking blast filming this.

I didn’t even recognize Darren Jones.  Love that Cliff could care less about Niles’ head being tortured while Vic just wonders how you’d even do that.

Darren stole Niles’ head from Willoughby offscreen.

The zombie dialogue all through subtitles is my favorite thing about this.

What’s the implication of James Dean’s air freshner covering the smell of brains?  Again the hilaruiously specific details of Willoughby’s magic

They’re dancing on the line between them acting like themselves and acting like zombies quite well.

Mme rouge calmly accepting petrified dragon’s piss!

Willoughby:  This way, Solomons Grundy

The dialogue is just as wonderful translated from Zombie

So Darren’s wife left him and took the kids.  And now he’s nuts for revenge and keeping a serial killer diary

I love how little respect they’re showing Darren

Darren:  Do you have any idea what it’s like to be attacked by hundreds of butts?

Mme Rouge becoming an ottoman.  Oh my god.

Darren being upset that nobody cares enough to ask what happened to make his wife leave.

A were-butt!  That howls!

Jane is literally eating ass

Zombie v. were-butts!

Eating brains would cure zombie-ism

Niles wants Willoughby to feed his head to the zombies to cure them.

All three of them are Doctor Who alums

Baphomet is actually into him?  That’s news.

So Laura is part of the sisterhood of dada

‘Laura’ rolls with learning that she and Niles have bad history surprisingly well.

Niles has documents about her that he’ll give to her.

I love the thought that you couldn’t make someone forget that they’re a bad person.  Such a sweet monologue for Michelle G

How did the zombies get back to Doom Manor exactly?

I was hoping they’d keep the Chief’s head around for a while

Niles:  It’s OK.  I love you, Jane.  I want you to eat me.

How exactly does cliff manage to eat Niles’ brain?

So funny that Cliff won’t stop trying to talk about it.

So Niles recommended that Laura be terminated immediately back in 1949.  From the Bureau, I would imagine.

What prescription did Cliff order?  And again, how is he going to take it?

OK, what’s with Larry’s baby bump?  Is he going to become Rebis?  Please?

Ah, that’s why he’s been throwing up.  He’s pregnant

Very moving montage

I assume we’re going to meet the other woman in the film

Laura is crying and heartbroken and Rita offers her a cookie.  That would be nice.

Wait, is that Rita working the camera?

And now it’s a zombie were-butt.  Of course it is.