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Notes on - Doom patrol: 1917 Patrol

 

1917 Patrol notes

Who’s doing the narrating?

Nice Wizard of Oz effect out the porthole

Did Rita just forget that time travelling wipes your memory?

*** When was the last time she followed her bliss?

So was that how Mme Rouge’s memories were purges too?  By reliving and purging her memories?

Iowa 1917

Love the clumsy way that Rita gets out of the ship

Betty Ann Bucklestone takes Rita’s appearance well in stride

Funny that the first thing you have to do after time travelling is pee

The bureau of Normalcy is right on the scene to investigate

April Bowlby is playing this subtly differently now that Rita is unburdened by her past

The Brain and Monsieur Mallah!

Paul is just muttering nonsense.  Makes sense given the assault by dada

Jane is smuggling Kay out to be in control.   How does physically buying shoes for the conceptual alter personality actually work.

The Brain is now going to reverse engineer the design for a time machine.  I love how much of Brain and MM we’re getting.

Cliff is apparently clicking all of the popups.  How is he paying for any of this?

Cliff:  That’s Ginger.  She keeps me company while I play.  And if I just can get Private Nuttles to the Hazelnut Highway, I’ll be frickin’ awesome!

Vic is clearly being haunted by ‘approximate man

Cliff:  Why in the name of God’s name and nutcheese would you want to change that?

Vic: Maybe because it’s not all about who you can bang?

Cliff: Said no superhero ever.

I sthat the same set as the ant farm?  Same weird half robots

What was the smouldering guy all about

Is Laura De Mille actually from this time period originally

Again Who am I, What am I, Why am I

‘Quite sciency-y’

Great evil scientist glasses on Michelle Gomez

Laura De Mille is a recruiter for the Bureau of Normalcy

Oh, she’s testing Rita for powers

Rita has much better usage of her powers when she’s not burdened by emotional problems

Mme. Rouge:  Sisterhood of Dada.  Speak.

Cliff:  Ugh.  Fine.  Bunch of super self-absorbed kookledoodle meta-humans who definitely do not like you.  When I said the name Laura De Mille, I got a foot up my ass, and not in a good way.

Cliff can’t draw because of robot fingers

But now she knows the sisterhood is working on an ‘art project’

Holly must also be a metahuman.  Laura saved them

Bendy

We see Shelley Byron, Lloyd, Laura, and a guy with a pipe

Lloyd appears to be a janitor or something.

Why did no one tell Ritsa she wasn’t allowed to sit and eat with the normies?

Ah, Laura is hiding her powers

Sachiko is here too.  No sleepwalker though

Oh, ok, Rita just didn’t read the manual

Ah, it’s a segregation riff

Wonder what happens to pipe smoker guy for him not to be around in the future

Another new identity for Diane Guerero to play.  She is just so good.

Is she going to steal that girl’s bike?

Piffle Paffle

Jane:  Pretty, Pretty Polly.  Wake the fuck up.  We’re a construct.  Kindness may be one of our only commodities.

That would be pretty irritating, being instantly aware of people sneaking selfies with you

It’s interesting how she doesn’t have any problems controlling her powers.

Niles Caulder is currently on assignment and not at the Bureau.  Convenient.

His name twinged Rita’s memory

So the segregated Metas have formed kind of a club for dad and like to dress up.  You get there inside Shelley’s fog

OMG, Laura’s blue party dress.  So is this a real space or a conceptual space?

Rita’s been embraced by the sisterhood.  Who seem to be the good guys at this point

Convenient that Rita wasn’t with them last week for Shelley to recognize

Mme. Rouge:  The only rule is, there are no rules.  Piffle Paffle.  J’m’en fous.

Rita:  Really.  What happened to that crackerjack woman with the clipboard?

Mme. Rouge: Oh, that bitch is off the clock.

1917 was the armory show, wasn’t it?

Is that weed they’re smoking?

OMG, I want to go this party.

Malcolm can turn invisible

What song is that they’re singing

They’re drinking absinthe

Malcolm has a bird cage in his hollow chest for the canary.  I vaguely remember that from the comics

In the spirit of absolute nonsense

Chocolate clucking

Oh my god, the segue into Poker Face is inspired

I bet Lady Gaga jumped at this opportunity

Run the card again?  What card is he using?

So now he’s going to steal stuff from the other to steal?

Cliff is high off his ass, isn’t he

Happiness was never as easy as you all make it seem.  Well, that is the appeal of rejecting reason and embracing meaninglessness

It’s about choosing to be happy in spite of everything.

***This is their protest.  A life well lived.  – that’s profound

Holly and Sachiko seem to be the inventors of the project that I can only assume becomes the eternal flagellation

Should we be happy for Kay after she stole this bike

Pleasant surprise that’s Kays interaction with that guy was so positive.

Paul joined the Bureau of Normalcy as an agent.  That begs the question of you one becomes an  agent

OK, Paul’s feelings of abandonment for Larry not being there are understandable, but… um… he was actually physically locked up away from them Paul.

Good on Larry for pushing back

He has to unwrap himself to take a leak.  That never occurred to me

Hmm.  Larry’s not really in the clear here, but he’s not all wrong either.

Paul and Clara should talk

Where is Cyborg walking to?  Oh… yeah.  Right.  The rock thing

There’s a lot in this show about parent/child relationships, isn’t there.

Vic’s realizing that he’s never actually asked himself what he actually wants

Lloyd:  Bendy, you are out of your mind.

Shelley:  In the best way possible.

Love that they’re all sitting at different rtables so that the norms have nowhere to sit.

Rita has total control over her powers as long as her self image is intact

Sachiko turned them all into clown costumes. And is handing out copies of the drawing that Cliff couldn’t reproduce

Nice surprise that it was Laura disguised as a guard

And that’s how the Sisterhood of Dada really formed

Are is an act of rebellion

Wait, she kept the bike?

Escaping from bondage and/by finding a little moment of Joy.  This kind of aligns jane with the Sisterhood, doesn’t it.

It makes sense that Doctor Harrison would be desperate to maintain the status quo.  There’s a civil war headed for the underground

FuzzyRimJob42 wants the blueprints for Cliff and Cliff sold it

There’s a significance that Vic is identifying as Vic instead of Cyborg now

Vic’s applying for synthetic skin.  Is that even possible?  Isn’t like 2/3s of his body motherbox?

Larry’s bump is getting more aggressive

Rita ended up creating that movie by going back to find out about the movie

She’s so much happier here than at Doom Manor

Rita’s decided to stay in 1917.   That’s probably not going to end well.

The paper clip heart gift is unspeakably sweet.

They just metaphorically gave one another their hearts

Laura breaks a lot of glassware

What IS that drawing?  It looks a little like Malcolm’s canary

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