Notes on - Doom Patrol: Immortimas Patrol

 

Immortimas Patrol notes

Carol of the Bells style open credits music!  They’re saying ‘Doom Patrol’ over and over again.

Let’s party like it’s Immortimus!

The candles are a nice touch

Hey, it’s a musical episode!  I genuinely did not know they were going to do one

Dorothy:  Good morning, sex ghosts!

Sex Ghosts:  Good morning, Dorothy!

Song – Immortimus Day!

Aww, Casey climbing in the window so that Jane would be the first one she saw was sweet

Wait, are we just forgetting Shelley now?

Diane Guerrero has a good voice!

So Isabel has re-written the world so it’s alwaysa holiday all about her

Michelle Gomez… not a super strong singer… We love her anyway

Laura made ugly Immortimus sweaters for everyone.  I love that

And Cliff has his human body back!

Brendan Fraser – also not a great singer

I love that the sex ghosts are all the backup characters/singers/dancers

Aww, Deric sent gifts.

So Vic and Deric have a successful robotics program, Larry has his human body back

104 and Keeg and me.  Cute.

Rita continues her love of big easel drawings

Dorothy has a good voice

This is a lot of scene establishing.  They all have everything they want and worship Isabel unquestioningly

*** Nothing is weird!  Everything’s fine!  We’re all ok!

The scissormen cutout decorations!

So, Jane doesn’t have other selves inside her

Song – Am I doing this right

Standard ‘falling in love’ pop hit for Casey and Jane

Jane is the first to start feeling that something is wrong

I can feel myself forgetting this tune even as it happens

They really are kind of cute together.  I still miss Shelley

Aww, Laura and Rita get to be uncomplicated friends again!

Song – We are best friends

Rita: You’re like meat!

Laura: You’re like cheese!

Both:  Put them together, Charcuterie!!

They’re laying this on a bit thick

I still love seeing them together again though

Where is Isabel during all this?

Oh… the stamp is triggering memories for Laura….

Laura is the first to really try to fight back against the song while singing

Laura:  Oh.. well.. I’ll clean up then.  No problem. (pause)  Oh what the actual fuck.

Every day is Immortimus Day

Sex Ghosts cameo.  Fun

So Vic is the one that’s starting to sense things are wrong in this pair

Cliff, meanwhile, wants to masturbate.  Because of course he does.

Clever way to introduce the VHS tapes though

Cliff:  Immortus is coming, and so am I!

Spooge flying sight gag

Laura:  Too busy singing about your dick, huh?

Pausing the VHS tape reveals what’s really on the tape – the interviews with Niles

Laura gets caught up evaluating how good Matt Bomer looks.  Can not blame her.

So Laura shows Larry the interview with him on the VHS

Laura is put in the position of having to ruin perfection for everyone else, but for good reasons this time

Jane doesn’t remember the underground, but is painting it

And now Jane is starting to see the problems too

And no more Matt Bomer in person.  Sigh.

They don’t even know that they’re a team

Laura knows that Rita can’t face what’s going on, and sends her and Casey away to spare them for the moment.

Would this generation understand what losing VHold on a VHS tape is?

Oh, right.  There wouldn’t be a Cyborg tape to show him

Wow, they all shook off the illusion remarkably quickly.  Even Cliff understands what’s going on, he just wants to stay so he can jerk off.

Jane:  It’s an Illusion, bro.  Larry saying he has a boyfriend in this world is like you saying your cam girl really cared for you

Cliff:  Ginger was there for me.

So they do all remember everything now

Vic just forgot about Casey

Laura:  So.  Are we ready to ruin Rita’s happiness?

That sunken garden is beautiful.

Dorothy wants to stay, even if it isn’t real.  So does Cliff.

If you’re happy, does it matter if it’s real?  That’s a fair question.

Song – Face the future

Joivan Wade has a decent voice

 

Laura:  Vic?

Vic:  Um.. .yeah?

Laura:  Are you.. um.. singing?

Vic:  Yeah.

Laura:  Right.  Ok.  Well, when you’re done with… it’s lovely, but when you’re done with… with all of that… you want to meet me at the bone tree?

That is an impressive stream of piss, Cliff

The gag that Vic’s big power ballad keeps getting interrupted is pretty funny

Casey’s pretty indifferent about the situation

Rama:  So, what’s this?  Some sort of holiday role play?  Kinky.  I’m in.

It’s nice that Rama is totally willing to just accept staying there to be with Larry.  He’s right, they aren’t in danger in this reality.  That has to be tempting

Song:  Elements of love

We knew Matt Bomer had a great voice, but so does Rama

My Chemical Romance shoutout

Laura couldn’t bring herself to ruin Rita’s happiness again

Nice Carousel reference – Clam Bake

Laura:  Rita, you were never a monster to me.

Rita: That’s because in this friendship you’re the monster.

Nice that Cliff checked in with Clara

Ah, it’s easy to have Cliff split scenes if one of them is Robotman

So if he stays, Rory will never grow up

So the Stay folk are Larry, Rama, Vic and Cliff, and the Go folks are Jane,  Casey, Laura and Dorothy.  Where is Rita?

So Rita is the swing vote

Rita’s not wrong about Immortus being dangerous.  Just get through dinner

Isabel doesn’t like if the gratefuls don’t include thanking her

Laura can’t help herself from speaking the truth

So it’s positioned for Rita to be the swing vote

Yeah Rita!  Take Isabel down!

Rouge in peril got through to Rita

Cliff is not looking good here

One by one they’re deciding to let go of the illusion

The last song is to the tune of the theme song!

Best song by far!

So… she just put them back into reality?   No murdering?

Dancing Sex Ghost #6 – Erick Nathan