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Notes on - Doom Patrol: Tomb Patrol

 

Tomb Patrol notes

We open with Butt Hunter running

He looks pretty beat up

So the Bureau used to want to capture them alive but now wants him to shoot to kill

*** I always get my butt.

Where/when are we now?

 

I’m guessing that wasn’t actually the last butt

According to close captioning, the Butt that’s talking is named ‘Teddy’.  SO, there’s that.

Is that the dystopian butt future, or is that happening right now?

Vic’s back at the old STAR labs set.  And Silas just happens to be there?

Oh, no, Vic invited him

How does Silas know about the musical world?

Silas is happy Vic is hanging with Deric again.  He should be, Deric’s good people.

How easiy is it, realistically, to be re-cyborged

What’s the rest of the DP up to while Vic is out in the middle of the night?  Sleeping, I suppose.

So Vic still wants to help people.  That’s nice.

LOVE Madame Rouge’s response to seeing Isabel

Madame Rouge:  So, if it is revenge that you want, you are going to have to go through all of them please don’t kill me I don’t want to die.

I’m really loving how flakey Isabel is.

She’s here to invite them to a theatrical event??

Isabel:  It wasn’t super cool to force all of humanity to love me.  I’m not Disney.

‘Ruffled Feathers’.  Nice

Isabel expects to go to Broadway.  It’s weird.  She’s going out of her way to not use her Immortus powers more than she absolutely has to.

OK, what’s Larry digging?

OH, he’s digging his own grave.  That is dark

Where’s Rama going?

Wow.  Rama and Larry are  both planning their own deaths separate from one another.  That’s super dark.

Larry’s going to trap Keeg in orchids?  That’s not OK

Man, ‘give up’ really is Larry’s go to move.  I’m a little surprised that it’s Rama’s too.

Larry:  Fuck you for giving me hope.

Rita’s got arthritis

And going blobby makes her feel better.

Releasing her form helps with her arthritis.  That actually makes sense.

Madame Rouge:  This is Immortus.  A supervillain.

Rita:  Is she though?

Madame Rouge:  And that’s why it looks like Julia Child went on cocaine binge then, is it?

Right, Rouge doesn’t have longevity to lose either

Aw, it’s nice that Rita just wants to have a nice meal together while they can.

The old age makeup crew are really out in force in this one

So Jane remembers the flirty song with Casey.  And Casey sorted the puzzle pieces

Back into the underground

All the other alters have dissolved into puzzle pieces?

Say what?  What do they want her to say?

Her feelings for Casey are awakening her memory of her trauma

Blow up toilets with M-80S!

Rouge is doing her best to inspire them to action

Isabel has a mystical skin tag

OK, so they spotted the part of Immortus that The Chief had harvested.

So, has Immortus always been Isabel?

Larry:  But… How did it…

Madame Rouge:  Come off her body? I don’t know.  And I don’t care to.

We have a Steven Moffat time loopy thing!

Here’s their chance to get their longevity back by chopping off her special skin tag

Cliff just wants to spend the rest of his time with his daughter.

Larry has a fair point.  Why does she care?

I’d forgotten that Rouge had abandoned them in the future

Larry, this IS your solution for Keeg

Rita actually makes a solid argument for giving up.

Vic has designs for re-cyborging!  And is coming to emotional closure with Silas.

Silas:  For the record, we started fighting when I could not pull you away from that Xbox.  Not for sleep, church, school.

Vic.:  How dare you.  It was a PlayStation.

Silas has come to terms with not controlling Vic’s decisions anymore.  This feels like end of series closure.

Why is Cliff driving so slowly?

Cliff’s not wrong.  It’s not fair

Cliff’s leg is stuck with the pedal floored.  Saw that coming.

Madame Rouge went to Ruffled Feathers!

The birth canal is… something..

What must filming this one woman show have been like on the day??

Oh.  It’s sad that no one clapped.  Now I feel bad for Isabel

Oooooo.  Do not shame Isabel Feathers, audience…

Shit.  She just erased all of them

Appealing to Isabel’s vanity

Nicholas the Butt.  He must be Teddy’s father

And Teddy’s like a butt revolutionary

Dr. Yu was turned into a Butt!  Is she a were butt Like Darin?

OK, neither of them should be driving.

Jane has dementia, which is why the alters are disappearing.  Interesting.

What the Hell IS going on in the underground?

How many times have they crashed now??

Rouge is unexpectedly bonding with Isabel over not being accepted.  That’s kind of sweet.

Maybe you shouldn’t tell Isabel about the Brotherhood of Evil…

Yeah, now Isabel wants to be a super villain where she didn’t before.  That’s not  agreat development.

And she wants Rouge to be her Villain side kick

And poor Rita just wants a family meal.  And it’s Larry who shows up for her.  That’s nice.

Larry’s writing his own epitaph

The ‘I made this lovely meal’/I don’t eat argument is a perfect encapsulation of how none of them are listening to one another.

Rita:  All I have is us.  And it would have been nice if somebody had stepped up for me the way that I have stepped up for them. And, at the very least, come to dinner.

OK, so Dr. Yu is a were Butt.  Teddy bit her.

The human hands on the butt are really disturbing.

Larry apologizing for not having been there for Rita is sweet.

Rita confirming that They are Larry’s family.  There’s a lot of confirming their chosen family in this episode.

This has definite end of series vibes

Jane:  At least you weren’t a third to a rat-and-cockroach three-way like Cliff

Cliff: This coming from the woman who shoved a baby up a sex demon.

Jane: That was a Hammerhead.

The reminiscing about just how batshit crazy their adventures have been is lovely

Cliff:  Better time.

Larry:  Were they?

Why is Jane’s puzzle reassembling itself?

Rouge is selflessly trying to get their longevity back.  And it was nice of Rita to say nice things about her

One last mission, for old times’ sake

What just happened to Rita??

What is Rouge trying to do here?

She’s pumping Isabel full of ideas… but why?

The skin tag is super gross

OOOOOh, Rouge is just trying to get close enough to Isabel to cut off the skin tag

Larry can’t bear to let Rita die.  That’s sweet

This whole episode has been about getting the team to a place where they’re actually prepared to stop giving up and try to save themselves

Teddy is very upsetting.

Teddy:  Un  Clench!!!!

Not one thing is different.  Except now Cyborg is here!!

So they’re all trapped in the theater and Rita is at home in bed.

Isabekl’s plan really was to just let them all age to death.

And now they’re all in the same time portal that Isabel fell into.

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