Doom
Patrol S2E2 “Tyme Patrol”
Full of spoilers. This
show continues to be insane in the best ways possible. If you aren't
watching Doom Patrol because of any preconceived notions you need to
cut that shit out. This episode shows what Dorothy has been up to
since we know she is Niles' daughter but not why he hasn't been
taking care of her. We go back in time where she is being used as a
circus sideshow freak along with her moose/wolf/bear creature and
Niles is watching in the crowd. Last episode we just saw the
aftermath of the carnage. This time we see it from Niles' perspective
and the shit was honked up! Besides that furry monster mauling folks
Candlemaker is destroying others. He spots Niles and gets all up in
his business but doesn't kill him.
Cliff
doesn't give a fuck about Niles and his stories. He is in full hate
mode after realizing that they were all experiments in immortality so
that Niles could find a way to live forever or as he puts it live one
day longer than Dorothy. Niles sold his immortality last episode and
is slowly aging which freaks Rita out. Niles explains that a guy
named Dr. Tyme could help them but says it is too dangerous and
doesn't want them to do it. Since he doesn't want them to Cliff
thinks they should. Rita, Cliff, and Jane have to use a spell by
saying where they were on a certain day to go through time. Cliff
lies so it doesn't work until he says the truth and they get to meet
Dr. Tyme.
In a
side story Larry goes to see his son who killed himself. He has
another surviving son who realizes who he is and doesn't freak out
which I appreciated. Larry looks through his sons belongings and
breaks down since his son believed his dad was still alive and that
there was crazy shit in the world and no one believed him. He ends up
walking down a road when suddenly he is surrounded by a horde of
butterflies. Vic also has a story line going. He left the team and is
in a support group and seems to like this woman named Roni. Its not
interesting to me. I won't get into it too much.
Dr.
Tyme is fucking crazy. He says that this one particular day in the
early 1980's was the best of human history and has people from
multiple time periods just roller skating to Donna Summers
perpetually. Cliff gets tired of it and breaks the turntable. Rita
uses her powers thinking she is ripping Dr. Tyme's mask off but he
falls (he is on skates) and smashes his head dying. She winds the
clock back and he sends all of them away. I hope he comes back in
some way because I loved how strange he was.
Doom
Patrol S2E3 “Pain Patrol”
I
called a half ape girl a bitch. Yeah. I did. This starts with a
flashback in 1888 showing Niles as a little boy seeing this women get
tossed out of smoke and bleeding in the alley after a cop warns him
about being out at night with the Ripper being around. So of course
the Ripper appears and is surprised that Niles is not afraid. He is
Red Jack and he kills the woman and butterflies come shooting out of
her. Present day Niles is eating some French toast that Dorothy made
for him. Rita has been teaching her how to cook which is sweet as
fuck. Cliff barges in all pissed and Niles is like “You had
problems before I turned you into a robot. You need to work on that.”
Cliff decides to go on a road trip and Jane wants to join him. I love
the two of them together.
While
heading to talk to Cliff's daughter which is a horrible idea Jane
falls asleep. The Underground is pissed off at her not just for using
drugs which is fucking them all up but for caring about Dorothy. They
think she needs to be focused on just being miserable while they get
to chill in the Underground and show up, use an ability, and then go
back down for Jane to clean up any mess they made. They end up
catching her slipping later in the episode and lock her in a cage.
Who knows what the fuck personality is gonna be in charge now?
Cliff
confronts his daughter. He knocks on the door looking like a big ass
robot, says he is her father she thought was dead, and gets happy to
see that she is pregnant and he will be a grandfather. Jane (before
she got fucked over by the Underground) points out that what Niles
did was not his fault but what he is doing to his daughter now is
very much his fault.
Vic
meets up with Roni and they have sex. She has scars. He a robot. He
can still feel stuff. Like sex. I still don't care. Like, I seriously
have zero interest in this story and I hope it goes somewhere
interesting soon because after two episodes it is pretty lame.
Some
butterflies show up at the house with an invitation for Niles. In the
envelope is one of Larry's bandages which is super fucked up. Red
Jack has Larry hanging with his bandages slowly unraveling and giving
people below him radiation poisoning. They show flashbacks of when he
first arrived to the house and Rita watched him change out of his
outfit and into the bandages Niles made to hold in the radiation and
keep him from wearing pretty much a hazmat suit with a vacuum cleaner
attached. He and Rita bond and its cool. I liked it but for a second
was afraid they were gonna do some romantic subplot. They didn't.
Great job.
Niles
and Rita head to find Larry and he tells her if she gets lost to
follow the butterflies. Red Jack offers Niles a gig to which he says
no and ends up stabbing him to death and a bunch of butterflies
explode out of him. Rita saves Larry by exposing herself to the
radiation and melting but still yanking him from the chains. They
find cases full of butterflies and break them open freeing them.
Turns out each one was a victim. Red Jack's crazy ass fed off their
agony. Oh, and while playing hide and seek Dorothy accidentally breaks Danny!!! This episode was nuts. Loving this second season except for
the Vic/Cyborg stuff.
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