July 6, 2021 - Minion Death Cult
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| The meat and potatoes of the show is the emergencies. | |
| And right away we get our first emergency. | |
| And it's a 911 call. | |
| And you don't know what's happening yet. | |
| Kind of a flashback to something we can all relate to here. | |
| It's a business meeting. | |
| It's getting catered. | |
| The delivery person is trying to get the signature. | |
| He's kind of being brushed off. | |
| This is a bill for $2,125.50. | |
| They don't tip my mans. | |
| Zero dollar tip. | |
| This is, this is the gun, right? | |
| This is what, this is the gun. | |
| We don't know this is the gun yet, but we have a feeling this is the gun. | |
| This receipt's gonna come back later on as the weapon. | |
| Fast forward a second later, they are giving a presentation in this office meeting where they're having the catering, eating their sandwiches, they didn't tip for, huge catering bill, and one of the people talking, she just starts Like, gashing at her arm and carving into her arm with her fork. | |
| Yeah, that was really cool. | |
| She was a mess. | |
| How awesome were the effects? | |
| Like, the effects throughout this show are one of my favorite things. | |
| Sometimes there's really bad, like, digital blood scratches like this one. | |
| But then, you know, she gets up and smashes her face against this plexiglass, against this glass window. | |
| Like three times, and then jumps out to her death. | |
| This is when I started to immediately like the show. | |
| I was like, okay, this is like the X-Files or something? | |
| Interesting. | |
| You know? | |
| What was really confusing to me about this, not to skip ahead or whatever, was just that I thought this was going to be the whole episode. | |
| And it's just a tiny vignette. | |
| And it's the only thing that, like, really in the episode kind of is supernatural. | |
| I guess it's like, there's a scientific explanation, but it's... There is definitely a supernatural thing in this show, in this episode, which does not happen in the series at all, except for this one time, when a character does go see, like, a psychic. | |
| Oh, right, the Kuradera stuff. | |
| Yeah, there is a supernatural element, which does not happen in the series at all, except for this episode. | |
| The reality of this universe is just all over the place. | |
| It's really confusing to watch because you're like, is this supposed to be like a law and order? | |
| Or is it supposed to be like Buffy? | |
| It just changes. | |
| One of the main characters in the 9-1-1 series are the dispatch people. | |
| It's kind of supposed to emulate that energy, right? | |
| Where it's like you're always on call, you're always protecting and serving. | |
| is like you have your arc in the episode, but it's broken up by these intense, insane events that happen over and over again, or just mundane little things too, but they break up the rest of the arc, and that's supposed to be like you're a firefighter, like you're an EMT. | |
| And that's what this show accomplishes, but what it does is it just makes chaos. | |
| Yeah, I understand how they broke it down in terms of like we're going to make a TV show, this is an episodic formula, it can be based around the concept of various 911 calls, but I'm very confused that there were so many but I'm very confused that there were so many of them packed into the episode and that they... | |
| They didn't really... Why would they relate to each other? | |
| I don't know. | |
| It just... This is so funny because it starts off with one where what's happening is people are like pulling their own skin off like a Cronenberg body horror film. | |
| Committing mass suicide. | |
| Something that would have been all over the news. | |
| And then the next vignette will be like a cat stuck in a tree! | |
| And it's... They're just acting like this is all in a day's work, you know? | |
| Yeah, at one point, a guy is stabbing himself in the chest with a huge letter opener. | |
| That's over and over again. | |
| And like, this is just on TV? | |
| This is nuts. | |
| I didn't even notice that specifically because I was just busy looking at it thinking, what the fuck is this television show I'm watching? | |
| And you're confused, but like this ragtag group of firefighters, for some reason, do the job of everybody when they show up. | |
| Yeah. | |
| They're detectives. | |
| It's really funny. | |
| Paul Strickland, from earlier, the one who's really vigilant and aware, starts doing this, like, it felt like psych, where they're doing the thing, you know, and everyone's like, oh, he's doing the thing, isn't he? | |
| He starts, like, asking questions. | |
| He's like, who had the quinoa? | |
| Who's eating quinoa? | |
| And they're like, uh oh, watch out now. | |
| And he asks like three more questions, and immediately goes to the first sandwich he opens, and reveals a perfect puddle of mercury. | |
| Just a huge wad of mercury. | |
| Yeah. | |
| The first sandwich he chooses, there's a giant puddle of mercury right there. | |
| a big enough amount of mercury that you'd have to just be like a huge fucking oaf to not notice like you bite into the sandwich and none of your friends notice that there's like just a huge glob of shiny metal pouring out of your mouth yeah yeah if you want to poison someone with a sandwich what you would do is sort of like spread it like a mayo or a mustard into the sandwich | |
| but what we are to understand is that the the criminal the villain here has um made like a mercury juicy lucy sort of situation bought a thousand thermometers meticulously cracked all of them open into a bucket and then taken like a ladle and just put a perfect dollop jury dead center in all of them | |
| Yeah, yeah, and it's, uh, so, I mean, because this show is so much, you'd think we're gonna spend another 20 minutes on this, but we cannot, because there's so much show to go. | |
| So what happens, just to wrap it up real fast, is, again, for some reason, the firefighters set up a sting, which I don't think you can do that. | |
| You can't just... | |
| You can't just do a sting on the fly. | |
| They call the catering service, order more cookies, come back, and they do this, like, back and forth, like, oh, I heard you guys have good cookies. | |
| Yeah, I got good cookies. | |
| Oh, well, I also heard you killed some people. | |
| Oh, yeah, well, and then he says, why'd you do it? | |
| And he goes, well, they never tip. | |
| Hell yeah! | |
| Yeah. | |
| Justice for that guy. | |
| He was completely correct. | |
| He did the right thing. | |
| If anything, he didn't use enough mercury. | |
| Can I say something about this scene that really bothered me as a delivery guy? | |
| Please. | |
| Okay, so when you're working delivery, you're either working gig work, like an app, where you are not working for the same restaurant over and over again, or you work at a restaurant where there's like five people on staff and you don't... | |
| If you call, like, a pizza place, you don't get to pick which pizza guy shows up, or if your whole... Their sting seems to be predicated on the idea, if we call the place again, clearly they will send the same person, which it happened to be in the show, but it doesn't make any sense, because they probably would have just gotten some other random person making very little money, and then jumped on him, and arrested him, and been like, I caught you, you're the Mercury Poisoner, or whatever, and it's just, you know, some dude. | |
| That's not how that works. | |
| I think that's actually part of why he was murderous. | |
| I think he is that overworked. | |
| He is the one guy. | |
| They just have him turning around. | |
| That is why he was like, no one ever sees me. |
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