This is way better than the last three cults I joined!

[moon_custafer]

Andrew rewatched episode 5 of Doom Patrol last night, and I’ve got to say it’s my favourite episode so far – the previous one had ended on a cliffhanger, with a cult summoning a god called the Decreator to destroy the world. Turns out the Decreator was actually constructed out of the cult’s faith, so the only solution is to go back in time forty years and start a rival cult who will be able, when the time is right, to summon the “Re-Creator.”

Obviously.

The more I think about it, the more I like that the good-guy cultists are all patients (and some staff) from a 1970s mental hospital, led by a chain-smoking, oxygen-tank-toting, rock’n’roll grandma. I think the main reason they succeed because they’re not simply a mirror-image of the original Cult of the Unwritten Book—one of their commandments is that when the Apocalypse comes they are to “Dance. Dance like there’s a giant eye in the sky watching you.”

Also, Ezekiel the cockroach is once again disappointed by the human race’s failure to be destroyed.

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[sovay]

Also, Ezekiel the cockroach is once again disappointed by the human race’s failure to be destroyed.

I am charmed by this line.

The apotheosis of TV

[palain-7.livejournal.com]

Love the comment of Mr. Nobody, the architect of the scheme in response to Crazy Jane's criticism of his obviously derivative name for their cult: "Ok, I'm not L. Ron Hubbard! Who has the time?" The more you know about L. Ron the more hilarious this is.

Yes, the re-creator cult conquered because they're not a mirror image of the monomaniacal de-creator cult; they're a shattered mirror image which is crazy in a dozen different ways as opposed to the de-creator's single craziness. Their brain(damaged)-storming session is hilarious. 'Why can't the messiah be a dog?" "Yeah, a dog with invisible writing that only comes out when someone rings this special bell?"

Speaking as someone who was on Toronto's old cult-hotline (410-CULT) for 8 years, the comment about "the last three cults" is spot on. We called those people the "frequent flyers". Interestingly enough they never seemed to be particularly damaged by their time in their old cults; they just quit because it turned out that the guru/High Priestess/whatever was a dirtbag and other people were being hurt. They'd then wander, with the same total lack of background checking that let them join the last one, into the next. The odd one would come to rest in something harmless but for most it was this life long pinball journey from one bumper to the next.

Continuity

[palain-7.livejournal.com]

Just noticed that Ezekiel got his own tombstone marker when some of the Patrol are dumped into the Donkey Guts World and are standing in front of markers representing people in the town that's in there too.