Eerie, Indiana rewatch 2015: episode seven, Heart on a Chain

[froodle]

Take up your pencils, class; we are going to discuss the death of Mercutio. Love is stronger than death tonight, as we watch Heart on a Chain.

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[froodle]

"you walk like him, ride a skateboard like him" - sorry I cant ride my bike in slow circles for thrills, marshall, jeez!

so if marshall isnt around, does simon spend his day spinning on a massive wooden wheel outside the world o stuff?sad times.

love the obelisk gravstone. so weird.

so, right, I totally understand that she takes off the necklace and leaves it on devons grave marker, but I dont understand why she gives it to mars afterwards.like, what, its his turn to carry the ghost or something?

also, id be raging if I was at my first bfs grave, trying to get a handle on my grief, and my.new bf shows up and congratulated on my emotional health or whatever. like, fuck off marshall, some shit is not about you.

I do love the weird shot of simon watching them, tho. so lurky and bizarre and hilarious.

also, that bit where marshall says their first kiss was also their last, and it immediately shows the shot of the grim reaper headed off in he direction melanie walks in, totally makes me wonder if she died.

[deifire]

The giving the necklace to Mars thing I never figured out.

I mean, I know it was probably so he had something to put in the evidence locker at the end of the episode, and it would have been weird and wrong to have him grab it off the statue by himself, but what was Melanie supposed to be thinking there?

[froodle]

right? I dont get how you go from "heres a token from my dead boyfriend" to "this is a totally appropriate thing to give to the boyfriend I had after him, who I just broke up with". like, is it a consolation prize, or is her thinking that its the necklace haunted and shes like, fuck it, you deal with the ghost now?

[slinkhard.livejournal.com]

She's got the ultimate prize from Devon, and harvested his organs (muhaha!), she doesn't want to be greedy!

[deifire]

That's true. She's got his real heart; she can let Mars have the fake one because she know he loved him, too. (Even though she's not allowed to say anything on a TV show for kids in the 1990s.)

[froodle]

...thanks guys, I just laughed in the middle of my silent office of total hard workers when that comment notification came through...

[froodle]

I was talking to someone about this episode, and she was a fan when it first aired but hasnt seen it since, and she remembered this ep as a kid actually killing another for his organs, and I was like, no, it was an accident... BUT GASP WHAT IF IT WASNT?!

[deifire]

Ooh...now that's a creepy fic possibility!

[froodle]

right? melanie as the faux-innocent black widow, preying on men not for their fortunes, but for their precious, precious organs...