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...all long pig, all the time... ([personal profile] froodle) wrote in [community profile] eerieindiana2015-09-19 04:00 pm

Eerie, Indiana rewatch 2015: episode eight, the Dead Letter

Put aside your history paper on the jackalope and it's relation to the federal deficit; tonights tale is about how messing with someone else's post gets you harrassed by the ghost of Tobey Maguire. Garlic won't save you from... the Dead Letter!
deifire: (eerie we're screwed (chibimarchy))

[personal profile] deifire 2015-09-19 11:18 pm (UTC)(link)
I've always had the feeling that the Eerie Public Library is one of those libraries that frequently exceeds its annual budget due to the needed repair work that happens when patrons read certain books aloud. I am torn between being sad that there was never a library set, and thinking that maybe it's for the best, because nothing the show would have had the budget for would match what is in my head.

I want to read Simon's report now.

There has got to be something about young Spiderman's ghost that really, really reads as Wrong to Marshall. Marshall not only wants nothing to do with trying to help him out, he completely gets the garlic thing mixed up. That is a rookie mistake that I do not expect a weirdness investigator with Marshall's level of experience to make, and completely out of character for him when compared with most other episodes.

I still don't understand why, if ghost!Tobey had such influence over the rest of Marshall's family, he couldn't just have one of them deliver the letter instead.

Disturbing dream sequence is disturbing. Love all of it, especially Simon leaning so hard on the fourth wall.

"Kinda dead, Mary" and "Six times" still crack me up every time.

I'm glad the two ghost lovers got their happy ending, such as it is. The Titanic ending before Titanic was a thing.

Eh, Marshall's one-episode love interest. Still alive at the end of the episode, but somehow it never worked out. I also wonder if the show was planning to do more with young Mary and just never got around to it.

Along with "Just Say No Fun" this is one of the episodes I tend to remember least between re-watches. I think its because they're surrounding and eclipsed by "Heart on a Chain."
deifire: (dash in library (slinkhard))

[personal profile] deifire 2015-09-20 12:57 am (UTC)(link)
I only image it is not quite as lethal as the Silas library in Carmilla because Dash does survive through Mr. Chaney and doesn't look particular singed or anything in the next scene. (Then again, maybe the library just really likes him.)

Off to the prompt meme to request library fic in a bit.

I am totally invested in mary c carter and andrea as a couple. no, I dont know why. I thiught maybe I read fic about them ages ago but I went through the comms old posts and dint find any, so who knows?

OMG, if you do find this, let me know! I haven't seen it, but I so very much want to read it if it exists.

[identity profile] slinkhard.livejournal.com 2015-09-20 10:59 am (UTC)(link)
I'm sure there was an author on that comm who removed their work ([livejournal.com profile] lizzypaul, iirc) cause I remember a Mars/Dash fic where Mars talks with three different characters including Simon and Elvis; but it's not there now.

[identity profile] slinkhard.livejournal.com 2015-09-20 05:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah! I might have to pm the author or something and ask if it's still archived anywhere, there's so few Eerie fics it seems a shame to lose one. :(