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eerieindiana2015-09-19 04:00 pm
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Entry tags:
- char: andrea,
- char: mars,
- char: mary b carter,
- char: mary c carter,
- char: simon,
- char: tripp,
- comm event: rewatch 2015,
- cryptid: ghosts,
- cryptid: jackalope,
- discussion: character,
- discussion: episode,
- ep: dead letter,
- place: eerie library,
- place: world o' stuff,
- trope: love is stronger than death,
- trope: milk trucks are a menace
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!
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"simon.. its her... my love interest that we will never see again after this episode..."
oh my god tobey maguires face, so dreadful. "what was he?" and "marshall, run away" are such pefect reactions to tmag.
and why does he look at the letter and then make it spin? that accomplishes exactly nothing.
I also want to read the lifestyle section of eerie high schools newspaper.
"we can put marshall in the basement!"
I would love to see mars punch out a ghost. esp. tobey maguires ghost.
love how the tellers are just.instantly like, "oh yeah tripp is our favourite son!"
the dream sequence is amazing. the thick ground fog, the old fashioned card catalogue, the music box music, the disembodied are you afraid of the dark style laughter. andrea in a flower maiden dress on a rope swing in a bower, rocking horses, raven with a nappy. the tellers bike for three and 'we love tripp more than we love you'.
but esp. Simons insane pillar, giant cigar, weird laugh,business suit, and 'i hate being second banana on this show.'
theres something really unsettling about the number of black n white photos in mary b carters house. like, surely someone with that many memories isnt still hung up on some old crush who died 62 years ago.
once again,mars, garlic is specifically only for vampires. learn some other basic monster defences, kid.
love how unsympathetic mars is about tripp getting kb'd by mary b carter. theres a ghost crying his broken dead heart out in front of him and mars is like, "meh, walk it off."
yet another milk truck related fatality in eerie. someone needs to teach those milkmen how to drive safely.
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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."
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why is a nine year old writing a paper on the federal deficit? and also, what DO jackalopes have to do with 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."
I think as well it doesnt help that this ep and heart on a chain are essentially telling stories around the same theme, one right after the other, except heart on a chain does it better and with more interesting characters. also, no tobey maguire. I basically remember this ep because I am endlessly horrified by tobey maguires face and the fact that he was just as horrifying at 13 as he is now.
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?
love that simon complains about being second banana, but when they finally try to kill mars off in RTAH, he still doesnt get to be the star!
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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.
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I had a feeling it came from
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