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Eerie Indiana: The Other Dimension Comm Rewatch Episode 2 Discussion Post
Welcome welcome to our first ever Comm rewatch of Eerie, Indiana's equally short lived spin-off: Eerie, Indiana: the Other Dimension! Join us as we follow Mitchell Taylor and Stanley Hope on their quest to understand the weirdness of their home town!
Episode 2: The Goody-Two Shoes People
Just a few ground rules:
Episode 2: The Goody-Two Shoes People
Just a few ground rules:
- Remember, comments section will have spoilers for the episodes we're watching.
- No bashing of characters, ships, or actors.
- No bashing of the show itself. It's not Original Flavor Eerie, but we all know that going in. Critique is fine, but no outright hate.
- Play nice and have fun!
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So I think my first comment on this rewatch ties in with what Mitzi said about the way the show interacts with technology. We have robots here, the entire premise of the show is built on Dish television becoming available, there's Little Buddy Beep Beep. There was such a wealth of tech developments at the time this show was being made, and I love how they had the show be in conversation with all of that.
The second thing I'm noticing on the rewatch is how this show is talking back to the Original.
This episode has very similar vibes to Just Say No Fun, but it also still manages to be its own thing. Both episodes have that there is one right way to be, if you become that right way - even if its not really you - your parents will be happy - and not notice that it isn't you anymore - because you're the way you're supposed to be. But while one utilizes hypnosis, the other takes it all a step further into the tech sphere with robot replacements.
I wonder if something about how the leak of weirdness worked created this dialogue between Original Flavor and Other Dimension? Not in a "there must always be a one-to-one comparison of episodes" way, but rather in a the particular type of weirdness that leaked through from Original Flavor affected the manifestation of the weirdness in Other Dimension way.
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Edward and Mary-Anne seem more eager for Mitchell to conform to the perfect son. Same with Rodney. I’ve been nursing a Mitchell Gay theory for a while, and I feel like this is part of it like metaphorically. Actually now I’m much more into the rewatch as well, I think quite a few episodes are about Mitchell conforming (or not) to another way of being. I’m Okay, Standard Deviation, Mr Lucky along with this episode want him to change, while Last Laugh, Perfect and Buddy Beep Beep all imply that Mitchell as he is, is abnormal. Given that Mitchell is an Eerie Native, it must be something else about him that cause him to be ‘othered’.
I don’t know if it was on purpose by the writers or just a case of 90s misogyny that prevented Mitchell from having any female love interests. Probably the latter.
In and of itself, not a shock. 92 Eerie has plenty of people discoursing about what Dash X ‘means’ and I’ve made plenty of posts about Marshall and being Othered. But I’ve never felt like Eerie itself wants to change Marshall the way it does Mitchell, but the theming would be consistent.
Anyway this is all a bit rambley and written on my phone on my lunch break lol but the point is Mitchell Gay.
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