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Seven Thoughts About Misfits 3.3 – The Comic Book Superheroes

Another week, another episode of Misfits. Last week's episode was a relative superfiction headfuck that this one seems deceptively simple on the surface with a great final reveal. Enjoy, however you get yourself a copy.

1. Simon Says…

It's a Simon episode! The man who is destined to go back in time and die saving his girlfriend before she is even his girlfriend and how is that interpreted by her? "You're dumping me, and I don't get dumped!." Brilliant. The clash of destiny and mundanity, and I have no idea who is right.

2. Fact Slash Fiction

Comic books are the natural home of superfiction, it seems. Fast, throwaway, full of fantasies of empowermen. So when you get actual superpowers and people dressing up, it's no wonder they'd be interpreted in this way by some. And here Misfits find a comic book fan to be saved by Simon. Who seems to be a dab hand at the pencil as well, and has a bit of a thing for Simon. If only we knew exactly what…

3. The Conjoined Twins Paradox

Rudy is still settling in well. Penis gags, fighting doubles, getting into fights with the probation worker, inappropriate touching, and generally being all round alpha male wannabe creep with a gob on him. Nathan who?

4. Artist One

Will anyone own up to being the talent behind the Misfits psycho artist? I think there might be two of you? A nice pull back and reveal on the evidence – show the audience something let them interpret it one way, then slowly show them it's a very different version. The cause and the effect switching places. But who was the actual artist? And why do I feel like The Twilight Zone is taking over Misfits all of a sudden?

5. Artist Two

While comic book folk certainly seem to enjoy Misfits, it's very much outside the usual take on the superhero, and this episode specifically is very much a rejection of the comic book and the mentality behind the very creators, indeed that their obsession can be a dangerous one, for everybody. Should I be offended? Should I take umbrage? Absolutely not, it's busting, and the art isn't bad either.

6. Alisha Empowered. Then not.

If Simon can see into the future, he's not very good at it. Obviously he get better in the… past. Hmmm. And Alisha tied up twice in three episodes? Ball gag as well? I suppose it is a comic book trope and so suddenly becomes very very relevant.

7. Taking Off Layers To Put Them On

And yes that's a killer of an ending. Up there with the psychiatric hospital episode of Buffy The Vampire Slayer. Was completely blindsided, despite looking quizzically at the things (like the shower scene) that led up to it, that now make perfect sense.

Next Week Bonus:

Headbutting Hitler

Of course, we've got no idea how he's actually meant to go back in time have we? I mean

Oh wait. Remember how I once reported "Misfits: Let's Headbutt Hitler"? Meant to be a take on "Doctor Who: Let's Kill Hitler"? Well here you go.

Next week's episode looks at what happened to Curtis' reversing time power when the Power Dealer sold it on to an Auschwitz survivor trying to stop Hitler… and has their probabation offer in a perfect position too.

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