Pushing Daisies 2.3: "Bad Habits"

[icepixie]

Awwww. This one was sweet. Especially the bit at the end with Ned and Olive. Awww. And they addressed the metaphysical implications of Ned's gift, albeit not conclusively. (I'm guessing their stance on the afterlife is that if it exists, it starts some time after death, because nobody Ned's woken up has been all, "You took me away from the angels!" or "Thank GOD you got me out of the burning fires of hell!")

And now Chuck knows Lily's her mother! (Can an accidental meeting be far away? Season-ending cliffhanger?) And apparently her family tree is a freaking STAND OF BAMBOO. "Step-aunts"? Seriously? So they aren't related to each other, but her father is related to someone's mother by marriage, or...what the HELL, yo. I'm lost. But I'm fairly confident everyone who had sex wasn't related, so I guess that's a good thing.

- Young Olive! Hee! And of course she gets her horse. Of COURSE she does. (Also, her parents. Hee!)

- Ned, you are officially Trying Too Hard.

- Aaaahhh! Dead nun!

- Emerson's laugh attack at seeing nun!Olive was perfect. "What got thee to a nunnery?" Heh.

- "Father Dowling." Heh heh.

- "It ain't like he never did it. Remember Lazarus?"

- Ned's Catholic too? Are all the characters on this show Catholic? (I have to say, I was not expecting everyone on the show to be so religious. Well, there is Emerson, who worships money. Although he accepts prayer as payment, because something--the book?--has really got him thinking about his daughter lately.)

- *snerk* at the bell-censors.

- "We're so going to hell."

- And we are OFFICIALLY in a Radcliffe novel. The Italian, specifically, because I finished it last month, and I'm quite certain I remember a scene where Ellena-the-fake-nun and her beau Vivaldi-the-fake-cleric were wandering through creepy secret passages at a convent. BLATANT PLAGIARISM. But amusing plagiarism. :)

- Morley cigarettes! Ha!

- "By proxy high five."

- ...They have a pig on their flag.

- "I've wanted one forever." For some reason I keep forgetting Ned's a cook...

- "Please consider your neutral homeland."

- "That's not even good gibberish."

- "Communion with your shovel." Tee hee.

- ...I just now got the pun in the title. I'm slipping.

Comments

[rowdycamels.livejournal.com]

They aren't related, right? Lily and Vivian, and Vivian and Chuck?

I assume Lily and Vivian really are sisters. The matching neuroses, the living together for twenty years... they're either sisters or girlfriends, and Charles Charles kind of squashes the latter theory...

That would make Vivian... still Chuck's aunt? But no, neither Lily nor Vivian is related to Charles Charles.

Because otherwise it would be a wreath?

Festive?

She made an okay nun, actually. Deceptively so

Seriously, who doesn't know what "taking the veil" means, especially with all that context?? Slip of the brain, indeed.

I think it's been confirmed that Chuck's fake parents at least were Jewish, thus making her Jewish

I would assume that if she was raised Jewish, that would mean that her dad was Jewish, too. (Although I'm curious to learn where they got "Susan" from as a fake mother...) And nothing (except the deceptive nun business...) seems to contradict the plausible theory that L + V are at least Christmas-and-Easter Jews.

and that Ned and Olive are Catholic.

That much, at least, I can get behind. Olive doesn't seem very *good* at being a Catholic, but maybe she's just rusty. Ned, on the other hand, seems to have gone to a Catholic boarding school, and he retains snappy reflexes with the crossing-self skills.

Maybe he's Catholic too, if he's taking Olive's Catholic prayers?

As a devout Capitalist, I think Emerson's open to any sort of prayers he can get.

Well, if we're just comparing to The Italian, then all they would need is a bloody lump of clothing hidden away in a dark corner.

Ewwwww pass.

[sleepingcbw.livejournal.com]

Seriously, who doesn't know what "taking the veil" means, especially with all that context?? Slip of the brain, indeed.

Chuck was locked away from society all those years. Maybe nuns didn't figure prominently into her library?


Charles Charles kind of squashes the latter theory...

Well. Not necessarily. But I can't think of many less-appealing subplot romances than Lily and Vivian.

[icepixie]

Perhaps they will clear all of this up at some point...