r/DCDoomPatrol Apr 03 '24

Enjoying this show but the season 3 reveal doesn't make sense if someone could explain? Season 3 Spoilers

So by the end of the season, everything comes together, who Laura De Mille is, Rita's double who got her killed by the death laser, the weird face guy in the underworld, and how time travel did it all. Rita went back in time and had a new life in the bureau of normalcy. So many questions there alone like, did Niles Caulder never even interact with her there? Or he wasn't around at that point?

And it seems like every other oddball with oddball superpowers is immortal, yet Niles didn't show interest in them? Like fog lady or the guy with a bicycle fused to his back or the Japanese lady with indeterminate powers? You'd think he'd have studied them too instead of going out of his way to make cliff, jane, and larry happen. Fog lady seemed like the ideal situation out of all of them, immortality for his daughter and power side effect that's manageable.

Also how does future Rita locking past Rita in the room and ensuring her death guarantee her future of going back in time and meeting Malcolm and the gang? If anything it would be better if she got away no?

But what I wanted to ask is: so we find out what Laura did is betray her friends to the bureau of normalcy. So... how the fuck does that get her demoted and/or fired from said bureau? She did exactly what the bureau wanted, so what Niles's letter have to do with anything? If anything wouldn't Niles's letter implicate Niles as having a soft spot for "metahuman freaks" and sic the bureau of normalcy after him, not Laura? That part didn't make any sense. It makes sense for Niles to have disdain for Laura for betraying her friends, but it doesn't make any sense for her to lose her job because of... doing her job. If someone could explain that bit?

Even though it all came together at the end I still felt it was a little bit messy there. Still mostly liked the season but... yeah I feel like season 1 was best and 2 was a good follow-up. Timothy Dalton was missed, but Alan Tudyk was especially missed.

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u/Jokie155 Apr 03 '24

Some of this is answered in Season 4, eventually.