Dead Like Me“Reaping Havoc”
Kara – TwoCents Reviewer
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We find out about another loophole this week and it’s a big one. It doesn’t involve how to save the name on the Post-It though. Also, George realizes she doesn’t have any friends and wants one. I’d make best friends with Mason but that’s just me. She does realize she has a friend in Betty, finally and we find out a whole lot more about Betty.
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Kara – TwoCents Reviewer
kara@thetwocentscorp.com
We find out about another loophole this week and it’s a big one. It doesn’t involve how to save the name on the Post-It though. Also, George realizes she doesn’t have any friends and wants one. I’d make best friends with Mason but that’s just me. She does realize she has a friend in Betty, finally and we find out a whole lot more about Betty.
Betty died from jumping off a cliff into a river. The guy she was with did not jump with her and the water was a lot more shallow than she thought. But Betty didn’t really think about that, did she? She’s all about the jumping. Rube’s waiting for her on the shore and they have one of my favorite conversations.
Rube: Where you headed?
Betty: Oh, I’m going again. That was a hoot.
Rube: You like falling, do you?
Betty: Well, it’s not the fallin’, it’s the jumpin’.
Rube: I’d feel a whole lot better about the jumpin’ if it weren’t for the fallin’.
Betty: Falling’s easy, you just fall. Jumping involves strength of will.
George gets invited to join a scrapbooking club at work and I’d like to know when this club takes place. Honestly, if my job had a punch yourself in the face club that was during work hours, I’d sign up. George is hesitant about the whole thing. Meanwhile, Mason is out in the country, reaping an old lady’s soul and scrounging about for valuables and money.
Betty and George go to Patrick Cassidy’s birthday party in a bar. He’s a wonderful man and spends his final moments dancing on the bar before a graveling lets loose a swordfish that impales him. His light show is the cliffs of Dover and when Betty sees this, she asks George to take her picture, something Betty always does before she reaps a soul. George does, then catches on when Betty gives George her ring. She tries to tell Betty she can’t but Betty waves goodbye and jumps into the light show with Patrick Cassidy. Her doing so causes an explosive reaction which Rube and Mason at their various locations can sense.
George and Rube have a conversation at Der Waffle Haus about Betty. Rube obviously misses her a great deal, stating she was “a pistol” and George is beyond upset. She asks Rube, “Why do I keep losing all the things and people that I care about?” Rube responds, “That’s what life is, Peanut.”
George makes a scrapbook at work called Mysterious and Reassuring, something she said Betty was. While explaining it, she really does come out of her shell and it’s obvious how much it means to her. Unfortunately, Delores says it’s a first timer mistake to make a photo album and not a scrapbook and George retreats back into her quieter self.
The scene with Betty and Rube at the shore always gets to me and every time I see it, I realize how much I do miss Betty. Next week, I’ll be reviewing My Room and we’ll find out what happens in the aftermath of Betty’s jump. What did you think? Did you like Betty? What were your favorite moments? Post me a comment with your TwoCents so we can talk about it!
I missed Betty for the rest of the series, actually. I thought she was a great character, and I thought it was important for us (and George) to realize that even the Reapers aren't permanent.
ReplyDeleteVery true. Betty was a really fun character and Daisy just didn't have that lightheartedness to her. But I definitely agree with you. It's kind of like Angel, where we got a big shock to the senses a few episodes in just so we knew anyone could leave at any time.
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