Bell, Book, and Candle: S1 E14: Caged

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Starring Kirstjen Michele Nielsen (Olivia Taylor Dudley), the Alice Quinn of SyFy Channel’s The Magicians.

A Death Angel. An apex predator, whose Xenomorph species is named after the main antagonists in the A Quiet Place franchise that its kind strongly resembles.

Of course. Being Death Angels. They are a breed of Martians, Martian dogs to be precise; dogs, nonetheless. Extraterrestrial dogs who act more akin to terrestrial cats than terrestrial dogs.

Nonetheless, Martians are dogs whose behavior has a lot in common with Pit Bulls, too.

Pit Bulls are a notorious breed of predatory canines. They were originally designed for the express purposes of bull baiting, bear baiting, ratting, and dog fighting. Before the advent of Martians, Pits were the “breed-of-choice” for these blood sports.

Martians were “developed” by DARPA. And, they were used extensively during the Martian Race Wars.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is a research and development agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of emerging technologies for use by the military.

As a pet-owner, you NEVER really own Martians; terrestrial cat-owners will understand. As a pet-owner, if you have to “ask” your Martian “pet” for help, you will owe them a boon. As a pet-owner, you must love your Martian “pet,” unconditionally, else, they will not bond strongly with you. You can NEVER fear your Martian “pet,” else, they may turn on you.

Way before the Death Angels, the Pits, and their ilk existed, there were the Niffin and their sub-breed (i.e., subspecies) the Noom. Niffin and Noom were designed expressly to be God-killers. This in spite of the fact that, by nature, Niffin defer to Gods. Noom, of course, have no such deference, which is why they are, as a rule, throttled.

Claire is confined in the large dog cage in the basement.

Early this morning, during her rounds. She killed, gutted, and ate two of the patients before the invisible hands could put her down.

Gagged. Hogtied with hardened restraints. She has limited mobility in a hardened cage that’s limiting by its lonesome.

Although, swatches of her are well on their way to filthy and patches of her skin are already so dirty they are black. She’s demonstratively more “clean and pristine,” than not.

Caution is strongly recommended. Yet, Linda is so into the girl, that it refuses to see the red flags being raised by the girl’s presentation. The girl is, after all, a Noom and former Niffin, and has a well-documented history of shucking subjugation resulting in the feral of a dominatrix and the subsequent homicide of her subjugator(s).

Instead of being yanked back into a sternka, the bouffant her old-fogey yellow-blonde jeannie is worn let down into shoulder-draping tresses. Albeit dirty tresses that are disheveled. Also, she’s gloved (prudz) and wearing her miniskirted business suit (WASP), again. And. In place of plaintive make-up, she’s wearing Bolshoi-bare, again. Breaks in continuity, that represent more examples of that cautionary “change in presentation.”

Her business suit looks the worse for wear, as if it belongs on a baglady. For example, ripped seams, the sleeves of the suitcoat are torn into strips up to the elbows, and long “tendrils” extending from the frayed hemline of the brief skirt. In a word: Bohemian-Macabre.

Thick-readers, by their lonesome, render her fugly. Thus. Bolshoi-bare amounts to putting lipstick on a pig. But. She again looks thirty-something instead of a well-used fifty-something.

She remains a hard, fluid Barbara I Dream of Jeannie Eden’s Stella Johnson channeling Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, making Netflix home for Spooky Season, channeling The Magicians’ Alice Quinn shoved into a Mildred Huff–i.e., the bleach-blonde homeliness of horseface Georgia Republican Ms. Marjorie Taylor Greene (MTG); “a bleach blonde with a badass showgirl body,” walks stilted, strapping Piranhas and Parts, and having an MTG “bleach-blonde, bad-built, butch body” moment.

Is Kirstjen bleeding into Claire? Or. Far worse for Linda’s continued existence, is Claire becoming irreverent on the road to inevitable extinction? Worst: The answer to one or both questions is true, yet Linda’s OCD for possessing the girl, blinds it to this.

The sole reason for the existence of Niffin and Noom is as God-killers. And. Here Linda is, a God without rules, who has willingly and willfully locked itself up with a God-killer who has no restrictions thanks to Linda itself.

Who is being played by whom?