It’s never easy being the Doom Patrol.
But even after surviving all that, these poor suckers still don’t get to relax.
Even after they fix that problem, they find others waiting for them.
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Everyone is still wrestling with that knowledge.
Part of that was what Niles Caulder did to them.
A lot of it is the same stuff we all deal with: generational family trauma.
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That’s what season 2 really starts to delve into.
We had an interesting time walking our characters through each of those scenarios.
But onDoom Patrolmost of the characters are older than usual Cliff’s about to be a grandparent!
What do you like about inverting that dynamic?
Who better to take on people like Mr. Nobody and Dr. Time?
The Chief is playing a different role in season 2.
Now they see him as someone who hurt them instead of helped them.
It’s an incredibly emotional vein to be hitting in terms of where everyone stands on him.
Adult or not, you gotta grow up.
That’s behind the idea of them starting out miniature-sized in the first episode.
You gotta get big!
That’s the undertaking they’re all doing throughout the season.
With Timothy, it was a lot of fun to give these characters more layers.
How do you remain remotely sympathetic after you’ve revealed your true self?
And if not sympathetic, how do you remain compelling?
I think he’s done all that and more in season 2.
He didn’t have to play the joke the entire season, as it were.
We’re all in on it now, which makes for more exciting places to go with him.
A big factor in the Chief’s story line is the arrival of his long-lost daughter, Dorothy.
How did you go about introducing her into this cast of characters?
Dropping Dorothy into the mix was a big challenge.
How do you balance that?
Cyborg [Joivan Wade] is a bit separated from the rest of the team this season.
Cyborg has some unresolved issues this season.
This relationship turns out to be both really good and really bad for his recovery.
One of the main questions of Cyborg’s season is which path he’s going to choose.
That goes to our larger approach to Cyborg in the show.
Who was he before he became this Justice League member, you know?
It’s a pretty tough lesson he learns this season.
