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Let's Headbutt Hitler – Several Thoughts About Misfits 3.4

We've just had another new episode of Misfits in the UK. And naturally there are spoilers if you haven't seen it. So, you know, do the usual.

Don't Let A Mobile Phone Spoil Your Reality

It's the obvious alternate reality show that occurs to everyone creating an alternate reality show. What if Hitler won the war? At the end of the last series, there was one line about Curtis' time travelling power no longer being available as the Power Dealer has sold it to a Jewish Second World War survivor looking to try and kill Hitler. One line, and we get a whole episode, in which the failed attempt saw the Nazis win the war, and now occupy the UK. As standard. Except they are not usually as entertaining as this one.

Heil, Parole Worker

Obviously the parole worker has to be a Nazi collaborator. Officer even. But he's just as lazy, uncommitted, and pretty pathetic at that as he is his job in our universe, which is rather comforting. You know, until he actually has some kind of motivation.

Black Mirror

Weirdly, the issue of race doesn't come up once. Odd considering these are Nazis. Doesn't seem to be an issue with work places, let alone sexual matters – only whether you're gay or not. Was there some Martin Luther King movement of the Nazi party during the sixties, say, that saw race change as a Nazi issue? Also, everyone seems to have had the same family lives and partners over the last seventy years to get them to this position… despite an active invasion force.

I've Missed The Reset Button

Three episodes without Curtis' reset button power, and I miss the ability to turn everything on its head and then suddenly flip it right way round. A few dead guys make their return, including Original ASBO Guy Who Got Killed In Episode One, The Woman Who Could Freeze People and Writer Boy From Last Week all of whom managed not to get killed in this world. Until now that is.

What makes it odder is that Curtis, Alisha, Simon and Kelly don't show any sign of having a power. Alisha is even physically touched without making anyone want to wee on her tits. Not wanting to confuse an audience by showing them powers from the first two series and not the third maybe?

Rudy Is Still A Sex Freak

Even in a Nazi alternate universe, Rudy is still a mouthy, sexual pervert. Even when he becomes a kind of Anne Frank figures. Especially then.

Bridge Over The River Shit

Could Hitler masks be the new V For Vendetta masks? There may be a mixed message, but isn't there always?

Let's Headbutt Hitler.

Doctor Who had Hitler locked in the cupboard. Misfits sees him headbutted. Then kicked in the bollocks a couple of times for good measure. I think Misfits wins, don't you?

Memorial Sunday

Of all the shows to do a Memorial Sunday special, I never figured it would be Misfits that did it. But it didn't half emphasise exactly what was at stake in the Second World War and how close this reality portrayed actually came to be…

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