This time in "So Weird" I jump into the second episode of season two. The concept of a car being alive isn't new and was also a book and movie, plus a non-Christine related thing in an episode of "The Twilight Zone" and the sitcom "My Mother the Car" where Dick Van Dyke's brother's character buys an old car that happens to be his dead mother who came back as a car.
So the episode we are looking at today called "Drive" has something do to with that idea. There's a man he hears a noise at night and decides to get up with baseball bat and hope they aren't a random pitcher ready with a ball. (Or a guy with a gun) He sees a car , A For d Mustang, and it seems to be moving by itself hitting the garage door. The man pulls the keys and nothing happens. I feel like I have been baited by a TV show. If this was any other show that car would have killed that man.
I'm part actual mustang / Copyright Disney
Back to the characters, Jack and Clu tell Molly , Jack's Mom, that they have money to buy a [used] car. I wonder what car that could be.... Season 2 of "So Weird" has a difference where the group is on the road less as Molly is busy recording. This anchored the show more to a location, seems this is a thing in many shows that start with traveling. I thought I mention that here. Anyway back to the episode. I wonder what car, hey it's a blue Mustang. That man wants to sell it, but he wonders if he should, but agrees to the money.
People always sell their cars in robes right? right? / Copyright Disney
Molly is right to be worried about Jack driving a car, but not for the reasons she's thinking. He's trying to get ready for his test and the car seems to be doing some strange things. Fi notices that the turn signal lever by itself, and it moves by itself. Fi wonders about the car as she always thinks the strange things are strange out of the realm. She goes to talk to the man who sold the car.
This doesn't say anything about the car being alive/ copyright Disney
The man explains that he worked hard on the car, it was a wreck when he bought it. He doesn't mention the whole moving by itself thing. Jack doesn't want to hear anything about and he's very tense. Fi talks to her mom to help with figuring out the car's history. They find out it was in an accident a man died in a crash he was taking his wife to hospital because of a heart attack. She looks up on the internet and talks to Clu and notices that the car started acting strange around the hospital route. The idea is the car feels guilty feels about not making the trip.
I do feel guilty, that was truly Chevy behavior / Copyright Disney
Hey the show seems to be taking place in Colorado, neat! Jack is on his driver's test and the poor guy is tense. He also doesn't know he's a in a possessed car. The car messes with Jack's test as it has decided to take over the driving. (In "So Weird" car drives you) Fiona ends up as she rides with Clu to tell Jack to let the car drive itself. It stops at the hospital where it seems to be the final goal the car wanted to make in the first place.
Me at the end of episode/ Copyright Disney
Jack did fail his test, sadly. But Fiona says that the car feels better now. There's also the background that Clu is leaving for college soon. Which will be a season set up thing for a while.
I think it's interesting the episode didn't take the creepier approach with the car. I think "Goosebumps" or "Are You Afraid of the Dark" , or especially "The Haunting Hour" would have gone for the creepier approach. I like the idea of the car being guilty because the brakes being broken and killing a man and his wife because of that and wants to complete the mission to atone. I think it would have been slightly better if the car ended up helping someone who needed to go the hospital, instead. Like Jack and Clu had to help a pregnant woman [Children's show, so something that's not gruesome] to get there and the car drives itself there, it'd be kind of a full circle thing helping bring life in the world. It went for a slightly comedic thing with goofy things making a driving instructor question his life decisions.
The episode is pretty fun and I did enjoy it. The episode was lighter than expected , especially for the season known as the darker season. It did play with the expectation like the car not being evil and/or possessed by like the original driver or something. Jack's story fit in well as it was about him trying to reach this milestone with some worry, and fitting with his mom's worries too, after her husband died in a car accident.
That's it for now, tune in next time, when a Chevy drives us into a levy.
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