#dr. janet lubelle

[bigfootshonkers]

[antigone-funn]

THE GLOW CLOUD CAN'T BE GONE!!!!!?,!??????? CAN WE SKIP AHEAD TO WHEN THE TOWN DEFEATS DR. LUBELLE AND EVERYTHING SHE EXPLAINED AWAY COMES BACK!!!,??????? PLEASE I AM DESPERATE

[wt-nv-quotes]

As the saying goes, “Sunlight is the second best disinfectant, but you can’t get a tan with bleach!” 

[wanderingandfound]

What happened to Nilanjana? (And Luisa and Mark and the rest of Carlos's team of scientists?)

I've been wondering this since the first time I listened to 230 - Carlos Explained.

Dr. Lubelle stepped forward to meet our hometown hero. Behind her was her henchman, Dr. Blake Jones (released last week on bail for breaking and entering), and behind them was a nearly endless crowd of begoggled scientists. Dr. Lubelle smiled with venom, and crossed her arms over her chest. “Welcome to the party,” she said. Behind Carlos, there gathered a more ragtag group, the community of Night Vale, or what was left of us after so much of our town had been explained away. They glared at both Dr. Lubelle and Carlos, radiating hatred for the scientific method and all who practice such heresy.

(Bolding mine.) And then shortly later:

There were grumblings among the towns people, however. It seemed maybe they weren’t as convinced, when there was only one scientist on our side, and a horde of Dr. Lubelle’s minions in lab coats following her every evil word. Josh revved his engine in frustration. The Glow Cloud gusted and moaned. Dr. Lubelle sneered at us from affront her army, daring us to act.

(Bolding still mine.)

And I know they didn't forget about his team, earlier in the same episode Dr. Lubelle says:

Oh the attention you got for this so called discovery, nonsense though it was. You got headlines, you got grants, an entire research team for this fully funded expedition.

(Bolding continues to be mine.)

And like, maybe Dave and and Rochelle, part of Carlos's team of 5 investigating the House That Doesn't Exist that leads to the Desert Other World in episode 46 are no longer around, because it has been nine years in Night Vale and normal earth time, and 90 years in Desert Other World time. And sure, maybe Luisa and Mark defected to Dr. Lubelle's team for the prestige, or because they still think of themselves as University of What It Is researchers first and Night Vale residents second. And my copy of the book Welcome to Night Vale is paper so I can't check who "Stan" is, listed on the Wiki as one of Carlos's scientists.

But Nilanjana Sikdar cares too much about Science, Carlos, and Night Vale to turn her back on them. So where was she?

[juneofbones]

I feel as though all the recent arcs have involved something deeply personal and traumatic for Cecil, and the way there are still loose threads in each of them makes me wonder if this is all going to culminate into something bigger.

Janet Lubelle hurting Cecil’s friends, and exposing what his husband had been hiding from him. Kevin, promising to return, bringing with him more people and baggage. Cecil’s family, his issues with Abby, with his mother, with his father, with his memory. Owls.

Everything has to do with Cecil’s relationships with other people. And that can be the scariest mystery to face. The hardest antagonist.

[asydicsydney]

This was what she did for work? Girl, stay under that cow.

[agnes-come-back-challenge]

I just realized this is probably the first time the public hasn't instinctively followed Cecil's lead. This is the man who managed to incite a mob to run a barber out of town for cutting Carlos' hair, and now he can't even convince them the enemy is Lubelle and not science

I wonder if he's trying desperately to pretend things are okay as people who used to be friendly faces are now acting colder to Carlos than they ever have (because even when he was new and unknown, they at least offered him a friendly "Interloper!")

Maybe Carlos is spending hours and hours in his lab because he knows Janet won't listen to anything except science, but when he finally leaves he's met with mistrustful glares and people snidely telling Cecil that maybe it'd be safer to raise Esteban as a single father. Or, worse: maybe on some days Janet is outside waiting for him, telling him she knows him, and she knows he's a better scientist than this. Maybe she tells him she misses when he actually cared about science, and that hurts worse than anything else because science is his whole life, and now he's stuck between a town he loves that considers him too much of a scientist to be worth loving back and a classmate he used to look up to who doesn't consider him a scientist at all

[the-worst-bracket]

Round 2D

[teartra]

Dr. Janet Lubelle’s VA did a great job because I really want to punch Janet Lubelle in the face

[bardinthezone]

I am... disappointed with the latest episode. It felt like the last episode had a very clear set up, it ended with Lubelle taking over the damn radio station, and then.... nothing? No real acknowledgement of how that got resolved? I was certain we were going to start with Lubelle, that they were going to do something really clever with the format, maybe start with an "explained" Cecil. But nope. Just business as usual. And Tamika becoming a bit of a wet blanket, the hefty shift away from a tactic that definitely worked in night vale's recent history. No Carlos other than "oUGhHHHHhHHhh my husband's a scientist, cmon guys don't ban science," and all this constant referencing to old plot points that I'm worried won't go anywhere!

This latest episode was unsatisfying because it seemed clear where the story would go and they veered completely into left field. And to be honest I'm less excited for later episodes now because they've shown they're willing to take the story in directions that don't really make for a great cohesive narrative? They set the stakes so high and then said "that doesn't matter" so now I don't feel invested with any of these new, lower stakes (because I'm sorry but "the character we've gotten no time with recently can't legally do science anymore" is no where near as compelling as "the voice of night vale has been kidnapped/explained and the whole show is in jeopardy").

Cluttered. This episode felt cluttered. It felt like they were trying to dangle a dozen different potential plot threads in front of us and as a result none of them really stuck the landing.

Except the extra hour in the ball pit

Fucking golden joke, A+

[welcometohermitcraft]

I'm not sure if this is a thing that exists already but I NEED to see Dr. Janet Lubelle and Lauren Mallard girlbossing it up together (with the goal to exact revenge on Carlos and all of Night Vale of course)

[stained-watercolour-skies]

IF THEY MAKE SCIENCE ILLEGAL THEN WHAT IN THE UTTER FUCK IS CARLOS GONNA DO?! LIKE THE COLLECTIVE PARANOIA OF SCIENCE BEING USED FOR BAD IS GOING TO AFFECT THE GOOD SCIENTISTS!!! AGGGGGGH

[wt-nv-quotes]

I’m sure you all have a lot of questions. Most everything in the world is questionable. Well, the good news is that we’re here to find answers. Answers to everything. Our job, as scientists, is to explain why everything is the way it is. There will be nothing left in Night Vale that does not have an exhaustive, perhaps even tedious, explanation.

[palmtree-art]

Freaking Janet Lubelle… 🙄

[juneofbones]

All this talk about doubles and places being scientifically interesting makes me hope Kevin will make a return

[asydicsydney]

I don't think Lubelle is dead.

We're bringing up the 210 Horoscopes again because it's my favorite thing to bitch about

"Aquarius : You know that one lady who is running a years-long scam on you, carefully harvesting you for personal information that she will someday turn against you for her own profit? Oh you don’t? Well… heads up I guess."

Lubelle never explained anything about Cecil. She got science banned, but she never took down Carlos' true love...or his other love above science, Esteban, also an Aquarius.(When you listen to reason and not #223)

But we also have this: "Taurus: Someone you love will betray you. Or they won’t. One of those two things, it’s unclear which."

Knowing the end of Carlos, Explained now, what if this was tied to Kevin? Or Cecil in relation to Kevin? "One of those two things", maybe one betrays and the other doesn't, and it's unclear to the stars since they're doubles?