Yes, brilliant. All this was brewing in my mind also. The question of who holds the key is the question of who can grant access across the limen, the 'threshold' (an unusually archaic term itself used by Charlie of his front door). The holder of the key is always important in MD too, in several ways ranging from the contract killer's 'done' code for Diane Selwyn, to Cookie the all-knowing downtown hotel manager (who also compères the Rebekah del Rio act that grants the blue box at the club Silencio). In all these cases the crossing of a Rubicon is at stake.Ragnell wrote: 2) The Bosomy Woman -- I was watching the Mild Fuzz TV review of this ep and they were speculating that she and the Jumping Man were gatekeepers. I like this idea, and that would explain why she's played by a man. She's a liminal spirit, a spirit that exists to help cross boundaries, to help cross worlds and crossing gender is a touch that adds to that. It puts her on the threshold of a binary from the second you see her. It's also worth noting... Mr. C talks forwards, Jeffries talks forwards. She uses backwards speak, and I believe is the only person in the sequence to do so. She exists between genders, between worlds, and between those doors that line this space. That scene change at the end of the credits, long after the Roadhouse song ends, even implies she exists between episodes/parts.
Keyholders are like psychopomps, ushering between levels and at home in none of them. As noted, trans-vestment goes together with this ritual function. The masking and guising traditions of Old Europe, aimed at 'crossing the borderlines' in the intercalary days and the spokes of the year often feature a figure wearing the clothes of a different gender.
(Nice place to plant a forest, imo.)