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aunt_zelda) wrote2009-10-06 08:30 pm
What aunt_zelda Thinks: "Acceptance"
Got back in touch with my dance-partner today! Hurray! *does a ... well, a dance*)
Linkara updated today ...
AHA! He does have a flaw! (Well, not a flaw, but something that means he's not perfect for me.) He likes horror! I hate horror! Can't stand the stuff! Gives me panic attacks! Many a horror film has made me freak myself out so much later that I throw up, so I've just given up on the genre because it's clearly not healthy for me. (The most horror I can take is Repo!The Genetic Opera, if that gives you any indication of my psyche. Oh, and Buffy and Angel, but I still skip some of those episodes if it's dark outside ...)
Oh, right, Linkara!
Proper auto insurance!
*sporflediez*
Oooo, exposition, we love thee!
*SQUEE*
Silly faces FTW!
Run away! Run away! Run away!
*gigglespaz*
Michael Moore!
And then ... he goes all sinister. *melts* Excuse me ...
Ok, you know what's fantastic? The Heroes graphic novels. Well, at least Rebellion is. Why?
MICAH KICKS THOMPSON JR.'S ASS!!! And it is awesome.
Everything that V3 SHOULD have been was contained within those seven novels. A team of heroes kicking ass and saving each other. The team includes CLAUDE and MOLLY at one point. THANK YOU HEROES WRITERS FOR SEEING MY PLEAS LAST YEAR AND HEEDING THEM!
Also, there's an actual Earthbender. And West, who manages not to be annoying. And a girl who might be Claude's daughter.
WHY couldn't THAT have been shown on TV? WHY?! *cries*
OH MY GOD THIS IS THE BEST EPISODE I'VE SEEN IN A LONG LONG TIME! (Hurrah! Hurrah! Huraaaaaaay!)
Acceptance:
Previously, on Heroes: Mohinder mysteriously disappeared; Nathlar doubted himself and used some of his powers; Noah is sad that he's eating cereal alone while Sandra has a gentleman friend over; Peter gets a compass tattoo from the Irish Inkbender; Hiro breaks his 'never change the past' rule again, some more, and is dying (*wibbles* THIS is why Adam should never have died! Some magic blood and Hiro would be all better!); Tracey wants her old life back ... le sigh.
A bathtub drips ... not ominously, it just drips. The title card floats in the water. Hee. (Swear to god, that's NEVER going to get old for me, I'm such a nerd ...)
Oh lord, not a music montage ... those are only good when there's some sensei kicking the crap out of our hero!
Ah well, Ali Later provides more fanservice and walks into a restaurant looking like a million bucks. After four seasons of this, I'm not as easily impressed as the men in the restaurant. The governor is ecstatic to have Tracey back, and yes, she is very pretty, I will concede that, but ... can we have more Sylar-in-a-towel scenes? Please and thank you?
Kimiko and Ando are getting married! SQUEE! And Kimiko wants Hiro to give her away! *wibbles* Naaaaw ...
*switches to cynical recapper*
I don't like this time-change business. Hiro changed something, and now everything up until episode 2 of this season is an alternate timeline. I hate having to re-classify entire continuity. I know changing something in the past didn't make the sky purple or kill the president or give Sylar the Nobel Prize (catch the fic reference and win a cookie!) but it changed something that DOES centrally affect the storyline. I understand keeping someone from a ride because they'd get sick, or holding someone back from a puddle, but making things right so your sister and best friend will fall in love, thereby making Ando a satisfied guy who wouldn't have traveled around the world with Hiro because he'd be busy impressing Kaito (his future father-in-law, mind you, who I think would require quite a lot of impressing) and having nookie sessions with Kimmy here.
So ... pterodactyls should be eating the world. It's that serious, not in such an obvious way as, say, saving Peter Tyler, but that makes things even worse! A giant change would make things incredibly obvious and explosive, this change could be construed as 'background' and not important, but Ando-kun IS important! He did so much and affected so much, and most of it wouldn't have happened like that if he was in a stable relationship with Hiro's sister!
*end rant*
Ando wants Hiro to tell Kimiko that he's dying, and quit with the bucket list because time-traveling is killing him. Hiro looks like he's about to concede when Dial-A-Hero gets a call. Hiro answers 'mush-a-mush' and I totally want to move to
Up on the roof, Hiro and Jumper have a great scene together. Hiro's terrified by the edge and the guy got fired for photocopying his ... family jewels ... at a New Year's Party. Instead of talking the guy down with logic, Hiro asks 'what if I could go back and fix your mistake?' Jumper laughs that that's impossible, braces himself, and jumps. YEEK! Hiro zips back in time ...
Heroeclipse!
Nathlar's Office. Angela is a clever, clever woman. We all knew this, of course, but she utilizes the power she FED to Sylar last autumn by bringing over a box of Nathan's old stuff and getting Nathlar to touch the objects, bringing back memories. Clever. Spooky. Nathan had a bad haircut when he was a kid. Nathlar picks up a cap and remembers himself as a teenager relaxing by a pool. A pretty girl flounces around and dives into the pool ... and the next thing we see is her face-down in the water, vividly red blood pooling out around her. I love how the flashbacks are
Tracey and the Governor catch up, Tracey dismissing her absence as a traumatic, complicated family crisis. Well, that's one way of explaining V3 ...
And the OH MY GOD SWOOSIE KURTZ IS IN THIS EPISODE HURRAAAAAAY!!!
(About the credits, Bryan Fuller's name keeps coming up. I noticed that last episode too. Is he really off the show or did he help with these episodes before leaving or what?)
Tracey gets her old job back, but seems to have misgivings. Go join the Rebellion, honey, they could use a Team Mom.
Noah sighs over a divorce contract *wibbles* at his kitchen table (hey, he drinks orange juice too! That stuff is like coffee to me, man ...) when there's a knock on his door. Already I'm discouraged, because Claude wouldn't knock, he'd kick the bloody thing down. Peter enters. Noah says "I thought you didn't want anything to do with
The tattoo is gone. Noah hilariously says "That's a ... very nice arm." HEE.
Noah asks what Peter thinks they should do, go out on a road trip hunting Darth Maul and 'uncover some giant conspiracy?' Stop being so Genre Savvy, Noah, it's ruining our fun!
Peter shakes Noah's hand and makes to leave, giving him the Shoulder Pat of Slashiness. He then runs smack-dab into Claire and they hug more readily than any niece-and-uncle should. Peter says he needs to be at work in ten minutes. Claire says "Ten minutes? You live in
Watching Hiro go from jubilant "I saved a guy's life" to "He's still on the roof ..." is the most painful thing to watch on TV, well, besides mortal wounds or surgery shows.
Tadahashi, it seems, has a thing for copying his butt (his butt, not his man-bits, as I thought from the dialogue earlier) and jumps again. Hiro zips back in time once more, most distressed. Tadahashi is clearly not suitable for office work, perhaps Hiro should instead take a class on talking-down suicide victims, zip back to the roof, tell Tadahashi that while he can't work in an office, there's a million other things he CAN do, and save him that way?
Peter's Hospital. Nathlar is there. Peter huggles him. Fangirls squee, confused about which pairing they're currently cheering on. Peter and Nathlar go into a break room to talk. Nathlar TKs a container of sugar over, and Peter's all 'cool!' and Nathlar describes himself as 'a Swiss-Army Knife of superpowers.' Hee. Then he talks about the touching-an-object-getting-the-history thing, and how he saw an old girlfriend of his (Kelly) dead, when supposedly she just ran off. Then we find out that Kelly's mom is Swoosie Kurtz still alive, and to go visit her. Oh, splendid plan, boys, splendid plan. Go to Swoosie Kurtz's house and tell her that her daughter is dead. That's even worse of a plan than telling her that her daughter isn't dead. (Been there, done that, cried at the cancellation of the sweetest, quirkiest, most colorful, cleverest show ever.)
Noah and Claire have a scene that is very difficult for me to watch, because I grew up with a dad suffering from depression and that isn't fun at all. *huggles Claire, Noah, myself, and the cat* I don't watch Heroes to watch scenes from my life reenacted by someone with better hair, makeup, and clothes than me.
Claire cutely tries to convince her dad that he has marketable skills. (Yeah, as a hitman ...) Noah asks if she knows that Primatech was just a cover, he never actually sold anything. HEE.
Claire pretends to be an interviewer and asks 'Mr. Bennet' what he thinks his greatest strength as a salesman is. HRG deadpans "Well, if they won't buy from me, I can always shoot them." I laughed, but it was a guilty-laugh and I felt bad afterwards. I MISS CLAUDE. *cries*
I find it hard to recognize Ms. Kurtz without her eyepath or radioactively-colored wardrobe from Pushing Daisies, and for that I am infinitely sorry. Just like Lily, Millie is quick to pull out the booze. Nathlar and Millie have a great conversation, and Millie admits to hiring a 'private investigator' (Dangit, now Emerson Cod's theme music is stuck in my head!) to find out if Nathan had anything to do with Kelly's disappearance, but Kelly used her credit card to buy a ticket to Heathrow, picked up her baggage, and hasn't been seen since. I smell a Petrelli cover-up ... (Geez, having an affair with Niki, getting money from a mobster, having a love-child with Meredith ... Nathan is the least-suitable person to be in the public eye EVER.)
Millie leaves, Nathlar stalks over to the pool and gets another flashback: he and Kelly were getting drunk and smutty-minded (stupid teenagers, don't drink around a pool when no one else is around!) Kelly and Teenage!Nathan mess around on the diving board (BIG NO-NO! FOOLS!) and then both of them fall off, Kelly cracking her head on the side of the pool. Nathan pops back up, grinning ... and then sees dead Kelly in the water. He screams 'No!' and Nathlar pulls back, justifiably freaked. (That'd be a great power for a detective. Almost as good as being able to bring the dead back to life ...)
A bar. Nathlar and Angela talk. Nathlar wants to know why he can't remember Kelly dying. Angela says "How should I know?" Bahahahahaha ... oh, that wasn't supposed to be funny? Nathlar says it's because every time he goes digging up a secret he sees Angela with a shovel behind her back. HEE. Angela says he should write Mother's Day cards. HEE HEE.
Finally, Angela admits that yes, she did 'take care of it.' She had the Haitian wipe Nathan's memories, then she disposed of Kelly's body, and bought a plane ticket to
Despite Angela's warnings, the next scene is of Nathlar telling Millie that Kelly died because of him and it was an accident and he's really sorry and it was covered up by his family. *huggles Swoosie Kurtz* Despite the camera-angle, Millie appears to live in the old Petrelli house from Season 1.
Claire's still trying to get her dad to get the lumber-salesman job. He finally says that his greatest strength as a worker is that he's a Company Man (best episode EVER) and that you won't find anyone more dedicated to his job. I dunno, Tadahashi's taking getting fired pretty seriously ...
Noah's being all 'woe-is-me' and I'd find that annoying were he not exhibiting the same emotions that my own father has. Noah asks Claire to name one person he's helped. "Me," she says, in the manner that I often reassure my father that he's been a great dad. Claire says something Wise, and Noah asks why he suddenly feels like the kid and Claire sounds like the parent. *sniffles* My own parents said that to me, multiple times, as I grew up.
This acting is a little too close for comfort.
Ando's still sending that e-mail. Hiro staggers in, exhausted and covered in ink. Ando identifies Tadahashi as 'the guy with the famous butt' (hee ...) and tries to talk to Hiro about not time-traveling so much and admitting to his sister that he's dying. Hiro mouths along the words, then answers the phone. "Tadahashi? ... You on the roof? ... I'll be right there." Hee ...
This time, Hiro and Tadahashi are sitting together on the top of the building. Hee. Hiro is annoyed, nobody copies their butt '47 different ways' (Dayum!) without wanting to get fired. He suggests that Tadahashi find something he loves to do, then his job won't feel like work. Tadahashi agrees, yeah, that sounds reasonable. Secondly, Hiro says, Life is a gift that shouldn't be wasted by jumping off of roofs. Well, he says it a bit nicer than that, but not by much. When Tadahashi demands credentials for this kind of widsom-bestowal, Hiro admits that he's dying ... which brings him to his third bit of advice: don't keep secrets. I like wise, exasperated Hiro. Hiro then says that Tadahashi will always have a friend (him) up in heaven. *wibbles* Hiro, don't make me cry ...
I liked this plotline. It started almost funny and ended bittersweet: Hiro got a clear outlook on life, Tadahashi was saved, and he resolved to tell his sister the truth.
Hiro begins with "I have so many stories to tell you. I just hope I have time to tell them all." We pan out of the office to Ando's POV, where we see Kimiko and Hiro hugging and crying, and it's when I see Masi Oka's face crumple that I tear up too. Nooooooo ... Hiro, don't die! Noooooo!
Then Hiro gets one of those weird headaches, spaces out, says he's fine, then vanishes. Kimiko yelps. I'm still in need of soul-bandages.
Tracey, again looking like any nerd's dream-girl (including me) walks into the Sushi restaurant and has a talk with Noah. After finding out the Tracey is dissatisfied with her old job and life, Noah says "Maybe you can't go home again." *gets chills* Then he parrots the line Claire told him, about having to remember who you were before you find out who you want to be. Tracey leaves for her date, and I really hope they aren't going to set her up with Noah. Perhaps they could start a detective firm? Noah would do the intimidation, Tracey would be the femme fatale AND the muscle, it'd be a great spinoff!
Snazzy restaurant. Tracey wants to make a difference in peoples' lives, but the Governor just wants sex from her. Tracey looks shattered. Well, honey, if that's all you use, that's all you'll look like to him ... go back to Noah, start that detective firm. It could be called 'Gray Ice' or something ... (stop looking at me like that, I've already written a Pushing Daisies/Heroes crossover.) If that isn't possible, leave the show and join the Resistance in the graphic novels.
Tracey excuses herself and, stressed, her hands begin to melt into water. It's a pretty effect, but only serves to stress her out more.
Tracey returns and leaves the Governor. Heh. *grinz* She's got a killer grin on. Hurray!
Nathlar parks in a Parking Garage of DOOOOOM (not a specific one, all Parking Garages are ones of DOOOOOOOOM.) He calls the 'homicide division' and gets put on hold, then hangs up himself and gets out of the car. Someone (I think it's Edgar, the Darth-Maul speedy knife man, but I'm not sure) stabs him in the neck with a tranq and guides him to the ground. See? PARKING GARRAGE OF DOOOOOOM!
Carnivale.
Lydia non-answers that Samuel is entitled to his revenge, and Edgar snarls something like 'regardless of how it affects us' or something, and then, speak of the sexy devil, Samuel the Inkbender enters stage right, husking that he's the one making all the decisions for the family and deciding which way they travel.
"We were just talking, is all"
Samuel holds out a hand and says "Come with me," to
Samuel tries to be Mr. Nice Cult Leader Guy, telling Lydia that she can tell him anything, who's dissatisfied with his leadership, whether she herself is dissatisfied, and Lydia says "I'm not dissatisfied" in this almost-sexy way.
Samuel inkbends her back, and sees Noah's face. Immediately he looses his cool, snapping off his glasses and demanding to know why
Noah posts pictures of Edgar and the compass to his wall, then finds a large picture of the compass and the headline "the Compass that changed the world" on the front cover of a paper. Huh ...
Swoosie and Angela have dinner. Swoosie doesn't believe Nathan, and Angela continues to feed that disbelief. Cut between Angela and Swoosie at dinner, we see unconscious Nathlar being dragged out of a car, robbed of his ring, tossed into a grave in the woods, shot several times in the chest, and then buried alive. (Well, not buried alive, the guy burying him probably thinks he's dead, but still, we all know that this will awaken Sylar, so: BURIED ALIVE. What the hell, show, what is with the buried-alive fetish?!)
Then something happened that made my jaw fall to the floor and yelp "OH ... MY ... GOD!" so loud that the cat woke up.
Swoosie gets a call and answers it ... and we see the guy who just killed Nathlar on the other end saying "The package is delivered." NOT EVEN BLINKING, Swoosie says that's good and hangs up, returning to dinner with Angela LIKE NOTHING HAPPENED. They then toast 'To closure' and I gape at the woman who just stole the Angela Petrelli Cold Hard Bitch of Awesomeness award from right under the woman who invented said award. Dayum ...
Hitman drives away ... and, true to prediction, an arm shoots up out of the ground. The Lost music kicks up as Sylar struggles up out of the dirt, his own theme music ticking back to life.
*grinz*
Next Week!
I've been strong-armed by my 'friends' into going on a week-long hiking-and-camping trip. Joy. Next week I won't be online at all until Friday night, perhaps not even until Saturday afternoon. Double-joy.