Okay, so maybe I needed to do one more thing before I start writing.

[apocalypsos]

Honestly, how am I supposed to concentrate when I still hadn't seen this week's Heroes?

Have I mentioned how much the little comic book-ish "To Be Continued ..." at the end of every single episode makes me giddy beyond all human comprehension? The flailing, it is ON.

Okay, so yeah. I had a thought while watching this episode. Or several thoughts that all sort of string together, to be honest. Niki says D.L. has been gone six months. D.L. was arrested for a crime Other!Niki committed, meaning that her powers (or whatever the hell they are, and this is assuming that part of her powers is that separate personality) are at least six months old. Assuming that everybody's powers emerged about the same time given various clues, that means nearly all if now the sum total of "9th Wonders!" (as in, the comic precognitive Isaac's been drawing) has been telling the story of the heroes from the very beginning. Which means that if Micah's been reading the entire run -- issue #9 was in the stack D.L. rifled through -- then of COURSE he knows both his mom and dad have secrets.

HE'S BEEN READING THEIR STORIES ALL ALONG. FOR MONTHS. IN A COMIC BOOK.

*spazzes*

Oh, my God, somebody who is not me needs to write that story.

Why am *I* not writing that story?

Oh, wait, I remember why not. Never mind. *is guilty*

Micah as a two-year-old in that one photo on the shelf! Micah and his daddy are so friggin' cute! SUPERPOWERS FIGHT!

Okay, that's about the whole of what I was thinking when I was having coherent thoughts about Niki and D.L., aside from the fact that he is so very hot and that I believe Other!Niki when she says they're not crazy for some reason which is definitely not helping me figure out what the hell her powers are. (Step One: Superstrength. Step Two: Making my brain explode.)

Elsewhere, Hiro and Ando continue to be the most adorable crimefighting team on the planet, and Hiro pretending to have a lightsaber makes me want to keep him in my apartment and have mock Star Wars fights and I don't even like the movies. It makes me sad that Ando is totally the Uncle Ben and is so going to get killed and make Hiro all solemn. You can just see it coming. I don't want to lose Ando, damn it! I like him and his superhero who likes holding weird pink feather things because "that is how they roll."

Claire's daddy continues to be creepy and yet I'm really, really sold on him eventually turning out to be a good guy and all of this creepiness and bad taste in eyewear to turn out to simply be awful social skills. Also, how come I have yet to see anyone theorize Zach is gay? Okay, somebody probably has, but HELLO. I mean, his reaction to Claire when she asked if he was hitting on her, and then his excitement about her "coming out" to her parents? It's like he was all happy that he has this pamphlet that he really wants to give her except he's whited out all of the times "homosexual" appears and replaced it with "superhuman freak." Also, show -- yes, Claire's self-healing. WE GET IT. No wonder she needs saving, for crying out loud. She's gained invulnerability and lost the common sense to WEAR OVEN MITTS.

Also, good or evil, I still want to raid Eden's kissing buddy's wardrobe while he's wearing it.

Comments

[kkglinka.livejournal.com]

That's how I interpret it as well. Many people think of pain only in terms of injuries or illness, but discomfort is a regular component of everyday life. It reminds you to shift position when sitting to avoid pinched nerves or obstructed blood flow, for instance. We learn not to touch hot things because the burning hurts. We remember the pain. If Claire has had her powers for most her life, she's had limited exposure to pain, the chief motivator for remembering things like oven mitts and not touching sharp rotating objects, etc. There's a real condition, rare, in which people cannot feel pain and they often die early in life because they just can't remember to avoid dangerous things without the cue of pain/discomfort.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Yes, but if Claire has had her powers for most of her life, her parents would have to be either lucky or idiotic not to have noticed by now, and it certainly doesn't explain her mysterious cough as an infant. Plus she's an athlete which means she has to have been injured before, unless she was really beating the odds, and it doesn't sound plausible that she'd suddenly become an uber-klutz after developing healing abilities. And why would she start experimenting with these abilities now if she's always had them? It also seems highly unlikely that she's the only one of the heroes who's had their ability their entire life -- everybody else seems to have recently developed theirs.

In which case, things like not sticking your hand in a garbage disposal and putting on oven mitts when taking a cookie sheet out of the stove are common sense things that you don't just give up doing because you're suddenly invulnerable, especially if you're right in front of your mother and you don't want to be found out.