*clutches* Never leave me again, show!

[apocalypsos]

OMG WTF DID MAMA PETRELLI MEAN WHEN SHE SAID SHE KNEW ABOUT THE BOYS BEFORE THEY DID?!

I mean, okay, from that crack to Claire about going off and growing up before she decides to come back to this madness "just like I did" is a pretty big hint that she's got powers (woot!) and passed them on to the kids, but oh, show. Show. You can't drag this out for me, because I want to worship at the altar of Mama Petrelli and I need to know what costume to put on the effigy. (... what? Why are you looking at me like that?)

And, hi, Nathan! Okay, that entire post-pulling-the-glass-out-of-Peter's-head scene with Peter and Nathan? I've read scenes exactly like that. Hell, I've WRITTEN scenes exactly like that. And the only difference is that this particular scene did not end with Sam fucking Dean over the back of the Impala. (God, wouldn't it be great if more shows just abruptly cut to the Winchester brothers having the naughty sex? I think I'd be a happier more contented person if every time George and Izzie regretted their one-night stand it immediately switched over to Dean blowing Sam in the alleyway behind a BDSM gay bar somewhere.) (No, really, stop looking at me like that.)

The most I can say about Peter, aside from the fact that he's right about Claire and Nathan's a tool (albeit one I love with all my heart and soul) is that there's something about the hair being slicked back and the black shirt (particularly the one in the preview) that make me want to scale him like Mount Everest, quite possibly with the requisite for oxygen. (God knows after watching the preview I thought I might need it. HUMMINA.)

Future Hiro and Present Hiro in the same room! *squeals* And you'll notice that even when Present Hiro lowered his sword, Future Hiro didn't. Oh, man, I can't wait to find out why. *bounces up and down*

Niki/Jessica ... yawn. And what the hell happened to the Micah who could tell it wasn't his mother over the phone? Now he can't even identify someone who's just passing herself off as his mom? I know, I know, I'm harping on this a lot for a little kid, but this is a smart observant little kid. I liked the thought that he was smarter than this.

Oh, Mohinder. You sure are pretty, but Jesus Christmas, you make some dumbass moves sometimes. Although how much did I love when Thompson said about Matt that they should put tape over his mouth because he's sick of hearing about "his pregnant wife"? HA. Oh, writers. You don't want us to think you're haunting the online forums but then you put the same crap we complain about and put it in the script and then bitch about spoilers. (Also, we know you're bogarting our Petrellicest and putting it in your TV show. Or at least you're bogarting SOMEBODY'S gay incest fic. If Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles show up as guest stars before the end of the season, we'll know something slipped past the censors, won't we? *nods solemnly*) (Oh, take a picture. It'll last longer.)

Quick question before I go on -- is it wrong that Nathan trying to one-up Bush in the "Most Smug Self-Righteous Egotistical Dicksmack Running The Country" contest as seen in the preview for next week made me want to lick my television screen? No? Oh, thank God. *really needs to dust the TV screen*

Also, Isaac died.

... so, how about that timeline, huh?

Okay, okay, fine. The man was very pretty and then Sylar ate his brain. On the plus side, no more jealous whining about Simone or guilt about her death before mainlining heroin. On the minus side, we finally get the Isaac-gets-separated-from-a-body-part-he-might-need scene some of us only got to see in that unedited pilot. (Did anybody else notice that while Isaac's copy of the Nathan-in-the-Oval-Office painting he looks serious and alone and in Sylar's copy there's a dark-haired girl in a skirt in the background with her back to us and he looks a lot like that version of Superman that looks like the missing link?)

Oh, and.

NATHAN/CLAIRE HUG!

*twirls*

Really, that's all I need in life. That, and an ice cream cone.

EDIT: Also, the first person to write the Matt/Ted/Bennet Road Show To New York wins a pony. Possibly two ponies. And one teddy bear who can read your mind.

Comments

[thebratqueen.livejournal.com]

Love. My. SHOW.

[pescivendolo.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad you got your Nathan/Claire hug. I know you've been wanting it for weeks now. :-D

Nathan loves Peter so much, but only Peter's incestuous girlfriend could save him. I think the writers are trying to push a STRAIGHT INCEST AGENDA on us, and we really shouldn't stand for it.

[aesvir.livejournal.com]

Hey, my first reaction is that Kripke needs to go back and rework the finale script. Because there is NO way Milo/Adrian can out-hoyay Jared/Jensen.

God, wouldn't it be great if more shows just abruptly cut to the Winchester brothers having the naughty sex?

A lot of my classes would be more interesting if we suddenly got Sam bending Dean over a pool table...

is it wrong that Nathan trying to one-up Bush in the "Most Smug Self-Righteous Egotistical Dicksmack Running The Country" contest as seen in the preview for next week made me want to lick my television screen?

Same here. It must be the tie.

[sarah82.livejournal.com]

I adore the way you think!

[quietdiscerning.livejournal.com]

HI. i cant get over how AWESOME it was to have this back! it was like going through withdrawl and then mainlining the GOOD STUFF, and FAST. geeeeze.

PETRELLI'S! i love them all! ma petrelli pwns them ALL. seriously. shes the mama and linderman is the papa and theyre both pulling the strings ARTFULLY. YIS.

*spins with glee*

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Yes, let's not stand for it. I say we sit down and get comfy. :)

*ducks rotten tomatoes thrown at head*

[aesvir.livejournal.com]

Maybe the writers have given up on holding the line against incest, but don't think America is ready for brother-cest. o_0

[offtheceiling.livejournal.com]

that there's something about the hair being slicked back and the black shirt (particularly the one in the preview) that make me want to scale him like Mount Everest,

Jesus Chris, YES! So much fucking yes. Like, Heroes made me think Milo was hot when I didn't before, but THAT. THAT!!! Like, drool and shit.

How does this show keep getting BETTER AND BETTER AND THEN EVEN BETTER???

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Same here. It must be the tie.

I think for me it was, "I'm the President. I'm the most special person there is."

Oh, yeah, Petrelli?! PROVE IT in bed.

[squee1123.livejournal.com]

(God, wouldn't it be great if more shows just abruptly cut to the Winchester brothers having the naughty sex? I think I'd be a happier more contented person if every time George and Izzie regretted their one-night stand it immediately switched over to Dean blowing Sam in the alleyway behind a BDSM gay bar somewhere.) (No, really, stop looking at me like that.)

Yes please!

I totally didnt even pay attention to Sylar's painting...I'm pretty sure a pic of it will pop up in a day or two so I'll investigate then (no i wont ill totally forget before then)

Peter was looking especially smoking hot this week, wasnt he? I love the slick look. I dont know if I would lvoe a haircut more or not. We should stick with the slicked gangster look.

[imperfect_tense]

You made my night, hi. *squish*

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

I DON'T KNOW. I just ... how do they do that? I'm going to end up spontaneously generating Hiro's abilities just to see the next four episodes and it's going to be ALL HEROES'S FAULT.

[kalenodonnell.livejournal.com]

Hi. Yeah, you don't know me but Ive been cyber-staking your LJ for quite some time cuz your Heroes commentary is a hoot and quite possibly a half. Throwing my two cents in cuz umm, duh, show rocks and none of my other show groupies are present, so I must have the show meta discussion with someone. But seriously, how awesome is this show that they've given us not one or even two generations of heroes, but now three? With the current gen, then fifteen years ago with Claude and firestarter chickie, and now like thirty years ago....

Seriously, I have to know who was playing god with Linderman in the original version of the meta-Illuminati, like now. Obviously Mama Petrelli was misspending her youth there, and Papa Nakamura, and Simone's pappy cuz duh, the roof, but who else? Despite the fact that I know you hate Simone, I suddenly have a gut feeling that she's alive, and its weird, but it was bugging me the entire last half of the eppy. Because if Linderman clearly thinks he's still the good guy, but felt that others were treading the villain path....where are they? Mama Petrelli seems more trying to stay out of it and just protect her own, so I doubt he meant her, and if Linderman controls the Company, that would seem to imply Papa Nakamura's on his side. Or at least was fifteen years ago.

So that basically leaves Simone's dad. And given that everyone else passed on their superness, (most in the form of superhotness and powers), it stands to reason that Simone has powers too, even if she did get superannoyingskillz in place of the hotness. And since we never saw any from her thus far, it stands to reason that she's not dead and she and pappy will reveal themselves as grand master villains in the finale and she'll use her supertrampiness to try and seduce Peter to the dark side cuz ZOMG TEH ANGST! *Takes breath* There. I'm brilliant, you know it. FEAR my mad deductive skills.

[beck-liz.livejournal.com]

NATHAN/CLAIRE HUG!

I was really freaking happy about that. I squealed.

However, I thought that the music they used for that was more than a little creepy.

[pinkfinity.livejournal.com]

sam_storyteller has a great long-fic set post-Parasite which includes a nice road trip sequence (sans Ted, though).

[way2busymom.livejournal.com]

Ah those delightful Petrellis...Claire healing Peter was predicable. However, Ma weeping & Nathan clutching Peter's dead body? Made of Awesome.

Sigh. I was secretly hoping Ma Petrelli would heal Peter cause really, they need a bit more of the Oedipal in their story.

[eystri.livejournal.com]

Dude, Mama Petrelli's power could be prophetic-dreams? Ya know, like the ones Peter used to have? Kinda makes sense that if she has a power Peter would have to have leached off it at some point.

[sxyblkmn.livejournal.com]

and in Sylar's copy there's a dark-haired girl in a skirt in the background with her back to us and he looks a lot like that version of Superman that looks like the missing link?

Bizzaro! ;)

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

YES! Thank you, I was drawing a complete blank. (And, well, I was too lazy to look it up. Heh. ;))

[sxyblkmn.livejournal.com]

heh, no prob :)

[lavenderfrost.livejournal.com]

...ICON.

*DED*

[wufeidragon.livejournal.com]

In the preview for next week it looked like claire had dark hair. Perhaps she's the girl in Sylar's painting?

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

That's what I was thinking, but looking at the picture it's someone in a dark top and a pink-plaid pleated skirt. (Or at least it looks that way -- I'm torrenting the episode so I'll have to look again.)

And if that's what it is that's more of a Candace outfit, which sucks if it's true because I was kinda hoping she'd die next week in a rain of leeches or something. Maybe the week after in a lemming stampede? Really, I'm not picky.

[isabeau.livejournal.com]

Also, the first person to write the Matt/Ted/Bennet Road Show To New York wins a pony. Possibly two ponies. And one teddy bear who can read your mind.

What, you mean the sort of thing where M and B are arguing over which radio station to listen to, and T just kind of sits there staring out the window idly flashcrackling his hands and just /conveniently/ spitting out enough to disrupt the signal if they go to one he doesn't like (and one time enough to make the car stop so they have to get road service out in the middle of nowhere, to which M grumbles that how do they know it's a proper service truck showing up and not some of the Company goons, since, you know, it's not in public any more, and B just gives him this withering look and thinks something at him that makes M splutter and yell at him to get out of his head, to which B thinks mildly that really it's M in his head, not him in M's head), and at one point they stop at this diner and there's a suspicious looking guy staring at them, and they whisper quietly about whether it's one of the Company goons or just a skanky guy, and (from T) if it's a Company someone whether they should turn B in and escape themselves, and (from B in rejoinder) whether they should just all shut the fuck up, and... ...?

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Sort of, except ... you know, since they've got bus tickets to New York, it's the three of them crammed in the back next to the chemical toilet trying to be inconspicuous while Ted makes faces at the baby sitting next to his sleeping mom to try and make him stop crying and Matt keeps overhearing people's thoughts about how bad everybody else smells and Bennet just sits there with his still-healing gunshot wound and thinks, "And still not the worst road trip I've ever been on." Right before some old man carrying a grocery bag full of potatoes pukes on his shoes.

Er, not that I've ever been on that bus.

Just many, MANY like it.

Hell Is Oklahoma (gen)

[skripka.livejournal.com]

(I totally fudged on HRG's name)

Jack Bennett was used to road trips. Road trips for business, road trips with family.

He had once driven to the Grand Canyon with an increasingly forgetful wife, a yappy dog and two squabbling teenagers in the back seat, in the middle of summer. The air conditioning had conked out around Tuscon, on a Sunday.

It was a pleasant memory compared to this moment.

The bus smelled like most buses did--sour with rubber and old sweat, astringent with whatever spray they pretended to disinfect the seats with. It made Jack's skin itch.

Again, which was less annoying than the whispering he heard from the seat behind him. Matt Parkman and Ted Sprague were arguing--again--about him--again--and interrupting what little napping he could manage.

Jack groaned to himself. Maybe this had been a bad idea. Granted, back at Primatech, he'd likely be dead, but if this wasn't a level of hell, he was going to be really disappointed in the Judeo-Christian worldview.

Stupid bus. Stupid specials. Really annoying Parkman and Sprague. What he wouldn't give for the Hatian to be here instead. Now there was a man who knew how to keep quiet. Hell, even Claude would be less annoying than these two.

Still arguing. Jack groaned again, aloud this time, and was gratified when the two idiots shut up for a blessed moment. He took a deep breath of the sour and acrid air before turning his head to try and get more comfortable.

Jack thought longingly of his Smith and Wesson pistol, probably sitting in a locker somewhere. Idly, he decided it wouldn't do him any good, anyway. He couldn't shoot Sprague without risking a meltdown, Parkman, for all of his obstinance, actually trusted Bennet somewhat, and, well, if he wanted to commit suicide, he wouldn't be suffering on a bus ride to New York City with these two idiots.

He closed his eyes. Sprague and Parkman were blessedly quiet for the moment, and the dark landscape passed by the chilled window. Jack tugged his jacket closer over his shoulder and managed to drift off for a few minutes, before the really fat guy in the Hawaiian shirt from three rows foward decided to stand up and stretch.

Noisily.

Jack groaned. Hell was Oklahoma.

[linaerys.livejournal.com]

is it wrong that Nathan trying to one-up Bush in the "Most Smug Self-Righteous Egotistical Dicksmack Running The Country" contest as seen in the preview for next week made me want to lick my television screen? No? Oh, thank God. *really needs to dust the TV screen*

No. Why?

=D

[kanedax.livejournal.com]

So are we assuming that Future!Hiro comes from the reality where the bomb did go off? If you watch the preview, it shows Peter with a big friggin' scar.

[paranoidgrl.livejournal.com]

And what the hell happened to the Micah who could tell it wasn't his mother over the phone?

I'm not discounting the possibility he did know, and played along for some reason.

Angela Petrelli's superpower is being awesome.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

He's been playing along an awful lot, though. And if he knows about Niki and Jessica switching off it's one thing -- Jessica does seem to have some sort of affection for the kid, even if she did hurt him that one time -- but this is someone who is NOT his mother or sharing his mother's body asking him to get in a car with a stranger. Even a stupid kid knows not to do that.

[drewbeartx.livejournal.com]

My take is that Candace isn't a shapeshifter in the classic sense. She seems to gently warp reality around her to create hyper-realistic illusions that make her look and sound like someone else, as well as hide bodies (remember Simone?). So I can see her warping reality enough to make Micah think that she was Jessica.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah, the creator's already said she warps reality rather than shapeshifting. It's just that most of what bothers me about the whole thing is that up to a certain point Micah was really perceptive and intuitive to what was going on around him when Niki thought she was doing a great job of hiding it, and then in the last half of the season he's been less and less observant.

[drewbeartx.livejournal.com]

You're right, they have been writing him as less observant. Considering the quality of the writing on the rest of the show, I can't really believe that that's unintentional. Since we know that Linderman's fully aware of Micah's powers and has obviously been bugging the house, perhaps he has another super in the area acting as some kind of intelligence dampener?

[kronette.livejournal.com]

Oh, good, I wasn't just projecting my Dean/Sam lust onto Peter and Nathan. *whew!* Nathan! The tears! The hugging! It felt like Hercules and Iolaus all over again (you know, the....fifth time Iolaus died and then didn't come back for 1/2 a season).

*ahem* Yes, I have missed my Heroes. And my Hiro. I actually read some Hiro-hate today on one of the TVGuide boards. I -- I didn't even know what to think, let alone say to that. It's Hiro.

I actually 'awwww'ed at the Nathan/Claire hug, and I wasn't expecting too. *sigh* I loves me this show, and next week's is gonna ROCK!