Mr. Muggles thinks you're not as pretty as he is, and he's RIGHT.

[apocalypsos]

-- You know how long it took me to realize there was no Hiro in that episode?

-- Oh, man, I get why Claire's all over West, but at the same time, EW. On some level I'm very much concerned by the fact that he is very skeevy and more than a little creepy, and on a more superficial level I'm blown away by the fact that he leaves his house dressed that badly in California and is allowed to live. Never have I seen a teenage boy who more silently screams that he's wearing tighty-whities, tube socks, and a V-neck undershirt under every outfit he wears, and all of them were bought by his mom.

-- Okay, so. The photo:



Featuring: (top l-r) Some blonde chick we don't know, Linderman, Mr. Petrelli , Mama Petrelli, Kaito Nakamura, Bob, some other brunette we don't know, Matt's dad; (bottom l-r) Another woman we haven't met, Charles Deveaux, some slimy guy with a thin mustache (hidden under Nathan's hand), some other guy with white hair (also hidden).

What I get from that picture:

1.) Anybody else find it telling that Mr. Petrelli still hasn't been shown, is the only blurry person in that picture, and is looking to his left? Theories, people!
2.) Speaking of theories, I was fully expecting Nichelle Nichols to be in that photo. She's certainly not the person in the front on the far right unless she's dressed in men's slacks, so that leaves her off.
3.) You know, considering a lot of these people supposedly fell out years ago, why are they all in the same pretty-recently-taken picture together?
4.) I had a thought that one of the unknown women in the back row is Niki/Jessica's mom. And that slimy-guy-we-don't-know was Sylar's dad.
5.) Okay, I just find it weird that blurry Mr. Petrelli and Mr. Bennet look a lot alike.

-- That photo of Peter and Nathan leaning against one another wearing tuxes that Nathan was looking at? Anybody else think, "Aw, it was so nice of Nathan to take Pete to his prom when he couldn't get a date"?

-- Uh, Bennet, maybe you're not getting this whole not-keeping-secrets thing. Maybe it's something in that household, like that it's okay to keep a secret just as long as it's going to save someone's life, or that it's okay not to tell someone something if you consider it perfectly innocuous like it's wrong for Claire to wear white after Labor Day or that Mom should stop practically making out with Mr. Muggles or that you're going to the Ukraine to hunt for prophetic paintings by a dead man. I mean, really, how important is that?

-- Micah is the most adorable little woobie on the planet. Just had to be said.

-- Speaking of characters I'm currently in love with, Monica may be my new favorite. I think I identify with her way too much. No money, crappy job, all stressed out, trying to go back to school and worried about how to pay for it ... HI, ME. Although if I were her and I started figuring this whole thing out I would totally go directly to Micah and say, "Bring me all of the cable in the land! Mwahahahaha!" You just know that's a power begging for crackfic to be written about it, though. "I accidentally watched an Energizer commercial and now I cannot stop moving."

-- Sylar, anytime you want to kill Maya and Alejandro, I don't think anyone will complain. Just not in the face, okay? Currently, their only saving grace appears to be bein' damn pretty.

-- I bet there's cutting-room footage of Adair Tischler interrupting a Matt-Molly-Mohinder scene by yelling, "Mommy, Daddy, stop fighting!" And then mock crying.

... what? Just because I stop arguments that way, no one else can?

Comments

[imperfect_tense]

You know what I think? One of the hidden people in the picture is Kensei.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Well, the skeevy guy with the mustache doesn't look much like him at all, but the only clues visible for the other guy are white hair and men's slacks. So, hey, might be. :)

[mon-of-the-dead.livejournal.com]

I'm totally calling the fact that Papa Petrelli is Kensei. Why else have his head turned unless it's someone we've already seen?

[tinylegacies.livejournal.com]

That was my theory too :)

[trinity_clare]

...Wait, there was no Hiro in this episode? *facepalm*

[beanarie.livejournal.com]

My reaction exactly. I fail as a Hiro fan.

[jacinthsong.livejournal.com]

I was mostly concerned with the fact that, given Claire's last date ended with attempted rape and an autopsy, she didn't pick somewhere she could get away from a bit more easily. Hollywood sign is all fine as long as the date goes well and flying boy doesn't go off in a huff...

Nathan's photo collection was tres adorable and elicited joint squee when watching, as did the ever-increasing domesticity of Matt and Mohinder. (The friend I was watching it nudged me and whispered "Oh no, she's going to be traumatised because she overheard her parents bickering! That and her other parents were brutally murdered by Sylar.") Monica is indeed cute on a stick.

[jacinthsong.livejournal.com]

PS I am trying to like Maya and Alejandro and am all excited about seeing them interact with Sylar, but they are so far a significantly less awesome River and Simon. Plus ever since someone on metaquotes pointed out the La Llorona symbolism I cannot stop cringing at the clunkiness. :/

[wtfbrain.livejournal.com]

You wouldn't happen to have a link to that, would you? I'm pretty sure I missed it, 'cuz I've been watching through a haze of sleep deprivation and stress lately...

[penmage.livejournal.com]

As soon as we saw the start of the Claire/West disaster, my husband commented, "We all know where this is going to end up. With a branch stuck in her head."

[sabra-n.livejournal.com]

Monica needs to sit down and have a marathon of Jackie Chan movies. Or old-school movie musicals. OR BOTH.

-blue

[kreutzmarie.livejournal.com]

Your comment just put Jackie Chan into drag a la "Bye, Bye, Birdie" in my mind. *snort*

[medie]

Someone on my f-list just floated the theory that the painting we saw? Was of Mr. Petrelli's death and not Bennet's. Which is of the Hmmmmmmm.

I am choosing to believe that cutting room footage exists for it would be hysterical.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Ooo, good one! That seems more logical considering that the only painting we've seen already is of Mr. Nakamura, as in one of the original Heroes.

And who says that has to be Claire anyway? It wasn't her the last time, and how many blonde women do we have on the show this season? I mean, really.

[medie]

Oh yeah, it's the sneaky kind of bait and switch I love and Heroes enjoys. And we do need a long lost Petrelli to pop out of the woodwork, it's a thing.

True! There's plenty of them floating around including Eye-Roll-Spoiler of DOOM. Who, heh, could be working for Daddy Petrelli.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

So, let's see. There are eight paintings, and we've seen two, one of Kaito and one of Bennet or Petrelli (although let's say Petrelli for the theory). If it predicts the murders, then Charles Deveaux and Linderman are out. That leaves six paintings and eight people in the photo who might be in the other paintings and therefore be targeted for murder. Leave out the murderer and that's seven. And that's not even counting the fact that we don't even know that each of the paintings features a single murder -- one might feature two or more, meaning everybody in that photo could have a picture of their death out there somewhere.

[medie]

Oh I like this theory. It makes a scary amount of sense with what we know. Getting a look at some of those other paintings should make things interesting.

[okelay.livejournal.com]

i totally think someone in that photo is mr.gray.

[kanedax.livejournal.com]

I'm just happy that Monica whipped out my favorite wrestling move of all time, the 6-1-9. I've been chanting it all day.

And, yes, I know wrestling. Kill me.

But I think I've decided that, on the list of all of the powers we've seen so far, doesn't photographic reflexes have to be in your top five? watch someone do something, and you suddenly know how to do it? and is it a possibility that Monica could "learn" some of the other powers if they're physical and not mental? Like maybe watch Peter phase or shoot electricity, and her mind sees how the molecules react and suddenly poof?

Okay, I'm getting ahead of myself.

Sylar killed the only interesting person in that car.

[jldecker.livejournal.com]

Sylar killed the only interesting person in that car.

best . observation . ever

[siberian-skys.livejournal.com]

Sylar, anytime you want to kill Maya and Alejandro, I don't think anyone will complain. Just not in the face, okay? Currently, their only saving grace appears to be bein' damn pretty.

Yes, please, and as soon as possible.

[tinylegacies.livejournal.com]

Yeah, so the picture.

It was funny because this past weekend, my roommate and I were floating various theories about Heroes-related things and I mentioned that I thought it was interesting we hadn't seen Matt or Niki's parents yet. Because we were trying to figure out who the other subjects of the 8 paintings could be and with Nakamura, Linderman and Charles Deveaux already dead and Papa Petrelli assumed dead... I automatically turned to other parents on the show.

I'm digging the theory that the painting was about Papa Petrelli not Papa Bennet though. And seriously, we have no shortage of young blondes on the show.

I adore Monica and I'm loving the Micah stuff. Who needs Niki? I have to confess I didn't miss Hiro this episode. His story is starting to bore me.

I also actually liked Nathan this episode, which rarely happens for me.

But zomg Peter and I'm too squeeful about the promo for next week :)

[arbitraryorange.livejournal.com]

Didn't we see Nikis father at one point?

[tinylegacies.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah -- but not her mother.

[tabaqui]

Nathan/Pete Prom-night first time fic.

Just sayin'.