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

-- 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?