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brighteyedjillEr… Okay?
Tracy is onscreen. I’m sorta bored. But she conveniently gives us the timeline: it’s been two months since Duel. Nathan is pretty, even on a grainy television (and why doesn’t Tracy have HD, anyway?). Ali Larter get unnecessarily naked in the background. Her window is open, but I know better than to hope that she will soon die.
Some guys in black ops apparel surround her, and her powers don’t seem to work on them. She asks if they want her to beg. Which strikes me as a strange thing to ask. I might ask, “What are you doing here?” She’s taken down by that creepy actor who played Governor Devlin in Oz and that crazy guy in that House episode this season.
Menwhile, in Japan, Ando and Hiro are having role reversal troubles. Hiro bought them a firehouse and a motorcycle, which shows how well he manages the Nakamura fortune. Hiro is reprising Masi Oka’s role from Get Smart as the super tech sidekick.
Peter has remembered that he has medical training, so he becomes a paramedic. Good cover story for your crime-fighting abilities, dude! Although it seems like your co-workers are getting really sick of your hero complex.
Claire ponders university choices and wonders who she pissed off in a former life to get stuck with her grandmother in New York. Angela tries to help her transition into a normal life. Claire, however, watches the show, and so she knows that there’s no way Sylar’s actually dead. She also should know that there's no way she's getting into Brown with nothing more than her GED and her cheerleading cred.
To no one’s surprise, Sylar walks into an old-timey watch shop where a record plays. The proprietor flips his shit, which is a strange thing to do every time someone walks into your place of business. A “Welcome to Gray’s Watch Shop, how may I help you” might have been more appropriate. Just a thought, old man.
Daphne and Matt need some couples counseling. Or maybe Matt just needs counseling, because he seems to be having flashbacks to old acid trips.
Angela and Nathan are talking of their Nefarious Plot on the phone. Nathan wants to keep Claire out of harm’s way, away from Peter and Parkman. Uh-oh, Nathan is taking down his own brother? No one should ever talk on the phone on this show. In fact, people in the Petrelli house should be more careful in general with their incriminating conversations.
Sylar asks more of the rhetorical questions he loves so much. Then he quotes Angela back at his not-Dad. He does manage to restrain himself from Sylar-ing his father (THE HUNGER!) and goes off to find his not-Dad's brother, who is allegedly his real father.
Peter is just getting off his shift, and rolling his eyes at his co-worker, who is tuned into Nathan’s xenophobic rhetoric enough to know a witch-hunt when he hears it. Claire calls Peter to warn him, but Peter doesn’t seem nearly concerned/paranoid enough for someone who’s been through what he’s been through. He decides that going to talk to his mother is the best idea ever. Because when a Petrelli boy talks to one of his parents, it always ends well.
Redux of the Mohinder and Peter cab scene, practically shot for shot. Except Mohinder has a different accent. And they discuss the ethical implications of internment camps in a strangely detached fashion. Mohinder seems to be okay with Nathan’s methods, but when the government guys try to abduct him, he pulls a pilot flashback and runs away from his cab. He thinks Bennet is rescuing him in the Product Placement Vehicle, but he’s really taking him back to the men in black. Sorry, Mohinder.
When Peter arrives back home (apparently the mansion is at 87th and Madison), Mom’s gone, but Nathan’s home. Awesome! Time for Petrelli on Petrelli violence. Peter gets indignant and self-righteous, Nathan remains aloof. But then he asks Peter out on a date. “Just dinner.” No expectation of sex, I promise.
Matt has problems corralling his spirit guide, and Usutu shows up, with his stick. Matt, not knowing his old mentor is dead, is sort of rude. Usutu goes all burning bush, telling Matt he’s chosen to make Nathan let his people go or whatever. The writers invent another way for powers to be transferred, and through the power of Negro Magic, Matt can draw the future.
Hiro, via Bluetooth, is pretty righteous about Ando’s destiny, but then he gets bagged and tagged. Ando blows off his new stripper friends and prepares to ride to the rescue.
Matt keeps a gun in a drawer, loaded, so it’s a good thing Molly doesn’t live there anymore. In fact, it’s probably best that she’s dropped off the face of the earth and everyone’s forgotten her. Matt hasn’t quite gotten the hang of this future-drawing thing, because the .2 seconds-in-the-future drawings were not enough to save him and Claire ("Hi Matt! You're in imminent danger! Let's stand around!") from the men in black.
Nathan shows up to Peter’s apartment, because he just can’t wait for dinner. “It hasn’t been easy to lose me as a brother and a friend…” And, y'know, I miss the sex, too. Nathan wants Peter to be on his side-—some would say he needs him on his side—-but Peter gives him the brush off. Didn't I write this scene, like, two years ago? Except, in my humble opinion, my version made more sense. With crazy things like logic. And character development.
Peter, despite having a phobia of hugs after what happened with Arthur, hugs Nathan, and gets tazed by HRG for his trouble. Poor Peter is going to be having physical intimacy problems for years to come. Here's a hint, dear: if you mom (or any other Petrelli) asks you for a hug, kick her in the face. Nathan instructs HRG not to hurt Peter (any more than he has to when he drugs him up and kidnaps him), and goes off to have dinner alone. Now he doesn't have to worry about finding a place that caters to vegans.
Sylar’s real dad is a taxidermist, which is strangely appropriate. The black ops guys try their darndest to subdue Sylar, but the man is pissed. He kicks all their asses like it ain’t no thang, and proceeds to torture some dude. Calmly.
Ando is trying to guess Hiro’s password. I was convinced it was Charlie. You remember Charlie, show? The one Hiro was deeply in love with? Anyone? Haven’t mentioned her in a helluva long time? But instead the password is Ando. The slashers rejoice.
Almost every character on the show is tied up and drugged in an airplane hanger, and probably on their way to Gitmo for Specials. The suits that they’re using to subdue the special look strangely low-tech, like 1950s sci-fi flavor. Haven’t we progressed to something more technological and slick? Nathan frees Claire, but this seems to piss off Creepy Head Man in Black. The specials are all herded onto a plane, on which Claire stows away. Nathan stands by and poses manfully.
At 40,000 feet, Claire sneaks past the woefully complacent guards. She frees Peter, who can't bust out of the cuffs because apparently he doesn't have super strength. They recognize Suresh by his thumb ring, hooray! Peter absorbs his power, and Peter and Claire set about rescuing everyone, like the zany buddy cops they were always meant to be. Claire zaps the co-pilot, but luckily thinks to let the pilot live, since she doesn’t know how to pilot a helicopter. HRG makes an appearance in the passenger seat. Meanwhile, Peter accidentally absorbs Tracy’s power, freezes the plane wall, and totally screws over everyone inside who’s all tied down and helpless. Sort of like when slave ships would go down on the middle passage and all the slaves would die because they were chained in. Great job, Petrelli.
So why is it a cliffhanger that Peter might fall out of the helicopter if Peter can fly? My theory: he can’t fly. His absorption of powers don’t last as long as they used to. Notice he didn’t actually claim to Nathan that he could fly. Perhaps because he can’t lie to Nathan? Now he can only use powers when he’s touched the person recently? Or he can only use one at a time? Or the show just really wanted to manufacture a Lost-style plane crash?
Tracy is onscreen. I’m sorta bored. But she conveniently gives us the timeline: it’s been two months since Duel. Nathan is pretty, even on a grainy television (and why doesn’t Tracy have HD, anyway?). Ali Larter get unnecessarily naked in the background. Her window is open, but I know better than to hope that she will soon die.
Some guys in black ops apparel surround her, and her powers don’t seem to work on them. She asks if they want her to beg. Which strikes me as a strange thing to ask. I might ask, “What are you doing here?” She’s taken down by that creepy actor who played Governor Devlin in Oz and that crazy guy in that House episode this season.
Menwhile, in Japan, Ando and Hiro are having role reversal troubles. Hiro bought them a firehouse and a motorcycle, which shows how well he manages the Nakamura fortune. Hiro is reprising Masi Oka’s role from Get Smart as the super tech sidekick.
Peter has remembered that he has medical training, so he becomes a paramedic. Good cover story for your crime-fighting abilities, dude! Although it seems like your co-workers are getting really sick of your hero complex.
Claire ponders university choices and wonders who she pissed off in a former life to get stuck with her grandmother in New York. Angela tries to help her transition into a normal life. Claire, however, watches the show, and so she knows that there’s no way Sylar’s actually dead. She also should know that there's no way she's getting into Brown with nothing more than her GED and her cheerleading cred.
To no one’s surprise, Sylar walks into an old-timey watch shop where a record plays. The proprietor flips his shit, which is a strange thing to do every time someone walks into your place of business. A “Welcome to Gray’s Watch Shop, how may I help you” might have been more appropriate. Just a thought, old man.
Daphne and Matt need some couples counseling. Or maybe Matt just needs counseling, because he seems to be having flashbacks to old acid trips.
Angela and Nathan are talking of their Nefarious Plot on the phone. Nathan wants to keep Claire out of harm’s way, away from Peter and Parkman. Uh-oh, Nathan is taking down his own brother? No one should ever talk on the phone on this show. In fact, people in the Petrelli house should be more careful in general with their incriminating conversations.
Sylar asks more of the rhetorical questions he loves so much. Then he quotes Angela back at his not-Dad. He does manage to restrain himself from Sylar-ing his father (THE HUNGER!) and goes off to find his not-Dad's brother, who is allegedly his real father.
Peter is just getting off his shift, and rolling his eyes at his co-worker, who is tuned into Nathan’s xenophobic rhetoric enough to know a witch-hunt when he hears it. Claire calls Peter to warn him, but Peter doesn’t seem nearly concerned/paranoid enough for someone who’s been through what he’s been through. He decides that going to talk to his mother is the best idea ever. Because when a Petrelli boy talks to one of his parents, it always ends well.
Redux of the Mohinder and Peter cab scene, practically shot for shot. Except Mohinder has a different accent. And they discuss the ethical implications of internment camps in a strangely detached fashion. Mohinder seems to be okay with Nathan’s methods, but when the government guys try to abduct him, he pulls a pilot flashback and runs away from his cab. He thinks Bennet is rescuing him in the Product Placement Vehicle, but he’s really taking him back to the men in black. Sorry, Mohinder.
When Peter arrives back home (apparently the mansion is at 87th and Madison), Mom’s gone, but Nathan’s home. Awesome! Time for Petrelli on Petrelli violence. Peter gets indignant and self-righteous, Nathan remains aloof. But then he asks Peter out on a date. “Just dinner.” No expectation of sex, I promise.
Matt has problems corralling his spirit guide, and Usutu shows up, with his stick. Matt, not knowing his old mentor is dead, is sort of rude. Usutu goes all burning bush, telling Matt he’s chosen to make Nathan let his people go or whatever. The writers invent another way for powers to be transferred, and through the power of Negro Magic, Matt can draw the future.
Hiro, via Bluetooth, is pretty righteous about Ando’s destiny, but then he gets bagged and tagged. Ando blows off his new stripper friends and prepares to ride to the rescue.
Matt keeps a gun in a drawer, loaded, so it’s a good thing Molly doesn’t live there anymore. In fact, it’s probably best that she’s dropped off the face of the earth and everyone’s forgotten her. Matt hasn’t quite gotten the hang of this future-drawing thing, because the .2 seconds-in-the-future drawings were not enough to save him and Claire ("Hi Matt! You're in imminent danger! Let's stand around!") from the men in black.
Nathan shows up to Peter’s apartment, because he just can’t wait for dinner. “It hasn’t been easy to lose me as a brother and a friend…” And, y'know, I miss the sex, too. Nathan wants Peter to be on his side-—some would say he needs him on his side—-but Peter gives him the brush off. Didn't I write this scene, like, two years ago? Except, in my humble opinion, my version made more sense. With crazy things like logic. And character development.
Peter, despite having a phobia of hugs after what happened with Arthur, hugs Nathan, and gets tazed by HRG for his trouble. Poor Peter is going to be having physical intimacy problems for years to come. Here's a hint, dear: if you mom (or any other Petrelli) asks you for a hug, kick her in the face. Nathan instructs HRG not to hurt Peter (any more than he has to when he drugs him up and kidnaps him), and goes off to have dinner alone. Now he doesn't have to worry about finding a place that caters to vegans.
Sylar’s real dad is a taxidermist, which is strangely appropriate. The black ops guys try their darndest to subdue Sylar, but the man is pissed. He kicks all their asses like it ain’t no thang, and proceeds to torture some dude. Calmly.
Ando is trying to guess Hiro’s password. I was convinced it was Charlie. You remember Charlie, show? The one Hiro was deeply in love with? Anyone? Haven’t mentioned her in a helluva long time? But instead the password is Ando. The slashers rejoice.
Almost every character on the show is tied up and drugged in an airplane hanger, and probably on their way to Gitmo for Specials. The suits that they’re using to subdue the special look strangely low-tech, like 1950s sci-fi flavor. Haven’t we progressed to something more technological and slick? Nathan frees Claire, but this seems to piss off Creepy Head Man in Black. The specials are all herded onto a plane, on which Claire stows away. Nathan stands by and poses manfully.
At 40,000 feet, Claire sneaks past the woefully complacent guards. She frees Peter, who can't bust out of the cuffs because apparently he doesn't have super strength. They recognize Suresh by his thumb ring, hooray! Peter absorbs his power, and Peter and Claire set about rescuing everyone, like the zany buddy cops they were always meant to be. Claire zaps the co-pilot, but luckily thinks to let the pilot live, since she doesn’t know how to pilot a helicopter. HRG makes an appearance in the passenger seat. Meanwhile, Peter accidentally absorbs Tracy’s power, freezes the plane wall, and totally screws over everyone inside who’s all tied down and helpless. Sort of like when slave ships would go down on the middle passage and all the slaves would die because they were chained in. Great job, Petrelli.
So why is it a cliffhanger that Peter might fall out of the helicopter if Peter can fly? My theory: he can’t fly. His absorption of powers don’t last as long as they used to. Notice he didn’t actually claim to Nathan that he could fly. Perhaps because he can’t lie to Nathan? Now he can only use powers when he’s touched the person recently? Or he can only use one at a time? Or the show just really wanted to manufacture a Lost-style plane crash?
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Date: 2009-02-04 02:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-10 02:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-04 09:32 am (UTC)It's sucks coz the Show was my favourite! I was hysterical about the season 1 which was 100% fantastic, season 2 was, well, less interesting but ok, and season 3 is pretty much a disaster (for me) XD so I gave up (and now I'm watching Buffy & Firefly again Haha, Joss is still awesome).
Anyway, my favourite characters are all either dead or just fucked-up beyond salvation (and not in a good way), and the writers just seems on crack to the point I sometime wonder how much ketamine I took! XD
Do they plane to make a season 4??? XD
*laughing behind her computer*
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Date: 2009-02-10 02:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-10 12:30 pm (UTC)I don't hate them either. I just can't stand looking at them anymore, which is sad, coz I really enjoyed them more than any other show. But there is too many things gone crazy with the show right now... maybe later! ;)
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Date: 2009-02-05 01:09 am (UTC)I'm a little sad that you didn't seem to like the episode but this line did make me crack up. I think the boys just ooze innuendo without really trying to.
Peter, despite having a phobia of hugs after what happened with Arthur, hugs Nathan, and gets tazed by HRG for his trouble. Poor Peter is going to be having physical intimacy problems for years to come. Here's a hint, dear: if you mom (or any other Petrelli) asks you for a hug, kick her in the face. Nathan instructs HRG not to hurt Peter (any more than he has to when he drugs him up and kidnaps him), and goes off to have dinner alone. Now he doesn't have to worry about finding a place that caters to vegans.
Peter should definitely have a fear of hugs. Or at least a stronger sense of backstabbing to come when anyone in his immediate family gets to close, let alone asking for a hug.
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Date: 2009-02-10 02:37 am (UTC)And yeah, where is Peter's sense of self-preservation? Never hug again, Peter!
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Date: 2009-02-10 03:37 am (UTC)LOL. No hugging ever Peter. Never ever again.
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Date: 2009-02-13 08:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-15 05:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-05 03:24 am (UTC)I just want to say, Nathan, you bad boy!
Also, did you see how close that plane was to the ground? Even if Peter can't fly, he should have been able to get Claire's power from her. Messy, but it works.
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Date: 2009-02-10 02:38 am (UTC)Or the show just really wanted to manufacture a Lost-style plane crash?
Date: 2009-02-05 11:43 am (UTC)and Nathan was looking very manly all the time :D
but really, i had to grin SO MUCH, talking to mama angela?? and hugging nathan??
ohh PETER what happened to your brain ?!?
Re: Or the show just really wanted to manufacture a Lost-style plane crash?
Date: 2009-02-10 02:39 am (UTC)But yes, they are going to land on The Island! They can get chased by the smoke monster, and Hiro will get stuck pushing buttons in the hatch, and Mohinder will develop a theory of time travel, and Tracy will learn to speak French!
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Date: 2009-02-05 05:18 pm (UTC)Hehehe... yeah, I think I discovered some elements in the actual storyline you've written. And written exceptionally well. :)
Thanks for sharing. I loved to read this.
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Date: 2009-02-10 02:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-06 05:02 am (UTC)I def. agree Peter is going to have intimacy issues - the poor guy just keeps hugging the wrong people.
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Date: 2009-02-10 02:43 am (UTC)In any case, yes, Peter is going to have intimacy issues. Bad touch! Bad touch!