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[charloween]

1. In which the prince rescues the princesses, but finds his true love in a different form. Really. Why do the fairy tales have to be so straight all the time?

2. Dear Self: Writing a paper does not reading fic, unless your paper is about fic. Yours is about Help!. Help!, while fun, is not fic. Now then. Also: Help! has nothing to do with Heroes, Good Omens *or* Dead Poets Society, so it would be advantageous to STOP READING FIC and START WRITING THE PAPER. Love and kisses, Me. (ps: Yes, the “Intermission” sequence in Help! is sheer brilliance. No, you probably won’t be able to work it into your paper.)

2a. Memo to Self: Why, when picking your topics for these two papers, did you choose films with wacky names that are bothersome to type? Help! and If… are the punctuation twins, and If You Love This Planet and Not A Love Story are the unabridgable wordy names from hell. Way to go.

3. Anyone have any handy references about the figure of the clown in British drama? I’ve tried keyword searching at the school library and keep coming up blank. Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?

4. Hey, a teaser before the previouslies. Haven’t seen that before!

Whoops, I missed how to spell Claire’s surname again - one ‘t’ or two?

Isaac is going to get Peter killed.

Ooooh, was that a look, Mr. Haitian.

HAHAHAHAHHAAHA Peter can heal. That gun doesn’t scare me. *cuddles laptop because I’m scared for Isaac* I mean, if there’s a gun involved, someone’s going to get hurt and I’m pretty sure it’s not the guy who can heal. But maybe not if he’s not expecting it, because he was thinking about Claire before he got impaled on that taxi. Gunshots to the head might not give him that chance he needs to load the healing file, or whatever it is he does.

[Awesome that The Black Donnelleys is going to be on right after Heroes... I like getting NBC!]

Heyheyhey. I hope Baby Matt can, like, shoot electricity from his fingers.

I love Sylar. “I’m not just saying that because you’re Indian”. *snerk*

HA! That’s how they got the DNA samples. philthe25th and I were talking about that this morning. And it’s awesome that Dane is on to Sylar. I also like how they’re filming this scene, with the fuzzy bits at the edges of the frame.

Love Hiro’s “... Pal” He’s got so much dignity.

That’s a HUGE frakking gun, Isaac.

HAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAA. Tough love, indeed. AND CLAUDE’S GOT ANOTHER STICK. There needs to be a special webisode of just the Claude and Peter training sessions. Like, an entire hour of Rocky-style montages of Claude yelling at Peter to manifest some kind of power and Peter half-trying to run away. Man, Peter is really some kind of masochist.

Oh, he’ll find Peter, Simone. Find Peter and shoot him in the head. Aiiie.

Gaming commission man had better not be foreshadowing killing Ando. I LIKE Ando. Damn you promo monkeys for making it so I can’t watch the episode because I’m looking at every twitch as a potentially fatal situation.

Poor, oblivious Mohinder. Sylar’s really creepy. This is awesome. *love* I also like how Mohinder isn’t being kept oblivious for much longer.

Ooop. Poor Claire. She’s having one hell of a week. Hey! Spilt milk!

The pigeons are his family. HRG transfigured them somehow.

HRG: Heh. Heh. I have tasers.
Claude: I am le tasered! *falls*
Peter: I refuse to be tasered, bitch! *telekinetic-s*
HRG: Buuuuh?
Haitian: I’m just here, with the goggles. Yeah. If I spoke (*chortle*) I’d sure say something.

AND THEN THEY FLY AWAY TO FREEDOM! Where they can live happily together, and Claude can hit Peter with sticks and Peter can “do something unexpected”.

Matt’s baby, that’s a superbaby. It grew fast. How long has it been since last episode?

Ooop. Peter just went evil.

I totally hope that Peter’s hiding in a corner, invisible. If Peter and Nathan don’t meet up by the end of this episode I’ll be sad. Peter really doesn’t have anywhere else to go now that Claude ran off.

Yay! Cartoon villains eliminated thanks to Hiro’s powers! Unexpected!

[And Claire’s in a Neutrogena ad. *boggles* Isn’t that, like, false advertising?]

Technically, it is a result of ...ooop! Claire got there first.

Ted and Matt, that’s a new one. I like Ted. “Ted! You’re radioactive by nature!” *dies* It’s neat, all these different definitions of heroes.

HRG... it’s no use trying to deny it anymore. This will never happen again? YA RITE.

Welp, there’s a corpse for us. Even more Zachary Quinto love. Actor pretending to be Sylar who’s pretending to be Zane, who doesn’t know about Sylar but then Sylar is having slight issues integrating this latest power... and it’s all there, and it’s all in a few seconds, and it’s all clear. Marry me, ZQ. Marry me.

Hiro: Ando, I wuv you too much to see you get hurt.
Ando: But... I bought all that stuff you said about being a hero!
Hiro: *stoic face*

HA! STAN LEE BUS DRIVER.

Hee! Unexpected. Matt goes dark side. Or, dark greyish side.

I really like evil!Peter. Ooop. Except when he hurts Isaac. This is why you don't piss off the emo ones, folks. All that mope can be transfigured to some pretty serious rage.

Huh. Unexpected! That’s one way to solve a love triangle. I guess that’s why they never bothered to develop Simone’s character. Kind of a cheap way out, but I can dig it.

... so I guess now we’re taking bets on the major character that dies in two weeks?


5. I guess it’s finally time to post this song: “Yeah Yeah Yeah Song”, by The Flaming Lips. It fits the moral ambiguity surrounding the choices these heroes have to make about their powers. What would you do?

Comments

[piratefanatic.livejournal.com]

1. Love that. SO much.
2. Right there with you. Again.
3. Erm, what sort of reference? An example of the archetype? A dictionary of litereary stuff sort of reference?
4. I'll have you know that I now have Pepsi sloshing around in my sinuses. I happened to be takig a drink when I read "Ooop. Peter just went evil" and bad things happened.

And appropos of absolutly nothing, are you familiar with the (snappy), cracky, poppy brilliance that is High School Musical?

[naturelf.livejournal.com]

3. Yeah, something I could cite because the Beatles are kind of like the clowns in Shakespeare, who had this incredible freedom to say things about dominant power structures without consequences. I think something similar to that is going on in Help!, only it would be nice to cite something.

4. Sorry! *offers towel, and, um... nasal vacuum?*

And no, I've heard of it but I've shied away because it looked bad. So did School of Rock, so I guess I'm good at being wrong about these things.

[piratefanatic.livejournal.com]

3. I might actually have something usable, if you give me a minute to paw through a book or two. No promises, but I'm thinking I do have something.

4. Now I've got these wacko mental images of nasal vacuums, and boy am I glad no one's gotten around to inventing one of these torture devices things yet.

I'm not saying it's actually good. But the music? So much crack, but also painfully addicting. It's everything that's wrong with pop theatre. Only, I can't stop listening to it. For your enjoyment(?), I present Getcha Head In The Game (http://www.sendspace.com/file/q818ze).

[naturelf.livejournal.com]

3. Awesome! That'll be a great help.

4. I'm sure that someone, somewhere, has a Darwin Award with their name on it because of a misadventure with a nasal vacuum.

I've downloaded the song, I'll listen to it when I get back home tonight and I'm hoping it'll be close to Spamalot in kitschiness and intent. (They're... not serious, are they?)

[piratefanatic.livejournal.com]

Oh, Darwin Awards. I can't decided if they're disheartening (the whole "that's the future of humanity!?" mindset), or terribly uplifting ("well, there's one less fool in the gene pool!")

I can't really decided if High School Musical is like Spamalot in intent. Sometimes, I think it's a really well done parody (well done because it actually seems real), but I think that may be me reading too much into it. Alas, I think it's just a painfully bad show with pop music so soul-stealingly terrible that it's wonderful.

[naturelf.livejournal.com]

pop music so soul-stealingly terrible that it's wonderful.

As is most pop music.

...I'm looking at you, "Sexyback".

[firstgold.livejournal.com]

Uh ... all I've got is that the sheriff in Much Ado About Nothing served to be the comic relief in that play and was kinda bumbling, but lovable at the same time.

[naturelf.livejournal.com]

Oooh, that's good. I'll chase that one down. (...and it's official, I've been watching too much Numb3rs)