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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

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[firstgold.livejournal.com]

I think that Peter went looking for that fight, knowing that there was a potential for him to get injured. If anything, he was looking for that form of release - to be injured and get beaten up by an external force instead of being beating himself emotionally over what he had the potential to do to New York and the world.

Peter is a very reactionary character, and he will do anything without thinking of his own personal safety. The problem with this is that other people tend to get hurt, including Simone.

And I'm not saying that Peter would have known to use his telepathy to check if anyone is coming. I'm saying that he's going to use that as further reason to beat himself up emotionally. He's probably going to tell himself that he should have prevented Simone's death. And I don't think he's going to be able to go back and save her. There are no do overs. I'm not just saying that because of what happened with Hiro and Charlie, I'm saying that based on what I've seen of the show. There are no do overs in the show - only how characters deal with the aftermath of events.

People used to live in the maintenance access tunnels under the campus back in the 1970s...

[naturelf.livejournal.com]

If anything, he was looking for that form of release - to be injured and get beaten up by an external force instead of being beating himself emotionally over what he had the potential to do to New York and the world.

That, or he really missed Claude's stick-time. (I jokes, I jokes.) Poor Peter. He can be incredibly selfish, but that's exactly what his mother and brother were pushing him towards. He's been 'for others' for so long that when he takes on this responsibility he reacts with all the venom of a child who just got the training wheels off the bike and is doing just fine, thankyouverymuch. Witness his extreme reaction to Isaac's meddling in his affairs. In any other situation, it would be perfectly acceptable to let him muddle through and assert himself, but we're talking apocalypse, and he needs all the help he can get. He can do it with a little help from his friends! (*poke poke* Read Lathe of Heaven, you'll get the joke.)

It's very Farscape-y in how the characters aren't allowed do-overs. There's a s3 FS ep where they fall back in time and try to fix stuff... and in FS, that's a Very Bad Idea.

[firstgold.livejournal.com]

In any other situation, it would be perfectly acceptable to let him muddle through and assert himself, but we're talking apocalypse, and he needs all the help he can get.

This is true, but with what has happened to Simone, I can see Peter retreating even further away from people. He's not going to want to get anyone around him hurt by their involvement with him, and he won't realize until it is almost too late that he needs his friends. That they give him power (and not just because he's an empath and can absorb their powers).

[naturelf.livejournal.com]

There are a number of reasons I want to see Peter happy and surrounded by his family and friends. One of them is the parallel I see between Nathan and Peter's growing estrangement and the fact that my father and his brother Peter hadn't spoken for over a decade when Peter died. And even before that happened, Dad would tell stories of his childhood as if he was an only child, like Peter never existed.

I don't even want to consider that the Petrellis won't get some kind of happy ending. TV's supposed to be an escape, and a place where problems in daily life are neatly solved in tidy packages. I know I have such an investment with the Petrellis because I want to see them not screw up as bad as my family.

While, realistically, I know that they only way Peter will meet Nathan is if he's forced to (Nathan himself isn't out looking for him, and Peter's been brushed aside by his brother far too many times to make that move himself), I still want them to hug it out (bitch!).

[firstgold.livejournal.com]

I think that the bridge between the two brothers will be either Claire or Mama P. I'm leaning towards Mama P. She's worked so hard to keep her family together and to keep their secrets to have things crumble on them.

Which makes me wonder ... did Papa P really die? I mean, Nathan lied to Peter about it. What if Angela lied to Nathan? Papa P could have gone underground, knowing that his sons were going to "back stab" him to help the Feds get at Linderman. Maybe he thought he'd save himself and his sons from having to oppose Linderman by faking his death.

[naturelf.livejournal.com]

I think now that Claire has found her grandmother, those two together... unstoppable. Potentially unstoppable. I think Claire's been constrained for so long and from so many sides that she might not take Mama P's controlling ways all that kindly. Mama P is more concerned with Claire's safety than Claire is (Claire thinks that she herself is unbreakable); Claire wants answers (and Peter) and Mama P's not exactly been good with the transparency. On the other hand, they might hit it off and be a real force to be reckoned with. (I'm thinking like Maeby and Lucille, but probably with more explosions and less alcohol.)

From what I can see, Mama P wants what's best for her family (Claire included) and wouldn't be above convincing or manipulating Claire into helping her achieve that. Claire might not care so much about getting the brothers back together, because even though Peter is her hero/savior, Nathan is the rich father from the city who abandoned her (twice, at that). She might not be too eager to help Nathan as much as she would Peter (until Pasdar turns on the ACTING and melts her frozen, bitter heart). Peter's the lost one, and to get him back, Claire would have to get onside with her father and grandmother.

I'm okay with Papa P being dead (by whichever cause - his own hand, Linderman, the Company, Mama P...), mostly because there are too many characters already to take care of. I'm willing to have him stay dead. Plus, they'd probably held a funeral where Peter and Nathan could see the body (especially for a prominent citizen like Papa P, it would be odder not to have a viewing, etc). And if the story was he'd died of a heart attack, there'd be no reason to keep the casket closed. He could have faked it, but it would be exceptionally hard to do so without help, and when you need help, there'll be witnesses, and it gets horribly complicated.

Of course, the first episode back will show us how Papa P's still alive and living in Switzerland, or something.