There was something Claire said that I wanted to put as the subject. Darn.

[charloween]

I stole a TV to watch Heroes.

AND I'VE BEEN RIGHT ALL ALONG. SYLAR ACTUALLY IS JUST CUDDLY AND MISUNDERSTOOD.

Not everyone's Hannibal Lecter, you know.

*cuddles Sylar*

Also? There's a kid in my summer class who looks exactly like Peter. *flails*

Comments

[alexmegami]

Also, I can smell the incestfic FROM HERE.

[naturelf.livejournal.com]

Oh, c'mon - it was brewing since we found out they were related. Unless you mean Nathan/Claire.

Buuuuut... Peter and Claire were zomg so meant to be together. Look! Their worlds became whole when they met. FATE OMG.

[alexmegami]

Oh, I know. This just fueled the fire. It's like the Book 6 of Heroes.

I KNOW. AND THE TOUCHING WITH THE FACE AND THE WIPING AWAY HER TEARS. (I mean, that's practically a staple of fic. ALL FIC.)

On the other hand, can someone please tell Nathan that Destiny is BAD? FATE good. DESTINY bad. Make it your mantra, kid.

[naturelf.livejournal.com]

I mean, that's practically a staple of fic. ALL FIC.

And then her DAD shows up... omg awkward.

FATE good. DESTINY bad.

I do kind of like how he's gone from being a character who we think is this strong, driven shark of a man to being just a pawn. It must suck for him to realize that he's nothing at all. He's going to be what his mother wants him to be, and he's too shocked to find the cojones to do what he must feel is right. Whereas Sylar's Ma keeps telling her boy that he can be special and expects him to figure it own on his own. Nathan's Ma just paves the way for him and *poof* he loses his spine and slithers away.

I really hope he doesn't get killed, though they're kind of leading him that way.

[alexmegami]

Yeah... dads always ruin your incestuous fun!

I do kind of like how he's gone from being a character who we think is this strong, driven shark of a man to being just a pawn. It must suck for him to realize that he's nothing at all.

Which is why he'd better do something awesome before he dies, or I'll be sad.

Say... can Sylar save himself from a massive drop?

Whereas Sylar's Ma keeps telling her boy that he can be special and expects him to figure it own on his own.

Sylar's ma: an object lesson in not nagging your children, lest they grow up to be sociopaths that try to kill you with love.

[naturelf.livejournal.com]

I've found more than one Nathan/Claire fic (and promptly lost them again, because ew).

can Sylar save himself from a massive drop?
WIN! WIN SO MUCH! Nathan wouldn't even need to die from that, either! A survivable act of nobility! If, that is, he doesn't get radiation poisoning and Linderman goes all bitchy on him and refuses to heal him. 'Cause that would suck. Except if Peter was there too and wasn't kept from absorbing L-dawg's powers and healing Nathan himself (*pauses for a minute to picture how freaking awesome that scene would be, with Peter saving Nathan for once*). Yeeeessss. That is how the season can go. :D

And was I the only one who wanted to smack Mohinder for once again missing The Point? You don't need the girl to find Sylar, you need her virus to block his powers and kill him. SHEESH, Mo.

[alexmegami]

I guess it depends if it's a communicable disease...

[naturelf.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking he could engineer a quick-taking retrovirus or something appropriately science fictiony that would be injectable. Peter could telekenetically stick Sylar with it, or Hiro could help by stopping time, or hell, even grab a few snipers with dart rifles and take him down that way.

*is still giggling at the thought of Peter-the-nurse geeking out at being able to heal people*

[alexmegami]

He would be insufferable if he could do that.

"I'M GONNA HEAL THE WORLD NATHAN"
"Bro, you're one man."
"THE WORLD"
"Yeah, well, start with your radiation victims."
"Why you gotta be a hater?"

[naturelf.livejournal.com]

Insufferably adorable, you mean. (Loved how he brought up the, "yeah, but I also dreamed I could fly" argument about why he wasn't going to blow up...)

Speaking of, I wonder if he'd hover while healing them. Just cause he could.

[alexmegami]

I mean both. Nathan would just cradle his head in his hands and weep.

He'd hover and tell them their future.

O wait but what about... er... wife. Holly? So Peter heals her, but she is too wigged out about OMG MUTANTS! Or maybe she smacks Nathan for being too spineless to tell her.

Something.

[naturelf.livejournal.com]

Heidi! Healed by the floating fortune-telling emo-haired invisible brother-in-law! What a family Christmas that'll be.

Unless... Unless Linderman's already healed her and that's why she's so confident that she'll be able to walk again! If Linderman hasn't already healed her, then he's a bigger ass than we thought.

[alexmegami]

Especially when Claire rescues the turkey from burning, 'cause let's face it, Mama Petrelli cannot cook.

No, you know he hasn't already healed her, because that's totally his Nathan Trump Card. "By the way, I promised your wife she'd be healed again, and if you don't let NY blow up, I will totally not heal her AND NOT ONLY THAT but I will tell her that YOU being a mutie freak is what did this to her."
"What if she dies in the explosion?"
"Well, then that's one healing I don't have to do, isn't it? Have a meat pie."
"..."

[naturelf.livejournal.com]

Oh, poor Nathan. Even in meta he's dumbfounded.

If he has healed her, he could use her walking towards him as a distraction while Linderman runs and blows up NYC.
"Hey, look over there!"
"HEIDI!!! YAY!!!"
*pokes Ted into a-sploding*

The Linderman-Petrelli-whoever else cadre must know who's going to explode, right? I mean, this is a lot of plan to be planning if they don't have an exploding scapegoat, too. (God, I hope they're banking on Ted because if Ma Petrelli's okay with maybe losing Peter then she is way too cold of a she-bitch. Actually, what was her reaction to Corpse!Peter in the other episode? Like she was expecting it. Ergo: Ted's a-splody.)

I would not eat any meat pie made by Linderman. I've seen Titus.

[alexmegami]

I think he confuses "dumbfounded" with "this is my strong yet silent face!".

Best scene ever.

I would hope so. And I think Mama Petrelli just got a little too used to holding in her real emotions while being A Good Politician's Wife. (But if she was in with the Linderman et al cadre, why did no one question her weird behaviours? ...more signs point to Clone Ma.) But I think they expect Ted to go down.

...yeah, good point.

[naturelf.livejournal.com]

It's strange how "strong yet silent" bleeds through "stoically indecisive" and "conflicted and pensive". Poor Pasdar. Quinto got all the good moments this episode.

I find it hard to believe that Ma Petrelli has a mothering bone in her body. She and Papa Winchester would totally win Worst TV Parents. Though Sylar!Ma could give them stiff competition. Interesting, though, how this ep was about Mommy issues (rather than Daddy issues) and managed to make it not all creepy and Oedipal (like that creepy student film version of Love You Forever... *shudder*).

In all my imaginings, I never thought that Peter would go nuclear just by being near Ted. I thought something would have to set him off, but hey: proximity works, too. Loved how everyone just stood around and watched him start to glow. UM. DOOD.

[alexmegami]

Yeah, Ma Petrelli totally got married and had kids because it was What People Do. Though I contest that Sylar is not at least a little creepy and Oedipal.

See, that's why I called it a non-cliffhanger cliffhanger... I think he's just going to be able to control it.

This column of comments...

[skivee.livejournal.com]

...is getting way too far over to the right.
Who would have thought that Sylar knew how to make a sno-globe?

True, but...

[naturelf.livejournal.com]

...then everything gets all crazy and skinny!

Sylar can do anything. Sylar's special. He's so much more than a watch-maker... he can make sno-globes, too!

(If only he'd brought her one from Oregon (Nebraska?), then maybe she would have been happy with him. Poor Sylar.)

Re: This column of comments...

[alexmegami]

Yeah, that would seem to need a ton of powers all at once... Two, anyway. Cryokinesis, force movement of a bajillion things at once...

[naturelf.livejournal.com]

Two powers, plus one extremely unfullfilling maternal relationship.

[naturelf.livejournal.com]

I was reading some Tolstoy for class on the subway this morning; there was a passage about a certain social/economic class of woman who have children because They Should, but then refuse to love their spawn or bond with the kids in case the children get hurt and Mummy's heart gets broken over her injured/dead child.

So now I'm wondering if (in light of what Mohinder believes to be the truth about his family and his birth, and the idea that a sibling is born for reasons other than wanting another kid) Peter was born to be the sacrifice, as Nathan was born to be the leader of the free world (and be the most special person on the planet).

I don't think that Sylar was being all that Oedipal, just creepy. There wasn't any sexual tension, just yearning for approval in a completely asexual way (possibly, okay, repressed). But I'm right with you on the creepy. Because yeah. CREEPY.

It would be hilarious if for the next episode the other four characters just stood around and watched Peter glow, while offering various asinine solutions about how to keep him from blowing. AND THEN Claude shows up and whacks Peter with a pole again and it's all good.

[alexmegami]

Man, the first generation was COLD, wasn't it? Claude wasn't exactly the nicest dude, Thompson, Ma Petrelli, apparently Linderman and Pa Petrelli were also not very nice people in the comic (which I haven't read yet), and Linderman's definitely not nice NOW. Mohinder's parents may or may not have wanted him above and beyond saving his special sister. Creepy Pa Takei Nakamura.

...are ANY of the first-gen adults nice/sane? Bennet seems to be the only one that "fell" off the corrupt, scheming, and evil train, save for the Sureshes, who may or may not have really wanted Mohinder. And they're the ones without powers.

...powers = evil-making. Obv.

Okay, there probably wasn't a lot of sexual there, but really, does Ma Sylar really strike you as the kind of person that would encourage sexual expression? Despite being exactly the sort of woman that should have been asking "when are you going to settle down with a nice girl, you know that investment banker I was talking about has a very sweet daughter, you should go on a date with her..." Nothing. But in almost every way, he was acting tied to her apron strings (save for the occasional droopy-eyed rebellion of smacking her with a snowglobe).

That would be the best scene ever. And then he'd make some snarky comment about Bennet having been just this bad in the past, and Parkman would make some comment about Claude being middle management, and then they'd ALL get knocked cold.

Wow

[skivee.livejournal.com]

let's
see
if
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it
even
skinnier.
Sylar
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skinny

Re: Wow

[naturelf.livejournal.com]

Tee-hee!

[aoshi.livejournal.com]

Yes, but is he as cute as the Snuggle Monster? XD;

[naturelf.livejournal.com]

I will still write that for you. When I went back to work I suddenly had work to do. :(

No one can be as cute as the Snuggle Monster!