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

[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
I
can
get
it
even
skinnier.
Sylar
is
also
skinny

Re: Wow

[naturelf.livejournal.com]

Tee-hee!