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This is my comforting post; it is comforting. It talks about some other stuff, too, but its primary purpose is for comfort.
This is what I know.
The writers said there would be three 'deaths'--one of which would get fixed during the episode, one of which would get fixed in the next season, and one of which would be permanent. Maya already got fixed. Niki and Nathan are the ones up in the air.
This is what I hear.
Ali Larter doesn't really want to be on the show anymore. It might be because of other projects--who knows--but if this is true, well. That's certainly...very convenient.
This is something I hear but do not really want to believe.
Tim Kring is 'uncertain' as to whether or not to bring Nathan back.
This is something I know.
When he didn't know who he was or that he even had a brother, Peter tried to kill a guy and all but smiled when he did it. He willingly signed on with criminals. Five years in the future, when he and Nathan had gone their separate ways, Peter did kill. A lot. He didn't smile. He didn't show any expression at all. It was just something he felt needed to happen. He was...gone. In the world where Nathan didn't fly him up into the sky, Peter died anyway. Just not in the way that leaves a body behind. When he was with Adam, away from Nathan, still convinced that Nathan's near-death was his fault, Peter threw security guards into the walls with the same lack of expression.
What will happen to Peter if Nathan is--not forgotten, not left, not separated--gone?
I don't think this show wants to be like that.
This is something I've come to realize.
It just wouldn't be a hiatus cliffhanger without a Petrelli in mortal danger, now would it? Fallout: Peter goes into a coma. Parasite: Peter gets headsliced. HtSaEM: Well, you remember. What is the other common denominator between these cliffhangers? Oh, right--the whole Hah, Nope, No Death For You thing. It's worth noting.
This is something I've noticed before.
Cliffhanger death? Yeah, those don't actually happen. Ever. Not in Parasite, not in HtSaEM--and remember, there were five people in mortal danger there, including one with four bullets in his chest (not just two), and they all lived past the cliffhanger. Do I even need to mention Noah? DL died on a non-cliffhanger. Other significant non-cliffhanger deaths: Eden, Charlie, Simone, Isaac, Linderman, Kaito, and Alejandro. In this show, if you die, you die right there. No tantalizing cut-off, no But What If, you just die, and that's all she wrote. This does make me wonder about Niki, but who knows.
This is something I'm damn well sure of.
I am not going to have an anxiety attack. I am not going to sob quietly into my pillow, I am not going to turn the shower on just so I can bawl without anybody hearing me, I am not going to sit and stare at the walls, unable to do anything or think of anything else. I am not going to declare that this is the end of the world, even if it does turn out to be true. Yes, folks, you heard it here first--even if that horrible little feeling in the pit of your stomach is right, you'll get over it. It may take days or weeks or months, but one day you'll find something else to think about, or something else to do, and maybe it'll never really go away, but it won't stop you any more. As far as I can tell, Buffy and Angel fans are still capable of functioning, and they've had it way worse than we have. Firefly, too. Lost. Doctor Who, even if under a qualifier. Battlestar Galactica, or so I hear. Definitely Harry Potter. We're not the first and we won't be the last. We swallow our grief, we put it away, we move forward, maybe we look back in the box sometimes and remember, but we don't stay in the box with it.
I? I am going to finish writing, well, hah, a story in which Nathan does die but it all works out anyway so it doesn't really count. And then I'll write a story where Nathan and Peter get to be emotional and irritated and (for Peter, at least) periodically unconscious while a guy with stubble and a cane gets way, way too interested in just what's wrong with them. Breathe deep, seek peace; c'est la vie; ob-la-die, ob-la-da, life goes onnnnn braaa, la-la how the life goes on.
Be well.
This is what I know.
The writers said there would be three 'deaths'--one of which would get fixed during the episode, one of which would get fixed in the next season, and one of which would be permanent. Maya already got fixed. Niki and Nathan are the ones up in the air.
This is what I hear.
Ali Larter doesn't really want to be on the show anymore. It might be because of other projects--who knows--but if this is true, well. That's certainly...very convenient.
This is something I hear but do not really want to believe.
Tim Kring is 'uncertain' as to whether or not to bring Nathan back.
This is something I know.
When he didn't know who he was or that he even had a brother, Peter tried to kill a guy and all but smiled when he did it. He willingly signed on with criminals. Five years in the future, when he and Nathan had gone their separate ways, Peter did kill. A lot. He didn't smile. He didn't show any expression at all. It was just something he felt needed to happen. He was...gone. In the world where Nathan didn't fly him up into the sky, Peter died anyway. Just not in the way that leaves a body behind. When he was with Adam, away from Nathan, still convinced that Nathan's near-death was his fault, Peter threw security guards into the walls with the same lack of expression.
What will happen to Peter if Nathan is--not forgotten, not left, not separated--gone?
I don't think this show wants to be like that.
This is something I've come to realize.
It just wouldn't be a hiatus cliffhanger without a Petrelli in mortal danger, now would it? Fallout: Peter goes into a coma. Parasite: Peter gets headsliced. HtSaEM: Well, you remember. What is the other common denominator between these cliffhangers? Oh, right--the whole Hah, Nope, No Death For You thing. It's worth noting.
This is something I've noticed before.
Cliffhanger death? Yeah, those don't actually happen. Ever. Not in Parasite, not in HtSaEM--and remember, there were five people in mortal danger there, including one with four bullets in his chest (not just two), and they all lived past the cliffhanger. Do I even need to mention Noah? DL died on a non-cliffhanger. Other significant non-cliffhanger deaths: Eden, Charlie, Simone, Isaac, Linderman, Kaito, and Alejandro. In this show, if you die, you die right there. No tantalizing cut-off, no But What If, you just die, and that's all she wrote. This does make me wonder about Niki, but who knows.
This is something I'm damn well sure of.
I am not going to have an anxiety attack. I am not going to sob quietly into my pillow, I am not going to turn the shower on just so I can bawl without anybody hearing me, I am not going to sit and stare at the walls, unable to do anything or think of anything else. I am not going to declare that this is the end of the world, even if it does turn out to be true. Yes, folks, you heard it here first--even if that horrible little feeling in the pit of your stomach is right, you'll get over it. It may take days or weeks or months, but one day you'll find something else to think about, or something else to do, and maybe it'll never really go away, but it won't stop you any more. As far as I can tell, Buffy and Angel fans are still capable of functioning, and they've had it way worse than we have. Firefly, too. Lost. Doctor Who, even if under a qualifier. Battlestar Galactica, or so I hear. Definitely Harry Potter. We're not the first and we won't be the last. We swallow our grief, we put it away, we move forward, maybe we look back in the box sometimes and remember, but we don't stay in the box with it.
I? I am going to finish writing, well, hah, a story in which Nathan does die but it all works out anyway so it doesn't really count. And then I'll write a story where Nathan and Peter get to be emotional and irritated and (for Peter, at least) periodically unconscious while a guy with stubble and a cane gets way, way too interested in just what's wrong with them. Breathe deep, seek peace; c'est la vie; ob-la-die, ob-la-da, life goes onnnnn braaa, la-la how the life goes on.
Be well.