My ex told a story that during his time serving as a substitute teacher, he watched as the teachers discussed the various candidates for class president and other titles, then chose who would receive which titles. Then they threw the votes away, uncounted. My ex is not the most reliable of reporters, but there's a lot of overlap with what I saw myself in college, where the administration picked the election board, who decided who was student body president and other offices, without much (if any) reference to the votes cast. This became a big deal when the administration had the misfortune to accidentally pick an election board member who had some integrity and demanded the votes actually be counted. He was eventually suspended from the college entirely, which voided his appointed office and allowed the administration to replace him with someone more cooperative. Then their candidate was 'elected
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I lived in Arizona which...really, looks a lot like *this* version of Texas which later looks a lot like their version of California. I've only driven through Texas so I can't say. (The weather looks very Arizona. And later in 'California' it looks very Arizona sans the few beach scenes - unless they shot in California only on good, no-smog days. I'm sure that depends on the area). The architecture in suburbia Arizona looks very similar to Claire's house/neighborhood. I mean, pretty spot on. The weird little roof details are part of it. Easy to get out of if you have a ladder, I suppose, but no easier or harder than most other windows.
I think Peter/Milo...gets what he gets when he kisses. He doesn't have the biggest mouth to begin with, then he's got half a bottom lip. He has to kiss with his mouth fairly wide open when he's not pecking someone, just to get the same cinematic/masculine "I'm kissing YOU, not the other way around" effect. Then you look at Simone, she's all lip, she'll eat him alive. He had to pick a lip or be devoured
I'm laughing out loud here. But yes, Simone really is all huge lips there. Poor Peter and his face-eating lovers!
I read in that AMA you sent me where Milo talked to a guy with a similar lip feature. Milo said that for a long time, he'd accidentally bite his lip a lot when eating and stuff. It was really annoying.
Nirav, why do you keep bringing up Freud? It seems like an obsession with the man. What does it mean that you obsess about older, white, dead psychologists? Is it a fetish
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Darwin and Freud. Popular and quite wrong. Why use them? To set off the other God-fearing, creationist characters/view points. Why tap them so hard? Well, someone has to look stupid, I mean, "intelligent and educated." I mean, who ELSE are they going to quote for this stuff? Only wrong, freakish weirdos with similar ideas to "super powers" are going to make the cut. Why not use Hitler? Oh, wait...we do, later on.
I will say, Mo's story, and Chandra's by extension, NEEDED this backstory.
Peter uses "It didn't take" multiple times. I want to say Nathan and Angela use it, too. The most popular one was Sylar/Peter at Kirby.
It confuses me to have police approach a guy who is lying in a pool of blood, saturated in blood, still on the ground, with no obvious weapons, and they pull guns on him. Even if they know there's a dead girl inside, then they still don't know if they might be approaching a secondary victim. There's no reason for them to think this particular person is the killer. Of course, that might be why Peter is so 'what the hell are you guys doing?' and thinking 'I thought the cops in New York were bad!'
Do women in India wear wedding bands just like they do in the West?
And ... that's the end. Good episode! AWESOME, in fact!
The line was "This was the guy in the trench coat the janitor saw." That's called probable cause. The police got a tip. It just didn't specify the color of the trench, the height/build/physical details of the perp. I wonder if Bennet wanted Peter out of the picture for knowing Claire's secret. She practically blabbed that Peter knew. Then Bennet goes after/gets Sylar, the real perp.
Great question on the wedding rings. I have no idea.
I looked up the wedding ring thing and the answer is yes, women in many parts of India wear wedding bands on their hands, though sometimes it's on their right hand. And sometimes they augment it with a toe ring as well.
And thanks for that line about the guy in a trench coat! That makes it much more plausible. I can see the janitor having even tossed in details like, 'white, with dark hair, no facial hair, youngish but not too young', all of which would apply equally to Sylar and Peter both.
(shows how much I was paying attention to Mo's story) Time out. So Shanti was dying of a disease only Mohinder could cure but she died TWO YEARS AFTER HE WAS BORN?? They made it sound like Chandra had everything ready to go for when Mo was born (how he knew that would work without drawing fetal blood for testing and if so, why not get enough and cure the Shanti that way, is beyond me). So he had TWO YEARS to work on his kids and he still failed? That's...bad, sad, yes, but not nearly the 'close call' I...got the impression of somehow. Wouldn't it be worse (and make more SENSE) if Shanti died closer to Mo's birth
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I agree about the annoying way Heroes (and a lot of other shows) portray women. But I'd point out that they portray Isaac the same flip-floppy way, and initially, sort of, Hiro. And kind of all the time, Nathan.
I'd rather they built conflict off of characters genuinely holding opposed points of view and different values, rather than the lazy way that they just aren't all aware of the 'truth'. But it's really, REALLY few shows that are brave enough to go that way.
I know about the weird stadium-thing. I was like, 'what? Is the cafeteria under construction or something?'
Agree also about Shanti's birth. I thought she died while Mohinder was being gestated, myself, so I was a bit confused about this episode's revelation as to the timeline. But like you, it wasn't a story I'd been paying too much attention to.
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I think Peter/Milo...gets what he gets when he kisses. He doesn't have the biggest mouth to begin with, then he's got half a bottom lip. He has to kiss with his mouth fairly wide open when he's not pecking someone, just to get the same cinematic/masculine "I'm kissing YOU, not the other way around" effect. Then you look at Simone, she's all lip, she'll eat him alive. He had to pick a lip or be devoured
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I read in that AMA you sent me where Milo talked to a guy with a similar lip feature. Milo said that for a long time, he'd accidentally bite his lip a lot when eating and stuff. It was really annoying.
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I will say, Mo's story, and Chandra's by extension, NEEDED this backstory.
Peter uses "It didn't take" multiple times. I want to say Nathan and Angela use it, too. The most popular one was Sylar/Peter at Kirby.
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Do women in India wear wedding bands just like they do in the West?
And ... that's the end. Good episode! AWESOME, in fact!
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Great question on the wedding rings. I have no idea.
The episode was quite good.
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And thanks for that line about the guy in a trench coat! That makes it much more plausible. I can see the janitor having even tossed in details like, 'white, with dark hair, no facial hair, youngish but not too young', all of which would apply equally to Sylar and Peter both.
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I'd rather they built conflict off of characters genuinely holding opposed points of view and different values, rather than the lazy way that they just aren't all aware of the 'truth'. But it's really, REALLY few shows that are brave enough to go that way.
I know about the weird stadium-thing. I was like, 'what? Is the cafeteria under construction or something?'
Agree also about Shanti's birth. I thought she died while Mohinder was being gestated, myself, so I was a bit confused about this episode's revelation as to the timeline. But like you, it wasn't a story I'd been paying too much attention to.
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