"It's like an angel fell into the McLaren's kitchen and the chef put it through the meat grinder."
My new roommate snores. Like an avalanche descending upon an unheeding herd of elephants stampeding over a crowd of particularly loud lemmings, she snores. It is my tragedy that I am a painfully light sleeper, and thus am awake at 1:30 in the morning, when I had hoped to be asleep by 10.
But that allowed me to find, watch, and comment upon certain TV shows.
HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER: The Greatest Burger in NYC
Marshall has no job. Barney has a new job: his company just bought out Goliath National Bank. He tries to convince Marshall to work for him, but Lily insists that Marshall didn't quit his last corporate job to get another corporate job.
Meanwhile, Robin is starving. Wendy (horray for Wendy!) insists that they just got a new chef at McL's and their new burgers are absolutely the best. The gang orders five burgers, but of course Robin's comes late. Marshall insists that no matter how good the McL's burgers are, he once had the Greatest Burger EVAR at some seedy little joint eight years ago. He's been trying to track it down ever since, but no luck. He even enlisted the help of Regis Philbin, who may have left Barney deeply scarred.
The gang sets out on the hunt for the Greatest Burger EVAR (Robin vainly trying to convince them that the McL's burgers are amazingly good and they should just eat there because she is SO DAMN STARVING SHE WILL EAT MARSHALL'S HAND). They find a seedy joint with a green door, but Marshall says it's not the burger he had. The waitress tells them that this burger joint is modeled on another burger joint, and the gang, protesting Robin in tow, heads out. Turns out the original joint with the green door has been turned into... a Goliath National Bank ATM. Marshall finally caves and admits that he took the job working for the bank. Lily is thankful that he'll have a reason to put on pants, because apparently he's been going everywhere in his underwear lately. Like, outside everywhere. Regis is so enraged by this turn of events that he destroys a mailbox. With his bare hands 8/
But no worries! The erotic bookstore employee knows where the burger joint went! They head out once more, and finally find it, much to the delight of Marshall, Regis, and Robin, who's just happy to be having a real meal for the first time in two days. And they all agree: it's the Best Burger EVAR.
And I agree with myself: this episode was a 1000lb anvil of awesome falling out of the sky and hitting me on the head. So far, this season (all, ya know, two episodes), is so far past the mild lameness of the first half of S3 that... I don't even know. But 100% of chinchillas agree: S4, so far, is legen - wait for it! - DARY!
HEROES: One of Us, One of Them
The LAME Mohinder/Maya Part
DID NOT APPEAR \o/
The Sylar/Angela/Noah/Peter Part
Angela tells Sylar that she put him up for adoption and he's way too awesome to be the son of a watchmaker and Ellen Greene. Hey lady, some of us think Ellen Greene is pretty damn awesome >[ But when she practically throws Sylar into the arms of a pretty young lass with a nifty ability and an easily-splittable skull, he's willing to play along. Especially when it involves putting on a shiny suit and bossing some people around.
Peter, meanwhile, is caught up in a bank heist with the rest of the Failtastic Four. Flint and the German think it would be cool to abscond with some money, but Knox wants to kill Noah for revenge. Peter is not cool with this idea.
Noah and Sylar arrive at the bank to put out the fireworks (har har), and Noah tells Sylar that he's going in alone and yeah, he's the shit. Sylar takes umbrage at this and insists that he's way more the shit than Noah, but waits outside. Peter tries to help Noah out, but Future Peter shows up and is all "let me show you Terrible Things" and whisks him off to the future. Sylar saves Noah's ass, Jesse gets that special forehead cut, Flint is recaptured, and Knox escapes. The German falls victim to that plot device as old as time: A Reason For The Newbie To Show Off His Mad Skillz In A Dramatic Way. In other words, Knox puts his fist clean through The German's chest. At least now I can make fewer lame X-Men parallels? :/
Noah bumps into the Haitian and is all, "Don't worry, you're still my BFF. As soon as I get the chance, Sylar's ass is mine. I'll do him like I should've done that ass Bob. Not in the ass... just... Oh, never mind. Sylar's dead."
The Claire/Meredith/Sandra Part
Claire wants to be a hero and save the world! Meredith and Sandra try to out-awesome each other, and I'm honestly not sure who I'm rooting for. Sandra is the good mom who is awesome and takes care of people except when her husband is torturing them with Mr. Muggles' doggie bath and is generally wonderful and good in every way. Meredith is the cool sister from the wrong side of the tracks *cough*Faith*cough* who inspires rebellion.
Claire could really care less about which mom is awesomer - she just wants Meredith to teach her how to fight. Meredith forces her to admit that she doesn't really want to be a hero, she just wants to get back at Sylar for what he did to her.
Ah. So this is Claire, taking her first steps towards villainy. Maybe she'll get awesome again this season, 'cause villain!Claire? I like. Maybe she'll have to face off with hero!Elle. I would definitely pay money to watch that. At least whatever the cost of popcorn is these days.
In the end, Claire absconds with Noah's Level 5 files and a minivan. 'Cause those minivans... sure sign of budding evil.
The Matt/Turtle Part
The African Man shows Matt a picture of his future: he's standing next to a petite blonde woman (who looks suspiciously like Daphne, but it's hard to tell), with one arm around her, smiling down at a baby in her arms. Matt's all, "Awww, I have a happy future!" And the African Man is all "NO! THAT FUTURE IS DEAD NOW!" He proceeds to make another painting over it: Matt, holding a presumably dead Daphne(?) in his arms. Matt decides he'd like to take that spirit walk and try to prevent the blonde girl he hasn't met yet from dying.
The Hiro/Ando/Daphne/Haitian Part
Hiro and Ando track Daphne to a cinema in Berlin, where she explains that she's a professional thief: she gets intel from some guy, to whom she delivers the goods and he in turn pays her. She really could care less about what she's stealing. She also tries to drive a wedge between Hiro and Ando. And it's totally working, 'cause Hiro's starting to get a Hero Complex and Ando's starting to get a serious case of Sidekick Syndrome.
The three of them find the Haitian, who is picking up the other half of the formula for Angela. Ando knocks him unconscious, at which point Daphne steals the formula and runs away. The Haitian is Not Amused. Hiro and Ando wind up in Level 5.
The Tracy/Nathan/Micah Part
Nathan tells Tracy that yeah, she really looks exactly like Nikki. Tracy tracks Nikki down to an address in New Orleans, only to discover that she's attending a funeral, complete with grieving son. Micah tells her about his mom, how she was special, and that he's special too: he can talk to machines. He finds Tracy and Nikki's birth certificates, which show that they were born on the same day, in the same hospital, under the care of the same doctor: Dr. Zimmerman.
Micah gives Tracy a hug and she reluctantly hugs him back. And is baffled by her WHOLE LIFE.
She tracks down Zimmerman, who recognizes her as "from Beverly Hills." "Do you know me?" she demands. "Know you? I created you."
THOUGHTS & SPECULATION
Sylar/Noah/Angela/Peter
I'm not sure how on-board I am with Sylar going good-ish. I love everything to do with Angela and Noah, but Sylar the goodguy just doesn't sit entirely well with me. Considering that this season seems to be all about how heroes can be villains and villains can be heroes, I'm assuming they're taking him to a goodie-two-shoes place. I'm really kind of hoping he and Elle have something to do with each others' reformations, 'cause I'm assuming that Noah will be all "be goodguys with me!" and they'll name their son after him (yeah, I'm still clinging to the hope that Elle is the babymama). Him being a Petrelli also doesn't seem to add much to the show, and I'm thinking it might just be Angela manipulating him. I'm also thinking that her firing Elle wasn't just to get rid of her - she might genuinely want Elle elsewhere for a specific purpose. This episode showed that Sylar can defeat even a pyrokinetic guy, so Elle's pretty much the only one who can take him down other than Peter. Also, Angela just fed that girl Brigit to Sylar, so she might have been trying to save Elle, or at least prevent Sylar from getting her ability.
I wonder if Sylar and/or Peter could ever overload on powers? Like, take on too many... Is there an upper limit?
And as for Angela... she brings it. In a way no one else does. Noah's awesome and all, but Angela is on a level of Badass all her own. And she doesn't even have to kill people to accomplish that achievement :/ Not that she wouldn't.
Claire/Meredith/Sandra
I'm liking what they're doing with Claire. I also like Meredith, and Sandra was once more made of win. There was a sad lack of Mr. Muggles, though. Claire is the goodliest of the goodguys, the least morally grey, and I wonder how far down that dark road she's willing to walk before she realizes she's being corrupted.
The parallels between Claire and Elle just keep piling up, though. Maybe this is me trying to find more ways for my favorite character to be involved buuut...
- Tiny blondes whose fathers wear glasses. One was brought in young and tortured, one was hidden and spared that. Would they have turned into each other if they'd been raised by the other's father?
- The only two people to survive a Sylar attack. Besides Peter, but he's Sylar's arch-nemesis so he doesn't count. Claire's having to deal with a lot of fall-out from Sylar's attack on her (and geez, rape metaphor much?), and Elle had a lot of fall-out, too (releasing the prisoners and getting fired). Also, Sylar attacking them may very have spurred their transition from hero to villain and villain to hero, respectively. Aaaand, I'm hearing then when Elle comes back (soon plz?), her power will be totally in the fritz (which sounds like an opportunity for hilarity to me). So not only did Sylar's attacks on them spur their moral transformations, but it also caused both their powers to go wonky (as Claire can no longer feel pain).
...I think that's interesting :/
Matt
I wonder what the future really has in store for Matt? The girl with him really looked like Daphne, and we know Daphne's gonna be a mom in the future. I'm really not opposed to this idea. I also really like the African Man. And the turtle.
Daphne/Hiro/Ando
Speaking of Daphne, she, Hiro, and Ando are so much win together. I really hope the three of them team up for to be awesome. I'm not the biggest Ando fan, but as long as he's with Hiro and Daphne, he's pretty cool. I also love the general amusement of the three of them on a "caper," all of them making nerdy comic book references along the way. Daphne/Hiro might just be the new OTP. After Charlie/Hiro.
I miss Charlie ;_; [please see icon]
I also found myself pleasantly surprised with the Tracy storyline. It's a fresh perspective on the show: a p.o.v. character seeing it from the outside, when all the other main characters are on the inside now. And I'm curious about this thing where there are four of her. And they got made by some German dude. Seeing Micah again was also really sad, 'cause I miss the brief happy moments we had of him, DL, and Nikki being an adorable family. DL/Nikki was my first Heroes ship, too ;_;
NEXT WEEK: Sylar/Mr. Muggles OTP, y/n? I REALLY hope Elle's the mom. Next week looks so cracky, the only way it could get crackier is if 30-year-old Elle is a total soccer mom. Peter and Claire are being awful and destroying the world and Sylar and Elle are having suburban bliss? YES PLZ :D Noah must drive Noah Jr. to day camp, and Granny Angela can read him a bedtime story. The Haitian will babysit if Sylar and Elle ever decide to have a fun night on the town. No, not killing people: eating sushi.
Sadly: I spotted Mohinder D: God I hope that storyline either gets significantly better or he and Maya both die in a shower of genetically advanced blood. I am NOT an M3 kinda person. I like Matt and Molly, but Mohinder is starting to be a huge pain.
I also think I'm deluding myself, because Kristen Bell isn't slated to guest star next week D: BUT I CAN DREAM >[
And of course I loved that Daphne called Hiro "Pikachu," as that's Eddie's nickname for Elle over at Landel's. And honestly... it suits her better. What with the... electricity. And all. Yeah, I had to look Pikachu up >.> How was I supposed to know he generated electricity?
But that allowed me to find, watch, and comment upon certain TV shows.
HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER: The Greatest Burger in NYC
Marshall has no job. Barney has a new job: his company just bought out Goliath National Bank. He tries to convince Marshall to work for him, but Lily insists that Marshall didn't quit his last corporate job to get another corporate job.
Meanwhile, Robin is starving. Wendy (horray for Wendy!) insists that they just got a new chef at McL's and their new burgers are absolutely the best. The gang orders five burgers, but of course Robin's comes late. Marshall insists that no matter how good the McL's burgers are, he once had the Greatest Burger EVAR at some seedy little joint eight years ago. He's been trying to track it down ever since, but no luck. He even enlisted the help of Regis Philbin, who may have left Barney deeply scarred.
The gang sets out on the hunt for the Greatest Burger EVAR (Robin vainly trying to convince them that the McL's burgers are amazingly good and they should just eat there because she is SO DAMN STARVING SHE WILL EAT MARSHALL'S HAND). They find a seedy joint with a green door, but Marshall says it's not the burger he had. The waitress tells them that this burger joint is modeled on another burger joint, and the gang, protesting Robin in tow, heads out. Turns out the original joint with the green door has been turned into... a Goliath National Bank ATM. Marshall finally caves and admits that he took the job working for the bank. Lily is thankful that he'll have a reason to put on pants, because apparently he's been going everywhere in his underwear lately. Like, outside everywhere. Regis is so enraged by this turn of events that he destroys a mailbox. With his bare hands 8/
But no worries! The erotic bookstore employee knows where the burger joint went! They head out once more, and finally find it, much to the delight of Marshall, Regis, and Robin, who's just happy to be having a real meal for the first time in two days. And they all agree: it's the Best Burger EVAR.
And I agree with myself: this episode was a 1000lb anvil of awesome falling out of the sky and hitting me on the head. So far, this season (all, ya know, two episodes), is so far past the mild lameness of the first half of S3 that... I don't even know. But 100% of chinchillas agree: S4, so far, is legen - wait for it! - DARY!
HEROES: One of Us, One of Them
The LAME Mohinder/Maya Part
DID NOT APPEAR \o/
The Sylar/Angela/Noah/Peter Part
Angela tells Sylar that she put him up for adoption and he's way too awesome to be the son of a watchmaker and Ellen Greene. Hey lady, some of us think Ellen Greene is pretty damn awesome >[ But when she practically throws Sylar into the arms of a pretty young lass with a nifty ability and an easily-splittable skull, he's willing to play along. Especially when it involves putting on a shiny suit and bossing some people around.
Peter, meanwhile, is caught up in a bank heist with the rest of the Failtastic Four. Flint and the German think it would be cool to abscond with some money, but Knox wants to kill Noah for revenge. Peter is not cool with this idea.
Noah and Sylar arrive at the bank to put out the fireworks (har har), and Noah tells Sylar that he's going in alone and yeah, he's the shit. Sylar takes umbrage at this and insists that he's way more the shit than Noah, but waits outside. Peter tries to help Noah out, but Future Peter shows up and is all "let me show you Terrible Things" and whisks him off to the future. Sylar saves Noah's ass, Jesse gets that special forehead cut, Flint is recaptured, and Knox escapes. The German falls victim to that plot device as old as time: A Reason For The Newbie To Show Off His Mad Skillz In A Dramatic Way. In other words, Knox puts his fist clean through The German's chest. At least now I can make fewer lame X-Men parallels? :/
Noah bumps into the Haitian and is all, "Don't worry, you're still my BFF. As soon as I get the chance, Sylar's ass is mine. I'll do him like I should've done that ass Bob. Not in the ass... just... Oh, never mind. Sylar's dead."
The Claire/Meredith/Sandra Part
Claire wants to be a hero and save the world! Meredith and Sandra try to out-awesome each other, and I'm honestly not sure who I'm rooting for. Sandra is the good mom who is awesome and takes care of people except when her husband is torturing them with Mr. Muggles' doggie bath and is generally wonderful and good in every way. Meredith is the cool sister from the wrong side of the tracks *cough*Faith*cough* who inspires rebellion.
Claire could really care less about which mom is awesomer - she just wants Meredith to teach her how to fight. Meredith forces her to admit that she doesn't really want to be a hero, she just wants to get back at Sylar for what he did to her.
Ah. So this is Claire, taking her first steps towards villainy. Maybe she'll get awesome again this season, 'cause villain!Claire? I like. Maybe she'll have to face off with hero!Elle. I would definitely pay money to watch that. At least whatever the cost of popcorn is these days.
In the end, Claire absconds with Noah's Level 5 files and a minivan. 'Cause those minivans... sure sign of budding evil.
The Matt/Turtle Part
The African Man shows Matt a picture of his future: he's standing next to a petite blonde woman (who looks suspiciously like Daphne, but it's hard to tell), with one arm around her, smiling down at a baby in her arms. Matt's all, "Awww, I have a happy future!" And the African Man is all "NO! THAT FUTURE IS DEAD NOW!" He proceeds to make another painting over it: Matt, holding a presumably dead Daphne(?) in his arms. Matt decides he'd like to take that spirit walk and try to prevent the blonde girl he hasn't met yet from dying.
The Hiro/Ando/Daphne/Haitian Part
Hiro and Ando track Daphne to a cinema in Berlin, where she explains that she's a professional thief: she gets intel from some guy, to whom she delivers the goods and he in turn pays her. She really could care less about what she's stealing. She also tries to drive a wedge between Hiro and Ando. And it's totally working, 'cause Hiro's starting to get a Hero Complex and Ando's starting to get a serious case of Sidekick Syndrome.
The three of them find the Haitian, who is picking up the other half of the formula for Angela. Ando knocks him unconscious, at which point Daphne steals the formula and runs away. The Haitian is Not Amused. Hiro and Ando wind up in Level 5.
The Tracy/Nathan/Micah Part
Nathan tells Tracy that yeah, she really looks exactly like Nikki. Tracy tracks Nikki down to an address in New Orleans, only to discover that she's attending a funeral, complete with grieving son. Micah tells her about his mom, how she was special, and that he's special too: he can talk to machines. He finds Tracy and Nikki's birth certificates, which show that they were born on the same day, in the same hospital, under the care of the same doctor: Dr. Zimmerman.
Micah gives Tracy a hug and she reluctantly hugs him back. And is baffled by her WHOLE LIFE.
She tracks down Zimmerman, who recognizes her as "from Beverly Hills." "Do you know me?" she demands. "Know you? I created you."
THOUGHTS & SPECULATION
Sylar/Noah/Angela/Peter
I'm not sure how on-board I am with Sylar going good-ish. I love everything to do with Angela and Noah, but Sylar the goodguy just doesn't sit entirely well with me. Considering that this season seems to be all about how heroes can be villains and villains can be heroes, I'm assuming they're taking him to a goodie-two-shoes place. I'm really kind of hoping he and Elle have something to do with each others' reformations, 'cause I'm assuming that Noah will be all "be goodguys with me!" and they'll name their son after him (yeah, I'm still clinging to the hope that Elle is the babymama). Him being a Petrelli also doesn't seem to add much to the show, and I'm thinking it might just be Angela manipulating him. I'm also thinking that her firing Elle wasn't just to get rid of her - she might genuinely want Elle elsewhere for a specific purpose. This episode showed that Sylar can defeat even a pyrokinetic guy, so Elle's pretty much the only one who can take him down other than Peter. Also, Angela just fed that girl Brigit to Sylar, so she might have been trying to save Elle, or at least prevent Sylar from getting her ability.
I wonder if Sylar and/or Peter could ever overload on powers? Like, take on too many... Is there an upper limit?
And as for Angela... she brings it. In a way no one else does. Noah's awesome and all, but Angela is on a level of Badass all her own. And she doesn't even have to kill people to accomplish that achievement :/ Not that she wouldn't.
Claire/Meredith/Sandra
I'm liking what they're doing with Claire. I also like Meredith, and Sandra was once more made of win. There was a sad lack of Mr. Muggles, though. Claire is the goodliest of the goodguys, the least morally grey, and I wonder how far down that dark road she's willing to walk before she realizes she's being corrupted.
The parallels between Claire and Elle just keep piling up, though. Maybe this is me trying to find more ways for my favorite character to be involved buuut...
- Tiny blondes whose fathers wear glasses. One was brought in young and tortured, one was hidden and spared that. Would they have turned into each other if they'd been raised by the other's father?
- The only two people to survive a Sylar attack. Besides Peter, but he's Sylar's arch-nemesis so he doesn't count. Claire's having to deal with a lot of fall-out from Sylar's attack on her (and geez, rape metaphor much?), and Elle had a lot of fall-out, too (releasing the prisoners and getting fired). Also, Sylar attacking them may very have spurred their transition from hero to villain and villain to hero, respectively. Aaaand, I'm hearing then when Elle comes back (soon plz?), her power will be totally in the fritz (which sounds like an opportunity for hilarity to me). So not only did Sylar's attacks on them spur their moral transformations, but it also caused both their powers to go wonky (as Claire can no longer feel pain).
...I think that's interesting :/
Matt
I wonder what the future really has in store for Matt? The girl with him really looked like Daphne, and we know Daphne's gonna be a mom in the future. I'm really not opposed to this idea. I also really like the African Man. And the turtle.
Daphne/Hiro/Ando
Speaking of Daphne, she, Hiro, and Ando are so much win together. I really hope the three of them team up for to be awesome. I'm not the biggest Ando fan, but as long as he's with Hiro and Daphne, he's pretty cool. I also love the general amusement of the three of them on a "caper," all of them making nerdy comic book references along the way. Daphne/Hiro might just be the new OTP. After Charlie/Hiro.
I miss Charlie ;_; [please see icon]
I also found myself pleasantly surprised with the Tracy storyline. It's a fresh perspective on the show: a p.o.v. character seeing it from the outside, when all the other main characters are on the inside now. And I'm curious about this thing where there are four of her. And they got made by some German dude. Seeing Micah again was also really sad, 'cause I miss the brief happy moments we had of him, DL, and Nikki being an adorable family. DL/Nikki was my first Heroes ship, too ;_;
NEXT WEEK: Sylar/Mr. Muggles OTP, y/n? I REALLY hope Elle's the mom. Next week looks so cracky, the only way it could get crackier is if 30-year-old Elle is a total soccer mom. Peter and Claire are being awful and destroying the world and Sylar and Elle are having suburban bliss? YES PLZ :D Noah must drive Noah Jr. to day camp, and Granny Angela can read him a bedtime story. The Haitian will babysit if Sylar and Elle ever decide to have a fun night on the town. No, not killing people: eating sushi.
Sadly: I spotted Mohinder D: God I hope that storyline either gets significantly better or he and Maya both die in a shower of genetically advanced blood. I am NOT an M3 kinda person. I like Matt and Molly, but Mohinder is starting to be a huge pain.
I also think I'm deluding myself, because Kristen Bell isn't slated to guest star next week D: BUT I CAN DREAM >[
And of course I loved that Daphne called Hiro "Pikachu," as that's Eddie's nickname for Elle over at Landel's. And honestly... it suits her better. What with the... electricity. And all. Yeah, I had to look Pikachu up >.> How was I supposed to know he generated electricity?