"This is the worst moment of my life. No wait... this is."
Due to being insanely busy, I've gone a very long time without posting. So I'm making up for it with a Very Long Post Of Doom.
Poll
If you checked anything other than option C, "go to sleep," YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG >:[
A few nights ago, I did two of those things after 2AM. One was option A. I'll leave it up to the imagination what the other one was >.>;
Long story short, Ted Mosby was right when he said nothing good ever happens after 2AM. Especially fanfiction. 'Cause after 2AM is when the really crazy pairings come out to play. Oh, you thought I was into some weird pairings? You laughed at me when I mentioned Anya/Hallie and Debra/Batista?
Try Ned/Elle on for size. Oh yes. I went there. I went there, I distilled the thereness of there, and I put it here and here here. And it was weird.
I mean, honestly, these pairings came from me putting a bunch of characters through a randomizer, I didn't come up with them, but still... Weird.
6 ships you're into right now
1. Anya/Hallie (BtVS)
2. Ned/Elle (Pushing Daisies/Heroes)
3. Ten/Rose (Doctor Who)
4. Booth/Brennan (Bones)
5. Jaye/Eric (Wonderfalls)
6. Ned/Chuck (Pushing Daisies)
3 ships you liked, but don’t like anymore
7. Ted/Robin (HIMYM)
8. Fred/Gunn (Angel)
9. Angel/Faith (Angel)
4 ships you never liked
10. Buffy/Angel (BtVS)
11. Buffy/Spike (BtVS) (notice a pattern?)
12. Mason/George (Dead Like Me)
13. Harry/Hermione (Harry Potter)
2 ships you're curious about, but don’t actually ship
14. Angel (Batista, not the vampire)/Debra (Dexter)
15. Sylar/Elle (Heroes)
Why do you dislike #11 so much? (Buffy/Spike)
I think Spike loves Buffy more than he ever has or will love anyone, and it's like watching the poor boy run face-first into a wall. Repeatedly. With lots of bloodshed. Reformed!Spike was never high on my list of Awesome Characters, but I do like him. And Buffy clearly doesn't. In S5 she finds him annoying and distasteful. In S6 she's using him. In S7 she grows to like him... as a friend. And when she tells him she loves him, she doesn't mean it the way he needs her to mean it. She still loves Angel, which she even says in the beginning of that same episode. She makes it clear that if she were ever to return to an old flame, it would be Angel. It just hurts to watch Spike try so hard when you know he's gonna fail. Plus... Buffy annoys me.
Who is someone you know that ships #14? (Angel/Debra)
Uh... no one I know.
What would be your ideal scenario for couple #3? (Ten/Rose)
They live happily ever after... in space. So... not so much the end of S4. But at the same time... I like to think they're enough for each other. But they should have the TARDIS too.
Which is your favorite moment for couple #1? (Anya/Hallie)
This couple is so not canon that it hurts. But... uh. I guess when Anya's miserable in the beginning of S7 and Hallie keeps trying to cheer her up by telling her these awful stories about the people she's been torturing. And then the look on Anya's face when Hallie dies is heart-wrenching D:
How long have you been following couple #6? (Ned/Chuck)
I've been waiting for this ship my whole life. But really... since the pilot leaked in July (?) of last year.
What's the story with #8? What made you stop liking them/caring? (Fred/Gunn)
I'm glad you asked, meme! The truth is, I thought they were completely adorable in S3, and when they broke up in S4 I was pretty sad about it. But I'd known this whole time that Wesley was Fred's soulmate, so I wasn't that sad. And when Wes and Fred finally got together, I really stopped caring about F/G. Rewatching S3 always makes me rethink my standing on them, but... eventually I also grew to dislike Gunn, which didn't help.
You have the power to make one ship non existent. Choose from #10 or #12. (Buffy/Angel or Mason/George)
Honestly, I don't really care if people are hung up on Mason/George. The show is, sadly, dead (ha... pun), and if people want to mope that Mason and George didn't get together, that's fine by me. I just dislike them because they always came off as more of wacky siblings, and Mason was blatantly, adorably in love with Daisy. B/A on the other hand... I really annoys me. I used to just not mind it, but I'm quickly growing to actively dislike it. It's such angsty teen melodrama, while Angel/Cordelia was such a wonderful, mature, honest relationship, and as much as I don't like Buffy/Spike either, at least it was interesting and the actors had good chemistry. I'm also not a Buffy fan... But on the other hand, I know B/A is sort of THE ship of the Buffyverse, and I'd feel bad if a gajillion fans didn't have their ship anymore. So... maybe Mason/George. Not as many people would miss it D:
Which ship do you prefer #2 or #4? (Ned/Elle or Booth/Brennan)
I think I have to pick B&B, simply because of the sheer wtfery of N/E. I mean, I'm really coming to like N/E, and I think they'd be adorable in a really sick way, but... B&B are B&B. They're meant to be.
What interests you about #15? (Sylar/Elle)
I love twisted relationships in my fiction. And considering S3, they're getting up there on the twisted scale... I mean, he killed her dad and tried to brain-rape her, and now it's very possible they're gonna have a kid in the future. WTF, Kring? I guess sociopaths in love/lust/random smex is just something I'm interested in.
Why did you stop liking #7? (Ten/Robin)
The show pointed out that they weren't meant to be together. It was a long path, but I finally figured out that they just aren't the right Ones for each other.
Did your waning interest in #9 kill your interest in the show/book? (Angel/Faith)
Absolutely not. I simply realized that I prefer them platonic. I actually think their relationship is a lot more interesting if you keep it platonic.
What’s a song that reminds you of #5? (Jaye/Eric)
Love Will Come Through by Travis
If you could have any of these two pairings double-date, who would it be?
Sylar/Elle and Ned/Chuck. For the sheer wtfery that would ensue. And the weird ways in which they would bond... "You killed your girlfriend's dad? I killed my girlfriend's dad, too! But it was a total accident. 'Cause I love her and I would never hurt her intentionally." "I did it on purpose. Then I tried to brain-rape her." "... I think I want to leave now. And cry. And lead a better life to balance you out."
Have #2 kissed yet? (Ned/Elle)
No. And they NEVER EVER WILL. 'Cause they're a crossover pairing. They'll never even meet on screen. But if Bob found a piemaker with a special ability and wanted to bring him in for testing, and he wound up staying there longer then planned, and Elle... um... saw him, or his file, or heard that there was a new guy... things would happen. Weird, awful things, 'cause every ship involving Elle is weird and awful, but... yeah. I like some twisted ships.
Did #4 have a happy ending? If the show hasn't ended yet, do you think a happy ending is likely? (Booth/Brennan)
Yeeeaaah... I think it'll end more or less happily. They're not gonna kill either one of them off. Joss Whedon isn't running this show or anything... Oh wait, he's guest-writing the finale? Crap! But no, really, I think it'll end happily for them, but not sappily/mushily. No marriage and 2.5 kids and a white picket fence. Gruesome homicide. But with luv ♥
What would make you start shipping #14? (Angel/Debra)
If they did it on the show and it wasn't squicky in any way.
If only one could happen, which would you prefer, #2 or #6? (Ned/Elle or Ned/Chuck)
Um. Well. Ned/Chuck. 'Cause Ned/Elle is freakish and weird and will never happen in a gajillion years. It's a crossover ship. None of these questions are conducive to crossover ships :[
You have the power to decide the fate of #10. What happens to them? (Angel/Buffy)
Angel becomes human, brings Cordelia back from the dead and settles down to dysfunctional, but very happy married life. Buffy... goes somewhere else and doesn't bother them.
Which do you dislike the most?
Buffy/Angel.
Which of these ships do you love the most?
Ned/Chuck. With the rampant mind-fuckery of modern primetime network TV, there needs to be one couple that is honest, simple, pure, happy, adorable, and just totally in love. N/C = WIN.
In other news, I stumbled across a comm dedicated to Heroes personal canon, and there are a couple gems:
1. Adam Remembers the Alamo.
- squeegee_burble
2. Every time Elle buys a slushie, she unwraps the very top part of the straw, and then blows through the end so that the rest of the paper shoots out in the face of whoever she's with. This is usually Bob, but Mohinder makes the best faces, so now she does it to him, too.
- squeegee_burble
3. Elle is bisexual, but tends to lean ever so slightly more towards men. Bob lets her have free range with the prisoners, because he's hoping that she'll give him a powered grandchild someday soon. To this end, he has also forbid anyone from telling her about birth control.
- hanuueshe
4. Noah wanted both his kids to be able to shoot straight, but never found the time to take them to the gun range. So Sandra took them instead. They can both shoot very straight.
- tawabits
5. Claire and West did it a couple of times, somewhere between the Beach Kiss and the Waffle Breakfast. It was a bit crap, but it was the first time for both of them, so Claire figured it would've got better. When West says something like "We don't have to go any further than you want to" in Out of Time, it's because he knows it's a bit crap.
- tawabits
1 is obviously pure wonderful crack, but 3 and 4 are eerily plausible. Well, 3 is eerily plausible, 4 is awesomely plausible. 5 is just... true.
2 reminds me of someone on my flist. You know who you are :[
Aaaand... of course, TV. 'Twas quite good his week.
DEXTER: The Lion Sleeps Tonight">
The Dexter/Rita/Prado Part
Prado thinks Dexter is his BFF now that they've killed someone together. He keeps inviting Dex and Rita out to parties, which Dexter thinks is annoying and kind of creepy. Prado insists that because his brother is becoming antsy about Oscar's killer, they should place the body somewhere for the police to find. Dex comes up with some surprisingly convincing bullshit about why this would be a bad idea. Meanwhile, he and Rita take the kids grocery shopping, but Dex spots a pedophile chatting with Astor. The pedo doesn't fit the Code, since he's never killed anyone, but Dexter is making his own damn Code. So he kills him anyway. This may or may not have been a really dumb idea :/
Meanwhile, Rita convinces Dexter to go to yoga class with her. Predictably, he hates it, and it's ten kinds of hilarious.
The Debra/Angel/Masuka/Quinn/Anton Part
Deb finally pushes Anton to his breaking point, and he ticks her off enough that she arrests him. Quinn gets really snippy about it, but Angel backs Deb up (of course). Behind Quinn's back, he tells her to cut Anton the hell loose. But then another body crops up, with that weird skinning thing going on. Dex and Prado know it wasn't Freebo, what with him being dead, but Deb and Batista don't. Dexter needs a way of convincing Deb that Freebo isn't their man, so he leads her to Teagan's identity. I forget how, exactly, but this steers them clear of Freebo as the culprit. Uh... I need to rewatch this episode, obviously, but it was almost a week ago! Gimme a break D:
Anyway, Deb cuts Anton loose, and Angel tells her to mend her bridges. She goes to Anton's club, only to discover that he's written her a song. It's in Spanish, but it's pretty good. She enthusiastically tells a couple of girls dancing near her that Anton wrote the song for her, and one of them is all, "You're the skinny mean bitch?" Oh Deb... learn Spanish. Instead of getting upset or pissy, Deb just kinda makes a face and smirks up at Anton, who smirks back at her.
Deb/Anton. Tell your friends.
The Laguerta Part
I swear, she was in this episode. I swear.
HIMYM: Intervention
Barney has an idea! He'll dress up as an old man, tell some hot bimbo he's from the future, and that she must sleep with his past self in order to save the world from global warming! Marshall says this is pretty much the dumbest idea ever, but to his eternal shame for the intelligence of the human race, it works. Barney bets that he'll be able to pick up a 22-year-old with his old man make-up on.
The entire gang is packing to move: Marshall and Lily to their new apartment, Robin to Japan, and Ted to Stella's in NJ. As they pack, they reminisce. That time the bookshelf collapsed and took half the wall with it, the time Ted destroyed part of the ceiling with a mace, the time Robin got really drunk and really Canadian and Barney put his fist through the wall in frustration... and the intervention they had for Stewart's drinking problem.
Wait... Claudia's brunette now? That threw me off for about three whole minutes. Really minor characters should not change their hair that drastically - it makes me doubt their identity.
Anyway, this starts them remembering the other interventions they've had: Lily's bad British accent, Marshall's Dr. Seuss hat, Robin's spray-on tan, Barney's use of fire in magic tricks... and then Ted finds the Intervention banner. But it's not burned, it's whole! The gang admits that they were going to have an intervention because they thought his relationship with Stella was moving too fast, but now they know her well and think she's great for Ted. But this gets him thinking... he doesn't wanna move to NJ! He can't be a step-dad to a 7-year-old! And Marshall and Lily don't wanna move in to their own apartment!
Actually, considering how badly they coped when Ted moved out for about ten hours, maybe M&L should move in with Ted and Stella...
And Robin, despite how she's been going on about how everyone else is a baby for not wanting to move, doesn't want to go to Japan.
They all head down to their regular bar to get their regular drinks, where they find 80-year-old Barney making out with a college girl. He thinks it's awesome, but they all realize how sad they'll end up being if they never move on with their lives.
A year later, they're all in the bar. Lily suggests they take it upstairs, to the apartment. So, not much actually changed, says Future Ted.
My theory? Stella breaks Ted's heart, and he moves back into the apartment and refuses to come out of his room for four months. Robin realizes she hates Japan, but doesn't have an apartment to move back into. She takes Marshall and Lily's old room. Hence, Future Ted was telling the truth when he said Robin was living in the apartment on his 31st birthday.
HEROES: Angels & Monsters
The Nathan/Tracy/Angela/Peter Part
Linderman keeps trying to convince Nathan that God wants him to be President. Or whatever. I've lost track of what God wants Nathan to do. I don't think "boink the aide" was on the Almighty's To-Do List for him, but... meh. He's allowed to improvise, I guess.
In yet another example of Heroes failing at sex, it just... fails. But I still really like Tracy and she's starting to make me like Nathan. And it wasn't the epic fail that was Mohinder/Maya. It was just... not sexy. Thankfully it didn't look like they were actually trying to make it sexy.
Anyway, Tracy confides the truth about Zimmerman to Nathan, who is annoyed by this and goes to confront Mommy dearest. He's more than annoyed to discover that Mommy dearest put baby brother in a coma after he tried to kill her because of his OMG New Ability of DEATH D:
Angela admits that the Company gave Tracy/Nikki/Barbara/who the fuck cares her abilities, and they gave Nathan his as well. He flips out and demands to know if Claire or Peter were also used as lab rats. She assures them that what the Company did was wrong. Nathan assures Tracy that he knows a scientist who knows all about their genetic condition.
Tracy: Is he trustworthy?
Nathan: Suresh? Pfft. He's harmless.
Later, Angela's sitting at her desk and she hears a scream. She enters the hallway, much like in her Doom Dream, and finds Tracy and Nathan dead in pools of blood. Peter is standing at the end of the hallway, his hands bloody up to the arms. Angela is very disappointed in her baby boy for killing some people, but don't worry! He's got a pipe in his head. It was actually... [drumroll] Arthur Petrelli! Yes, he's alive. And he's not happy about Angela's little habit of seeing the future. He assures her that she won't be able to move, then she wakes up back at her desk.
The Mohinder/Maya Part
Didn't I say I was gonna skip this part and read a recap later? I really need to stick with my promises to myself.
Mohinder has, apparently, been cocooning people in sticky gunk. Maya discovers this fact and instead of running away while he's incapacitated by her ability, she releases him from the deadly effects of her Doomy Black Eyes and then gets cocooned.
... Ya know, when she dies... it'll be her own damn fault.
The Hiro/Ando/Adam/Daphne/Knox Part
Hiro and Ando dig Adam up, but after some remarkably amusing hijinks, he runs away, only to get knocked out and thrown in a van by Knox.
Daphne, meanwhile, has also been having conversations with Linderman. He tells her to go out on a recruiting spree. Her first target? Hiro and Ando, of course. She and Knox ambush them in a bar, and try to convince them to join Pinehearst. They agree immediately, thinking they can be spies. Knox orders Hiro to kill Ando.
And Hiro? Well, he does. Over Daphne's protests. Because a hero must make sacrifices.
Later, Daphne meets with Linderman, who gives her one last potential recruitee: Matt Parkman (dur). She tells him that she doesn't like the way things are going down. She also tells him that she's not dumb: she knows he isn't really there. Turns out she's right: Maury Parkman is pulling the strings. And of course, Arthur Petrelli is pulling Maury's strings.
The Claire/HRG/Sylar/Sandra/Meredith Part
Claire goes after a baddie named Stephen Canfield, who can create vortexes. She takes Canfield down with a taser (wtf, Claire), but he wakes up and gets the better of her. He explains that he just wants to find his family, and he's not a killer. He lost control of his powers and accidentally killed someone, much like Tracy. But unlike Tracy, he didn't have God!Nathan to Show Him His Path. Claire takes pity on him and helps him track down his wife and kids.
Unfortunately, Noah and Sylar crash the party. Claire tries to reason with her dad, and does some quality hating on Sylar, while Canfield escapes. Claire explains that Canfield just needs help - if he's a badguy, it's because the Company made him that way.
Heh. Familiar story.
Noah agrees to talk to Canfield, and Claire leads him to Griffith Park, where Canfield is waiting for a wife and kids that never showed up. Noah pulls a gun on Canfield and tells him that he'll let him go if he creates a vortex and kills Sylar. Canfield refuses to be a monster, and sucks himself into one of his own vortexes.
Noah tries to explain that all he does, he does to protect his family, while Sylar snits that Noah can never truly see specials as "human." Claire is upset about the whole thing. Although she might be crying because her eyes can't handle that much eyeliner.
Meanwhile, Meredith and Sandra have a panic attack when they realize Claire ran away. Sandra correctly guesses that she went after Canfield, but Meredith thinks a more likely subject is Eric Doyle, and heads out alone because Sandra would be useless in a fight. Turns out Doyle is very literally a Puppet Master. He gets Meredith under his control, and it's creepy as fuck.
D: I like Meredith.
The Not Appearing In This Episode Part
Matt. Love that guy. He's probably following the Turtle around.
The Turtle. He's bad ass, is that turtle.
The African Guy. He's probably writing up a statement with the police about why he has creepy stalker paintings of a white dude from America.
Elle. She's probably sitting in a cubicle somewhere setting fire to pictures of Angela Petrelli and wondering what quarterly tax returns are. No really. And I expect flashbacks of WIN. I don't want episode 8 to be flashbacks to her angsty childhood. I want flashbacks to all the jobs she tried and failed to have after Angela kicked her out. I'd also like Stephen Tobolowsky to come back and belittle her more in FLASHBACK D:, but considering the whole broken neck thing... maybe not :/
Mr. Muggles. Next week: Mr. Muggles takes over the world. That's the secret. Tell your friends.
Peter: Except for about two seconds, Peter wasn't really in this episode. And the sad truth is that I really didn't miss him.
THOUGHTS & SPECULATION
The Nathan/Tracy/Angela/Peter Part
What is Papa Petrelli's power? It obviously has something to do with the mind. I think it would have been nifty if they'd given him the Puppetmaster power rather than wasting it on what is sure to be a one-off villain, but... he's a bit creepy. And I think I've seen Robert Forster in other things and thought, "Dude, he's creepy." Actually, I'm sure of it.
Wait, no, I'm thinking of Roger Lloyd-Pack.
Uhhh... Okay. I'm making on official list.
Inherent Abilities: Angela, Arthur, Peter, Claire, Hiro, the Haitian, Maury, Matt, Maya, Kaito, Adam, Daphne
Injected Abilities: Tracy/Nikki/WTF, Nathan, Bob, Elle, Sylar
There. I did it. And it was awesome.
Explanation: I'm basing this on the idea that the Haitian can only control those with natural abilities. Nathan flew away from him once, and since we know Nathan was injected... As for Elle and Bob, she was always lightning-ing it up around the Haitian, and it kinda follows that Bob was injected too. Plus, I think it would be really in character for Bob to want to be special, and inject himself with this stuff, only to get a lame-ass power that didn't make him badass at all, so he injected his little girl and then tortured her for what he did to her in the first place. Oh Bob, you sick freak. And Sylar... if Noah could just have the Haitian turn off Sylar's healing ability, he'd do it. Obviously the Haitian doesn't have an effect on Sylar.
Primatech and Pinehearst are obviously rivals. I love it when they establish a badguy or bad operation, like Primatech, and then make us root for it by introducing something even worse. I'm very much looking forward to the Battle Of The Elder Petrellis. Because I don't care how badass a power Arthur has. You can't not get pwned by Angela :|
The Mohinder/Maya Part
Ugh. This story will get interesting again if Mohinder eats Maya. But I suspect Nathan and Tracy will show up and rescue her after going through harrowing terror themselves. Oh, sigh.
The Hiro/Ando/Adam/Daphne/Knox Part
Ah.
I'm making another list.
Elder Baddies: Adam, Angela, Bob, Linderman, Maury, Arthur
Younger Baddies: Sylar, Elle, Daphne, Knox
Goodies: Claire, Hiro, Ando, Peter, Nathan, T/N/B, Matt, Mohinder, Maya
HRG: HRG
We've killed off Bob and Linderman and I'm hearing Adam will die for good next week (DO NOT WANT!). This sets up Maury and Arthur is the Supreme Baddies and Angela, as their opponent, is made good by the simple fact that she opposes them.
Sylar is on his way to controlling his hunger. Elle is on her way to a total meltdown, but since she'll be teaming up with Noah and Sylar, I assume she's going good, too. Daphne was majorly pissed about Ando's death and I suspect once she meets Matt, she'll want to go good, or at least switch teams from Pineheart to Primatech.
Claire is heading down a dark path, with her weird revenge fixation. Mohinder is turning into Evil Fly Spiderman Thing. Matt, once he hooks up with Daphne, will be bad by association. I'm hearing that Maya will die. Peter has Teh Hunger Of Doom. Tracy (or Barbara?) was aligned with the villains in Angela's dream. Nathan? He's still Douchy McDouche, but maybe if Tracy goes bad he'll follow her.
This is pretty much a complete reversal of ALL the heroes/villains. WOW. And with the possible exception of Sylar, I totally believe all their transformations, and I'm really loving it.
Noah... he protects his family at the expense of everyone else. When Sylar is giving a lecture on good morals, you know something's up. And I really love how indignant Daphne got when Knox ordered Hiro to kill Ando. They would have been such a great team!
And as for Hiro killing Ando, it was a total set-up. I've watched people get stabbed in moves and TV a lot (yeah, that tells you a lot about my taste in movies/TV), and it doesn't look or SOUND like that. It takes a lot of force to drive a sword through a person's body, and Hiro just kinda poked him. P-O-K-E is how I spell S-E-T-U-P :[
Bottom line: Hiro can stop time. It's a set-up. But it's a set-up that will make Daphne a better person, and that's the important thing.
Moral grayness FTW.
The Claire/HRG/Sylar/Sandra/Meredith Part
I think I pretty much covered it, except that Doyle is freaking creepy. Oh, and I still love Sandra.
One thing, though: am I the only one who thought Claire was gonna let go when Sylar grabbed her hand to save her? Just out of spite, because she didn't want to owe her life to the who brain-raped her?
Also, on that subject, after Sylar grabbed her hand, he got all touchy-feely about how he understood her pain, which I think harkens back to his taking Brigit's power, where he can see the history of anything/anyone he touches. Considering Elle's fixation with her mysteriously forgotten past, maybe she'll get Sylar to use his new ability on her. And then they'll make babies.
PUSHING DAISIES: Bad Habits
Olive is leading a relatively happy life at the Convent, and is currently on the truffle-finding team with her new BFF Pigby. Sister Larue is the head of this operation, and she is also in charge of buffing the bells. But when Larue falls to her death from the bell tower, Olive immediately suspects foul play. Mother Superior disagrees, so Olive is forced to sneak the team in undercover as two priests and a nun.
Sister Chuck is deeply worried that Olive ran away to the convent because of her, and Olive is avoiding talking to her. Meanwhile, Father Emerson and Father Ned follow Mother Superior to a secret hallway, which they discover leads to a Swiss restaurant. The chef was having a secret love affair with Sister Larue, and before she died she brought him an Italian White Truffle, the "diamond of the table" - worth a gajillion bucks.
While Emerson is discovering a secret stash of material comforts and the fact that Sister Larue used to be a scientist who was hired to grow test tube white truffles, Ned is convincing Olive to tell him her deadly secret: Lily is Chuck's mother. Meanwhile, Chuck is discovering a secret truffle laboratory in the bell tower. Turns out Larue's funding was cut off, and she joined the convent, where she continued her research in secret. She traded truffles for material goods with the chef, and handed the goods out to the sisters. But when she was surprised in the bell tower by a truffle-hunting Pigby, she accidentally tripped and fell to her death. Unfortunately for Chuck, she, too, is surprised by Pigby, hot on the trail of the forbidden truffles Chuck has discovered. Chuck is saved by Olive, who admits that she loves Chuck like a sister and didn't run away because of her.
Aw. Chuck and Olive win.
Olive nearly falls to her death, but Ned and Emerson are useful and find a cart full of hay. After this, Olive decides she wants to go home. Ned takes Chuck up to the roof and tells her the secret.
Aw. Ned and Chuck win, too. In fact, this whole episode wins. Best one of the season so far, which is traumatic, because the Aunts weren't in it. They need to find ways of making the Aunts more integral to the storyline, because they're my favorite characters, and not having them around makes me sad.
Poll
If you checked anything other than option C, "go to sleep," YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG >:[
A few nights ago, I did two of those things after 2AM. One was option A. I'll leave it up to the imagination what the other one was >.>;
Long story short, Ted Mosby was right when he said nothing good ever happens after 2AM. Especially fanfiction. 'Cause after 2AM is when the really crazy pairings come out to play. Oh, you thought I was into some weird pairings? You laughed at me when I mentioned Anya/Hallie and Debra/Batista?
Try Ned/Elle on for size. Oh yes. I went there. I went there, I distilled the thereness of there, and I put it here and here here. And it was weird.
I mean, honestly, these pairings came from me putting a bunch of characters through a randomizer, I didn't come up with them, but still... Weird.
6 ships you're into right now
1. Anya/Hallie (BtVS)
2. Ned/Elle (Pushing Daisies/Heroes)
3. Ten/Rose (Doctor Who)
4. Booth/Brennan (Bones)
5. Jaye/Eric (Wonderfalls)
6. Ned/Chuck (Pushing Daisies)
3 ships you liked, but don’t like anymore
7. Ted/Robin (HIMYM)
8. Fred/Gunn (Angel)
9. Angel/Faith (Angel)
4 ships you never liked
10. Buffy/Angel (BtVS)
11. Buffy/Spike (BtVS) (notice a pattern?)
12. Mason/George (Dead Like Me)
13. Harry/Hermione (Harry Potter)
2 ships you're curious about, but don’t actually ship
14. Angel (Batista, not the vampire)/Debra (Dexter)
15. Sylar/Elle (Heroes)
Why do you dislike #11 so much? (Buffy/Spike)
I think Spike loves Buffy more than he ever has or will love anyone, and it's like watching the poor boy run face-first into a wall. Repeatedly. With lots of bloodshed. Reformed!Spike was never high on my list of Awesome Characters, but I do like him. And Buffy clearly doesn't. In S5 she finds him annoying and distasteful. In S6 she's using him. In S7 she grows to like him... as a friend. And when she tells him she loves him, she doesn't mean it the way he needs her to mean it. She still loves Angel, which she even says in the beginning of that same episode. She makes it clear that if she were ever to return to an old flame, it would be Angel. It just hurts to watch Spike try so hard when you know he's gonna fail. Plus... Buffy annoys me.
Who is someone you know that ships #14? (Angel/Debra)
Uh... no one I know.
What would be your ideal scenario for couple #3? (Ten/Rose)
They live happily ever after... in space. So... not so much the end of S4. But at the same time... I like to think they're enough for each other. But they should have the TARDIS too.
Which is your favorite moment for couple #1? (Anya/Hallie)
This couple is so not canon that it hurts. But... uh. I guess when Anya's miserable in the beginning of S7 and Hallie keeps trying to cheer her up by telling her these awful stories about the people she's been torturing. And then the look on Anya's face when Hallie dies is heart-wrenching D:
How long have you been following couple #6? (Ned/Chuck)
I've been waiting for this ship my whole life. But really... since the pilot leaked in July (?) of last year.
What's the story with #8? What made you stop liking them/caring? (Fred/Gunn)
I'm glad you asked, meme! The truth is, I thought they were completely adorable in S3, and when they broke up in S4 I was pretty sad about it. But I'd known this whole time that Wesley was Fred's soulmate, so I wasn't that sad. And when Wes and Fred finally got together, I really stopped caring about F/G. Rewatching S3 always makes me rethink my standing on them, but... eventually I also grew to dislike Gunn, which didn't help.
You have the power to make one ship non existent. Choose from #10 or #12. (Buffy/Angel or Mason/George)
Honestly, I don't really care if people are hung up on Mason/George. The show is, sadly, dead (ha... pun), and if people want to mope that Mason and George didn't get together, that's fine by me. I just dislike them because they always came off as more of wacky siblings, and Mason was blatantly, adorably in love with Daisy. B/A on the other hand... I really annoys me. I used to just not mind it, but I'm quickly growing to actively dislike it. It's such angsty teen melodrama, while Angel/Cordelia was such a wonderful, mature, honest relationship, and as much as I don't like Buffy/Spike either, at least it was interesting and the actors had good chemistry. I'm also not a Buffy fan... But on the other hand, I know B/A is sort of THE ship of the Buffyverse, and I'd feel bad if a gajillion fans didn't have their ship anymore. So... maybe Mason/George. Not as many people would miss it D:
Which ship do you prefer #2 or #4? (Ned/Elle or Booth/Brennan)
I think I have to pick B&B, simply because of the sheer wtfery of N/E. I mean, I'm really coming to like N/E, and I think they'd be adorable in a really sick way, but... B&B are B&B. They're meant to be.
What interests you about #15? (Sylar/Elle)
I love twisted relationships in my fiction. And considering S3, they're getting up there on the twisted scale... I mean, he killed her dad and tried to brain-rape her, and now it's very possible they're gonna have a kid in the future. WTF, Kring? I guess sociopaths in love/lust/random smex is just something I'm interested in.
Why did you stop liking #7? (Ten/Robin)
The show pointed out that they weren't meant to be together. It was a long path, but I finally figured out that they just aren't the right Ones for each other.
Did your waning interest in #9 kill your interest in the show/book? (Angel/Faith)
Absolutely not. I simply realized that I prefer them platonic. I actually think their relationship is a lot more interesting if you keep it platonic.
What’s a song that reminds you of #5? (Jaye/Eric)
Love Will Come Through by Travis
If you could have any of these two pairings double-date, who would it be?
Sylar/Elle and Ned/Chuck. For the sheer wtfery that would ensue. And the weird ways in which they would bond... "You killed your girlfriend's dad? I killed my girlfriend's dad, too! But it was a total accident. 'Cause I love her and I would never hurt her intentionally." "I did it on purpose. Then I tried to brain-rape her." "... I think I want to leave now. And cry. And lead a better life to balance you out."
Have #2 kissed yet? (Ned/Elle)
No. And they NEVER EVER WILL. 'Cause they're a crossover pairing. They'll never even meet on screen. But if Bob found a piemaker with a special ability and wanted to bring him in for testing, and he wound up staying there longer then planned, and Elle... um... saw him, or his file, or heard that there was a new guy... things would happen. Weird, awful things, 'cause every ship involving Elle is weird and awful, but... yeah. I like some twisted ships.
Did #4 have a happy ending? If the show hasn't ended yet, do you think a happy ending is likely? (Booth/Brennan)
Yeeeaaah... I think it'll end more or less happily. They're not gonna kill either one of them off. Joss Whedon isn't running this show or anything... Oh wait, he's guest-writing the finale? Crap! But no, really, I think it'll end happily for them, but not sappily/mushily. No marriage and 2.5 kids and a white picket fence. Gruesome homicide. But with luv ♥
What would make you start shipping #14? (Angel/Debra)
If they did it on the show and it wasn't squicky in any way.
If only one could happen, which would you prefer, #2 or #6? (Ned/Elle or Ned/Chuck)
Um. Well. Ned/Chuck. 'Cause Ned/Elle is freakish and weird and will never happen in a gajillion years. It's a crossover ship. None of these questions are conducive to crossover ships :[
You have the power to decide the fate of #10. What happens to them? (Angel/Buffy)
Angel becomes human, brings Cordelia back from the dead and settles down to dysfunctional, but very happy married life. Buffy... goes somewhere else and doesn't bother them.
Which do you dislike the most?
Buffy/Angel.
Which of these ships do you love the most?
Ned/Chuck. With the rampant mind-fuckery of modern primetime network TV, there needs to be one couple that is honest, simple, pure, happy, adorable, and just totally in love. N/C = WIN.
In other news, I stumbled across a comm dedicated to Heroes personal canon, and there are a couple gems:
1. Adam Remembers the Alamo.
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2. Every time Elle buys a slushie, she unwraps the very top part of the straw, and then blows through the end so that the rest of the paper shoots out in the face of whoever she's with. This is usually Bob, but Mohinder makes the best faces, so now she does it to him, too.
- squeegee_burble
3. Elle is bisexual, but tends to lean ever so slightly more towards men. Bob lets her have free range with the prisoners, because he's hoping that she'll give him a powered grandchild someday soon. To this end, he has also forbid anyone from telling her about birth control.
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4. Noah wanted both his kids to be able to shoot straight, but never found the time to take them to the gun range. So Sandra took them instead. They can both shoot very straight.
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5. Claire and West did it a couple of times, somewhere between the Beach Kiss and the Waffle Breakfast. It was a bit crap, but it was the first time for both of them, so Claire figured it would've got better. When West says something like "We don't have to go any further than you want to" in Out of Time, it's because he knows it's a bit crap.
- tawabits
1 is obviously pure wonderful crack, but 3 and 4 are eerily plausible. Well, 3 is eerily plausible, 4 is awesomely plausible. 5 is just... true.
2 reminds me of someone on my flist. You know who you are :[
Aaaand... of course, TV. 'Twas quite good his week.
DEXTER: The Lion Sleeps Tonight">
The Dexter/Rita/Prado Part
Prado thinks Dexter is his BFF now that they've killed someone together. He keeps inviting Dex and Rita out to parties, which Dexter thinks is annoying and kind of creepy. Prado insists that because his brother is becoming antsy about Oscar's killer, they should place the body somewhere for the police to find. Dex comes up with some surprisingly convincing bullshit about why this would be a bad idea. Meanwhile, he and Rita take the kids grocery shopping, but Dex spots a pedophile chatting with Astor. The pedo doesn't fit the Code, since he's never killed anyone, but Dexter is making his own damn Code. So he kills him anyway. This may or may not have been a really dumb idea :/
Meanwhile, Rita convinces Dexter to go to yoga class with her. Predictably, he hates it, and it's ten kinds of hilarious.
The Debra/Angel/Masuka/Quinn/Anton Part
Deb finally pushes Anton to his breaking point, and he ticks her off enough that she arrests him. Quinn gets really snippy about it, but Angel backs Deb up (of course). Behind Quinn's back, he tells her to cut Anton the hell loose. But then another body crops up, with that weird skinning thing going on. Dex and Prado know it wasn't Freebo, what with him being dead, but Deb and Batista don't. Dexter needs a way of convincing Deb that Freebo isn't their man, so he leads her to Teagan's identity. I forget how, exactly, but this steers them clear of Freebo as the culprit. Uh... I need to rewatch this episode, obviously, but it was almost a week ago! Gimme a break D:
Anyway, Deb cuts Anton loose, and Angel tells her to mend her bridges. She goes to Anton's club, only to discover that he's written her a song. It's in Spanish, but it's pretty good. She enthusiastically tells a couple of girls dancing near her that Anton wrote the song for her, and one of them is all, "You're the skinny mean bitch?" Oh Deb... learn Spanish. Instead of getting upset or pissy, Deb just kinda makes a face and smirks up at Anton, who smirks back at her.
Deb/Anton. Tell your friends.
The Laguerta Part
I swear, she was in this episode. I swear.
HIMYM: Intervention
Barney has an idea! He'll dress up as an old man, tell some hot bimbo he's from the future, and that she must sleep with his past self in order to save the world from global warming! Marshall says this is pretty much the dumbest idea ever, but to his eternal shame for the intelligence of the human race, it works. Barney bets that he'll be able to pick up a 22-year-old with his old man make-up on.
The entire gang is packing to move: Marshall and Lily to their new apartment, Robin to Japan, and Ted to Stella's in NJ. As they pack, they reminisce. That time the bookshelf collapsed and took half the wall with it, the time Ted destroyed part of the ceiling with a mace, the time Robin got really drunk and really Canadian and Barney put his fist through the wall in frustration... and the intervention they had for Stewart's drinking problem.
Wait... Claudia's brunette now? That threw me off for about three whole minutes. Really minor characters should not change their hair that drastically - it makes me doubt their identity.
Anyway, this starts them remembering the other interventions they've had: Lily's bad British accent, Marshall's Dr. Seuss hat, Robin's spray-on tan, Barney's use of fire in magic tricks... and then Ted finds the Intervention banner. But it's not burned, it's whole! The gang admits that they were going to have an intervention because they thought his relationship with Stella was moving too fast, but now they know her well and think she's great for Ted. But this gets him thinking... he doesn't wanna move to NJ! He can't be a step-dad to a 7-year-old! And Marshall and Lily don't wanna move in to their own apartment!
Actually, considering how badly they coped when Ted moved out for about ten hours, maybe M&L should move in with Ted and Stella...
And Robin, despite how she's been going on about how everyone else is a baby for not wanting to move, doesn't want to go to Japan.
They all head down to their regular bar to get their regular drinks, where they find 80-year-old Barney making out with a college girl. He thinks it's awesome, but they all realize how sad they'll end up being if they never move on with their lives.
A year later, they're all in the bar. Lily suggests they take it upstairs, to the apartment. So, not much actually changed, says Future Ted.
My theory? Stella breaks Ted's heart, and he moves back into the apartment and refuses to come out of his room for four months. Robin realizes she hates Japan, but doesn't have an apartment to move back into. She takes Marshall and Lily's old room. Hence, Future Ted was telling the truth when he said Robin was living in the apartment on his 31st birthday.
HEROES: Angels & Monsters
The Nathan/Tracy/Angela/Peter Part
Linderman keeps trying to convince Nathan that God wants him to be President. Or whatever. I've lost track of what God wants Nathan to do. I don't think "boink the aide" was on the Almighty's To-Do List for him, but... meh. He's allowed to improvise, I guess.
In yet another example of Heroes failing at sex, it just... fails. But I still really like Tracy and she's starting to make me like Nathan. And it wasn't the epic fail that was Mohinder/Maya. It was just... not sexy. Thankfully it didn't look like they were actually trying to make it sexy.
Anyway, Tracy confides the truth about Zimmerman to Nathan, who is annoyed by this and goes to confront Mommy dearest. He's more than annoyed to discover that Mommy dearest put baby brother in a coma after he tried to kill her because of his OMG New Ability of DEATH D:
Angela admits that the Company gave Tracy/Nikki/Barbara/who the fuck cares her abilities, and they gave Nathan his as well. He flips out and demands to know if Claire or Peter were also used as lab rats. She assures them that what the Company did was wrong. Nathan assures Tracy that he knows a scientist who knows all about their genetic condition.
Tracy: Is he trustworthy?
Nathan: Suresh? Pfft. He's harmless.
Later, Angela's sitting at her desk and she hears a scream. She enters the hallway, much like in her Doom Dream, and finds Tracy and Nathan dead in pools of blood. Peter is standing at the end of the hallway, his hands bloody up to the arms. Angela is very disappointed in her baby boy for killing some people, but don't worry! He's got a pipe in his head. It was actually... [drumroll] Arthur Petrelli! Yes, he's alive. And he's not happy about Angela's little habit of seeing the future. He assures her that she won't be able to move, then she wakes up back at her desk.
The Mohinder/Maya Part
Didn't I say I was gonna skip this part and read a recap later? I really need to stick with my promises to myself.
Mohinder has, apparently, been cocooning people in sticky gunk. Maya discovers this fact and instead of running away while he's incapacitated by her ability, she releases him from the deadly effects of her Doomy Black Eyes and then gets cocooned.
... Ya know, when she dies... it'll be her own damn fault.
The Hiro/Ando/Adam/Daphne/Knox Part
Hiro and Ando dig Adam up, but after some remarkably amusing hijinks, he runs away, only to get knocked out and thrown in a van by Knox.
Daphne, meanwhile, has also been having conversations with Linderman. He tells her to go out on a recruiting spree. Her first target? Hiro and Ando, of course. She and Knox ambush them in a bar, and try to convince them to join Pinehearst. They agree immediately, thinking they can be spies. Knox orders Hiro to kill Ando.
And Hiro? Well, he does. Over Daphne's protests. Because a hero must make sacrifices.
Later, Daphne meets with Linderman, who gives her one last potential recruitee: Matt Parkman (dur). She tells him that she doesn't like the way things are going down. She also tells him that she's not dumb: she knows he isn't really there. Turns out she's right: Maury Parkman is pulling the strings. And of course, Arthur Petrelli is pulling Maury's strings.
The Claire/HRG/Sylar/Sandra/Meredith Part
Claire goes after a baddie named Stephen Canfield, who can create vortexes. She takes Canfield down with a taser (wtf, Claire), but he wakes up and gets the better of her. He explains that he just wants to find his family, and he's not a killer. He lost control of his powers and accidentally killed someone, much like Tracy. But unlike Tracy, he didn't have God!Nathan to Show Him His Path. Claire takes pity on him and helps him track down his wife and kids.
Unfortunately, Noah and Sylar crash the party. Claire tries to reason with her dad, and does some quality hating on Sylar, while Canfield escapes. Claire explains that Canfield just needs help - if he's a badguy, it's because the Company made him that way.
Heh. Familiar story.
Noah agrees to talk to Canfield, and Claire leads him to Griffith Park, where Canfield is waiting for a wife and kids that never showed up. Noah pulls a gun on Canfield and tells him that he'll let him go if he creates a vortex and kills Sylar. Canfield refuses to be a monster, and sucks himself into one of his own vortexes.
Noah tries to explain that all he does, he does to protect his family, while Sylar snits that Noah can never truly see specials as "human." Claire is upset about the whole thing. Although she might be crying because her eyes can't handle that much eyeliner.
Meanwhile, Meredith and Sandra have a panic attack when they realize Claire ran away. Sandra correctly guesses that she went after Canfield, but Meredith thinks a more likely subject is Eric Doyle, and heads out alone because Sandra would be useless in a fight. Turns out Doyle is very literally a Puppet Master. He gets Meredith under his control, and it's creepy as fuck.
D: I like Meredith.
The Not Appearing In This Episode Part
Matt. Love that guy. He's probably following the Turtle around.
The Turtle. He's bad ass, is that turtle.
The African Guy. He's probably writing up a statement with the police about why he has creepy stalker paintings of a white dude from America.
Elle. She's probably sitting in a cubicle somewhere setting fire to pictures of Angela Petrelli and wondering what quarterly tax returns are. No really. And I expect flashbacks of WIN. I don't want episode 8 to be flashbacks to her angsty childhood. I want flashbacks to all the jobs she tried and failed to have after Angela kicked her out. I'd also like Stephen Tobolowsky to come back and belittle her more in FLASHBACK D:, but considering the whole broken neck thing... maybe not :/
Mr. Muggles. Next week: Mr. Muggles takes over the world. That's the secret. Tell your friends.
Peter: Except for about two seconds, Peter wasn't really in this episode. And the sad truth is that I really didn't miss him.
THOUGHTS & SPECULATION
The Nathan/Tracy/Angela/Peter Part
What is Papa Petrelli's power? It obviously has something to do with the mind. I think it would have been nifty if they'd given him the Puppetmaster power rather than wasting it on what is sure to be a one-off villain, but... he's a bit creepy. And I think I've seen Robert Forster in other things and thought, "Dude, he's creepy." Actually, I'm sure of it.
Wait, no, I'm thinking of Roger Lloyd-Pack.
Uhhh... Okay. I'm making on official list.
Inherent Abilities: Angela, Arthur, Peter, Claire, Hiro, the Haitian, Maury, Matt, Maya, Kaito, Adam, Daphne
Injected Abilities: Tracy/Nikki/WTF, Nathan, Bob, Elle, Sylar
There. I did it. And it was awesome.
Explanation: I'm basing this on the idea that the Haitian can only control those with natural abilities. Nathan flew away from him once, and since we know Nathan was injected... As for Elle and Bob, she was always lightning-ing it up around the Haitian, and it kinda follows that Bob was injected too. Plus, I think it would be really in character for Bob to want to be special, and inject himself with this stuff, only to get a lame-ass power that didn't make him badass at all, so he injected his little girl and then tortured her for what he did to her in the first place. Oh Bob, you sick freak. And Sylar... if Noah could just have the Haitian turn off Sylar's healing ability, he'd do it. Obviously the Haitian doesn't have an effect on Sylar.
Primatech and Pinehearst are obviously rivals. I love it when they establish a badguy or bad operation, like Primatech, and then make us root for it by introducing something even worse. I'm very much looking forward to the Battle Of The Elder Petrellis. Because I don't care how badass a power Arthur has. You can't not get pwned by Angela :|
The Mohinder/Maya Part
Ugh. This story will get interesting again if Mohinder eats Maya. But I suspect Nathan and Tracy will show up and rescue her after going through harrowing terror themselves. Oh, sigh.
The Hiro/Ando/Adam/Daphne/Knox Part
Ah.
I'm making another list.
Elder Baddies: Adam, Angela, Bob, Linderman, Maury, Arthur
Younger Baddies: Sylar, Elle, Daphne, Knox
Goodies: Claire, Hiro, Ando, Peter, Nathan, T/N/B, Matt, Mohinder, Maya
HRG: HRG
We've killed off Bob and Linderman and I'm hearing Adam will die for good next week (DO NOT WANT!). This sets up Maury and Arthur is the Supreme Baddies and Angela, as their opponent, is made good by the simple fact that she opposes them.
Sylar is on his way to controlling his hunger. Elle is on her way to a total meltdown, but since she'll be teaming up with Noah and Sylar, I assume she's going good, too. Daphne was majorly pissed about Ando's death and I suspect once she meets Matt, she'll want to go good, or at least switch teams from Pineheart to Primatech.
Claire is heading down a dark path, with her weird revenge fixation. Mohinder is turning into Evil Fly Spiderman Thing. Matt, once he hooks up with Daphne, will be bad by association. I'm hearing that Maya will die. Peter has Teh Hunger Of Doom. Tracy (or Barbara?) was aligned with the villains in Angela's dream. Nathan? He's still Douchy McDouche, but maybe if Tracy goes bad he'll follow her.
This is pretty much a complete reversal of ALL the heroes/villains. WOW. And with the possible exception of Sylar, I totally believe all their transformations, and I'm really loving it.
Noah... he protects his family at the expense of everyone else. When Sylar is giving a lecture on good morals, you know something's up. And I really love how indignant Daphne got when Knox ordered Hiro to kill Ando. They would have been such a great team!
And as for Hiro killing Ando, it was a total set-up. I've watched people get stabbed in moves and TV a lot (yeah, that tells you a lot about my taste in movies/TV), and it doesn't look or SOUND like that. It takes a lot of force to drive a sword through a person's body, and Hiro just kinda poked him. P-O-K-E is how I spell S-E-T-U-P :[
Bottom line: Hiro can stop time. It's a set-up. But it's a set-up that will make Daphne a better person, and that's the important thing.
Moral grayness FTW.
The Claire/HRG/Sylar/Sandra/Meredith Part
I think I pretty much covered it, except that Doyle is freaking creepy. Oh, and I still love Sandra.
One thing, though: am I the only one who thought Claire was gonna let go when Sylar grabbed her hand to save her? Just out of spite, because she didn't want to owe her life to the who brain-raped her?
Also, on that subject, after Sylar grabbed her hand, he got all touchy-feely about how he understood her pain, which I think harkens back to his taking Brigit's power, where he can see the history of anything/anyone he touches. Considering Elle's fixation with her mysteriously forgotten past, maybe she'll get Sylar to use his new ability on her. And then they'll make babies.
PUSHING DAISIES: Bad Habits
Olive is leading a relatively happy life at the Convent, and is currently on the truffle-finding team with her new BFF Pigby. Sister Larue is the head of this operation, and she is also in charge of buffing the bells. But when Larue falls to her death from the bell tower, Olive immediately suspects foul play. Mother Superior disagrees, so Olive is forced to sneak the team in undercover as two priests and a nun.
Sister Chuck is deeply worried that Olive ran away to the convent because of her, and Olive is avoiding talking to her. Meanwhile, Father Emerson and Father Ned follow Mother Superior to a secret hallway, which they discover leads to a Swiss restaurant. The chef was having a secret love affair with Sister Larue, and before she died she brought him an Italian White Truffle, the "diamond of the table" - worth a gajillion bucks.
While Emerson is discovering a secret stash of material comforts and the fact that Sister Larue used to be a scientist who was hired to grow test tube white truffles, Ned is convincing Olive to tell him her deadly secret: Lily is Chuck's mother. Meanwhile, Chuck is discovering a secret truffle laboratory in the bell tower. Turns out Larue's funding was cut off, and she joined the convent, where she continued her research in secret. She traded truffles for material goods with the chef, and handed the goods out to the sisters. But when she was surprised in the bell tower by a truffle-hunting Pigby, she accidentally tripped and fell to her death. Unfortunately for Chuck, she, too, is surprised by Pigby, hot on the trail of the forbidden truffles Chuck has discovered. Chuck is saved by Olive, who admits that she loves Chuck like a sister and didn't run away because of her.
Aw. Chuck and Olive win.
Olive nearly falls to her death, but Ned and Emerson are useful and find a cart full of hay. After this, Olive decides she wants to go home. Ned takes Chuck up to the roof and tells her the secret.
Aw. Ned and Chuck win, too. In fact, this whole episode wins. Best one of the season so far, which is traumatic, because the Aunts weren't in it. They need to find ways of making the Aunts more integral to the storyline, because they're my favorite characters, and not having them around makes me sad.