Heroes 1-16: "Company Man"
DUDE. DEWD!!! OMG. I have never said "Yay!" that many times over the course of two minutes in my life. The hits just keep on comin'! Life is good. So much happy.
Too many frackin' commercials, though! Argh!
Nitpicks first:
OK, look. I have to call bullshit right off the bat. If Ted's half as radioactive as they keep on saying, Mr. Bennet and Matt would both have been dead before they were able to walk to the mailbox. At the least, Matt isn't going to be having any more babies any time soon - his nads are as barren as Barstow. C'MON. I can suspend my disbelief about a lot of things, but radiation is NOT one of them.
And uh, why did Matt have to run back inside to get Mr. Bennet? I'd have been like, "Damn that sucks, but fuck him, I've got a bus to catch and some iodine isotope tablets to wolf down." What is it about HRG that makes everyone develop this slavish man-crush on him? Isaac, now Matt? I mean, not that I can't see it - I have a lady crush on him - but wow!
And, uh, the whole freakin' neighborhood watched Claire come out of the house, and heal from her 69th degree burns. The whole neighborhood. The house is going to be radioactive like the Bikini Atoll for the next 40 years. How the fuck are they going to explain that? (I imagine that they'll never bother, if the previews are any indication of the psycho thrill ride they have in store for next week! *sigh* Science fiction should be based on science fact, goddammit!)
OK, now that's out of the way, it's non-stop loving.
Muggles opens the episode! woot! He gets some of the most poignant moments, too - that lingering shot of the painting burning up to him precious fuzzy widdle face! Awwww! Really, what about Mr. Muggles? Is he going to be OK?
Ashley Crow was fantastic as Mrs. Bennet this week, especially with the dripping-with-irony scene of Ted holding a gun on her and he bellows, "I killed my wife, it's only right that I threaten yours" (I paraphrase badly) because, as those of us who are obsessive know, Matthew John Armstrong and Ashley Crow are married in real life... they were fantastic. I imagine they had to do a lot of takes, due to inappropriate nervous giggling, though.
...Morally questionable choices - like casting Eric Roberts, for example. *shudder* Time has done his looks no favors. But hey, look - two Doctor Who alums in the same room! Sure, we'd all rather forget about that Eric Roberts monstrosity, but if we ignore the past, we are doomed to repeat it. And we can never have an abomination on that scale ever again.
OMG Hiro's dad! Knows everything! Is behind everything! Hiro was there! How young (and/or stupid) is he that he doesn't remember that Deveaux rooftop scene? OR DOES HE? (DUN DUN DUNNNNNNNN!) SQUEEEE! Oh that's so awesome. Primatech Paper Company - a subsidiary of Yamagoto Industries! My head just exploded. I don't even care about Eric Roberts anymore!
Matt's mindreading visuals are tewtally cool. "Peter Petrelli? Peter Petrelli!" He's on everyone's mind! Repeat his name constantly to make up for the fact that Milo has the week off! But instead it's chock full o' stars - the return of Takei, the Roberts horror, even a clean-shaven Eccleston, looking 70s bad. Seriously, I don't remember people looking that bad in the 70s; I was around, y'know? (Then again, I barely ever saw any white people, so maybe they did.)
Oh Organization Without Initials! You are so morally ambiguous - like Homeland Security! Swatting a fly with a Sherman tank! All that blather about a "normal" life - what the hell is that like? I don't know anyone who has that, or ever did really have that.
What the fuck does the special gun do, anyway? He didn't (just) kill Ted; he made Ted combust, but in a smaller way than everyone had feared. Maybe the special gun supresses powers for just long enough to get the special into containment?
The Haitian is SUPPOSED to be mute! Wow! But then BUSTED. At least he knows how to aim for the guts instead of the liver, but how much does Bennet trust him? If I was the Haitian, I'd have plugged him but good. But that's not how Jimmy rolls - he's an elegant, compassionate soul, and he's been with Bennet since he was but a lad. He didn't like Bennet enough to talk to him or anything, but still. Aww! Run, Claire, run! Run to New York and reunite with your even more fucked up bio family, the Petrellis! Their lives are "normal"! Don't be put off by the way your dad and uncle are constantly hugging and kissing - they're Italian, and so are you, so don't be stingy with the sugar if Peter or Poppa want some! (Ew, I think I just went someplace I shouldn't go. Oh well, it's a living.)
OK the preview - FUCK ME! *facepalm* Oh me of little faith! FUCK YEAH SIMONE'S BACK IN TOWN BITCHAAZZZZZ! Singing AND dancing AND the wine that flows like the waters of the mighty Columbia - there is still hope in the world! It's like, SHE IS RISEN! Heroes 1:16: "And lo it was like the story of Lazarus... they roll the commercial away from the show and she stands there with a smirk on her face, daring a motherfucker to shoot HER, lest she return as a sexy, fierce zombie sistah. And it was good."
I don't even know what to say anymore. I just want to kiss someone - I think I'll have to kiss the cat. She won't like that very much.
Too many frackin' commercials, though! Argh!
Nitpicks first:
OK, look. I have to call bullshit right off the bat. If Ted's half as radioactive as they keep on saying, Mr. Bennet and Matt would both have been dead before they were able to walk to the mailbox. At the least, Matt isn't going to be having any more babies any time soon - his nads are as barren as Barstow. C'MON. I can suspend my disbelief about a lot of things, but radiation is NOT one of them.
And uh, why did Matt have to run back inside to get Mr. Bennet? I'd have been like, "Damn that sucks, but fuck him, I've got a bus to catch and some iodine isotope tablets to wolf down." What is it about HRG that makes everyone develop this slavish man-crush on him? Isaac, now Matt? I mean, not that I can't see it - I have a lady crush on him - but wow!
And, uh, the whole freakin' neighborhood watched Claire come out of the house, and heal from her 69th degree burns. The whole neighborhood. The house is going to be radioactive like the Bikini Atoll for the next 40 years. How the fuck are they going to explain that? (I imagine that they'll never bother, if the previews are any indication of the psycho thrill ride they have in store for next week! *sigh* Science fiction should be based on science fact, goddammit!)
OK, now that's out of the way, it's non-stop loving.
Muggles opens the episode! woot! He gets some of the most poignant moments, too - that lingering shot of the painting burning up to him precious fuzzy widdle face! Awwww! Really, what about Mr. Muggles? Is he going to be OK?
Ashley Crow was fantastic as Mrs. Bennet this week, especially with the dripping-with-irony scene of Ted holding a gun on her and he bellows, "I killed my wife, it's only right that I threaten yours" (I paraphrase badly) because, as those of us who are obsessive know, Matthew John Armstrong and Ashley Crow are married in real life... they were fantastic. I imagine they had to do a lot of takes, due to inappropriate nervous giggling, though.
...Morally questionable choices - like casting Eric Roberts, for example. *shudder* Time has done his looks no favors. But hey, look - two Doctor Who alums in the same room! Sure, we'd all rather forget about that Eric Roberts monstrosity, but if we ignore the past, we are doomed to repeat it. And we can never have an abomination on that scale ever again.
OMG Hiro's dad! Knows everything! Is behind everything! Hiro was there! How young (and/or stupid) is he that he doesn't remember that Deveaux rooftop scene? OR DOES HE? (DUN DUN DUNNNNNNNN!) SQUEEEE! Oh that's so awesome. Primatech Paper Company - a subsidiary of Yamagoto Industries! My head just exploded. I don't even care about Eric Roberts anymore!
Matt's mindreading visuals are tewtally cool. "Peter Petrelli? Peter Petrelli!" He's on everyone's mind! Repeat his name constantly to make up for the fact that Milo has the week off! But instead it's chock full o' stars - the return of Takei, the Roberts horror, even a clean-shaven Eccleston, looking 70s bad. Seriously, I don't remember people looking that bad in the 70s; I was around, y'know? (Then again, I barely ever saw any white people, so maybe they did.)
Oh Organization Without Initials! You are so morally ambiguous - like Homeland Security! Swatting a fly with a Sherman tank! All that blather about a "normal" life - what the hell is that like? I don't know anyone who has that, or ever did really have that.
What the fuck does the special gun do, anyway? He didn't (just) kill Ted; he made Ted combust, but in a smaller way than everyone had feared. Maybe the special gun supresses powers for just long enough to get the special into containment?
The Haitian is SUPPOSED to be mute! Wow! But then BUSTED. At least he knows how to aim for the guts instead of the liver, but how much does Bennet trust him? If I was the Haitian, I'd have plugged him but good. But that's not how Jimmy rolls - he's an elegant, compassionate soul, and he's been with Bennet since he was but a lad. He didn't like Bennet enough to talk to him or anything, but still. Aww! Run, Claire, run! Run to New York and reunite with your even more fucked up bio family, the Petrellis! Their lives are "normal"! Don't be put off by the way your dad and uncle are constantly hugging and kissing - they're Italian, and so are you, so don't be stingy with the sugar if Peter or Poppa want some! (Ew, I think I just went someplace I shouldn't go. Oh well, it's a living.)
OK the preview - FUCK ME! *facepalm* Oh me of little faith! FUCK YEAH SIMONE'S BACK IN TOWN BITCHAAZZZZZ! Singing AND dancing AND the wine that flows like the waters of the mighty Columbia - there is still hope in the world! It's like, SHE IS RISEN! Heroes 1:16: "And lo it was like the story of Lazarus... they roll the commercial away from the show and she stands there with a smirk on her face, daring a motherfucker to shoot HER, lest she return as a sexy, fierce zombie sistah. And it was good."
I don't even know what to say anymore. I just want to kiss someone - I think I'll have to kiss the cat. She won't like that very much.