meta/liveblog: 3.13: "Dual"

[mystery_sock]

I am so going to end up rewatching this episode again immediately.

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[sadiane]

I adore the implication that, if the formula/drug/insta powers in a syringe turns you into the hero you deeply long to be, then Ando wants to be an uber- sidekick, and Peter just wants to be Nathan *flails a little*

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A sparkly sidekick and... well, Nathan.

Oh my GAWD.

Oh Peter. God I need to hug him so bad. My poor woobie! WOOBIE SUPREME! That's his new name. I've decided.

Wow. That was fantabulous.

[sadiane]

His little face! Like he's determined that if he just loves Nathan enough everything will all be okay, they can fix everything, they can save the world.

And Nathan just walks away (I would have loved to see Peter's picture in that file, just for the gut punch of angst)! Woobie Supreme!

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AND ANGELA LIVES TO CONNIVE ANOTHER DAY! Claire, can I kiss you?
MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY. It's part old Claire, part new, badass Claire, and I fucking love it. Maybe with Claire being a bit coldhearted herself she and HRG will finally stop FIGHTING each other for a minute.

Oh not fair - Bradley Cooper is in YES MAN.
Mmmmm Bradley Cooper. Badass!Will was so awesome...

God, that's so hot, except for the bullshit he's talking, which, with the sexy velvet tone of voice, just makes it sound like he's trying to get Knox to give him a quick blowjob since they're both not doing anything better at the moment.
*chokes* Dude, they killed Knox just when I was starting to like him, though :/.

A pleasure flight. Just a little one. Please? Can't they just enjoy each other's company?
Somehow I think there will be very few pleasure cruises for a while so I'mma enjoy this one, sigh.

Mo gets into the car with Tracy and I immediately begun to ship them!Hell yes! And I never ship Mohinder with girls, so that's saying something

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I really just want to kidnap and reprogram Nathan. And I also want to set up some visitation with him and his boys - I mean REALLY. He just walked the hell away from that whole situation. Gah! It's just like my dad, except WORSE!

That was a LOT of killing for one episode. They just threw a bunch of recurring-role contracts onto the bonfire.

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I really just want to kidnap and reprogram Nathan. And I also want to set up some visitation with him and his boys
Oh my god YES. I have been whining about this since the beginning of the freakin' season! Where are they? Where's Heidi? Are they all just hanging out in NY like it's nothing or are they all hiding in Santa Clara Texas? Their daddy got shot & there wasn't even a thrown in line about "well, the boys were here and blah blah blah..."

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I think we're just supposed to have amnesia about that whole thing. I guess.

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And you've met MD! Worf! OMG, that's so cool. You must spill the deets sometime!
He's a lot shorter than he looked on ST:Next Generation. (Jonathan Frakes is substantially taller than he is.) And he's not terribly funny, but he's a total sweetheart who loves his fans and loves Klingon lore. And his voice is just like buttah. I did not flirt with him the way I did George Takei, but George is just SO flirtable. It's impossible NOT to flirt with him. God, I miss Trek conventions so bad - maybe in the future we'll actually get the Quinto at some of them! Eeeeee!

Peter looks utterly devastated at the end.
He's lost everything. Except Angela. And Claire. And this ought to be REALLY interesting, seeing as Claire also seems to be invested in keeping Angela around. My poor baby.

I know I've idealized Nathan a littleYeah, me too... but on the other hand, like Pete (hello, Luke Skywalker!), I can't help but see the good in him. I want him to skew toward his nobler, more compassionate side - but... I guess that's not how it is. But as long as

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I haven't seen it, I'm afraid... I was going to set up a weekend where I'd watch the whole series in one sitting, but of course, I no longer have free weekends. :(

You flirted with George Takei? You little minx.
Oh, he started it. Well, not really. :)

But the way he treated Peter was so contrary to what we've seen from him before. I still can't deal with it.
Nathan actually beat Peter up. That is so fucked. We've never seen him raise a hand to Peter before under any circumstances, let alone giving him a beatdown with a steel pipe - and seemingly really enjoying it. That just upsets the hell out of me. It's so OOC that I am genuinely thinking "That wasn't him; there's someone else driving." It's Heroes; this is not impossible, although changing a character's whole approach to life isn't, either. I am just going to cling to my delusion that Nathan's under someone else's subconscious control until I know otherwise...

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I tell you, this was an amazing episode that hearkened back to the way the show 'used' to make me feel (circa season 1). I mean, the intro with SYLAR and the outro with Mo's voiceover and that closing in shot of Claire. HOT DAMN that was some good shit! And Claire didn't get own my nerves this time! That's progress huh

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Jamie Hector.

Yes.

The Wire.

AWESOME show.

However, must admit that I'm currently waiting on Blockbuster Online to get off their asses and send me Season 2. They have every other season in other than the one I need to progress in my viewing; the irony, fucking priceless. I heart the Wire. Carry on... LOL

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Nate beating the shit out of Pete. Can I PLEASE get some more of that!
NOOOOOOOOOO. No, I want them to hug each other and kiss each other and fly and dance and... OK, I want them to have a big Disney Princess romance. WHAT'S WRONG WITH THAT? :D

^ Like that - like that hug - see? Look how beautiful that is.

[anonymous]

You called Flint 'Jesse' the entire time. But that's alright, he's probably dead anyhow. There's no real reason to keep him alive anymore, now that Meredith's bit the dust. (The producers confirmed that one of Claire's parents would die in this episode.)

Eric Doyle is still alive, according to the producers. He wasn't dead, if you recall. He was breathing rather heavily, last we saw him.

Nathan is evil. Cool. Claude better come back and kick ass.

Wouldn't it be great if Peter has his empathic mimicry back, but now has to start from scratch? NOw all he has is flight and probably Flint's Blue Flames of Doom.

I laughed when Hiro punched Tracy. Hysterical.

Angela is AWESOME.

Can't wait until Groundhog Day.

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Oh for God's sake. He just seems like a Jesse to me, perhaps because he's white trash. :P I suppose I'd better correct it... oh, well. This is what the excitement does to me. Plus, I miss Jesse.

Eric Doyle is still alive, according to the producers.
Oh SWEET! I forgot that everybody on Level 5 got out before Meredith lost control of her FI-YAH. Obviously I must rewatch AGAIN. :)

[anonymous]

Jesse sounds like a pretty white trash name, yeah. But I'd have preferred Jesse survive over Flint. Nothing against the actor, but Francis Capra's pretty cool. And I was all excited about the webisode's Echo DeMille showing up, but he didn't even have any lines. Bummer

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Oh, thank you. :D You did me a solid on the Flint/Jesse screwup. It seriously just never occured to me - and I did like six edits on that entry, too. Oy vey.

Seriously, where did Bruce Boxleitner go? I saw him on Chuck a few weeks ago. But I'd like him back on Heroes. Had he not played the Governor, I wanted him as Arthur Petrelli
That's what I wanted, too (real bad) and only the awesomeness of Forster helped to soothe that pain. I LOOOOOOOVE Bruce Boxleitner. Like, LOOOOOVE. Like nearing the kind of love I have for Milo and Adrian. I fell in love with that man and I'm still there. His ass haunts my dreams. :)

Did you see Ando's bicep when he rolled up his sleeve?
Oh, yeah. Everybody's hitting the gym super hard these days (get a load of the guns on Zachary this week, too! Yowza!) I miss Flimsy Pete, but I'm not going to object to Milo's current hardbody.

a flashback during Volume 4 covering the founders.
Ohpleaseohpleaseohplease who do I have to fuck to make that happen??