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heroes_meta Heroes 4x03 "Ink"

Claire

Either the writers are doing poorly or it wasn't suicide because this is like putting a recently-fired gun in the first scene and then expecting the audience to just go, "Oh, it went off by accident. Ladida." Claire of all people should be suspicious about it being labeled a suicide - dummy-test regardless. Has she learnt nothing from hanging out with specials? As if there were no way for a girl to fall out of a building without it being suicide. How about telekineses or mind-control?

Oh sweet jambalaya, what the hell are you wearing? Trying out your dominatrix escort costume for Halloween a wee bit early, don't you think?

After Claire's whole honesty speak and, "Ask me anything," there is really only one correct response: "What are your feelings on yaoi?"

Samuel (and Lydia)

Why do women always know how to tie up ties on television? Why are they always better at doing it than men, who one would expect do ties more often? Am I misssing out on something? Because without YouTubeing an instructional video, I wouldn't know how to do a tie. What happens to these women? Do their boyfriends teach them once, then completely forget how to do it themselves so their girls are forever forced to tie mini-nooses about their necks, trying not to do it too tight (yet)?

Oh thank gods, Heroes! An insta-ship that isn't later found incestuous! If Samuel's telling Lydia about his childhood, they're not kin! Whoo!

I don't care how Irish Samuel is. He grew up in New York (daddy was a butler, my ass) and would therefore have a New York accent. (Unless he grew up in a closet with no contact other than his heavily-accented parents. Oh wait, he grew up in the carriage house. Seriously, show, I don't even...) Even Frank McCourt spoke "like a little Yankee" as a child due to his stint there.

Also, his "My family will starve!" speech was a bit last century-ish. When the hell were you born, you Irish-talking butler's son who runs off to the circus?

You know, I recon that finding out you can more "the very earth beneath your feet" sounds all epic and biblical, but is really rather useless in your day-to-day life. Especially if you live in a big city, where you're more apt to knock yourself out with a block of concrete for your troubles.

Oh Samuel, you son of a mother. Go on, destroy the mansion and cabin-home of your youth. Sour grapes much? "Stupid lady won't let me see the old place. Wah! *landslide swoosh* Didn't want to see it anyway. Wah."

On a more superficial note, Samuel looks damn fine in a suit.

Matt Parkman

Oh Matt, you're "You're a killer, I'm a cop!" speech of la resistance was incredibly hypcritical considering just last episode you turned down Angela's request for an upgrade on the Nathan-Sylar model, saying that Sylar was their problem. Way to not care about the serial killer getting lose, Mr Cop.

Why would a cop wear dark glasses to break into a drug dealer's house? Not only does it mess up your vision (Omg, it's dark in the house! I cannae see!) but it also makes an excellent target for the classic "Let's blind the cop with shards of glass!" game.

How come the drug guy's so beat up after the hallucination stops, but Matt only punched him a few times? The poor guy looks like Matt went full-on Reservoir Dogs in him and couldn't find a radio.

Lyle

Lyle gets mentioned, which is more than Mohinder got this week. Nananana! Go Lyle!

Sylar

Can I have my own Sylar to lounge about sexily and MST3K life for me? I think this is my favorite version of Sylar. Well, of the Sylar-without-a-plot category, at least. He really does ooze charm. Now, if only he could be like this outside of Parkman's head and stop killing people, he'd be perfect. He'd get all those things he always wanted (except for his parents' love, 'cause that ship has sunk) and there'd be no need to be all woe-ful and murderous.

It breaks my heart how upset Sylar is (pretending to be) about the bunny and its owner.

Oh squee! Telepathic sound-effect and tick-ticking! Matt and Sylar mind-meld!

Emma the Synesthetic Wonder and Cellist Player Extraordinaire

I think the headphones idea is brilliant!

Unless stated otherwise, I'm going to assume she used to be able to hear and was a professional musician, because no matter how pretty the lights, you don't just pick up a string instrument and get it to work on the first go. (Of course, this theory doesn't really work, because then she probably wouldn't be so fluent with sign language, but we can give that some leeway because of the learning curve.)

My ASL courses prove useless as I don't recognize any of the signs, but I can say that if two sign language users are communicating, translating what you're signing into the spoken word is useless (unless you are an exhibitionist and are constantly hoping for a voyeur to come into your life and therefore feel the need to translate for your voyeur true love). Furthermore, considering they're two different languages, signing and speaking simultaneously is flipping hard. (And tatamount to speaking English and writing the sentences on a board in Spanish at the same time.)

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