I'm pretty sure this right here is all the plot we're ever gonna get.*

[bending_sickle]

heroes_meta for Heroes 4x05 "Hysterical Blindness":

Sylar and the Cops:

- Oh wow, Quinto's acting - especially during questioning - was jaw-droppingly good.

- I absolutely hated the cop, and not because he was doing a good job of being Bad Cop (TM) but because he was being utterly stupid beyond Matt Parkman levels. The very second he showed up on screen and saw an obviously confused, possibly mortally-wounded unarmed man on the road and pulled a gun and yelled him to get the fuck down, I knew this was the type of person with his single brain-cell permanently flipped to Violent Ass Mode.

- So the amnesiac is accused of murder. You do not call it case closed and lock him up in the crazy house. Ass.

- No, they'd don't have "Crazy" stamps, but they do have "Wanted for Murder" ones :)

- Experiencing jamais vue does not, I think, automatically mean that Sylar's amnesiac psyche isn't irrevocably lost to the ether. It just means, hey, this is new.

- Serisouly? "Hey, the ticking clock bothers me!" translates to "Ooooh, clocks are obviously significant and part of your past!" Maybe it just means he has a good ear and the tick-tick-tick-ticking gets on his nerves because he's freaking out.

- "Be yourself" may not be something you want to say to Sylar. (Accompanying it with tick-tocking was brilliant, though.)
Although I adore amnesiac!Sylar to bits. He's so good, it's heartbreaking.

- I really like the psych lady. (Except inasmuch as the next point is concerned.)

- If the highly disturbed amnesiac is terrified and confused and you're the only person he trusts, you damn well use that to stop him from freaking out and shut your judgmental trap because you're a goddamn psychological profiler and know what not to say and will therefore refrain from saying it. Idjit.

- Sylar hiding in the backseat of the car was adorable.

- I hate how cops always shoot-to-kill in these circumstances. And it's not even a "shoot to potentially mortally wound but nothing modern medicine can't patch up", it's "shoot point-blank in the chest at least three times".

- Oh, cops... You have dogs! (Which you oh so thoughtfully decided to bring on a car chase, which...okay.) So the man just disappeared over the hill, don't just stand there! Track! With the dogs!

- When Sylar said he'd never had tea before, way over across the globe, Momo clutched at his poor little vengeful heart as it broke in two.

- Twenty years and a death too late, but Sylar finally came good on his threat to run away to the circus is Mom didn't get him that pet rabbit. Should've gotten it, Mrs Gray. Would've saved a lot of brains.

Emma:

- She's a cellist! Whoot! I called it! (Because I would've frothed at the mouth if her powers also gave her Play Anything powers.)

- If only they'd have the conversation in ASL on both sides and subtitle the whole conversation instead of vocally translating half of it... *sigh*

- Wow, Peter totally sucks at this whole empathy thing. Ironic, huh?

Angela:

- Angela's suffering from Mentionitis, which I've read is the first sign of a crush. Aaaaand hello pairing I never wanted to consider but now have...in detail. "Hi Peter, where's Nathan? You have a lovely apartment - it reminds me of Nathan's. Oh, what a delicious meal, I'm sure Nathan would've liked it. But let's talk about you...not Nathan, who didn't come. Do you think he's alright?" Oh Angela, whatever happened to "You were always my favorite?"

Not!Claude:

- Show, do not tempt me with invisible people. I don't care about them unless they're Claude. Where's my scruffy pigeon-feeding misanthrope?!?

- If you're invisible, hiding something behind your back doesn't work.

Claire:

- Notice how all the girls were wearing black-and-white hide-the-pregnancy dresses? And what college girl has those kinds of fancy dresses, and wears them to a frat party?

- Girl-on-girl when there wasn't all that much UST caused me to "Meh". I'll be shocked (and all a-squee) when we get the subtext out in the air with some of the male characters, but like that's going to happen.

Samuel:

- I bet he has a dirt fetish!

- Samuel: the world's most violent gardener.

- Stop monologueing, Samuel, especially at people. Remember Mohinder? Yeah, neither do the writers.

- Twilight Zone goes weeee! And Samuel looks a bit like Willy Wonka with an extra dash of creepy.


Links of the Day:
darksilvercat's Supernatural Meta: Where Do Castiel's Loyalties Lie?
bardicvoice's 5.05 Fallen Idols Extensive Review
yourlibrarian's Supernatural Meta: Victimhood in Supernatural
savingfaith333's Supernatural Fanfic The Waste Land - Dean gets sent back to the future where he learns that there might be some things worth saving there after all. (Past!Dean/Future!Cas, mentions of Past!Dean/Past!Cas and Future!Dean/Future!Cas)
annspal's Supernatural The Visual Story at a Glance: "The End (5x04)" and "Fallen Idols (5x05)"
ldyghstwhisprer's Supernatural Fanmix The Bitter End - 5x04 Mix
seraphim_grace's Supernatural Fic World Enough and Time - American Gods/Sandman/Supernatural Universe Crossover (Castiel/Dean, Sam/Ruby)
little_details - For those annoying little details you want to get right in your fic.
Cinematic Titanic - The new MST3K
Hot Buttered Rum and Russian Spiced Tea Recipes
Spiked hot chocolate suggestions


* ironychan, Re: Kung Fu Zombie