This isn't a simple spilled slushy.*

[bending_sickle]

Heroes heroes_meta 4x07, "One Upon a Time In Texas"

Hiro, Charlie and Sylar

- Heroes! Creating new and incredibly boring ways to insert exceptionally long previouslies past the official start of the episode since Season 4! First we had Sylar in the hall of The Hard Part footage and now we get Hiro's Bland Tale of Six Months Ago (which was actually three frickin' years ago). This kind of shoddy fillers are only understandable if the writers are otherwise focused on NaNo, but it is unforgivable in that it contrasts the awesomeness of Season 1 with this not-so-awesome Season.

- The Brainman Sylar didn't always kill Charlie! Stop saying that, Hiro! She had that blood clot! Aaaaand the writers remember this fact halfway through the episode. Good job, kids.

- Okay, I understand Hiro neeeding clothes, but why in the name of chivalry and heroism did he steal two shirts? There's necesity and then there's being a greedy bastard.

- Also, about the shirt: the under one was black, the top one was white. We have the "white hat" comment (oh show, how stupid you must think we are) and then in the stand-off we have Sylar in black and Hiro in white except he isn't! he's black underneath! so I call foreshadowing. (If the writers still know what that is, of course.)

- I was always very upset that we never saw Sylar use Charlie's power ever throughout the course of the entire show. And now he doesn't have the power anymore but it's not like that changes anything. Fail once more, show.

- Flashbacks are nice, and I squeed upon first seeing Isaac, but for the love of gods, Show, do not use old footage. Especially footage this long. You couldn't have shown us a different angle? Looking in through the window? Anything? Come on, stop using your old episodes as filler!

- Hiro, a word of advice: go to India, find poor, abandoned Molly who's freaking out because Mohinder's gone and she can't find him because he's dead and Matt doesn't remember she exists now that he has mini-Matt to draw all his attention. (Oh, step-dads with new biological progeny, how you sucketh in fiction.) Molly can help you find Charlie on your own, and screw what Samuel wants. (Or not, whatever, fix Momo, I don't care if he's going to still be missing his brain. Please, Show, give Momo back his brain. Sylar agrees.)


Life: I've tried working on three separate parts of the report - all dealing with ArcGIS - and have ended up head-desking at all of them. Triple fail for the win! So I am very much stuck, especially with the professor who helps me out being AWOL. I've done some despairing and some wibbling, which was great. I hate this internship. I really hate its ArcGIS part, which is stalling me like no man's business.

Tomorrow at 10 pm I'll be on ze plaaaaaane to Rome to see my folks, scribbling madly into my notebook to keep up with NaNo. I'll be there until the morning of Nov. 11. Survival is doubtful.


Links of the Day:

Supernatural Reviews
cowards_kiss's Review
lemmealone's Review
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leonidaslion's Review
browncoat_gater's Review

Random
x_cursive's Multifandom Icons
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xkcd_rss's Lego as a metaphor atheism (Permalink)
Neil Gaiman's Note to self: Nights are for sleeping, Days are for Being Awake. - "left me wanting to go 'I am NOT a tender-hearted master of the macabre, I am in fact VERY SCARY INDEED,' but I suspect I would convince nobody."


* Samuel, "Once Upon a Time in Texas", Heroes