bending_sickle | ...and a tadpole named Mr. Muggles*

heroes_meta for Heroes 4x11 "The Fifth Stage"

Claire, Gretchen, Samuel and Assorted Carnival Folk:

- They couldn't have picked a hot guy to have duplicate powers? Random Dude we've never seen isn't half-cool. Am I missing a webisode that would explain all this? (If so, bad writing on the writers part, making me feel like there's a gaping plot hole in the first five minutes already.)

- Claire and Gretchen have been driving all night? 21 hours? Seriously? They look surprisingly refreshed.

- "Stay until you finish the box." It should have been a magically bottomless box! Why else stress the "finish the popcorn" part so much? Also, how slowly do Claire and Gretchen eat popcorn? I can finish a box of cheap movie popcorn in a jiffy, and they were eating the world's best popcorn after a 21 hour drive. They should have guzzled the whole thing in two seconds flat. "See ya, Sam! Thanks for dinner!"

- "She's vulnerable" says the teenage stalker. Irony, thy name is Gretchen. You totally took advantage of Claire's vulnerability when her roommate jumped out the window.

- "Love we have." Except for brothers. And Edgar. Anyone else, though, Samuel totes loves, yo.

- Claire's story with the pet tadpole is really creepy in that it's a frog with a pet tadpole. It's like a person with a pet baby. Did you learn nothing in biology class?!?

- I have found my favorite version of Samuel: The Manager. Maybe it's just the way he has with words which made him so awesome. "You don't possess the proper skill lever to win." That speech did give me Magneto-echoes, what with the whole "some people are more special than others" feel.

- I still can't get over the why of Samuel's Irishness. What is it with Heroes creating Irish characters and stocking them with American actors? And why Irish anyway? Samuel, for all his "woe, second-class citizen" grew up in the states and would have lost his accent long ago. What makes him so quintessentially Irish that they need to torture the poor accent so?

- Samuel! Stop walking into his fist!

- Claire: the perfect bodyguard or replenishing cannon fodder?

- Argh, another SPN > Heroes moment, but this one's deeper than the last one. Claire was so forgiving of the carnival folk because "he let the little girl win a prize!" So in Heroes, one tiny act of goodness for the hell of it trumps all the other evil, evil stuff. On SPN, 5x07, the warlock (a.k.a. "man-witch") Patrick has been playing poker, betting years, and aging the losers to death. Although he, like the Carnie guy, lets an old man win so he can see his grand-daughter grow up, this doesn't get him a blank slate because Sam, at least, has learnt that one apparent good action doesn't beat out all the evil.

- I was a little - or rather, very - squicked by Claire patting at Samuel's totally non-bloody lips. I mean, he's practically a stranger! And she's all up in his face patting his lips! Are men incapable of cleaning themselves up, is that it?

- "We're gypsies, Claire. We weigh our decisions very carefully when dealing with the outside world." There's a news story of a vengeance-shooting stuck in my head that begs to differ, but I'mma shuddup now.

- Gretchen leaves. Samuel and Lydia: *strike a pose*

- At the Epic "This is Our Home" Speech, I was disracted by the man with the most awesome beard ever!

- Just before the last camera shift, in Claire's last shot, she looks about thirty. Which is very disturbing.

- Also, how did they all get there? Who's teleporting them now that Hiro's running through a jungle what? and the other guy's dead.

Peter, Sylar and Nathan:

- The Sylar!ticking is now massive church bells! This...is good for some reason. I missed the ticking, okay? Also, it's going tick, tock tock tock, tick which, uh, yay?

- Just why does Sylar know how to fight? Gabriel certainly never got into a scuffle, and ever since Sylar came to the fore he's had telekinesis, which may have developed his finger muscles, but that's about it. So how does he know how to punch?

- ...crucifixtion? Oh no you didn't.

- Peter was all, "I'll stop the torture if you let me kill you!" and Sylar was all, "Mwuahahaha!" which is why he's awesome.

- I know I'm always finding parallels between Heroes and Supernatural, mostly of the "SPN did it better" sense, but bear with me. In SPN's Lucifer Rising, Sam also did the "Torture and die!" duo, but with him it seemed to work much, much better. Maybe because he kept torturing instead of quiting at the first smirk like Peter did.

- Speaking of torturing, there's a surprising amount of it in my fandoms now that I think of it. There's Sayid, torturah extraordinaire, and Dean, hell's best, and Sam, who totally counts for that one time (and the other implied ones), and now Peter, who's trying to join the team. (I'm sure Heroes has a lot more torturers, but I can't remember at the moment.) I want them all to get together and discuss torture, why they do it, how it makes them feel, or just which bits are the best. Or to have some sort of torture contest. This...this is somewhat morbid of me, isn't it?

- I am incredibly pissed of that Sylar was able to morph into Nathan while Peter was being all Haitian. I mean, Peter didn't get a white flag from Sylar, so presumably he was still blocking Sylar's powers, so how the flying Petrelli fuck did the morphing power escape the Haitianization?

- Ooh! Genetic squiggle! How I've missed you!

- Aw! Season 1 roof, old friend! ...and the writers once again feel the need to not just juggle our memories but give up a long-winded summary of the scene. Honestly, what do they think of us?

- Yes, Peter, take your brother to the roof where Sylar, who could take repossession of his body any moment because your brother is so tiiiiiiired, can throw you over it. ...fuuuuuuck, you are not putting Nathan on the motherlovin' ledge, Peter. You idiot!

- I love when Adrian Pasdar does Sylar. *mourns*

- Peter, do not hug the "can turn into a serial killer at any time" version of your brother.

- The writers strike with another clue-by-four by actually having Nathan say, "Let me go." I think the writers underestimate our intelligence and ability to grasp subtlety.

- "Take care of Claire!" But not his two sons. They can take care of themselves, the poor bastards.

- Sloooow mooootion fall is boring and trying too hard to be epic. Sylar's tiny little wave, however, is a thing of joy.

Bennet, Lauren and Duplication Man

- Ah, Bennett, once again listing off your family members and forgetting your son. You're a terrible father.

- Gah, Bennett, you're such a sleeze! "Hey! You totally wanted to jump my bones before you mind-wiped yourself! Let's get it on!"

- What do you do when a mysterious men walk into your house saying they "want something" and you have all your Company files next to your computer? If you're an experienced man like Bennett, you...hide in the bathroom giving the men amble time to completely ransack your house and take what they came for, plus potential blackmail photos and your favorite tea set.

- Tell me you had back-up copies, Bennett. Please don't be that stupid.

Unexpected Clips Are Unexpected:

- What?!? Momo, Hiro and Ando running through a jungle? What the fuck?!? Show, did you delete important bits in an episode again? Like with Sylar's fake identity plan with Danko?

- Filler Emma is filler. *sigh*