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trinityvixenWhat kind of a tree drops little round ball-thingies that smell like fresh dog shit when you step on them, I ask you? Because I stepped on one and my shoe smells worse than it would had I tracked through any of the piles of dog shit that routinely dot the landscape near our apartment. Gah, it's sooooo gross.
Suddenly, Heroes is working a lot better. Giving Matt someone to empathize with drastically improves his story line. I think that's what irked me so much about Niki and the Petrellis at first. The "Oh noes! Woe is me! I cannot tell anyone about my fabulous secret powers!" storyline is played out. Having people orbit each other and wonder and question the abilities they each have is more fun. Having someone freak out with you is more fun.
So Radiation Husband and Matt both flipping out about being abducted and mind-wiped is fantastic. Less so? Matt still hearing people's thoughts in voiceovers that are ridiculous. Really, I like Greg Grunberg just kind of zoning out and then tuning back in with the answer without the literal translation for the telepath-blind audience (especially because the things people think? NOT AT ALL THE WAY PEOPLE USUALLY THINK IN THEIR HEADS--hell, not even how the think aloud). All the head swerving and concentrated listening is just stupid looking. This is going to sound stupid, but it's not what a real telepath would do, okay? Maybe I'm spoiled by the comics that have done it better--hell, the X-Men movies did it better. In particular, I think of Jean Grey in X2 and the way she frowned as if she heard/sensed something without throwing her head around to point her ear in that direction. Because she knows she's not hearing it, she's telepathically picking it up. By now, Matt ought to be used to it and know better. So knock it off. While you're at it, knock off the wifey and get the hell into Clea DuVall's pants. I didn't like that set up at all, but now his wife's bullshit is three thousand times worse and more boring. So it's cliche, so what? Go have sex, fall desperately in love with her, I don't care.
Sylar! Woo! Sylar awesome! Sylar great! Sylar credibly scary! I felt really bad that waitress chick bought it, though I might end up liking her less if she survives. She didn't irritate me incredibly, so we'll have to see. Poor girl. That death scene was brutal. I'm glad I pegged at least one of Sylar's abilities correctly--he was shown to have telekinesis. Now, whether that's actually his or another stolen ability, no clue, but it goes a long way towards explaining the bodies pinned to ceilings with stuff. Cool, though. Hey, I always said that if I were, say, Rogue, I'd first absorb a telepath enough times to learn how to control (or eliminate) the voices in my head then I'd go on a rampage and take any and all powers I felt like keeping. Fuck it, if you're gonna be untouchable, you might as well make it so no one can get to you either. Damn it.
Mr. Bennet, whyfore do you break my heart so? You are so awesome, you make Eden look good, and I didn't think that was even possible. She's an autosuggestive and you employ a mindwiper besides? You could be the coolest evil dude ever, but you're not! You're not! You're misunderstood, perhaps misguided (he seemed so genuinely upset by hurting Claire's birth mother), but you're not evil. If Sylar kills him to get to Claire, I will be seriously displeased.
Hurrah for the absence of Niki/DL drama! Petrellis take the week off! Not so great: MOHINDER. FUCK. Why won't he go away? Are we to believe that Mohinder is the kid in his dreams? Because that would explain why he's got the whitest Indians for parents and looks darker than any kid that could be produced by sucking all the melanin from their skins. He's adopted! Whatever! I don't care! And short of making him, you know, actually interesting AND STOPPING WITH THE GODDAMNED POINTLESS VOICEOVERS, you won't make me care neither! Stupid show.
Still, great episode.
Suddenly, Heroes is working a lot better. Giving Matt someone to empathize with drastically improves his story line. I think that's what irked me so much about Niki and the Petrellis at first. The "Oh noes! Woe is me! I cannot tell anyone about my fabulous secret powers!" storyline is played out. Having people orbit each other and wonder and question the abilities they each have is more fun. Having someone freak out with you is more fun.
So Radiation Husband and Matt both flipping out about being abducted and mind-wiped is fantastic. Less so? Matt still hearing people's thoughts in voiceovers that are ridiculous. Really, I like Greg Grunberg just kind of zoning out and then tuning back in with the answer without the literal translation for the telepath-blind audience (especially because the things people think? NOT AT ALL THE WAY PEOPLE USUALLY THINK IN THEIR HEADS--hell, not even how the think aloud). All the head swerving and concentrated listening is just stupid looking. This is going to sound stupid, but it's not what a real telepath would do, okay? Maybe I'm spoiled by the comics that have done it better--hell, the X-Men movies did it better. In particular, I think of Jean Grey in X2 and the way she frowned as if she heard/sensed something without throwing her head around to point her ear in that direction. Because she knows she's not hearing it, she's telepathically picking it up. By now, Matt ought to be used to it and know better. So knock it off. While you're at it, knock off the wifey and get the hell into Clea DuVall's pants. I didn't like that set up at all, but now his wife's bullshit is three thousand times worse and more boring. So it's cliche, so what? Go have sex, fall desperately in love with her, I don't care.
Sylar! Woo! Sylar awesome! Sylar great! Sylar credibly scary! I felt really bad that waitress chick bought it, though I might end up liking her less if she survives. She didn't irritate me incredibly, so we'll have to see. Poor girl. That death scene was brutal. I'm glad I pegged at least one of Sylar's abilities correctly--he was shown to have telekinesis. Now, whether that's actually his or another stolen ability, no clue, but it goes a long way towards explaining the bodies pinned to ceilings with stuff. Cool, though. Hey, I always said that if I were, say, Rogue, I'd first absorb a telepath enough times to learn how to control (or eliminate) the voices in my head then I'd go on a rampage and take any and all powers I felt like keeping. Fuck it, if you're gonna be untouchable, you might as well make it so no one can get to you either. Damn it.
Mr. Bennet, whyfore do you break my heart so? You are so awesome, you make Eden look good, and I didn't think that was even possible. She's an autosuggestive and you employ a mindwiper besides? You could be the coolest evil dude ever, but you're not! You're not! You're misunderstood, perhaps misguided (he seemed so genuinely upset by hurting Claire's birth mother), but you're not evil. If Sylar kills him to get to Claire, I will be seriously displeased.
Hurrah for the absence of Niki/DL drama! Petrellis take the week off! Not so great: MOHINDER. FUCK. Why won't he go away? Are we to believe that Mohinder is the kid in his dreams? Because that would explain why he's got the whitest Indians for parents and looks darker than any kid that could be produced by sucking all the melanin from their skins. He's adopted! Whatever! I don't care! And short of making him, you know, actually interesting AND STOPPING WITH THE GODDAMNED POINTLESS VOICEOVERS, you won't make me care neither! Stupid show.
Still, great episode.
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Date: 2006-11-16 08:27 pm (UTC)Ginkos are nifty trees - there are fossils of the leaves nearly unchanged that are from the same time as dinosaurs. Because they've pretty much ignored evolution, they're one of the trees that actually has male and female trees. Developers usually try to pay attention and plant only male trees. 'Cause the leaves are pretty, but oh my god the fruit from the females stink.
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Date: 2006-11-17 04:38 pm (UTC)Yeah, those things are vile. They line all of the several blocks between my place and the subway -- eww, eww, every day.
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