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[trinityvixen]

What 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.

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[arcane-the-sage.livejournal.com]

No the kid is not Mohinder. The kid was the first super (to borrow a phrase) that Mohinder's father ever studied (a dream-walker, I love it).

Now you just had to bring up rogue now didn't you =-þ You forget that the problem with Rogue's ability is that she takes the mind as well as the power. Add to that how Marvel telepaths tend to my mental juggernauts and you have a recipe of Rogue to have her mind pushed to the back seat as the telepath does the driving.

So we learned that all of Sylar's targets have powers. Very interesting. So he's more like the younger Petrelli than we knew (in theory). That should make their meeting face to face very interesting.

Why does a make or break eps have to fall on the same night as a CD release party? *laments*

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

What is the point of Mohinder then? He's not smarter than the average bear or anything that makes him so worthy. He has his dad's research, but two minutes with Micah and that shit will be sorted out. Mohinder is such a weak point, story-wise. He has no authority of belief or of information (he has the latter, but not in so great a quantity that it makes him necessary to the story, and only Papa Suresh had the former), so there's no reason that any of the heroes should come to him or need him.

Rogue has absorbed powerful telepaths in the past and survived. One of my favorite plot lines with her (okay, it had Phoenix in it, but she was there, too) is her absorbing some of Xavier's powers while he was unconscious. Scott talked her through mastering the powers. If she were to do that regularly, she could absorb a telepath at least as powerful as say Emma Frost and probably subdue her (I wouldn't recommend Emma by name, only because she's ornery and sly). If she did it enough times, she'd be changed enough to keep the power and eliminate the minds of people she swiped powers from. But, enough. That is geeking out for another time.

I figured from the start that the unusual Sylar victims were those with powers. It makes sense. It certainly plays into the white-white-whitey-white writers' ignorant understanding of the world that they still buy the whole "indigenous" legend about eating your enemy to gain his strength (kind of like Mohinder saying we only use 10% of our brains GAAAH). I wonder if he'd stop, though, if he could take Peter's ability. Given how unpredictable and localization-dependant Peter is, probably not.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

Ginkos. You stepped in ginko fruit.

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.

[arcane-the-sage.livejournal.com]

Mohinder's purpose, to the best of my knowledge, is that of a cypher. He's suppose to find the clues his dad left behind about his research. What the end result of all that will be, I have no idea. Though the little tid bit about the sister was interesting from a background point of view.

Most of the time Rogue touches a telepath, it's a friendly one. Friendly minds won't try to overcoming her. As for the Emma Frost encounter, it depends on what Emma was trying to do at the time. If Rogue was just there to sap a bit of her power to weaken her then it works (Rogue would need to hold on longer to get a more usable level of power, and that would mean she picks up the other person's mind). So long as the other person doesn't pass out from the contact, Rogue doesn't pull that much of their mind to be a problem. The problem arises with mental powers though that in order to get a usable level of the power, she also gets quite a bit of their mind. Remember the people who are already stuck in her head give her problems from time to time (hence why the professor has to work with her to keep them quiet).

I wonder what would happen if he tried. It's quite possible that Peter would adapt fast enough to defend against Sylars attack(s). It's also possible that putting those two near each other might have all sorts of side effects ("oh look, we broke the universe..... maybe we should get away from one another").

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Well, that explains it then. Because the tree I think they're falling from is a beautiful gold-leaved thing right now. But daaaaamn do those berries stink.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I don't follow how Peter being near Sylar is anything other than a null point. Basically, Peter can't get any power unless he's physically close, so it's useless to Sylar if he wants to accumulate power permanently (not so if he wants to use it to get powers without killing people but he seems to be fine with doing that). Peter doesn't adapt, though. He just syncs in. We don't know what all else, besides his ability to accumulate abilities that Sylar can do that could be mimicked by Peter. I doubt senior mopey would be so adept against a multi-powered killer.

[arcane-the-sage.livejournal.com]

Actually the line of thinking I'm going off of is what happens when someone who takes powers gets near someone else with a very similar power? This could turn Peter into a giant power vacuum sucking up more and more abilities around him. Yeah that's not the only possibility here, however it's the most dramatic...... and these writers do like their drama. Plus Peter's ability seems reactionary. There is a high likelihood that if put in danger his abilities would kick in to protect him.

Of course all this is taking assuming that Peter is not Sylar (the fact that they haven't show Sylar's face leaves this possibility open). It wouldn't surprise me if that's how things turn out.

So have you seen this yet =-þ

[arcane-the-sage.livejournal.com]

Eccleston to Appear on Heroes

Looks like Hiro won't be the only time traveler in a bit =-þ

Re: So have you seen this yet =-þ

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I have been consciously ignoring that. Because I can't...I can't even process it. I had about thirteen nerdgasms just thinking about it. And this has happened before--there were reports of whom they'd gotten to play Sylar and it wasn't true and even if this is, I can't process it yet.

But yes, I've heard this. I am totally imagining his reaction to Hiro telling him he is a time traveler. I expect a big "Is that right?" Except I'm not expecting anything. Not getting hopes up overly high. ::shudders with excitement::

[musetoself.livejournal.com]

There was a gingko tree on the lawn outside my (hippie) high school. When students were reaaaally bad, the (hippie) disciplinarian would put them on "gingko duty." Shoveling those things into a bucket = yuck.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

Yellow, fan shaped leaves, with a leathery texture? Definitely ginko.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Yep, that's the culprit. Balls.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Yeah, this is a problem. I was used to just keeping my nose held closed when I passed it. Not an option when it tracks along with you on your shoe...

[wellgull.livejournal.com]

Beat me to it.

Yeah, those things are vile. They line all of the several blocks between my place and the subway -- eww, eww, every day.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

It's funny because I noticed today that they've swept away quite a lot of the droppings from the tree. I wonder if they do it periodically to avoid this problem.