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I watched one fannish show and two non-fannish shows tonight, but my non-fannish shows totally represented with the fannish guest stars. Lie to Me featured James Marsters (Spike from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Capt. John Hart from Torchwood) and John Pyper-Ferguson (John Oxenberger from Hard Core Logo). Castle featured Matt Barr (Sully from Harper's Island).
It was nice to see a couple of characters learning some valuable life lessons this week. First up was Hiro, who eventually (after 47 tries, assuming he wasn't exaggerating) figured out that Tadashi was a doofus and that going back in time to fix his screw-ups wasn't going to stop him from screwing up. It wasn't until Hiro sat down and really talked to him that he was able to help Tadashi. Too bad Hiro couldn't have figured that out before traveling through time so much that he just about gave himself an aneurysm. But on the plus side, maybe his epiphany in helping Tadashi could mean an early end to the ridiculous time travel storyline that it looked like we were going to be stuck with for awhile.
I was especially proud of Tracy, who finally decided to accomplish something with her life instead of sleeping her way to the top. I sincerely hope her journey towards redemption makes her more interesting, because as much as I like Ali Larter, I think she should have been let go when Niki died in the warehouse explosion. Tracy hasn't really had a purpose up until now. Or, possibly, she's had a different purpose every other episode or so. It's time to really give the character something uniquely her own to do, or write her out.
Claire was very cute being a career coach to her dad, but I don't think it went the way she intended. If anything, it looks like Bennet is ready to get back to work tracking down specials. Maybe the next time Peter asks him for help, he'll be a little less snide. 'Cause I'm pretty sure Bennet has seen stranger things than a disappearing tattoo in all his years with the Company.
Speaking of unintended consequences, I don't think Angela forcing Nathan-shaped Sylar to take a trip down memory lane worked out like she'd planned. And how ironic that homicidal maniac Sylar (as Nathan) tried to do the right thing regarding Kelly when you know that the real Nathan knew all about his mom's cover-up. Who else would've called her?
I can't think of two people who deserve each other's friendship more than Millie and Angela. Why do I think that covering up the deaths of each other's children is the least they've done to each other? Although Millie's going to be in for a shock when Nathan turns up again.
Why does this show give us so few scenes between Peter and Nathan? Are TPTB so afraid of Petrellicest that they can only give us one or two scenes per volume? I was all prepared to be proud of Peter for blowing off Nathan's phone calls after the way Nathan treated him last season, but I should've known better. Peter can't hold a grudge to save his life (literally--we've seen it). And just as I was thinking that Peter and Nathan (or a reasonable facsimile thereof) were going to reunite, Millie put out a contract on Nathan, Nathan was murdered, and Sylar rose from his grave like Michael Myers.
Knowing that Nathan isn't really Nathan puts a creepifying factor on the brother hugging and the reconciliation for me. I want to enjoy it because of the amazing chemistry Milo and Adrian have, but I can't. I just hope we eventually get a scene where Peter finds out that Nathan is dead and has been replaced by Nathan-shaped Sylar, and that his mother has known all along. The fallout should be epic.
It was nice to see a couple of characters learning some valuable life lessons this week. First up was Hiro, who eventually (after 47 tries, assuming he wasn't exaggerating) figured out that Tadashi was a doofus and that going back in time to fix his screw-ups wasn't going to stop him from screwing up. It wasn't until Hiro sat down and really talked to him that he was able to help Tadashi. Too bad Hiro couldn't have figured that out before traveling through time so much that he just about gave himself an aneurysm. But on the plus side, maybe his epiphany in helping Tadashi could mean an early end to the ridiculous time travel storyline that it looked like we were going to be stuck with for awhile.
I was especially proud of Tracy, who finally decided to accomplish something with her life instead of sleeping her way to the top. I sincerely hope her journey towards redemption makes her more interesting, because as much as I like Ali Larter, I think she should have been let go when Niki died in the warehouse explosion. Tracy hasn't really had a purpose up until now. Or, possibly, she's had a different purpose every other episode or so. It's time to really give the character something uniquely her own to do, or write her out.
Claire was very cute being a career coach to her dad, but I don't think it went the way she intended. If anything, it looks like Bennet is ready to get back to work tracking down specials. Maybe the next time Peter asks him for help, he'll be a little less snide. 'Cause I'm pretty sure Bennet has seen stranger things than a disappearing tattoo in all his years with the Company.
Speaking of unintended consequences, I don't think Angela forcing Nathan-shaped Sylar to take a trip down memory lane worked out like she'd planned. And how ironic that homicidal maniac Sylar (as Nathan) tried to do the right thing regarding Kelly when you know that the real Nathan knew all about his mom's cover-up. Who else would've called her?
I can't think of two people who deserve each other's friendship more than Millie and Angela. Why do I think that covering up the deaths of each other's children is the least they've done to each other? Although Millie's going to be in for a shock when Nathan turns up again.
Why does this show give us so few scenes between Peter and Nathan? Are TPTB so afraid of Petrellicest that they can only give us one or two scenes per volume? I was all prepared to be proud of Peter for blowing off Nathan's phone calls after the way Nathan treated him last season, but I should've known better. Peter can't hold a grudge to save his life (literally--we've seen it). And just as I was thinking that Peter and Nathan (or a reasonable facsimile thereof) were going to reunite, Millie put out a contract on Nathan, Nathan was murdered, and Sylar rose from his grave like Michael Myers.
Knowing that Nathan isn't really Nathan puts a creepifying factor on the brother hugging and the reconciliation for me. I want to enjoy it because of the amazing chemistry Milo and Adrian have, but I can't. I just hope we eventually get a scene where Peter finds out that Nathan is dead and has been replaced by Nathan-shaped Sylar, and that his mother has known all along. The fallout should be epic.
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Date: 2009-10-06 05:41 am (UTC)From:I interpreted this as Nathan having called his mom about the death not because he intended to start a cover-up but because calling Mom is a fairly natural reaction when you're panicked. Angela then decided to do the cover-up and had Nathan's memory wiped, so there were no memories of the incident for Parkman to transfer to Nathan!Sylar. It is somewhat ambiguous, though.
I can't think of two people who deserve each other's friendship more than Millie and Angela. Why do I think that covering up the deaths of each other's children is the least they've done to each other?
Ha! Yes!
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Date: 2009-10-06 12:54 pm (UTC)From:It puts the thing from last season where Angela stole Millie's umbrella in a new context, doesn't it? I thought that was an awesome bit of continuity.
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Date: 2009-10-07 12:43 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2009-10-07 12:41 am (UTC)From:It could've gone that way. I just believe Angela is such a 'fixer' that she's been making Nathan's mistakes go away all his life, so that's who he calls when he makes a mistake.
I don't think The Haitian was involved though. Angela seems reluctant to use him on her boys, possibly because she was so pissed about the mental whammies Arthur used on her for so many years. And it would have been so easy to fix the Meredith problem by whammying Nathan and Meredith into forgetting each other instead of staging the fire and faking the deaths and giving Claire to the Bennets, but she didn't. Parkman also didn't (and couldn't have in the amount of time he had) transfer all of Nathan's memories to Sylar. Nathan-shaped Sylar didn't remember the toy airplane, and there was nothing sinister about that (although with the Petrellis, you never know). If Nathan didn't have his memory erased, there's no way he'd believe that Kelly suddenly woke up from her fatal brain injury and jetted off to London.
Future episodes may prove me wrong, but until then that's my story and I'm sticking to it. ;-)