Heroes 3x25

[guanin]

I mostly enjoyed this episode. Except for those two things.

--Sylar pwning Danko. *hee hee hee*

--He changed the location of his weak spot. *flails while grinning like a maniac* Sylar is Sylar. Therefore he must be awesome.

--Noah. You turned your back on Danko?! For god's sake, man. You're smarter than that.

--Oh, look, Aquawoman Tracy is seeking revenge. Like half the people on this show.

--Oh, Matt. I'm sorry to inform you, but you're not the Doctor. I know you've probably a huge fan and spend hours fantasizing about going off into the reaches of space in the Tardis to fight Daleks and creepy Cybermen, but it's just not to be.

--Peter is made of awesome. I'm so proud of him.

--Nathan finally owned up to who he really is by flying in front of that politician guy and Peter looked so proud and then there were the "I love you"'s and these two are so cute when there isn't massive loads of drama going on and I'm going to miss that so much, because

--He's dead. And don't ask me to be okay with that, because I'm not. Maybe someday depending on how season 4 progresses, but not now. And I've never been a Nathan fan. During most of season 1, I couldn't stand the guy because of how he treated Peter. But that's the thing. I'm a Peter fan. And this is going to kill him when he finds out. And that makes me sad.

--Inconsistencies. How to keep track of all the inconsistencies in this show? Thinking again of Joss Whedon, there was this one thing in Buffy (probably more than that, but I never noticed) that got a lot of buzz and questions and Joss going, "Oops", but it wasn't even that big a deal. Fandom easily came up with an explanation and while it's not perfect, it's good enough. But this relatively little thing was a big deal. That's what I'm used to. If there are gaffes, they're small, because the creators know we are picking this apart with a fine tooth comb. Yet in Heroes, the writers either don't know or don't care. If there's some previous fact standing in the way of their cool plot twist, they barge ahead anyway instead of trying to work some way around it.

Case in point. Noah was shot dead. Mohinder brought him back with Claire's blood. He informed Noah of this and we know Noah was paying attention because he later told Claire. Yet it never occurred to him to bring up this tiny, little detail when Angela was trying to turn his worst enemy into Nathan, which lets him live, something Noah obviously doesn't want. And with Claire in the vicinity, there was no excuse for that option not to have come up. Other than that the winters hope we have very short attention spans and don't remember season 2. And I don't like to bandy about the word disrespect, but this is just the latest grain of sand in a humongous mound.

Sylar as Nathan creeps me out. Like shivers in my stomach, squirming away from the screen creeped out.

Though not as much as that Sylar/Claire thing with makes me grimace just to write and I want to wash my brain with bleach now, please. Ever since the first episode of this season, I cannot even envision that pairing without feeling incredibly disturbed.

Comments

[guanin.livejournal.com]

That's exactly it. He's just so adorably dorky when he finally does the right thing and gets Peter to forgive him for whatever douchebaggery he did before. But now he can't anymore. We just have the Sylar!clone. Which is weird. And creepy. And weird. It's just going to hurt Peter so much when he finds out that not only is Nathan dead, but the guy he's been treating like his brother is the man who killed him. Doesn't Peter deserve some happiness after all the shit he's had to go through? The poor guy doesn't smile anymore.

well, he did during that scene, which I squeed all over because he was so perfect as he leaned back in the seat with that grin of satisfaction at finally nabbing Sylar. Hee hee. I loved that line, too. Even Claude would have laughed.

Precisely. They need to start dealing with the corners they write themselves into instead of ignoring them altogether.

I could handle it in season 1, but since that brain rape thing, I can't take it. I'm not easily squicked by stuff, but seeing that was way too much for me to handle.

[visiblemarket.livejournal.com]

He's just so adorably dorky when he finally does the right thing and gets Peter to forgive him for whatever douchebaggery he did before.

It's Nathan's Season Finale Syndrome ;) But yes, no more. Or...maybe no more. I don't know what they're going to do with it. See, that's why I almost wish Peter had found out about it immediately; it's easier to mourn Nathan than it is to mourn Nathan and the fact that he died horribly and alone and that the brother you've been carrying about and spending time with is the person who killed him, and given Peter's sympathetic nature, he won't even be able to properly hate Sylar!Nathan because how tragic is that for him, that he thinks he's Nathan, he has all those memories, but he's not?

*sigh* It was good that Peter got a moment of glory though. He just looked so totally wiped out after that scene, but such a job well done, I wanted to give him a hug. And his line to Nathan even felt like something Claude would've said, which made me happy too.

I'm a little concerned with the possibility that they're just trying to go back and re-write S1. I really, really hope that's not where they're going, but sometimes...

Hah. He and Peter do have a bit of a weird two sides of the same coin thing going. I don't for a second think he's genuinely interested in Claire romantically; I think he just enjoys messing with her, and as the one person who's power he's taken that managed to survive it, there's a certain kind of specialness to their relationship in his mind. But frankly I wish they would just decide to be madly in love and run away together and off my TV screen.

[guanin.livejournal.com]

It's going to be so tragic and depressing and awful and SylarNathan is going to end completely fucked up over this precisely because of that. What is Peter going to do? This going to be such a mindfuck, man.

I'm worried that they'll go into Company history and not include Adam when he was clearly and integral part of it and Linderman's "kill people to save the world" philosophy, but they seem determined to eliminate all traces that season 2 existed.

Even with the nature of their powers. It's essentially the same thing, just that Sylar has to concentrate to get people's powers. And he likes to kill said people. While Peter just wants to help people. One's a killer the other is a saviour. Yeah, I'm going with the theory that he's just fucking with her because he loves to do that, ya know? Plus, he's so good at getting under people's skin. Um, how about if she beats him to a pulp and makes sure he can't get up again. I'd prefer that one, even as a Sylar fan. He does have it coming.