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lackofsatin) wrote2008-10-20 05:57 pm
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"Appletini, please."
A quick note on the rp front: Willow/Tara reunion is pretty much the most heartbreaking thread ever. Oh, and Simon Tam is having girl problems at TLV. Why? Because Elle spoke to him. I think she traumatized him. Ethan Rayne, on the other hand, thinks she's hawt. But... uh... not gonna happen, Ethan. Elle just wants someone to electrocute o__o
And TV:
DEXTER: All In The Family
The Dexter/Rita/Prado Part
Astor and Cody want to know why Dex and Rita aren't married! Dex decides it would be a good idea to get married, since "husband and father" is a lot less suspicious than "lives alone, keeps to himself." So he proposes. Badly. He spends the entire episode trying to convince Rita to marry him, but she's sick and stressed out and loses her job and hates her life, but finally he says it in a schmoopy romantic way and she says yes.
Prado keeps inviting Dex and Rita to parties, and tries to convince Dex to tell his other brother, Ramon, that Freebo is dead. Dexter manipulates everybody into having a bar fight. It's kinda funny.
The Laguerta/Angel/Masuka Part
Angel and Quinn have intel that could exonerate a big bust of Prado's: Chicky Hines. Laguerta tries to convince Prado to reopen the case because Hines is innocent, but he says no. He says something about how she must think Doakes was railroaded and she's projecting, or something. So behind his back, she goes to Hines' defense attorney and gives her the intel. Oh Laguerta, you're gonna get reamed.
Meanwhile, Angel gets nabbed soliciting a prostitute. He is generally miserable about his whole damn life. Masuka tries to convince everyone to come to his keynote speech. Everyone says no.
The Quinn/Deb/Anton/Yuki Part
Yuki is still trying to convince Deb to be a snitch, and girl's stayin' strong. But when they come to a case of a burglar bashing in a guy's head, and the guy's fiancee is distraught, Quinn takes the case pretty much off Deb's hands because he knows how to talk to witnesses and she doesn't. She and Dex figure out that the fiancee, not the burglar, bashed in the guy's head. Quinn plays Deb like a fiddle and winds up being the one to get the confession and therefore the credit. Deb shares a friendly drink with Anton, and says no to Yuki again, even though she's really starting to hate Quinn's guts.
NEXT WEEK: Called it: Rita loses the baby. Maybe something interesting will happen with, ya know, the case. Sick chinchilla is sick of deplorably domestic Dexter.
HEROES: Dying Of The Light
First thing's first: why this title? Don't use a line from my favorite poem and then do nothing with it.
The Nathan/Tracy/Mohinder Part
Nathan and Tracy go to Mohinder to help, but he knocks them out and straps them to gurneys. For some reason, he feels it is vital to rip Nathan's shirt open. Tracy gives him a whole schpiel about how she knows what it feels like and blah blah blah and tricks him into taking her hand. He does, and gets iced. She ices her restraints and breaks them, quickly freeing Nathan too.
Oh, but now Mohinder's angry. And you won't like him when he's angry.
The Matt/Daphne/Linderman Part
Linderman sends Daphne to recruit three people: Matt, Sylar, and Mohinder.
Wait. I thought Matt was the last one. Jeez, Linderman. Stop overworking the girl.
She drops a card off with Sylar and Mohinder, neither of whom want anything to do with her, but Matt and his turtle are a little more insistent. He tells her that he saw a future in which they were happily married, and then she died because she was working for Pinehearst.
... Actually, I believe she died because she killed a four-year-old boy. But eh, semantics.
Anyway, he says she should leave and he can protect her and he's totally her soulmate, but she thinks he's a little creepy. She tells him that she can't leave Pinhearst, and he asks why - what've they got over her? She pouts and leaves.
The Sylar/Peter/Angela/Arthur/Adam/Pinehearst Part
AAAAADAAAAAAM DDDDDDDD:
I like to think that Elle felt him dying, in her gut, and drank an appletini for him ;__;
Daphne tries to recruit Sylar to Pinhearst, but he says no 'cause he wuvs his mommy. Too bad mommy's in a coma! He busts Peter out to look inside her brain, but all Peter can get is the Pinehearst symbol. Sylar tells Peter that he shouldn't go because he's whacked out on practically being Sylar, but Peter lightnings him into submission, then punches him in the face several times.
Heh. Yeah, he's usin' Elle's ability. Yeah, it makes me happy. P/E friendship FTW.
Peter goes to Pinehearst, only to discover that dad's killed Adam and healed himself from whatever was wrong, and Daphne, Flint, Knox, and Maury are all standin' around looking evil. Papa steals Peter's ability and plays with Elle's lightning while Peter looks sad and pathetic on the floor.
The Hiro/Ando/African Man Part
Hiro teleports to a magic shop, buys some fake blood and a fake sword, and then arranges it all so Ando will fake his death and it's all good. Daphne gives Hiro his first assignment: recruit the African Man. Hiro and Ando head out, but AM knows they're coming and hits Hiro repeatedly on the head with a shovel. When Hiro finally decides to try capturing AM without his abilities, AM gives him wise words and shows him a painting he did of four villains and the Pinehearst sign. As far as I could make out, the villains were Sylar, Maury, Arthur, and some other dude.
The Claire/Meredith/Sandra/One-Off Villain Part
Claire and Sandra head out to rescue Meredith. Claire wants to go alone, but Sandra insists that it's always "one of us, one of them," and Sandra will be the "one of us."
If I was a middle-aged lesbian, I would marry Sandra.
They try to rescue Meredith, but Claire makes a lot of noise and kind of generally sucks at life, and Doyle catches them all and makes them play Russian Roulette. When it's Sandra's turn with the gun, she keeps pulling the trigger until Claire gets shot. Doyle thinks he's won something, but then Claire surpise-motherfuckers him and he gets knocked out.
Okay, it needs to be said: Claire fails as an agent. A taser? They have one shot and when you don't bring stuff to tie people up with, it's totally useless! Canfield was total failure, Doyle was even more failure! The ideal is not to have to get shot by your mother to bring a badguy in!
Now if they'd had the human taser of eeeevil, they might have beaten this whole mess a little faster, but she's probably living in a cardboard box getting drunk off appletinis. And I want FLASHBACKS >:[
Uh. Yeah. Claire's getting boring again. But then they call in Noah to do the actual dragging Doyle back to the Company thing, and he pretty much asks Meredith to be his new partner. Yay \o/ Ohhhh... she's so dead D:
The Not Appearing In This Episode Part
Elle. She was there in spirit, but not actually. I must be getting behind S/E 'cause my first thought when Peter started electrocuting Sylar (right after, aw, he's using Elle's power 'cause he likes her... in a friendly way, 'cause romantic P/E = FAIL) was "Ha! Sylar gets electrocuted in and out of bed. Poor guy." But I was very happy that Peter and Papa were sort of homaging Elle by using lightning all over the place.
Noah. Way to have two lines Noah! Noah/Merdith teammates, y/n? Y!
Maya. Honestly, take Maya out of that plotline and stick Tracy in, and suddenly it's a lot more cool. Not actually cool, but more cool than it had been.
Sanity. Oh well.
NEXT WEEK: Elle. And the writers hate all my ships, so she'll probably be hooking up with Ando. Please, Kring. Get people with people who it makes sense for them to get with.
Oh, and bring back Charlie.
This is about halfway through the volume, so I thought I might as well catalogue all the things I like about this volume so far and all the things I dislike. There seems to be a lot of debate as to whether the new direction is working or not, and this my take on it:
WIN
+ Elle/Peter as friends. There was one tiny moment, when he was in Jesse, and he kinda flipped out 'cause she was in danger and hurt. I used to like them as a couple, but after having a think I decided that was kinda squicky and Stockholm Syndrome -ish. But I like them as friends.
+ Tracy. Tracy wins. Nikki was kinda okay, Jessica and Gina annoyed me no end, but I like Tracy more and more every episode. She may not want her power, but she's not afraid to use it to take care of herself. She makes Nathan look like a pathetic cry-baby.
+ Hiro and Ando. I'm not a big Ando fan, but I like him better when he's with Hiro, and I like that they've made up and aren't being all creepy and secretive behind each other's backs.
+ Adam! He came back!
+ Angela. More Angela is never a bad thing.
+ Daphne. Meredith. Sandra. The awesome blonde women, in other words.
+ The Haitian. More plz?
+ Daphne/Matt. They're cute. He can redeem her.
+ The Heroes becoming Villains and the Villains becoming Heroes. This seems to be one of the main things people have problems with, but I for one love moral grayness (but then, I also love fourth wall breakage and meta... and I know I'm in the minority there).
+ The African Man. Isaac honestly never made much of an impression, but I'm really digging African Man. One day I might even learn how to spell his real name.
+ Okay, I thought they couldn't possibly come up with anything creepier than Puppet Master as a power for Papa Petrelli, but clearly they did. I still don't know what it is (possibly an advanced form of Peter's power?) but it kinda skeeves me out.
FAIL
+ Nathan. Orz.
+ Adam! He DIED D: That FAILED, Kring. That FAILED. It was like a Dollar Menu of FAIL: anywhere else, you can get great things with David Anders, but when you go to Heroes, all you get is FAIL. You're riding the FAILBUS to FAILTOWN with all the FAILIES. And they hate you, Kring. Even the FAILIES hate you for killing Adam.
+ Charlie hasn't come back.
+ We don't know who Sylar's baby mamma is yet! I thought this was the show where mysteries didn't get dragged out forever! And shut up, I know the concept of a baby mamma was only introduced two weeks ago, but... shhhh >:[
+ Monica went away ;__; Next time you come up with a really cool character, don't stick her with a lame plotline and then forget about her.
+ Maya's still around, even if all she did was hang from the wall this episode.
+ Okay, really? What the hell is going on with this lame pathetic Mohinder storyline? Last season, I was more than willing to believe that Mohinder had boffed every character on the show (and part of me still does believe it). And rightly so, because that man was smokin'. But now... the best thing that could happen is that he turns into a cannibal lizard-creature. Which would, admittedly, be kinda cool. But really? FAIL.
+ Sex. It starts with chemistry between actors. I love Tracy, but Ali Larter really has no chemistry with Adrian Pasdar. And don't even get me started with Sendhil Ramamurthy and Dania Ramirez. But once you stop throwing people together randomly, and hire actors that have chemistry together, then 75% of your work is done. The other 25% is actually putting the sex on screen and not just having two naked bodies under a bedsheet the next morning. Seriously, Kring, watch an episode of Bones. The eye sex between DB and ED is hotter than anything I've ever seen on Heroes. And that's... sad.
I miss Bones. FOX is lame. I want waffles.
Mmmmm... waffles.
And TV:
DEXTER: All In The Family
The Dexter/Rita/Prado Part
Astor and Cody want to know why Dex and Rita aren't married! Dex decides it would be a good idea to get married, since "husband and father" is a lot less suspicious than "lives alone, keeps to himself." So he proposes. Badly. He spends the entire episode trying to convince Rita to marry him, but she's sick and stressed out and loses her job and hates her life, but finally he says it in a schmoopy romantic way and she says yes.
Prado keeps inviting Dex and Rita to parties, and tries to convince Dex to tell his other brother, Ramon, that Freebo is dead. Dexter manipulates everybody into having a bar fight. It's kinda funny.
The Laguerta/Angel/Masuka Part
Angel and Quinn have intel that could exonerate a big bust of Prado's: Chicky Hines. Laguerta tries to convince Prado to reopen the case because Hines is innocent, but he says no. He says something about how she must think Doakes was railroaded and she's projecting, or something. So behind his back, she goes to Hines' defense attorney and gives her the intel. Oh Laguerta, you're gonna get reamed.
Meanwhile, Angel gets nabbed soliciting a prostitute. He is generally miserable about his whole damn life. Masuka tries to convince everyone to come to his keynote speech. Everyone says no.
The Quinn/Deb/Anton/Yuki Part
Yuki is still trying to convince Deb to be a snitch, and girl's stayin' strong. But when they come to a case of a burglar bashing in a guy's head, and the guy's fiancee is distraught, Quinn takes the case pretty much off Deb's hands because he knows how to talk to witnesses and she doesn't. She and Dex figure out that the fiancee, not the burglar, bashed in the guy's head. Quinn plays Deb like a fiddle and winds up being the one to get the confession and therefore the credit. Deb shares a friendly drink with Anton, and says no to Yuki again, even though she's really starting to hate Quinn's guts.
NEXT WEEK: Called it: Rita loses the baby. Maybe something interesting will happen with, ya know, the case. Sick chinchilla is sick of deplorably domestic Dexter.
HEROES: Dying Of The Light
First thing's first: why this title? Don't use a line from my favorite poem and then do nothing with it.
The Nathan/Tracy/Mohinder Part
Nathan and Tracy go to Mohinder to help, but he knocks them out and straps them to gurneys. For some reason, he feels it is vital to rip Nathan's shirt open. Tracy gives him a whole schpiel about how she knows what it feels like and blah blah blah and tricks him into taking her hand. He does, and gets iced. She ices her restraints and breaks them, quickly freeing Nathan too.
Oh, but now Mohinder's angry. And you won't like him when he's angry.
The Matt/Daphne/Linderman Part
Linderman sends Daphne to recruit three people: Matt, Sylar, and Mohinder.
Wait. I thought Matt was the last one. Jeez, Linderman. Stop overworking the girl.
She drops a card off with Sylar and Mohinder, neither of whom want anything to do with her, but Matt and his turtle are a little more insistent. He tells her that he saw a future in which they were happily married, and then she died because she was working for Pinehearst.
... Actually, I believe she died because she killed a four-year-old boy. But eh, semantics.
Anyway, he says she should leave and he can protect her and he's totally her soulmate, but she thinks he's a little creepy. She tells him that she can't leave Pinhearst, and he asks why - what've they got over her? She pouts and leaves.
The Sylar/Peter/Angela/Arthur/Adam/Pinehearst Part
AAAAADAAAAAAM DDDDDDDD:
I like to think that Elle felt him dying, in her gut, and drank an appletini for him ;__;
Daphne tries to recruit Sylar to Pinhearst, but he says no 'cause he wuvs his mommy. Too bad mommy's in a coma! He busts Peter out to look inside her brain, but all Peter can get is the Pinehearst symbol. Sylar tells Peter that he shouldn't go because he's whacked out on practically being Sylar, but Peter lightnings him into submission, then punches him in the face several times.
Heh. Yeah, he's usin' Elle's ability. Yeah, it makes me happy. P/E friendship FTW.
Peter goes to Pinehearst, only to discover that dad's killed Adam and healed himself from whatever was wrong, and Daphne, Flint, Knox, and Maury are all standin' around looking evil. Papa steals Peter's ability and plays with Elle's lightning while Peter looks sad and pathetic on the floor.
The Hiro/Ando/African Man Part
Hiro teleports to a magic shop, buys some fake blood and a fake sword, and then arranges it all so Ando will fake his death and it's all good. Daphne gives Hiro his first assignment: recruit the African Man. Hiro and Ando head out, but AM knows they're coming and hits Hiro repeatedly on the head with a shovel. When Hiro finally decides to try capturing AM without his abilities, AM gives him wise words and shows him a painting he did of four villains and the Pinehearst sign. As far as I could make out, the villains were Sylar, Maury, Arthur, and some other dude.
The Claire/Meredith/Sandra/One-Off Villain Part
Claire and Sandra head out to rescue Meredith. Claire wants to go alone, but Sandra insists that it's always "one of us, one of them," and Sandra will be the "one of us."
If I was a middle-aged lesbian, I would marry Sandra.
They try to rescue Meredith, but Claire makes a lot of noise and kind of generally sucks at life, and Doyle catches them all and makes them play Russian Roulette. When it's Sandra's turn with the gun, she keeps pulling the trigger until Claire gets shot. Doyle thinks he's won something, but then Claire surpise-motherfuckers him and he gets knocked out.
Okay, it needs to be said: Claire fails as an agent. A taser? They have one shot and when you don't bring stuff to tie people up with, it's totally useless! Canfield was total failure, Doyle was even more failure! The ideal is not to have to get shot by your mother to bring a badguy in!
Now if they'd had the human taser of eeeevil, they might have beaten this whole mess a little faster, but she's probably living in a cardboard box getting drunk off appletinis. And I want FLASHBACKS >:[
Uh. Yeah. Claire's getting boring again. But then they call in Noah to do the actual dragging Doyle back to the Company thing, and he pretty much asks Meredith to be his new partner. Yay \o/ Ohhhh... she's so dead D:
The Not Appearing In This Episode Part
Elle. She was there in spirit, but not actually. I must be getting behind S/E 'cause my first thought when Peter started electrocuting Sylar (right after, aw, he's using Elle's power 'cause he likes her... in a friendly way, 'cause romantic P/E = FAIL) was "Ha! Sylar gets electrocuted in and out of bed. Poor guy." But I was very happy that Peter and Papa were sort of homaging Elle by using lightning all over the place.
Noah. Way to have two lines Noah! Noah/Merdith teammates, y/n? Y!
Maya. Honestly, take Maya out of that plotline and stick Tracy in, and suddenly it's a lot more cool. Not actually cool, but more cool than it had been.
Sanity. Oh well.
NEXT WEEK: Elle. And the writers hate all my ships, so she'll probably be hooking up with Ando. Please, Kring. Get people with people who it makes sense for them to get with.
Oh, and bring back Charlie.
This is about halfway through the volume, so I thought I might as well catalogue all the things I like about this volume so far and all the things I dislike. There seems to be a lot of debate as to whether the new direction is working or not, and this my take on it:
WIN
+ Elle/Peter as friends. There was one tiny moment, when he was in Jesse, and he kinda flipped out 'cause she was in danger and hurt. I used to like them as a couple, but after having a think I decided that was kinda squicky and Stockholm Syndrome -ish. But I like them as friends.
+ Tracy. Tracy wins. Nikki was kinda okay, Jessica and Gina annoyed me no end, but I like Tracy more and more every episode. She may not want her power, but she's not afraid to use it to take care of herself. She makes Nathan look like a pathetic cry-baby.
+ Hiro and Ando. I'm not a big Ando fan, but I like him better when he's with Hiro, and I like that they've made up and aren't being all creepy and secretive behind each other's backs.
+ Adam! He came back!
+ Angela. More Angela is never a bad thing.
+ Daphne. Meredith. Sandra. The awesome blonde women, in other words.
+ The Haitian. More plz?
+ Daphne/Matt. They're cute. He can redeem her.
+ The Heroes becoming Villains and the Villains becoming Heroes. This seems to be one of the main things people have problems with, but I for one love moral grayness (but then, I also love fourth wall breakage and meta... and I know I'm in the minority there).
+ The African Man. Isaac honestly never made much of an impression, but I'm really digging African Man. One day I might even learn how to spell his real name.
+ Okay, I thought they couldn't possibly come up with anything creepier than Puppet Master as a power for Papa Petrelli, but clearly they did. I still don't know what it is (possibly an advanced form of Peter's power?) but it kinda skeeves me out.
FAIL
+ Nathan. Orz.
+ Adam! He DIED D: That FAILED, Kring. That FAILED. It was like a Dollar Menu of FAIL: anywhere else, you can get great things with David Anders, but when you go to Heroes, all you get is FAIL. You're riding the FAILBUS to FAILTOWN with all the FAILIES. And they hate you, Kring. Even the FAILIES hate you for killing Adam.
+ Charlie hasn't come back.
+ We don't know who Sylar's baby mamma is yet! I thought this was the show where mysteries didn't get dragged out forever! And shut up, I know the concept of a baby mamma was only introduced two weeks ago, but... shhhh >:[
+ Monica went away ;__; Next time you come up with a really cool character, don't stick her with a lame plotline and then forget about her.
+ Maya's still around, even if all she did was hang from the wall this episode.
+ Okay, really? What the hell is going on with this lame pathetic Mohinder storyline? Last season, I was more than willing to believe that Mohinder had boffed every character on the show (and part of me still does believe it). And rightly so, because that man was smokin'. But now... the best thing that could happen is that he turns into a cannibal lizard-creature. Which would, admittedly, be kinda cool. But really? FAIL.
+ Sex. It starts with chemistry between actors. I love Tracy, but Ali Larter really has no chemistry with Adrian Pasdar. And don't even get me started with Sendhil Ramamurthy and Dania Ramirez. But once you stop throwing people together randomly, and hire actors that have chemistry together, then 75% of your work is done. The other 25% is actually putting the sex on screen and not just having two naked bodies under a bedsheet the next morning. Seriously, Kring, watch an episode of Bones. The eye sex between DB and ED is hotter than anything I've ever seen on Heroes. And that's... sad.
I miss Bones. FOX is lame. I want waffles.
Mmmmm... waffles.