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Meta: Episode 4x06 Tabula Rasa
SO MANY APOLOGIES that this is so very late. I’ve been very busy this week, but I finally got a few hours to sit down and do this. Thank you all for your encouraging words and for being so patient. <3

Taking advantages of amnesiacs has to be wrong somehow
(Sylar/Nathan/WHOEVER THE HELL HE IS NAO, Samuel, Edgar, Lydia, other members of Sullivan Bros. Carnival)



Sylar continues to bore me and wear really bad flannel shirts. Captain Kick Ass is drawn to the carnival
of Super Freaks only to be killed by Darth Maul when Nylar chickens out. What a waste of a great actor, and not only that HIS FAMILY WAS WITH HIM. That was bad super villain form Samuel, at least Arthur had the grace to get any innocents out of the way before he killed someone. --godiloveslash

Long story short, Nylar stays with the Carnies, gets some religion and gets baptized and now Lydia thinks he's hot. This does not a happy Edgar nor Samuel make and I have a new ship. Next week, Claire and Gretchen guest star in Saw Six, Zach wears more of his own clothes to the set and Matt and Sylar have sex with Janice. *yawns again* --godiloveslash

"What shall we call you? Gabriel or Sylar?" "Call me Nathan." "LOLWTF." With all the poking Samuel had been doing into our Heroes' lives, though, he doesn't know about Nathan Petrelli? I would have thought that'd be a no-brainer, considering Nathan was the govvie behind last season's all out anti-Special policy. (Or did they escape that entirely, living as they do on the LOST island outside of space and time?) --tiptoe39

Sylathan: "Call me Nathan." No, I will not call you Nathan and nor will I ever, writers. Because he isn't. I get the feeling I was supposed to feel sorry for him while he was confronted with his past misdeeds, but you know what? Nah. Because he killed Nathan. And Ellen Green and Elle and Eden and Candice and Isaac and Chandra and Jackie and Dale and Molly's parents and Alejandro and Charlie and Ted. Tabula rasa or no, he deserves to see exactly what he's done in those creepy funhouse mirrors. Yeah, I think my patience with this character is officially up. Sure, you can eat all the brains you can catch for three seasons, but touch my Nathan? Nuh-uh. To the electric chair with you! --starvinbohemian

Sylar/Lydia: Once again, the writers think I'm going to buy that Sylar is straight. Pfft. Right. --starvinbohemian

WTF? Yeah, wake up the powerful serial killer eater of abilities. That's an awesome idea. He's not a lion, Samuel. When Sylar is himself and not emoing, he's way more dangerous than a lion. God I miss Bad Guy Sylar. --schtroumph_c

I don't think Edgar like Lydia with Sylar. Oh yeah, random demonstration of violence. That always impresses the girl. Hint: when she makes a WTF face at you? You failed. --schtroumph_c

[Sylar] Dude, YOUR HAIR LOOK AWFUL!! Can Someone please cut it off by mistake?!--lemomina

You know Samuel, you are one hell of a trusting man. If you got Sylar, the real Sylar he woud just go to town on all of you. *nomnomnom*--ilikethequiet

Also Edgar? You have sharp knives of doom, would it kill you to give Sylar a haircut? I mean dude, that hair...--ilikethequiet

Two sides at war Sylar: annnnd let the Superman III metaphors commence. --ewinfic


He is kinda doing the Adrian Pasdar mutter now that I think about it. You know, talking out of the side of his mouth in that husky kinda way?

But he rubs his mouth shyly in a distinctly Gabriel-like manner. --ewinfic


Speaking of Emo, hey there pouty Sylar. I mean Nathan. I mean Gabriel. I mean Gasnathalar. --ewinfic

Sylar walks like a puma. A plaid-wearing metrosexual puma.--ewinfic

It really does kind of bring you down how every time Sylar takes a step back from being a murderer, someone walks in and pushes him two steps forward again. Then he gets pissed off. And kills more people. Sylar's ability is the masterful evasion of all possibilities of his intuitive understanding actually HELPING him. --ewinfic

The quest to build a Better Sylar is one that has baffled mankind for many years. And yet, we continue to try. Because in this case, apparently, Evil is Dumb. --ewinfic

Oh and btw, Edgar? Put your jealousy to the side, babydoll, and go HIT BOTH OF THAT. Seriously. LOOK AT THOSE SWEETASS HIPS, that beautiful boy CLEARLY bends in both directions. You and Lydia needed some Sylar to spice up your life. --ewinfic

Why does a carnival need a killer? I mean, Edgar seems to have that title pretty locked up. Too fast to track and a good hand with the knives. Why the heck do they need Sylar? The only reason I could think would be to take Samuel’s place when he dies. In which case, it’s probably better that he got an amnesiac Nathan, because that man knew how to work a crowd. --jaune_chat

Here’s another question. We see this carnival in full swing now. Except it seems that half the top attractions are wandering around backstage, including the primary carnival barker (Samuel). How do these guys stay in business? --jaune_chat

Heh. Morning chores. Love how Samuel is just sitting back and chilling while Not!Nathan and Edgar have a pissing contest. With knives and telekinesis. “Boys will be boys.” Snerk. Samuel, you may be a megalomaniac crazy bastard, but you put on a very entertaining show. --jaune_chat

Not!Nathan was actually pretty interesting. Seeing Nathan’s traits and memories stubbornly surfacing in the face of everything Samuel was trying to do to resurrect Sylar made me rather happy. Nathan is in there, and he wants out! The hands/politician connection, the planes (and the momentary glimpse of the Pas-jaw), and the way he’s so flirty and easy with Lydia, all very Nathan. Gabriel was pretty awkward with girls, from what we saw, and Sylar never really got flirty so much as possessive and creepy. Nathan is flirty, particularly with girls that are willing to give it up (as I’m sure Lydia was instructed to do). --jaune_chat

At the carnival, Sylar's got his killin' face on as he stalks Cap'n Winston to the house of mirrors. The Cap'n is prepared, though, and pulls his sidearm. Sylar (OR IS IT NATHAN????) tells Winston to leave while he has a chance. Not much of a chance, though; he electrocutes the hell out of the Cap'n almost without meaning to, and then stalks him up against the mirror, so so menacingly. You expect a blood spray any minute. Right? But then he stops, and walks away. BECAUSE HIM GOOD NOW. Do you feel warm and fuzzy? I do. Because it's like TOTALLY NATHAN. Just in time for Edgar to come and slice, dice, gut, filet, julienne, Benihana the Cap'n. OH SHIT. There you go; never turn your back on a carnie, I tell you! An enthusiastic round of applause for beloved character actor and this week's Brother Who's Gotta Die, Ernie Hudson, ladies and gentlemen! --mystery_sock

Darth Toad-Maul hate face = hilarious win.--bending_sickle

How many times are we going to watch that Mother&Gabriel scene?!? Oh gods, that Room of Mirrors scene felt like hours of filler with Sylar losing his balls in the worst recap ever. There are so many ways they could have spiced that up. (And Sylar screams like a tiny little child, which is something I could've lived not knowing.) --bending_sickle

I just realized that Sylar's power is the ultimate "i c wut you did thar." --bending_sickle

This is going to end bad. Manipulating the serial killer, I mean. --di_elle

"Call me Nathan." I'm sorry, what was that? Be kind, rewind. Because Sylar now has the ability to chat up a woman without it ending in her untimely and gruesome demise and remembers shaking a lot of hands through his convenient clairsentience power, he thinks he's Nathan? I'm sorry writers, but no. Hell to the no. Instead I will call him Gabnathlar. --psychedelicammo

Gabnathlar's mugshot is hilarious and it looks as though he took Peter's emo bangs and glued them on over his own hair, lulz. --psychedelicammo

Samuel is shocked that Not-Sylar doesn't even know his own name. He postulates that 'a great damage' as been done to Sylar (yes, I call it 'Volume Three!' No, I will not let that go!) --aunt_zelda

I'd like to think that Samuel is being a nice guy, but the ominous music in the background is making me think of fireside rituals and cults. --aunt_zelda

Lydia and Not-Sylar help with a firepit […] and Lydia flirts with Not-Sylar while Darth Edgar watches moodily and Samuel lounges nearby in a truly ridiculous outfit that he somehow manages to make sexy. GAH, just have an orgy already, people! --aunt_zelda

HRG keeps edging closer to the teenager with the shotgun. HRG has cajones the size of Georgia. --aunt_zelda

Samuel is there to fill the gap, in tight jeans and a black shirt *drools* He tells Edgar not to pout, and Edgar's all 'hey, who actually killed the guy?' and wonders aloud what use Sylar is to them all amnesia'd. "What use is a lion that can't kill?" I'd like to point out that it's the female lions who hunt, but I digress. --aunt_zelda

Lydia glances over at them, Samuel nods, and Lydia leads Not-Sylar off, presumably to make the two-backed-beast in his trailer. Again, it's not the heterosexual romance that puts me off, or even the fact that he's an amnesiac and they're taking advantage of him, it's the look that passed between Lydia and Samuel. Like 'I give you permission to sex him up, my daughter, but I expect to see you in my trailer by morning.' One word: squick. --aunt_zelda

Then there's the whole thing with the carnies. I haven't been following the comics or webisodes, so maybe I actually am missing something, but it just seems like the writers are wanting me to care about these characters more than is feasible with what we've been shown. --ladymalchav

I, frankly, cannot wait for the real Sylar to wake up again. Samuel's hubris will be his downfall. He hasn't given Sylar a family, he's given him a buffet. --ladymalchav







Also known as: Hiro obviously doesn’t care about aggravating a brain tumor…
(Hiro and Emma, with appearances by Peter, musing on Charlie)



Peter has decided rather then easing Hiro into death like he's been trained to do, he's going to run off and find a Hero who can heal Hiro. Gee could it be the writers are regretting a certain death from last season.....the introduction of Jeremy and his super greasy hair do seems to say yes. --godiloveslash

Peter steals Hiro's power, tells Emma to stop freaking out and talk to a complete stranger about her power and goes off to find HRG and the aforementioned healer. I must stop a moment to offer Milo a bit of advice. Please for the love of god get laid man, you are flirting with half the male cast on camera and I really would like to focus on the writing bad as it is.--godiloveslash

I really kind of like the Peter/Hiro friendship. And it's nice to see Peter returning to his hospice roots. Although I would have preferred if he'd actually done than instead of turned into I MUST SAVE YOU boy. Oh well. There's a lot of Lip Service to Season One going around in this episode. --tiptoe39

Wait, why did Emma ask Peter about having the cello sent to her apartment? She didn't seem at all surprised to see it in the last episode. If I found a musical instrument suddenly in my apartment, I'd call the cops first and play the concerto second! --tiptoe39

Hiro hears the "Go back" but not the "to bed" part. GREAT. Peter's gonna be wandering around with this useless-ass healing power waiting for him to get back. Pain in the ass. If only Peter had Molly's number in India... --tiptoe39

But really, you can't save her, Hiro. She'll be killed by Sylar, you can't change this part of the history. Even if you stop that, the illness will kill her. Unless they're going to retcon Charlie's story, but they wouldn't dare, would they? Lie to me if you have to. --schtroumph_c

Emma: She is good , cute & with a beautiful power but Seriously , I DON'T CARE ! Its been 4 seasons , I can't take another character bitching about her ability & wanting to get rid of it or turn it off :-/--lemomina

The butterfly effect people, do you know what it is? If you go back and change something, it will most likely change a whole plethora of stuff! Someone needs to explain this to both Hiro Nakamura and Peter Petrelli. Hey if this is the route you're gonna go, kindly bring back Niki, DL, Adam, Candice, Elle and Isaac back from the dead too! Simone? Nah, she can stay dead. --ilikethequiet

Hiro and Emma are the perfect character combination. If I could think of anybody to inflict all of the power of the Fluffy Peptalking Savior Complex From Hell upon, it would be Emo. I mean Emma. --ewinfic

Goddammit Hiro, I know you're trying to help, but STOP MAKING YOUR BRAIN EXPLODE. You'll end up somewhere that is not a hospital. :( --ewinfic

Peter talking to Hiro about his illness and being all nursy and stuff again, *wibble*. Sorry I’m just such a sucker for Peter actually helping people again, or rather, actually FEELING again, instead of shutting everyone out. Hiro’s arrival couldn’t have been better timed. I was seriously concerned for Peter’s emotions; I was afraid he was going to starve them to death.

And yay for being clever in taking Hiro’s power! Hope it doesn’t give you brain cancer, Peter. --jaune_chat


BTW, if I were Peter, I’d also be kind of mad at Hiro for not saying anything before things got to the terminal stage. Hiro, you could have mentioned something to Peter before you left for Japan six weeks ago. Then this entire scenario could have been played out before your powers went wonky and you had to tell your sister and best friend you were dying. Just saying. Could have dropped a line earlier. Phone. E-mail. Product placement text. Something… --jaune_chat

So that wasn't actually Emma's cello! It just showed up in her apartment! And she... just... immediately mastered the instrument. Oh, show. --mystery_sock

Emma goes in to talk to Hiro, but she begs to find out how she can make it stop. Hiro of course doesn't care for that philosophy; Powers R Kewl and all. Emma's like "what a retard" and bails. Poor Hiro; this happens pretty much every single time, except for with Peter. Stopping time and having a huge fuckoff samurai sword tends to help. And it being Peter, who must have lost a lot of money to Nigerian email scams back in the day. --mystery_sock

HIRO YOU DUMBASS, STOP COMMITTING SUICIDE--mystery_sock

Oh hell no. No more Charlie. I love Charlie, but I swear to gods if Hiro tries to save her ass again after a whole episode of that failing massively and on the heels of Mr. Photocopies His Ass Over Forty Times, then I am going to make someone squeal like a pig. --bending_sickle

They gave Hiro a terminal illness, then hooked him up with Peter the former hospice nurse who wants to help him, then...nothing. C'mon! I would totally read that fic. --the_other_sandy

Instead, Peter and HRG teleport off to Georgia to find the kid with healing power so Peter could take it, then come back by conventional means. Why not teleport the kid to the hospital to fix Hiro, then teleport him back? Oh, because if Peter did that, then Hiro wouldn't have time to pop three years into the past to save Charlie when it's already canon from season 1 that he can't. --the_other_sandy

Enough with this LSD piano scenes... --di_elle

Peter was adorable the entire episode. His little half smiles and lip biting reawakened some long buried ship potential between him and Hiro. Together they were adorable and totally self righteous. It's amazing their combined hero complexes haven't destroyed the worl-... Oh, wait. --psychedelicammo

I love that Emma does not buy this shit. She just rolls her eyes at the whole thing until Hiro employs the most diabolical weapon a man can use against a stubborn woman. Cue the cute, clapping children! That fascist, Japanese bastard! Of course it kicks Emma right in the ovaries and possibly the brain and all of a sudden she agrees with everything Hiro says! It's only natural, of course. His speechifying is no long annoying, it's endearing and deep, it's touching and she must hang. on. every. word. --psychedelicammo

STOP SCREWING WITH TIME PLEASE AND THANK YOU. --aunt_zelda

Also, as much as I like Emma, her scenes seem to drag. Honestly, I'm trying NOT to get too attached to her, considering the Heroes writer's track record with female characters, especially strong ones. In a recent conversation I had with my mother on the subject, I ended up explaining Women in Refrigerators. 'Nuff said.--ladymalchav




 


On the verge of logic…but not quite there. Plus, we’re giving a whole new meaning to “bad touch.”
(HRG, Peter, and Jeremy, with appearance by Claire)



Noah finally finds his purpose by deciding to help those he once bagged and tagged, Peter has a real brush with death that I hope knocks some sense into his pretty, pretty head and the whole healer plot wraps up with Peter driving off in a sweet pickup truck looking like the lost Winchester brother. --godiloveslash

Claire is spending too much time with her dad for a girl who just got to college. --tiptoe39

Nice fanwank to get over the Claire's-Blood-Should-Work thing. But very obviously fanwank. --tiptoe39

Peter: Wow, Peter. You're actually facing a situation maturely and without the knee-jerk reaction of foolishly stepping on more time-traveling butterflies to fix your-- Oh, wait, never mind. You're also apparently too dumb to follow directions, since HRG told you to hit the staircase, not to teleport right in front of the crazy kid's gun. *Sigh* Peter, never change. You beautiful, beautiful moron. --starvinbohemian

HRG: Aww, look at you covering up murders again. Precious. --starvinbohemian

HRG found his calling. I'm not sure it'll pay the bills. --schtroumph_c

Pete, Hun, I know you ran out of your "Smart Pills" but I think you already know that using powers in public & disappearing in a public place is a NO-NO!

Also, Teleporting in someone else bathroom isn't cool at all, what if someone was using the bathroom?! HRG or Claire?! That would have been Totally AWKWARD & EW D: D: - Unless you are a Paire shipper. --lemomina


Jeremy or whatever the hell his name is : AWESOME POWER! Also I'm so sure that he is Luke's long lost twin brother, that maybe both are adopted and where separated at birth! Wouldn't that be an AWFUL AWESOME plot?! --lemomina

Noah!! You're actually in this episode, thank god. --ilikethequiet

There goes Peter, off to step on someone's butterflies no doubt. --ilikethequiet

Healer lives in a house of death, maybe this isn't such a good idea? --ilikethequiet

Claire, honey, just NOW you think about your Magic Blood when Hiro’s illness shows up? Sigh. If only we could have gotten this kind of thinking beforehand. Hey, want to help your uncle at his job? Maybe perhaps you’d like to bleed a pint or so off every few days and have syringes of Insta-Heal ready for action for him? Because that’d really be useful. Hard to explain… but useful! --jaune_chat

Peter: “I stopped the bullet and saved Noah! I stopped it, I stopped it, I’m cool, I stopped it… uh, why is there blood on my shirt and a spray of bodily fluids behind me-. Oh. I’m dead. Shit.” --jaune_chat

I have to say I adored Noah talking Jeremy through the healing. The way he did it, not showing any fear in touching Jeremy, giving him specific instructions as to what to do, letting him gain control and visualize, awesome. The way he did it makes it like his calling, like he’s a teacher for gifted students. Like Professor Xavier, but more badass. Considering what Noah has to make up for in his life, this was a really great first step. --jaune_chat

Anyway, it stinks real bad in the house - like death - and Peter comes across the dead bodies of two old people. The kid's parents. Who the kid killed. Because his powers evolved, as they do, and gave him the ability to pull life away, too. Yeah, no free lunch in this town. --mystery_sock

Noah is busily covering up the death of Jeremy's parents, and staying with the kid until he knows the coast is clear. Noah's all committed to helping people now! Awwww. As well as covering up murders and stuff. Awwww! Let's evade justice together --mystery_sock

Claire - it's called a bank. Or a Coke machine - you know if you put in a dollar bill and then hit coin return, you get quarters back? I know! I'm so glad I know about this. Leave you poor dad alone; he's got murders to cover up.--mystery_sock

I don't buy the whole, "Your power doesn't work for the sniffles," schtick. Her power is regeneration, for one, so it makes things as they were when they were a-ok and then they stop. When she cuts her hand and the skin grows back, she doesn't end up with horrid massive growths (i.e. skin cancer) precisely because the skin knows when to stop. So saying that giving her blood to Hiro will only make the brain cancer grow faster is just..gah. By that twisted logic, as Claire's power evolves, she'll be a walking tumour. I don't get it. --bending_sickle

One of us, one of them! I cheered! And then wondered why I'd never considered this pair as a team. But then Peter got shot because he was an idiot and I knew why.--bending_sickle

Bennet is smart, yet stupid. "We'll just tell the cops your parents died from gas poisoning and you've just gotten home and found them this way: dead and horribly, terribly, weeks-edly decomposed. Yup, it's an air-tight cover story."--bending_sickle

Peter laughing nervously after waking up from the dead was the most adorable thing ever and that sentence does not sound creepy weird at all. --bending_sickle

Really, the only thing keeping me going right now is Peter in uniform. And the potential for complete meltdown when Peter finally finds out that Nathan is dead. --the_other_sandy


[About Claire’s Blood] What HRG said: "A tumor is living tissue. Your blood's regenerative powers would only make it grow faster."

WHAT??? WHY? The key word here is "REGENERATE". i.e.





WHY ON EARTH WOULD IT MAKE IT GROW FASTER?

[…] Adam used his blood to heal one of his wife in the GN... so the *magic blood* can actually heal diseases... They should have at least tried to use Claire's blood and when it didn't worked, try to found a pseudo scientific explanation. If only they had a geneticist to help them... oh, wait. --di_elle


Meanwhile Peter is off attempting to fix things, all while being ridiculously good looking and Heroes writers try to rationalize some shit. They can't use Claire's blood to heal Hiro because the regenerative property would just accelerate the growth of the tumor, or something. WHICH IS EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED TO DEADPOOL! He had cancer, was given Wolverine's healing ability and is now covered in tumors because the regenerative powers also affects the cancer it was supposed to get rid of. So now he's constantly regenerating to keep the super cancer away and will never die. Obviously the moral of this story is that Heroes writers should stop trying to rationalize or explain their mistakes, that ship sailed long ago, because if they do they'll end up stealing more from Marvel than just their entire premise. --psychedelicammo

I saw that Mark Young would be on Heroes tonight and got wicked excited, though srsly? Now they're not just stealing Dexter's addiction support group storyline, they're stealing the characters, too? But it got worse because his name was still JEREMY. Recycling the name of his character is just too much. --psychedelicammo

But as I watched I could just smell the crossover and wondered which older, morally gray, male figure Jeremy would attach himself to in the search for a mentor. Who would he offer to blow in the bushes this time? Peter? I mean, he did shoot the guy. But, no. Noah soon emerged as a better candidate, if only for his own emerging hero complex. Noah/Jeremy, I ship it (don't hate). --psychedelicammo






 
The Rest
(Miscellaneous)



Heroes, I love that you are trying to change the opening up a bit, but we really, really don't need any type of rehash at all. Your normal viewers are smart enough not to need one and I don't think anyone new is going to start watching the show at this point because they are smart enough to stay away. --godiloveslash

You know your show has jumped the shark when it starts ripping off Buffy episode titles. When the title an episode "The One Where Ross and Rachel Have Sex," I'm outta here. --tiptoe39


I've figured out exactly what the problem with Heroes is, and it's encapsulated in Samuel's brief discussion with Sylar. It's the HARD SELL. It's all through this episode.

-Samuel convinces Sylar to stay within a minute. Within another minute he's got him chasing after Ghostbuster Man.
-Hiro shows Emma a trick. She immediately decides to accept her power.
-Noah gives Jeremy a pep talk. Immediately he's able to control his power.

The show needs to move slower and let people have consistency of opinion. Have them not be convinced by the charismatic characters quite so simply. Basically, everything that this show wants to do, it needs to do at one-third the pace. But instead of gradual turnaround, building over time, we get the quick, dirty, hard sell, and that's where it loses its appeal. It takes us longer than a minute to be sold on an idea. They need to take the time to convince us before the characters get convinced.

Ahem. Serious meta over with. Going back to silly meta now. --tiptoe39


OK WHO'S SHIPPING JEREMY/LUKE/LYLE NOW!?!? PEDOVAN STOPS HERE! BEEP BEEP!!! --tiptoe39

We're in danger of getting back into that place where I start to question if these characters still have jobs (a very bad sign left over from previous seasons). Peter and Emma hang out at the hospital a lot, but it seems as if they mostly just hang out to play the piano and make googly eyes at each other in between Peter's adventures with HRG. --starvinbohemian

Ah, our strange and mystical black guy of the season. Cheer up Damien, you at least have a name! --schtroumph_c

On the other hand, if we flash back to season 1, things will be awesome again! Claire will be a wildcat cheerleader, Noah will work at a paper company, Peter and Nathan, the real Nathan will be together and Sylar will have great hair, YAAAY! --ilikethequiet

I'd love to go to a Heroes con someday just to have the opportunity to ask the writers what the hell they're thinking.--the_other_sandy

Instead of seeing the potential in elements the show already has, the writers give us Hiro trying to save Charlie (again), amnesiac Sylar (it was Peter with amnesia last time), more of Emma making pretty colors while whining about how she doesn't want a power (which pretty much sums up her every appearance on the show to date), Samuel co-opting Mohinder's pointless and incomprehensible monologues, and Claire doing laundry. --the_other_sandy

Overall this episode was fine. It only lacked one thing, okay maybe two: Our darling Pasdar and Mr. Muggles. These are needs that must be met Heroes writers, take note. --psychedelicammo

Peter laughs from the adrenaline and Jeremy looks flabbergasted and HRG grins. And I squee. See, show, if you had more scenes of this caliber, I wouldn't thrown tantrums online. You don't need superfluous lesbians to attract your audience, you need great writing, great actors, and a good story. You've had all of that before, you have that in certain scenes, you can have that again for your whole show, I just know it. I'm just worried that you won't get the chance to shine again. Especially after the cheap lesbian plot point. --aunt_zelda

It's chock full of ZQ, which is always a plus, but they seem to be focusing on the wrong storylines. I mean, it's been, what, two? three weeks? since we've even seen Parkman, but Claire has been in every single episode. AND WHERE'S MOMO!?!!! I mean, they've even had to call in a pitch-hitter for opening monologues for crying out loud! They haven't even given us a hand-wave explanation as to his whereabouts like they did with Molly. This is Unacceptable! --ladymalchav




(Mohinder subsection)

Okay, if you're going to keep with the annoying voice overs that I never listen to anyway, then please give them back to Mohinder. --starvinbohemian

God, still no Mohinder, where is he, damn it? --ilikethequiet

They are hitting it out of the park every week this season. If there was any justice in the world, folks would be watching this - and enjoying it, too. Oh well, there ain't. Also unjust? STILL NO MOHINDER. This is really upsetting; I guess if they figured there was no way to write him to the caliber that they can write the Petrellis and the Nakamura, they just wouldn't bother. Not OK, and yet, goddamn, this season is good. But I miss my Mo. --mystery_sock

I want the momologue back! [This] is getting ridiculous. --di_elle

Also, I'm sorry Samuel, but Mohinder did the monologue better. I was still annoyed by it, but he did it better. And first. --aunt_zelda