I can't stop myself...

...I just have to keep talking about this show until the need to talk about it goes away. First of all, I really love this picture:


I think the awesomeness needs no explanation.

But second of all,...nope, guess there was no second of all. I'm sure there had been one a few days ago. I think it had something to do with Sylar not making the most efficient use of his powers. Whatever the thought was, it lead me to thinking about the end of season 2 where Peter gets a nosebleed trying to pull a door off a safe using telekinesis when it would have been much easier to either phase through the door or teleport inside the safe.

So my gripe was either about that or about the fact that, except for one instance of Elle and Claire on a plane, there's no explanation at all for how people who aren't Hiro, Peter, Nathan, or Arthur manage to travel back and forth across the country so quickly. Of course after season 1 there's also rarely any mention of where anything is. Like how far are Pinehearst and that Company building from each other. Are they across town? Across the country? I hope they're right next door to each other. That would be hilarious. But really, Claire and Elle had to fly from Southern California to Pinehearst. But Nathan and Tracy seemed to mention that they had to fly there from New York. And is the Company building still the same Primatech building in Odessa? Or is this a new building? I feel like that was dealt with somewhere in season 2, but I can't remember.

That's all for now. I'm sure I'll be back to complain about tomorrow's episode tomorrow.

Ugh, why can't I let this show go?

Okay, I'm a little ashamed to say that I've posted more about Heroes than about any other show. Granted, the start of my blogging did coincide with the start of me watching the show, but that's still no excuse. And yet...I can't let go.

So it just occurred to me that wishy-washy must be a dominant Petrelli trait. It's very unclear what Arthur's goals are and whether or not he's really sticking to them so it's hard to say with him, but Angela certainly seems to have gone back and forth a lot over the course of this show about what she ought to do and what she ought to be manipulating others into doing.

And Peter and Nathan are just the same way. Maybe they're not so much wishy-washy as they are desparate for someone to tell them what to do. Both of them are so easily manipulated. They'll just listen to whoever happens to be standing next to them talking. It can be Linderman, Charles Deveaux, Simone, Claude, HRG, Angela, Matt Parkman, Arthur, random Irish chicks, Adam Monroe, Bob Bishop, Tracy, Sylar, The Haitian, each other. For god's sake they even listened to Mohinder for a while. Anyone can tell them what to do and they'll go out guns a'blazin' until they run into someone who tells them to do differently.

And, whaddayaknow, their long lost brother Gabriel Sylar Grey Petrelli is exactly the same way. He had his own agenda for a while there, granted it didn't go much beyond killing everyone and collecting their powers, but as soon as he realized he was a Petrelli the genes kicked in. He's only known for like five episodes so far and he's already been under the sway of Angela, HRG, Arthur and now Elle. Wasn't it only a couple of weeks ago that he felt really bad about hurting Claire and then saved her? And now he's back to trying to kill her just because someone told him to? Aargh. Dammit show.

Okay, now that I've vented my frustration I can return to doing the work I'm actually supposed to be doing right now.

WHO IS WRITING 9TH WONDERS?!?

3.10 "The Eclipse: Part I"

Man. I was really hoping Sylar/Gabriel and Elle were going to switch over to the good side now that they're together. I mean I guess it's okay if they're evil and together. They've got a fun Bonnie & Clyde thing going. But redemption stories are so much more compelling. I wanted them to have some sort of crazy love of a lifetime story. Or, I guess they don't have to be good, but when they're acting evil they have a tendency to seem kind of one dimensional. What I like is when they're conflicted, hurt, vulnerable. That's the key. Vulnerable. I want them to be together and vulnerable. And then if Zach Quinto would get a haircut they'd be perfect.

Also, I'm tired of Hayden Panettiere's wig. I really wish they could just deal with the fact that Claire got a haircut and go with it so I don't have to keep looking at her fake roots. And because of the wig she can't have her hair in a ponytail. And a ponytail would have seemed much more pleasant during her exhausting working-out-her-daddy-issues workout.

I also feel compelled to complain about the fact that it was really hard to see everything going on in this episode. I get that there was an eclipse so it was dark, but it doesn't have to be that realistic. They could have gone inside buildings with electricity.

And the most important question of this season, as far as I'm concerned, is WHO THE HELL IS WRITING 9TH WONDERS? Did they explain it and I missed it? Isaac is dead! Who picked up the slack to continue the comic book that predicts the future of Hiro Nakamura in minute detail? Who would ever want to do that to begin with? Isaac is excused. He had a heroine habit to feed. No one else could be so desparate that they would resort to that degree of profound boringness and inanity. And even more importantly, why hasn't Ando asked himself this question? He really is completely useless.

Sad day...

Pushing Daisies has not officially been canceled, but no more episodes have been ordered. So it's effectively been canceled. I think next week's is the last episode produced. That means no series plot resolutions. Dammit.

Anyway, with that canceled and since I stopped watching Life on Mars I'm down to: Big Bang Theory, How I Met Your Mother, Gossip Girl, (I haven't watched Sarah Connor Chronicles in weeks but I'm going to catch up soon), Heroes, Fringe, Bones, The Office, 30 Rock, and Crusoe. I like how exactly half of the shows I watch are on Mondays.

So that's ten. Plus the occasional Family Guy and SNL. But I know I'm at least adding Lost, Battlestar Galactica, and Dollhouse to my schedule for spring. And there are probably more. I definitely want to watch Boldly Going Nowhere if it actually airs. Maybe I'll have to save the rest of Gossip Girl for the summer. And Crusoe should only have 5 episodes left after Christmas if they actually air them. That'll be a little bit more manageable, but still tough.

GabriElle?

3.09 "It's Coming"

I am now officially watching this show just to see Zachary Quinto and Kristen Bell get it on. I could see the chemistry between these two sometime last year in an onset interview where they were just playing around. Ah yes. Here it is:

Fuck!

Yep, DOA sounds about right. Fucking fuck.

Nate the Manwhore

2.08 "Pret-a-Poor-J"

So last week's episode was completely awesome. But, even though this has probably been pointed out all over the internet, I feel the need to discuss the fact that Nate is a total slut. I mean it was obvious that he was a literal manwhore when he was sleeping with that Duchess so she'd bail his family out of their debt. But he's already been relatively sexually involved with almost everyone on the show.

• He slept with Serena while dating Blair.
• He slept with Blair to try to insure his family's financial stability.
• He and Chuck have and on-again/off-again bromance that has involved at least one situation that we know of where Nate slept on a couch in the same room where Chuck was having sex with two hotel employees.
• He may or may not have slept with Vanessa, but he certainly screwed her.
  
• He slept with the Duchess (Blair's boyfriend's stepmother) in a manwhore capacity.
• He and Dan have quickly established a bromance and they've already been in some conspicuously unclothed situations.
• He's now making out with Jenny.

Clearly Nate's solution to any problem is to have sex with it.

So at this point he still needs to develop a sexual relationship with...um...oh yes, Eric, Lily, Rufus and Bart Bass, and then he will have covered everyone on the show. I think living in close proximity to the whole Humphrey family should facilitate a situation with Rufus in the near future. He just needs to get into another dire financial situation and that could lead to relations with Lily and/or Bart. And I'm sure Chuck can coax Nate and Eric into bed together at some point. It's all just a matter of time.