Where did you get the info about the series versdion of Bob?

Posts by Robert Wolfe and Jim Butcher on the latter's website forums.

If you're looking for more detail, Jim Butcher mentioned the hole in the back of TV!Bob's skull is from the axe blow that killed him.

Okay, found Jim's post about TV!Bob: [link]

It pretty much says everything there is to know about TV!Bob, which means there's some good-sized spoilers in it.

In the grand tradition of Charmed, Smallville is stealing Buffy storylines. This week, we have Clark in a mental institution, doesn't really have powers, has created this alternate world for himself where he's the hero, etc.

To be fair to Smallville (and to SGA, which did an episode with that schtick last year), it's hardly original to Buffy. There's no shortage of shows that have done "Everything you know is wrong."

(Waves hi to Farscape. )

I was loads behind here but skipped mercilessly because BSG's Dee just showed up on the Dark Angel repeat. How many actors does that make now? Sharon, Callie, Dee... That's off of memory just from what I have caught on recent repeat.

That Charmed episode aired before Normal Again, according to Wikipedia.

I remember people being under the same impression though, when a repeat of the Charmed episode aired a few weeks after Normal Again.

I loved "Normal Again."

I just wanted to say that.

So far, the best of those sort of episodes was the DS9 one. Far Beyond the Stars, well, and I guess Shadows and Symbols, since that's the one with the mental institution.

As much as I love the Arms of Apollo, my BSG boyfriends remain Gaelin Tyrol and Felix Gaeta, with Karl Agathon for eye candy (Tahmoh is just too damn pretty!).

nods.

Although I do do do heart Jamie Bamber. British! And American! Simultaneously! Good job, that boy! But I love The Chief beyond the telling of it. Love. Love love love. And Gaeta! Love!

(Must say, though, that I do rather regret The Chief getting together with Cally. I don't hate it, and it's plausible and all, but it feels like her character had been a passably rounded and interesting individual, and I'd never read their relationship as romantic - just that he was The Chief and he looked after his people, damn it. And now she feels more like an adjunct to his character, and he feels a wee bit diminished. Um. But this may just be my thing.)

Meanwhile, I'm loving the spoily Heroes talk. Not quite as good as getting to see the episode, obviously, but I'm still all Yay!

Hiro is my Super Seekrit Celebrity Boyfriend. Yes.

Hiro is my Super Seekrit Celebrity Boyfriend

Mine, too. He's just too cute.

So, I was rewatching episodes and watching some I'd missed the first time around. In "Six Months Ago" it seemed to me that a lot of the heroes didn't start manifesting their powers until Hiro went back in time. It's hard to say and I'm basing it almost solely on something Charlie said. I may have to go back and verify, but in both "Six Months Ago" and in "Nothing to Hide" Charlie says that she started remembering everything she read or heard recently. It makes me wonder how recently is recently? It seems, before she met Hiro in NtH, she only started manisfesting within the last few weeks, and then the same in SMA she started showing her power a few weeks before Hiro showed up that time, too. Then maybe Hiro is some sort of catalyst. And/or, by pushing his timeline and abilities back six months before he first knew he had them, he pushed everyone else's timeline of manifesting powers back six months. Perhaps that's why the dude with telekinesis that was Sylar's first victim was "broken." Hiro's popping around in time has affected everyone else's powers. This could be all stuff you guys already hashed out, I skimmed when these episodes originally aired because I didn't get to see them then. Any thoughts?

Something set off the powers. Each of the characters we have seen developed their powers recently. I think I will just have to rewatch from the beginning to search for clues.