It's harder for me to swallow that HRG wasn't well and truly dead - if not in that parking lot, surely it would stand to reason that he croaked some time during the 5+ hour flight back to NY and the company's lair. Eh. I don't wanna be all hand wave-y and fanwank-y and it's only the middle of season 2.

I assumed they tossed him in the back of the van and hooked him up there and then.

I assumed they tossed him in the back of the van and hooked him up there and then.

But we saw him wake up on the bed in the room at the company facility (the original "Oh shit!" episode) and next week when they picked up, Mo was giving him the blood and he was going all regenerate-y in the room. It sure didn't look like the back of a van.

Oh no, he woke up in a room, I just assume he was on some sort of support in a van before that.

He got shot, they threw him in the van, took him a nearby lab and blooded him.

Mmm, I don't know. It's still fishy to me. It's not like they could just take him into the nearest Our Lady of Grace. I doubt many hospitals would just lend Mo a room and let him inject someone with the blood they just happened to have in their bag. I mean, I suppose the company could have some kind of facility in California . . . but that's a lot of hand waving. I'm willing to suspend my disbelief b/c I love HRG, but it just feels like a cheat.

What kind of sooper sekrit conspiracy doesn't have outposts all over the place?

I'm assuming the whole thing was a set up. Everyone has seen the painting, fake Noah's death, blah de blah conspiracy cakes.

I can't imagine they'd get Claire, take her to NY in order to get her blood, bring her back to her family, shoot HRG, take him to NY, and give him Claire's blood. It seemed pretty easy for me to assume they've got a local secret lair, since it seemed like it was the same exact room. Or did I miss something?

Also, I'd buy that a blood transfusion can do its magic for the 20 some days blood cells are in the body before being recycled. Magic blood after that will make me cranky.

I know they didn't take Claire to NY. Tobby took her blood right in his hotel room.

Like I said, I'm willing to suspend my disbelief because I like HRG and I like the show, but it was hard to swallow for me. Obvi, not so for others. I'm much more distrurbed by the whole magic blood reveal itself then by the who/what/when/where/how logistics. I don't like that there's this deus ex blood out there now. Someone died, just give em the juice! Shot in the head? Don't be sad, sunshine. I got something that'll fix you right up. You can be almost, well and truly dead, got shot, brains blown all to hell, and we can fix you up good as new. I don't like it. It feels like a cheat. I fully expect Peter to bring back Nathan with the magic blood next season and, as much as I looove me some Nathan, I won't like it. So even if I'm going to believe that filmy, clouded over white eyes means only mostly kinda but not really, truly dead, I don't know why the damn blood worked in the first place. In a story where I'm happy to accept exploding men, time travelers, shape shifters, mind readers, pushers, and even annoying, bowl cut, teenage flying perverts, this grated.

I love Mylar because it's wrong and twisted and dark. And some down and dirty hate sex? Bring it. But the last thing I ever would want to see is some woobified, twu wuv crap.

This is so me. I don't know what it says about me, but there it is.

I like enemy slash like Mulder/Krycek where the "enemy" half is at least a little ambiguous. SYLAR EATS BRAINS. AND HIS PORTMANTEAU SUCKS.

So, not my beautiful cake, is what I'm saying, not that I'm trying to be obnoxious about it. (The Matt/Mohinder portmanteau is, naturally, Matthinder. *sigh*)

Mulder/Krycek

Mrycek or Krulder is better than Mylar as a portmanteau? I don't think so.