"Smug teenage asshole engages in creepy pushy stalkerlike behavior and then gets the girl by revealing that he's only an asshole because of his Secret Deep Pain Which They Can Bond Over" is right up there on my list of Least Favorite TV Tropes EVAR.

(Oh hi, Jess from Gilmore Girls! I hate you so much!)

I do take your point, but happily it didn't really ping me too much. I mean, yes, I thought he was being a dickhead, but I also thought that it was entirely plausible. I mean, I didn't think 'Oooh, romantic! Twu Wuv!', I just thought he was as self-centred and entitled as many other teenagers, and oblivious to the seriousness of the shit Claire was dealing with. Which made sense to me, so I was good with it.

Who Wants To Get Paid To Eat Bugs On TV?

You better hope there aren't any TV producers reading this board.

Oh, God. It's funny 'cuz it's true.

Meanwhile, in Fay's Ongoing Watch'n'Post news:

OMG, Wee!Hiro! OMG! I am slain!

Gasp. Adam is the killer. Gasp. Or, you know, not so much with the gasping.

....aw, Matt, don't go embracing the dark side! Be careful! Making blood come out of people's noses isn't generally regarded as a sign of incipient virtue. This business of mind control not so much with the goodness, especially in your own house, with those you love. (...although...oh dear sweet Jesus, the pr0n possibilities. The...oh, God. Is it out there? On the internets? Um. I..yeah, I'll be in my bunk. Um. [What? Look, it's not my fault! Mohinder is just too damn pretty!])

Aw! Mr Bennet is bonding with Flying!Boy! Aw! Over CARS! Aw, that's just adorable. That really is adorable. Although...why have they not neutralised Elle's powers? She can totally take them out right now. Duh.

...yeah. Well, duh.

OMG, They Killed Kenny Mr Bennet! OMG OMG! Mohinder! WTF? My God, boy - you should just STAY IN BED all day! Looking pretty and nekkid, with maybe a few research books. You cannot be trusted out of the house!

OMG, Mr Bennet got better again!

!!!

...why is Claire the one saying words and emptying the ashes? Surely Mama Bennet should be doing this? And their actual biological son should also get a bit of a look-in, no?

...

...

Peter, are you in competition with Mohinder for Who Can Be The Most Stupid? Because, really, I think I speak for the world when I assure you that it would be much better for the two of you to compete over Who Can Be Nekkid And Wet The Most Times Per Episode, rather than you bogarting all the wet'n'nekkid time. Also, while I remember - sweet baby JESUS, you are The Worst Boyfriend EVER. You are like Kiss Of Death Guy! I mean, man, I thought poor gorgeous Simone was unlucky - but this poor faux Irish cow got stranded in the future in a parallel universe! And it's a SUCKY future! Seriously, I may start to 'ship Nathan/Peter just out of compassion for the womenfolk of the world.

Aw, Micah. You are possibly the cutest kid in the history of television. Well, except for all the other cute kids whose existence I'm presently forgetting about, I expect. But - serious cuteness. Bless. I just want to pinch your cheek, feed you soup, and help you learn your times tables. You are an awesome kid.

...Uhura, STILL no super seekrit powers? Really? This is quite disappointing. C'mon, you KNOW you want some!

...Ando, I love you. I want to squeeze you and Hiro and call you both George. You are possibly even more adorable than Micah. Bless.

Oh, Maya. Just - stop. Please stop. He is a bad guy. Cannot you see the big flashing 'I am a Bad Guy' sign over his psychotic head? I mean, honestly. If he had a moustache he'd be twirling it wickedly. And perhaps tying a damsel to a train line whilst he did so. Buy a clue, girly!

...Ooooh yes. And now he's murdered your twin and is getting all wet'n'nekkid to distract you (clearly HE has decided to compete with Peter. Mohinder, love, take a hint, yeah?). Maya, just step away from the psycho, dear. Alejandro - REALLY bad luck, mate.

Oh dear, Not!Joan! This is (continued...)

( continues...) not looking good! And I was loving the cute cousinly bonding, and your wee outfit, and your excellent breaking'n'entry skills, but now - oh dear...

OMG, SYLAR TOTALLY HAS MOLLY!!! OMG OMG!!!

freaks the fuck out

Mohinder, you useless fucking hunk of tall, dark, lickable and brainless, get your pretty ass BACK TO THE APARTMENT RIGHT NOW!!! Develop a sodding superpower already! Matt, stop doing whateverthefuckyou'redoing and go SAVE THE FREAKING DAY!!!

freaks out some more

I think I hated the Twins more than Flyboy.

It's not crap.

Really? Oh, splendid! I think I may continue to have low expectations, though, because then I'll just be all delighted by it, insh'allah.

Hey! Allison Mack is awesome!

Not dissing her (hey, Smallville Season One lives in my fannish memory as something unexpected and precious - it's like summer holidays when you're a kid, that stretch on forever and are full of sunny days and popsicles and daisychains and all that stuff - I heart Smallville season one, when I fell head over heels in love with my very first OTP and the world was full of shiny blue bottles of water and fabulous new words like 'cocksicle'. Ah, good times, good times...but the fact remains that Allison Mack is not, upon rewatching, a better actress than KK. They both do perfectly good and charming jobs with the scripts they get. Fandom embraced the hell out of Chloe (and Allison) and was pretty fucking savage about Lana (and Kristin). And actually, for me, upon rewatching without the lens of TwoP, I found KK and Lana surprised me by how likeable and 3D they actually were.

(Although Lana's parents being dead - and then NOT being dead, and in either case being, unless my memory deceives me, pretty markedly Caucasian, continues to be really quite entertaining.)

...um, apologies for the serial postage.

Anyway, yes - just polished off the series. And, yes, wow, it really does feel curtailed - pity that the storytelling had to suffer for the Writers' Strike. I mean, fair play to the writers, and I was all 'Go Team Writers', but selfishly, right now, I'm just rather sorry that we didn't get to see the whole thing unfold at the normal pace, and that characters got comparatively short shrift. Hmm.

Ah well.

Oh, Elle, don't go making me feel sorry for you! (Nice scenes, those with Not!Veronica and Mr Bennet. Mr Bennet - still made of win.)

Oh - poor Nicky! That girl had no luck. Plus - Micah is now going to be the guiltiest kid in guilt-town. Poor wee scone.

Also OMGWTF Nathan! But - surely he has regenerative powers now? Or is that a one-shot deal? 'Cause I was all over the Petrelli brothers' bonding, I must admit. (Although, you know, Peter has mostly just been Very Annoying And Stupid this season. If I fancied him, I'd maybe give him a free pass for all the wet'n'shirtless schtick - but since I don't, I mostly want to smack him upside the head. I mean, apart from anything else - how the hell is AVERTING the future where Caitlin exists supposed to help you get her back, you idiot? You need to get your ass back into that future before you shift the world onto a different course, or else you have lost her forever! Which -oops! Looks like you have lost her forever!)

Hiro - NICE punishment for Adam! Nice! 'Course, when he eventually emerges he's going to be reeeeally pissed off...

Sylar...so, still evil. Curses. (And what the hell is with the company NOT NOTICING that he escaped from his secure facility in the first place? 'Cause whatshershape wasn't working alone, she was working for the company. Surely absconding psychotic former supervillains should be the kind of thing that earns at least a terse email? A company memo? SOMETHING?)

Maya - not dead? 'Cuz I admit, I was sort of agreeing with Sylar at that point, with the shooting. It was sort of an Indiana Jones versus the sword-wielding guy moment for me - oooooh, sudden threat of big weepy death...bang! Okay, no problemo! (Poor wee Molly really didn't need to die of the drippy mascara disease. That kid has had a shitty enough year already.)

Oh, Matt, get your ass home and sort out your Indian wife. He is sweet as hell, but really doesn't know his arse from his elbow. You need to go home and use your awesome mind control powers to keep him barefoot and shirtless and tied to the kitchen sink, where he can do comparatively little harm. Hopefully. And give poor wee Molly a big hug while you're there.

Awww, Fay, you are so awesome. I really miss squeeing over Heroes.

How much do I love Fay's version of Heroes? THHHISSSSS MMMMMMUCCCH.

Oh, Matt, get your ass home and sort out your Indian wife. He is sweet as hell, but really doesn't know his arse from his elbow. You need to go home and use your awesome mind control powers to keep him barefoot and shirtless and tied to the kitchen sink, where he can do comparatively little harm. Hopefully. And give poor wee Molly a big hug while you're there.

I love Fay SO HARD right now, I can't even describe it.

Question - does anybody know how I'd go about getting my hands on the Heroes scripts from S1 and S2?

So in the latest online comic are we to read HRG's comments as admitting that he did in fact die from Mo's shot and then they brought him back to life? Because if so, I really, really hate that development. I mean, I guess it means we could conceivably get Nathan back, but there better be some big, goddamn limits on just how much this "magic blood" can accomplish. Maybe there's some time limit?

ION, thoroughly enjoying the comic.