It's a little easier on Heroes, since time is actually passing at a somewhat normal rate.
Fred: So you don't worry that it's possible for someone to send out a biological or electronic trigger that effectively overrides your own sense of ideals and values and replaces them with an alternative coercive agenda that reduces you to a mindless meat puppet? Shopkeeper: Wow. People used to think that I was paranoid.
'Time Bomb'
Heroes 1: We Could Be Heroes
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Dana - Mar 12, 2009 6:04:16 pm PDT #4413 of 5028
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
Wolfram - Mar 12, 2009 6:09:50 pm PDT #4414 of 5028
Visilurking
Also, they could just make doubling in size his new power. Though I suppose it could only go one way.
Vortex - Mar 23, 2009 5:05:31 pm PDT #4415 of 5028
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Aww, Micah's voice changed! And we were totally right about the Micah/Rebel connection.
What was with the creepy eyeblink? I wondered if she'd created a fake ice tracy, but I guess not.
Ginger - Mar 23, 2009 5:08:42 pm PDT #4416 of 5028
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Take heart, peoples. This is an excellent Heroes.
Is there a record for media shoutouts in one television episode? This one's in the running.
eta: I don't know about the creepy eyeblink. Surely she can't thaw.
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 23, 2009 5:07:37 pm PDT #4417 of 5028
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Dang! I forgot it was on tonight and watched the pilots of a couple of abyssmally bad sitcoms on ABC Family instead.
Frankenbuddha - Mar 23, 2009 5:25:50 pm PDT #4418 of 5028
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Whoo! Rebel is Micah! Awesome!
sj - Mar 23, 2009 6:04:44 pm PDT #4419 of 5028
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Good call Victor!
This was an excellent episode. I heart Brian Fuller.
Frankenbuddha - Mar 23, 2009 6:31:03 pm PDT #4420 of 5028
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Good call Victor!
One of these years, we're going to get a tell-all about Buffy and find out that Giles was SUPPOSED to be Ethan Rain in season 7, but they couldn't get Robin Sachs at the last minute.
sumi - Mar 24, 2009 4:13:43 am PDT #4421 of 5028
Art Crawl!!!
That was really good.
And I was all WTF? With Matt and the flying and then I had the thought that he was making it up. That was heartbreaking.
I am wondering when Ma Patrelli made this plan with Peter. I also wonder where Nathan is.
Frankenbuddha - Mar 24, 2009 4:34:49 am PDT #4422 of 5028
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
And I was all WTF? With Matt and the flying and then I had the thought that he was making it up.
For a few seconds there I was afraid it would turn out to be Sylar, come to eat her brain, with a nifty new shape-changing ability.