I do not notice the details. That is what I have fandom for.

This.

I watch the episodes AFTER I've come here and read the w&p. I get so much more out of them that way.

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you know it's funny. when i watched the pilot last summer, it was probably my least favorite of the bunch(and i really didn't like the Hiro storyline) and now? ha! it's probably one of my favorite shows on television. joining the ranks of Supernatural and The Office.

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Yeah, I also didn't think the plot of the pilot did much to sell me on the show, but the first regular episode got me excited enough to sub it on the TiVo.

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Yeah, I'm afraid I only watch each episode once.

Heck, last week, I couldn't remember that Claire had been killed in the five-years-hence reality.

you don't have to memorize the plot to notice some details.

Heh. I'm having trouble remembering major events. I think it's the time travel.

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Okay, this episode may have been about moving the pieces into place, but it still rocked.

It seems to me that Sylar is not *always* evil. There was a great deconstruction of him in a fic that posited the many possible inhabitants of his rattling brain--Gabriel, Sylar, and the people he "became" for a short time, like Zane. And I think there's some truth to that--the act of changing his clothes (my god, those horrific chinos), shaving, rearranging his hair--all those are classic methodology for changing a persona, or in Sylar's case, an identity. It's notable that he didn't shift out of being more-or-less a good dude until he used his power; for Sylar, his powers are a catalyst for his evv0ltude.

When he was talking on the phone with Mohinder (and can I just say, creepy slash factor up to ELEVEN) it seemed like he was straddling the boundary between his super-evil serial killing self and something of the man he was before the powers. He didn't say he wanted to stop. He said someone needed to stop him. And his boyfriendMohinder was the guy he wanted to do it.

Can I just say, I totally called the accidental power-gleaning on the part of Peter from Ted from, oh, like eighteen episodes ago? Though it's interesting how fine-tuned Ted's powers have become. He's a far cry from the crazy dude of episodes past.

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I'm curious as to which of the writers has Mommy Issues, in that Sylar's mom is the one who made him craxxy by wanting him to Be Special.

And speaking of getting info from the fandom rather than the show, i totally didn't put little Molly Walker together with the "Walker System" until reading stuff here last night after the episode. More angst for Mr. Bennet! Yay!

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Not to mention Matt Parkman, who saved her in the first place.

Mommy Issues + being "special" = recipe for serial killer. In television, anyway. It's pretty tried and true.

Hey, who knew Greg Grunberg was JJ Abrams' life-long best friend? Not me until five seconds with wikipedia! No wonder he was able to balance Alias and Felicity on two different networks at the same time.

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yep! it's why he has at least some small part in all of JJ's shows. it's one thing that redeems Abrams for me. a teensy bit.

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To be fair, a number of the characters (probably more, really) have daddy issues -- Mohinder, Nathan, Hiro (although Hiro seems to have his basically in check, so he may not count.)

Quoth Philip Larkin:

They fuck you up
your mum and dad
they may not mean to
but they do

They fill you with
the faults they had
and add some extra
just for you

(From memory, so forgive me if the line breaks aren't exact.)

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Promos notwithstanding, eh?

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