By Lisa Fary
Matt Parkman should never have left his one true love, Mohinder Suresh.
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Before Mohinder, Matt was the laughingstock of the LAPD. He couldn’t get it together to pass the detective test. His wife cheated on him. He was a chubby guy in Los Angeles.
Things didn’t start going well for Matt until he moved in with Mohinder. He made detective like he always wanted to. He got to be a dad without the whole cheatin’ wife aspect. And he got to live in a cold weather city – overcoats and layers of winter clothing work for a guy of Matt’s build.
I can’t say that Mohinder was better off because, really, the guy makes terrible decisions. But, taking Matt and Molly into his crappy little apartment was one of the better ones. With Matt he had rebuilt a family dynamic and with Molly he had a stand in for Shanti.
Then Matt left with Nathan Petrelli and everything went to hell. Matt got trapped in mental prison of his father’s making. Mohinder went to work for The Company, killed Noah Bennet, and helped Sylar get his powers back.
And now look at them. Mohinder has a gooey rash. Matt is following a tortoise through Africa, and for some reason has mud stripes on his face.
But, maybe that tortoise is better for Matt than Mohinder ever was. After all, Mohinder did immediately shack up with Maya and ship Molly off to Awkward Tween Island as soon as Matt left. However, they had a certain je ne sais quoi that kept them both out of trouble when they were together.
So, even though Mohinder doesn’t deserve to have Matt back, he needs to have Matt back. Likewise, Matt needs Mohinder. Matt wouldn’t be at all freaked out by Mohinder’s gooey rash – he’d dab iodine on it to make sure it didn’t get infected and use his mental powers to keep Mohinder’s aggression under control. Mohinder gets the adult guidance he needs and Matt gets to save someone. Everybody wins.
Alas, Matt is wandering the African bush and Mohinder is spinning a cocoon arond his wife-beating neighbor (maybe he’s turning into Shelob!) or something. I can only hope they’ll have a reunion later in the season with Matt clutching the Mo-Fly, blubbering, “I’ll look after you!” like Merry and Pippin in Return of the King.
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Lisa Fary’s early exposure to classic Battlestar Galactica in 1979 is largely responsible for her lifelong interest in science fiction and her childhood ambition of being an intergalactic space cowgirl. She thinks diagramming sentences is a fun alternative to Sudoku.
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Lisa Fary's earliest influences are Princess Leia, Rainbow Bright, Astronaut Barbie, and her 6th grade teacher, Ms. Palmer. She's angry that it's 2011 and she still doesn't have a hovercraft, but will accept a jetpack as consolation. That jetpack had better be pink with a rhinestone monogram. 
::sniffle:: You’re right. They’re so lost without each other. (Although, really, I think Mohinder’s been lost ever since his father died and took away his stern disapproval. I love Erick Avari.)
Pac-man (I swear that’s what that guy said.) needs to dump the tortoise, wipe off his imitation Peter Criss makeup, and hustle his bum back to Isaac’s studio before Mohinder goes all Venom on New York. It’s best for everyone, really.
It’s just so sad to watch them both spiral further down into the abyss of poorly written drama. They complete each other.
Mud stripes are ethnic! What do you want from them!
Poor Molly is the one to really suffer! For a guy who was ready to kill for a kid Mohinder’s forgotten li’l Molly awfully fast.
The guy has guts. He can pull the trigger and make with the science, however he can also ALWAYS be counted upon to make the stupidest decision for a given situation. *Headshakes and tsks*