By Lisa Fary
This ep was kind of like having food poisoning.
With food poisoning, the vomiting and diarrhea are vile and uncomfortable, but all the bad stuff is being cleaned out. You know you’ll feel better when the full body flush is complete, as long as you stay hydrated. Then, once you’ve puked and pooped your guts out, you have a flat stummy that will fit into skinny jeans.
Bryan Fuller is my muffin top-free evening in my skinny jeans. So, I guess that makes Jeph Loeb my vomiting and diarrhea.
“Blood and Trust” was pretty bad, but just knowing that the Fuller eps are coming up made it bearable. I was able to appreciate some smaller details rather than spending the hour raging against NBC suits who encourage crappy storytelling and needless devices like the Flying Senator narrating events as we’re seeing them (It’s television – SHOW DON’T TELL!!!!). Smaller things like. . .
Ummmm. . . .
I can’t think of anything.
Not the death (is she? isn’t she?) of Daphne, who I was just starting to like again. Not the world shoving Claire back into her Barbie box. Not Tracy’s descent into stupidity brought on by believing that the Flying Senator would actually save her.
Maybe Sylar and his new sidekick. Definitely Sylar’s line, “I let you live, which is kind of a big deal for me.”
One thing was cleared up, though. Sort of. Matt Parkman said flat out that he can’t draw. But! When he future-draws under the guidance of his magical negro, he draws like Tim Sale. Ipso facto, the future-drawing ability package includes the talents of Tim Sale.
Next week: the vomiting and diarrhea gets projectile and explosive, respectively, as we suffer through the last of the Loeb/ Alexander episodes. I’m going to go make sure my skinny jeans are clean.
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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. 
I can't believe how much this season has made me hate the characters I once loved. Claire? Hate. Parkman? Hate. Nathan. So much hate.
Did you notice that after Daphne died there was a little Mohinder/Parkman thing going on? Okay, so it's not like a THING thing, but a very subtle reference to how well they know each other when Peter was giving his Superman speech. I'm willing to grasp onto anything at this point, it seems.
And while Sylar's story is the one that keeps me watching, I can't help but think that Quinto needs to escape this Heroes bs and just stick to space, the final frontier.
Daphne had better not turn out to be Heroes' own Dualla wherein she's there one ep, gone the next, and no one really mourns. Have fun in your refrigerator, Daphne.
Rhea Dee: Mohinder and Matt are nonsexual lifepartners. Everyone knows that! They did a FAB-ulous job of raising Molly.
And by the way: where did Molly go? Maybe they aren't such great parents. . . .
Lisa: I laughed at the phrase "magical negro" and now I feel guilty. If I have to eat chocolate to cover the guilt, I won't be able to fit into my skinny jeans! So not fair!
Molly is on Awkward Tween Island with Micah the technopath and Walt from Lost.
Don't feel guilty. The writers stupidly fell into using that archetype. We must mock them.
Ah, that's right! And when she does pop up again, they'll right in some cheesy lines about how she got taller overnight to explain why she is noticeably older than the last time Matt let her out of her room!
Oooh! The rapid growth will be a side effect of experiments at Super Gitmo!
Did I really type "right" instead of "write"?! That's embarrassing, especially since I'm a righter. I mean, writer!
you said "magical negro"!!!!! lmfao
I'd just like to point out that when I say "magical negro", I'm referring to the offensive archetype of the wise black character whose primary purpose is to help the white main character. I.e., Whoopi Goldberg in Ghost, Bagger Vance, Morgan Freeman as God in Bruce Almighty. There's a really good essay about the concept here.
Ehhh…I feel like all of the semi-realism that made that lthe last episode so cool was jettisoned here . Anyone ever notice that on Heroes they don't display themes through actions, they just have long winded speeches about them? We could have seen any of Sylar's new side's kick's life, but instead, we have to hear Sylar's cracked pop psychology. No, that would take more than thirty seconds wouldn't it. BTW Slyar is the wimpiest villian ever. I wanna know who I really am blah blah blah….Dude, you're a pyschopath not cuz of your family, but cuz you like to cut people's foreheads open! Also, talking about woman written as idiots, what is up with Claire's non-biological mom? She acts like she's taking horse tranquilizers and let's her husband do whatever crazy shit he wants and never reacts. Also, how does everyone on the planet manage to seemingly have super powers and somehow it never gets on youtube?????????????????????????????? It should have been public in the second season!
Oh, I know about Mohinder and Matt. *sly wink* I guess I should have said I noticed a return to their (sadly) nonsexual life partnership.
God would it kill this show to make M & M have a legit relationship? Would it? It would be so very Torchwood and therefore, awesome.
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I don't think it'd kill the show, but it might give the network execs a few heart attacks. I mean, they can't let the rest of Prop-8-approving California, let alone the middle of the country, see them condoning the gays. ::grumble::
Although the episode was largely mediocre-to-crappy, there were a few bits I liked. Claire's speech when she tried to stand up to her daddies made me happy. (The fact that it was entirely ineffective, on the other hand, made me angry again.)
I kind of liked Tracy's self-serving double- and triple-crossing of the Brothers Petrelli, if only because it showed a female character with some shred of agency, but the fact that she ended up captured and wailing pretty much negated that. Didn't she have some of her (cloned) sisters badassery at some point?
While it's an obvious plot device, I'm glad that Peter can only hold onto one stolen power at a time now. His enormous collection was making him invulnerable and thereby turning him into a know-it-all asshat. I imagine that he'll eventually heal to the point that he can sustain more than one, but I'm hoping this period of diminished ability will teach him a little of the humility that he's lost over the years.
And, yeah, Sylar's "I let you live" line was a thing of beauty. As was Ando's "Hiro is alive because I have to kill him later" glee.