Uncharted Island

I really like the “African Mr. Isaac.” (Awesome seeing him on ER a few weeks ago.) He’s had some great interactions with Matt, Hiro, and Ando. Definitely a good addition to our merry band fo heroes.

My Latin is a little rusty. (Took it way back in 7th and 8th grade.) I’ll have to look up what the episode title means.

And Elle is short circuiting.

Should be interesting to see what Maya does when she wakes up in Super Mohinder’s arms, after he cocooned her and all.

Nice one, little bro, throwing water on Elle.

Well, way not cool that Arthur Petrelli has Maya’s black oil powers now, but it’s good for Maya. But she still doesn’t want to see Mohinder. Can’t say I blame her. I wouldn’t either.

“Make Mommy proud.” That was perhaps the creepiest way that line has ever been uttered.

Elle is like Claire’s evil twin.

And… Matt’s father is dead now? Well, one bad guy down… But what in the world could Arthur have on Daphne that would force her to work with him? She’s not going to kill Matt.

Claire going to Pinehearst cannot be a good thing. Arthur can’t be allowed to take that from her!

And that’s even worse. Arthur laying his hands on Sylar.

Alright, Matt and Daphne are dead on the floor. Daphne’s windpipe is crushed, and Matt got punched straight through his chest. Umm, is this where Hiro goes back and changes stuff? Because I really like Matt and Daphne. And what about the future Matt saw? Hiro’s gotta go back and stop Arthur from taking Peter’s powers, which will stop the rest of it from happening… right?

Sweet! Matt just made him think that all happened with his brain mojo thing! So awesome. Funny that Matt now sees Primatech as the good guys.

And now Maya is going to “make amends” like she’s in a 12 step program? That’s a little weird.

“It’s nice to know you’re as messed up as I am.” Nice, Elle. Real nice.

Another fake death? I can’t believe that Peter is dead. He’s part of their cast of eye candy. [commercial break] Okay, it wasn’t a far enough fall to kill him. So either he’s really lucky, or his abilities aren’t completely gone. Oh, or Sylar helped him. Hadn’t considered that.

Thanks to my husband: fire and ice. Meredith and Tracy.

And Hiro is going on a spirit walk. Should be interesting. But apparently we won’t see if for three weeks, since there isn’t a new episode next week, and the following week will be a prequel of sorts.

I called it! I knew Hiro didn’t kill Ando! I was just wrong about him smacking Ando in the head with the sword. Instead, he went back in time to warn Ando to play dead.

Yikes. Mr. Petrelli is a superpower vampire. He just sucked Adam’s youth, life, and regeneration out of him. That was… unexpected. Does that mean that Claire could suffer the same fate?

What is “Lindermann” holding over Daphne’s head?

“High-five, turtle.” LOL, Matt Parkman!

Mohinder just keeps getting creepier and creepier. That reptilian sound effect is disturbing. And he’s going to cocoon Tracy and Nathan? Umm, Nathan’s a senator now. Someone is going to notice he’s missing.

Alright, so what is this thing up Peter’s nose? It stopped Sylar from using his powers, and it’s stopped Peter now, too. If something like that can suppress powers temporarily, it could be studied to do what Mohinder originally set out to do, take Maya’s powers away - or anyone’s powers away.

Matt’s so cute, sitting there with his turtle, waiting for Daphne to come back.

I see how this game of Russian Roulette is going to turn out. Puppet man doesn’t know that Claire can regenerate, so the bullet is going to hit Claire. (Good for mom, pulling the trigger until it fired!)

And what’s up with Mrs. Petrelli? Did her ex do it?

Brother vs. brother grudge match. No holds barred. But can’t be to the death, because neither one can die. Unless they meet the same end as Adam.

Peter has no powers? That’s… not good. Except for the hunger thing being gone.

During Nathan’s soliloquy, Mohinder looked either like some sort of lizard or like Gollum.

Yikes. Sylar saved Mrs. Petrelli from Peter slicing her head open. There’s turnabout for you.

Claire just tazed vortex man. Lucky shot. Could’ve gone quite badly if she’d been just a hair slower.

Hiro putting Adam back in the box is a bit crazy. Brilliantly crazy.

What’s up with Daphne talking to Lindermann?

What in the world is Mohinder doing? The way he has his missing neighbor… cocooned is just creepy. I think I saw this in an X-Files episode. Is the drug dealer dead, or is he keeping him alive to be some sort of guinea pig? I guess if you’re going to perform weird, horrifying experiments, you may as well pick the wife beaters and drug dealers as your subjects…

I can’t imagine what’s going through Claire’s mind, being saved for getting sucked into a vortex by Sylar. What a head job.

Adam’s bar for specials for hire… Hiro called it the cantina. Where’s the alien cantina band?

Tracy’s sisters Nikki and… Barbara? Not Jessica?

And Nathan was given his ability as well. With the formula?

Um, Mohinder? You’re not going to get Maya all stickified on the wall, are you? You were doing this research for her.

Reptile. They’ve got a nice reptilian sound effect for Mohinder now.

Vortex man just vortexed himself. (Vorticed?)

Hiro did NOT just kill Ando. Uh… what’s the catch? Did he freeze time and put a fake blood pouch in Ando’s shirt or something? Hit him on the back of the head so he’d fall down?

OH NO.

Lindermann is a vision induced by Matt’s father. To both Daphne and Nathan. This is BAD.

They planted the seed in the lines of dialogue leading up to the reveal, when “Lindermann” told Daphne about Matt’s powers. Not enough time to allow me to say I figured it out on my own.

But this is how Daphne and Matt get together. But to what end?

And what is up with Mr. Petrelli? He’s got a Professor Xavier-like ability to converse telepathically.

The puppet man is quite a scumbag. He’s like Pusher from the X-Files. “Pusher” and “Kitsunegari” were two of my favorite episodes, and they had to do with this idea of Compulsion - to pull another fantasy reference in here with the Wheel of Time.

So did the title of this episode make anyone else automatically think of “all your base are belong to us?”

So Tracy really isn’t Nikki? She was one of triplets? And Nikki only developed the Jessica personality after the real Jessica died, right? Weird.

Future Peter has a Batman-like gravelly voice. And Future Claire talking to Future Daphne certainly sounds like the stereotypical villain. “So how do we kill Batman?”

“First, Senator…” I finished Lindermann’s line. “Then President.”

Mohinder’s side effects are getting worse. Super sensitive to light and sound. It’s like he has a perpetual super migraine. And he’s super snappish with Maya.

That was a super freaky transition focusing on Mohinder’s recorder going into the future.

O. M. G.

W. T…?

Sylar’s son. Making waffles. I am… speechless. Must absorb this over the commercial break.

Sylar’s son is named NOAH? Noah’s about my son’s age right now.

Matt and Daphne have a baby together? Daniella?

…

Okay. THAT was intense. Sylar gave up his powers for Noah. But when Noah was killed, he lost control. I can understand. If I had Sylar’s abilities, and someone killed my son, I might just blow up the world, too. There’s nothing stronger than a mama bear’s (or papa bear’s) wrath.

…

And to counterbalance the intensity of the scene with Sylar, the scene where Nathan flew in to catch Tracy after her suicide jump was… ridiculously cheesy.

“So, um, you can fly?” BWAHAHA!

“Your hands aren’t even cold.” That’s such a romance novel line.

…

I have nothing else to say. Except LOL @ Matt following the turtle.

Blogging while watching The Office.

A cheese fountain. How great would that be for nachos?

My husband’s office did an office fit club competition between the web hosting division and the VOIP division. Last year, his team (VOIP) won. This year, the other team won by less than a pound. Pfft.

LOL @ Dwight hammering fruit into the vending machine.

Yay for Pam going to design school!

How can he not get the hint that Angela isn’t into this whole wedding thing? I know. Rhetorical question. Andy’s just totally clueless.

AND DOING IT WITH DWIGHT ON THE LOADING DOCK? That’s just wrong.

Pam doesn’t want a long engagement. Makes sense!

I totally forget how Holly fits into this whole thing, other than being with Michael. I realize she’s working for the company now, but was she just hired at the end of last season? How did she and Michael hook up? My memory sucks.

Eww… A cleanse diet. Ugh.

Michael talks to Jan’s pregnant belly and rubs her feet. Creepy.

Oh NOW I remember about Holly and the whole… mentally challenged thing with Stanley. BWAHAHA!

“That’s how I sleep at night.” So funny, Angela!

Michael introducing Pam to Ronnie. Then Pam talking to the camera via webcam. Ha!

And… Kelli hit the floor. THAT is why you don’t do those ridiculous cleansing diets with maple syrup and such. My stepmother-in-law was told to do one of those by one of her alternative practitioners… she quit it on Day 2 because it was destroying her body.

Just in the right place at the right time. You could say that, Phyllis!

What is with Michael’s ridiculous goatee?

Angela needs to just tell him the wedding’s off instead of stringing him along.

They all look so… thrilled about their birthday party fruit platter. [/sarcasm] It went over well in my office when we had fruit for one of the team leader’s birthdays.

Love the four losers peeking in on the secret cake party.

She ate a tapeworm. Oh my God.

What is Ryan doing back? HAHAHAHAHA! He’s the receptionist! And… that’s what’s up with the goatee.

Kevin and Jim. On the list.

Randomly selecting people who need liposuction. So random. Nice there, Dwight.

Where is Dwight taking Phyllis? I doubt it’s a surefire sale.

Pam made friends!

Oh no… Dwight pushed Phyllis out of the car. And she’s calling David Wallace.

Jabba the Hutt. A pig. Elvis. The Sta-Puft Marshmallow Man. Yikes. Michael’s poor taste rears its ugly head again!

Pam found a stand in for Jim at school, but poor Jim is still stuck in the dysfunctional office environment.

“Probably my jugs.” *snarf*

I want to know how they plan on losing 8 pounds in the next few hours.

Here Comes Treble Class of ‘96 is going to be the dealbreaker.

Angela is such a… skank. Sneaking off with Dwight whenever Andy talks wedding to her.

JIM PROPOSED! At a gas station! In the rain! SQUEE!

The Big Bang Theory

I love all of the geek humor in this show. It was awesome that Leonard finally went on a date with Penny. He totally overthought the whole date, and shot himself in the foot in the end when it came to Penny’s insecurities about her intelligence. Doh. But it’s the type of thing a socially inept nerd would do.

It was hilarious that Howard wears silk shortie pajamas and sleeps on silk sheets. He’s just… such a creepy little horndog. And Sheldon… he’s just Sheldon. The funny milk? Really funny. But I’m not entirely sure that a handful of Valium would have that effect. I’ve taken Valium before, when I had my LASIK surgery. Maybe it would’ve been different if I’d taken a handful…

How I Met Your Mother

Can Ted really marry Stella? I hate to meta-think it, but can Sarah Chalke really do two sitcoms on competing networks? Or will that not be an issue because Scrubs is going to make a midseason run? It was so sweet when she told Marshall she was willing to pretend she likes Star Wars for the rest of her life.

Watching Barney act like a twitterpated schoolgirl was ROFL hilarious. The bimbo speech was legendary… but he still turned on the news to see Robin. Aww.

Heroes

Two hours of Heroes, and far too much to blog about. I would’ve needed to do a “Blogging While Watching Heroes” to get everything down.

I was right on, though, when it came to predicting the episode tonight. Tom tried to tell me that Sylar would’ve gotten Claire’s powers even if Peter hadn’t shot Nathan because it wouldn’t have changed the fact that she was at home. I flapped my hands like a butterfly… And lo and behold, the second half of the show was called “The Butterfly Effect.” I also called Nathan being the only one who could see Linderman, although I thought maybe he was hallucinating him. That’s still unclear.

I made an educated guess about Matt Parkman dropped off in Africa.

I didn’t, however, forsee the “I am your mother” reveal before she opened her mouth and started talking about her boys. I had a thrill of dread, because it seemed so cliche, but it happened anyways.

And I was a bit disappointed that Mohinder gave himself powers. I thought I remembered an interview where the show’s creators said that they wouldn’t give Mohinder powers because they wanted to have him as the observer. Then again, the LOST folks also claimed there wouldn’t be any time travel.

Still to Come

Thanks to DVR, I’ve got today’s All My Children, the Heroes “pregame” show, and Two and a Half Men for tomorrow night’s viewing.

Since we won’t be getting another episode of LOST until 2009, I’ll be blogging about some of my other favorite shows in the interim. I’ll focus mainly on the sci-fi fantasy shows that are closest to LOST’s genre, but any of them are fair game.

Monday, September 22
Big Bang Theory - CBS - 8:00
How I Met Your Mother - CBS - 8:30
Heroes - NBC - 9:00

Wednesday, September 24
Knight Rider - NBC - 8:00

Thursday, September 25
The Office - NBC - 9:00
ER - NBC - 10:00

Wednesday, October 1
Pushing Daisies - ABC - 8:00

Tuesday, October 14
Eli Stone - ABC - 10:00

Don’t mind me, folks. It’s just that Amazon.com is having an amazing sale on their science fiction DVDs, and I have a $100 gift card to blow on The X-Files!

Which ones to choose? I had to resort to Wikipedia to determine which seasons contain the most of my favorite episodes.

Season 1: None of my favorites.

Season 2: Colony and End Game are good episodes, but still not my favorites.

Season 3: Pusher

Season 4: The Field Where I Died, Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man, Memento Mori, Gethsemane

Season 5: Redux, Redux II, Unusual Suspects, The Post-Modern Prometheus, Christmas Carol, Emily, Kitsunegari, All Souls, The End

Season 6: Triangle, Terms of Endearment, S. R. 819, Tithonus, Two Fathers, One Son, Monday, Milagro, Three of a Kind, Field Trip, Biogenesis

Season 7: The Sixth Extinction, Amor Fati, Sein und Ziet, Closure, First Person Shooter, En Ami, Je Souhaite, Requiem

Season 8: Within, Redrum, The Gift, This is Not Happening, Three Words, Empedocles, Essence, Existence

Season 9: Nothing Important Happened Today, Provenance, Providence, Audrey Pauley, Improbable, Jump the Shark, William, Release, Sunshine Days

Hmm. I think I’m going to have to go with seasons 4-7, for continuity’s sake. Only $25 per season! I’ll have to get seasons 8 and 9 another time, and depend upon more gifts if I ever complete the series. And here’s what I need to click on:

The X-Files - The Complete Fourth Season (Slim Set)
The X-Files - The Complete Fifth Season (Slim Set)
The X-Files - The Complete Sixth Season (Slim Set)
The X-Files - The Complete Seventh Season (Slim Set)

Pardon me while I do a happy dance.

I will miss Jericho. I do hope it finds another life on cable TV; I don’t care if it’s TNT or the Sci-Fi Channel. We got a decent closer, but there is so much potential for future seasons!

What did I like best about the CBS series finale we saw? It’s hard to tell.

I loved how Beck unsealed the evidence container and checked out Hawkins’ laptop. He finally realized that Heather was really right all along. I got chills when the officers who had come to arrest Beck tore off their flag insignias and looked to him for orders.

But the whole sequence with the Independent Republic of Texas was just awesome. The Embassy was great. DON’T MESS WITH TEXAS! And the fighter pilot. “I think I just started a war with Cheyenne.” Well, Cheyenne was about to declare war on Texas by shooting down one of their diplomatic flights. So war would’ve come wither way.

I knew that Hawkins couldn’t die, cause they would have no hope of shopping the series around to cable networks if they killed off one of their most popular and intriguing characters. Meta-thinking doesn’t ruin the fun for me. I still didn’t know how it would turn out, except that he would live. I knew that Jake would have to come and save him before Smith killed him. I’m just glad I was wrong about Smith giving Hawkins some sort of James Bond villain-esque speech first.

There are so many possibilities for a third season. The new insurgency - centered in Jericho - with Beck and his soldiers at the forefront. Texas uniting with the East Coast against Cheyenne. So much potential!

Time to look for another petition to sign!

My husband and I don’t watch many sitcoms anymore, but we do love How I Met Your Mother.

It certainly doesn’t hurt that I love the actress who played Ted’s love interest tonight - even though I wanted to call her Dr. Reid instead of Stella. But the two-minute date that Ted orchestrated was perhaps the sweetest, most clever date idea I’ve ever seen. And it even had their favorite cab driver!

I can’t get my hopes up though, because the mother that Ted is telling his kids about isn’t supposed to meet him until a yellow umbrella is involved.