There’s a TV on the wall of the crepe cafe where I’m having lunch, bigger than the TV I have at home. Right now it’s showing a live view of the kitchen. This might be more interesting if the kitchen weren’t open to the dining area. I can see the same thing (from another angle) just by turning my head.
Tag: TV
Sylar vs. Sylar?
Possible spoilers for the beginning of Heroes Volume 5: Redemption.
So. Last season, Nathan Petrelli died and Matt Parkman telepathically brainwashed Sylar into believing he was Nathan, and since Sylar can change his appearance, as far as anyone can tell, he may as well be Nathan.
Now, Matt has a version of Sylar living in his head like Harvey, the neural clone of Scorpius living in John Crichton’s head in Farscape. This Sylar seems to be under the impression that he was pulled out of his body and put into Matt’s head. Meanwhile, “Nathan” seems to be exhibiting flashes of Sylar’s personality and powers.
In short, Sylar’s personality exists in two places:
- Matt Parkman’s mind, where he can interact with Matt.
- Sylar’s mind, where the personality is currently suppressed in favor of Nathan Petrelli’s personaility.
While I still think Sylar has long outstayed his welcome and should have been left for dead after the first season finale (they could have brought him back later with much greater impact if he’d been out of the picture for a year or two), I’m kind of intrigued by the possibility that the Sylar in Matt’s head might catch up to his body and find another version of himself occupying it…because I don’t think he’d be interested in sharing.
Smoke
The “Mind the Gap” monster in Neverwhere sounds a lot like the smoke monster on Lost now.
Speaking of smoke, I’ve been trying to figure out where all the crud in the air is coming from today. Norco maybe?
Bosley, John Bosley
I’ve just started re-reading Neverwhere. When Richard and Door first meet — after her injury has started to heal, anyway — he introduces himself as “Richard. Richard Mayhew. Dick,” A page or two later, Door calls him “Richardrichardmayhewdick.”
IIRC Neil Gaiman said he stole the joke from Douglas Adams, who had someone refer to “Dentarthurdent” in one of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy books, but I always think of a Charlie’s Angels episode in which someone greeted “Bosleyjohnbosley.”
The thing is, I barely remember Charlie’s Angels, so the way I remember it is actually as “Bosleytombosley” … and in my memory, she’s saying it to Tom Bosley!
Too Short a Season
Pushing Daisies: “The Complete 2 Second Season.” I know it was short, but I’d swear it was longer than that!
Immortality
Hah! “the only advantage of living forever is having the time to read all of TV Tropes.”
Rethinking the Electric Car
We’ve started watching the first season of Leverage on Netflix instant. Last night we watched the second episode. At one point the “good guy” character explains that yes, he really did give away most of the money he got from the last job, after buying a couple of things. Like a new car. Electric. Just being responsible. He then gets into his car, the camera pulls away, and you see that it’s a Tesla Roadster — an all-electric, high performance (and very expensive at $128,000+) sportscar.
I made some remark about how the Tesla was intended to make people rethink the electric car.
Katie’s response: “Every time a Prius gets pulled over for speeding, people rethink the electric car.”