but you're standing on the wall like you're pointdexter

[geebs]

I had put this down as my New Year's Resolution, but I still worry too frakkin much. Seriously, I wish I could just let go, because half the stuff I worry about is inconsequential in the scheme of things. I'm thinking of taking up cage fighting.

Oh, and those Jared's commercials really grid my gears. I mean, a guy sarcastically saying, "He went to Jared's!" is fine, but saying it wistfully is kinda lame. And it just sucks as a commercial catch phrase. Its no "Every kiss begins with Kay". That's at least somewhat clever.

I think this is the first Monday that had everything non-repeat- Everybody Hates Chris, How I Met Your Mother, Prison Break, 24, Heroes, and Studio 60.

On Prison Break, let's start with Haywire. Mahone uses the Conspiracy's resources to get Bellick out of prison so he can be Mahone's new attack dog since the Feebs are keeping a tighter leash on him. Bellick plays bad cop against 8 Simple Rules girl (who's not too broken up about Haywire murdering her abusive pops) to find Haywire. They manage to corner him in a water tower, where Mahone convinces Haywire to kill himself. I'm thinking that's gonna be a bit suspicious though, like won't the local cops wonder why he didn't try to reach out and stop Haywire from jumping?

T-Bag still has the Hollanders hostage somehow, and since its getting a little too hot at home, he takes them for a road trip. C-note's minding his own business, eating with his daughter, when some one tries to rob the place. C-note diffuses the sitch, and convinces the bad guy to let him go, but then he tries to take one of the waitresses hostage so C-note knocks him out. The diner patrons, seeing how helpful C-note was, cover for him so he can escape.

Sara's hooked up with Linc, Mikey, and Kellerman. Michael and Linc jump Kellerman and almost strangle him for what he did to Sara, but let him go since they still need him. So, Sara tries garroting him later. They get on board a train to Chi-town, where Sara and Michael kiss before the Conspiracy tries to stop the train with a police roadblock. They bust through and flim flam the cops with the old switcheroo, then Kellerman, suspecting they indeed set up that trap after he mentioned he was on a train to Chicago, figures out its not the Prez talking to him at all, but some chick working for Kim using a voice modulator to sound like the Prez.



On Heroes, Sylar escapes his holding cell, trapping HRG there for a while. He makes it to the Bennet residence and meets HRG's wife, acting all friendly, then acting like some pervy stalker who's stalking Claire, so wifey is understandably freaked, so Sylar uses the teekness on her. Luckily, HRG and the Haitian come to save the day. They mindwipe her of course. Claire and Zach come back from their trip to see Claire's biological mother (more on that later) and she's pissed, because she doesn't remember the whole scene where Claire and Zach say they were going on a field trip for their Manatee project. Looks like the constant mind-wiping is starting to take its toll on her.

Hiro is apparently the heir apparent to the company he works for- he's just working a cubicle because Mr. Sulu wanted his son to work his way up, as opposed to being given a VP position outright. To try and counteract Hiro's "foolish" quest to save the world, he offers him an executive VP position, which his sis implores him to take because the company's in trouble. So, Hiro plays the fool in order to get his sister to protest and show she is the best bet for their dad to choose to take over the company.

Niki's out, as Linderman's people get some baddie on death row to admit he did all the killing's Niki's been incarcerated for. But didn't she just assault the psychiatrist lady?! In any case, she's back at home, and acting all loving with the family. Only its Jessica, not Niki, who's back in control!

Claude continues to tutor Peter in use of his powers (Oh, and wait, Isaac's working for HRG still? He paints a picture of Peter turning invisible, which sparks something in HRG. Apparently he knows Claude?) through the school of hard knocks. Peter's more like the X-treme X-men version of Rogue, as he can call up any previous power he's absorbed. So Claude's first exercise? Stealing a ladies purse and giving it to Peter and getting out of range to force Peter to try and figure out how to turn invisible on his own. He thinks Peter's emotional attachments are what are holding him back (So I'm guessing he's lost someone or someones dear to him?) and tries to get Peter to sever those ties by having them spy on Simone and let Peter see Simone and Isaac being all cuddly. Then he throws Peter off a roof to get him to fly. He doesn't. Though he's able to bring up Claire's power so he can survive and recover from the THIRTY story fall.

Peter's still skeptical about the whole not having any emotional attachments thing, and shows Claude he was able to bring up Claire's power by focusing on her and his feelings for her. Which works, but then he starts losing control and manifesting them all at once before Claude slaps him out of it.

Speaking of our Texan cheerleader, as I mentioned before, she meets her real mom. Who calls her real dad. Who is Nate! A-ha! I thought so. But so did everyone else. I knew Peter and Claire's thing was more familial, and when she said she imagined her parent's living in a NYC penthouse, that was definitely a big sign that it was Nate. As I said before, the whole power having nothing to do with your heritage weirds me out still. You have someone who can control machines spawned from a super strong person and a person who can turn intangible. Now you have girl with super healing factor from a pyro-kinetic and a guy who can fly. Weird!

On 24, I knew the tech they would need would end up being O'Brien, who ends up getting captured by Mccarthy at the end, just a few minutes after CTU figures out they're after him. The Biscuit thinks Wayne will implement his new security measures, but after hearing his sister's story about Walid, he changes his mind. So the Biscuit ends up having ugg on his face, while the VP is just pissed.

Jack and his dad turn the tables on their would be executioners. I figured his dad was a bad guy when he killed one of them even though Jack had him subdued. Its action drama 101! If a person kills a person of value by accident or over-zealous self defense, they're really a bad guy. Jack tortures Graem, who doesn't reveal anything about the nukes, but spills about last season's plot that got David Palmer, Tony, and Michelle killed. That seems to satisfy Jack, as the interrogation machines run by Burke (hey, hasn't he been around for a while? I'm surprised he's lasted this long given the short lifespan of CTU folks) indicate Graem was hiding something.

But what he was hiding was that Dad is a baddie also, and the whole attempt to kill them both was just a way to ingratiate Dad to Jack. Dad doesn't think Graem can withstand more torture back at CTU, so he kills Graem! Wow, Jack's got the most effed up family ever!

Comments

[turdburgler.livejournal.com]

So what is it you're worrying so much about lately?

[geebs.livejournal.com]

Nothing specific really, which is more infuriating than anything else. Its just that I dwell too much on the possible little things that can go wrong day to day, unless I distract myself.

[isabel79.livejournal.com]

I was very disappointed with Dr. Ramano's death. He so needed to be decapitated, dismembered or something! What a let down!

[clevemire.livejournal.com]

I feel so geeky/clever for catching Sulu's NCC1701 plates. And also HRG's driver's license, which did not include a first name. But personally, I'm getting bored with Jessica/Nikki and family . It seems like Sylar trying to kill Claire and the NY explosion are the two things that are going on, and that family isn't involved in any of it. I can only assume it'll go somewhere eventually, but it should be soon.