Election Day Frenzy
Nov. 6th, 2007 10:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jenny_wildcatWell, Real Life in general has been a frenzy lately, but I referred to Election Day simply because I'm quite opinionated about this Referendum 1 that's a big issue this election cycle (and since that was the only thing on my ballot). I'm for Referendum 1 simply because I'm for parents having a say in their kids' education and because public schools have been doing jack crap with the property tax money we're forced to give them anyway, so why not kick them to the curb and tell the teacher's unions to stick it where the sun don't shine? I think it's ironic that the public school folks used the motto "Referendum 1: Full of flaws. Fails Utah's families" because public schools have been failing for at least the past 20 years (well, as far as I can remember). I guess that would make public schools experts at failing Utah's school kids, so maybe they really do know what they're talking about.
I graduated from high school nearly five years ago and it's really sad when I can count on one hand the truly exceptional teachers I had in the public school system . I can think of more teachers who I swear they picked up off the side of the road than I can think of teachers who made it their business to teach us how to read and write. Despite what those sissies at KSL say, those heartwarming "Teachers of the Week" deals are the exception rather than the rule around here.
Anyway, enough politics (besides, that post is out of date by now, even though I had planned to do it. Oh well...) I was coming back from home last night when I suddenly got a migraine, you know, the kind that make you dizzy and you can't see straight. The problem was that I was in the middle of nowhere on the freeway going about 70 miles an hour when it hit. Thankfully, I made it to Grantsville where my family has a house where I could crash for a few hours while my head tried to kill me. I mention this because my usual "Heroes" rehash is a full day late, but I did catch it. And it was a doozy.
I graduated from high school nearly five years ago and it's really sad when I can count on one hand the truly exceptional teachers I had in the public school system . I can think of more teachers who I swear they picked up off the side of the road than I can think of teachers who made it their business to teach us how to read and write. Despite what those sissies at KSL say, those heartwarming "Teachers of the Week" deals are the exception rather than the rule around here.
Anyway, enough politics (besides, that post is out of date by now, even though I had planned to do it. Oh well...) I was coming back from home last night when I suddenly got a migraine, you know, the kind that make you dizzy and you can't see straight. The problem was that I was in the middle of nowhere on the freeway going about 70 miles an hour when it hit. Thankfully, I made it to Grantsville where my family has a house where I could crash for a few hours while my head tried to kill me. I mention this because my usual "Heroes" rehash is a full day late, but I did catch it. And it was a doozy.
Mohinder - "Niki's here to spy on me! I can't do this anymore! Oh, hi Niki!" Stealth was never his prerogative. And he sucks at acting surprised that Niki snuck up on his phone conversation with Daddy Bennet. No wonder he ends up slobbering The Company(tm) motto about being morally gray, etc. Dork.
Matt - Gets a crash course in being Nightmare Man 2.0. Except he's not Nightmare Man. He's Matt - who finally, finally, FINALLY catches a break with the "wanting to do good, but keeps getting screwed by the corrupted higher-ups" crap he's had to deal with. Welcome to the Heroes Big Leagues, Matt.
Daddy Parkman gets locked away in the Nightmare World - hee hee! Take THAT you mean, mean, mean, really bad father-figure! (Daddy Parkman's name is Maury - doesn't that tell you anything?)
And I loved the tender little scene with Molly responding when Matt tells her he loves her. I admit it, I got the girly-giggles (I want my girls to have a dad like Matt - tender at all the right times, but still kicks butt if necessary)
Hiro - or "Wildcat's Powers of Prediction Strike Again!" Well, it wasn't that dramatic, but Yaeko's bit about Hiro being Kensei - I've been saying that since episode 2.
Line of the Week - Hiro for "Why is everything purple?" in Japanese, no less! Subtitles make it all the more humorous ^_^ (sad that he spent the opening segment with his head in the opium trough seeing purple spots, though. It was sort of like I was doing at this point... except mine wasn't drug-induced)
Kensei - While I was thinking "RIP, you stubborn, dirty, white, British bastard. Blow up for all I care" I knew he wasn't dead. Except... how in the [censored] did he end up in Montreal (or was it New York?) 2007? I mean, I don't think Southwest has flights from Feudal Japan to the modern era... (I'm expecting some extremely involved scientific explanation of how his regenerative particulates hitched a ride on Hiro and when Hiro came back to the present, Kensei reformed and became Adam... except... that wouldn't work because Hiro came back to the point after Peter knew Adam and... okay, I'm seeing purple again...)
But did you see how Hiro got all crazy after Kensei threatened Yaeko? OTP FTW!!
... and then Hiro has to go and do that silly fanboy notion that he was screwing with time and go back home and leave his princess and all that happy, gooey, mushcrap stuff that drives me nuts. Oh, and by the way Hiro, your dad's dead (Do you think Hiro's having a bad day or something?)
Peter - You can take the emo-haircut off the boy, but you can't take the boy off the emo-haircut (that was terrible. Remind me never to do that again). Something about that kid and missing his girlfriends sets him into pity-party mode. Not even remembering his witchy mother can make him feel better (even if she had a birthday cake for him).
Honorable Mention LotW: the guy at the quarantine site in the future: "It's been a rough week." A whole room filled with dead bodies? Nah, it's a perfectly normal week on Heroes
Niki - Proving that bubbly blondes can do emo too. Even goes so far as to stick a needle in her own arm (it's not cutting, but the results are the same).
West and Claire - I don't know if West was hurt more that Claire didn't tell him that her dad was The Man with the Horn-Rimmed Glasses (insert ominous background music here) or if those waffles gave him indigestion.
Daddy Bennet - Gets sloppy and has a hormonal teenage daughter with a subversive boyfriend. He really should have stuck with The Company(tm)
Mama Bennet - Is getting sloppy too. With this level of incompetence in parental units, Lyle needs to put himself up for adoption.
Just to recap, the count is:
Peter/Caitlin - Peter inadvertently time-jumps, leaving Caitlin in the future to be deported and probably die from the virus
Claire/West - West won't accept Claire's apology probably until Daddy Bennet is gasping his dying breath and the two can run off and be delightful misfits together...
Hiro/Yaeko - Hiro does the honorable thing and leaves his girl behind in the past, probably will never see her again.
Love sucks on all sides.
Next Week's Preview - Oh, so now you're going to tell what the heck happened with that little bomb thing? Like you were supposed to tell us back in September? Thanks for the consideration...
(and Rena "I killed an entire season of 24" Sofer is back... *dies*)
Matt - Gets a crash course in being Nightmare Man 2.0. Except he's not Nightmare Man. He's Matt - who finally, finally, FINALLY catches a break with the "wanting to do good, but keeps getting screwed by the corrupted higher-ups" crap he's had to deal with. Welcome to the Heroes Big Leagues, Matt.
Daddy Parkman gets locked away in the Nightmare World - hee hee! Take THAT you mean, mean, mean, really bad father-figure! (Daddy Parkman's name is Maury - doesn't that tell you anything?)
And I loved the tender little scene with Molly responding when Matt tells her he loves her. I admit it, I got the girly-giggles (I want my girls to have a dad like Matt - tender at all the right times, but still kicks butt if necessary)
Hiro - or "Wildcat's Powers of Prediction Strike Again!" Well, it wasn't that dramatic, but Yaeko's bit about Hiro being Kensei - I've been saying that since episode 2.
Line of the Week - Hiro for "Why is everything purple?" in Japanese, no less! Subtitles make it all the more humorous ^_^ (sad that he spent the opening segment with his head in the opium trough seeing purple spots, though. It was sort of like I was doing at this point... except mine wasn't drug-induced)
Kensei - While I was thinking "RIP, you stubborn, dirty, white, British bastard. Blow up for all I care" I knew he wasn't dead. Except... how in the [censored] did he end up in Montreal (or was it New York?) 2007? I mean, I don't think Southwest has flights from Feudal Japan to the modern era... (I'm expecting some extremely involved scientific explanation of how his regenerative particulates hitched a ride on Hiro and when Hiro came back to the present, Kensei reformed and became Adam... except... that wouldn't work because Hiro came back to the point after Peter knew Adam and... okay, I'm seeing purple again...)
But did you see how Hiro got all crazy after Kensei threatened Yaeko? OTP FTW!!
... and then Hiro has to go and do that silly fanboy notion that he was screwing with time and go back home and leave his princess and all that happy, gooey, mushcrap stuff that drives me nuts. Oh, and by the way Hiro, your dad's dead (Do you think Hiro's having a bad day or something?)
Peter - You can take the emo-haircut off the boy, but you can't take the boy off the emo-haircut (that was terrible. Remind me never to do that again). Something about that kid and missing his girlfriends sets him into pity-party mode. Not even remembering his witchy mother can make him feel better (even if she had a birthday cake for him).
Honorable Mention LotW: the guy at the quarantine site in the future: "It's been a rough week." A whole room filled with dead bodies? Nah, it's a perfectly normal week on Heroes
Niki - Proving that bubbly blondes can do emo too. Even goes so far as to stick a needle in her own arm (it's not cutting, but the results are the same).
West and Claire - I don't know if West was hurt more that Claire didn't tell him that her dad was The Man with the Horn-Rimmed Glasses (insert ominous background music here) or if those waffles gave him indigestion.
Daddy Bennet - Gets sloppy and has a hormonal teenage daughter with a subversive boyfriend. He really should have stuck with The Company(tm)
Mama Bennet - Is getting sloppy too. With this level of incompetence in parental units, Lyle needs to put himself up for adoption.
Just to recap, the count is:
Peter/Caitlin - Peter inadvertently time-jumps, leaving Caitlin in the future to be deported and probably die from the virus
Claire/West - West won't accept Claire's apology probably until Daddy Bennet is gasping his dying breath and the two can run off and be delightful misfits together...
Hiro/Yaeko - Hiro does the honorable thing and leaves his girl behind in the past, probably will never see her again.
Love sucks on all sides.
Next Week's Preview - Oh, so now you're going to tell what the heck happened with that little bomb thing? Like you were supposed to tell us back in September? Thanks for the consideration...
(and Rena "I killed an entire season of 24" Sofer is back... *dies*)
By the way - I did watch "Chuck" and I may be tempted to watch it more often. Line of the Week from Chuck goes to the big, burly CIA guy that was tagging along with Sarah and Chuck at Stanford (I didn't catch his name). The moment when the "Save the Planet" guy approached him and he retorted with "You wanna save the world? Take a shower, hippy."
After sitting through NBC's "Green is Universal" programming scam for two days, that did my heart good (watched football Sunday night - how much do you think turning off the overhead light and "broadcasting" by candlelight is going to "help" the environment when you have a huge stadium filled with bright lights, concession stand gadgets, people who probably drove their cars to the game and two teams that travel on team buses and team jets every weekend? Not to mention Bob Costas needs people to turn on their energy-using high def TVs every week so he can keep his job. Give me a break...)
After sitting through NBC's "Green is Universal" programming scam for two days, that did my heart good (watched football Sunday night - how much do you think turning off the overhead light and "broadcasting" by candlelight is going to "help" the environment when you have a huge stadium filled with bright lights, concession stand gadgets, people who probably drove their cars to the game and two teams that travel on team buses and team jets every weekend? Not to mention Bob Costas needs people to turn on their energy-using high def TVs every week so he can keep his job. Give me a break...)
