Her coworker, Camille, looks like a grown-up, white trash version of Harriet, the annoying redhead neighbor on "Small Wonder." Casting can't seem to hire anyone who can fake a decent accent. When she first hears that Monica's taken the test, she immediately says, "Oh my gosh, you're pregnant?" Way to be racially sensitive, writers. She's the least supportive friend in the world and probably the token white in the New Orleans scenes. As they start to disagree over the management program, they look down in wonder to see Monica's perfectly carved tomato rose. Good luck putting that in a burger (Martha Stewart would be proud, though).
Monica's bolero tie-wearing boss takes her aside to tell her she's not a good fit for the program, even though she did fine on the test. He cites her family situation as the reason, which is just retarded, since - in this hackneyed writer's imagined construction of Post-Katrina New Orleans, who wasn't affected negatively by this disaster? (Besides the Vietnamese immigrants who rebuilt in under a year, because they're used to that kind of rain and water in Saigon.) I thought it was George Bush who was supposed to keep black people down, not other African-Americans. Kanye West is the nation's foremost expert on social stratification, after all. Half the town is living in trailers, according to this show!
So that's where Carl Winslow from Family Matters went.
At home, Micah twiddles a little bit with the dials for show, but gets the fight to show up. Luchadores! Monica comes home with a bag of artery cloggers and cups of diabetes for the family, and is shocked to see the fight on TV. Jerkface Kenan/Kel cousin says Micah's a genius with the TV, and Micah apologizes meekly. He goes over to hug her and it's pretty adorable, compared to the Claire + Emotard makeout sessions. Micah lays a hand on her back and squinches up his face to signal thought processes - can he fix her like an ATM machine? Are we all robots that can be rewired?
Monica rejoins the family, and watches a wrestler knock out his opponent - let's call the move "Rock You Like A Hurricane." Her eyes seem to be absorbing/recording the segment she just watched. Considering she unconsciously carved a tomato rose earlier today after seeing it on a cooking show, this power's pretty obvious. She's almost as bad as Niki.
Later that evening, Monica's closing up Burger Bonanza with the boss, when a hungry thug comes to the front door asking for food. The thug rifles through the burger joint to the sounds of a helicopter. Sigh. Naturally, she replicates the wrestler move that she learned on TV and knocks him out, through a sheet of glass, to the astonishment of the boss. Looks like management training might not be out of the question after all.
But I've also seen this move at the Spearmint Rhino.
Costa Verde High, formerly known as Neptune HighA cheerleader that's not Debbie encourages Claire to try out for cheerleading. Girl looks like a poor man's Kristin Kreuk. Offering Claire a release form for tryouts, she says that Claire has cojones for socking it to Debbie the Head Ho. "Half of being a cheerleader is having guts, and you've got those in spades." What sixteen year old talks like that? Seriously. More like, "That was awesome, taking down that snotty beeyotch! Soooooo cool!"
Claire? You're barely 5 feet tall, pedal pushers just make you look stumpy. Stay away from the capris. Tim Kring, if you're going to saddle us with a filler episode so soon in the new season, at least make sure your writing and character development is better than that of "Lost".
Emotard shows up two seconds later in a plaid flannel shirt and looks even more awkward and gangly than usual, if that's even possible. He's thrilled that he almost got to second base with a girl who can regenerate her pinky toe, and gushes on about how he feels like he can finally be himself when Claire breaks the news to that they can't hang out anymore. For one thing, she comes up to his nipples and that causes a lot of neck strain.
"Is it because we flew together? It's the mark on my neck, right? You think I was abducted by aliens? I told you it was a guy with horn-rimmed glasses."
"It's my dad," says Claire, in a surprisingly good turn of dialogue. "...he's just really overprotective." Emotard fails to make the connection because he only has two brain cells left, one that controls his bowel movements and the other that helps him distinguish up from down when he flies.
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Comments (17)
OK, I definitely agree that Emotard is exactly what his name implies, but I must admit that I have a slight soft spot for him, since I loved him in Election. Who knew that a high school student in Omaha who randomly got picked for a bit part would someday be our Emotard! I am starting to hate him though...it's so sad.
Now to the important things: Who's the guy in the picture with his head turned to the side?? Maybe he's someone we know? HRG crossed my mind, but I think he may be a little too young to roll with that crew. Does anyone know where I can see that pic close up?
Also, does anyone else think that maybe Emotard is the one behind the Kaito, etc. killings? He went after Claire from the beginning knowing that she was different. How would he know? He's obviously just getting close to her to exploit her. Also, remember how Parkman's partner said something about the person who killed Kaito being able to fly? He can fly. Also, if you look at the body/stance of the person who pushes Kaito it looks like him -- plus he's wearing a hoodie as emotards tend to do! Just an idea. Anyone with me??
1 of 17 | Posted by nyrlieht | Posted on October 18, 2007 7:23 AM
Great recap this week. One thing that really is making the show drag so much is the focus on characters the audience really isn't interested in. Half the "heroes" from last year were already flat but the new ones are even worse.
Sure, Emotard can be bad but is he really as menacing or well played as Sylar? And more cheerleading? C'mon, how many episodes is this crucial arc going to take up?
2 of 17 | Posted by mini.boss | Posted on October 18, 2007 7:53 AM
I think Nathan said that the guy in the picture with his head turned was his dad... I thought the episode was kind of so-so. At least the Wonder Twins are slightly more interesting now that Sylar is with them.
Can't wait for next week - LOVE Kristen Bell! :)
3 of 17 | Posted by kapowski | Posted on October 18, 2007 7:55 AM
I'm pretty sure Nathan said that the guy in the picture with his head turned was his dad...
This episode was so-so, although I find the Wonder Twins somewhat more interesting now that Sylar is with them.
Can't wait for next week - LOVE Kristen Bell! :)
4 of 17 | Posted by kapowski | Posted on October 18, 2007 8:14 AM
#1- h.ttp://heroeswiki.com/The_Group_of_Twelve
The group of 12 is the most interesting thing going on in the show IMO. And Angela's power is vexing me! I want to know what it is!
5 of 17 | Posted by merick | Posted on October 18, 2007 8:48 AM
Ahh, thanks -- I totally missed that profileman was Nathan's dad.
6 of 17 | Posted by nyrlieht | Posted on October 18, 2007 9:28 AM
T.Vo!!! Great recap!!
So sick of;
1)Emotard
2)Claire in highschool
3)The dunder twins(although with sylarthat is an improvement)
Happy thatin this ep there was;
1)no niki
2)no fake irish people
3)No more lame "old" japan
4)No peter(i know i know lots of people love him, and i think he has the coolest power and most potential on the show, but he couldnt act his way out a wet cardboard box)
7 of 17 | Posted by lloyd dobbler | Posted on October 18, 2007 10:46 AM
Yaeh, I think Emotard maybe the killer as well. At first I was thinking it was a red herring, but after last year's season finale steaming dump, I wouldn't put is past that crew to make the obvious, well obvious.
Great recap and the screen caps were hilarious (the spearmint rhino line had me rolling-oh how I hate to love that titty bar.) Keep it going.
8 of 17 | Posted by mattypopo | Posted on October 18, 2007 10:59 AM
The guys with his head turned to the side was Papa Petrelli.
My theory is that Kensei is Papa Petrelli. Who knows... if someone can heal themselves, does that mean that they don't age from the time that their powers manifest?
If that is the case, Kensei would still be alive. It would also make Kaito's "telling" of Kensei stories to his son plausible, and maybe certain traits run in families... not just an ability, but the type of ability. It would mean that Claire was Kensei's granddaughter.
I am getting really bored with most of the storylines as well. Most of the stories are getting stagnant.
And EMOTARD is universally hated, I think.
9 of 17 | Posted by fnllover | Posted on October 18, 2007 11:44 AM
The guys with his head turned to the side was Papa Petrelli.
My theory is that Kensei is Papa Petrelli. Who knows... if someone can heal themselves, does that mean that they don't age from the time that their powers manifest?
If that is the case, Kensei would still be alive. It would also make Kaito's "telling" of Kensei stories to his son plausible, and maybe certain traits run in families... not just an ability, but the type of ability. It would mean that Claire was Kensei's granddaughter.
I am getting really bored with most of the storylines as well. Most of the stories are getting stagnant.
And EMOTARD is universally hated, I think.
10 of 17 | Posted by fnllover | Posted on October 18, 2007 12:01 PM
One more thing...
I noticed that the title of the recap this week was a comment made LAST week by neillfilm.
KUDOS to you, neillffilm!
11 of 17 | Posted by fnllover | Posted on October 18, 2007 12:21 PM
Thanks! I do what I can!
And yes, I still hate Emotard.
12 of 17 | Posted by neillfilm | Posted on October 18, 2007 12:26 PM
Thanks for inspiring this week's recap title, neillfilm!
nyrlieht -- the Emotard speculation, especially the whole hoodie + flying connection makes so much sense now! None of the other aging Heroes would be able to have such a skinny physique. He definitely seems to have hidden motives, and they're setting viewers up to think it's him in the picture kissing Claire while Bennet's dead.
fnllover --
Still trying to wrap my head around the Kensei/Papa Petrelli thing -- because it looks like Papa Petrelli did age. Maybe you still age but you don't die? Maybe the Papa Petrelli death was faked? Is Linderman even really dead?
13 of 17 | Posted by T.Vo | Posted on October 18, 2007 4:52 PM
T.Vo-OK, first of all, I'm having a really crappy day, but you made me laugh out loud reading this...Thank you! Also, to nyrlieht, imdb has a good heroes board with lots of talk about the group of 12 and the picture...I think the guy turned away is actually talking to someone who has been removed from the picture, but should be between Kaito and Bob...if you look at the torn picture of Kaito, there was someone in a white jacket next to him, but Bob has on black...I don't think it was a production error (although on imdb, lots of people do think that...I need to get a life and get off heroes boards!)
14 of 17 | Posted by spreadhead | Posted on October 18, 2007 5:24 PM
"This is exactly what we did at leadership camp."
LOL
15 of 17 | Posted by Sweeleaf | Posted on October 18, 2007 9:20 PM
Hehehehe@
"He agrees to help Parkman in exchange for some private time with his Ma. Just fly her out of there, dumbass."
Seriously. It seems like all of the heroes have the same superpower = ability to forget they have and can use their superpowers, aka SuperAmnesia!
Also, I think Sylar, Maya and Alejandro would make an excellent threesome. When are they coming out with their sex tape - "HeBlows"?
16 of 17 | Posted by blahblah | Posted on October 19, 2007 12:38 PM
"Her coworker, Camille, looks like a grown-up, white trash version of Harriet, the annoying redhead neighbor on "Small Wonder."
Used to love this show!
"Casting can't seem to hire anyone who can fake a decent accent."
And have the oh-so-talented main cast share some Emmys with a scene-stealer? Hell to the naw!
17 of 17 | Posted by blahblah | Posted on October 19, 2007 12:44 PM