I'm not ready to make nice. I'm not ready to back down.

[heidi]

I'm still mad as hell and I don't have time to go 'round and 'round and 'round...



So for about a year - maybe a little more - I've been pondering a Nathan/Peter-or-Nathan+Peter vid to that Dixie Chicks song with all the irony and double meaning that it incorporates automatically and subtextually, but after this episode - oh, twins in my heart! oh, unbrothers! - I may have to do it with the three Petrelli brothers who exist in my soul, in the universe where Peter and Gabriel are actually twins.

Oh come on, you know it makes a lot more sense than the 'verse we get on screen in this show! All it takes is a tweak to the precise language of what Arthur and Angela told Gabriel back last season and it's fanwankably canon.

I haven't watched any episode since Nathan died on a timely basis. Five days late, maybe ten - I skipped most of the episode with Hiro and the trial thing which is kind of pathetic of me as I saw them filming it (and yes, when I hinted back in November about meeting some s00persekrit guest stars on Heroes, I meant David Anders and George Takei who are both wonderful and were so welcoming and fun).

But I saw this tonight and it was about the twins.

Hands up who thinks the show would be better if they actually were twins, not just dual-sides-of-some-coin or some such thing.

[In case you couldn't tell, both of mine are up.]

Hands up who thinks that when they weren't pounding the wall, Peter and Gabriel were, um...

Oh, finish that sentence any way you like. If it happened in a dreamworld is it any less real? No, I'm not over losing Nathan yet, I'm not ready to make nice with this frustrating as all fuck out show, but I would read fic about Peter and Gabriel in the world of their own heads.

Hands up who's read Pillars of the Earth? It's about creation and destruction and illicit love that can never be between a man and his brother's estranged wife and building up and breaking down, and Peter got it - created it - for Gabriel.

Their talks. Their looks. The "love fest" (this show fucking knows what it is doing). The fact that Gabriel still has some of Nathan's memories just exacerbates the fucked-up-ed-ness.

And I may actually watch the episode again. But the total Lack of Claude makes me utterly uninterested in re-watching the Hey! Let's Re-Do Company Man But Not As Well portions. Because that aspect of retconning is just not intriguing me.

No, I'll just wait until they fully retcon the twins!

Comments

[svmadelyn.livejournal.com]

Weren't they supposed to be twins, and then Fuller didn't like the idea so they nixed it? I mean, he can't bother to stay around and SAVE US A LITTLE, but he kills the one kind of okay-ish idea they manage to have?

<--slightly embittered!!!

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

Fucking supposedly. Fucking Fuller. I bet if he had stayed around it would've made sense but instead it's just fucked up and requires mental tweaking.

I still haven't figured out if it's Kring who's a total idiot, or NBC.

[svmadelyn.livejournal.com]

I think they probably share the honor?

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

Kneecap Jeff Zucker.

Did you watch tonight's ep?

[svmadelyn.livejournal.com]

I...didn't. I've been really into 24 this year, and I don't have cable/DVR or anything, and I figure I'll just download the eps of Heroes that I've missed and see if they make any better sense watching them sequentially.

Either that, or my brain will implode, and I'll be put out of my misery? Either way: WIN?

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

This episode was wonderful, and I do sorta understand why they felt they had to "fridge" Nathan to get Gabriel and Peter to this place, but if I actually hoped for another season of the show I would want them to find a Nathan from another timeline and bring him into this 'verse so the Petrellis could all be totally fucked up together.

[rivers-bend.livejournal.com]

I really had several moments where I went from wishing to believing that Peter and Sylar were going to end up kissing to break the wall. HOLY FUCK.

years of just the two of them pounding away day and night the hammer is my penis and making totally subtle presents for each other. UH HUH. NOT SLASHY AT ALL.

It doesn't quite compare to the scene of Peter sitting on Sylar/Nathan begging and writhing around, but it was a lot more sustained and has a lot more potential for future, so I am not complaining.

[tnbella.livejournal.com]

Both hands are in the air on everything you said. I always loved the idea of Peter and Gabriel as twins. And as someone who never slashes, I can honestly say last night's episode totally shifted me to Peter/Sylar fucked-up-ness.

I wish they had left Gabriel related to Peter and Nathan, but no joy. And I'm one of those rare fans who LOVED the Villians volume. I was very pissed when it didn't remain that way. Oh well, that's what fanfic's for, right? The fans fix what the writers got wrong. lol

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

I'm going back through Heroes posts for a completely random reason that exists only in my head, and realized I'd never replied to you 18 months ago (my #fail) - so I am now. And I love your icon.