Comments | mystery_sock: the tolling of the bell

mystery_sock

the tolling of the bell

Nov 30, 2009 06:34

I woke up out of a sound sleep at 6 o'clock this morning (an hour before my alarm was set) and after a few moments of re-contemplating INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS, which I saw for the first time last night, a realization came over me.

Adrian Pasdar will be on the Today show this morning... and when I thought about it, I suddenly understood why.
( On the microscopic off chance that spoilers haven't actually reached everywhere and poisoned every mind )

bummer, tv business, angst, adrian pasdar, :(, argh, spoilers go to hell, nathan, bad news, there is no god

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47_trek_47 November 30 2009, 14:47:13 UTC

My mom is begging me to just not watch Heroes tonight. Heh.

I'm not ready either. :( I think I'm actually going to put in for a vacation day tomorrow. Yeah...

mystery_sock November 30 2009, 20:51:53 UTC

Your mom might be on to something.

But on the other hand, sometimes it's better to just meet trauma head-on; sitting there wondering how bad it's gonna get just eats your body and mind alive. But I really don't know.

47_trek_47 December 1 2009, 00:46:36 UTC

Yeah, she's probably right, as moms usually are, but... oh well. I can't look away!

ialwayswill November 30 2009, 14:52:03 UTC

The Today Show is on in 10 minutes where I'm at. I'm going to watch it. :(

I am NOT ready either, or will I ever be ready. I might need some kind of sedative to get through tonight's episode. I mean, losing Nathan back in April was bad enough, especially how he died, and then he was brought back just to have us lose him AGAIN. That is just...torture.

And to think I never thought a TV show could affect me this much... :'(

mystery_sock November 30 2009, 20:53:49 UTC

Oh, I knew - but it was never like this before. I've never cared about characters quite as much as I care about Nathan and Peter - even the ones I was most attached to, it wasn't like this.

I'm doing a lot of deep breathing exercises... and I've got my wine bottle prepped and ready... and lots of tissues in case I break. Which probably won't happen; I'll just hold onto the sadness until it makes me sick. Whee! :(

xanatosdecrion November 30 2009, 15:06:16 UTC

I've a feeling tonight's episode will be 'amazing'. I completely forgot the Today Show and I happened to wake up at 6 in the a.m. Watching it now; hoping the segment hasn't aired yet. Thanks in advance for the liveblog as my ass will be working again tonight, ugh. I'm going to try and sneak and watch it though.

mystery_sock November 30 2009, 20:54:59 UTC

I've got a link to a clip of the Today show; I'm gonna watch it, but not until after I've watched tonight's episode. I'd much rather it be a follow-up.

adeline November 30 2009, 15:47:07 UTC

I don't know you but a google search (whilst looking for video from the Today Show) led me here and now I just want to give you a big hug.

*big hug*

Tonight's episode will be excruciating. Excruciating. I don't know how I'll get over it.

mystery_sock November 30 2009, 20:55:57 UTC

Me neither. I'm gonna try alcohol. It's what Nathan would do! *SOB*

rtwofan November 30 2009, 15:56:40 UTC

Honestly, I am WAITING for this to be over, because maybe then the wank will stop. The past few weeks and, hell, the season FINALE really desensitized me to it. I think I got over Nathan's death about, eh, last May. So now it's just the waiting game.

Maybe it's because canon has never meant much of shit to me. When I was a Paire shipper and they became related, I kind of learned to suck it up and give canon the finger and do whatever the hell I wanted with the characters. As is the point of fanon, for me. I think I enjoy all the characters far more in fandom than I do on the show (except perhaps Peter, whom I enjoy equally in both). And it's not like Adrian and Milo are going to break up stop being BFF now. Adrian could return to direct an episode, or be in a flashback or something. They love him too much to push him away FOREVER.

Oh and the Today show was utterly non spoilery. Basically Adrian talking about how much he loves the cast. And he had a beard 0_o Heh.

mystery_sock November 30 2009, 21:01:51 UTC

Well, YEAH, there's my fanon, and nothing's going to change that. But I do pay attention to canon; I DO like to see what they're going to do. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't - but dammit, I got addicted to seeing Adrian Pasdar (almost) every week on my TV in a new piece of work; THAT'S what gets me. I needs my Pasdar. And now, while it never did RUIN the show when he wasn't on (or for that matter, Milo wasn't on), it was just so much more deliciously awesome when he was ( ... )

rtwofan November 30 2009, 21:32:30 UTC

Yeah, I'm more upset about seeing Pasdar gone than Nathan TBH. In non-Petrellicest scenes, I could sort of take or leave the character. You're utterly right about "regular supporting" character vs "primary character". Nathan wasn't even in the original promo commercials and stuff for the pilot. It was always Hiro-Peter-Claire-Matt-Niki. And maybe Isaac. We never saw any "this is Nathan..." commercials, because Nathan was seen as a supporting element to Peter's plotline. Honestly, this has always been true too. Claire gets her own plot all the time; so does Sylar, so does Hiro. Nathan is always helping out other plotlines, instead of getting his own stream of scenes. His election story in S1 was more of a subplot. He was in a grand total of 19 minutes in S2. Is this a misuse of the brilliant Pasdar? Sure is. But that's what the story requires, and Nathan seemed to be one of those throwaway characters to the writers that wouldn't hit the viewing audience too roughly. I don't think they ever expected Adrian to be as likable or to have ( ... )

mystery_sock December 1 2009, 03:32:11 UTC

I disagree that the majority of fans hate Peter though.
You don't know the same "fans" (well, viewers, but regular viewers) as I do, then. These guys (who I know IRL; almost exclusively males) all strongly dislike Peter, and let me know all the time. Every new dude who I meet who likes Heroes makes sure that he mentions that he hates Peter. Just saying; my experience.

I would still consider them both fan favorites and really popular characters - they just have superbly polar fanbases.
That's been a major part of my pain as a Heroes fan - I never thought that I had to take sides. I have loved Sylar from moment one. Sure, it's gone too far, and I'd have chosen Nathan over him any day, but I LOVE his character. Love it to death. And my love for him doesn't make me love Peter any less. Peter's my ANGEL. He is with me everywhere I go, every minute of the day. That's why I don't even really consider him my favorite; it's like saying that you love your left ear more than you love your right. It's PART of you. And he is a part of me.

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