Allow me to summarize: Bored bored bored bored SQUICK SQUICK SQUICK OMG MY EYES bored bored bored bored aww how cute SQUICK SQUICK SQUICK aww how cute bored bored bored bored you've got to be kidding me bored bored bored.
In conclusion: Fail.
Hey, Samuel, have a piece of unsolicited dating advice. It's always a plus to acknowledge that your date is an autonomous person. Don't tell her what she wants and what she likes; she knows that better than you do.
I think Samuel has another ability that's just been glossed over so far--the ability to brainwash people with food. He keeps the carnies in line with blueberry pancakes, he got Claire to sign on to the carnival with popcorn, and he maneuvered Vanessa from freaked and kidnapped to smiles and smoochies with a strawberry milkshake. Then again, maybe he just uses rohypnol and his magically appearing and disappearing Irish-ish accent to talk people into things against their better judgment.
It's probably a testament to how bored I was tonight that I kept getting unreasonably distracted by Zach's eyebrows. Do you ever get the feeling that if he stopped grooming them into submission, they'd form a continuous loop around his head like the rings of Saturn?
All work and no play makes Samuel something something. Apparently, Samuel's fantasy girlfriend rejecting his offer to move into the Hammerspace Cottage of Lurve was enough to make him decide it wasn't worth pretending he's not a psychopath anymore. Gosh, I can't imagine any girl passing up the chance to date a guy who destroys entire towns every time he has a tantrum.
Hiro's trial was fairly pointless. There was no actual trying going on. Adam and Ando brought up a bunch of random events from previous seasons and let them lie there instead of actually constructing any arguments with them. And the verdict was apparently that no matter what ridiculous, contradictory thing Hiro does, it's okay because he's a hero. Mess with the timeline, don't mess with the timeline...whatever, it's all good.
I can haz Petrellis nao plz?