So I got a call from my mom at the crack of dawn on Friday.  Darth Papa is in the emergency room with kidney stones.  Well, that doesn't sound good so I drive to the hospital to see him.  He's extremely uncomfortable and not very chatty and his stomach looks very bloated.  Despite the fact that Papa Darth is the source of our Dutch "bowling ball" shaped physiques, thanks to his creepy devotion to the ballroom dancing scene, he no longer has a bowling ball shaped physique....so the bloated stomach looks disturbing.  He tells me he is scheduled for surgery in the afternoon.  The nurse shoots him full of morphine and so I decide to leave and come back. 

 

Here's a tip, gentle reader....never leave a hospital when a loved one is there waiting for surgery.  Things seem to go downhill way too quickly.  Do not fret, this story has a happy ending.  I should say that upfront, because if you're anything like my neurotic hysterical mother, you need the important stuff first.  So, anyway, I come back around noon with Skywalker and low and behold, he is already in surgery.  His kidneys have shut down and he was rushed into the Operating Room (or O.R. as it is called by the hospital staff and everyone who has ever been in a hospital).  Kidneys shutting down is extremely serious, but for whatever reason....in my blind oblivion to the even remote possibility that something could be terribly wrong with Papa, it did not occur to me to be terrified yet.  And then the surgeon walks out....

 

Let me tell you something.  If any of you are doctors and make millions of dollars, well....first of all, Skywalker is single.  Second of all, work on your bedside manner.  Here's what Papa's incredibly sensitive surgeon says when he comes in to the waiting room to talk us - "He kind of crashed.  We had to intubate.  We're taking him to ICU."  Now.  Let me tell you something else.  People don't "kind of crash".  They do or they don't, and putting 'kind of' in front of 'crash' doesn't soften the blow..............at................all.  Now I am starting to get really concerned.  Papa is mortal?  When did this happen?  He is ridiculously young to be having this kind of problem.  Apparently, he had kidney stones in both kidneys....which apparently never happens.  Papa is an awesome medical anomaly.  But I'd be happier if he wasn't.

 

So after the extremely helpful waiting room staff inform us that he is not in post-op and they don't know where he is.....and then finally discover that he has already been taken to the ICU, we get to see him.  So, here's something else I should tell you.  We've all seen people on ventilators - on ER, Grey's Anatomy, in the movies.  But when it's in person and it's someone you love....particularly a Papa..........it's soooooooooooo different.  This machine is breathing for him.  His eyes are taped shut.  He's hooked up to a million different monitors, things are blinking and occasionally beeping.  He has needles poking into him and tubes coming out of him. 

 

And now I'm terrified.

 

It didn't matter when they told us the surgery was successful.  Never mind the stones, he can come back in some other time to get those taken care of.  It didn't matter when they told us everything was functioning normally.  It didn't matter that his nurses were awesomingly helpful.  What mattered was my Papa was in this hospital and not crouched behind his Blackberry pounding away maddeningly with his thumbs and slurping coffee occasionally while peering over the top of his reading glasses at the rest of us to maintain the perception that he is part of any conversation that may happen to be going on in the same room.  My Papa doesn't belong in a hospital!!!  And all the sudden, I'm a 12-year old and I want to cry.  This is just about the most uncool thing that has ever happened to me.  People get sick when they're old, and you're prepared for that.  People go to the hospital when they've been in an accident and you're prepared for that.  But this?  This was kidney stones and it was supposed to be no big deal.

 

They took his breathing tube out on Saturday, after a mortifying thirty minutes of him being consciously aware of a tube down his throat (before he was too hopped up on sedatives and painkillers to notice or care).  And Papa, who can talk the ears off a donkey if you get him started about some boring government contracting lawyer nonsense, says the only thing he can say - Wow.  He reaches out for us, holds our hands and croaks a little.  Everything is ok now.

 

He had been feeling bad for days, but not in any serious pain.  Not in kidney stone pain.  So thank you to his doctor who sent him to the emergency room satellite in Germantown so he could be seen right away.  And thank you to the emergency room for seeing him right away and sending him to the hospital.  And thank you to his hospital doctors for rushing the surgery.  And thank you to the surgeons for fixing my Papa. 

 

I don't know what I'd do without you Dad.  You're not like an emotional person or someone who's running up hugging people.  You're not going to tell me what to wear or notice a new haircut.  But you have always been there for me, ready to sue the pants off anyone who does me wrong or speak condescendingly about our mutual enemies in your fabulous lawyer-speak.  And perhaps, you have no idea how comforting that is to me...but it is.  Someday you'll be old and tired and God will be ready to sit down for some chess with you..........someday............but not yet.

 

Here's to good hospitals, excellent medical people, and healthy Papas.

Cheers,

Heather

So the Lunch Lady….whose strategy is a total mystery to me….is questioning her decision to vote Erik out.  It’s a little late for that Lunch Lady!!!  The Movie Rating realizes she is outnumbered and disliked….yeah, you’re next.  I’m pretty certain.  So Movie Rating gets the treemail and it’s full of arrows.  Hmmmmm….maybe they have to try to shoot each other.  So this should be a fun one. 

 

So they have to shoot arrows at a target with their names on it.  And whoever get their name hit the most (not necessarily by themselves) will win the reward.  And you have to give all of your arrows to other people.  So if nobody likes you, tou’re totally screwed.  So everyone gave their arrows to Cruella….for whatever reason….I guess cause she would make it the most entertaining.  If they win, they get to go to the Great Wall.  That’s kind of neat.  I was wondering when they’d do that….seeing as they’re in China and all.  So the Movie Rating got one arrow.  HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. 

 

After everybody hits the wrong squares and Cruella goes all over the place….the Lunch Lady is the one who ends up winning.  So she’s going to the Wall and surprise, surprise, she gets to pick two other people to take with her.  So she picks Cruella because Cruella is basically the reason she won.  And she picks Pixie Todd.  Oh boy….the Movie Rating is pretty much throwing out a major Death Stare.  She wants you to stay weak Movie Rating, so you don’t win the immunity challenge so you go home tonight because everyone hates you.

 

So Blurry Butt and the Movie Rating have a chance to get to know each other.  Blurry Butt is very forthright with everyone.  She asks Movie Rating right to her face why she didn’t like her.  Huh?  You put people on the spot like that and force them to answer you and you can get some really honest answers.  The Movie Rating apologizes for being so nasty.

 

On the Wall, and Pixie, Cruella and the Lunch Lady are mesmerized by the sights.  And they start talking about who to vote out if the Movie Rating wins immunity.  Which of course would have to be Blurry Butt because you tell anyone you're eating with that you would vote them off....even if you would.....because if Blurry Butt was with them they would obviously be talking about someone else.  The Lunch Lady doesn't trust Pixie Todd.  She continues to amaze me with her astute observations on the human psyche.  The Wall was pretty cool though, I have to admit.  So they get back to Camp Mighty Wind and start complaining about the food.  Are you kidding me?  There is only one thing worse than talking about how great the food was….and that’s to complain about it.  Blurry Butt mentions to the Lunch Lady that they should consider voting out Pixie Todd.  Well.  Finally.  Let’s get his done.  Pixie Todd is your biggest threat, if you don’t vote him out….he’s gonna win the whole thing. 

 

So now it’s time for the immunity challenge and basically they have to redo all the old challenges over four elimination rounds.  They have to throw the Chinese fighting stars at the Chinese fighting target.  They have to eat the stinky chicken baby.  They have to follow the bouncing ball.  And then, the last round, after they're already exhausted, is chopping through the rope with the sword to release the puzzle pieces.  Cruella rolled her eyes at that one.  So blah blah blah, everyone else falls out of the race.  The Lunch Lady doesn't even try to eat the stinky chicken baby and Jeffy makes her feel bad about it.  In the end, it's Blurry Butt going up against the Movie Rating and they're neck in neck, but Blurry Butt beats her out in the end. 

 

Back at Camp and Pixie Todd realizes that Blurry Butt and the Movie Rating ate all the rice while the others were on the private jet eating gourmet food and that makes him angry.  You have got to be kidding me, Pixie.  Are you trying to make people hate you....because if Blurry Butt still have one of those Chinese fighting stars she would have shoved it right up your Pixie butt.  So Blurry Butt and the Movie Rating talk to the Lunch Lady about getting rid of Pixie Todd and of course the Lunch Lady in her infinite wisdom....says, you know what.....I rather go up against him in the finals because he has no friends.                               Um.                                What?                                  Apparently, she has never watched this show before.  When people have weeks to get over their initial fury at being voted out, they come to appreciate the strategic evil genius it takes to get away with moves like that....they always vote for the bad guy.  Well, not always.  But usually.

 

So, at Trival Council the Lunch Lady explains to Jeffy that it was really hard deciding who to take with her on the reward.  The Cruella, because she's so cruel, decides to tell everyone that she didn't like the food they got on the reward and she would have prefered pizza.  <shaking my head> Is this girl for real?  This of course makes the Movie Rating crazy and we're passing dangerously close to that R-rating.  She says Cruella doesn't deserve to be there because she doesn't care about the game.  Hmmmm....ok?  Cruella responds that of course she deserves to be after having put up with so much crap, including listening to the Movie Rating for the thirty some odd days.  So now Pixie Todd, at long last, admits to being the evil genius behind the curtain.  He says he's made everyone mad, but that's why he should be in the finals.  Well............duhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.  So now it's time to vote.  Once the votes are read, the decision is final.  The person voted out will have to leave the tribal council area immediately.  Poor Movie Rating...you may make good points sweetheart, but you sound like such a bitch when you do it.....it's adios senorita.  And we're down to the Final Four - Pixie Todd, Blurry Butt Amanda, Cruella Skellington, and the Lunch Lady.  The final show is this weekend.  Don't forget!!

 

Later gators,

Heather

 

So everyone is shocked and happy that Cutey Pie was successfully voted off the island.  Pixie Todd is extremely happy that his devious little plan worked.  Except of course it wasn’t his plan, it was Blurry Butts.  But whatever.  So the Movie Rating is excited that there is a possibility that she could come up with a tie vote at the next Tribal.  And everybody is sick of the rain.  I never knew it rained so much in China…..

 

So let’s jump right to the reward challenge.  It’s a big maze.  I love mazes.  And they have to be blind-folded and they have to communicate with their partners to get to the middle…but how do they choose their partners?  You know what’s coming don’t you?  I did.  I love this episode, every season.  It’s the Family Episode.  And it makes me cry….sometimes.  Sometimes it’s kind of stupid.  The contestants are always so weepy about seeing their relatives.  I guess they are so emotional because they are tired and starving.  Erik the Virgin is playing with his Mom….which I won’t even try to make a joke about.  Blurry Butt is playing with her sister.  Movie Rating is playing with her dad.  Pixie Todd is playing with his sister.  And Cruella?  Well….this pretty much made the whole episode.  She’s playing with her daddy.  Who is British.  Very British.  <smile>

 

One thing I should point out.  Pixie Todd’s sister whispers in his ear when she hugs him, “She lost the baby.”  So apparently, his other sister miscarried.  I am skeptical and I hate this show for making me such an evil cynic.  I am seriously, if it wasn’t for Jonny Fairplay, that might have made me cry.  Instead…I am thinking to myself….yeah right.  <shaking my head>  The last contestant, the Lunch Lady, is playing with her husband.  And for all you single people out there, who clearly cannot understand this, married people are usually the only ones who are genuinely happy to see their other half.  A day hardly ever goes by when I do not see my husband.  I would miss him desperately if I was out on some Chinese island for a month.  So the Lunch Lady is happy to see her Pudgy Little Hubby.

 

So Jeffy explains to the Family people that they are now competing with the contestants and if they lose, it will all be their fault.  So they have to get to the middle of the maze, blind-folded and starting on opposite ends.  This should be entertaining.  And it was.  Everybody was shouting at everybody else.  Blurry Butt and her sister were making bird calls to each other….which was kind of dumb.  So in the end, Lunch Lady and Her Pudgy Little Hubby won.  Which did not surprise me at all, because married people learn very quickly how to communicate with each other….otherwise they get divorced….or kill each other.

 

So the Lunch Lady gets to pick two other teams to go with her on the eating reward (because at this point in the game, every reward is eating).  And she picks Pixie Todd and Blurry Butt.  Movie Rating is clearly pissed because she picked Lunch Lady for her reward.  Back at Camp Mighty Wind, the Virgin is the first one to question Pixie Todd’s miscarriage story.  Oh really?  The Virgin is a skeptic……I wouldn’t have seen that coming.  And of course, Cruella backs him up because she hates people.  So the Family people get to come back to camp after the meal and see the squalor their loved ones have been living in for all this time. 

 

Lots of planning and scheming being discussed.  The ongoing theme was of course, Pixie Todd, Blurry Butt and Cruella going to the final three.  Nobody wants to go against the Lunch Lady because of her “sob story” potential.  Hmmmm….I don’t agree.  I think a sob story would make her look her pathetic.  And she has played this game in a really moronic way…..I think Pixie Todd is the biggest threat with his Richard Hatch appeal.  But nobody ever listens to me.  The Lunch Lady did apologize to the Movie Rating for not taking her on the reward, which was nice but not necessary.  I mean, the MR is basically on her way out, right? 

 

Now it’s time for the immunity challenge.  So the contestants have to run through a kind of obstacle course, answer a question, get a key, run back through the obstacle course and hope they answered the question right so they got the right key.  They have to keep doing this….until they unlock all the locks.  I’ll spare you the drama of the back and forth lead, and Lunch Lady and Cruella sucking as usual.  In the end, the Movie Rating won.  Woaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.  That’s not good for our cute guy factor – I think the Virgin is in trouble. 

 

Back at Camp Mighty Wind, and everybody is pretty much talking about Erik.  The Movie Rating and the Virgin tried to convince the Lunch Lady that she should vote with them.  So we’re at Tribal Council.  And Jeffy asks about the reward challenge.  The Lunch Lady says it had its ups and downs, the other contestants may decide that her life is already good enough.  Um….not with a haircut like that, sweetheart.  The Movie Rating said she thought the vote was not set in stone…..yer a crazy person.  And now it’s time to vote.  Once the votes are read, the decision is final.  The person being voted out will have to leave the Tribal Council area immediately.  So Jeffy reads the votes and surprise, surprise, it’s the Virgin.  <sigh>  The only other cute guy on this show……And we’re down to the final five.

 

Later gators,

Heather

So last night was the season finale.  I was very excited about this episode.  I want you to follow along with me now, gentle reader, because everything kind of came together last night in a very eerie way.  I am quite certain other people have written about this theory online, but allow me to offer my own slant on it.  This may take a while.

 

Sylar and Maya have broken in to Mohinder’s apartment.  Maya (Hindu word for illusion) wants Mohinder to “cure” her.  Sylar, aka Gabriel, wants to be “cured” as well.  Mohinder is our man in the balance.  He is struggling with his choice to be on the side of good or evil.  He wanted to bring down the Company, and now he thinks they are worth fighting for.  He wants to cure Niki, but he shot Papa B in the eye.  Mohinder is very important to this story, despite the fact that he has no Great Ability.  He is us.  When Mohinder talks about the Shanti virus taking away powers, Maya reveals that Sylar has none.  And Mohinder tries to stab him with a butter knife (yes, that was kind of stupid….but stay with me here people), and Sylar points a gun at his head and says he wants some of the Resurrection Blood.  Shanti is Sanskrit for inner peace, by the way.  Which means one could interpret the “virus” as a way to gain inner peace for our conflicted heroes.  Gabriel is our messenger of god, our angel of death, the Left Hand.  For Mohinder, he has brought an ultimatum.  And a warning about the End of Days?  Maya starts freaking out and gets the death eyes….but to keep from killing Mohinder (who can cure her) and an innocent Molly, she stops.  It is also extremely ironic to me that Maya feels like she is filled with a sickness, that a virus could possibly cure or the virus could kill her before she kills more people with her own sickness.  Irony.  I love irony.  So everyone is off to Mohinder’s lab to give Gabriel his cure.

 

Now we’re back in New York.  Evil Mom, aka Angela, is explaining to Nathan and Parkman how they got into this situation in the first place.  By the way, ‘Angela’ also means messenger.  Nathan asks “How long are we going to suffer for your sins?”  She tells them that 30 years ago, a group of them came together to change the world, to fix it.  A group of them meaning twelve of them.  Can you think of another group of 12?  A group of twelve whose instructions were to drive out demons, heal the sick, resurrect the dead?  A group of twelve who disowns their leader?  She tells them Adam decided the world needed to be wiped clean, that it wasn’t worth fixing.  This should sound familiar too -  [ So God said to Noah, I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them.  I am surely going to destroy both of them and the earth.  Genesis 6:13]  Evil Mom declares that she realized at the last moment how wrong his plan was.  Here’s another interesting coincidence – Nathaniel, Peter, Matthew.  Just think about it.  Evil Mom then tells them that Peter is the only one who can get to the virus, which is why Adam picked him.  She tells them where the virus is being kept and how to kill Adam (bullet to the brain).  And then as they’re leaving, she thinks to Parkman “If you can’t stop Peter, you should kill him too.”

 

So Adam and Peter are at Primatech when time freezes.  Hiro is there to kill Adam, and of course Peter cannot let him do it.  He that is not with me is against me.  (Luke 11:23)  Hiro charges with the sword and Peter tries to zap him and Hiro blips away.  Hiro yells at Peter – he will betray you!!  Betrayal?  <are you still with me people?>  Then Hiro puts the sword to Peter’s throat so that Peter can electrocute him.  Time is back on and Adam sees Hiro lying on the ground.  Peter tells him what Hiro said about not trusting Adam….and then they’re off to get the virus.  Adam takes the sword.  Nooooooooooooo!!  Not the sword!!  Hiro needs the sword!!  He is our Samurai (which, interestingly enough means Servant of the Lord). 

 

Now we’re with Claire and her ridiculous scheme to tell everyone what she can do…..oh wait……this may sound familiar to you too – a person who can heal, who no one will believe and some may persecute, a person who feels compelled to tell a story about what they believe.  Are you with me?  Claire finds all of Papa B’s documents from the Company.  She’s trying to explain to mom why she’s doing this, she says they only target people with abilities, people like me.  My People.  Mom says, what if they do experiments on you?  And Claire says, I can’t live in fear of ‘what if.’  Nice, but it’s still an awful idea.  Now Bing is chastising Elle.  He says, you really screwed up.  You let me down.  You’re not going out again.  You know, nice supportive parental stuff.  Bing lays on the fatherly guilt trip pretty well.  Are we perhaps looking at a fallen angel?  Now Elle wants answers from Papa B and he says, I’m totally not kidding, “I’m stuck in this hell hole, my family thinks I’m dead.”  So why should I help you?  And she threatens him and he doesn’t care and then she says the magic words.  And so he says, Daddy pushed you farther than you should’ve been pushed.  The hardest thing a parent ever does is having to see their child in pain (like a Son, you with me?) but not your parent.  And then Bing barges in, Elle barges out.  Bing tells Papa B that Claire is causing problems, and when Papa refuses to help, he says we’ll have to deal with her.  What does that mean? 

 

Micah runs home and Niki is yelling at him.  I told you to let the police handle it.  And he says, yeah but now Monica (St. Joan) is caught and we have to rescue her.  And then Niki says, I have no super-strength, but don’t worry Mohinder is going to cure me (no he’s not!).  And Micah says, fine, you just need to drive.  [I will bring a conqueror against you.  Micah 1:15] 

 

Back to the Company and Adam and Peter are fighting off the guards to get to the virus.  Very bad ass.  So they get to the vault, and Adam tells Peter to pry it open with his brain.  Not much at stake, just the fate of the entire human race.  Adam admits to killing Sulu, and Peter is like, why should I believe you?  And Adam reminds him about Caitlin.  We all need you to open that door.  And so he starts to bend the door…..um…..why not walk through the wall?

 

Mohinder, Maya, Gabriel and Molly are at Isaac’s loft (Isaac was the Sacrifice, remember?) which is now his lab.  Mohinder explains that he needs to test Gabriel’s blood to diagnose him correctly….but I think he’s stalling.  Sylar says, your father found my gift and now you’re restoring it.  Life is beautiful or something like that.  And then we’re talking about betrayal again.  Ahhh, he is stalling.  Video surveillance in the loft is on.  The Company should be seeing this.  So Elle is trying to look at her files back at headquarters, but there are none.  And then she sees the loft on the computer screen, and sees Sylar and then she realizes that she has the chance to make Daddy proud again.  A chance for redemption.  Oh boy. 

 

Monica is tied up in some building, where the thugs are going to set the place on fire.  This doesn’t make a whole lot of sense story-wise, except that Saint Joan of Arc was burned at the stake also.  There’s that irony again.  Micah is tracking Monica using her cell phone.  And then he makes all the traffic lights change to green….that’s awesome!!  I need that kid in my car during rush hour!! 

 

Nathan and Parkman fly in to Odessa.  Oh, that I had wings like a dove! (Psalm lv.6)  They run in to Hiro.  Back at Claire’s and she is packing up the stuff to take to the press, and Mr. Annoying (aka West) shows up.  She says get to work, buddy boy.  And he says, I’m not here to help.  I’m here to stop you.  West, the direction of the sunset, the mythic direction of the underworld.  I don’t trust this kid.  Besides being annoying….I just don’t trust him.  He likes his secrets.  I think maybe someone told him to be “watching” her too.  How come we’ve never met his parents?  Claire gives him his file, so he knows she won’t be able to tell anyone about him.  He leaves her, flies away…..like an angel.  Then Mr. Muggles runs up to the door to welcome home…………wait for it……………Papa B.  He has arisen.

 

Maya and Molly are waiting in the loft, and Maya talks about Alejandro.  Molly says I can find him for you so you know he’s safe.  And of course, she can’t because he’s dead.  Because I know you’re wondering, Alejandro is Spanish for Alexander, which means “Protector of Man”.  You still with me?  Mohinder realizes Gabriel has the same strain of the virus Niki has, so that means the Company infected him….so it was the Company who had stranded him out in the middle of nowhere.  Maya is screaming at Gabriel and so to shut her up, he shoots her.  And I’m thinking to myself, what the hell was the point of the Super Twins?!?!  What a waste of air time.  I mean, don’t get me wrong.  I’m glad they’re dead….but seriously.  Gabriel says, give me the “Heal Anything” blood and Mohinder pulls it out of his bag.  He says, try it on her first and if it works, you can “save” me.  That’s what he said – save me.  But what if he was already saved?  The Shanti virus was supposed to be his inner peace.  Some people just don't want to be saved....oh, how far you have fallen....

 

Back at the Bennets and Oblivious Mom is trying to wrap her teeny tiny brain around what is going on.  Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked with God.  (Genesis 6:9)  Papa explains that Claire cured him, it was her blood that brought her back.  He tells Claire she needs to stop her plans to expose the Company.  He says he made a deal, you stop what you’re doing and I have to go back with them and you get to have a normal life.  Set thine house in order.  (Isaiah 38:1).  He says, you were right, it’s all my fault, I never meant to hurt you and then he leaves before anyone has a chance to say anything.  And poor Claire is crying again.  And Bing is waiting outside to take Papa back to the Company.  Noah did everything just as God commanded him.  (Genesis 6:22).

 

Peter is still trying to pry open the vault, and then he finally does it.  And right before Adam can walk into the vault, Hiro blips himself in the way and tries to stop him.  Adam is about to filet him with the Kensai sword, when Peter just tosses Hiro to the side.  Adam says, he’ll just keep at it unless you do something about it.  So Peter starts strangling Hiro, like he did to that guy back in the bar in Ireland.  What the hell?  Parkman shows up and is mind-yelling at Peter to let Hiro go, go after Adam.  Parkman is trying to make him do it.  And Peter is just as strong.  Or stronger, he pushes Parkman down the hall with his mind and he’s yelling, You don’t understand!!  You’re on the wrong side!!!  Tell me………..how many people throughout time have claimed that when justifying their religion?  How do you know you're on the right side?  How do you know you're worshipping the right God?  So Nathan steps into the hall, and says how about me?  Am I on the wrong side too? And I got chills...

 

But no one is paying attention to Adam, who is now in the vault.  Hiro blips himself in to stop Adam.  He says, you were my friend and Adam says, you were my inspiration.  Oh my.  <are you still with me, people?>  He’s holding the virus vial in his hand behind his back, and he pulls out the sword to end Hiro.  Get thee behind me, Satan.  (Matthew 16:23)

 

Cut back to the hallway, and Nathan is trying to convince Peter that Adam is evil.  Peter says, but he saved you with his blood.  Does that mean Nathan is invincible now?  Back in the vault and Adam is trying to justify the virus, time changes nothing.  And then out comes the flood story, straight out of the Bible.  We’re not even pretending anymore.  God just washed it all away when he was no longer happy with it.  And Hiro says, you are not God.  And Adam says, are you sure?  I’ve lived for 400 years, who’s to say I won’t live for 400 more.  Nathan says, he used me to get to you Peter, to manipulate you.  Come ON Peter, wake UP!!!  Nathan loves you, he wouldn’t lie. 

 

And then things start to happen very fast.  Can you really trust Adam?  And you see it, quite clearly.  No….no, he can’t.  Hiro blips Adam away, but the vial gets dropped in the process.  Peter rushes in to the vault and grabs the vial with his mind before it breaks.  Peter is starting to regret his decisions to follow Adam, and Nathan reminds him, you’re not responsible for something that might have happened.  So Peter burns up the virus, except there is ash left on his hand…..is that bad?  And before it blows away, we see the helix symbol on his hand.  Parkman is complaining about all this nonsense, Nathan says we need to stop this, no more secrets.  Peter asks what do you want to do, and now Nathan is talking about telling the world.  Man, this is a bad idea.  And oh look, there’s video surveillance in the vault as well.  Somebody is always watching. 

 

Back at the loft and we’re waiting to see if Maya lives.  Physician, heal thyself.  (Luke 4:23)  And of course she does.  But I think that is more appropriate for our man, Mohinder.  Heal yourself, Mohinder.  Find your righteous path again.  Find your faith.  [But I will show you whom you should fear: fear him who, after the killing of the body, has power to throw you into hell.  Yes, I tell you, fear him.  (Luke 12:5)]  I hope for this show's sake that Maya starts getting much more interesting....Gabriel goes to leave with the blood, and Elle tries to stop him….which of course she fails at miserably…..because she can’t do anything right. 

 

Micah tells Niki they’re almost to the house where Monica must be….and the anonymous thug sets the fire.  Micah sees the van, and Niki runs in to it.  Niki still kicks his ass, even without her strength.  And then they see the smoke pouring out of the building.  Niki goes to save her, and Monica gets out but Niki doesn’t.  At least, we don’t see her come out before the building explodes.  What misery is mine.  (Micah 7:1)  This poor kid has lost both his father and his mother….it doesn’t really seem fair.  The Hubby is despondent.  His favorite character could be dead….but I am unsure.  Do not gloat over me, my enemy!  Though I have fallen, I will rise.  Though I sit in darkness, the Lord will be my light.  (Micah 7:8).

 

Hiro has blipped himself back to Ando.  But where is Adam?  Hiro says, he can never hurt anyone again.  And we cut to Adam who is locked in what immediately looks like a coffin.  Buried alive.  In the family crypt.  There’s that irony again.  So tell me…..what’s the one thing that would suck worse than anything else if you were immortal?  Adam lived 930 years, and then he died.  (Genesis 5:5)  That would really suck.  Entombed in immortality...kind of like being banished to hell....

 

Elle says, my dad is gonna kill me and Mohinder reminds her that she just saved everyone.  You’re a hero.  How about that....picking the right side?  Now, we’re getting ready for the press conference.  Peter is still feeling badly about choosing the wrong side, and Nathan says, don’t worry.  You tried to do the right thing.  You always do.  If you see yourself as a monster, the guilt will eat you up inside.  [Nathan replied, the Lord has taken away your sin.  You are not going to die.  (2Samuel 12:13)]

 

Nathan is giving his speech, and we’re getting a flashback of Volume 2.  I lost my brother, I lost my family, I lost my way.  But while I was away I had the chance to see ordinary people among us trying their best everyday to be heroes.  These ordinary people are capable of extraordinary things.  You have no idea how extraordinary.  But there are other people who don’t want you to know the truth.  I’m not afraid anymore, I’m here to tell you the truth….I have the ability – and then he gets shot!  Assassinated.  Where I am going, you cannot follow now, but you will follow later.  (John 13:36)  Someone walks away from the crowd, and it looks disturbingly like Adam...but you couldn't really tell who it was, I made the Hubby rewind the DVR.  Cut to Evil Mom on the phone, who apparently orchestrated the whole thing.  So she must still be involved in the Company.  She says to whoever is on the other end of the line, you do know that you’ve now opened Pandora’s Box.  And that, my dear friends is the end of Volume Two.  By the way, Pandora was created from all of the “gifts” she got from all of the gods.  Zeus ordered her creation as a punishment to mankind.  The box she carries contains all of the world’s evils.  She tries to close the lid, but not in time and the Evils escape.  Along with the evils though, came Hope – humanity’s only salvation.

 

But that’s not the end of last night’s episode, no….now we need a teaser for next season.  Volume Three is called Villains.  Sylar is in some back alley, injecting himself with the resurrection blood.  And he heals.  And he has his Great Ability back.  He’s back.  My name is Legion, for we are many.  (Mark 5:9)  I think our clues were in the vault – the deck of cards, the dagger, the brain.  I think these probably belong to the Villains. 

 

Just in case you forgot – Volume One was called Genesis.  <oh really?>  Volume Two was called Generations. 

 

I love this show.  Loyalty, Family, Sacrifice, Betrayal, Resurrection……Faith.  I’m not a religious person, but the coincidences are pretty uncanny.

 

Peter replied, “Even if all fall away on account of you, I never will.”  (Matthew 26:33)

 

Later gators,

Heather

So, you remember where we left off?  It was at Tribal Council.  Jeffy, in his very own cryptic mysterious way, just said – “We have more business to attend to here.”  Or something like that…so it’s time for the reward challenge.  What?!?!  Now?!?!?!  Are they rushing this?  Because of the writer’s strike?  HAHAHAHAHAHA.  Just kidding….so anyway, our Survivors are now going to compete for a chance to visit a fifth century Shaolin Temple.  The winners get to fly out on a private jet, eat and visit and whatnot.  Anyway, its sounds like a cool reward.  To win, they have to answer Chinese trivia questions.  I should be good at this, I’ve eaten plenty of fortune cookies in my time.  So Jeffy is asking the questions, some people get them right and some people get them wrong.  And the Movie Rating ends up winning.  She decides to bring Erik the Virgin and the Lunch Lady with her on the reward. 

 

So the Three are off on their mini-vacation and that leaves Cutey Pie, Pixie Todd, Blurry-Butt Amanda and Cruella at camp to plot their imminent victory.  Pixie Todd announces that this is the Final Four and Cutey Pie starts talking about not biting the apple….succumbing to temptation…..not biting the apple.  Well, I got the idea at least.  Blurry-Butt Amanda, however, has plans of her own.  She’s a smart cookie.  I’m glad this season has more than one player who can think for themselves.  We usually get one evil mastermind and a bunch of dimwitted lemmings.  Not on this island!!!  <sigh, yes, I know it’s not an island.> 

 

So the Three vacationers get to the Temple and whaddya know?  Lunch Lady is actually this group’s Mr. Miyagi.  Nice.  [Here’s a funny aside.  Spellcheck knows how to spell Miyagi.  I’m serious.  Try it!]  So anyway, Lunch Lady is in her element.  She karate chops the monks and they are pleased.  And then the mini-monks (i.e., children) do a demonstration.  And then Lunch Lady does the Crane for them….and they are happy.  It was kind of cool, no matter how much I am making fun of it. 

 

Back at the Mighty Wind camp, the rains are washing their troubles away….sort of…..well, at least it’s raining.  So, the Final Four are hiding in a cave.  Especially Cruella who looks like she is hibernating.  I can kind of understand her not wanting to get wet.  She might melt.  [I am so mean!]  So the Vacationers return and Movie Rating, in her own blessed oblivious way, decides for whatever reason to tell everyone how great it was.  Good idea.  Make them hate you more.  Erik the Virgin tries to hint to Cutey Pie that he could help them vote Pixie Todd off…..but Cutey Pie won’t hear of it….and starts mumbling about not eating the apple again.  Enough with the apples!!!  We get it!!!

 

So Blurry-Butt Amanda tells Cruella that she wants to blindside Cutey Pie.

 

 

Um.  What?  Ok, brilliant.  But…………………….what?  I knew he had a huge target on his back.  I’m not going to pretend that I didn’t.  And if any of them had their wits about them, like Blurry-Butt clearly does, then I knew they would try to get rid of him.  But……………..he’s my favorite.  Which I should have known from the beginning was the kiss of death.  My picks never win.  I hate this show.  So Cruella, in her wonderful opaque way, says yes of course I’ll do whatever you tell me to.  And since Cutey Pie hasn’t won an immunity challenge yet, I’m guessing their plan will probably work.  Boo hoo!!!

 

It’s immunity challenge time and our malnourished, delirious Survivors get to throw Chinese fighting stars at each other.  I mean….they get to throw them at a target on a board…..but it would have been a lot more entertaining if they got to throw them at each other.  So blah blah blah….they have to score the most points….blah blah blah…..they go to round 2……blah blah blah……and Erik the Virgin wins.  Yeah Virgin!!  Way to get some!!!

 

Back at camp Mighty Wind, Blurry-Butt tells Pixie Todd she wants to vote out Cutey Pie and for once in this game he decides to go along with her decision.  Well, of course he does.  He’s just glad she didn’t decide to axe him out of the game at this point.  But he does see the general brilliance in getting rid of the guy with two immunity idols.  The Movie Rating finds the immunity idols, and she doesn’t steal them either (what’s with these people having morals?), instead she goes and tells Blurry-Butt about them and Blurry-Butt is like, don’t worry about it.  We’ve got it covered.  And so the Movie Rating just sits back and lets things play out.  Which SHOULD have been a huge red blinking warning sign to Cutey Pie…..but of course it wasn’t. 

 

So at Tribal Council, Jeffy talks to Lunch Lady about the reward.  The Movie Rating plays her martyr role and tells everyone how she’s tried her best, her team has been winning challenges, but she knows she’s on the chopping block <wink wink>.  Jeffy talks about trust and Cutey Pie is like, yeah you have to trust people (oh dear Jesus).  It’s time to vote.  Once the votes are read, the decision is final.  The person being voted out will have to leave the tribal council area immediately.  We know Cutey Pie is voting for the Movie Rating.  We know the Moving Rating is voting for Pixie Todd.  And then Jeffy reads the votes.  Movie Rating gets one.  Pixie Todd gets one.  And Cutey Pie gets the next four.  He didn’t play the idol.  And he really really should have…….<sigh>……..you look like an idiot.  A sexy cute adorable idiot.  Babye, cutey pie.  I’ll miss you.  Oh wait, you’re on the Jury.  So, I guess I’ll keep watching the show.  <smile>

 

Later gators,

Heather