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Thursday, December 06, 2007
Heroes - Volume 2
Before I cobble together thoughts on the "finale" from Monday...I'm curious. Show of hands; how many people are disappointed with Volume 2? How many here think it was awesome? Feel free to be specific or just voice a general opinion.
Posted by JimK at 03:44 PM on December 06, 2007
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Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Heroes - Truth & Consequences
1. My elbow is screaming so I have to keep this short.
2. Spoilers after the jump!
Awesome: HRG going instantly wide awake, lucid and straining against the bed restraints the instant Mohinfuck mentioned Claire. Awesomer: Hiro squaring up against Peter and telling him that he picked the wrong side. Awesomest: Sylar. Powerless, he's still the most evil sonofabitch you never want to meet.
Things that are annoying me; Peter trusting Adam over Hiro and believing anything Adam says, no matter how ridiculous. Also, Peter being motivated to stop the virus not to save his brother, who he knows dies in the great plague, but to save some half-ugly girl he knew for a frigging week. That's ridiculous and contradicts what we already know about Peter, that he loves, is devoted to and looks up to his brother, and would move the world to save him.
I guess that's all been forgotten. Also Peters forgotten that Hiro is completely trustworthy and perhaps the best person he's ever met, mush less the best person in that room.
Another thing that made me go "Err, whaaa?" Why didn't Monica even TRY to fight back? She watched a shit-ton of fighting movies and we were led to believe that she can already do a lot, physically, in a fighting sense. So why did she do absolutely nothing? Was it just fear that made her freeze? It seemed like one of those "the writers aren't paying attention to things that have gone before" things, but I could buy that she was just scared.
The number one thing about Heroes that I hate: Mohinder. I don't like the actor, but in fairness I don't like the character, and maybe I don't like the actor because he's doing a great job. I want to see Mohinder suffer for being a Class A moron. I want someone to punch him in the face repeatedly, and with every punch, list another terrible, idiotic, simpy, wimpy decision he's made. I think he's going to cure Sylar. It would be better to let Molly DIE than to cure Sylar, but Mohinder is a complete and utter tool. So of course he'll make the worst decision possible.
BTW, I don't think Hiro is out solely for revenge. He wouldn't just do revenge. The fact that Adam is doing very bad things, and obviously has been for 400 years, is allowing Hiro to give in to the idea of revenge without feeling that terrible about it. It's not just revenge, it's also justice, and it will protect the world from Adam.
Posted by JimK at 09:18 PM on November 27, 2007
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Monday, November 26, 2007
Battlestar Galactica - Razor
If you can believe it, I have *not* watched the online "Razorettes" or watched them mushed in commercial breaks of whatever show Sci-Fi was trying to get me to watch. I figure it's so long until the season and this is just bonus information anyway. We did watch Razor tonight, and here's my take (spoilers below!).
I think that Razor was made so that we could understand Caine a little more. As it stood, I simply thought she was a cold bitch and somewhat of a monster, but I never had much respect for her as a warrior or a leader.
I still don't.
She got lucky with her network being offline, and her crew performed in fight after fight out of fear of her, not respect or love or dedication. She's even worse than I thought before Razor. She's more of a monster than any one of the toasters.
I can understand Caine's initial reaction toward Pegasus Six. I mean, she not only let a Cylon on her ship and on her bridge, but she slept with one. Trusted one. Gave a Cylon access to intimate thoughts, moments, etc. I can understand wanting to hurt that Cylon, and watching crew member after crew member die only compounded the problem. That's not an excuse to murder civilians, to shoot your XO, to be a monster...to not only order your security officer to torture a Cylon, but to humiliate her, to make her afraid...to, as Caine put it, degrade her. Once she knew they were raping Six repeatedly, she let it go on. For ten months.
There's just nothing that makes that OK. Contrast her with Adama, who is a warrior, a tactician and still a human being.
On the other hand, as the Old Man put it, he had Laura and SaltySeaDog and Apollo in his face to keep him human. When he stepped over the line, he had something and someone to help him step back and regain his humanity. Caine was the ultimate authority as far as she knew. She answered to no one. She had no one to tell her no. She wasn't mentally stable enough to accept her XO questioning her decisions unless she was accountable to someone else. She was walking, for lack of a better phrase, a razor's edge before the war. The fact that she was now the supreme Colonial military authority in the galaxy, and maybe the last Battlestar around drover her right over the edge. She was not cut out to have ultimate authority.
The biggest shame of Razor is that we were introduced to Stephanie Chaves-Jacobsen only to have her die at the end. Lovely woman, Ms. Chaves-Jacobsen. Born in Hong Kong, she's Portuguese, Norwegian, Chinese and English, raised since age 12 in Australia so she comes by the accent naturally. Too bad Kendra had to die. She felt like she had to atone for allowing Caine to turn her into a monster. Again, there's that element caine was missing; the humanity that makes you feel bad when you do something horrible.
It was pretty cool to see old school Cylon Centurions. Although if I had to quibble - and I do - it was pretty obvious that they were rendered as new model robot Cylons and they just slapped Centurion skins over the models. They were shaped wrong and moved exactly like the new ones.
The only other observation I really have, aside from loving the BSG action after such a drought, is that we kind of already knew Starbuck was going to lead humanity astray. My current working theory is that Kara believes she's seen Earth, is NOT a Cylon and doesn't know she's being manipulated.
It was a pretty damn good taste of BSG, all in all. What'd you think?
Posted by JimK at 12:35 AM on November 26, 2007
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Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Heroes - Cautionary Tales
I think this episode leaves us with just two more to air...yoinks! Spoilers below!
I don't have 72 crazy theories this week. Just a couple. I still think Adam and Bob aren't really real bad bad guys. I think they're like half-a-bad guy and will eventually come around. I turned to Donna as HRG was shot and predicted that the Company would take him and heal him with Claire's blood, so I don't get to drop that here. Man that would have been cool if I posted that before it happened. Oh well.
HRG - How cool was it that he was shot from behind his glasses, but from the front? I think the bullet sort of pierced his orbital socket and eye before passing through the glasses. FRICKING FRICKETY FRICK I need hi-def television.
Anyway, I think HRG will now have to face the fact that Bob and Co. saved his life. He'll have to (at least pretend to) forgive Mohinder the Complete Fucking Idiot, because everyone will be needed to reign in Adam and Peter, who will then be needed to defeat Sylar, who I think is the real ultimate evil and the only truly unredeemable person.
- West - I kind of like West a little bit more now that his goal in life is nothing more than pitbull-like protection of Claire. I think he and HRG will get along really well. I hope HRG gets a chance to apologize to him and explain how he was duped by the Company and has repented for all the hell he put people through. I think the kid will not just appreciate that, but it will help solidify his "membership" on Team HRG.
- Elle - I'm even better with Elle as a character, although I still think that Veronica Mars chick is nowhere near hot enough to be playing this tough, wanna-be sexpot with a dark side. At least now we've got some more depth to her beyond "I was raised in this building and I am a sociopath." Maybe Bob and the Company made her believe she's a sociopath, ala Dexter? Maybe all she needs is a real father like HRG. Seriously. I wish he was my dad. Everyone feel bad for me. Saw "Awwww." Moving on.
- Mohinder is a pathetic, simpering fool who will always and forever make the absolute worst decision at any given moment. I think he's on the show just so we have a non-evil person to hate. Since his blood no longer heals, I hope HRG doesn't forgive him and instead puts a couple of vent-holes in Mohinder's big stupid head.
- Adam & Peter (and Sylar) - Here's where it gets weird. I think Sylar will run into Adam somehow, some way and be able to literally see that Adam's blood will cure him, and therefore get it. This will give him access to collecting again, so the Toxic Twins are dead. Yay! I think that Adam's blood won't cure the virus though. It will prevent it from attacking Sylar's body but it will still live in him, where it is free to mutate and jump from heroes to humans. In fact, Sylar will be able to control it like Maya and her brother. He'll intentionally release it.
Way out there prediction - Sylar talks Adam into being on Team Evil and Adam talk Peter into it and peter and Sylar are working together for a very brief period, only Sylar wants Peter's passive absorption ability and tries to kill him, thus ending the fragile alliance. Maybe?
- Hiro - I know what his father said, but I disagree. Why is it OK to interfere in all these other ways, both big and small, but Hiro absolutely HAS to let his father die? It;s not like Kaito didn't know he was being hunted. Hell, he was planning to leave town the very next day, and why? To avoid being killed! WTF? No, I did not agree with that at all. But, Hiro did, and he let Adam kill Kaito. The question is, will he seek revenge and attempt to kill Kensei/Adam, or will he continue to try to save him? Or will Hiro get all pumped up to kill Adam, only to have Ando remind him that Hiro is a good person and revenge sucks a fat one, and all that.
- Parkman - Getting cooler by the episode. Looks like he took the name out of Mama Petrelli after all. At first I thought it did kind of make him like his dad, but Donna reminded me that Mama Petrelli is never right about freakig anything, so if she wants this lady to stay hidden and be a secret, the best thing to do would be to put her freaking name on the six o'clock news.
Man. This show is picking up again really nicely and BAM! Writer's strike. At least the stupid producers are going to talk with them after Thanksgiving (or, as Marshall recently named it, Slapsgiving). Maybe we'll only see a couple of months of interruption in the air schedules.
Posted by JimK at 10:34 PM on November 20, 2007
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Thursday, November 15, 2007
Heroes - Four Months Ago
OK, I know, it's late. I just cannot get the Heroes post up on time!
OK, so this episode was supposed to answer questions about events from the finale onward. Here's what I suspect; Tim Kring wasn't real happy with season two so far, we know that because he apologized to us. So, he took a look at how the season was playing out while making it and decided to throw us a bone. Only it had to be written fast...if I'm right, that would explain why it's got a few holes and/or errors.
- Nathan. Not enough time for everything that he and mom talked while standing in Peter's aprtment (in 2x01) about to develop. I'm not buying that giant-ass beard in a few weeks either.
- Peter. The Peter that flew in and saved Nathan had FuturePeter's emo-boy haircut and was wearing totally different clothes than PresentPeter (who just exploded, or radiated an explosion, or something). It was the Peter that FutureHiro met in String Theory. The one that was with Nikki. BUT...that same guy was zapped by LightningGirl and held in the joint with Adam. Why doesn't he remember he's Futurepeter? If he does, there was absolutely no indication of it. he was acting like PresentPeter, the one who explod-a-radiated.
Question: Did PresentPeter ever meet DL? I can't remember. I don't think the final fight with Sylar counts. If he didn't, then the Peter that is with Adam HAS to be FuturePeter. If he did, then we still have a screwup because the one that saved Nathan was NOT the same as the one that explod-a-radiated.
Anyway, it was nice to see how he ended up in a shipping container.
- DL - WTF? DL died from the wounds received in Linderman's office, didn't he? Jessinikki and Micah went to his grave. What am I forgetting?
- Adam. Can he really be the big bad badass supreme? I mean, healing blood and de facto immortality, sure, but he's never displayed a mental power. Was the big bad bad guy Molly was afraid of just Poppa Parkman?
- Mama Petrelli - Donna got this one spot on - we think Mama can persuade if she touches you.
- Alejandro & Maya - still don't care. But, they do confirm another theory. I was dancing all around trying to find a way to desribe this idea and Donna nailed this one too. Many - in fact most - of the heroes have a passive and an active power. Maya and Ajandro are twins, so the power(s) got split in two.
Examples of active and passive; The Haitian can dampen all powers passively, but actively can enter your mind and extract specific memories. Parkman can read your mind, and his new active ability is projection. Micah can hear machines talk, but he can also change how they work and manipulate them. Etcetera and so on. I can't think of a set of powers for the flying ones though. They seem to only be able to fly. So far, anyway.
- Nikki/Jessica/Gina. Anything that keeps Ali Larter on the show and acting like either a badass or a slut is absolutely, 100% perfect. I don't care how ridiculous it gets.
- Another question: Have we met anyone who works at the Company who doesn't have a power? Think about it. Anyone? and if we have not...that means HRG has a power that we haven't seen because he's hiding it or he doesn't know about it because the Haitian erased it.
Overall I enjoyed all the smaller elements of this episode, but I think taken as a whole, it opens up some contradictions and plot holes. Then again, we're talking about comic books, so I guess I shouldn't be so picky. Somehow I can accept that Claire can grow a toe, and a guy as old as Adam could probably grow a new body if decapitated him, but Nathan's beard, marriage and whole lifestyle change, happening in the limited time between his standing up in the hospital room and the opening of season 2? That I can't accept.
GIVE THE WRITERS THEIR MONEY! It's going to suck when this ends 11 episodes in you bastards!
Posted by JimK at 12:51 AM on November 15, 2007
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Wednesday, November 07, 2007
Tim Kring apologizes to Heroes fans
When have you ever heard of a show creator doing this?
THE PACE IS TOO SLOW ''We assumed the audience wanted season 1 — a buildup of intrigue about these characters and the discovery of their powers. We taught [them] to expect a certain kind of storytelling. They wanted adrenaline. We made a mistake.''
THE WORLD-SAVING STAKES SHOULD HAVE BEEN ESTABLISHED SOONER The premonition of nuclear apocalypse created a larger context that unified every story line last season. Kring now sees that Volume 2 (the first 11 episodes of season 2) would have been better served if Peter's vision of viral Armageddon had appeared in the season premiere rather than episode 7. ''We took too long to get to the big-picture story,'' he says.
THE ROOKIES DIDN'T GREET THEMSELVES PROPERLY New Heroes Monica (Dana Davis), Maya (Dania Ramirez), and Alejandro (Shalim Ortiz) ''shouldn't have been introduced in separate story lines that felt unattached to the show. The way we introduced Elle (Kristen Bell) — by weaving her in via Peter's story line — is a more logical way to bring new characters into the show.'' (That said, Kring says a few newbies won't make it beyond this second volume, which wraps Dec. 3.)
HIRO WAS IN JAPAN WAY TOO LONG Hiro's (Masi Oka) time-bending adventure in 17th-century Japan — where he mentored samurai hero Takezo Kensei (David Anders) — finally came to an end on Nov. 5. But Kring says it ''should have [lasted] three episodes. We didn't give the audience enough story to justify the time we allotted it.''
YOUNG LOVE STINKS Kring regrets sticking Claire (Hayden Panettiere) with a super-dud boyfriend and forcing Hiro to moon over a cutesy princess. ''I've seen more convincing romances on TV,'' he admits. ''In retrospect, I don't think romance is a natural fit for us.''
I think I agree with everything but Hiro being in Japan too long. And I half agree with that. There wasn't enough story to justify the time spent, but the answer in that case wouldn't have been to cut it short, it would have been to write more stuff. We love Hiro, we like Kensei, who doesn't like looking at Yaeko? The costumes were good, it looked great...just put more story in it. And cut the Smallville crap.
So, it seems that he gave a little something away here. Peter's vision of the virus apocalypse is the real tragedy from which the world must be saved. "Save the cheerleader, save the world" actually applies to the virus/2008 story, not the bomb - although Claire's ability was needed to deal with the bomb as well. The bomb would have been bad (especially for NYC), sure, but 93% of the world's population wiped out is so much worse.
I'm glad Tim sees the flaws in this season. Makes me respect his skill a bit more and gives me hope for the rest of whatever aborted season we get.
Posted by JimK at 02:09 PM on November 07, 2007
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Tuesday, November 06, 2007
Heroes - Out of Time
Now THIS is what I'm talkin' about! Heroes was good last week and absolutely kicked ass this week. This show is great when they remember to answer questions as they ask new ones, and always make sure something happens. Do not emulate Lost. Be a comic book. The last couple weeks have given us a return to form. On top of that, we've had very little Toxic Twins, cross-eyes Veronica mars or Faux Irish, which only improves everything.
Spoilers below!
- Adam. Lots of people guessed this one, so it's no great achievement in precognizance to have realized Kensei was Adam and is immortal. Also, this means Peter and Claire are likely immortal as well, as long as the virus doesn't (or can't?) affect them.
- As for what Hiro has done here...he's created a monster, albeit inadvertently. Adam/Kensei is still stewing over losing the princess. 400 years is a long time to hold a grudge.
The symbol is an Asian dragon, and it's Adam/Kensei's.
See, Hiro's father told him the story of Kensei's final test. Kensei must face the man that showed him the way of the sword. He must defeat the Dragon. What we have here is a typical Japanese parable, where the obvious examples of "good and evil" are both flipped and have dual meanings. Kensei is Hiro, and the Dragon is Adam. Now, in the myth, the Dragon taught Kensei the "way of the sword." I interpret this to be Hiro teaching Adam how to use his sword to be a Hero. This satisfies the duality part of the first half of the story. The second half, that Kensei had to "cut out his heart to save her, to save Japan," flips the roles again, and Hiro is now Kensei. Yaeko is his heart in Edo Japan, as is Ando in the modern day. Either or both may have to be sacrificed to stop Adam from either going back to try to stop Hiro and Yaeko from falling in love, or from finishing his killing spree in the present day. So...Adam = Dragon. Hence the symbol.
What other powers must Adam have? It seems like he should have more than just healing/regeneration. I suspect that he might be the original "Hero." The wellspring from which all future genetic "mutations" flow. Maybe.
I also think he might not be a bad guy in the end. I think he can be talked around. I think he's driven by pain and rage. It's interesting that he's the "visionary" and was Linderman's "sensei." One wonders how many of the other Old Guard Heroes think like he does. I still say that he can be talked around. I believe it because Hiro believes it. That's really the only reason. :)
I think that Sylar is still the most evil thing on the show and God help them all
if when he gets his powers back.
- Bob. No one is buying this bumble-stumble nice guy routine. Company = Evil, and Bob is a bad guy. Mohinder is an idiot who continues to make terrible judgments and decisions.
- HRG - Nice to see him back in form. I swear he was about a millisecond from slapping Claire when she threw her little tantrum. And STILL NO CAMERAS IN HIS HOUSE. That is a major writer's flaw right there, nothing more than a deus ex machina designed only to keep him from seeing West. I think Claire will continue to make terrible decisions right up until the moment she has to choose between HRG and West. She'll choose Daddy. But she won't make the ride easy. After all she is a teenaged girl. With stumpy
dwarf little people arms.
Matt/Poppa - Matt should have been here in the LAST season...it would have made the ending so much more exciting, as he could have coordinated an attack against Sylar and turned the chance meeting of small groups of Heroes into a real force to do battle with a powerful enemy. Instead we got this anti-climactic *POP* - *stab* - "Wait, it's over?" kind of thing. Very nice to see him advancing his abilities and flip the script on Daddy. Now the question is, was Maury acting under influence, or was he simply a believer in what Adam was selling/preaching? If it was influence, what the hell else can Adam do?
- Peter. The virus is clearly going to be a modified/mutated version of Bob's Folly. If Mohinder's blood no longer cures it, there's no telling what the virus might do if it came into contact with the wrong Hero. What if Adam caught it, and instead of rendering him powerless, it mutated and learned to regenerate? It could withstand any attempt to kill it. Hence the great plague. What if it combined with the Toxic Twin Maya's ability somehow? What if Sylar gets all three in his body?
Anyway, it's nice to see Peter getting back to being himself. Amazing job by the actor last night. When his memories came flooding back a change came over his face...he looked like Peter again. Does he remember everything now? Or just stuff relating to his bitch-on-wheels of a mother?
I can has no more Faux Irish now? Could this maybe be the frigging end of the half-ugly non-brogue-havin' stereotype? No more Caitlin please. DO NOT WANT.
- Nikki. Did I understand this right, that she's integrated now and, when not being manipulated by Poppa Parkman, in control of when she uses her power? She seems to have chosen the name Nikki instead of Jessica.
All I know is, they better not kill her off like they (might have) did DL. Ali Larter is a reason to keep tuning in, and Nikki is a great character. If you have to kill someone, make it a new person. Like Lightning Girl.
- Paintings. We've seen them all happen now, except for Mohinder and the gun, and HRG shot in the eye while Claire and West look on. Given what Bob did there with the gun, I think that will happen next week, or maybe the week after. Like all of the paintings, it will happen, just not exactly as it seems. At least it better damn well not. Again, HRG is someone that makes this show good. Killing Noah Bennet would be idiotic. I'd rather lose *any* of the new people except Monica.
- Predictions: Adam is the one who had Sylar in the cabin. He's also going back in time (using Peter) to try to stop Hiro from stopping him by stealing Yaeko, but as he's twisted by his pain, he might try to kill Yaeko instead of just preventing her from loving Hiro. That might be the cutting out of the heart...maybe he has to let her die. Follow me here. Hiro sees Yaeko as a symbol of Japan. So when he said "to save her, to save Japan" it might not have meant her as in the woman, but her as in the country?
- The virus will mutate and hit the general population but not until the end of "Volume 2" which airs December 3rd, and may be the season finale due to the strike.
- Mohinder will point the gun at HRG but will not be the one who shoots him. West will. In fact I think Mohinder will turn the gun on West, but West will shoot anyway. OR...Bob will send someone else to back up Mohinder and THEY will shoot HRG. Either way HRG doesn't die.
- Monica becomes the Batman of New Orleans soon
So...what'd I forget?
Posted by JimK at 02:50 PM on November 06, 2007
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Monday, November 05, 2007
By way of an apology - Heroes, Ariel and the Cuda concept
Not only have I not posted jack-squat since last Thursday...I just skipped Heroes this week. I actually liked it too, but by the time I felt like writing it all down it was late, and then I had to take Gus back to the vet Saturday, so I let the weekend get away and just chilled out.
So...Heroes last week then? Except for the ugly Irish girl who is British and can't actually do the brogue for shit, I really enjoyed this last episode. First one that has felt less like placekeeping or treading water, but instead felt more like a real Heroes episode. From everything I read, the WGA strike might be the reason it picks up. They have up to episode 11 done, and they canceled Heroes: Origins. They say it was a money thing, but I think they needed to cram as many scripts in as possible, and couldn't spare the time to work on Origins. Everyone knew this strike was inevitable. So, unless it is resolved very quickly, Heroes will have a mini-season ending with episode 11, which is also supposed to end Volume 2. They even shot an alternate ending to episode 11 that can act as a season finale, just in case.
All that is by way of saying I expect things to pick up on the show now as far as pace goes. Feel free to spoil away with theories and whatnot in the comments.
Now...the boobs. This is a NSFW gallery of Ariel from Met Art. She's ridiculously hot. Enjoy that.
Lastly, my apology includes another retro-future muscle car. The new one is a Barracuda concept that Autoblog scoped out at SEMA.
Chrysler is doing these retro designs fairly well - in the looks department anyway - and should make some cash with them...as long as they don't succumb to the temptation of making them (on the cheap) with identical interiors and mostly parts out of the common bin. This one is supposed to be an all carbon fiber body. We know that won't make production. And the interior is just the SRT8 you can find in the Charger and so on. Hopefully a production version could customize the interior for this specific model. What is it with Chrysler and the shoddy interiors anyway?
Anyway. while the concept looks great, I think I'd still rather pay 50 grand for a fully tricked-out and over-muscled 1972 'Cuda. Something about that old 70's steel just appeals to me. Maybe the advent of "modern muscle" will drive the prices on vintage muscle down a bit to where a normal human could afford one some day?
Posted by JimK at 02:25 PM on November 05, 2007
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Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Heroes - Fight or Flight
Spoilers! Many spoilers lurk below. I will be randomly jotting things down as I remember them.
- I am so so SO sick of Mohinder's simpering little voice. I can't believe he's the freaking narrator/voiceover/whatever. It makes me insane to listen to his sad little voice. I want to punch him. Also, he;s clearly the woman in the Suresh/Parkman marriage.
- So. Poppa Parkman is a real dickhead. I would say that the power is different from the girl who makes illusions in that you must be asleep for Poppa Parkman's power to work. But he seems to have the ability to put you to sleep, so bonus for him.
Am I nuts or has each of the O.G. Twelve (that we've met) at one point claimed that they tried to stop the others who were abusing their power?
Anyway, Poppa's interesting. He's one of the new additions I don't mind. I also appreciate Matt's growing mastery of his power. Now he can put a thought into someone's head. It implies that he could be as powerful as his father...and maybe not need to put someone to sleep first? Or maybe Poppa doesn't *need* to put a person to sleep, it;s just easier to get their mind to accept his projection that way? Anyway it works out this storyline is keeping my interest. Apart from Mohinder's part in it, of course. He Mo-hinders my ability to enjoy anything he's involved in.
- What the frigging fuck is Mohinder thinking, bringing Molly back to the Company? He's such a god-damned little bitch-boy, I just want to smash his face in. And now he's messing with Monica.
- Monica. Awesome power. As soon as they started discussing what she could do, I said to my wife "I would totally become Batman." Think about it. You could train in every fighting style known to man. Master every weapon. Learn to do acrobatics. Rock climb. Defensive, offensive and race-car-quality driving. Everything! You could totally become the best damned vigilante crime fighter in the history of vigilante crime fighters! Obviously she's going to do exactly that, as St. Joan in the comic must be her as seen by Isaac.
By the way, St. Joan, in case you were wondering, comes from the fact that Joan of Arc was adopted as the patron saint of New Orleans. She's also the patron saint of military women (and others).
Micah can totally be her tech guy, making all sorts of fancy gizmos and whatnot. "Where does she get those wonderful toys?" From the kid that communes with electronics and machines, derr. ;) Another new character and storyline that I am enjoying.
- Nikki. Man, Nikki is pissed at someone. Jessica clearly wants Mikki put to rest, but how? Will the company infect her with a modified virus? Would trying to kill off her power kill Jessica as well? And how frigging hot is Ali Larter when she's beating the crap out of people?
- Peter. BORING. Not him...the whole Ireland story. I don't give a frig about cross-eyed Veronica Mars and I'm getting sick of all the freaking new people. Too many, not enough time to tell any one story fully. STOP ADDING CHARACTERS NOW. At least we now know where Peter got his lightning from. She must have been with.near him at some point pre-Ireland. But how frigging stupid and Deus Ex Machina was it to have her kill the older Irish brother, track Peter to his exact location and then get mysteriously called home? That's just shitty, Lost-quality, extend-the-storyline writing right there. Plus, sorry, but if I have to look at a blonde on this show, how about you let me look at Ali Larter for awhile? Kristem Bell ain't doin' it, no matter how awesome it is to be able to shoot Force lightning like a Sith Lord. Also, I don't think Peter needed the additional motivation of avenging the murder of his new ugly girlfriend's brother. Totally unnecessary, the entire freaking thing.
- Ando/Hiro/Kensei. Not nearly enough of them. I am getting frustrated at all the new storylines, and here we have this amazing tale that is happening off screen. What the eff? Why am I watching Peter kiss an ugly fake Irish girl? Why am I watching Superboy woo the cheerleader? Why am I not watching Hiro and Kensei kick Edo period ass and co-wooing the most beautiful girl in all of Japan? Who the hell is in charge of this show, the people from All My Children? Come on. The Japan storyline deserves top billing next to the "original twelve" storyline. For frig's sake, Kensei was the motivation for Hiro's whole first-season journey! It drove the entire freaking show, and now it's kind of being treated like an afterthought.
Tim Kring, you can do better. Stop dragging it out and start telling a better tale.
Did I forget anything important?
Posted by JimK at 02:34 PM on October 23, 2007
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Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Heroes - The Kindness of Strangers
Spoilers and so forth abound below! DVR'ers (wow, that is not a word) you were warned!
This is being written the next day, so if I skip something vital, feel free to mention it!
- I guessed Parkman's dad was the Nightmare Man as soon as he said he needed Molly to find him. I'm sure a lot of you did as well. This led me to a theory:
The "hero" gene can still be a random mutation and/or a gift from God. Kensei might be the first. It is passed, family to family, slowly, mutating through the years until the generation made up of the twelve in the photo. They have enough wealth and knowledge to set up gene splicing/research experiments, as the technology has finally caught up enough to start tinkering.
The twelve are, as far as they knew, the only twelve with powers, and are all descendants of Kensei through various bloodlines. They, in turn, tinkered and CREATED the power in their children, although they had no way of knowing what power would manifest as genetic slicing and so forth was not that exact a science in their time.
So, Nathan, Matt, all the ones that age or thereabouts are second-generation from the twelve, and Claire, Flyboy, etc. are third gen born by further tinkering. Their parents probably (and in some cases we've seen this to be true) didn't know.
Sylar? Matt Parkman's brother, fathered by scoundrel Dad when he was out and about for all these years doing whatever it is that he does. Why? My next theory:
- Parkman and Sylar actually have similar abilities. Hear me out. Sylar is NOT supposed to do what he does. He's supposed to see how a thing works, especially a brain. He's supposed to FIX things, not cut them open and steal the part he wants. He was never "designed" to have the ability to take powers into himself: his ability gave him the knowledge to come up with that little plan all on his own. Matt reads minds...Sylar reads brains. If Greg Grunberg (the guy playing Parkman) dropped 70 pounds, tell me he couldn't pass as related to Zachary Quinto. Plus, Dad's (Nightmare Man) ability is mental as well...hence what happened to Molly. I really think I'm on to something here.
Or I'm insane and over-thinking this.
- Sylar is gonna get the plague/cure combo somehow. Jesus Lord no. The guy really is rotten and evil to his core. He had no reason to kill Hippie Car Thief Guy. he totally could have punched him out and taken the keys. What's Hippie Car Thief gonna do, call the cops and say "Hey, some guy just stole my stolen car and by the way, I'm wanted as well?" Killing him just for the keys tells me something about Sylar. He's bad, through and through. Given two choices, Sylar will always pick the one that is quickest, easiest for him and causes the most pain or death for others. He's pure comic-book bad. You can't reason with that kind of evil - it simply must be stopped
One other weird thing about Sylar: Why is there always a cockroach around him? A giant cockroach is always crawling on or around or away from him when he;s passed out somewhere.
- Claire and Superboy are pissing me off on one level. On the other level, of course two kids like that growing up in a world where Superman was mythology would do cornball shit like that. What the hell else would they do? So it's not so bad in hindsight, but it annoys me endlessly to actually watch it. P.S. what the frig is Claire going to do, steal a cheerleader uniform? If she joins the squad, how will she hide the fact that she doesn't practice at all (because she's with Superboy, remember the cheerleading is supposed to be a cover story)? How will she know the moves for game day? This isn't a very well-thought out plan of hers. Pops is way, way too smart for that.
- Monica - Love that power for some reason. I'd love to be able to casually see something on TV, even in passing, and absorb the exact way to physically re-create it. I do think that particular power smells a little derivative of the way Chuck got his knowledge...methinks a writer for Heroes got wind of the Chuck script during the writing period. It's also a lot like Echo/Ronin from the Daredevil comics. Still, I like the actress playing her and I can't wait to see what weird skill she'll pick up next. Imagine her watching the UFC. She'd learn seven fighting styles in an hour. Could be useful.
Given her personality (as described by her childhood friend) I'm also curious how she will scheme to use it to lift her family out of poverty.
Also, I thought the Katrina/NOLA stuff was handled very deftly. Enough to make you remember the storm, to think about those who are still suffering the effects, but not one drop of politics came across at all. No one need feel slighted one way or the other by the presentation of real life events. No one was insulted or blamed...it just was. It's a thing that happened and this is one family's struggle. I appreciate that, and I hope the writers aren't going to screw it up in the future.
And I still love Micah's ability. That would come in so handy. :)
- Nice to see Nathan getting back on his feet. Am I crazy or did Adrian Pasdar lose a bunch of weight to pull off the haggard, been-drinkin-mah-dinner street bum look? He looks wore the hell out and gaunt.
- Oh! Hell, I forgot - Molly. So is it some kind of coma? Is she in shock, or is Poppa Parkman controlling her? And am I crazy or did Poppa Parkman see Matt through her eyes, and that's why she said "Matt" right before she passed out? Is she trapped in her brain with NightMare Man screwing with her and that's why she's crying out to Matt?
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18 year old son, refusing to go to college and unwilling to find work
Hi all,
I have two children (2 and 18) I am on full benefits, my son is about to be kicked out of college for not turning up and not doing the work, he isn't stupid, has five GCSE's but he is so lazy all he wants to do is play his Xbox and hang out with his friends. It sounds mercenary to work out my incomings but while he is in full time education I still receive his child benefit and Child tax credits, if he drops out and doesn't get a job I receive nothing but my outgoings will be the same, I try to explain to him the situation and its now got to the point where I have had to say that life is pretty much rubbish if you don't have an education and a good job. I would like to hear from single parents in a similar situation and how they have coped with it. My son is six foot five and taking his xbox away is just not an option, tried it and the outcome wasn't brilliant.....lets just say he has anger issues.
Having just has a blazing row with my 19 year old, I really don't know what to suggest. It is difficult too when you know if they leave that things will be so much harder financially.
However, if he's going to be kicked out of college, that's going to happen, isn't it? My son was not allowed back to sixth form in the summer as he failed his science AS level. Luckily, he got into college to do an art and design course, has settled and loves it. He's doing well - however, attitude is something else...
Have you spoken to the college about his issues? I don't know how much help is available though once they've reached 18.
I'm sorry that I have no suggestions here. But sometimes you have to be cruel otherwise they'll pull you down too.
Hi dollface
I have lots of empathy with you on this issue, I have 2 teen girls both in college and yes the finances do come to the fore dont they, sad but true.
One of my daughters does have lets say "issues" she can be like jekell and hyde to be honest, I have found that the silent treatment works, I just totally ignore her when she is being that way with herself, it seems the no reaction no satisfaction does work best, I wasnt always like that and would argue with her about anything and everything, none of which worked and just made me more upset.
Like your son she did go through a phase of skipping lessons etc to the point that she was excluded for being downright rude to a tutor, she is now receiving anger management in college, not sure if it will work but at least she is willing to give it a go(for now)
The other thing I did use was the EMA payments, which as you know they only receive if the are attending college, when I put it to her that she would have no money if she chose not to attend that did seem to have an impact and touch wood so far she is back and is attending every lesson.
I am dreading the end of EMA as there will be little insentive then for them if they are already not wanting to go.
I do hope that knowing you are not alone in having this problem will help just a little bit
Hello dollface
Thanks for sharing this and I can empathise, as my son is six feet two!
I am going to be pretty harsh in what I say, but this is what i would do in the situation. If he is not at college and not at work then he will be claiming Job Seekers Allowance. Work out what you will lose by him not being in education any more and tell him that he must pay you this amount from his JSA (it might come to more than his JSA in which case he can give you it all, keeping £5 pocket money per week) or he must leave your home, you cannot afford to feed and keep him. He is 18, he is an adult now and must take responsibility.I know this is very draconian but my son (16) has been told if he does not make a go of the course he is on then that it what will happen. Otherwise what is to happen? Will he still be expecting you to keep him when he is 21? 25? 30?
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When you say "anger issues", do you mean you are frightened of him? Is there any violence going on? if so then it is really important to deal with it in the same way that you would deal with violence from a partner.
I wonder (if there is no violence) whether drawing up a contract would be a way forward? Even if we leave the X box out of the equation, there are plenty of other privileges he enjoys such as laundry, meals made etc, and perhaps you could put those on one side of a piece of paper, and what he is expected to do on the the other (ie sign on, give you money, search for a job)
If the anger issues are really more than you can deal with, then it is time to seek professional help. Firstly have a chat with your GP and see what is available in your area. Anger usually happens for a reason, and getting to the bottom of that will help a great deal.
Keep posting and we will keep supporting you, it is very hard to tackle these problems with our grown-up children
I need advice on how to deal with my 18yr old son. he lives with his father, and i now live out of the country. My contact with him is limited and reluctant since he stole our house keys whilst we were on holiday, and had a 'skins' type houseparty in our home. the house was trashed and all of our personal stuff destroyed.
he moved college due to his moving in with his father, and started again. he is already on his final warning and is now going to be kicked out for inappropriate language. he was like this through school and was constantlyexcluded.
despite all of what has happened in the past i do want him to be happy with his life and just don't know what to do.
he has been to hypnotherapy to see if he has a point in his past that he cannot get over and he has had counselling from the Connexions people.
Any ideas?
Hello absent parent
Welcome to One Space!
It is hard for you to have much control over what goes on when you are living so far apart. Are you able to have civilised conversations with his Dad? How does he see the situation? Are you able to speak with the college tutor or email them? They will have support services there.
The counselling sounds like a good idea, how did your son get on with it? There is also counselling through Relate for young people whose parents have separated.
However there is a point in a young person's life where they have to take responsibility for their own actions. He is 18 now and a man. Please see my reply to dollface (above). Sometimes it is about getting tough and forcing the young person to face the world and how they would fend for themselves.
I wonder if you have heard of an organsation called MATCH? They offer support to Mums who live away from their young people. This is so hard for you, I know, and it must be so frustrating not knowing which way to turn.
It's so hard when they're 18.
I can understand you wanting him to be happy though. I sometimes struggle with my 19 year old.
My son is 19 he kindly agreed to doing an additional 2 years at college on the basis that he got EMA in order that I continued to get tax credits and child benefit for him. this was so his sister could do her 2 years 6th form to get her grades for UNI. He is not happy that next year he wont get EMA to go and expect me to give it to him instead, but i cant afford to give it to him and to her, but i do see his point. He stayed on to do me a favour as as soon as they both leave non advanced further education I lose so much in child benefit and tax credits i will no longer be able to afford the extortionate rent i have to pay as £750 rent out of a net salary of £1100 does not leave much, gas and elec is £85, council tax is £95, petrol £80, car ins £20, I am sure you all can see the issue now.
I understand where you're coming from with this. It would be the same here too.
My eldest knows that if he wasn't at college he would have to get a job and pay housekeeping to cover the cost. Getting a job now though isn't easy though, is it?
Yes the cancelling of EMA is leaving a number of families in a pickle.
My eldest worked 18 hours a week as well as college as it was the only way he could get through (before EMA) and in fact helped me out with a contribution.
Jennie65, are you getting every bit of help you are entitled to, eg Housing Benefit? if you would like some individual money/budgeting advice then click here
Although I have no experience with teenagers (besides being one!) So do feel off for commenting, but, supporting what Louise said - a weekend or part time job should be encouraged when they're over 16. and dividends from that to you to cover their expenses) Hell I'm planning on suggesting mine do paper rounds and car washing soon as they're in double figures.
My mum always made my life easy. She put an emphasis on education. She was happy to give me money whilst at uni - although it was at this point I became financially independant from her. I have to say though, it was not through hard graft and a job. It was through stress (drug use I don't like to admit to) a break down and entering the mental health system.
My mum is my role model, in London she worked her way up through accounting companies from secretary(15k maybe less) to IT trainer (22k+). She has little qualifications.
Spending a similar amount of time in the british education system you leave with 22K of debt and no job. Education is great, but education + part time job is superior.
In an ideal world it would be lovely if all our teens could get part time jobs as we did when we were their age, sadly there are no part time jobs around and the ones that are are snapped up by people who really need a full time job but are settling for part time so our teens stand little or no chance, my 2 girls have tried everything and with luck one might have something soon.
The other thing I have noticed about people who want/need to work fulltime is they are taking on two part time jobs and cobbling them together....it is the only way they can be in work but of course that means that two students do not get those jobs. The hardest thing is for a young person to get their FIRST job. Once they have some experience and a work reference, there is a better chance when they apply for something else. My youngest works for Sports Direct but some weeks he only gets four hours work (£20). Better than nothing, but I still have to help him out with clothes and fares
the one sentence that i repeat to myself nowadays when im dealing with people that are either being rude,horrible ,annoying. Even when its a loved one is, people only treat you the way that you let them. So in a way its worse when it is someone that you have invested your life into. You have to be strong as this young man will go on in life thinking he can treat women like this. Stop cooking, cleaning,washing, any domestic chores for him. Only give back what u get. If he is civil be civil back. If hes nice be nice back. Teach him now fast you get what you give. stick to it. You fetched this young man up what gives him the right to walk all over you. Every day you will get stronger.
Hi tas. How old are your children?
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Harwich author and photographer Stephanie Foster attended New England School of Photography and was a professional photographer while living in Boston. When she moved to the Cape 30 years ago, she became a writer and had the opportunity to begin gardening.
"I grew up in the city and didn't have a garden," Foster says. "I didn't have that background, but the first chance I had to put my hands in the ground, I did."
Stephanie Foster will be singing copies of "Farms of Cape Cod" at the Orleans Farmers Market, 21 Old Colony Way, on Saturdays from 8 a.m. to noon through the end of October. August events, several supporting local agriculture, are listed here with more online:
Aug 3: Reception, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., for photographs from "Farms of Cape Cod" and book signing at Addison Art Gallery, 43 Route 28, Orleans. Organic farming pioneer, Jean Iverson, 91, to whom the book is dedicated, will be honored by Bill Clark, head of the Barnstable Extension Service and Buy Fresh, Buy Local.
Aug. 8: Book signing, 3 to 6 p.m., at the Harwich Farmers Market, near the Brooks Academy Museum, 80 Parallel St., Harwich Center. A portion of the proceeds will benefit the Harwich Historical Society.
Aug. 14: Book signing, 2 to 6 p.m., at the Mid Cape Farmers Market, 486 Main St. ,Hyannis.
Aug. 20: Talk and book signing, 2 p.m. at the Eastham Library, Samoset Road.
Aug. 21: Book signing, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., Wellfleet Farmers' Market, behind Preservation Hall, 355 Main St.Book signing, 3 to 5 p.m., Satucket Farms on Route 124, Brewster.
Aug. 26: Book signing. 8 a.m. to noon, Truro Farmers Market, at Veteran's Field off Truro Center Road. A portion of the proceeds will benefit Sustainable Cape.
All of Foster's passions come together in her new book, "Farms of Cape Cod," ($24.99, 144 pages) released this summer by SchifferPublishing, Ltd.
Foster's own love of gardening is evident with one look at her yard. Brightly colored flowers grow with abandon in beautiful beds and pots, providing a profusion of color. But it isn't until you visit her two plots at the Harwich Community Garden that you really see her passion for playing in the dirt. The connecting plots are a riot of color edged with neat little paths covered with grass clippings.
About 10 years ago she began selling arrangements of her flowers at the Orleans Farmers' Market. That brought her into the world of farming as she met and became friends with her fellow market vendors. Over the years, she noticed a huge change in the market culture.
"When I first started it was just people into grains and that sort of thing," she says. "But it expanded. Suddenly everyone was so concerned about the locavore movement and the people getting food in the markets were not just health nuts anymore. Now people want it for their families and their children. They are supporting the market and when people saw that Orleans was doing well, other markets popped up. Now they're all over the place."
Even though Foster was a photojournalist for years, taking art to illustrate the stories she wrote, she didn't connect with her inner photographer again until a few years ago when she started going out to the dune shacks in Provincetown. While there, she took shots of the natural world that are almost surreal in their beauty. Helen Addison at the Addison Gallery in Orleans began representing Foster and she had a very successful show at the Cape Cod Museum of Art in Dennis in 2011.
"At some point in my life, a long, long time ago, I decided that my mantra in life was to find and share beauty," she says. "When I did the dune shack show it was about beauty and the quiet and the purity in nature. It was about escaping from daily obligations and centering in on all that beauty. 'Farms of Cape Cod' celebrates work instead of the quietude. It's the work, the land and the spirit behind farming. It's a very straight forward life, one of honesty, integrity, and there's no smoke and mirrors. You reap what you sow."
Even though Foster includes a short story about each farm and farmer, the photographs take center stage in her stunningly beautiful coffee table book. The book includes 256 fine art photographs of every aspect of farming on Cape Cod. Its diversity includes large organic farms, cranberry bogs, the Cape Cod Lavender Farm, Truro Vineyards, East Dennis Oyster Farm, and even backyard farms with small stands out front. Many of the farms like Kane Farm in Truro and Coonamessett Farm in Falmouth have been around for years, but younger farmers like Lucas Dinwiddle of Halcyon Farm in Brewster are also represented.
"I think in today's age when we want to know what's in our food, where it comes from and so forth, farmers should be our rock stars," Foster says. "We're so fortunate that we have them doing all this hard labor to bring food to our table. It's such a basic thing in life. I wanted to shine a spotlight on farmers. Sometimes people don't realize how much work goes into getting that bag of peas onto the table. Just picking peas is a lot of work, never mind growing them. Every day you are either watering, weeding or harvesting."
Foster deliberately chose to photograph the most picturesque farms on the Cape because she wanted to focus on the farm as the subject of art. She captured the photos at all times of day and three seasons of the year over the course of two years. At each photo session she took more than 500 photos, and sometimes returned if she felt she hadn't captured the spirit of the subject to her satisfaction. She says the process was a lot of fun and capturing the unplanned moment, like the cover photo of Julie Davis picking sunflowers at Cape Cod Organic Farm, was deeply rewarding.
The book is dedicated to Jean Iverson, owner of Kelly Farm in Cummaquid. Iverson is still gardening at the age of 91 and was a leader in the organic gardening movement, teaching so many current farmers how it is done. Iverson will be honored at the opening reception from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Saturday with a tribute by Bill Clark of the Barnstable Extension Service and the "Buy Fresh, Buy Local" campaign.
Foster sells her books 8 a.m. to noon Saturdays at the Farmers' Market in Orleans. Her photographs will be shown at Cape Cod Museum of Art for a month, beginning Sept. 26.
"The book and the exhibit will show people why farmers do what they do," she says. "It's a happy book. It's just what summer is on Cape Cod when things are growing and there's a lot of energy. Everyone in the book exudes that kind of energy and good positive feelings."


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American Osteopathic Association Installs First Female President
CHICAGO, (July 17, 2010) /PRNewswire/ — Not one to back down from a challenge, Karen J. Nichols, DO, embraces her term as the first female president of the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) during a time of historic change in health care. The AOA installed her as its 114th president this afternoon during its annual business meeting in Chicago.
"The passage of health care reform earlier this year paves the way for more Americans to receive access to physicians' services," says Dr. Nichols, a resident of Oak Brook, Ill. "But there is still much work that lies ahead to improve our nation's health care delivery system."
One way Dr. Nichols, an AOA board-certified internal medicine physician, proposes improving access to care for patients is through the wide-spread implementation of the patient-centered medical home — a model of health care that places patients' needs first by creating an intimate and attentive setting for providing care. Dr. Nichols also hopes to see a permanent repeal of the sustainable growth rate formula for Medicare physician payment and an increase in the number of osteopathic residency and fellowship positions.
Dr. Nichols began her career as a medical technologist at Phoenix General Hospital. After serving as chief technologist and president of the Arizona Medical Technology Society, she sought her next career challenge by beginning medical school at age 28. Dr. Nichols earned her osteopathic medical degree at what is now the Kansas City (Mo.) University of Medicine and Biosciences College of Osteopathic Medicine. She completed her internship and residency training at the former Oklahoma Osteopathic Hospital in Tulsa.
Following training, Dr. Nichols worked her way up to chief of staff at Mesa General Hospital in Arizona. During her tenure, she established end-of-life care guidelines after an elderly patient requested his physician turn off the ventilator keeping him alive.
"We didn't have any policies in place regarding end-of-life care," Dr. Nichols says. "There was nothing like this being taught at that time in any medical school."
After 17 years of treating patients, Dr. Nichols made another career change in 2002 when she became dean of the Midwestern University/Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine in Downers Grove, Ill., which had 166 students in its 2010 graduating class. As dean, she encourages students to take an active role in their new profession.
"I tell my students what my grandfather told me: 'You can make a difference,'" Dr. Nichols says. "Osteopathic medicine is a growing profession where students and DOs can have an impact."
The American Osteopathic Association (AOA) proudly represents its professional family of more than 70,000 osteopathic physicians (DOs); promotes public health; encourages scientific research; serves as the primary certifying body for DOs; is the accrediting agency for osteopathic medical colleges; and has federal authority to accredit hospitals and other health care facilities. More information on DOs/osteopathic medicine can be found at www.osteopathic.org.


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Ehh, seems to me the patch just brought a lot more people undercuttung glyphs to the point of worthlessness. I made a few hundred gold on Wednesday, but then gave up when all the "new" sellers undercut to about 50% the normal price. I guess if you're willing to sell them for that low, you can make a minor profit, but selling a few more for a lot less doesn't seem worth it. ::shrug::


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Your right, it seems more of a confidence issue. On my battlegroup for example, horde and alliance in AV tend to be 60-40. However 51-60 AV i rarely ever see a Horde win( im not kidding, i did 28 AV's just so that i could get enough marks for my epic mount)(this might however be because we usually start off 15 horde to 40 alliance and maybe even out by the time we are down to 10 reinforcements). But it almost seems like the wins and losses are divided between brackets. For example 19 WSG is alliance 100-0(so many rogue twinks). but 49 AB, i lost many once out of the 30-40 times i did it. However i still think alliance needs to do something if they want to win.
for example, i was in an AB recently. We started off 8 Horde - 14 alliance. It evened out to 15-15 by the time alliance got to 1500, we had around 1000. But when people were giving instructions, everyone listened(no rushing stables, people actually defending, when a site was getting attacked, people going there but some staying back for defense) we evetually won 2000-1940. However when i logon to my friends Alliance toon, I see none of this. If you say"don't take farm, concentrate on the 3 we have" someone will say "who made you leader" or "go screw yourself".
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Ginger Peach Green Tea Smoothie
My husband used to travel quite a bit for his old job, and his trips to Asia hooked him on a cultural staple: green tea. So naturally he tried to get me on board, too. Now I'm a tea drinker, so you wouldn't think this would be a hard sell. But the authentic green tea he brought back from his travels just didn't do it for me. I tried, I really did. But I just didn't care for straight up green tea. So I started looking for substitutes, and my "house tea" was born: Ginger Peach Green Tea from The Republic of Tea. Just adding that bit of peach flavor and zip of ginger made it the perfect green tea for me. But who would have thought it would also make a tasty addition to my daily smoothie?
I'm pretty sure I'm late to the party on this whole tea-in-smoothies thing, but better late than never, right? This Ginger Peach Green Tea Smoothie has juicy peaches, protein-rich vanilla greek yogurt, a bite of fresh ginger, half a banana for sweetness and some brewed and cooled Ginger Peach Green Tea. That's it, folks. The rest is just blender magic. I love it as a super refreshing pick-me-up to tide me through the mid-afternoon munchies.
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- ½ cup brewed Ginger Peach Green Tea, cooled
- 1 cup sliced, peeled peaches (I used frozen peaches)
- ½ cup vanilla greek yogurt
- ½ banana
- ½ tsp grated fresh ginger
- Combine all ingredients in a blender and process until smooth. Serve immediately.
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So funny.. I JUST tried this tea and just about died of tea heaven…it is delish! Totally lovin' the idea of using it in a smoothie..Pinned!
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Ginger peach is my absolute favorite tea, I have almost every night. Now I can enjoy it for breakfast too! I love this smoothie!!
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I'm such a tea lover! Why have I never put it in my smoothie! Genius
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I like green tea but I don't *love* it without sugar. I bet this smoothie would fix that right up for me! What a great idea!!!
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I'm drinking a The Republic of Tea, hot tea this very moment. Ginger peach is my favorite, but I switched it up today with a pomegranate. What a brilliant idea to use it in a smoothie!
I love green tea! In addition to my coffee addiction, I love green tea every night. This smoothie is right up my alley!
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I love green tea in smoothies! Such a great way to add a little extra energy and antioxidants. This looks delicious!
I currently live in China and I still can't get used to green tea. To think- the Chinese just leave tea leaves in their little portable mugs…I do love me some jasmine tea though. I bet there would be a place for that in this smoothie combo!
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Ginger-Peach sounds like such a heavenly combo. Looking forward to trying this.
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Does anyone know what the calorie count is on this smoothie is? It sounds delicious, I love ginger in anthing.
This sounds absolutely delicious! I love ginger peach tea. It's super yummy. & the pic – looks scrumptious too thanks for sharing.
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I pretty much agree with what Jacatola said, in either case they are being objectified and in either case he's saying they are popular with the opposite sex. He's using very common phrases to say that too so I just can't see the problem here.
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