A Rather Cluttered Day

I still don't talk about me, much, but...

I have found somewhere else to live, I think, subject to me proving that I can pay rent and am not a serial killer. I might post a link to it at some point.

I have made plans to return to the UK via Aer Lingus, always supposing that they will take me.

I have sorted out how much it costs to outfit a little place of my own. The answer is "a lot", but it's all doable.

And now, some Other Stuff.

Insomnia TV, Again.

The Sarah Connor Chronicles

For the first time since I started following this show, it bored me.
I don't think it was the show's fault, necessarily, because I have a really short attention span just now.
However; the plot is that Skynet has used a bio weapon and it turns out that one person is immune. That person produces antibodies which give John Connor's mob a cure. So Skynet sends a Terminator back to kill the person in the past. Sarah Connor and chums arrive on the scene to prevent this.
It turns out that the person with the immunity hasn't been born yet, and has only recently been conceived, so all heck breaks loose and many people run around being chased by a terminator. The clueless family - those crazy n00bs - get in the way, but eventually sort themselves out and the cure is safeguarded.

The Time Travel aspect of the show is interesting, as ever, as is the idea that the two realities seem to be contiguous. On the one hand, Skynet is fighting to change the past so that it wins. Given that the world is chaotic and that sending a Terminator back to kill things with explosions and big guns is effectively using a sledgehammer to crack a walnut, it seems overly simple. If this was up to the 7th Doctor, for example, he would simply arrange for the family to be left alone and then quietly relocate them to ground zero of one of the Judgement Day bombs, thus ensuring that they are all vaporised. By sending the Terminator back, Skynet ensures that the targets know all about Skynet and the future, so they are in the right places at the right times. Is this evil sewing the seeds of it's own destruction or a hint that machines cannot have free will? Or what?

Heroes

Have I mentioned that this show is going off the rails on a crazy train?
No?
This show is going off the rails on a crazy train.

In this week's exciting episode:

Matt, Ando and Speedy Girl recover the missing edition of 9th Wonders, the prescient comic book.
Sylar kills Kirsten, and seems to once more be evil. He embarks on a killing spree, picking up powers the old fashioned way. He kills one poor office girl who is a human lie detector. It's also her birthday. Co-workers arrive with cake and balloons just as a Sylar, gory to the elbows, rises from the corpse. "Oooo" says Sylar "Cake!" and telekinetically slams the door behind them.
Peter and the Haitian go to kill Arthur Petrelli.
Hiro and Claire are sixteen years ago, because Hiro is ten and wants to show Claire that her dad loved her really. Then he sees his mummy and runs off to pretend to be a chef.
Claire messes with the past, preventing herself becoming the Catalyst.
Hiro instead becomes the catalyst, having had his mind restored by his mum, who is a healer. Handing over the catalyst kills his mum. Hiro and Claire meet, and bloody Arthur Petrelli shows up out of fucking nowhere to strip Hiro of his powers, and the Catalyst, and throw him off a roof.
Then, there is the big Scene of Doom as Nathan discovers a Super Soldier Project, using Arthur's catalysed blood to make the injection stable, and then goes along with it. A marine is injected and goes all superstrong. Meanwhile, upstairs the Haitian and Peter ambush Arthur. With his powers suppressed, Arthur looks constipated and Peter entirely fails to shoot him in the head until the very last moment, when Sylar appears out of fucking nowhere and telekineticaly stops the bullet in midair. He asks Arthur "Are you my father?" and Arthur says yes, and he's lying, so Sylar lets the bullet go. Arthur Petrelli is dead.

I bet he isn't. He's got all the powers under the sun at the moment so it's a matter of time before he sits up or steps out of fucking nowhere to do something arch and pointless or strip someone of their powers.

I'm prompted to swearing about this because it's just so annoying. I want someone to break the 4th wall, preferably someone who looks uncannily like Animal Man or Grant Morrison or someone, and just say
"Gosh, it's uncanny how you do that. It's like you were standing just off camera!"

I also want Arthur Petrelli dead for good. He's annoying me. Imagine if this happened in any other TV show. What if Horatio Caine was about to deploy the Justice Shades and Arthur Petrelli appeared out of fucking nowhere and stamped on them?

Or, if The Doctor was just about to charge down a corridor and burst into a room with a sudden inspiration only to have Arthur Petrelli appear out of fucking nowhere and slam a door in his face, causing a regeneration and subsequent post-regenerative amnesia in which the Doctor forgets everything (including his shoe size..."These shoes! I have no idea if they fit at all!")?

Next week, we learn whether Arthur Petrelli is dead and whether Sylar is going to turn good on the basis that gas prices are down and there's a T in the day.