It's that special time of year again: UPFRONTS!

[hackthis_archive]

This week is upfronts. For the people who don't know, upfronts are when the American broadcast networks announce their schedules for the following season, in this case autumn 2007-2008.

Today, NBC announced its schedule, and since it's the only broadcast net with shows I actually watch, this will be the only one I talk about.

The Good: Friday Nights Lights, our most beloved show, is coming back.
The Bad: They're moving it to Friday nights. At 10pm.
Consensus: They could have just stabbed it and saved us all the pain of a slow death.

The Good: Heroes will be back in the same time slot next year.
The Bad: Dude, we have to wait until September. That's, like, a long way away.
Consensus: In conclusion? NATHAN!

The Good: There is going to be a Heroes spin-off called 'Heroes: Origins'.
The Bad: There will be none of the original characters. Actually, this may not be a bad thing at all. Maybe we can get some Daddy Petrelli!
Consensus: I got nothing. That's now 30 hours of Heroes.


In conclusion? NATHAN.

Comments

[sparky77.livejournal.com]

I am intrigued and offer my full support to you in this endeavor. Though I feel a bit sorry for poor hot future Peter who has to watch his brother gaze longingly at Mohinder in the way he used to gaze at him. Though I guess future Peter can just go back in time and fuck past Nathan to make himself feel better, so it's all good.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

Though I feel a bit sorry for poor hot future Peter who has to watch his brother gaze longingly at Mohinder in the way he used to gaze at him.

Dude, that's just unnecessary suffering.

[sparky77.livejournal.com]

But it does lead to future hot Peter getting drunk and going back in time and banging on Nathan's door and Nathan being all "What the fuck?" and future Peter telling him to shut up and Nathan being so confused by future Peter's hotness and badassness that he shuts up and then they have lots of sex, probably against a wall, and then hot future Peter goes back to the future to be all broody and hot.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

*is pole-axed*

You know I want to write this right the fuck now. You totally derailed the Mohinder/Sylar.

[sparky77.livejournal.com]

No!!! I am very much in favor of the Mohinder/Sylar. Have you not learned to ignore my work induced babbling?

Option A

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

The banging on the front door is so aggressive that for a moment,
Nathan thinks it's the police, but he's a Deputy District Attorney and
he hasn't done anything wrong -- this week -- which really only leaves
one person. Nathan shakes his head sets down a legal tome that weighs
more than a small child. He's got this case starting next week and
he's told Peter repeatedly that he's busy. He has a job. This is
important. Twenty-year old fake-college crises are not important,
putting away mob bosses and child molestors is important.

"I'm coming," he calls, rubbing his forehead as he pads down the
hallway, the lino cool under his feet. "Jesus, Pete, there's a reason
you have a key," he says, unlocking the door after perfuntorily
glancing in the peep hole and seeing the black glossy hair obstructing
his view.

Nathan frowns as the door swings open. "I told you I have a case,
which part of I'm busy and--"

Nathan's voice dies off as Peter raises his head. This -- this is
Peter, but it's not his Peter. There's stubble and a scar and my god,
this Peter has to be a good decade older than his Peter. He looks
like he's Nathan's age.

Nathan can only imagine the shock on his face, but that doesn't even
matter because he's currently being held against the wall by someone
who's stronger than he is and he's kissing Nathan -- Peter is kissing
him like -- like someone who knows how. Like someone who's been
beaten and bruised and has nothing left to lose.

Nathan scrabbles to push the man away. "Who the fuck--" he sputters
wiping at his mouth with the back of his hand, even as Peter steps
inside the apartment and kicks the door closed behind him.

"You won't remember this tomorrow," Peter... not-Peter...

"I'm calling the police," Nathan says.

Option B

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

Sylar doesn't need Nathan Petrelli to become president, but it helps. Correction: killing the shape shifter, acquiring her ability, killing
Nathan Petrelli, and acquiring his 'ability' help. Everything helps.

All Sylar is trying to do is help. He is helping the ordinary rid themselves of the special people. He is exterminating the plague. Wiping out the cockroaches in the walls and under the sink and in the boxes of cereal that have been around for millions of years. All of this killing has nothing to do with Mohinder.

Nothing at all.

No.

Sylar hasn't been killing for him all along. No, of course not.


*


Sylar is not stupid. The moment Mohinder walks into the Oval Office Gabriel begins to make noises in the back of Sylar's mind, but this is not Gabriel's show. If it were up to gabriel they would probably be dead, or in jail, or strapped down on a table while Mohinder tried to kill them repeatedly. Mohinder makes Gabriel weak -- this is yet another reason why Sylar has pushed him away. There is not time for Gabriel's nonsense -- except that the course of true love never did run smooth.

It's a good thing this isn't love.

When Mohinder smiles, Sylar smiles in return. And for a moment everything is quiet. This must be peace. Zen. Nirvana.

And then Mohinder calls him 'Nathan' and Gabriel rages. Sylar can feel the power cracking in his neurons and there's a itch in his shoulderblades as though invisible wings are desperate to spread themselves and fly away.

Nathan is dead.

Fuck Nathan.

Long live them.

Re: Option B

[sparky77.livejournal.com]

Okay. Making me choose is not fair! I love crazy Sylar. A lot. And I also love Nathan overwhelmed by desperate future hot Peter. A lot. There's a lot of awesome all over the place, but if I was like forced to choose at gunpoint, as much as I love the crazy antics of Sylar and his epic Mohinder love, nothing beats hot future Peter having really, relly hot angry sex with present Nathan and than making Nathan forget about it.

Isn't there a way of combining A and B?

Re: Option B

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking I may -- shockingly -- write both. They're just so different, you know? Plus, Nathan really does deserve to get laid whenever he wants.

Re: Option B

[sparky77.livejournal.com]

All of the above! Excellent choice. You're my hero for like the century. Especially your very noble pursuit of helping Nathan get laid whenever he wants. You should get a shiny, shiny medal. Or porn. Whichever you prefer.

Re: Option B

[prairiedaun.livejournal.com]

*flail* Oooh!

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

Future!peter can also go back in time, take on Candice's powers before she gets her brainz eaten, and occasionally sometimes often take on the Guise of Mohinder to be Close to Nathan.

Yay for time travel!

[sparky77.livejournal.com]

Wait so Future Peter will look like Mohinder and being thinking he's with actual Nathan while Sylar will look like Nathan while being with Mohinder angsting over the fact that Mohinder is only into him because he looks like Nathan, but it won't even be Mohinder, it will be Peter who thinks he's with Nathan, except he's not. Ow! It's like something Shakespeare would write while really, really high.

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

Wait so Future Peter will look like Mohinder and being thinking he's with actual Nathan while Sylar will look like Nathan while being with Mohinder angsting over the fact that Mohinder is only into him because he looks like Nathan, but it won't even be Mohinder, it will be Peter who thinks he's with Nathan, except he's not.

Yes.

Flail?

Of course, it's really depressing and angsty because Nathan is (purportedly) dead.

[sparky77.livejournal.com]

Dude, that's where present Nathan comes in. He somehow ends up in the future and there's chaos and confusion when future Peter figures out that Sylar is disguising himself as Nathan and confront SylarNathan, but he gets the wrong one and he instead confronts the Nathan from the present and/or something with Mohinder. I think the reverse of this just work too, but I'm confusing myself. I know that at the end everyone gets sorted out into the proper bodies and they have a good laugh, learn a vaulable lesson, and everyone lives happily ever after.

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

He somehow ends up in the future and there's chaos and confusion

Right, because Hiro teleports with him into the future and he sees what's happened and sorts everything out!

And have you called 660 833 4191 today?

[sparky77.livejournal.com]

Ha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He sounds so adorable and earnest. Thanks for telling me about that. It made me smile. A lot. Also, did he say 'com' with sort of a weird accent that made it sound like another word or is my mind just totally in the gutter?

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

Gutter.

Also, I know it's a really strange scraggly thing that's like a back-woodsman type of beard, but he's still hotter than 99.9% of the men in the world. (http://justjared.buzznet.com/2007/05/14/hayden-panettiere-adrian-pasdar/#more-2872)

[sparky77.livejournal.com]

I'm actually starting to get used to the beard. I think maybe I should be fighting hard against it, but Adrian really can make anything look good.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

Baby, it's Adrian, if his hair went white overnight he would still be the hottest thing in all 50 states.