i stumbled across this xkcd comic on garfield a while back, and i kinda want a poster of it. hell, even making fun of garfield for being banal merchandise driven tripe is played out by now.
and then today, i saw this. now i'm wondering how many other dark as hell garfield strips are in the early years that i've forgotten about.
on the t.v. side, heroes season 3 is about the most infuriating thing i've watched since 'attack girl's swim team vs. the undead'. i'm willing to accept a certain amount of comicbook logic and the resulting retarded decision making, but the whole thing just feels hastily thrown together with the unwritten assumption that all the characters have suffered massive head injuries. there are only a couple people around who don't immediately take the very obvious WORST FUCKING OPTION in any situation, and the writers have the balls to hang the plot tension on the problems that those same characters created by insisting that they had to do these stupid, stupid things. examples follow, so if you haven't watched, don't bitch about having sub-par t.v. spoiled for you.
1) nathan remembers he's a fucking senator and decides to do 'stuff'. this stuff is, obviously, setting up a gitmo for superhumans and a paramilitary unit to do blackbag / snatch & grab operations on anyone with a power. despite HAVING A POWER HIMSELF. see also, his brother, mother, father, daughter, and several close associates. he seems genuinely confused as to why the rest of them think this is a Bad Idea.
later on in the season, he decides that he must Do Something to Stop This as it is Wrong.
IT'S YOUR FUCKING PROGRAM JACKASS.
2) peter carrying a gun, ever.
dude, you're not going to shoot anyone, we all know you're a giant pussy.
3) peter and matt taking turns pointing a gun at danko's head, then immediately realizing it's a shitty idea to execute him. well, no shit. 5 minutes of thinking about these things called 'consequences' would have eliminated about 2 1/2 episodes worth of air time for those two though, so i guess acting like retards on screen is the price they had to pay to get their check that week.
4) claire and everything she does. in short, her dad noah agrees to work with nathan to round up superhumans in exchange for claire getting a pass and not going into a cell for the rest of her life. a condition of this is that she not run around like a goddamned superpowered idiot.
claire then spends several episodes whining about wanting to be 'normal' before deciding that it is a better idea to fuck with the agents rounding people up and smuggle other supers to safety. so, 'not' normal. she stashes one of the supers in her house for a couple days. yes, the house that is being watched by agents. who know what this guy looks like. no, they don't even bother to shut the fucking shades or drapes. yes, the agents suspect that she's hiding this guy. the episode 'exposed' is a complete clusterfuck of mouth breathing stupidity on the part of everyone involved, and caused me actual physical pain to watch.
so far, the only upside to season 3 has been watching sylar destroy people's asses. i don't even care that he keeps switching sides, i'm just hoping that he gets to kill most of the main cast by the end of this nonsense.
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