I'd also no idea that Claude was HRG's partner so that was a suprise too.
In my heretical opinion this is the most interesting thing about Claude. (I'm not so enamoured of him as the rest of fandom.) This, btw, is the last episode (so far) we've seen him. Rather refreshingly, he meant it when he said he'd get out of Dodge.
One last thing about Claude: in the hilarious "Heroes Slash Manual", in which every possible pairing under the sun is discussed, the tongue-in-cheek justification for Claude/Thompson was "Because Claude was the Doctor, and Thompson was the Master". (Your Doctor Who casting joke for the day.)
For some reason I always think of the sixties/fifties as grey/blue. The seventies are orange/brown and the eighties best forgotten.
LOL. Writing fanfic for Heroes, sometimes involving backstory, made me realize that a) Nathan and self are of an age, and b) that means we were teenagers during the 80s. This made me remember them, inevitably.
Speaking of things best forgotten about the 80s, though, did you realize HRG back then looked like this?
(Admittedly it took me until Company Man and seeing him without glasses to realize this was the same actor, and oh, my...)
Excellent, the power play between those with abilities and those without, working for and with the company are beginning to look fascinating already.
It's interesting that the Company pairs up one with and one without powers, isn't it?
In Parasite it seemed as if they were both on the verge of breaking through to a more honest way of dealing with everything. Sandra turning out to be Candice in the second scene was quite tragic.
Quite, though in the first scene she was definitely Sandra. (There is a fun detail for careful observers; Sandra has a cell phone with dog barking as her ringing tone, which you hear in the first scene; in the second scene, when "Sandra"'s mobile rings, it does so with normal ringing notes, which is a giveaway this is in fact Candice a few seconds before she reveals herself.) What I find most tragic in hindsight is that HRG says to Sandra "I didn't know I could talk with you like this". Because that means that through their entire marriage, including the years pre-Claire, he never ever talked to her as an equal, as a partner.
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In my heretical opinion this is the most interesting thing about Claude. (I'm not so enamoured of him as the rest of fandom.) This, btw, is the last episode (so far) we've seen him. Rather refreshingly, he meant it when he said he'd get out of Dodge.
One last thing about Claude: in the hilarious "Heroes Slash Manual", in which every possible pairing under the sun is discussed, the tongue-in-cheek justification for Claude/Thompson was "Because Claude was the Doctor, and Thompson was the Master". (Your Doctor Who casting joke for the day.)
For some reason I always think of the sixties/fifties as grey/blue. The seventies are orange/brown and the eighties best forgotten.
LOL. Writing fanfic for Heroes, sometimes involving backstory, made me realize that a) Nathan and self are of an age, and b) that means we were teenagers during the 80s. This made me remember them, inevitably.
Speaking of things best forgotten about the 80s, though, did you realize HRG back then looked like
this?
(Admittedly it took me until Company Man and seeing him without glasses to realize this was the same actor, and oh, my...)
Excellent, the power play between those with abilities and those without, working for and with the company are beginning to look fascinating already.
It's interesting that the Company pairs up one with and one without powers, isn't it?
In Parasite it seemed as if they were both on the verge of breaking through to a more honest way of dealing with everything. Sandra turning out to be Candice in the second scene was quite tragic.
Quite, though in the first scene she was definitely Sandra. (There is a fun detail for careful observers; Sandra has a cell phone with dog barking as her ringing tone, which you hear in the first scene; in the second scene, when "Sandra"'s mobile rings, it does so with normal ringing notes, which is a giveaway this is in fact Candice a few seconds before she reveals herself.) What I find most tragic in hindsight is that HRG says to Sandra "I didn't know I could talk with you like this". Because that means that through their entire marriage, including the years pre-Claire, he never ever talked to her as an equal, as a partner.