Methinks this icon is appropriate, considering how this post is very Zachary Quinto... related.

[arthoniel]

Heroes was awesome tonight. Not terribly eventful, but awesome. But damn, Sylar/Gabriel/Nathan needs a hug. And not from that bitch Lydia.... Me? Jealous? Oh no, never.

I realized today... I have a superiority complex. Not on a Kira level or anything, but... it's there. It's like, if I know you and I'm friends with you and all, and then I found out that you haven't gone to college/don't go to college/aren't going to go to college, then that's one thing. But if I barely know you, and then you tell me that you didn't try in high school, or that you didn't go/aren't going to college, I'll think less of you. I judge my peers here in New York based on what high schools they go to- I know of most of them, and... if you don't go to what I consider to be a "good" high school, I'll just assume that you're not as smart as I am...

I don't even know. It's not something I'm proud of or anything... it's not something I want to keep, and if I can get rid of it, I will. I just... I dunno. Like surrounding myself with people who are on my level intellectually. Meaning, for the most part, people who have/are going to get a college degree.

I don't mean any of you, by the way. This is entirely real life related... it's just something that came to me.

By the way? Walking around midtown Manhattan for two hours and at least three miles for a Halloween costume that only one store in a chain has, and that store won't exchange your smaller size for it, so you simply have to get a different costume? Yeah, that's not pleasant.

Comments

[starsandtildes.livejournal.com]

dude what's wrong with Lydia besides she's friendly with Sylar? :( I like her and it's going to be fun watching her stab Samuel in the back.

Emma is obnoxious, though. She got a double serving of wangst and doesn't have an interesting enough personality to make up for it. It's like she sucked all the wangst out of Peter lolololololol

[arthoniel.livejournal.com]

That's just it- because she's friendly with Sylar, and I am teh jealous fangirl.

Well, I'm not as one dimensional as that. I also genuniely don't really like her character- I don't think she really does anything, I feel like her personality is pretty much nonexistant, and I'm still not really sure exactly what her ability is. But that's just me. Although it will be fun, watching her stab Samuel in the back... if Sylar doesn't get to him first. XD

And I have to admit, I really like Emma- her power is beautiful, both visually and musically, and plus... Emma is my real name, so I'm kinda sorta really biased towards her. XD

[starsandtildes.livejournal.com]

I don't think "nonexistent" with Lydia so much as "subtle". Yes, she's very submissive and quiet (and hot :3) with Samuel, but I can feel the resentment radiating off of her. It's obvious she's just waiting for something, you know?

The way they portray Emma's power is pretty, yes, but all she does is bitch and whine except when she's playing music. She failed the three-episode test for me, though I thought her interactions with Hiro in this episode were promising. I doubt they'll follow up on that, though, what with Hiro going off to Texas in the past in search of Charlie; Heroes is great at dropping plots :(

As an aside, what were your thoughts on Elle?

[arthoniel.livejournal.com]

I guess... I dunno though. I feel like, if there was something she was going to be resentful about, she would've angsted about it already- this is Heroes, after all.

It's true... on the other hand, it's also harder for her to express herself at all. I feel like she could be more interesting if she could speak in sign language more- she can say more than three words at a time when she is, and I feel like she was funnier and more interesting when she could.

And my thoughts on Elle? You mean my thoughts on her death, or just on Elle in general?

[anemptycagegirl.livejournal.com]

Something that helps me, as far as being an intellectual snob, is to remember that there are a lot of different types of talent and intelligence. My uncle Steve, for example, is one of the most brilliant men I've ever met, and I doubt that he can tell their, there and they're apart. He doesn't need to be able to, though, because he's a carpenter, and he does brilliant work with that. This man literally once saw a show on the history channel about trebuchets, decided he wanted to build one, and then did so off of his own calculations and patterns. He does things with his mind that the rest of us could never even imagine. If you find examples like that, sometimes it's easier not to be a judgmental bitch.

[arthoniel.livejournal.com]

You have a point... there are definately different types of intelligence and all. I was just kind of venting after someone was talking to me about how they didn't even bother taking the SAT because they just didn't want to go to college- not even that they're not smart enough, but that they didn't even try! Maybe one of the reasons I don't respect someone quite as much if they don't go to a "good" high school is because they didn't even bother trying to go to a better one, and living in NYC, we can choose the schools we go to. It doesn't happen with people outside the city since they just go to thier neighborhood school, but... when I find myself having to explain things a lot, or when someone isn't getting simple hints/blatantly ignores something I told them because they're not at my intelligence level... I dunno, I just tend to think less of them.

But you do have a point, about different types of intelligence. It doesn't really happen as much if someone can own me in one thing, even if I have to explain another a lot. Like, I would totally respect your uncle Steve because, even though his grammar would get on my nerves (god, I've become a grammar Nazi...) he can still totally own my pansy ass in what he does.

...Wow, I totally went on for a while there, didn't I? XD