lady_sarai

I'm in a better mood today, for whatever reason. I'm not knocking it. ;)

So we watched the entire first season of Heroes in three days. Yes, 23 episodes in 3 days. I feel like I should rewatch it now because all the episodes kind of blur together, but--it makes me happy. I love that show.

I could listen to Mohinder talk ALL THE TIME. Randomly.

But what amuses me is my mother. Who, all year, would ask "why don't you watch this show?" and I would say "because I missed the first few episodes, I'm going to wait until I can watch it from the beginning." And she would constantly ask what it was about, and I would say "I'm not sure, people get superpowers and have to save the world--it's like a comic book movie, on TV."

And every. single. time. I said this, Mom would say "oh, I thought it was about normal people being heroes." I cannot emphasize how many times we had this conversation. And I would laugh every time because, hello! Deja-vu!

But we started watching and Mom says "this is not what I thought this show would be about."

3 guesses as to what she thought it would be about, and the first two don't count. She had selective amnesia about what this show was about.

So she spends the first 9 episodes griping about how 'violent' it is and how it's not what she thought it was and I said "you know, you don't have to watch with me, I can watch it by myself."

And Mom says "well, now I have to know what happens."

She complains after every episode and claims she doesn't like it, but by the last two episodes she changed her mind.

After we watched the finale, she wouldn't stop talking about it. I am AMUSED. We went to dinner Monday night with my brother and Mom spent the entire time talking about the show. HA!!

Also, she said something about Peter and Claire that amused me. Cutting because

zoe_chan needs to see this show. It's not a huge spoiler and I knew it before we started watching, but.

So when Claire's father turned out to be Nathan, I said "yay! Peter's her uncle!"

Mom said "that's a good thing?"

Me: Yeah, why not?

Mom: Because... well, I thought she and Peter *liked* each other. I thought they might get together.

Me: Mom. She's *16.* He's gotta be at least 10 years older than her!

Mom: That's not that much older.

Me: Right, so when I bring home my 34 year old boyfriend, I'll remind you of that.

Mom: Well, if he's *nice.*

Me: Okay, when I was 16, if I'd had a 26 year old boyfriend? Not only would you have flipped out, but it would have been illegal. Jailbait.

Mom: ....Shut up.

I am still amused by this.