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So the general consensus is that Miss California did not win the Miss USA competition because when asked about gay marriage by Perez Hilton, she basically said that she believes that marriage is between a man and a woman.

I’m not too concerned with who won a beauty pageant, however if that’s really the reason why she didn’t win I think it’s pretty much bullshit. There are a couple of things that need to be taken into consideration here:

1) She is a stupid kid. I say that not to insult her intelligence, but really to say that she’s probably in her late teens and hasn’t been an adult long enough to form her own opinions about anything. You learn alot about yourself in your early twenties, and that’s the first time that many people really start thinking for themselves and evaluating all of the bullshit things that they have been taught by parents, teachers, and clergymen.

2) Like it or not, every one of us has the right to have and express opinions and beliefs. While I vehemently disagree with what she said, I absolutely think it’s great that she was able to answer the question honestly. She has the right to her own opinion, even if that opinion is grossly prejudiced and sets the clock on human rights back thirty or more years.

What happened here, in my opinion, is someone not winning what is ultimately a beauty contest because of a question about opinion. It’s kind of like a priest being on that panel and asking the girls if they are catholic, and then immediately rating all the “no” girls as a 4. Except instead of a catholic priest, it is a bitter internet-ordained minister living in his mothers basement.

However, None of that is important. The really important thing here, and the thing we should all be asking ourselves and soul searching about, is this:

When did that fruitcake Perez Hilton become a significant enough part of our society that he is judging a beauty contest with Donald Trump? For Chrissakes, all the guy does is run a blog. It’s not even a good blog. He posts pictures of celebrities, and the uses microsoft paint to draw genitals on them, or write SLUT in big letters, or call them fat whores. Why do we care what he thinks at all? The self proclaimed “queen of all media” is a self important douchebag. Why are we paying attention to him?

Next year the people at Miss USA need to make some major improvements to their judge panel. Maybe those muppets from Crank Yankers are available.

Ahh, good ole’ Mr. Bennet. I was on the fence about him for most of the season, but I ultimately believed he was a good guy. In the last 5 or so episodes he’s really been fantastic, and has indeed been an ally. I’m really pleased with how his character turned out.

“Save the cheerleader, Save the world.”

We’ve been wondering for months how saving the cheerleader could save the world. She’s a healer – not a fighter – how could she stop Sylar? How can she stop the exploding man? Sure, she can save her own ass, but how can she save millions of people?

It all made sense after last night. By saving Claire, she survived long enough to throw herself out a window. There’s Nathan, watching his only daughter that he barely knows throw herself out a window because she doesn’t want anything to do with him. That moment instantly changed him, defining Nathan Petrelli as a ‘good guy,’ and allowing him to save the day.

Sylar? Alive.

Peter Petrelli? Alive.

Nathan? Could potentially be alive, but he’s probably dead – I hate to see him go, but if he is dead, at least he will be remembered for potentially one of the most fantastic character redemptions on television. It’s totally possible (and incredibly cheesy) – Nathan could have flown Peter up to a safe distance in the atmosphere and gotten the hell out of dodge before he exploded. It’s also totally possible that the writers will kill Nathan. Nathan could have wanted to be with his brother until the end, knowing that Peter was terrified. At the same time, Peter wouldn’t want to be responsible for the death of Nathan, so really, who the hell knows?!?

Hiro? He’s hundreds of years in the past, and that can only mean one thing: Hiro is/was the ‘legendary warrior’ Takezo Kensai.

The fate of DL and Matt Parkman is anyone’s guess.

I don’t think that either Peter Petrelli or Sylar can be killed without taking the other one with them. There is a delicate good vs. evil balance to be maintained in these comic book type scenarios, and killing either of them without killing both of them would greatly disrupt that balance. Peter is too much of a badass to be left unchecked, and no one else can even hope to compete with Sylar these days…

The comics have been quite revealing, especially with the history of the Petrelli/Linderman connection.

The other thing that I think is really interesting is the connection between Charles Deveaux and the Linderman/Petrelli/Nakamura ’save the world’ super friends club. The super friends club dissolved over the bomb in new york – there were pro bomb and anti bomb people in the club, and each side thought the other side defected and became corrupt. We now know that Charles was not only connected to Linderman and the Petrellis, but that he was/is a ‘anti bomb’ player (read: good guy) along with Kaito Nakamura.

So we have Linderman and the Petrelli’s as the pro-bomb faction, and Nakamura and Deveaux as the anti-bomb faction. Both sides think the other side was corrupted, when in all reality it’s going to wind up being a matter of personal faith and perspective. I’m assuming that papa patrelli was pro-bomb based solely off of the comic books, but I guess the jury is still out on that.

Season one is available on DVD in august – I’ll be buying it, and anxiously awaiting season two. Hopefully this show is around for a while. I feel like the writers still have a hell of a story to tell – past, present, and future – and I’d love for them to have the chance to tell it the way it should be told.

What a great show.

So the first hour of the three hour Heroes finale is on tonight.

What a great show this wound up being. I remember back in August when they were really pushing the promos for it – I just wasn’t interested. The previews didn’t make it look like it was worth a crap. Just another example of why you shouldn’t judge on first impressions.

So the blurbs in TV guide and online say that, between this week and next week, we’re going to see the resolution of the exploding man, and we’re going to lose two more heroes.

My personal prediction: Ted Sprague (which I’m almost certain about) and DL. I don’t really have anything to back up DL, it’s really just a hunch. At this point he seems like the most expendible. Everyone else still seems like they have some purpose to serve in the grand scheme of things, so I just can’t see any of them being killed off. Maybe Matt Parkman. But plot-wise, it seems like everyone else still needs to be around. The Petrelli clan, the Hiro clan, Micah, Niki, Linderman, and Claire all need to stay relatively intact.

I guess they could kill Sylar. I’d probably be OK with that and technically, he’s a person with a power, so he counts, I suppose.

I actually felt really bad for him last week, during the scene with his mom and during the scene where he realized he would be the bomb. For a moment, he realized his humanity. He realized that what he had been doing was wrong, and he just wanted to be normal. His whacked out mom just couldn’t let him have that and insisted that he should be ’special,’ and he kind of snapped. I don’t think he has any desire to really kill a bunch of innocents, everyone he has killed so far has just been in an effort to make himself more special. There’s nothing in it for him to kill a bunch of normal humans.

Ted is the other hero that I’m pretty sure is screwed. Ted has to be killed for Sylar to get his power, and regardless of whether or not Sylar is the bomb, he’s going to need that ‘power’ for whatever showdowns he has with Peter. So I’d be willing to bet that Ted’s out.

My other prediction: The bomb is going to happen. Three weeks ago I would have sworn up and down that they were going to stop the bomb and save the world, and while I guess they still could, it just doesn’t feel like it’s going to happen. Don’t get me wrong – I want them to stop the bomb and have a happy ending – I just don’t think it’s going in that direction. For better or worse, I’m in the ‘bomb’ camp. Everyone else at work seems to be in the ‘no bomb’ camp, and if that’s any reflection of the fanbase in general, I’m in the minority.

Back to work for now, I guess. I have some other thoughts on it, but nothing coherent enough to write about. At a certain point you just have to stop theorizing and watch the damn show.

I don’t usually watch American Idol, but I sat through it last night while I was waiting for House.

One of the guys did John Mayer’s Waiting for the World to Change, and I can honestly say that I thought it was horrible. The guy seemed like he was off key for pretty much the entire song and at points he couldn’t seem to even keep up with the music. I’m no real musician, and I’m certainly no singer, but it just doesn’t seem like it should be that hard to sing that song. Pretty straightforward song to not get right.

Maybe I’m being overly critical, but it’s at least a little unpleasant to see someone get on TV and sing a song that you enjoy like it’s bad karaoke.

Speaking of American Idol – what ever happened to that guy that co-hosted the first season? Weren’t there originally two guys – Ryan Seacrest and some other guy? Where’d he go? Season two came, Ryan was there, and the other guy had just faded into obscurity.

I’d like to see the curly haired guy do well this season, only because he reminds me a little of captain James.