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Claire and Gretchen try to have "the talk"In this week’s episode of Heroes, Claire and Gretchen spend the entire episode talking about their kiss and defining their relationship. Unfortunately, their lesbian processing keeps getting interrupted by attempts at Gretchen’s life. What a bummer.
As you know, Claire and Gretchen shared a kiss two weeks ago, rendering Claire temporarily catatonic. This week’s episode opens with Claire and Gretchen lying on separate beds facing away from one another in their spacious dorm room. (What kind of college is this? I was sharing a 6x10 foot room with a flimsy bunk bed my freshman year. ) It is 4:40am. Neither is asleep. Awkwardness permeates the uncommonly large freshman dorm room. Claire breaks the silence. “You awake?” she asks Gretchen.
“Yeah. You?”
“Yep,” replies Claire. “Are you afraid that I’m going to kiss-attack you in your sleep?” asks Gretchen. “Maybe,” Claire responds. Maybe? They say that a picture is worth a thousand words.
That is not fear. That look screams, “Kiss-attack? Yes, please!” But of course, instead of making her way across the ridiculously spacious freshman dorm room to Gretchen’s bed, Claire says, matter-of-factly, “We should talk about this.” Processing already? Claire is a natural at this lesbian thing. Gretchen apologizes profusely, saying that her actions were stupid, impulsive and bad, but Claire interrupts, saying it wasn’t bad at all, and acknowledges that Gretchen is a good kisser. Gretchen’s eyes light up, but then she continues, saying that Gretchen is the only friend that she has had before she left Texas and that she doesn’t want to mess up the friendship. (Don’t want to mess up the friendship, eh? Oh, we haven’t heard that one before.) But Claire continues, “I really like you a lot.” Gretchen’s eyes dim, “Just not in that way.” Claire looks like she is about to say something meaningful, but before she can respond, a group of hooded figures bursts into the room and attack the both of them, postponing the moment of truth. Claire jumps up and protects a very confused Gretchen and throws one of the thugs to the floor. Then one of the attackers lifts up her hood. Oh, look who it it — cult leader Samuel’s minion, masquerading as Wholesome Becky.
Becky rolls her eyes and tells Claire and Gretchen, like, duh, this is just ordinary sorority hazing. She tells Claire that she doesn’t have to “go all Buffy on them.” But Becky, don’t you know not to interrupt lesbian processing? Going all Buffy on you was merciful. In any event, Claire and Gretchen allow themselves to be “kidnapped.” The two of them are thrown into the trunk of a car, where they awkwardly try not to paw each other.
“Look at us,” says Gretchen breathily. “All tied up in the dark.” “You know, there are entire websites devoted to this,” responds Claire. (Like AfterEllen.com?) They are silent for a few seconds while they stare into each other’s eyes, but then they turn away from each other in discomfort. Immediately, Gretchen resumes the “Do you like me or not” talk. Claire responds that she doesn’t know. Realizing that she has a chance, Gretchen looks up and says “Awesome.” But of course, before the conversation can become productive, Becky cuts in and pulls the two of them out of the trunk. The scene cuts to an abandoned slaughterhouse. Becky has thrown hoods on all four pledges and tells them that the two teams of two will be competing in a horror-themed scavenger hunt for the honor of not being hazed for a week. (Only four pledges? They couldn’t find any hungry film school grads to be extras?)
Then Becky and a couple of sorority sisters run off giggling, leaving Claire, Gretchen, a girl who shall henceforth be known as Bitchy McBitcherson and a girl who can’t stop screaming “UH-MAH-GAWD!” to navigate the slaughterhouse in the haunted treasure hunt.
Suddenly, Heroes turns into Hostel. UH-MAH-GAWD girl is sprayed in the face with fake blood via a booby trap and starts freaking out. It becomes abundantly clear that this is no ordinary scavenger hunt. Claire and Gretchen split up from the other two, and resume their “define the relationship” talk. Then a meat hook mysteriously swings towards Gretchen and almost impales her. The writers of this show really don’t want the two to come to an understanding about their feelings for each other, do they? Before Gretchen is butchered, however, Claire pushes her out of the way and conveniently lands on her. Hawt. Claire suspects that there is another person with special abilities in their immediate vicinity and that this little hazing exercise isn’t really a game. Finally, she suggests that someone is out to kill Gretchen. Gretchen voices her skepticism, but then of course, the two revert to discussing their relationship, because even a murder attempt cannot stop two women from processing.
Gretchen apologizes for “getting all relationship-y” on Claire, saying that it is the last thing Claire needs. Claire interrupts her, saying, “I need you. Trust me.” The two are able to share another breathless moment looking into each other’s eyes before another meat hook throws itself at Gretchen’s neck.
Claire manages to unhook the contraption from Gretchen’s neck by swinging a two by four above Gretchen’s head. Looks like someone with the power of invisibility is causing trouble in paradise. Said invisible person gets pissed that she got whacked in the head and retaliates by nailing Claire against the wall with an iron spike. Now who’s getting all Buffy in this joint? Just your usual sorority hazing, eh?
Claire grabs a meat hook herself and swings it towards the invisible relationship-talk-interrupting force, who becomes visible. Bad Becky. This is what you get for repeatedly interrupting two women trying to hash out their feelings.
As Gretchen, Claire, and Becky are staring open-mouthed at each other, Bitchy McBitcherson and UH-MAH-GAWD girl enter the room, and UH-MAH-GAWD girl shrieks — you guessed it — UH-MAH-GAWD! Becky flees from the room, and Gretchen pulls the stake out of Claire’s chest. Claire heals in front of everyone, leaving Bitchy McBitcherson and UH-MAH-GAWD girl in shock and awe. “What’s happening?” asks UH-MAH-GAWD girl. Gretchen turns to Claire and asks, “What are we going to do?” Will Claire’s secret be revealed to the student body? Will Becky get away with attempted murder? And, for crying out loud, will Claire and Gretchen ever get to finish their relationship talk without interruption? Submitted by on October 28, 2009 - 11:00am. |
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Well...
Don't you just love being left hanging :D
~I couldn't let boys have all the fun ;)
This really did make me
This really did make me larf. so much so I've just added 'UH-MAH-GAWD' to my facebook quotes.
LOL
Super funny Grace! Thanks for the laughs!
Uh Mah Gawd
Knowledge is Power. Believe in yourself.
another thing
another thing
Loved it!! Great job on the
Loved it!! Great job on the recap.
Loved them looking at each other in the trunk - it was one of the strongest portrayals of sexual tension between women I've seen on network tv.
Great work Heroes!
heroes
IDK
UH-MAH-GAWD!!
most hilarious post EVER! my favorite lines of this post are:
"But of course, instead of making her way across the ridiculously spacious freshman dorm room..."
"Processing already? Claire is a natural at this lesbian thing."
"But Becky, don’t you know not to interrupt lesbian processing? Going all Buffy on you was merciful."
"(Only four pledges? They couldn’t find any hungry film school grads to be extras?)"
"The writers of this show really don’t want the two to come to an understanding about their feelings for each other, do they?"
"...the two revert to discussing their relationship, because even a murder attempt cannot stop two women from processing."
"Said invisible person gets pissed that she got whacked in the head and retaliates by nailing Claire against the wall with an iron spike. Now who’s getting all Buffy in this joint?"
haha
those were all my favorite lines too..i really liked the uhhh my gawd moments..if i actually saw this ep i probably wouldva murdered my t.v. ahah..but u make it sound so funny and yes college dorms arent really like that..they are freakin small as hell..kinda like the are forcing u to live like a jew during the holocaust.
p.s. i am not racist i am just freakin obessessed with that and ww2 haha
"what do u get with two cheaters date each other?"
ans: the only conclusion i have come to is one of them will screw the other over..
"bloody hell women"
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'UH-MAH-GAWD'... ...
'UH-MAH-GAWD'...
... haha, thats hilarious
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vivono nella speranza
hayden talks about it on
hayden talks about it on ellen at the very beginning...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENjqTxslEmY
not very hopeful :( "best friend". im guessing nothing more. they have such great chemistry though!
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"Hard for you I've fallen but you can't break my fall.."
hayden talks about it on
hayden talks about it on ellen at the very beginning...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENjqTxslEmY
not very hopeful :( "best friend". im guessing nothing more. they have such great chemistry though!
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"Hard for you I've fallen but you can't break my fall.."
More entertaining than the actual episode
anyone else laugh?
when the other sorority girls see becky, did anyone else crack up when one of them said, "oh my god! becky?"
i totally ship claire bear and gretchen and i loved the sexual tension this episode
It hit me
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haha
"Freak"
Good Job
I looooove this article! it made me laugh a lot!
nice work Grace Chu
I don't watch Heros but I
Finally! I get all so
Holy Shit!
Little Gracie
Yep that's her. Seeing her kiss a girl isn't weird like seeing her do it with David Duchovny. Creepy.
I loved the Nanny, it was such a great show. They used to show reruns of it with Mad About You, I'm sad that they stoped showing them.
I'll raise you a HOLY SHIT!
I'll raise you a HOLY SHIT! and add an OMFG! Good eye! I didn't even realize that was her. I kept thinking "Did I date a chick that looked like this? She seems awfully familiar to me for some reason."
Thanks for solving that mystery for me. Evidently I was too lazy to go to IMDB and look her up. :-)
Will Gretchen be Clair's
Will Gretchen be Clair's first time ever!?! this is getting interesting and by interesting I mean hot!
-I speak in random thoughts
great post!
That was hilarious!
Thanks for the laughs!
Hmm
Love it!
I really cant wait for more!!! Hayden Panettiere is so beautiful and sexy...and I am really excited to see where their story lines goes!
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"...loving someone makes you feel that you can say 'I love you' knowing that they might not say it back..."
gotta check out heros
Too slow for me !
Yeah I really love the sexual tension in this episode too ! But I hope we won't have to wait another two weeks before seeing them speaking about what happened and, if we are lucky, moving forward with at least another kiss !
as soon as this episode aired
i've been waiting for this post. AE seems to always enhance the tidbit lesbian storylines in mainstream tv 10-fold. Great recap and i'm definitely for team gretchaire. i also completely agree the trunk scene was hoot. replayed that one a few times.
and the dorm room scene..hit a little close to home, but this one played out way better than my situation, which was refreshingly enjoyable to watch =) well done nbc, and please dont make clairebear have to transfer because of her secret getting out!
LMFAO
This recap was hilarious, When i watched the episode i was like why does that girl keep saying "oh my god!!"
But overall im really happy Heroes didnt sweep this relationship under the broom and that theyre actually addressing it
+ i was soooooooooooo sad when the guy who can heal/kill people died, it was so fucked up, i was hoping with all hope that he would live but alas he didnt :(
I guess all i have now is "Claretchen' to keep me sane
~She gave me eleven roses, one was a plastic one and she said "I will love you until the last rose dies"~
:)
"But of course, instead of making her way across the ridiculously spacious freshman dorm room..."
haha maybe if they didn't have such a spacious room the invisible menace would have been bumped into by now!
i loved this episode and even after watching it a million times (stayed home sick and love my dvr) the scenes with Claire & Gretchen were still so cute!
sadly though i think we'll have to wait for 2 weeks to get more of them b/c this coming monday's episode is gonna be all about hiro, but there might be a chance claire could be in it cause hiro might end up messing with the homecoming thing but yaa that would be bad. Either way looking foward to the new episode
oh and another thing i did while out sick was of course search Claire & Gretchen on youtube and i found this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7jAXacWbC8
yay clairtchen/gretchaire!
Claire's a TOP
Im sooo sure that they will be the next lesbian supercouple, just watch. i really hope that claire and gretchen progess further into their relationship and they can finally talk things through without being interrrupted by certain bitches. and i hate how they just left the ep hangin like that though, i really hope that it doesnt mess up claire and gretchen's relationship. but i really loved the part where they were tied up in the trunk and they went over a bump and they almost kissed (agian)!! and the party where gretchen talks about them being 'strange attractors', i love how she just threw it all out in the open like that. This is my fave episode by far ;D
~Thats why they call it a dream, cause it will never be reality~
Gretchen and claire
UH-MAH-GAWD....
I could not stop laughing when I was reading this...lol! now I'm going to have watch this episode.
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Just go up to somebody on the street and say "You're it!" and then run away.
Claire Bear needs to get
Claire Bear needs to get some action soon. And I'm not talking about fighting.
"Whatever people consider to be normal, it never is."Funny epidpde.
Funny epidpde.
Meh.
I hate to sound shallow, but why are all the other girls on this show aside from Hayden Panettiere so fugly? I checked out an episode of Heroes because I heard about the lesbianish storyline (stunt) and it could've been cool... but why didn't they cast a more attractive girl as Gretchen? I'm shallow, I'm a hater, whatever. But I can't get into it. If there was ever a girl who could lure Claire Bennette from Straightland, it's not Gretchen.
This is basically how I felt about Natalia and Olivia on Guilding Light. If Olivia was less mannish looking, I probably would've watched it. But she was like a much older linebacker to Natalia. Yeah, I'm a jerk.
Ali Larter , Dawn Olivieri ,
Ali Larter , Dawn Olivieri , Elizabeth Lackey , Eriko Tamura and Madeline Zima ugly?
Madeline Zima is a total babe!
-I speak in random thoughts