Heroes (spoilers for #9 and #10)
Sep. 13th, 2007 12:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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I was glad I caught it yesterday, I didn't see it last week, so had to make the bbc1 showing or miss an episode.
Oh, I say. It all joins up, doesn't it? And I didn't know how many episodes there were, I thought that might be *it*, but it goes on. And now it feels like it's reached the tipping point, everyone's joined up and knows what they're doing.
The realisation of the cheerleader-on-the-steps painting was dramatic.
The backstory was good -- it filled in lots of things that I hadn't even wondered about, but cemented the whole well. Great to see about Syler!
Does "running two seconds slow" have an accepted meaning? Two seconds per day? Two seconds per year? I would have thought it meant *is* two seconds slow, as in, two seconds before real time, but that just means it's set wrong, and that's not a mechanical defect, so you can't hear it. Maybe watchmakers would know, but guys in hornrimmed glasses? He seemed to know what he meant.
Am I just ignorant of common usage, or does it just not make sense? If not, it's completely easy to ignore, so I can see how you'd write that, but it seems ironic to have a sentence that simple knowledge of common parlance can tell you is meaningless.
I was glad I caught it yesterday, I didn't see it last week, so had to make the bbc1 showing or miss an episode.
Oh, I say. It all joins up, doesn't it? And I didn't know how many episodes there were, I thought that might be *it*, but it goes on. And now it feels like it's reached the tipping point, everyone's joined up and knows what they're doing.
The realisation of the cheerleader-on-the-steps painting was dramatic.
The backstory was good -- it filled in lots of things that I hadn't even wondered about, but cemented the whole well. Great to see about Syler!
Does "running two seconds slow" have an accepted meaning? Two seconds per day? Two seconds per year? I would have thought it meant *is* two seconds slow, as in, two seconds before real time, but that just means it's set wrong, and that's not a mechanical defect, so you can't hear it. Maybe watchmakers would know, but guys in hornrimmed glasses? He seemed to know what he meant.
Am I just ignorant of common usage, or does it just not make sense? If not, it's completely easy to ignore, so I can see how you'd write that, but it seems ironic to have a sentence that simple knowledge of common parlance can tell you is meaningless.
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Date: 2007-09-13 01:15 pm (UTC)I suppose so. Or rather, that makes sense, I expect it *is* but I had the impression HRG was supposed to understand it, both from our and Gabriel's perspective. But that might just have been an assumption, it went by very quickly.
If it is an accepted term, then it's probably reasonable to use it for one reason or the other. It just sounded like the sort of thing that someone says, sounding reasonable, without thinking about (like saying temperatures have gone up 10% :))