Heroes Picspam!
Well, I promised you guys a picspam in my last post, so here it is! In 2 parts, no less. Don't want you to overdose. :D

You know, my love for the Petrellis, and Peter in particular, really took me by surprise. It isn't just the pretty factor, either--Mohinder was my main source of eye-candy in the first half of the season. But somewhere around the Homecoming/Six Months Ago/Fallout arc, I just completely lost my heart to Peter--whether he's being sweet, dorky, manipulative, or ridiculously earnest.

Of course, the prettiness does help. XD So anyway, I thought I'd just do a little picspam of the most gorgeous shots of Peter I could find, from early in Season 1. The pics are pretty big. Usually I would scale them down, but the point of a picspam is to enjoy the pretty, yes? :D

The picspam also contains commentary from some people who will be very familiar to all of you...Think of it as a trip down my fandom memory lane. XD



*Nostalgia moment* He looks like such a kid here. RIP, EmoBangs.

cadesama: And I might, occasionally, giggle, "Ohhh, angry puppy!" at him. Lovingly.

wee_warrior: Or snicker at the very decisive way he shoulders his messenger bag. Ahh, Pete.

Erin, from the TWoP recaps: I mean, Pasdar and Milo are hot on their own; together, they're practically an inferno -- but it does make me wonder if Pasdar and Milo, like, visit the craft services table and giggle while they go over the script and insert "Peter touches Nathan suggestively" and "Nathan stares longingly at his brother" in between the written lines. You totally know they'd do that shit; I have a feeling they both have rather twisted and freaky senses of humor.

If you have not read the Television Without Pity recaps, I can recommend them. :-)





GUH. Eyes. It's all about the eyes. I mean yes, he has great hair, which I am secretly jealous of, but it's the eyes that got me in the end.





Again: eyes. How many shots have there been of Peter's eye this season, anyway? The Pilot, the vision in Fallout, coming back to life in 0.07%...and after all that, I still can't decide what color they are.





Eyesex. They're Italian! I wonder if Dennis Hammer knows that he single-handedly made "Italian" a euphemism in this fandom. Wouldn't it be great if one of the DVD easter eggs turned out to be a hidden link that leads to an audio file of Kring and Co. yelling, "They're ITALIAN!"?





"You can't fix this one." I would just like to point out that this moment was improvised by the actors. ZOMG.





No commentary needed.





Puppy!





Puppy! Aw, he really liked Charles.





Eager!Manipulative!Puppy! "I can fly, Nathan. And so can you."

12_12_12: You're talking to someone who's embarrassed to admit the number of times they've rewatched Insane!Overpowered!Peter from the end of "Unexpected." I like Woobie-Puppy-Eyed-Peter as much as the next fangirl, but Arrogant-Manipulative-Peter works for me, too. :-)

cadesama: I might be embarassed to admit how many times I've watched the brunch scenes from Nothing to Hide ... except that I lost count. Milo's "Ohhh, threaten me harder" expression just kills me. Every time.

12_12_12: You are going to enjoy my next picspam...

cadesama: \o/

And so, an extra dose of Manipulative-Family-Brunch-Peter, especially for cadesama and selenak:

linaerys: Even more love: when Nathan comes to Peter's apartment, dressed fairly casual for him, and tries to tell Peter what happened in Vegas and PETER IS THE WORLD'S BIGGEST MOST SARCASTIC BITCH. That's my baby. He's totally being a dick to Nathan because Nathan deserves it, not because he doesn't believe him. Although it's sad, because Nathan is trying. They are such an awesomely dysfunctional family.

Pissed-Off-Manipulative-Puppy. Aw, yeah.




Now, be honest. If this guy walked into your high school at homecoming and saved your life, you would totally have a crush on him. Yes/Yes?





Still one of my favorite scenes of the season, and not even for shippy reasons: it was just so heart-warming and sweet.

vonnie_k: On a shallow note, I finally realized that Milo Ventimiglia, who had always annoyed me as Jesse on Gilmore Girls, is... surprisingly pretty. I didn't really see it, because the pretty had been well disguised under all that emo hair and the irritating poor-me petulance, but in his scene with Claire in that school corridor, where he called her back and assured that things *would* get better after high-school? There was this gorgeous gentle look in his eyes, and... I sort of melted. Yes, I feel totally pervy about thinking this for someone who's, like, 10 years my junior. Sue me.

Six Months Ago...when the Petrellis were (almost) functional. Who knew?

linaerys: And it's not the touching . . . although that helps. It's not all the touching, the teasing, the hanging out on the outside of the party to talk, the fact that Peter knows that something is going on with Nathan without him saying anything. I do love that.

But it's really the "I am totally going to bend you over later just like you like it" look that Nathan gives Peter WHILE HE IS DANCING WITH HIS WIFE and the little "yeah, I know, looking forward to it, big guy"-smile with the head-bob of "aren't you cute?" that Peter gives him back that makes this scene so wonderful.

Erin again, from the TWoP recaps: "Milo Ventimiglia does all sorts of wrong things to a white v-neck t-shirt, lemme tell you."

Seriously. I have not enjoyed TWoP recaps this much in...well, never.





No commentary needed.





Sad!Yearning!Puppy.






Part 2 is coming soon. :-)

Sources: Many thanks to Stripedwall.com and Peterandclaire.net for the gorgeous screencaps.