Word. There are soaps with faster pacing. I like the idea and I’m sucked into the show, but they could take pacing lessons from Whedon.
So if Peter’s regeneration power won’t let his skin hold a tattoo, how come his hair stays cut?
NBC is scheduling its shows improperly again, and the DVR cut off before the end. Noah was looking at the painting on his computer, and then he sees Claire looking at him. Anything happen after that?
My guess on the hair thing is that it’s dead, not living tissue, so it doesn’t heal.
Are Maya and her brother going to be forcibly separated so she accidentally kills people and he revives them by sucking the evil out of her every episode? I’m starting to get more than a little tired of this Groundhog Day.
Actually, I rather liked this episode. More than the last two.
We got a reason Peter didn’t just take the box with his TK, thankfully. And it makes sense (or at least Heroes-sense) that he can’t control his powers except by reflex, if he can’t remember the people he got them from.
We had Sylar powered down to manageable plot-levels, and acting as fantastically as ever.
And although I was at first pissed that Candice was back (someone remind me why I was sure she was dead last season? Did Niki beat her up getting Micah out?) The scenes with her were a lot of fun, and I was glad that got resolved WITHOUT giving Sylar her viewer-annoying, can’t trust anything power. (And we finally got visual confirmation of her true form.)
Hiro/Kensai is wrapping up, and in a fun (albeit predictable) way.
Although West is as annoying as ever (they couldn’t at least made him look a little less like Clark Kent? Cast a blond or give him a goth haircut or something?) , at least we see a little interesting drama on the horizon with his revelation about Mr. B. Not to mention, I find Isaac more interesting dead than alive. Hope Mr. B finds some loophole in that painting prophecy!
As far as I could tell his skin was holding the Irish tattoo. The “tattoo” that faded out was the symbol. Similar to how Jessica would display the symbol but Niki wouldn’t. Which I am fervently hoping doesn’t mean that Peter is developing a split personality or a case of possession or whatever Jessica’s deal was.
As for his hair, well, that’s a question that’s plagued self-healers and invulnerable characters forever. How does Claire’s hair know how long to grow after it gets burned off? For that matter, how do her fingernails know not to grow back after they’re cut? How does Peter’s beard no not to grow in after a shave?
I’m kind of agreeing with the complaints about pacing. Although it’s not so much pacing as an utter lack of caring about two of the storylines. Could not care less at this point about the Wonder Twins nor could I care less about Hiro’s Excellent Adventure. I’m hard-pressed to care about Peter’s problems although I am by default in favor of any storyline that gets him out of his shirt.
What was it again Peter was supposed to do during the armored car robbery? Stand there and yell at a guard for two seconds? I get that he ended up TKing the truck and blocking off the guards but since Mickey O’Stereotype didn’t know about the TK before the job there simply was no reason for Peter to be there. Dumb.
I hadn’t considered that Sylar had the virus. I kinda thought that it was an illusion as well. That would’ve been much more interesting than Sylar on Craphole Island. Assuming he has the virus, I wonder, when he’s inevitably cured, if he’ll have Candice’s power or if trying to absorb it while infected will keep it from him.
West can fly right into the nearest power line for all I care.
Oh yeah, and who do we think patched up Sylar? Although Candice was last seen working for Linderman, who had ties to The Company, that doesn’t look like company work. Last time the Company captured Sylar, they had him doped up in a high-security lockdown, and they have enough money and technology not to use a dirty shack in the middle of nowhere.
The thing about the Candice-Sylar love shack is, how did they get there? Looks like the Company has another teleporter available… hate to be that guy, popping in for a check-up, 'cause I bet Sylar can lay his hands on more coffee mugs.
They do seem to be milking the Milo-appeal for all it’s worth this season. Good thing the kid bulked up between seasons.
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Does anyone besides me think that Claire’s stalker-boyfriend is the one who killed Hiro’s father and that he is working for the Company too (or whoever Candice was working for)?
Also, I thought Claire already knew what her father had been up to before. Or did I just imagine that conversation?
ETA: I think the main problem I am having with this season is that it doesn’t seem to be going anywhere. There are all these individual storylines but none of them seem to have anything to do with each other and there doesn’t seem to be an overarching story arc yet.
My impression is that Claire knew her father was doing…things…but didn’t know exactly what with any level of specificity. This was the first time she was face-to-face with someone who told her about being on the receiving end of The Company’s treatment.
My wife said that as He and Claire were flying off. I think it would make sense, and I think it would start to tie this unraveling season together.
I considered that Stalkerboy could be the killer. The figure we saw seemed smallish, either a young man or a woman. And we did have Wireless find a couple of our heroes and give them info about the company so who’s to say the she or others didn’t find the kid and let him in on some secrets. However, the one big flaw with that is, why would Hiro’s father know him?
Claire does know the type of things her dad did but it hadn’t sunk in and now she’s all in luurve with Stalkerboy because he flew her and they bonded over their freakishness and now she thinks what daddy did was bad.
It occurs to me that Hiro is now unable to time/space travel. Since Ando is having to read the messages placed in the sword centuries ago, this means Hiro must not be able to return and tell him the story in person. Hiro used to have the ability to project himself anywhere in time. So all he would have to do is appear in Andos office and tell him what happened in the past.
Or it could just mean that they needed a reason to put the actor who plays Ando on the screen. But that would imply that there are factors which are more important than logical story-telling at work and that doesn’t seem likely.
The actor who played the double-crossing Irish guy seemed familiar to me. Does anyone recognize him?
Not necessarily. It could just mean that Hiro isn’t sure that he can travel back and forth through space and time with the necessary precision. That is, he might be worried that if he visits Ando, he might not get back to precisely the right time and place to continue his adventure.
Another Star Trek connection, he was on Enterprise. Don’t remember the character’s name, I think he was the security officer.
He was Malcolm (the security guy) on Enterprise.
The whole lot of that dumb Irish gang are played by Hey! It’s That Guy! guys, really.
He was on Enterprise as the head security officer. I can’t recall the character’s name, but then that is typical with that show- I can only remember Archer and T’Pal.
Funny, I was thinking exactly the same thing. I know I’ve seen him elsewhere, but I can’t recall where.
Wow, what a mess. It would take a lot for me to stop watching this show, but I came very damn close to changing the channel last night when Claire flew off with the flyboy. Barf.
Best part of the evening, when Candace/Michelle/whatever was changing it up for Sylar…I’m totally there with those who were waiting for her to change into Mohinder, rather surprised when she didn’t actually. I was happy when he smashed open her head, but Boo to them wussing out on showing the empty skull cavity we’ve all grown to know and love.
Other than that, I have no idea what the hell is going on. Twins with the Worst Powers Ever? Hiro’s stupid subplot? Poor little alien-not-robot Claire? I am so over all of these. Please, please god…let them end. When Hiro said something about how he was ready to leave, I told my husband how badly I wished that were true. I knew they were faking us out, goddammit.
A friend at work just raised an interesting idea - he thinks Sylar is stuck on Haiti, and that there is something about Haiti that interferes with the heroes’ powers, hence the Haitian’s ability?