So? If he is working for the Company then it won’t matter if he has a tracking device or not; he could be doing what they are asking him to do. And if they want to redeem him later they can say “well, he was doing it because they threatened to do some unspecified but horrible act to some unspecified but significant to him other person unless he trapped Claire and Bennett for him”. It could all be a setup.
Besides, Issac’s painting that showed Bennett’s death also showed what seemed to be Claire kissing someone. I’m voting for setup.
Ah. So you were just going off of your opinion and noted that it matched the opinions of some other people on the Internet, and assumed that the forces of Cosmic Justice would inexorably force ratings to go down so that you would get the satisfaction of posting an “I told you so” on the Internet.
Good luck with that.
It’s worked sooooo well for the legions of bitter, bitter Internet fans in the past…
And in all the intervening centuries, none of the people who owned the sword ever read the “Please Open” marking on the handle and found the notes.
Riiiiiight.
<fanwank> The ‘open me, Ando!’ didn’t exist until now, just like the birthday pic of Hiro & Charlie was just Charlie until H went back six months</wank>
Poor Matt. Gets a divorce but still spends his off hours being nagged at home.
I don’t know what you’re talking about. My opinion is that the first three episodes have been sub par. Period. I don’t know about matching other people’s opinions on the internet. This is the only forum I read and post to about this show. Others on this forum have expressed disappointment.
I don’t think Cosmic Justice will force ratings down. Fewer people watching forces ratings down. I would get no satisfaction nor would I be inclined to post “I told you so” on the Internet, here, I presume you mean. I am a member of no legions. Nor am I bitter about anything relating to “Heroes”. I watch it, I contribute a few observations here, I move on with my busy life.
If I may say so, you seem a little thin-skinned about this or about something. If the quality of the show declines and viewers tune out as a result, ABC will cancel it. I’m just sayin’.
Except Claude can’t fly and the the attacker clearly went off the roof with Sulu.
As for can-openering heads, Sylar’s first victim, the one he got TK from had his skull cracked like a nut with a large quartz crystal. So Sy can open a skull without TK, he can just do it neater with the TK.
ABC can cancel it all they want but it won’t do any good because the show is on NBC. I think you’re getting confused about your TV show rants, Lost doesn’t start up again until after the holidays.
I noticed on IMDB that the “kid” that plays West (flyboy) is actually about 27 years old and is older than the guy who plays Kensei but he sure does have a baby face and may be able to play high-schoolers into his 30’s. But that is not as creepy as the idea of Milo dating Hayden, okay she’s legal now but he’s her TV uncle!
I stand corrected. I guess seeing Sylar on the “Lost” island confused me about the networks. Incidentally, I wonder if isolating him so is how they’ll justify his absence during the middle of the season. Then, this spring, he suddenly shows up and we get a flashback explaining how he got out of the jungle?
Well, as far as we know he can’t heal either, or bounce or teleport or or TK or make himself as light as a feather … any other possibilities I missed for surviving a bad fall? So unless he secretly had other powers they didn’t show us it’s unlikely he could go over the roof and survive.
I’m really hoping that is the case. Could Candace really have been that stupid? (BTW I really miss Missy Peregrym in that role…their explanation in the show for her new look was weak…hiding from the cops? In the middle of nowhere that sure doesn’t even look like the US in your private hidey hole there is a lot of worry about cops?)
I also cannot see Candace being all gushy over Sylar. I mean c’mon…not really her style and she is almost as cold and calculating as Sylar is.
Also have to agree Stalker and Toe Jam flying around was pure barfiness. Screw appealing to different demographics. When you try to please everyone you get elevator music and no one likes it. Which reminds me bring back more empty heads after Sylar has at them (still wondering just what he does with the brain…anyone know?)
Why would Hiro need to write letters to Ando? It’s friggin’ time travel. He could do all that he needs to do in the past and reappear right when season one ended. Ando wouldn’t have to wait at all. I’m all for suspension of disbelief, but a work of fiction should at least try to follow its own rules.
The writers really dug themselves into a hole. You have a character who can teleport and time travel. Did they not realize that this would create giant gaping plot holes down the road? Why does Peter have amnesia? Because otherwise, he’d be too powerful? Why isn’t he dead? No, can’t do that, the fans lub him, he’s so hawt! Remove his shirt and everyone will be too distracted to notice anything else.
I guess this is what happens when a show is created by marketers. Every upcoming plot point is decided upon the fans’ reaction to the previous one. You can practically see the big list of demographics that they’re trying to mark off. There is no art here. Which for a show that touts itself as an homage to comic books, is kind of insulting when you think about it. It was like that from episode one, but at least it made good, dumb TV. Now it’s just boring.
I don’t think that a show created by marketers would have a premise this strong, namely, “What if people discovered they had astounding powers, and, rather than instantly becoming all altruistic about it, went on acting like how they already were, but now with powers?”
The show has been coasting on this very good premise for a very long time now, because Tim Kring seems to have some amazingly bad ideas about how a show like this is going to be artistically and commercially successful, and has to backtrack later.
Last season I posted a quote I saw in TV Guide where he claimed surprise at the popularity of specific characters, and how this was lousing up his ideas that the show was going to succeed by having a high hero turnover rate. Yeah, the base that’s going to sustain a show like this through its birthing pains, the comix fanboys who have kept Superman and Batman around for 75 years, and Spiderman around for nearly 50? The one thing they demand from their favorite genre is a lack of continuity or consistency. :smack:
Now we get this quote I just dug up on Wikipedia further up the thread. Essentially it’s saying, “After spending a season giving you characters with nearly impenetrable motives, plot holes you could drive a truck through, and an ambiguous finale that we’re going to completely undo now, we’re going to declare such an unmitigated success that we feel comfortable letting the main cast spin their wheels doing more or less nothing this year while we focus our energies on our own low-rent version of Watchmen.”
Color me unexcited. He’ll have to backtrack when this starts not working as well, and the season will be just as kludgy again.
I really don’t think they are in the middle of nowhere. Notice that Candace was on a cell phone when Sylar woke up. There wouldn’t be a signal if they were really in the middle of nowhere.
Or am I using too much logic? I’m still getting caught up.
If Sylar is really in a cell (or strapped to a bed) somewhere, and the island is actually a Candace-cast illusion, then so was her murder. If she’s not really dead, then that would explain why Sylar didn’t absorb her power. I’m also wondering if his powers are really working, but she’s not letting him see it.
Oh, if all the Wonder Twin sequences keep following the exact same pattern every single week, they’ll start getting the Lex/Lana treatment. AKA DVR Fast Forward.
Not really, it’s just as likely that he exited stage left/right once he went invisible.
Granted he did have knowledge of another hero with similar powers to Peter and that’s why he was instructing him but if he was talking about himself then he would have been around a lot of heroes during his work with the Company and would have a hell of a lot of powers and more experience with them, which makes it strange that he could be caught off guard by Bennet and tasered without reacting with another defense power. Instead Peter saved his butt. Sure it could have been another test for Peter but I’m going with Occam’s Razor here. The simplest explanation is that the only power we’ve ever seen (not seen?) from him is invisibility. Not even a hint of something else. Even before Peter flew we were given hints that he had another power, the power of dreams. No such hints of Claude. So if they do make Claude the killer who has other powers, then I think it’s just sloppy.
If Claude were the killer type and wanted to kill all those people, why wait 15 years? He could have done it when he was in the company. He could have killed Bennet when they went out on the bridge before Bennet could have even pulled his gun, sure he wanted to give Bennet a chance to do the right thing but he still could have taken him out. He could have also taken him out at any other point after that, he knew where to find him.
Also, I like Claude and don’t want him to be a cold-blooded killer.
Thin-skinned? Oh, why should I be? It’s ever so pleasant getting to read entire threads devoted to people moaning about how the show has gone to crap even though this is the exact damn way the last season started.
So you’ve informed us of your opinion. Yippee. Please do move on with your busy life.
