I don’t think the blond cop is really arresting the telepath. She’s in on it, and knows he can read minds. She’s taking him to a bad place.
How freaking cute is Nora Zehetner, the girl they’ve got as Mohinder’s love interest? Yikes.
I think they’ve kind of shot their wad too soon with the nuke going off. A couple thugs get killed in a garage, or somebody gets his brains scooped out? Not such a big deal, really…
Oh, and I had an Indiana Jones moment with the lizard… “We named the lizard Mohinder…”
I don’t think it’s a nuke. I think it’s something more connected to the heroes. Say- Sylar (Patient Zero) has been killing other paranormals and eating their brains to gain their powers. On November 8th, he kills Hiro, eats his brain, and cracks space/time open wide enough to cause something like a thermonuclear explosion.
Yeah, but Hiro was out of normal space-time. With Hiro in transit to 11/8 his brain wasn’t available for eating. But now that he’s gone back to 10/2 (or possibly 10/1 if it’s Japan) his brain is back in the timeline.
That was Isaac on the floor and Hiro (of October second) standing there. What happens to Hiro between Oct 2 and Nov 8 is unknown. It’s entirely possible that while Hiro (Oct 2) is standing in Isaac’s studio, Hiro (Nov 8) is across town planning a big fight against Sylar. While Hiro (Oct 2) is being booked and interrogated, Hiro (Nov 8) loses the fight and has his brain eaten by Sylar, resulting in a nuclear explosion.
Note that coworker salaryman says he hasn’t seen Hiro in weeks. Either that changes when Hiro (oct 2) returns to the train in Tokyo, or Hiro (oct 2) immediately leaves for New York (by airplane) in order to stop the explosion. That places at least two Hiros simultaneously in New York.
You’ve articulated my problem with the show better than I could have. I wanted to like it, I really did, but my patience isn’t being rewarded. As McNew put it, it isn’t compelling to me. It’s hard to put my finger on the problem. I find myself comparing it to Carnivale, a show that I consider to be the epitome of a series that demands patience. Lost might be another example. And Heroes suffers very badly in the comparison.
But from the thread, I see I’m definitely in the minority here.
Not necessarily. It depends on “where” Hiro is while he’s constiporting. If he’s out of the space-time continuum and in some state of non-existence, then his non-constiported self would technically be the only one in existence between 10/2 and 11/8.
What is “constiporting”? Is it a comic book term? Or is it a combination of constipate and teleport, referring to Hiro’s expression when he’s trying to do it?
I had to work last night and I haven’t had a chance to check my videotape, but we got a break a little after nine to eat dinner and watch. I missed the first 10 minutes so I hope my tape worked. The scenes with the sawed open heads were disgusting but it didn’t stop us from eating our dinners.
I am a little confused about something. Were Hiro’s scenes the only ones in the future? All the other stuff seemed to be taking place shortly after we last saw those characters.
The latter. Not sure if I originated the term or not. Just my cutesy way of referring to it, like calling the drugged out art guy a “prognostipainter.”
Loved the episode, and I enjoy the way they are going. The show made me laugh out loud a number of times, and it gave me the creeps in the proper places. I can’t wait to see how the stories progress.
I got the impression that only Hiro was in the future. Notice that when the cop shows him the November 8th newspaper, it shows the candidate brother winning the election in a landslide.
I should have been paying closer attention. Does the murder (the poor woman with all the implements in her body) tie in to the rest of the story or was it just to introduce the cop?
When the cop was coaxing the little girl out of her hiding place, I was yelling at the screen – Don’t let her see her mom like that!
I agree with Ethilrist about Clea Duvall and the cop. Hard to tell if she’s curious or suspicious or one of the bad guys.
My impression as well taht Hiro was in the future, but all other events were ‘real time’… nice taht he thougth it was Oct 2 (which it was, in reality!).
Called it last week taht the artist was responsible for the comic book…
Anyone else find it ‘convenient’ for all the cops to show up exactly after Hiro picked up the gun and got close to the body?.. gun is one thing,. but with no other blood on Hiro, they should be able to tell he was not the criminal here.
I’m in for now… I think it iwll all tie together and just need to give it the time… after all, they are still introducing the charectors.
It ties in - the man was clearly killed by a super, and the woman probably was, the brain was stolen (as happened to Isaac, or whoever it was in the studio when Hiro popped in), and Sylar ties into both this plot and Mohinder’s (and presumably all the rest, too).
I agree that this show has too many threads going on simultaneously. I like it, but they should have pared one down a tad this week.
However, I think the leading interpretations for two events are wrong: first, cheerleader girl’s neck twist was way too deliberate. I think Sacking Boyfriend was trying to take her out, because there’s no way a guy could break a bystander’s neck accidentally.
Second, Nicki the Blackout Killer lost her four hours in going back to the garage, getting a new car with registration, and putting the bodies in the trunk. The map is to a mob burial ground, which is why the shallow graves are pretty full. If Nicki had already buried the bodies, she would have just done it – instead she left the shovel as a grave marker.
Also, didn’t cheerleader grab the tape herself in the pilot? So why would camerageek worry about the missing tape? He shouldn’t know it’s missing…
But she gave it back to do her Fire Walk and then ran off, so Teen Geek was left with the tape.
I’m enjoying the show and like that it continues to subvert expectations in small little ways. It’s a TV show, so I know that things are going to be handled slower than some people would like, but it’s working great for me thus far.
My only concern is that they’ve set themselves up with a rather hasty deadline–they have a little over a month to pool their resources? I’m assuming that we’ll be working within Lost’s timeframe then (where a whole season covers only a fraction of that period within the show’s narrative timeline).
