Well, that’s just the thing. When the show started, I actually had hopes that they’d stick to the basic premise (not an original one, of course, but a good one) of a story about how people with superpowers would interact with the real world. Imagine if the show had used rigorous, real-world logic instead of idiot plots and coincidences that Dickens would have passed on.
Actually, just picture the same show, but well-written. Ahhh.
But no, they slid into moronic comic book plotting. Nothing should require this much fanwanking.
Once again, we see that Matt, despite being a trained police detective who can read minds, is not a very good bodyguard.
But, she also said “this is how you kill Peter” but I don’t completely believe her.
Or, she’s just doesn’t really know. We know you need a sharp pointy object and it needs to stay lodged in the brain. A bullet wouldn’t quite cut it, it seems to me. Does mama Petrelli know that? I don’t know.
Re the bullet to the brain, we already know that the brain has to be free of encumberances for healing to work. Having the amount of brain blown out that a bullet of decent caliber would blow out qualifies, in my book, as an encumberance.
The relevant portion is that the main character gets buried alive and then has an extended flashback to her martial arts training, including a seemingly endless regimen of her determined master teaching her how (well, making her do it over and over, in any case) to punch through a board with almost no windup. This knuckle-pulverizing skill comes in handy when she punches her way out of her coffin, clawing to the surface.
I doubt that actually needed a spoiler box, but no matter.
The sloppiness of the writing of the show is apparent week to week, but it really shines through when they do a finale and have to wrap everything up. The coincidences, plot holes, stupid characters, etc. all come out in full force to hamhandedly resolve the situations.
I always wondered what happened with that toe. Did Mr. Muggles run off with it? Is he a hero dog from having chowed on it? Or has someone stashed it somewhere for use later?
And when she menstruates, does she bring dead stuff in the sewers back to life after she flushes her used feminine hygiene products? Does the cotton itself in the tampon start growing again? How about the cardboard applicator, does it start sprouting branches, since it’s dead processed tree?
What if she ever tried to get an abortion? :eek: They’d have to really carefully hose off her blood or the fetus would never die!
I’m getting confused. Wasn’t Parkman Sr. in cahoots with Adam? Wasn’t it in fact Parkman Sr. doing his magic illusionary attack that causes MomP to injure herself fighting the invisible attacker?
Considering that typical feces contains dead cells, Claire’s super-feces probably contains non-dead super red blood cells. I’m thinking they could do a pretty hilarious SNL MacGruber! scene based on that.
