I know it was good, but let’s not romanticize the first season too much:
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[li]poker chip floozy[/li][li]uh, anything that had to do with poker or gambling[/li][li]Niki was an annoying whiner[/li][li]too many stupid Hiro/Ando quests[/li][li]They killed Isaac! Jerkypants producers… killing off your future painter not so smart, huh, you keep making up fake Isaacs now.:p[/li][/ul]
The only good things that happened between whatever ep2 was called, and ‘Homecoming’ were Nathan’s blastoff and jammies landing in the desert, Subway Hiro, and Claire pasting her thoracic cavity back together then running home for waffles in a lab coat. And Peter got laid. He probably needed that.
And on the window was a 50’s style painting of a smiling boy, which looked exactly like the PipBoy advertising artwork in FallOut 3.
Nice to see a little nod-of-the-head to this great game.
I thought the same thing; seemed too obvious to be a mistake. (Also, they’ve typically used that kind of jumpy editing when Parkman is having a telepathic experience.)
Speaking of which, can some one who took a film class explain why they had a bunch of shots where the main character’s face was behind something? Matt was behind a doorframe in that Usutu comes calling scene, Sylar was hidden behind his own arm when he was hanging up poor agent redshirt at the taxidermy shop (oh yeah, more snowglobes???). Nathan and Peter’s scenes were disjointed-hey, at least I can figure out the symbolism in that.
THis series could really take a turn for the completely awesome (in my book). See the plane crashed, so all the “Heroes” are presumed dead by the Governement. But they aren’t and they form a Superhuman “Justice Squad” with costumes and everything. Meanwhile, Nathan, now that his potential enemies are out fot the way, gathers up memebers of his own Super villian team, let’s call them “League of Douchebags”, who naturally hideout in an holowed out volacano. The rest of the series is thes two team, Superheroes versus Villians, fight each other one for World Domination, the other to save mankind.
Interesting, pretty much everyone in cuffs knew about 'Frying Man"- start by rounding up everyone who knows your dark little secret, SOP evil guy behaviour, right?
I think you’re giving Nathan too much credit – he is a Petrelli, after all. And that’s pretty much a synonym for “pretty, but dumb” (or perhaps, “pretty dumb”).
They’d actually been rounding up supers for a while, already – that’s what Claire’s snooping had uncovered. So he actually had left all the people who knew about him roaming at large for a while, until after he’d put his plan into action.
And then promptly loaded them all on the same plane. It’s like he’s trying to get them to rise above their differences and work together against him. Hell, he’ll probably turn into a giant snake next. Yeah, that never helps, but if a Petrelli actually ever read the Evil Overlord list, we all know it would’ve been the Readers’ Digest version.
I was thinking that they would’ve had the same dossiers on everyone that Primatech or Pinehurst would’ve had, so they tried to be prepared for each one. Insulated clothes for the ice lady, sniper surprise for Matt, some kind of bumbling ineptitude for Sylar (of course) though they were told to surprise him and shoot him in the back of the head, etc.
Lure him into a sealed room (perhaps a door saying "Mr. Grey’s office-top sekret!!!)? then pump horse tranqs into the air. Or, hey, a thought-enough explosives to turn Sylar into so much chunky salsa? (clean up note: do not mop up remains and put in single bucket).
Well, not until Quinto’s contract runs out, anyhow.
So how do you think Sylar lived? Since they found dental remains, did he yank out some of his teeth to leave behind so he would be presumed dead? Or did he burn down to ash, get swept up and thrown in a dust bin and reform in there? Or the most obvious answer, Angela was lying about the dental remains?
Well, Angela told Claire that she had talked to Nathan AND HRG about having Claire go away to college; either she was lying about that, or she was working directly with them to try to keep Claire out of harm’s way. Later the ninjas bring Claire directly to Nathan, clearly recognizing that her capture is a “situation” and he orders her to be released and tries to get her out of there. So I think it’s plausible that she was telling the truth about talking to Nathan about getting her out of harm’s way. Since HRG knows that Claire desperately wants to fight Bad Guys, it makes sense to lie about finding dental remains to try to convince her that there’s no need to go chasing after him.
I think that Angela may have intentionally let Claire hear that phone conversation. I think she knew she could count on Claire to monkey-wrench Nathan’s plot, and that she didn’t really want him to succeed. At least, she didn’t want Peter locked up.
Yes, there were the usual annoying Hero-isms as usual. (Have to amputate Peter’s arms so he can’t be tricked into evil hugs anymore…) But I was pretty shocked at how little dragging out of the setup we got.
In one episode we know:
the nature of the Evil Plan (if not the motive)
Who’s behind it, and not just one of them.
Who the victims are (and we get them all together immediately)
If this were season 2, we’d have had to endure episode after episode of the mysterious ninjas capturing the heroes one at a time, while not knowing Nathan, Angela, and Noah were involved with creepy bald ninja guy until episodes 3, 5, and 10, respectively. This time, BAM! here’s the setup, go! Refreshing…
I know they’re trying hard not to have any connection with that OTHER super-powered franchise, you know, with the M-word, but all they need now are some giant red robots and a cool jet (hmm…) and there ya go…
I just watched it and I think it’s safe to say that Heroes is back. When Bennett was working with the bald leader of the ninja squad (Drazen from 24!) I was shocked. And then when Bennett was on the plane and was seen by Claire I was supershocked.
Sweet, glorious, beautiful plot setup. All in one episode. Yay!
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The first two eps of a chapter are usually rockin’, then they drag ass for 5 or 6, then clean up on the last 4-5. And the second half of the season is stronger than the first. Which would have been swell if S2 had a second half. Per the deleted scenes from the S2 DVD, S 2.5 was suppose to be (why the hell am I spoilering this?) Shanti virus crosses to general population, eats Odessa
