I don’t think the writing is all that stellar but I’m going to give it a few episodes to work itself out. Let’s face it, it’s really difficult introducing us to a dozen characters in a single hour and not have it all be bogged down in exposition-land.
I really enjoyed Hiro’s character (and I’m going to start calling him Hiro Protagonist ), but I didn’t think it was smart of them to give him teleportation powers in the very first episode. First of all, bending space does not necessarily follow logically from the ability to bend time. Also, he spent all his energies moving the clock by a single second and we’re supposed to believe that within two days he’s managed to improve his abilities to the point where he can travel to New York instantaneously? Finally, as viewers, I think we need to grow with the characters, understanding their powers as they do, and giving them everything all at once cheapens the experience.
I was wondering how these seperate storylines would all work together. I think it’s a good idea how they’re going about weaving the them together like that. But again…pacing! You don’t need to throw everything at us in the very first episode. More is sometimes less.
Oh no doubt, that was just soooo unrealistic! That just really wrecked things for me, to think that I was supposed to buy that the guy who could turn back time with his brain could also teleport.
I could buy that the Mom is pretty absorbed with her dogs, and likely lost interest in the girl after they picked her up at the pound and she gradually grew out of puppyhood.
Well at least they sort of/kind of/not really addressed it by Dr. Indian saying it would look different all over the world.
My question is why did they even bother with adding the eclipse to the story since most of the characters had already manifested their powers before that. The previews and press before the show made it seem like the eclipse had something to do with the powers coming about…but that doesnt seem to be the case.
I never said I couldn’t buy the fact that he could teleport. I’m perfectly willing to suspend my disbelief there. My point was that having the ability to teleport doesn’t logically follow from having the ability to manipulate time. Also it’s hard to buy into a character having so much difficulty doing what must be the most basic of his ability (stopping a clock for a single second), then doing something so complex (rapidly changing time while teleporting halfway around the world) effortlessly a few days later.
Shows can create any rules they want to, but they must stick to those rules if they expect the viewers to care about the show. Besides, when his abilities are developed over the course of time, we grow and learn with the character. Instead it was handed to us all in one feeding which dilutes some of the magic behind the journey.
The drug-addled prognostipainter painted the eclipse. I thought that showing it was an indication that something was going to happen somewhere that the eclipse was total.
Ok, my explanation will totally blow your mind: Hiro is not changing time for the whole world. Hiro is teleporting himself to a different time (i.e. 1 second into the past). Presumably, when the clock on the subway train was changing, he teleported the entire subway car, including himself, to a new time. Then he teleported himself to New York, possibly to a new time also. His power is that he can teleport himself (and apparently those around him) to a new time and place. Seems overpowered to me, but maybe they’ll restrict it or have it take a physical toll on his body.
The first time I do something it’s generally harder for me than the tenth time or even the second time. He’d never done the clock trick before so it was hard and took a lot of concentration. Once he figured out how to do it, he got better at it. Doesn’t strain my suspension at all.
If it were summer, I suppose it could be that it’s morning in Tokyo and evening in the US and the sun is still visible in both places. But this was the thing that bothered me most. And the sun seemed pretty high in the sky in both places, too.
Count me in as one underwhelmed. I love the idea, but the dialogue seemed to me rather flat. No memorable lines at all. I’ll watch a few more and see how it goes.
My theory is that he’s wrong. He’s not “distorting the space/time continuum”. His ability is actually just teleportation (heh- “just”)… the time changes weren’t actually happening. He was just screwing up the clocks.
Nobody else notices that they’ve lost minutes or hours of their lives- only the clocks. There’s nothing special about clocks which allow them to be privileged observers. Hiro’s teleportation puts out a bit of electromagnetic interference, or vibration, which is really what’s causing the clocks to screw up. There were digits shown on that clock on the subway which weren’t actual times.
If he was actually screwing up time, EVERYONE would’ve noticed. There would’ve been farther-reaching effects of that ability than just clocks stopping- like, oh, blasts of radiation as incoming light hits a region of space that is moving at a slower rate than the rest of the universe.
First off, Misfits of Science was a comedy – and was enjoyable as that. Never intended as a drama and quite amusing.
Second, I agree, this is comic-book land, not the real world, and they are having a hard time portraying the two – tough balancing act that we hope they’ll figure out.
This is on my must tape list, since I watch almost never watch anything live.
It’s a Television show, so, it’s going to be imperfect. I think it is more interesting than 6 degrees simply because I like the characters better – and probably the SF twist doesn’t hurt.
I don’t expect it to be great, but if it’s good, I’ll watch it.
Mom hadn’t a clue. Daughter was talking literally, Mom was talking figuratively. Boy was tagged because cheerleader probably (a) thought no one would believe him and (b) probably had the camera handy. Cheerleader apparently has tried to kill herself before.
I got a different impression from this. Recall that Super Hiro apparently made the train late before he stopped the clock. I think the ability probably came pretty easily, but he wasn’t really sure he could believe himself that he was actually doing it. So he devised a “test” that could prove he could do what he thought he could do, and what better way than watching it happen by focusing on a clock with a second hand. He only needed to see it for a single second to have confirmation.
I also didn’t get the feeling that his global teleportation was effortless – I thought I recalled them showing him really focusing hard while he was standing in that train, in much the same way he did when he was testing himself with the clock? If I remember wrong, I guess an explanation could be that although he could do these things with relative ease, he wasn’t sure how he was doing them, so he forced himself to focus really hard during his experiment.
According to the plot outline, “They thought they were like everyone else… until they woke with incredible abilities.” So I’d guess that the mother wouldn’t have known, seeing as how the girl herself apparently didn’t know until just that morning.
Not necessarily. If he’s that much of a genius, he won’t be challenged nearly enough in public school, and he might be exposed to teasing and bullying for being so “different.” At a private school where he’s surrounded by other “gifted” kids, he’ll not only get the level of education he needs to continue to excel, but, as the mother said to the Dean, he’d finally started making friends in school.
I liked this show a lot. I didn’t want to, because I already watch too much TV (though I’ve given up Lost and Desperate Housewives this season in my ABC protest). It was hard keeping everyone straight at first, but they did a pretty good job of weaving it all together at the end. Loved the professor and loved the cheerleader. My how Hayden Panettiere has grown up!
I think that the cheerleader doesn’t feel pain anymore… she certainly didn’t seem to. I think she is “tyring to kill herself” as a way of just making herself feel something. I wonder if she was a cutter prior to her ability manifesting. A cutter deprived of the ability to feel pain might go to much greater lengths to achieve that stimulus response.
), but I didn’t think it was smart of them to give him teleportation powers in the very first episode. First of all, bending space does not necessarily follow logically from the ability to bend time. Also, he spent all his energies moving the clock by a single second and we’re supposed to believe that within two days he’s managed to improve his abilities to the point where he can travel to New York instantaneously? Finally, as viewers, I think we need to grow with the characters, understanding their powers as they do, and giving them everything all at once cheapens the experience.