Heroes: ".07%"

[fajrdrako]

That was fun. That was so much fun I won't even complain about the absence of Claude. Of course, as I reflected a few times, he could be there, in any of the scenes, especially since we didn't see the Haitian.

Much shrieking and squeeing and speculating from me and maaboroshi as we watched. Things I particularly loved:

- Mr. Bennet using Matt and Nuclear Guy to escape; that was brilliant. he is so smart and they are so dumb. What a team. maaboroshi said, "It's the two and a half stooges!" I found poor dumb Matt so annoying for a while, but he was delightful here.

- Nathan's comment to Claire about his mother: "She isn't always so cold." But we don't learn what her power is.

- Nathan's collapse over Peter's apparently dead body. (Don't those people ever read comic books? Don't they know no one ever stays dead?) I thought he was going to start kissing the corpse. And their later dialogue: "I'm nothing without you!" Whew. This brotherly relationship is maybe less strange if it's actually sexual - it's certainly a hotbed of psychological intensity. Incestuous or not, the family dynamics there are bizarre. I love the way Nathan is both controlling of Peter and dependent on him. I liked Peter's hair better the way it was before; but I still adore Peter, however he looks.

- The end: Hiro meets Hiro. Wow. We figure that Hiro is going back in time, trying to fix what went wrong, mapping the timeline each time, using Isaac's apartment as a base, until he can make everything turn out right. A person has to agree with Ando: "I'm confused!"

- Was Sylar painting himself in the White House? maaborohsi figured what Linderman must be intending to use Mica for: vote-rigging in the federal elections coming up, to get Nathan elected. They have electronic voting in the States.

- Candice becoming Jessica (or Niki) to deliver Mica to Linderman. Her power is so cool. She seems so nasty.

- Where'd the Haitian go?

- Why does Mama Petrelli want to take Claire to Paris?

- I used to think Nathan was horrible, scary and creepy; now I think he's sympathetic and creepy. His mother is Machiavellian. Linderman is crazy - though I liked the point made in wikipedia: that Linderman's plot to do good by wiping out half of New York and bringing hope to the world, is the same as the plot of Watchmen by Alan Moore. The problem being, that was the part of Watchmen I didn't like. Methinks Tim Kring has been reading some comic books.

- Now that Peter has met, confronted, and fought Sylar, he must have all Sylar's powers, if he can figure out what they are. That would include telekinesis and super-hearing and goodness knows what else.

- Since maaboroshi and I both realized that it wasn't either Niki or Jessica with Mica at the end, surely Mica realized it too? Since he seems to be able to tell Niki and Jessica apart even when one is pretending to be the other, presumably he can tell when it's neither of them. And Mica is smart. Maybe he'll save the day.

- When will we learn Mohinder's power? When will Mohinder learn his power? When will he finally do something that doesn't come to disaster?

- Loved Claire's grandmother's line to her, something along the lines of: "That mouth of yours, that comes from me."

Comments

[raissad.livejournal.com]

Candice does have to go. She's a complete sociopath and is just eew.

Btw, HRG has to be lying about not knowing the Linderman connection. After all, he put Hana on to the Lonestar file in that most recent six-part graphic novel, and the Lonestar file was all about Linderman.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Candice does have to go. She's a complete sociopath and is just eew.

Sadly, yes. I love the idea of shape-shifters but she's a really bad one. Maybe we will get a good one... or maybe we'll get to see Peter use her powers.

HRG has to be lying about not knowing the Linderman connection.

So we all thought. But why?

[raissad.livejournal.com]

In the long term, I don't know. In the short-term, I just realized something: He wouldn't be lying entirely if Linderman were part of his memory-wipe. He might need Matt's telepathic info gathering as reminders of what he needs to remember, now. Or, he could have left a remind me later back-up plan in place with Hana.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

He wouldn't be lying entirely if Linderman were part of his memory-wipe.

True. Who knows how much of his memory was taken?

he could have left a remind me later back-up plan in place with Hana.

He's clever enough to have done that.

The Latest Graphic Novel

[raissad.livejournal.com]

...Addresses a major plot point re: Peter and the bomb. You've got to check it out:
http://www.nbc.com/Heroes/novels/index.shtml?novel=30

Re: The Latest Graphic Novel

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

This is very interesting, isn't it? Yes, alternate futures and alternates pasts.... and it was Sylar who blew up. Hmm.