Heroes: Angels and Monsters...

[fajrdrako]

The title "Angels and Monsters" sounds like a cross between Neil Gaiman (Angels and Demons) and Doctor Who ("Love and Monsters"). Of course, this show has nice bits of inspiration from both.

There were things I liked and things I didn't like, but I thoroughly enjoyed the Bennet scenes and the suspense. In more detail:

1. Papa Petrelli! At last! I never believed he was dead; I've been waiting to see him and grumbling about how long it was taking. Now here he is.
   
   
2. I want Peter to be good again! I don't like a matricidal dangerous Peter!
   
   
3. I don't believe for a moment that Hiro killed Ando. So what's going on? Did they stage that? Or does Hiro believe he has a way of bringing him back or saving him?
   
   
4. Last season, I didn't like Adam at all. This time... I liked him with Ando and Hiro. He was a hoot. I guess it's all in the scripting.
   
   
5. I didn't like Mohinder as the stupidest scientist in television. I like him even less as the monster reverse-Spider-Man who kills people with guck. Too bad he's so attractive. (And that voice.)
   
   
6. Bennet rules.
   
   
7. Angela Petrelli is cool, too.
   
   
8. Is Lindermann a holographic projection of himself?
   
   
9. I like Daphne.
   
   
10. Love the dialogue between Nathan and Tracy:

    Tracy: You believe we were made by God for a purpose?
    Nathan: Who else could have made us?
    Tracy: We were made by a doctor in Reseda.

11. I liked all the dialogue between Canfield and Claire; I like his power, too. I did wish he'd off Sylar, but knew there was no way he would. Loved it when Claire called Bennet a 'user'. And Sylar was smirking. Before this season I just found Sylar annoying; now I'm loving the way he's interacting.
    
    
12. Love affairs in this show don't fare well. Maya's cocooned, and I don't think the odds are with Nathan and Tracy.
    
    
13. Meredith and her target: scary. So why did she think she could best him? He reminds me a little of Matt's father.
    
    
14. Interesting what Angela said to Nathan about his lineage. What did that mean? Was it because he was Petrelli's son? What can Petrelli do? And maybe as much to the point: what can Nathan's sons do?
    
    
15. Loved seeing the broken double helix symbol outside Lindermann's building. (Or whoever's building it is. Pineshurst? Sounds like something out of Jane Eyre.

Comments

[ataniell93.livejournal.com]

I don't really know where to start.

The core base of Nathan's S1 fangirls didn't think he needed the first complete personality transplant and the second one is even more awful; but also, Nathan's fangirls as a group were really fond of the whole "how are real people with real world ambitions and lives dealing with this shit" angle, which seems to have been dropped in favour of "how insanely overpowered can we make the new villains, how many formerly sane people can we turn evil, and how many 12 year old ficwriters at FFN.net can we steal dumb ideas from?"

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I don't really know where to start.

Yeah. I'm only on the periphery here; I don't know what interpretations fans had of Nathan in the first place, let along their reactions to the developments.

They aren't stealing bad ideas from FFN.net, though. They're stealing them (blatantly) from some rather bad comic books. The effect is about the same.

Just about everyone has had a personality transplant or two; makes it hard to keep any kind of emotional consistency. I find I'm enjoying it more when I watch and get caught up in the suspense, less when I think about it.

My favourite characters were Peter and Claude. One is gone and the other isn't himself. I do stil love Bennet and Claire, but they've had their ups and downs. I loved Hiro and Ando this week, but that changes from week to week.

Can't count on anything here.

It seems odd to me that in all the concern over genetics and the Petrelli bloodline, Nathan's sons seem to be forgotten.