Heroes 1x03: One Giant Leap

[andraste]

Non-Heroes fans will be getting bored with my spamming already, but obviously I'll slow down tomorrow since I have work then.



Hiro and Ando are utterly adorable. I don't know what was cuter - Hiro constantly calling Isaac and babbling at him in a language Isaac doesn't understand, their 'yay!' dance after saving the girl, or the car rental scene. "It is our destiny."

I haven't said much about Mohinder's storyline, since it's obviously on a slow burn at the moment, but I am starting to wonder about his father's 'friend.' We only have Eden's word for it that she knew Professor Suresh, and Sylar found out that Mohinder had been in his room awfully quickly ... Also, any time Mohinder wants to strip down to his tank top? I will not be complaining. Mmmmm, hot geneticist.

Everyone who suggested I start taking notes on the Petrellis to keep track: I see what you mean. While watching the relevant scene, I said "Nathan, you bastard!" out loud. Then, a moment later, "and I mean that as a compliment." Also cracked up at Peter's spectacular faceplant off the monkey bars. Great stuff!

Speaking of which, poor Matt! (I think that's going to be a constant refrain.) I am liking Audrey, too, and it's great that she was smart enough to realise that Matt was telling the truth about his telepathy. Plus Clea DuVall is another actor I love to watch. Sylar is just as scary when we can (sort of) see him. Obviously telekinetic, but I wonder if the freezing is covered by that. Maybe he does something with water molecules to achieve that effect? Am starting to think I don't want to know what he's doing with the brains.

Three episodes in, and both the female leads have suffered an attempted rape, which does not make me like the show's gender politics any more. On the bright side, Claire continues to gain complexity and her power is gloriously icky. The writers on this show sure know how to end an episode!

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[eldrad-ulthuan.livejournal.com]

"Am starting to think I don't want to know what he's doing with the brains."

Depends... how squeemish are you

[andraste]

Depends... how squeemish are you

Well, I coped with Claire's autopsy, so I suppose I will be brave enough to face ... whatever the hell Sylar does with the brains when I get there.

[wychwood]

Matt and Audrey are great together, aren't they? Also, Hiro = WIN.

Yeah, the gender politics sadly don't live up to the rest of the thinking behind the show. But Claire really is awesome, which helps a lot.

There's actually a comm dedicated to discussions of race (and class and gender) in Heroes, which has some interesting stuff; if you're interested, I can link you once you've seen the whole season - but I wouldn't recommend going there before that!

[andraste]

Matt and Audrey are great together, aren't they?

They really are. I was so worried Sylar was going to kill her! But he paid her back for getting him out of the cell by saving her life, which is a good start to the relationship.

Also, Hiro = WIN.

Hiro = win, love and all good things *g*.

Yeah, the gender politics sadly don't live up to the rest of the thinking behind the show.

It really makes me *headdesk* because you can see that a lot of thought went into various things, including having plenty of characters of colour around the place. It seems like no-one even considered the gender stuff.

But Claire really is awesome, which helps a lot.

I have also just seen Collisions. I thought it was great that it's the threat to other women that pushes her over the edge with Brody. She's willing to let it go when she thinks it's just her, but once she realises that he's going to try raping every blonde in school she can't sit back and let it happen.

There's actually a comm dedicated to discussions of race (and class and gender) in Heroes, which has some interesting stuff; if you're interested, I can link you once you've seen the whole season - but I wouldn't recommend going there before that!

Thank you, I'll try and remember to ask when I'm finished!

[nevacaruso.livejournal.com]

I am so glad that you're watching this show now, 'Draste. I knew that you'd love it.

Claire is an awesome character, and the best is yet to come. (Of course, it doesn't hurt that her family's story hits on every single one of my narrative kinks.) One almost forgets that she's the only really capable, admirable female character in the main cast, which is indeed problematic, although some of the secondary and tertiary women get fine moments later on.

[andraste]

I am so glad that you're watching this show now, 'Draste. I knew that you'd love it.

The only reason I've waited this long is that I wanted to watch the whole season without having the annoying hiatus in the middle.

Claire is an awesome character, and the best is yet to come. (Of course, it doesn't hurt that her family's story hits on every single one of my narrative kinks.)

*waits eagerly for bald man in wheelchair to show up*

Seriously, though, I see what you mean. Her interaction with her dad is particularly great, especially in Collisions which I have just seen.

One almost forgets that she's the only really capable, admirable female character in the main cast, which is indeed problematic, although some of the secondary and tertiary women get fine moments later on.

In a way it makes it even more annoying, because the writers are perfectly capable of writing great female characters, they just ... mostly don't. Claire's awesome makes up for a multitude of sins, though.

[nevacaruso.livejournal.com]

waits eagerly for bald man in wheelchair to show up

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Seriously, everything but. *g* Not saying anything. Just watch.

[selenak.livejournal.com]

I was very happy to see Clea DuVall again (insert obligatory grr, arggh in a certain direction), and Audrey is fab (and has a nice X-Files vibe with Matt.

Sylar: no, you don't want to know, but you will anyway.

I didn't mind the attempted rape with Claire, because the pay-off (her reaction) is worth it and an important character point, and not in the usual way (usual in how shows otherwise deal with that kind of storyline).

Ah, Nathan's moment of bastardy: yep. On any other show, this would be the start of fraternal feuding to the death, or something. Here, not so much. Bless the twistedness of la famiglia Petrelli.

[andraste]

I was very happy to see Clea DuVall again (insert obligatory grr, arggh in a certain direction), and Audrey is fab (and has a nice X-Files vibe with Matt.

I was terrified Sylar would shoot her (well, get her to shoot herself.) Thank goodness Matt turned up when he did!

Sylar: no, you don't want to know, but you will anyway.

Oh dear. At least I have time to brace myself.

I didn't mind the attempted rape with Claire, because the pay-off (her reaction) is worth it and an important character point, and not in the usual way (usual in how shows otherwise deal with that kind of storyline).

I've now seen Collisions, and wow, is that ever not where I thought that story was going! I agree, that made the rape plot more than worth it.

(The logical thing to do to avoid it looking gratuitous at first glance would have been not to have the other female lead in an attempted rape situation just two weeks beforehand; the goons could have threatened to beat or kill her and it would have worked out the same.)

Ah, Nathan's moment of bastardy: yep. On any other show, this would be the start of fraternal feuding to the death, or something. Here, not so much.

You can see that, furious as he his, Peter has learned to expect this sort of thing from his big brother *g*.

[lilacsigil.livejournal.com]

I loved seeing Clea DuVall, and her character is great - an excellent contrast to the female leads.

[andraste]

I loved seeing Clea DuVall, and her character is great - an excellent contrast to the female leads.

In a way, it makes it even more annoying that the leads aren't more diverse in that respect, because it's not like they can't create good female characters when they try!

[kattahj.livejournal.com]

Hiro and Ando are utterly adorable.

Yes! Yes to everything you have written, basically, but particularly this. :-)

[andraste]

Yes! Yes to everything you have written, basically, but particularly this. :-)

I loved them from the moment Hiro went running through the office shouting at the top of his lungs to tell Ando he managed to move the clock back a whole second *g*.

[12-12-12.livejournal.com]

Everyone who suggested I start taking notes on the Petrellis to keep track: I see what you mean. While watching the relevant scene, I said "Nathan, you bastard!" out loud. Then, a moment later, "and I mean that as a compliment."

I loved that whole sequence between the two brothers. Pasdar plays the jerk so very well, and you can tell that even though Peter's furious at Nathan, there's still a lot of love and understanding between the brothers.

Also cracked up at Peter's spectacular faceplant off the monkey bars. Great stuff!

I love that this show doesn't take itself too seriously. That moment made me giggle like mad.