Heroes 1x03: One Giant Leap
Jun. 18th, 2007 08:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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!
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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Date: 2007-06-18 11:17 am (UTC)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.
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Date: 2007-06-18 01:32 pm (UTC)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*.