Heroes 1x08: Seven Minutes to Midnight
Jun. 21st, 2007 01:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
andrasteAn episode of reversals and obstacles, where no-one gets to where they were trying to be. (Except maybe Sylar. And I guess Claire found that paper for her Homecoming banner, so that's a win for her.)
Poor Hiro! For that matter poor Ando, who is now stuck in a diner while his companion is in the past with an adorable redhead. I can see why Hiro felt he had to go back - what's the point of having super powers if you can't save cute girls from having their brains removed? He really connected with Charlie (who is, like Hiro himself, a charming character who won me over in minutes). More than that, having left people to their deaths before, I understand why he couldn't do it again. But my heart still sank when he teleported, because there's a cheerleader with her brain intact who needs him too. And when did going back in time to try and save people from dying ever turn out to be a good plan?
Not that Claire doesn't have people looking out for her. Mr. Bennett would do anything for his Claire-bear - the story he tells Isaac about how he got her in the first place is both touching and creepy. How thrilled is Claire going to be when she finds out what happened to her biological mother? And yet it's impossible not to sympathize with his need to protect her at any cost. Meanwhile, Eden becomes an interesting character for the first time here as she shows genuine emotion and reveals her own powers of persuasion.
Elsewhere a chance for Matt to find out more about what's been happening to him is snatched away by the stupidity of Audrey's colleagues (do they seriously think that Sprague has been exposed to nuclear material, as opposed to being nuclear material?) and gets suspended from the force into the bargain. This is just not Matt's week, or possibly year.
Mohinder Suresh gets back into the game against his better judgement, lead back to his father's work by strange dreams. (Sanjog Iyer seems to have the opposite ability to Isaac - the visions he sends are all of the past.) Hands up anyone who thought he was going to spend the rest of the series teaching genetics in India ... no, I didn't think there'd be any takers. Still, I can see why the writers wanted to have him step away from the quest for a while. You can't have everyone's arcs moving relentlessly forward all the time.
Poor Hiro! For that matter poor Ando, who is now stuck in a diner while his companion is in the past with an adorable redhead. I can see why Hiro felt he had to go back - what's the point of having super powers if you can't save cute girls from having their brains removed? He really connected with Charlie (who is, like Hiro himself, a charming character who won me over in minutes). More than that, having left people to their deaths before, I understand why he couldn't do it again. But my heart still sank when he teleported, because there's a cheerleader with her brain intact who needs him too. And when did going back in time to try and save people from dying ever turn out to be a good plan?
Not that Claire doesn't have people looking out for her. Mr. Bennett would do anything for his Claire-bear - the story he tells Isaac about how he got her in the first place is both touching and creepy. How thrilled is Claire going to be when she finds out what happened to her biological mother? And yet it's impossible not to sympathize with his need to protect her at any cost. Meanwhile, Eden becomes an interesting character for the first time here as she shows genuine emotion and reveals her own powers of persuasion.
Elsewhere a chance for Matt to find out more about what's been happening to him is snatched away by the stupidity of Audrey's colleagues (do they seriously think that Sprague has been exposed to nuclear material, as opposed to being nuclear material?) and gets suspended from the force into the bargain. This is just not Matt's week, or possibly year.
Mohinder Suresh gets back into the game against his better judgement, lead back to his father's work by strange dreams. (Sanjog Iyer seems to have the opposite ability to Isaac - the visions he sends are all of the past.) Hands up anyone who thought he was going to spend the rest of the series teaching genetics in India ... no, I didn't think there'd be any takers. Still, I can see why the writers wanted to have him step away from the quest for a while. You can't have everyone's arcs moving relentlessly forward all the time.