Heroes 1x23: How To Stop An Exploding Man
Jul. 2nd, 2007 10:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
andrasteI was up way too early watching this. Anything spoilery you want to rec me in the comments - fanfic, vids, adorable stories about the cast - is now welcome!
Mostly what I have to say is: awwwwwwwwwww. The world is saved by love!
I guessed after Five Years Gone that what Hiro needed to do was talk to Nathan. Even though Nathan rejects his request for help at the time, in the end it does make a difference. Hiro tells Nathan that he'll become a bad person in the future. Combined with his own daughter's determination to help Peter, that plants a seed of doubt. (And of course if Hiro hadn't told Peter to 'save the cheerleader, save the world' Claire wouldn't have been alive to help shame Nathan into doing the right thing.) When the crunch comes he can't let his brother blow up New York.
There's an easy way for the show to have Nathan as well as Peter survive the explosion. I bet that half way up, Peter managed to fly under his own power, shoved Nathan off, and kept going until he was out of the atmosphere.
Back on the ground, most of the cast come through more or less OK. (If they were going to kill Matt, he'd have died right away instead of being driven off in an ambulance.) Their problems may be far from over, but at least the threat of Linderman is no longer hanging over them. Noah Bennet (hooray for perfect first names!) takes his daughter home, Niki gets her life back, Mohinder adopts the Walker Tracking System and Hiro gives Ando hisphallic symbol sword as a token of his devotion.
It would have been handy if somebody - anybody! - had thought to check that the scary serial killer was dead instead of just dragging himself into a sewer to return another day, but they don't quite have this whole 'killing Sylar' thing down yet. My guess is that some day when he does get taken down for good, no doubt after eating more brains and becoming even more powerful, it will be because our heroes have learned to co-ordinate their attacks. For all his power, Sylar is alone. If Peter, Hiro, Nathan, Niki, D.L., Claire and Matt all ganged up on him and used some elementary teamwork? He'd be toast.
Volume Two looks like it's going to be a fun time, with Hiro stuck in the past and a new threat on the horizon. It's amazing how creepy Molly makes that mysterious new villain sound just by telling Matt and Mohinder he can see her when she looks for him. Maybe this person is one of those Linderman, Angela Petrelli and Charles DeVeux used to work with, one of the ones who turned evil?
(Because if Linderman, Angela Petrelli and Charles DeVeux are complaining about someone turning evil, they must be pretty damn evil!)
Mostly what I have to say is: awwwwwwwwwww. The world is saved by love!
I guessed after Five Years Gone that what Hiro needed to do was talk to Nathan. Even though Nathan rejects his request for help at the time, in the end it does make a difference. Hiro tells Nathan that he'll become a bad person in the future. Combined with his own daughter's determination to help Peter, that plants a seed of doubt. (And of course if Hiro hadn't told Peter to 'save the cheerleader, save the world' Claire wouldn't have been alive to help shame Nathan into doing the right thing.) When the crunch comes he can't let his brother blow up New York.
There's an easy way for the show to have Nathan as well as Peter survive the explosion. I bet that half way up, Peter managed to fly under his own power, shoved Nathan off, and kept going until he was out of the atmosphere.
Back on the ground, most of the cast come through more or less OK. (If they were going to kill Matt, he'd have died right away instead of being driven off in an ambulance.) Their problems may be far from over, but at least the threat of Linderman is no longer hanging over them. Noah Bennet (hooray for perfect first names!) takes his daughter home, Niki gets her life back, Mohinder adopts the Walker Tracking System and Hiro gives Ando his
It would have been handy if somebody - anybody! - had thought to check that the scary serial killer was dead instead of just dragging himself into a sewer to return another day, but they don't quite have this whole 'killing Sylar' thing down yet. My guess is that some day when he does get taken down for good, no doubt after eating more brains and becoming even more powerful, it will be because our heroes have learned to co-ordinate their attacks. For all his power, Sylar is alone. If Peter, Hiro, Nathan, Niki, D.L., Claire and Matt all ganged up on him and used some elementary teamwork? He'd be toast.
Volume Two looks like it's going to be a fun time, with Hiro stuck in the past and a new threat on the horizon. It's amazing how creepy Molly makes that mysterious new villain sound just by telling Matt and Mohinder he can see her when she looks for him. Maybe this person is one of those Linderman, Angela Petrelli and Charles DeVeux used to work with, one of the ones who turned evil?
(Because if Linderman, Angela Petrelli and Charles DeVeux are complaining about someone turning evil, they must be pretty damn evil!)
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Date: 2007-07-02 02:46 pm (UTC)Thank you! I obviously have a lot of great stuff to catch up on *g*.