Heroes 2.01 - Four Months Later

[weewarrior]

Brief, unsorted thoughts behind the cut:

• Very slow pacing in general, but I expect it to pick up soon


• Nothing is quite what it seems: Kensei uses a straw man and is not Japanese, Matt's bust is really just a test and the seedy apartment as well as the people in it are fake, Bennet is not a harmless paper salesman, Claire is not a robot (although seriously, West, what about robots from space? What about them? There are alien robots!), Nathan's face is probably not burned up (or is it?), Angela is not completely evil, Stephen Tobolowsky is likely way from harmless, West is not just an intrusive little stalker, Mohinder is not just a duped scientist, Maya is not as sweet and harmless as she looks, and Peter definitely is not dead. Good call there, Nate.


• The phonecall! Claire talks to Nathan! And he's ... not exactly being helpful, but a lot more open than he was at the end of Season One, which is vaguely sad given that he is now an insane drunk


• "He'll want those when he gets back" - I'll admit that this scene played far better than I feared it would, largely because they did not make Angela sound like a harpy but rather like someone who is just very tired. And selenak, cadesama, they jossed our idea of Papa Petrelli as an alcoholic! I was aghast!


• I'm calling dibs for Nathan having hallucinations and them being apparently connected to mirrors, even though it's admittedly not the same as being caught in the Matrix. And lookit, he did run into Ando!


• I also called Heidi leaving Nathan, and Matt and Janice divorcing, which probably makes me somewhat cynical about relationships...


• Undercover Scientist Mohinder made me giggle, but at least he is working with Bennet - and living with Matt and Molly! Sweet!


• Speaking of Noah, while I understand his frustration at his manager's antics, bodily threatening the man and risking being fired or getting sued is not what I would call inconspicuous behaviour, dear sir.


• I ... don't think Sandra is well, and it makes me so sad. Noah, I adore you, but you are a bastard.


• My, Randall Bentley has grown, hasn't he? And he's getting quite a deep voice, too.


• Why, hello there, Cork, you look much different than I remember. I'm really looking forward to encountering mountains and other geographical markers like that. And hey, is that Dominic Keating in some strangely old-fashioned clothing? And, oh, Pete! Hey, Pete! Your family misses you, and you forget them? That's not cool.


• Matt and Molly were adorable. The poor girl does have a lot on her plate - seeing your parents murdered, becoming the target of their killer, getting into the custody of an evil company, contracting a deadly virus, seeing two men explode, and a man you worship almost get killed is enough to give anyone nightmares. Add some icky creep with Sauron's voice to that, and I was astonished she didn't throw her plate at Matt. Something tells me she might want to talk to Nathan, though, scary beard or not.


• They killed George Takei! Noooo! And he was killed by ... a stunt double? Seriously, if the person's build is meant to be any indication, I have an idea who that is supposed to be, but we'll see what comes out of it.


• There are nine eight Elders left. Bring on the betting, people!


• And for everyone playing continuity bingo, the Company was founded 30 years ago, fairly likely by our merry bunch of - at that point twelve - Evil Elders.


• Hiro in the Past: promising. Adore Kensei, and Yaeko, too, but something tells me that this isn't going to go as by the numbers as it currently looks. We would all expect Hiro to succeed in turning his Han Solo into a shining hero, right? I have a feeling that that's not going to happen, and I will be devastated, because the character seems so much fun.


• Other new characters: can't say much about Maya and Alejandro yet, other than that I guess he is toast as he is not among the main characters; Stephen Tobolowsky is totally evil (if gifted with a useful power); West is basically no more than a catalyst, if an annoyingly pushy one. If he is supposed to have similarities to Nathan other than being dark-haired and being able to fly, I haven't found them yet.


• Can it be next week now?

Comments

[wee-warrior.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I didn't notice, but his clothes do not look very much like Peter's. Just because they are lighter colors doesn't make them Peter's -- especially since Peter actually usually wears dark colors. They do look frumpy on Nathan, and Peter is a bit smaller, so that could happen. In any case, if he is wearing Peter's clothes, that's a whole new level of crazy and disturbing and GET SOME THERAPY.

I honestly didn't think it were Peter's clothes, but then again I also think he is a wee bit too crazy for it only to come from drinking and grief. So I'm definitely firmly in the corner of Molly's Big Bad messing with him.

Ohhh, a fun love triangle this season!

Finally!

[12-12-12.livejournal.com]

The clothes...have you seen Peter's wardrobe for next week's ep? *dies laughing*

[wee-warrior.livejournal.com]

Flannel?

[12-12-12.livejournal.com]

Plaid flannel. Blue plaid flannel. *dies*

[wee-warrior.livejournal.com]

I'm sure that was hilarious for Adrian. Well, until he discovered the makeup he had to wear for those mirror scenes.

[cadesama.livejournal.com]

I honestly didn't think it were Peter's clothes, but then again I also think he is a wee bit too crazy for it only to come from drinking and grief. So I'm definitely firmly in the corner of Molly's Big Bad messing with him.

Oh, definitely. Is that somehow not canon yet?

[wee-warrior.livejournal.com]

Well - it's our canon. TWOP seems to either think he is just very emo, or that he actually killed Kaito. (or that part of Peter is trapped in his head.)

[cadesama.livejournal.com]

o_O TWOP is so strange. Although they are probably not on the up and up when it comes to the Nightmare Villain+zombies theory, so I guess I can give them a pass for not leaping to that conclusion. Still, Molly's having nightmares caused by the Big Bad. The Big Bad presumably just killed Kaito, and is connected to Angela. Nathan is hallucinating ... it's not that weird, a conclusion, just from this episode's info.

[wee-warrior.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's because a lot of people are still somewhat fuzzy on the Big Bad's power, and that's why they don't get the possible connection to the hallucinations. (Even though Greg Beeman specifically pointed out that something is up with that mirror image)