Heroes: Four Months Later

[thuviaptarth]

Mohinder: Still pretty.
Claire: Still trying to save people, even when it's random girls in gym class.
Noah Bennet: Still the smartest and the greyest.
Dialogue: Still awful.
New female character: Still introduced with rape threat and homicidal powers she can't control, everybody's favorite things about the Claire and Nikki storylines!
David Anders: Still white. I hope he dies and the swordsmith's daughter becomes Kensei, which would at least be less predictable than Hiro becoming Kensei.
West: I hope he is supposed to feel as stalkery and creepy as I find him.
Parkman: I wonder what's up with the divorce. And I dearly hope real NYPD hostage training doesn't train officers to shoot black men and/or women not holding fucking weapons on them, given at least two highly publicized cases of unarmed black men murdered by cops in the past ten years. Sheesh. Thank you for the extra unintentional dose of creepy, Show!
Angela Petrelli: Not allowed to die when she still has secrets. Can't they kill off Peter or Nathan instead?
Charles Deveaux: I do wonder about that building.

Comments

[kate_nepveu]

Yeah, I yelled at the TV about the hostage training, but my enh at the rest of the episode overwhelmed the early outrage.

[untrue-accounts.livejournal.com]

I liked that Mohinder and Noah Bennet are working together. Maybe Bennet can overcome Mohinder's tendency to be so dumb.

I actually found the Matt stuff really, really creepy -- like reminders of SS "Five Years Gone" Matt -- but I'm not convinced the show is conscious of that. I do like Matt as Molly's dad, and I do like the information about his family slipped in; my working suspicion is that he's divorced Janice for her protection and the protection of the baby, and that they plan to get back together later. I'd love it if Janice got her own conspiracy storyline.

[laurashapiro.livejournal.com]

Charles Deveaux: I do wonder about that building.

Yeah, when Ando and Nakamura had their scene on the roof, P. said "Why are they always meeting there?" I hadn't thought about the Deveaux connection, though. Do you suppose he's haunting the place?

[untrue-accounts.livejournal.com]

No, I don't think he's haunting the place. It's the building he owned, and in which he died. I still wonder what his power was, what his role in Gen 1.0 was, and what Gen 1.0's plans were. He was clearly central to the Gen 1.0 conspiracy -- not only did he and Angela meet there in Peter's flashback dream, the rooftop is where Kaito Nakamura gave baby Claire to Noah Bennet.

And I wonder why Simone didn't seem to have any powers, since the other mutants seemed to give power as a dominant trait to their kids. (Which also makes Nathan's legitimate kids a question mark who should come up again.)

[laurashapiro.livejournal.com]

Right, I know he owned the building, but I was thinking of Peter's dream thing from last year's finale, and how many unanswered questions there are about *that*. Time travel? Vision/dream? Something else?

If we see Deveaux again, I hope he's a proper character and not a magical negro.

[jeviltwin.livejournal.com]

[very quiet] I don't even watch Heroes, but I'm glad you're here-not-here. *g* [/very quiet]

[nothings.livejournal.com]

It was weird to me at the time, but I forgot about it, but geez that hostage scene makes no sense.

Ok, in the real situation, Matt could probably use the character's thoughts to figure it out. But what would somebody think in that case? Maybe something like "is he going to fall for it? i hope he falls for it" would be a dead giveaway.

But (in the world of the show), neither one is actually guilty--they're acting. So they would be more likely to be thinking thoughts that are actorly--or else they're totally in the role and trying to think thoughts like the character would in a method-y way. BUT! One of them is pretending to be a crook pretending to be a hostage. So if her thoughts were about acting, it would be one set of weird possibly misleading thoughts; but if her thoughts are in character (in a method-y way) they could be all the way into the pretending-to-be-the-hostage thoughts.

Er, ok, that got more confusing as I explained it, but the fundamental idea is pretty simple. A guilty guy could just as easily think to himself "it's her, it's her" in an attempt to do a convincing job of faking.

Mind, I didn't work that all out at the time; but it didn't feel right, either.