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Post by rich on Oct 10, 2006 16:13:10 GMT -5
Have only read some of the comments, mostly, so I'm just going to throw things out at random: The poor cheerleader and her Xander loyal sidekick: She got autopsied. Ouch, that's gonna leave a mark. I loved the Buffyesque why-me rant, too.Oh, me, too! "I just want to be normal." LOL! Speaking of the cheerleader. Is she doomed to be wearing the cheerleading outfit during the whole series? It may be the source of her power. ;D
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Post by Lola m on Oct 10, 2006 16:26:06 GMT -5
red, red, everywhere red. particularly against washed-out backgrounds (very dark or very light). Loved the shot of the red umbrella - and then seeing it in the comic book. Red bow in the little girl's hair. Mislead of red headphones on the other little girl. **nods** Red / pink really popped out in the freeze frame when Hiro ran to save the little girl.
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Post by Lola m on Oct 10, 2006 16:26:41 GMT -5
Hmm - I think he's eating the brains of these other heroes and then getting their powers. Or he started as Patient zero with all the powers - or he has Peter's ability to absorb other's powers. One of the above but there has to be a reason for all the missing brains. He has to be doing something with them and Claire's brain factored into last night's episode, as in she couldn't use her powers with something in her brain. So is Claire going to die every week? OMG, you killed Claire! You bastard!! #rofl1#
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Post by Lola m on Oct 10, 2006 16:31:15 GMT -5
DESTINYHiro had a great quote. He's been seeking his destiny from the beginning. Peter also started talking about his destiny. [In fact, Jim made me laugh out loud when Peter told the girl he was quitting because "this is not where I'm supposed to be," and Jim said: "You're supposed to be on Gilmore Girls!" Also thinking a bit (but haven't fleshed it out) about partners/supporters: Hiro/Ando Claire/Xanderish friend Ali Lartner/son Matt/FBI lady? or little girl? Mohinder/neighbor artist/heroin (ex-girlfriend?) Peter/black girl (not brother?) Antagonists: Hiro/ ?? Claire/dad stripper/mob boss Matt/ shadow guy Peter/brother Okay, 3 eps of introduction and set up, I'm ready for some of these people to meet up and start avoiding the apolcolypse. (I do love the much faster pace of info sharing than LOST and the "deadline" for some resolution for the antipated Nov. 8 annihilation of NYC.) I like the idea of matching up partners and watching for antagonists. It's gonna be very cool to watch each group merge more and more. Different pairs of heroes meeting and joining together and more antagonists with their own connections (I'll bet some of them are more connected than not!).
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Post by Lola m on Oct 10, 2006 16:32:29 GMT -5
I've been wondering that myself. Right now, it looks like she'd have stayed dead until that piece of wood was removed from her neck--suggesting that if there's something impeding its progress her flesh won't heal itself. But how far gone can she be and still have her flesh regenerate? A few hours? A few days? And does she feel any pain at all when she's wounded? 'Cause so far the evidence indicates she doesn't--particularly given that her first reaction upon waking to find her chest laid open was not to scream in agony. There have to be some limits on her power otherwise you have the potential for such silliness as a bomb blowing Claire to bits and then having each bit regenerate into a new individual Claire. #yikes#
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Post by Lola m on Oct 10, 2006 16:33:33 GMT -5
There have to be some limits on her power otherwise you have the potential for such silliness as a bomb blowing Claire to bits and then having each bit regenerate into a new individual Claire. Good point. Hope someone's watching her nail clippings.... **snorfle** Ahem. **eyes the clippings warily**
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Post by Rob on Oct 11, 2006 1:55:10 GMT -5
Speaking of the cheerleader. Is she doomed to be wearing the cheerleading outfit during the whole series? I should probably do a bit of research before I type my trademarked male smartass-ey response. Hold on... Ok, according the the S3 Legal Department, I cannot make this obvious joke until Aug. 21st, 2007. Please mark your calendars.
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Post by Sara on Oct 11, 2006 19:32:48 GMT -5
So, this episode was written by Jeph Loeb, a longtime comic book writer as well as one of the show's producers. Better still, he's teamed with artist Tim Sale on a number of projects, including Batman: The Long Halloween, one of the best graphic novels I've read in quite some time. And Sale is the one who does all of Isaac's drawings. Okay, maybe all of that is only interesting to me.
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Post by Sara on Oct 16, 2006 8:47:41 GMT -5
From Heather Havrilesky of salon.com:
With its third episode, "Heroes" has hit its stride. We've got the cheerleader with the big crush on a seemingly great guy, only to find that he's just another pushy high school horn dog. Ooof! We've got the tormented artist guy whose paintings and comics tell of a future nuclear holocaust in New York City -- think "Jericho," minus "Touched by an Angel" plus "Dark Angel" minus Jessica Alba plus "Ghost World" plus that scene in "Armageddon" where Liv Tyler and Ben Affleck make out to some rock anthem, just after Affleck saves the world from giant meteors. We've got the nutty Japanese guy who figures out how to teleport himself to New York City, then persuades his skeptical friend to come with him, and he does it all in subtitles, which seems wildly subversive, somehow, for network TV. (We'll have to downgrade our enthusiasm when this kid starts learning English at an unnatural clip, although I won't mind the misappropriated slang that's sure to come -- that seems to fit this show's giddily dark flavor perfectly.)
We've got the smoking-hot Indian seeking to solve the riddle of his dead father's mysterious work, and we've got the hapless, chubby cop who can read other people's minds. I love the mind-reading cop in particular, and nice touch to make the actress (Clea DuVall) who played the daughter of the mind reader from HBO's "Carnivale" his first subject, an FBI agent who doubts his story. Oh, and this is how you know it's a good show: When the cop first reads the FBI agent's mind, she's not thinking something like "I hope there's still pepperoni pizza left in the cafeteria by the time I get down there." She's thinking, "No one believes in me." Not only is it a psychologically interesting twist for such a ball buster to be having such vulnerable thoughts, but it fits with the overall theme of the show: Humans with special powers who are struggling to believe in themselves enough that they can get others to believe in them as well.
Until then, most of them are going to have to just model through it, of course. And no one needs to model through it more than earnest little underachiever Peter Petrelli (love that superhero-in-hiding name), whose big brother has just announced to the world that his little brother was attempting suicide (and not testing his ability to fly) when he jumped from a tall building. Poor Peter is also in love with the now ex-girlfriend of the tortured artist, and it's an oddly convincing romance, given how little we've seen of the two of them, since this is an ensemble show with more characters and stories than we can possibly keep track of.
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Post by Vlad on Oct 18, 2006 8:07:59 GMT -5
*intones in a very hushed, thoughtful, cautionary voice*
If you had a secret, what would you do? If you could save the world, would you commit great sacrifice? Would you tell your secret? Would you be believed? If you had great power would you use it for good, for evil, for beneficence, for greed? Who could you trust? Would you wear tights?
*cough...ahem*
Oh, who knows? I only have one great power and I ain't talkin'. Wild horses couldn't drag it out of me! Let's just let it lie with it involves oil, vigorous motions and it leaves a lot of smiles and moans in it's wake. And no, it's not punning! That requires much less oil.
But our dear S'cubie, Sara, has a great power that everyone can enjoy. Okay, okay two. I mean she is, after all, The Planetary Voice Of Reason. But away from her day job, she also has an alter-ego... by night she becomes... The Reviewer!
Yes, dear S'cubies, we are adding ...
A welcome addition to our regular reviews, this delightful show has become "can't miss TV" for the board and mass audiences everywhere. And who better to review the first episode of this phenomenon than our sometimes caped and occasionally crusading Sara? Yes, dear readers, she will valiantly show you the way!
For your very first installment of the awesome review of this amazing show's premiere, leap on over to the S'cubie website and check in the HEROES: EMERGENCE Fortress of Solitude Bat Cave area. Make sure to thank and comment to this mighty champion, Sara, in the review thread located here. Don't forget your secret decoder rings! Hiro needs your help!
Vlad
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Post by Sara on Oct 22, 2006 20:42:47 GMT -5
So, here's something interesting... A shot of the textbook Claire pulls out of her locker at school: And the cover of the elder Suresh's book:
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Post by Spaced Out Looney on Oct 22, 2006 20:49:41 GMT -5
So, here's something interesting... A shot of the textbook Claire pulls out of her locker at school: <snip> And the cover of the elder Suresh's book: <snip> Whoa! Nice catch! This symbol is definitely turning into the Lost numbers thing, huh?
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Post by Sara on Nov 20, 2006 9:23:08 GMT -5
Just in case anyone's remotely interested, the cross I discuss in my review:
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Post by Lola m on Nov 24, 2006 22:45:49 GMT -5
Fab review, Sara! (I have much empathy for the difficulty reviewing a past ep when you've already seen the ones that come after. You managed to do a great job of getting back to the feelings and questions and issues. You're a better woman than I am, 'cuz I cheated on my Lost review and did a combo one of the old ep and the stuff we'd learned since then. ;D Brava, Sara, brava!)
Excellent use of theme - the idea of belief and non-belief. I hadn't thought of all the examples you mentioned, and loved the way you compared and contrasted them. For example, the difficulty she has believing in Isaac's ability to see the future while immediately believing that Peter did not try to kill himself. Now, part of that is that Simone is standing in for the audience, the "normal" folks. And let's face it, as you pointed out, many / most folks would probably not believe a junkie claiming to paint the future. But it also was a reflection of the distance between her and Isaac and the growing bond between her and Peter.
I hadn't thought to connect Mohinder's doubts to this overall theme, and yet when you point it out, it's obvious. He wants to believe and yet he wants to pull away at the same time.
I also wouldn't have thought of Claire in this context, but again you are so right about Zach and the importance of his belief in her specialness. And the most recent episode, to me, really proved how much he believes in her - and not just in her powers.
Loved this paragraph:
I think we'll see some more of that romanticism turned into realism after the experience with the waitress. Not only because he was/is (apparently) unable to save her, but also because of Sylar himself - another "superhero", but warped.
A few more random things I really enjoyed in your review.
1) Much giggling and #metoo#ness over:
2) More giggling over:
3) Eetah and OMG, yes! over:
Excellent job, Sara! #clap#
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Post by Queen E on Dec 11, 2006 8:38:15 GMT -5
Dude.
You put me to shame, with your Google-fu superpowers! Excellent observations on Sylar, the wall o' crazy, and the varying shades of belief/disbelief within the Heroverse so far. I like, too, that all of this occurs within an episode called "One Giant Leap," tying in with the idea of a "leap" of faith...what makes some more willing to believe (Hiro, Peter, Isaac), what makes others shut down the possiblity (Simone, Nathan), and what makes some stand perpetually on the ledge, unable to leap at all for indecision (Mohinder).
Very precise breaking down of all the relationships, and you bring up many intriguing questions! Awesome!
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