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Post by Rachael on Nov 7, 2006 10:09:02 GMT -5
Little things I loved, which probably have already been covered: Micah's a Talent too! Woohoo!! Yes!! I was all "we knew it, we knew it, we knew it!" She was either a Mulder-like person already or else she was already in the know, I think. Like maybe there's a "supernatural" FBI team or group or something? Right. Like that ever happens.
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Post by Sara on Nov 7, 2006 10:10:40 GMT -5
Talk, damn you!! ;D I liked the nice parallels and themes we got. Like sharing or not sharing info - why many of the heroes want to hide and why they are being "outed". Like brothers/siblings - the push and pull of them - fighting and still loving each other, helping each other out, at least eventually. And the way the various people are starting to meet up in little clumps. Hiro and Micah and his dad. The cop and the radiation fire guy. Isaac and Peter. I think the clumps are significant in more than one way. My new game: group the Heroes into "good" and "bad" - how do you predict they'll fall out, if we assume we have superheroes and supervillains? So far, I've got only three in the "bad" column: Nathan, Jennifer/Niki, and Sylar. I think. Micah is a wild card, IMO - he could go either way. Myself, I'd put Jessica in the bad column and leave Niki either undecided or leaning toward good.
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Post by Rachael on Nov 7, 2006 10:11:25 GMT -5
If I can't post in real-time, at least I can read peoples' comments the morning after. I've been trying to quantify Peter's powers. The best I can come up with is that whatever there is in Peter that makes him a good caregiver, his empathy, if you will, is what makes him understand and mirror others' powers back to them. Peter is the one who sees, understands, and returns their strength to them. Something like that. Anne, defy the cheerleader, destroy the chicken P.S. I don't think Nathan is bad, yet. He's a sleeze in his personal life (am I the only one who thinks, from his wife's expressions, that he's cheated before?), but he isn't an evil villain. He's probably going to have to choose one way or the other at some point, and I'm going to guess he comes down on the good side in the end. I'm thinking his wife's expressions had to do with the fact that he was somehow responsible for her current paralysis, and she has already forgiven him for his role, but he hasn't forgiven himself: hence he walks on eggs around her. That said, he's probably gonna practice his "mwuhahah!" laugh, but from what I've seen of him so far, he's pragmatic, moderately ruthless, but not so much with the evil. See, here's the thing - I was with you on that until he lied to his brother about the painting. After everything Peter'd done for him at that breakfast, he lied about something he knew was important to his brother's search for his own identity. Evil.
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Post by Spaced Out Looney on Nov 7, 2006 10:12:52 GMT -5
Part IV Matt's wife and Nathan's wife should start a club. He needed to be with some one who didn't make him feel guilty. What is the value of a superpower? Well, flying is fun, for one thing. Spooky Euro Dude. I'm gonna start calling him that. Nathan as a realist. Sort of the polar opposite of Hiro. Marks on his shoulder. This guy is the one. Ah, here's the Suresh voice over. Micah's superpower is...electricity? He can tell it's not her. Clever kid. I thought she didn't need guns.
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Post by Rachael on Nov 7, 2006 10:13:17 GMT -5
That's all well and good for those of you on East Coast/Central time, but it deprives us West Coasters of conversation. They always forget we exist. C'mon, we more than made up for our initial lapse--you had six pages to read when you showed up. Not really. Y'all started posting near the end, so I had to mostly stay away until the very end, lest I get spoiled.
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Post by Pixi on Nov 7, 2006 10:15:12 GMT -5
Staggering in - 9 pages already? 9? Ack!
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Post by Pixi on Nov 7, 2006 10:15:54 GMT -5
Niki survived, of course. I'm glad she's confiding in someone. True - but red haired woman is just kind of boring and one note.
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Post by Rachael on Nov 7, 2006 10:16:32 GMT -5
I think the clumps are significant in more than one way. My new game: group the Heroes into "good" and "bad" - how do you predict they'll fall out, if we assume we have superheroes and supervillains? So far, I've got only three in the "bad" column: Nathan, Jennifer/Niki, and Sylar. I think. Micah is a wild card, IMO - he could go either way. Myself, I'd put Jessica in the bad column and leave Niki either undecided or leaning toward good. I dunno. I see...tendencies...in her. Even when she's Niki and not Jessica. I know she's desperate, but deliberately calling out someone she knows is a serial killer (Jessica) is a step too far. Her son was gone, yeah, and she'd be freaking out, but also - she knows he's with his father, and I'm pretty sure his father wouldn't hurt him, so Micah wasn't in any immediate danger. I had some serious moral issues with both her calls - to Jessica and to Nathan. Also, I remain unconvinced that Niki and Jessica are really different people. I think the odds of them becoming integrated at some point are high. Maybe after Niki finds a good shrink.
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Post by Pixi on Nov 7, 2006 10:16:47 GMT -5
So. I'm guessing Matt's wife is cheating on him. And I'd bet money that wasn't actually Sylar. I'll bet with you. So is radioactive guy the bomb that blows up NY? I assume that's what we're supposed to assume. But geez - he must be very radioactive.
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Post by Pixi on Nov 7, 2006 10:23:14 GMT -5
Niki survived, of course. I'm glad she's confiding in someone. And I'm glad her alter-ego didn't kill her confidante later. It was very chilling when Micah said so matter of factly, "put my mom on the phone". Ohhh I loved that. Micah has been a bit meh to me up to now as I haven't really felt his personality strong enough yet and he just seemed like a product-placed "intelligent and in danger" child. I loved this - not just for the superpower reveal (I kind of think that was a given) but for the way that we are now clued into the whole he knows about Jessica, he's talked to Jessica before. That was awesome.
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Post by Sara on Nov 7, 2006 10:24:33 GMT -5
C'mon, we more than made up for our initial lapse--you had six pages to read when you showed up. Not really. Y'all started posting near the end, so I had to mostly stay away until the very end, lest I get spoiled. Well, you didn't miss much. Our conversation was mostly comments like "whoa," "that's gonna leave a mark" (unless it was Claire), "cool," "neat," and "huh." Besides, you complain that you can't go on the board during certain hours lest you get spoiled, and now you complain because we're trying to be thoughtful? Make up your mind, woman.
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Post by Matthew on Nov 7, 2006 10:27:52 GMT -5
I don't think Nathan's a Supervillain type. He seems to be more of a garden-variety arse, and if he's not gonna use his flying for evil-laugh-inducing purposes, he's just an arsehole politician with an unsual talent that's a bit more extreme than wriggling his ears. A garden-variety villain. Niki is in a Jekyl/Hyde struggle at the moment, even though she let her other half loose to go after DL, she is in panicked mom mode. Sylar's been the only one to actually do any evil gloating, in his message to Chandra Suresh. Ah, but that's why it'll be interesting - they don't necessarily start out evil, but their lack of grounding in anything solid, morally, will let them become evil. I'm putting my money on both Nathan and Niki winding up on the wrong side in a few months here. Quit possible. I remember being all fascinated and happy with the way that "Smallville" had Lex starting out as Clark's best of buds/DL lover/confidante: and the way Baltar was played in the new BSG. Most bad guys are convinced that they aren't the villains, after all.
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Post by Spaced Out Looney on Nov 7, 2006 10:28:54 GMT -5
So. I'm guessing Matt's wife is cheating on him. And I'd bet money that wasn't actually Sylar. I'll bet with you. So is radioactive guy the bomb that blows up NY? I assume that's what we're supposed to assume. But geez - he must be very radioactive. Ooh, that's a thought!
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Post by Spaced Out Looney on Nov 7, 2006 10:30:34 GMT -5
I think he's just a new mix in the puzzle. I also think he has a power, but i can't figure out what it is. #wavey# Welcome, newspikefan!
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Post by Matthew on Nov 7, 2006 10:32:11 GMT -5
I'm thinking his wife's expressions had to do with the fact that he was somehow responsible for her current paralysis, and she has already forgiven him for his role, but he hasn't forgiven himself: hence he walks on eggs around her. That said, he's probably gonna practice his "mwuhahah!" laugh, but from what I've seen of him so far, he's pragmatic, moderately ruthless, but not so much with the evil. See, here's the thing - I was with you on that until he lied to his brother about the painting. After everything Peter'd done for him at that breakfast, he lied about something he knew was important to his brother's search for his own identity. Evil. Oh! I hadn't quite got that he'd lied to Peter about the painting. I thought the mobster had told him "no" and I'd just misunderstood Nathan's end of the one-sided conversation, as ya have to be defferential to someone who's just given you four million bucks. *makes plan to rewatch scene later*
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