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Post by KMInfinity on Dec 9, 2006 0:33:52 GMT -5
*This episode really has one rooting for our heroes…
*Hiro is just wonderful.
*I’m wondering if Sylar wasn’t ever really “captive” but biding his time to get to Eden/other heroes…
*The only good thing about seeing “frozen NY” is seeing that Micah, Niki, and DL finally get connected to the big picture and seem to end up in the Heroes column. And Nathan is bad…very very bad. Worse than Sylar, I bet. But maybe he’ll do some last minute, death redemption thing, like Eden.
*It’s too early to tell exactly where they’re going, but I think it’s clear there will be a budding relationship with Peter and Claire. There’s quite a bit of “awwwww” factor there. “You’re my hero,” she says to Peter. Maybe I’m way off base but it seem to me that based on the way the scenes played the writers/producers are promoting the “Paire” shipping…
*Lots of questions about how the powers work, their limitations, their possibilities. Is it a coincidence that Isaac controls his power while with Hiro? What is the distance factor for Peter’s power? What exactly does Sylar do? Was the feedback with Peter and Matt due to their proximity or to the Haitian? Does Ando have any powers? And more…
With so many shows on winter hiatus, I'll be catching up on some reading.
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Post by Queen E on Dec 11, 2006 8:06:21 GMT -5
I wouldn't worry. Claire's just hero-worshipping the cute guy (with powers!) who saved her life, and Peter isn't interested in Claire in that way. He's in love with Simone. Oh, I know. But you wouldn't believe the number of people who were 'shipping a 17 year-old and a guy in his late twenties/early thirties right from the get go. It was a little scary. *cough* BuffyandAngel*cough* ETA: That being said, I'm not really sure if that's the direction they are going in...and we are talking about TV world here; part of, for instance, what drew Buffy and Angel together was that Buffy was "different" and Angel was too, so there was an understanding there that she would have lacked with someone like, for instance, Scott Hope. I say this because I really don't want to start a debate about the legalities of the Buffy/Angel relationship; it bores me and applies a real world logic to a fictional environment, where I don't feel it belongs. The arc of their relationship had an emotional resonance appropriate for the story, and I'm satisfied with that. If I believed that viewers are so passive and easily manipulated that every 17-year-old girl who watched Buffy would go out and pick up 26-year-olds because Buffy did, that would be different. I don't believe that. Moving on: For Peter and Claire, I see affection there, on Peter's side, and a bit of a crush/hero worship on Claire's. Which makes perfect sense. Peter, however, strikes me as a little too serious and experienced to seriously consider dating someone in high school; he also strikes me as at least one of the moral centers on the show, and I don't think he would think it would be OK to date Claire. To use a Buffyverse model, it strikes me as less like Buffy and Angel and more like Xander and Dawn. What really strikes me is the amount of people who ship the Petrelli brothers. (They site the amount of touching/hugging between Peter and Nathan.) Geez, if two guys hugging or touching automatically equals: "I want to have sex with you," no wonder some guys avoid touching another guy at all.
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Post by Lola m on Jan 28, 2007 20:22:18 GMT -5
Another great review, Sara. It is exciting to be at the “it’s all new” stage, isn’t it? Everything is bright and shiny and new. Potential is always exciting and scary.
Just like the characters are facing, eh? What if I do this, what will happen? What if I do something else? What if I do nothing? As you said, the title “Fallout” is deliberately meant to highlight both the possible future explosion and the consequences of what we’ve seen so far. Hiro is focused on consequences if he goes back into the past (again), but the present is going to be the past soon enough. What each of them is doing right now is building toward one future or another. And, as you also point out, not just from the direct impact but also as one event sets others in motion – balls rebounding off each other in a game of pool.
Really really really liked your examples of “event” and “fallout”. Especially how you walk us through the progression of the relationship between Claire and her father.
Wonderful breakdown of how thing deteriorate. (Eetahing your appreciation for the way the actress handled this ep – very good stuff.) Well, at least for Claire the relationship is irrevocably altered. I have to keep reminding myself that daddy thinks things are just fine.
I hadn’t really noticed how much daddy Bennet was “hoist on his own petard”, so to speak, with Matt and Audrey. His actions to try and dissuade them are the things that make them want to look more closely. I can’t help but think that his slip of the tongue taunt of Matt in the most recent ep may have the same effect.
Finally, I was very happy to read your speculation about Peter in the final paragraphs. It seem to be that a key to stopping the explosion lies in figuring out just what his dream acutally is and what it means. I lean toward premonition, at least in part, due to the same things you pointed out. But a constantly changing premonition perhaps? Altering as each new action, each new cause, creates a new effect?
And future!Hiro – as you point out, we can’t forget future!Hiro and his message. I don’t think we’re done with that yet.
Kudos, Sara!
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