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Post by Spaced Out Looney on Jan 26, 2007 20:27:19 GMT -5
Part III
Does the Haitian hold all the cards.
Is the Haitian Linderman?
This actress is doing a great job here.
"What you can do, what I can do, that is God. Respect your calling."
Nathan assumes that Hiro made time with Charlie. Polar opposites: innocence and worldliness.
I LOVE this scene.
They don't realize it's Peter.
Somewhere in the Nevada desert. Heeeee!!
Fireballs. Like Bobby Torch.
Oh, this is where they did the whole jumping to certain death thing.
Her powers are going to be in flux too.
She made the original tape for her birth parents. I didn't put that together before.
Now she's doing it for herself.
Oh, good. Her powers are still good as ever.
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Post by Spaced Out Looney on Jan 26, 2007 20:36:18 GMT -5
Part IV Neat, that he could reach his hand through the glass. Intense emotion and desire trigger Jessica. Daddy Bennett's here. "All spies are very good people, just misunderstood." "Not everyone who has these abilities deserve them." Daddy Bennett bugged Suresh. He proposes an alliance. "Are you on the list?" "when" you change your mind. Not if. Prima16. Mending fences. She's gonna freak. Christopher Eccleston!!!!!! He absorbed some one's power that he can't control. That did it. Yeah, that's probably how I would react too.
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Post by Spaced Out Looney on Jan 26, 2007 20:40:23 GMT -5
Coda
They still have have the rental car? How expensive is that? Do they really have enough money to afford this "vacation?"
Linderman's a client of Simone's. Huh?
That's why Nevada Desert. 'Cept the Trinity site is in New Mexico.
Peter can see him even though he's Invisible Man. So it's not just absorbing power, other's power doesn't work on him either?
"In the beginning there was discovery" I like this voiceover.
"Who needs God when you've got me?"
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Post by Spaced Out Looney on Jan 26, 2007 20:42:31 GMT -5
I dislike "previously on" guy's voice. I wish they had mo-mo do it instead. 'Cuz everything goes better with Mo-mo. ;D #metoo#
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Post by Spaced Out Looney on Jan 26, 2007 20:46:31 GMT -5
Hey. So the symbol is a mixture of Japanese characters? Great talent and Godsend? Interesting. I think it must also have to do with being a warped version of a double helix, though, too. Considering the theme of mutating people and all. Maybe the ancient sacred symbols sort of . . . predicted this future or something? I still say there's a connection with the flash micromedia symbol. ;D macromedia flashplayer site
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Post by Spaced Out Looney on Jan 26, 2007 20:51:22 GMT -5
Okay, I'm gonna go out on a limb right now and make a prediction: Linderman is Claire's father. And he gave him to HRG to give her a 'normal' life? Seems plausible. I wonder about her brother, because HRG and her foster mom don't seem like a couple. That's a definite possibility. Though I thought that Daddy Bennett was telling the truth when he was talking about how Claire's parents died and he decided to raise her up as his own.
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Post by Spaced Out Looney on Jan 26, 2007 20:53:17 GMT -5
Hey. So the symbol is a mixture of Japanese characters? Great talent and Godsend? Interesting. I think it must also have to do with being a warped version of a double helix, though, too. Considering the theme of mutating people and all. Maybe the ancient sacred symbols sort of . . . predicted this future or something? Yeah, I think the DNA thing has got to figure into it. Of course, DNA is the basis of all life, almost god-like. Er, I beg to differ. But may be true on the show, considering how genetics have been treated so far.
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Post by Spaced Out Looney on Jan 26, 2007 20:55:57 GMT -5
Whoa! NIKI did that, not Jessica. Hot damn - so that's why she looked so surprised?! Cool! Well, it fits with Isaac getting clean and seeing that he can still paint without getting high. Oh, you mean the part when she broke the baton? Maybe Niki and Jessica are starting to integrate.
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Post by Spaced Out Looney on Jan 26, 2007 21:05:34 GMT -5
More from EW: Didn't you think the scene between H.R.G. and Mohinder was a little too reminiscent of a Darth Vader speech. (''You've no doubt realized things can go terribly wrong with these abilities. If you work with me, we can control that. Together we can actually make a difference.'' Yes, H.R.G., and rule the galaxy as well). And am I the only one who thinks the closing narrations are getting more and more incomprehensible? I wrote this episode's down and listened to it twice. It still sounds like utter nonsense.To which I say: yes, and word. I dunno. I thought this one actually made sense.
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Post by Spaced Out Looney on Jan 26, 2007 21:06:48 GMT -5
And don't forget, Sylar was staring at a cockroach—which is what Mohinder suggested God might be in the very first episode. Oooooh! Clever thinking, you! I noticed the very blatant cockroach, 'cuz it was definitely filmed in a "notice the cockroach - see it! see it!" way. But all it made me think of was Renfield and then, of course, poor Xander. So this episode is all about God then? Makes sense.
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Post by Spaced Out Looney on Jan 26, 2007 21:09:23 GMT -5
Heee! ;D But maybe this is from a super-secret hidden part of the HG Project! An agency created to balance out the one that papercompany!daddy is running! Hrm. If it was supersecret, how did MoDaddy find out about it? I think the writers have some notion that the HGP is a database of sequences of all or at least millions of humans, and that you can just search it and find people that way. I dunno - do any of them remember donating blood to the HGP? I'm thinking they just think it sounds nifty. Pretty, pretty genes.
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Post by fish1941 on Jan 27, 2007 0:03:40 GMT -5
Okay, so overall I found the episode to be a placeholder. It didn't advance any of the plots in any significant way - it was more like "hey, remember where we were a couple months ago?" Which is something about this show that grates on me - they keep underestimating the audience with the voiceovers, too.
Really? Between Claire re-establishing her friendship with Zach, D.L. returning the money and learning that he might have more problems with Linderman, a clean Isaac making an attempt to re-establish his relationship with Simone, Peter awakening from his coma and meeting the Invisible Man, Hiro having difficulties with his powers - along with meeting Isaac, Simone and Nathan again, Niki being dumped in the psycho ward and Mohinder meeting Bennett for the second time . . . I'd say that some of plots have been advanced.
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Post by Spaced Out Looney on Jan 27, 2007 18:34:06 GMT -5
Great review, Erin. I really liked your exploration of the order over chaos theme. And also this observation.
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Post by Queen E on Jan 28, 2007 9:28:11 GMT -5
Great review, Erin. I really liked your exploration of the order over chaos theme. And also this observation. Thanks! I thought it was interesting that each of the heroes tried so hard to maintain order, and no one quite succeeded... As for the newscast, that was just too perfect a line to ignore. Almost a little too perfect. And opens up all sorts of interpretations, the less kind being obvious in the sentence construction of "how to remember" considering how mean she was to so many people. Many thanks for reading and commenting!
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Post by Spaced Out Looney on Jan 28, 2007 14:43:16 GMT -5
I've seen a lot of discussion in ljland about the "de-gaying" of Zach (meaning, I guess, that he was portrayed as straight in this episode). I was wondering if anyone picked up on that, and if so, if you can indicate what shows that, because I totally don't remember that. I don't recall Zach expressing a sexual preference of any kind in this episode actually.
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