Monday, October 20, 2008

Heroes: Family Grudge Match

I'm liking it, I'm liking it.

1. Claire, doing her thing, being heroic! Good for her.
2. Gruesomeness of the patriarch ripping out his feeding tube and his tracheotomy, then instantly healing. I appreciate it, how sick is that?
3. Sylar, trying to be good!
4. Peter, having that whole parental dilemma.
5. Some of us called it on Hiro's wilyness.

More please.

3 comments:

Toby said...

At first, I thought, "Okay, if you remove Adam's power and he dries up into a skeleton, a la the Nazi sympathizer in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, when Peter's powers are taken away, shouldn't he fall victim to all of the injuries his healing power (same as Adam's) gave him?" But then I figured that perhaps removing the healing power only lets age take its natural course, leaving everything else untouched. Plausible, but still a bit of an inconsistency, I feel.

So, is Peter to remain the family screw-up, with Sylar now saving the day? That would be a nice twist.

Parkman storyline is still lame.

Hiro and Ando still the vaudeville comedy routine.

Ali Larter still superfluous.

Oh Mohinder, how did it all go so wrong? And with your new found power, the best you can do to hide your shame is a plastic curtain? Just sad.

Agreed they've picked up their game...thankfully.

Laura said...

Yeah, I took the power-suck that left him vulnerable to old wounds so much as Adam reverting to mortality--mortally, he'd be 400 years old or whatever. Peter ages normally, so he wasn't so much undone of all past supernatural cell activities as deprived of them in future. Hence he's just useless and pissed.

I like Peter reverting to family screwup (and having to deal with Sylar as being the good one; what twisted sibling dynamics are those?). I also really like how this plays out on the micro level with the filial resentments. Save the world! Get back at your dad.

Parkman is like those 24 love interludes--yeah yeah, we don't have *time* for that! Who cares about your soulmate feelings when there's a world to save!

But Ali Larter and Adrian Pasdar get to run around and be very handsome together. You can't call that nothing.

Laura said...

Boy, that first sentence made no sense. Sorry.

Yeah, I took the power-suck [not to mean] that [it] left him vulnerable to old wounds so much as Adam reverting to mortality--mortally, he'd be 400 years old or whatever.