*** Heroes - with spoilers *** Robert Seeberger wrote: > >>> More detail. I pretty much knew all these spoilers before I saw the >>> episodes and/or figured the course of things out beforehand. >> >> It was a surprise to see George Takei as Hiro's father... Even >> though it seems he's a minor character. > > I believe he or his character is coming back next season. Perhaps > not so minor in the overall mythos. > Will there be a next season? I thought the 1st was all that was there to watch. > >> And reading things in the Internet is a _very_ bad idea if you >> want to watch a show. I was looking for data on episodes I had >> missed, and I learned that the cheerleader was the daughter >> of the flying man - information that comes from Ep 13! > > Spoilers don't bother me too much. I'm usually thinking about how > Hiro's power works and the implications. When I watch an episode > where I know some of what is to come, I am looking for clues to what > will come beyond what I am seeing now. Kring and co have given us a > very fun game in this. > Kring? > Now when Nathan was revealed to be Claires bio-father I was pissed. > It seemed to me to be a pointless, soap-operaish plot point. > It would be a cliché if _Sylar_ was Claire's bio-father :-)
> But > there was some redemption in later drama that stemmed from the > revelation that *did* expand and advance the story. I just dislike > the idea that everyone is related to everyone else in some kind of > shipper fantasy. > Maybe this could be a "logical" explanation for the superpowers. All of them are children or grand-children of Hiro, who travelled back in time and fathered the first generation of supermen. Hiro would be his own grand-father, like Futurama's Fry. > >> Of course my two favourite characters are Hiro Nakamura >> and the cheerleader. > > Same here. I think the best thing about the show is the expansive > cast. East Asians, South Asians, Carribeans....the show is more like > the world than any other fiction on American television. Next year > they will have Hispanics!<G> > I like the japanese speaking Japanese, instead of japanese speaking English with a japanese accent when they are supposed to be speaking Japanese. In this we should praise Mel Gibson: 5 years ago, nobody would dare to put any other language, but after the success of The Passion of the Christ, we have to see people speaking their own languages. > >> Tom Orley's "powers" are nowhere near the demigods of Heroes. > > Bah! > Most of the powers are not all that special and would not allow any > individual to dominate large numbers of people. > Hiro: can go back in time and kill your grandfather. He is by far the most powerful of all Cheerleader: no big deal, even to defend herself her power is useless (Sylar would have killed her anyway) Nathan the flying man: no big deal, great for escaping Haitian: this is a *huge* power. He could dominate anyone, just by turning them into mindless drones The one with the persuasion power: another *huge* power. It was stupid to let herself be killed by Sylar Peter: alone, he is useless. But if he can recolled the other people's powers, he is invincible and so on. Half of them _could_ dominate a large number of people. > While the "Heroes" > are a bit flashy, the majority of them are not much different than > Orley. Outside of Peter and Sylar, Orley could likey whoop most of > them. > No, he couldn't. He wouldn't even get close to most of them. > Orley is definately smarter than any of them. I believe Orleys > intelligence accounts for a great deal. > Bah. In a world with superheroes, Orley would be the _villain_ :-P > I would also note that HRG > (Noah Bennet) has no powers but has been on top of the empowered > individuals almost all the series. > Yes, and it makes no sense that Sylar didn't kill him (ok, Sylar was mad, he only killed supermen, but then why he would kill Noah's wife?) >> Zane? I don't remember this name (BTW, I can hardly remeber the >> names of them all - better be Hiro-like and call them >> by the superpowers). > > Zane could make metals turn into a liquid form without using heat. > This is a huge destructive power! Alberto Monteiro _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
