Mon 21 May 2007
Sweet velveteen Christ.
Wow.
KJ and I, in what has become something of a Monday tradition, left one another largely incoherent voicemails afterward.
Mon 21 May 2007
Sweet velveteen Christ.
Wow.
KJ and I, in what has become something of a Monday tradition, left one another largely incoherent voicemails afterward.
Yeah, it was pretty freaking awesome. I especially loved that they gave us a little taste of vol. 2. And I totally squealed when Bennet said his first name. And I can’t wait to find out who Molly’s creepy dude is – the one that’s worse than Sylar? Waiting for next season might be nigh impossible.
It doesn’t help that I was running a fever last night. Fever – it’s like free drugs.
I am reading the web today with great trepidation, as I have to wait till the re-run on SciFi on Friday, since I, ashamedly, have been TiVoing /24/ in the same timeslot. (/Heroes/ has a re-run on cable, whereas /24/, sadly does not.)
But I can’t wait to see what happens.
I enjoyed it quite a bit while watching it, but admit to some dissatisfaction after the fact. The climactic battle versus Sylar in particular was rather anti. Jessiki knocks Sylar into left field with a parking meter but can’t stay in the fight because… um… DL is bleeding or something? Hero pops in and charges Sylar with a sword, and there’s nothing Sylar can do to stop it? I mean, I’d understand if Hero popped in with the sword already inside Sylar, or stopped time and stabbed him, but that didn’t happen. (And then Hero inexplicably fails to decapitate him afterwards?)
I dunno, I thought they could have come up with a much better set piece fight for the season finale, with three bad-ass fighters able to team up against Sylar.
None of this is to take away from the goose bumps I got at the beginning of Volume Two. Eclipse!
I agree with dob for the most part. Overall, I was VERY satisfied with the episode. I think they intentionally kept the fight scene minimalized (budget?) so that they can easily “top it” in successive seasons.
Things that bothered me/didn’t work:
1) As mentioned earlier, Nikki only gets one swing in? I thought it was gonna be a DC Superfriends moment, but we only got a grab bag.
2) So, the heroes all wait for the authorities to show up and none of them are significantly questioned? There was an obvious murder and everyone gets to just wander back home?
3) Pursuant to the last point, authorities show up and NO ONE notices that Sylar’s body is gone?
4) I HOPE that Nathan realized that once he was high enough, he could simply DROP Peter and fly away from him. It’s not gonna happen, but I’ll REALLY miss Nathan.
These quibbles aside, I am going to die before the next season starts. It’s just too painful to wait.
doug
Arg. I *just* wiped it off the dvr this weekend, so I can’t go back and check – but I thought part of the reason Niki only took one swing at Sylar was that Peter told her something like, “Thanks, I got it now”? Did I make that up? And I thought he said that because she’d gotten near enough to him that he could absorb her superstrength.
Oh, hey, that Peter had absorbed her strength wasn’t even something I’d considered. Good catch! You didn’t at all imagine Peter telling Niki that he “had this,” but I assumed it was because Peter’s eternal martyr complex led him to believe he was the only one who could fight Sylar because Peter could potentially manifest and use against him any of the as-yet-unknown powers Sylar might manifest during the fight.
I was vaguely disappointed with the absence of a big Superfriends moment, sure, but how much sense would that have made? Most of those characters don’t know each other and have no reason to trust one another; rather, their collective experience would lend itself to distrust. That said, I think that’s a fairly ginned up reason to hold back on the Superfriends angle so they can have some fun next season with storylines about various of them forming alliances and the like.
My big beef, and the only one I really have, is no one noticing Sylar’s absence. Most of them weren’t actually wanted by the cops and could think quickly enough to lie their way out of a situation so I’m not as worried about them not running away when they heard sirens. Sylar not being there, though, and the big-ass blood stain from his body to the sewers? Dudes. D-U-M dumb. Either that or they’d better have one hell of a good “someone wanted Sylar’s corpse and took it and wiped everyone’s memories and they’ll all have a moment of stark realization next season” sort of explanation.
As to Peter and Nathan’s fates, let’s be honest with ourselves. Either of them is about as dead as anyone in any soap opera: not very dead at all.