Heroes Season 1(#17)---2/26/07-'Company Man'
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Steel_Wind
Legend
What can I say? Pretty interesting episode!
To be picky, I was not such a fan of Ted going radioactive enough to hurl people back and set things afire.
Not that a ridiculous amount of radiation could not do such a thing, but probably half the population of Odessa Texas, Claire excepted, would have been a Tetley Tea Bag a few moments after
And where was Wireless during all of this??? Doing what?
Who's the guy who shot Ted? I was thinking that was Linderman - until the promo showed Linderman as some snowy haired Sean Connery in The Rock kind of guy.
Hiro's father as a very scary man sets up some great plots too.
My concern in the show was that with only Sylar as a villain, it was bound to get boring... I thought they needed something more.
Guess they were a few steps ahead on that one.
I originally came to Heroes and promoted it to friends of mine as "X-Men meets the X-Files". While the X-Men concept has grown, the X-Files plot within plots sinister conspiracy stuff seemed to only lurk beneath the surface...
Until tonight, that is.
I know that several years from now, Heroes will have had its day and we'll be complaining about the show for this that and some other perceived reason.
Maybe so. But for now - I'll enjoy the ride.
To be picky, I was not such a fan of Ted going radioactive enough to hurl people back and set things afire.
Not that a ridiculous amount of radiation could not do such a thing, but probably half the population of Odessa Texas, Claire excepted, would have been a Tetley Tea Bag a few moments after
And where was Wireless during all of this??? Doing what?
Who's the guy who shot Ted? I was thinking that was Linderman - until the promo showed Linderman as some snowy haired Sean Connery in The Rock kind of guy.
Hiro's father as a very scary man sets up some great plots too.
My concern in the show was that with only Sylar as a villain, it was bound to get boring... I thought they needed something more.
Guess they were a few steps ahead on that one.
I originally came to Heroes and promoted it to friends of mine as "X-Men meets the X-Files". While the X-Men concept has grown, the X-Files plot within plots sinister conspiracy stuff seemed to only lurk beneath the surface...
Until tonight, that is.
I know that several years from now, Heroes will have had its day and we'll be complaining about the show for this that and some other perceived reason.
Maybe so. But for now - I'll enjoy the ride.
Steel_Wind
Legend
Taelorn76 said:
Is Hiro even his natural son? Got to wonder...
Phoenix8008
First Post
Wow! What a wild ride!
So Hiro's dad is or was part of the company too?! Does he know or suspect about his son or is he clueless? Or even hiding him like Mr. Bennett was hiding Claire?
Who was Claude hiding when he got taken out? (P.S.- Anybody remember how many years ago that part was? Might give us a clue to who he was hiding...)
What is the connection with that rooftop where Claire was given to Mr. Bennett??? Same place Claude hung out later with the birds, same building Simone's dad lived/died in, etc... Maybe Simone's dad was doing business with Linderman too?
Speaking of Linderman, thank goodness we finally get to see him next week! Wouldn't surprise me at all if he's the 'Big Boss' of Bennett's organization. And Hiro is going to get his sword! Yatai!!!
Question: Where was 'Wireless' in this? She just gave Ted and Parkman the info and let them go chase HRG themselves?! Sounds more like sending the hunting dogs out to shake the bushes and scare up the birds so she can fire on them.
So much more and so little time! I might just go watch it again just to let it sink in more.
With the level of awesomeness this sets, I can't imagine how good the season finale is going to be. And how agonizing it's gonna be to wait for season 2 to start.
So Hiro's dad is or was part of the company too?! Does he know or suspect about his son or is he clueless? Or even hiding him like Mr. Bennett was hiding Claire?
Who was Claude hiding when he got taken out? (P.S.- Anybody remember how many years ago that part was? Might give us a clue to who he was hiding...)
What is the connection with that rooftop where Claire was given to Mr. Bennett??? Same place Claude hung out later with the birds, same building Simone's dad lived/died in, etc... Maybe Simone's dad was doing business with Linderman too?
Speaking of Linderman, thank goodness we finally get to see him next week! Wouldn't surprise me at all if he's the 'Big Boss' of Bennett's organization. And Hiro is going to get his sword! Yatai!!!
Question: Where was 'Wireless' in this? She just gave Ted and Parkman the info and let them go chase HRG themselves?! Sounds more like sending the hunting dogs out to shake the bushes and scare up the birds so she can fire on them.
So much more and so little time! I might just go watch it again just to let it sink in more.
With the level of awesomeness this sets, I can't imagine how good the season finale is going to be. And how agonizing it's gonna be to wait for season 2 to start.
LightPhoenix
First Post
I know it'll get the usual round of bitching and moaning, but Wireless went off to find out who was giving HRG his marching orders, per the comic last week.
As a Texas, I feel a need to complain a bit. Odessa is in the Texas plains, the Staked Plains. It is flat as a pancake for hundreds of miles in all directions (well, except for up and down). There are Desert Mountains and gorges in Texas, but they are in far west Texas, in the panhandle, several hundred miles from Amarillo. This is more of that flexible Hollywood geography that lets people see Denver being nuked from inside the Kansas state line. Meh. Just venting.
Several interesting twists happened in this episode; Mr. Bennett becomes HRG Man; HRG Man is up, he down, he’s up, he’s down… HRG Man also worked with Claude, who had more hair then. Perhaps his missing hair is just permanently invisible.
What happened to the person Claude was protecting? Perhaps something happened involving Claude and the person he was protecting that contributed to Claude’s current philosophy, above and beyond getting shot three times in the chest by HRG Man.
For that matter, it appeared to me the first shot was an accident. HRG Man seemed surprised by the first shot.
Who does the Haitian work for, or with? How does he keep his head shinny?
Julia Robert’s brother is evil. Again. (When was the last time Eric Roberts played a good guy?) Is he the man who ordered the stay of execution for Sylar? Does he have a super partner?
So, now Matt is slated to be HRG Man’s side kick. Depending on how much the Haitian removed from HRG Man, then Matt may know more about what is going on than Bennett.
I don’t think Old Man Nakamura is Linderman – during the promos, an image of Linderman is shown from behind, and he looks like a white guy with gray hair. So, he’s not an Asian with dark hair or a T-Rex…. Unless his super power allows him to change into a T-Rex!
Old Man Nakamura does carry some rank and privilege in the organization. This does not mean the man is a super, though. I’m not willing to concede that point yet. As for Hiro’s powers, well, what do we know about his mother? For that matter, what if Old Man Nakamura is no more Hiro’s father than Bennett is Claire father? Perhaps he has no real emotional ties to Hiro, in the same way he admonished Bennett not to become emotionally involved with Claire. Right. That’s my theory and I’m (chu-chunk) stamping it as property of the Grumpy Celt.
Several interesting twists happened in this episode; Mr. Bennett becomes HRG Man; HRG Man is up, he down, he’s up, he’s down… HRG Man also worked with Claude, who had more hair then. Perhaps his missing hair is just permanently invisible.
What happened to the person Claude was protecting? Perhaps something happened involving Claude and the person he was protecting that contributed to Claude’s current philosophy, above and beyond getting shot three times in the chest by HRG Man.
For that matter, it appeared to me the first shot was an accident. HRG Man seemed surprised by the first shot.
Who does the Haitian work for, or with? How does he keep his head shinny?
Julia Robert’s brother is evil. Again. (When was the last time Eric Roberts played a good guy?) Is he the man who ordered the stay of execution for Sylar? Does he have a super partner?
So, now Matt is slated to be HRG Man’s side kick. Depending on how much the Haitian removed from HRG Man, then Matt may know more about what is going on than Bennett.
I don’t think Old Man Nakamura is Linderman – during the promos, an image of Linderman is shown from behind, and he looks like a white guy with gray hair. So, he’s not an Asian with dark hair or a T-Rex…. Unless his super power allows him to change into a T-Rex!
Old Man Nakamura does carry some rank and privilege in the organization. This does not mean the man is a super, though. I’m not willing to concede that point yet. As for Hiro’s powers, well, what do we know about his mother? For that matter, what if Old Man Nakamura is no more Hiro’s father than Bennett is Claire father? Perhaps he has no real emotional ties to Hiro, in the same way he admonished Bennett not to become emotionally involved with Claire. Right. That’s my theory and I’m (chu-chunk) stamping it as property of the Grumpy Celt.
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18/100 Strength!
Just a great episode. Payoffs everywhere.
Glyfair
Explorer
Hand of Evil said:I thought last week was the highlight of the season, crap, this is what I call setting up for a season ender!
That's one of the things I like best about the series, the pacing. When it started the general comments were that it moved too slow and looked like it could be a boring series. However, it used those episodes to set up the later pace with each episode making you want to see what comes next. (Sort of like a great RPG campaign).
WayneLigon
Adventurer
But.. Simone... but... but...
Fast Learner
First Post
Question: what happened to power-dampening? Wasn't that something either HG or HRG was seemingly able to do, based on Matt not being able to use his powers earlier, and upon some other incident, iirc? Of course, it didn't work with Nathan's flight, but I still wondered what the deal was with it not being used on Ted. Someone sure seemed to be using it when they captured Sylar.
