Heroes Season 1(#22)---5/14/07-'Landslide'

[Arnwyn]

The future really does need to change if I am going to keep watching. I love this show but if the bomb goes off and New York is destroyed then the future can't really be changed much and having seen the 5 years in the future I don't really want to watch a show going down that path. So I will be optimistic and think that the bomb won't go off, the future can be changed. I will find out Monday.

That's pretty much exactly what I'm going with. I'm not interested in watching a show about that dark future - especially with the show's title called "Heroes". Not for me.

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

Well, if the statement remains true that the next season will introduce a lot of new Heroes and replace some/many of the current ones, I think the "Dark Future" will be avoided (or at least be replaced by an alternative version). The current version has the main characters of this season in its focus, and that would make it hard to exchange characters.
Unless they change the setting so much that the "Dark Future" of New York and Sylar as president doesn't really matter for the storyline.

 

[Vocenoctum]

Did anyone else notice how Sylar dissapeared after telling the FBI agent about 'his duty'?

I chalk it up to just leaving, not invisibility. He had the mysterious disappearing act before. Though, we don't know all his powers either. (Molly's dad got eaten for example...)

 

[Vocenoctum]

Spot on. Having been in a bad car accident I can safely say that if Sylar had walked up to me right after I doubt I would have been able to put up any kind of fight. That scene was just fine. These guys aren't experienced super heroes.

So then you prefer the idea that he had just enough mental fortitude to hold his power back, but not enough to let it go?

 

[Vocenoctum]

I got the idea that the two were not in "real time". Look at the scene, and you notice how the coloration is off from the rest of the show. It feels like they are either in a time bubble or slow time (ala dragonballz). Yeah I was thinking of Goku training Gohan the whole time. during that scenes.

Powers don't really seem to run along hereditary lines, so I doubt Hiro's father has time-control. I don't think time was altered, for the simple reason that the sword fight is unimportant, it's just (yet another) catalyst for Hiro's confidence in his powers, IMO. They really didn't go into how much time passed, so who knows.

Also, really liked the Candace stuff, the one thing I like about this show is the depth they put into the characters. I really felt bad for candace and can understand why she's so mean. She's probably a very unattractive overweight woman and because of her selfesteem and the way people treat her she takes on that form.

I bet she's a gnome illusionist. I didn't feel bad for her though, she's all about mind games and was probably just messing with Micah. The Silver Surfer comic was funny to me, since I immediately figured "she probably walked in and robbed a comic shop", but I suppose Linderman may have bought it.

Question? does New York really have such a sophisticated networked voting system. The ones in Detroit are terrible and it takes somewhere near 24 hours or more to tally up all the votes.

The election was all paced oddly, but it's just a plot-device, so it's not important to the story. Nothing about the election rang as "realistic" to me.
It would have been funny if they'd mentioned how great the new system was, all thanks to the kind folks at Primatech...

 

[occam]

Also, really liked the Candace stuff, the one thing I like about this show is the depth they put into the characters. I really felt bad for candace and can understand why she's so mean. She's probably a very unattractive overweight woman and because of her selfesteem and the way people treat her she takes on that form.

I think Candace may actually be a dude, a stereotypical fat comic-book nerd. Not that I know anyone like that; I've hung out with lots of fat computer nerds and fat RPG nerds, but that's TOTALLY different.

 

[occam]

Powers don't really seem to run along hereditary lines, so I doubt Hiro's father has time-control.

We don't really know the extent of hereditary influence. If Linderman was Nathan's real father, that would make Claire (with some similar healing abilities) his granddaughter. I also have a theory about Peter and Sylar....

 

[Vocenoctum]

We don't really know the extent of hereditary influence. If Linderman was Nathan's real father, that would make Claire (with some similar healing abilities) his granddaughter. I also have a theory about Peter and Sylar....

Yeah, we don't know much of anything about them. But, Fire Generation + Flight= Super Healing, Intangibility + Super Strength= Computer control...

SO, eh, who knows.

 

[Nellisir]

Is that what they actually said? What I remember was "Nikki was the strong one all along," which in that scene doesn't necessarily mean the power at all. It was definitely strength of character that was required in that situation.

I took it as an ambigious statement also. I think DL said it, not Linderman, and DL shouldn't have any special knowledge of Nikki's power.

 

[drothgery]

I think Candace may actually be a dude, a stereotypical fat comic-book nerd. Not that I know anyone like that; I've hung out with lots of fat computer nerds and fat RPG nerds, but that's TOTALLY different.

Really, I suspect she's 'really' pretty close to the same size and shape she appears. If she's not, it makes the illusion she has to keep up when walking about town a lot more complex.