Heroes Season 1(#7)---11/06/06-'Nothing to Hide'

[Krafus]

Perhaps movies are more your fit? seriously. I don't get the complaining against Lost and Heroes. We didnt know if Sam would get back home until the last episode of Quantum Leap, though he kept getting close here and there. WE didnt know if The emisarry would truly be the savoir of the galaxy until Sisko sacraficed himself in the last episode of ds9. We didnt know if Aerun and Crichton would get together until... well heck the movie after the season finale. all these were great series and kept us hanging for a long time. It's the journey that is fun not hte payoff. What's left after the last page of a book? nothing. I hope they don't really get together until next season or the season after that. Because after they get together what is there to look forward too.

The journey can be fun, but there's a difference between journeying with a destination in mind and meandering aimlessly, and right now it feels as if the characters are doing the latter.

 

[Krafus]

I'd really expect that as the season finale, along with preventing Sylar from nuking New York.

After all, they are using "Save the Cheerleader, save the world" as a tagline for a show, the episode where that pays off better be a finale or cliffhanger or something other than just another episode early in the first season.

I just wish we had some concrete evidence of this plotline in the show, rather than being bombarded with that ad and with nothing but speculation to back it up so far.

 

[JEL]

I was thinking more along the lines of one symbol standing for a Heroes and the other for villians.

Future Hiro had the symbol on his sword. It's the DNA/RNA strand image that was in Dr. Saresh's code. I think it's more obviously a symbol for powered people.

As for the tattoo on Jessica's back, it's short hand for the fact that Nikki and Jessica are two different people. I think split personality is way too simple for what's going on here. It's more than a mental change, there is some physical aspect to it.

 

[JEL]

Wait isnt there a serial killer still out there (Siris) whom has the same power as the Nuke guy?

Sylar is the serial killer and we don't know what his power is, though there are many theories out there (telekinesis and power stealing being the major two).

 

[Rackhir]

Am I slow or did I finally realize in this episode that Nathan's brother does not have the ability to fly, but hte ability to borrow powers. Boy I need to keep up. I oculdnt figure out for hte life of me why he painted that drawing last episode until now.

Didn't occur to me either until a friend pointed it out. The question I have now, is "Does he need to be around the person to emulate their power?". IIRC he couldn't fly until he was near his brother and painted the picture in the presences of the artist.

I have a feeling that the big disaster might be caused by him getting near Sylar (if he is the Nuclear Man).

 

[jcfiala]

I liked this episode. I've never seen lost, but I'm expecting the story to take a while to get anywhere and so far I've liked it.

And yes, Hiro was geeking out over using his power again, but this is the first time he's done it in an explosion - it's not often you see a tire hanging in mid-air like that.

I don't think Syler is radioactive - I think the blonde FBI girl basicaly made a mistake - it's gotten to 'Find weird dead body' -> 'assume it's Syler'. He's the only 'supervillian' they've got, so they tend to assume he's behind everyone.

 

[Brown Jenkin]

Perhaps movies are more your fit? seriously. I don't get the complaining against Lost and Heroes. We didnt know if Sam would get back home until the last episode of Quantum Leap, though he kept getting close here and there. WE didnt know if The emisarry would truly be the savoir of the galaxy until Sisko sacraficed himself in the last episode of ds9. We didnt know if Aerun and Crichton would get together until... well heck the movie after the season finale. all these were great series and kept us hanging for a long time. It's the journey that is fun not hte payoff. What's left after the last page of a book? nothing. I hope they don't really get together until next season or the season after that. Because after they get together what is there to look forward too.

Two things. Starting with your last point, once they get together there is plenty to do like saving the cheerleader and saving the world. I personally don't see the purpose of this show being a bunch of supers wandering around aimlessly with the big payoff at the end of the season/series being them getting together at the same time and knowing each other. If that is all there is it lacks the something special to make me care. As for your first point, The shows you mentioned all had great season long/series long arcs. They also had episodes that stood alone and had purpose individually. I would be much happier if some of them got together and started doing thing together that lasted just an episode or two with a real payoff, but like DS9, or Farscape, or B5 meta plots elements would still be introduced.

 

[Taelorn76]

Future Hiro had the symbol on his sword. It's the DNA/RNA strand image that was in Dr. Saresh's code. I think it's more obviously a symbol for powered people.

As for the tattoo on Jessica's back, it's short hand for the fact that Nikki and Jessica are two different people. I think split personality is way too simple for what's going on here. It's more than a mental change, there is some physical aspect to it.

Matt and the Nuke guy had different tattoos than Niki. Theirs resembled more of an = sign if I saw it correctly.

 

[Taelorn76]

Didn't occur to me either until a friend pointed it out. The question I have now, is "Does he need to be around the person to emulate their power?". IIRC he couldn't fly until he was near his brother and painted the picture in the presences of the artist.

I have a feeling that the big disaster might be caused by him getting near Sylar (if he is the Nuclear Man).

See post #39

 

[Rackhir]

See post #39

I was thinking more along the lines of "Mr. Sub-Critical Mass, meet Mr. Nearly Critical Mass".