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

[Mallus]

"Mr. Sub-Critical Mass, meet Mr. Nearly Critical Mass".

That sounds like a gay superhero personal ad. Are you quoting Alpha Flight?

Oh, and I rather liked this episode. Enough happened to satisfy me. In fact, I'm liking the show more and more each episode.

 

[Taelorn76]

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.

I feel this show is more than just about superpowers though. The show is about the people with superpowers. You can't just have these character spread over the world in in episode and then all togetherin the same city in the next. That to me would be a crap story. Sure I want to see the group come together, but I don't want to see them thrown into a situation. I want to see the story evolve.

 

[Victim]

Hiro still has a sense of wonder about his abilities. He's only used them a handful of times and they are something wholly outside the ken of human experience. He's still adjusting to the idea he can do this. Most people take some time to become comfortable, or even jaded, with a new thing.

It's just freezing time in that case, it's freezing an explosion.

 

[Brown Jenkin]

I feel this show is more than just about superpowers though. The show is about the people with superpowers. You can't just have these character spread over the world in in episode and then all togetherin the same city in the next. That to me would be a crap story. Sure I want to see the group come together, but I don't want to see them thrown into a situation. I want to see the story evolve.

I don't mind some character development and it taking some time. I waited until episode 6 before I started complaining. We are now 1/3 of the way through the season and they are not yet starting to bring things together in even the most basic sense. There have been plenty of story opportunities to bring characters together but the writers seem to prefer teasing us by bringing them together for 1 minute then send them off on thier own way again. This has gotten too predictable and is not helping things. As someone else pointed out earlier they correctly predicted that when they saw Hiro and DL together that they knew they would seperate imediately without lasting contact. I don't mind if it is a show about people who just happen to have superpowers. I care that it is 6 seperate shows each about one character without anything to tie them together yet (on a personal level, not the save the cheerleader save the world prediction, which also only a couple of people know about anyway).

 

[Henry]

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

Here's where I think you may have missed it: Aubrey (the cop's FBI partner) deduces that the dead doctor (the charred by radiation corpse) was killed by Sylar. However, based on the events of the episode, she's clearly wrong, and chased the wrong "wild goose." For one thing, the doctor's brain wasn't split open and eaten like Sylar's other victims, and for another, the fingerprint on the body was that of the nuclear man. By her jumping to conclusions, they missed that Sylar had no connection whatsoever - she just figured it was him because of the paranormal activity.

 

[Krafus]

Thank you, Brown Jenkin, for saying everything I wanted to in a much more articulate and detailed manner (and, btw, I'm the guy who predicted that Hiro and DL would separate within minutes of meeting each other last night).

 

[wingsandsword]

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.

Like say Hiro coming back from the future and giving that message as a clue on how to proceed? Like Hiro with his time travel seeing that New York will be consumed in a nuclear blast in 5 weeks unless it's stopped, and while pursuing Syler, the FBI has found he's apparently gained the power to produce powerful nuclear radiation and burns/explosions with it?

Sounds like they are dropping evidence of this all over the place.

 

[Ed_Laprade]

Yep, I saw the marks on the two shoulders. What I didn't see, however, was any resolution the last week's cliffhanger. Unless someone made a comment in the locker room that I missed, they completely ignored Matt's little escapade in the convienience store. Unless Matt's story is way out of sync with everyone else's someone should have said something. Remember, his wife was waiting in bed for him to get right back with the ice cream. (So his being hauled off and everyone involved having their memory wiped won't wash.) I can't stand that nonsense in old movie serials, and I don't like it here. (And won't someone please tell me what Matt heard his wife think just before he left for work this week?)

 

[Taelorn76]

Like say Hiro coming back from the future and giving that message as a clue on how to proceed? Like Hiro with his time travel seeing that New York will be consumed in a nuclear blast in 5 weeks unless it's stopped, and while pursuing Syler, the FBI has found he's apparently gained the power to produce powerful nuclear radiation and burns/explosions with it?

Sounds like they are dropping evidence of this all over the place.

There still isn't any proof that Sylar has gained the ability to produce nuclear explosions or radiation burns. The guy in the hospital was the one that killed the doctor and that was his home that was blown up. The FBI agent thought that guy was Sylar because, as someone else here said she asumes any paranormal death or crime is committed by Sylar. Matt

 

[Umbran]

and while pursuing Syler, the FBI has found he's apparently gained the power to produce powerful nuclear radiation and burns/explosions with it?

As noted by Henry, above, we've not seen this. We have some reason to think there's a connection between the Radioactive Man and Claire's dad (the little tattoo/mark on the shoulder), but it turns out this guy really isn't Sylar.