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

[Krafus]

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.

All we know is that saving Claire will mean saving the world. Save her from what threat? We don't know. How will she save the world? We don't know. Yes, Hiro's time traveling and Sylar's nuclear-relate powers et al. may well be part of it... But I'd really like some concrete information rather than several vague hints.

 

[JEL]

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

It was a mark of some kind. Most likely, as others have speculated, it has something to do with being captured by Mr. Bennet.

The DNA mark also showed up as a doodle on Claire's notebook in an earlier episode, now that I think about it.

 

[Fast Learner]

(And won't someone please tell me what Matt heard his wife think just before he left for work this week?)

She thinks: "I thought I'd been so careful!" and then, "Oh God, he knows!"

 

[Ed_Laprade]

She thinks: "I thought I'd been so careful!" and then, "Oh God, he knows!"

Thank you Fast Learner.

 

[Seonaid]

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).

QFT! The only things that are keeping my interest even a tiny bit are Hiro/Ando ('cause they're geeky cool) and Claire's adoption (because I am adopted as well). Neither of which are integral to this show--that is, any show could have those elements and keep my interest in the same way.

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

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?)

I wondered about that part, too. What happened in the convenience store after "we" left the scene? Was there a production mistake? (Oh my god, I hope not) Or will it be explained later? (That I hope)

 

[DonTadow]

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.

Ah, so your goal is for this show to last one season? Well that doesn't sound like much fun. The problem with the reason a lot of shows end is because they seem to fan out early. I think slower moving season plots and good day to day plots work better. Apparently I"m right because this has worked with both Battlestar galatica and lost so far.

You make it seem as if there is a bunch of people, standing around and not doing anything for an hour a week. When there is a ton of character development, lots of movement toward smaller plots and a good deal of establishment. I am not looking forward to this show turning into smallville, full of mundane plots and monsters of the week.

In all of the shows I"m mentioned, the actual group didn't start acting like an actual group to much later in the season or the show history.

 

[wingsandsword]

All we know is that saving Claire will mean saving the world. Save her from what threat? We don't know. How will she save the world? We don't know. Yes, Hiro's time traveling and Sylar's nuclear-relate powers et al. may well be part of it... But I'd really like some concrete information rather than several vague hints.

Don't hold your breath, it's called foreshadowing, and it's building a plot slowly over the course of a season instead of this being a miniseries or TV movie. Shows sometimes hint at what is going to happen, rarely do they tell the entire plot in advance, and when they do it's usually because of bad writing.

 

[Truth Seeker]

Attention: For those who need some answers, to the mysteries of 'Heroes', please point your gaze towards a weekly Q&A session, done at CBR News/The Comic Reel

 

[Arnwyn]

I wondered about that part, too. What happened in the convenience store after "we" left the scene? Was there a production mistake? (Oh my god, I hope not) Or will it be explained later? (That I hope)

I suspect "nothing". He's a cop, seemed a little woozy, but everything 'worked out okay'. I think that scene was put in to show that his mind-reading ability hasn't been working perfectly lately (as he says to his FBI cohort in the following episode).

Not done very well, though - but that's what I thought was the point of that convenience store scene.