Heroes Season [Volume] 2 (#27)---10/15/07-'The Kindness of Strangers'

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Urf? I thought that becoming a manager would give her the money to go back to school. Nothing ever said that she's not good enough to go to school. As for moving out of state, she's the primary breadwinner for a family of 3 (now 4). She needs to earn enough money for everyone to survive and pay for school.

Being a manager was a stepping stone to finishing college and starting a career. It was never her ultimate goal.

Exactly.

She wanted to make manager to make more money to help support the family AND to be able to pay for school to get a career.

I'm sorry, but if that's offensive then...well, there's just no winning.

 

[zen_hydra]

It was a good episode, I am just getting tired of the Nissan tie-ins. They should change the name of the show to the Nissan Rogue Power Hour!!!

 

[Steel_Wind]

WAsn't sylar in the middle of no where last episode. This is just absolutely lame. This goes beyond the comic book meeting. This is just the writers being lazy and taking us for granted. My wife and i let out a collective groan when we saw that it was Sylar on the road. This was the worst scene and writing I've seen in Heroes so far.

In fairness to the writers - that was not their plan. The scripts called for a very different journey for Sylar in episodes 4-9 or so. He was supposed to be with Candice the whole time. However, the actress who played Candice, Missy Peregrym, was cast as a regular in Reaper and became unavailable after the scripts were written. So the writers had to rewrite Sylar's story.

And this is what we got. Anything that gives the Maya and Alejando run, separate, cry - get back together schtick a rest is an improvement.

(I shudder to think of what the writers had planned for Maya and Alejandro if it wasn't Sylar).

 

[Steel_Wind]

As for Monica Dawson...interesting power. So I presume that if Micah does his Mojo on the cable box and pulls up a MoviePix Bruce Lee film- fest, Monica is going to be kicking ass and taking names shortly enough.

 

[Cor Azer]

As for Monica Dawson...interesting power. So I presume that if Micah does his Mojo on the cable box and pulls up a MoviePix Bruce Lee film- fest, Monica is going to be kicking ass and taking names shortly enough.

Since they're re-using some powers this season, I wonder if Monica's power is the same as Charlie's memory power?

 

[The Grumpy Celt]

Ok i know I"m only 20 minutes in but this episode needs to do a lot to redeem itself in 40 minutes.

The writers this year seem to be going for more cop-outs in general. The racial situation is just one of them. Matt getting divorced and adopting Molly are other cop-out, and so was Sylar being in Mexico. Though I think Monica was refused the promotion based on the work environment and company philosophy, not her competence. Still, with a bit of effort, they could have made the entire situation better.

I find myself wondering how the Company gets anything done, given their track record. They either want Sylar to kill their operatives and run free, or they are a bunch of nitwits.

I wonder how long Monica retains those skills. Maybe see needs to watch those science programs on cable.

 

[Relique du Madde]

I find myself wondering how the Company gets anything done, given their track record. They either want Sylar to kill their operatives and run free, or they are a bunch of nitwits.

I have a feeling that Linderman was the top dog in the company before he offed it last season. right now, the company has it's middle management accountant ("Bob") running the show. To me this explains the incompetence we are seeing.

I wonder how long Monica retains those skills. Maybe see needs to watch those science programs on cable.

Here's a good question, what if she saw a Hero on cable tv? Would she suddenly pick up his/her super power upon seeing it?

 

[Grog]

In fairness to the writers - that was not their plan. The scripts called for a very different journey for Sylar in episodes 4-9 or so. He was supposed to be with Candice the whole time. However, the actress who played Candice, Missy Peregrym, was cast as a regular in Reaper and became unavailable after the scripts were written. So the writers had to rewrite Sylar's story.

Why didn't they just recast her? If any role on the show could be recast, it'd be hers. Just explain it by saying she likes to change appearances from time to time. Easily believable for a character with the power of illusion, since we had no idea what she really looked like.

And count me as someone else who's super annoyed with the Claire-HRG not trusting each other storyline. Claire's known West for, what, a week? And suddenly she trusts him more than her father, after she found out everything he'd done for her? Sorry, I'm calling BS here.

And as for the racial issue, Heroes has probably the most racially diverse cast of any show on a major network today, so I think they should get points for that. Though I was really annoyed that DL, the black guy, died, while Matt Parkman took four bullets to the chest and survived, apparently none the worse for wear - come on.

 

[Relique du Madde]

And as for the racial issue, Heroes has probably the most racially diverse cast of any show on a major network today, so I think they should get points for that. Though I was really annoyed that DL, the black guy, died, while Matt Parkman took four bullets to the chest and survived, apparently none the worse for wear - come on.

You have to remember, part of the reason why DL bit it was because Nikki wouldn't be as interesting if she had a stable family unit. Her character seems to work best when she was living in a dysfunctional situation and sadly having a positive influence/role model like DL would have killed the viewer interest in Nikki's character (since she wouldn't be a milf fatal and would instead be just a milf).. that is in the opinion the show's producers.

 

[Steel_Wind]

You have to remember, part of the reason why DL bit it was because Nikki wouldn't be as interesting if she had a stable family unit. Her character seems to work best when she was living in a dysfunctional situation and sadly to day having a positive influence/role model like DL would have killed the viewer interest in Nikki's character (since she wouldn't be a milf fatal and would instead be just a milf).. that is in the opinion the show's producers.

True. Moreover, as I expect we will find out next episode, DL did not die of a gunshot wound. He died of the "Hero virus" - and Nikki's got it now.