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

[Vocenoctum]

Last season's finale left me a bit cold on the series and so far this season seems to be following the downward trends for me. Most of my interest in the show is sliding away and I don't even bother looking at the comics or anything. It's a shame.

FWIW, they might not be "racist" but the little family IS a racial stereotype in many ways, and for me none of it was done well enough for me to find the home likeable. Monica might be fun, but frankly at this point it's an uphill battle. Sylar & Latins also was boring.

I'd have prefered a Candace Replacement rather than a rewrite, but since Michelle was such a horribly vapid replacement, I'm glad they gacked her right away.

Nathan's problem continues to be the "baseline" missing. No explanation for wife & kids, nothing. Is it suspenseful to drag out the most basic information in a series?

Ma Petrelli gives herself up so no one investigates and finds out about the Powers.

So noble, so great. It's not like there was a nuclear blast above the city of NY that provides something of a clue.

If Claire's romance demonstrates anything, it demonstrates only that women are dumb and like guys that abuse them. I also still maintain that the kid is another illegitimate kid of Nathans and she's dating her half-brother. The fact that her relationship with her father has reverted to Season One's pre-reveal is just badly acted out this time I think. They don't have the means to convey the reversion well enough to make it believable for me.

Bennett, Mohinder and the Haitian taking on the Company, it's just been so badly done so far, I don't even care. Either the company is incompetent or knows what's going on, and neither answer means much to me. They know where Matt and Molly are, but they lost The Bennetts and maybe Mica?

I'm not sure they ever really explained all the connections of the Company, but if Linderman was in it with the other Seniors, then it's a shame that none of them have taken over. It's even more of a shame that we've seen nothing of the company's response to Nakamura's death.


And, heck, it'd make sense if the 8/8 painting was a lie, but I doubt it is. It'd make sense because that way I could justify the fact that they were setting up a new lab before finishing removing the old materials of the art-studio. It'd be fine if they left it to be seen, but I'm of the mind it's just more incompetence. (Either for the Company or the writers...)

 

[Fast Learner]

Ma Petrelli gives herself up so no one investigates and finds out about the Powers.

So noble, so great. It's not like there was a nuclear blast above the city of NY that provides something of a clue.

A nuclear explosion above NYC is evidence of super-powered human beings? What?

 

[Grog]

If Claire's romance demonstrates anything, it demonstrates only that women are dumb and like guys that abuse them.

And stalk them, don't forget.

West is really starting to get on my nerves. I don't think I've hated a character this much since Spike on Buffy the Vampire Slayer (I mean, a character I was supposed to like). Hmm, come to think of it, he was a stalker, too. I'm sensing a trend here....

 

[Relique du Madde]

If she was copying wrestling she would have missed the guy by a shoe string but just enough so that it looks like it hit him.

Luckily for her she watched a match where the Rey Mistereo Jr. (?) was wrestling stiff.

 

[Hand of Evil]

I think that this power is called Photographic Reflexes, rather than true eideticism, or Photographic Recall. One of Spider-Man's enemies, I believe his name was The Answer, but don't quote me, had this, and started doing a non-powered version of Spidey's acrobatics and fighting style. I think maybe that Monica is a bit like Micah, though, in that she has to see it on TV, or experience it through some other technological source, before she can do it.

As for the fist third of the show being racist, I think that taking care of people who need you is extremely noble, and that's what the character, Monica, is about. People's situations don't always allow them to drag themselves up from the holes they fall into. Several of my relatives have had to quit school as early as freshman high school year just to get jobs and help with the household bills. Granted, this was many years ago, but the concept is still there, and I know that Katrina victims are STILL having a hard time even what? Two years down the road?

"Taskmaster possesses an innate ability known as "photographic reflexes", which enable him to watch another person's physical movements and duplicate them without practice, no matter how complex. This ability is only limited by the fact that he does not have superhuman strength or other superhuman attributes. He is a naturally gifted athlete who has trained himself to superb physical condition."

 

[Hand of Evil]

And stalk them, don't forget.

West is really starting to get on my nerves. I don't think I've hated a character this much since Spike on Buffy the Vampire Slayer (I mean, a character I was supposed to like). Hmm, come to think of it, he was a stalker, too. I'm sensing a trend here....

Son of the Midas Man is my guess.

I don't like him either, he is shifty and has issues, that does make me think plant but we will see.

 

[dravot]

I wish the kid had been trying to get a UFC pay per view as opposed to a wrestling pay per view. Just would have made the karate chick seen a bit more realistic considering wrestling is all well timed gymnastics designed not to hurt anyone. If she was copying wrestling she would have missed the guy by a shoe string but just enough so that it looks like it hit him.

Clearly she can improvise and improve upon what she's learned.

 

[Wulf Ratbane]

I wish the kid had been trying to get a UFC pay per view as opposed to a wrestling pay per view. Just would have made the karate chick seen a bit more realistic considering wrestling is all well timed gymnastics designed not to hurt anyone. If she was copying wrestling she would have missed the guy by a shoe string but just enough so that it looks like it hit him.

Wrestlers don't "miss each other by a shoestring." They hit each other, hard, and then "sell" the hit as harder than it was.

There's no technical difference between selling a punch and selling a suplex off the top rope.

Unless you'd like to argue that they miss the mat by a shoestring.

 

[Steel_Wind]

No, it's not, and I don't have to be or have ever been a teenage girl in love to know that. Again, West upset Claire badly enough that she had to flee a classroom in tears, and yet, just an hour or so later, she's making out with him. No one turns around that quickly on someone, teenage girl or no.

Uhmmm...

I can only surmise from your comment above that your experience with women is either a) limited or b) has been informed solely by relations with some exceptionally atypical ones.

Having been formerly married to an emotional drama queen (and having dated a hyper-rational one after divorce in what can only be generously described as a folly of overcompensation), and at other times having dated a raft of women in the emotional range in the middle of the two extremes, I can safely say:

A - Happiness is in the middle of those two extremes; and,
B - All but the hyper-rational can turn around that quickly. Yes, truly.

That's not just teens; that would be women in their 20s and 30s as well. Absolutely, 100%, no question about it - at all.

 

[Fast Learner]

Agreed. Sometimes it's a matter of weeks before things change, other times a matter of minutes. Relationships are way, way more complicated than rationality will ever be able to understand.