tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post117072724977565132..comments2024-03-28T18:01:28.997-04:00Comments on What's Alan Watching?: Heroes: Throw the sucker off the roofAlan Sepinwallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03388147774725646742noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-1170876550136254632007-02-07T14:29:00.000-05:002007-02-07T14:29:00.000-05:00It's the Enterprise's registration number in Star ...It's the Enterprise's registration number in <I>Star Trek</I>, anon.<BR/><BR/>I am disappointed that Nathan is Claire's dad, I was hoping for Linderman. Sylar was excellently creepy in a Ted Bundy way and I thought Mr. Muggles was toast.<BR/><BR/>Nice fake out with HRG's christian name. Mr. Bennet indeed. huh.Taleenahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13465468178554091355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-1170874936237112942007-02-07T14:02:00.000-05:002007-02-07T14:02:00.000-05:00Maybe I'm not geeky enough, but I don't get the si...Maybe I'm not geeky enough, but I don't get the significance of Papa Sulu's License Plate. What does it mean?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-1170864906919796652007-02-07T11:15:00.000-05:002007-02-07T11:15:00.000-05:00Anyone else bothered by the obvious problem surrou...<I>Anyone else bothered by the obvious problem surrounding Nikki's release? Even if the prior charges were all dismissed, she still killed (or at least badly beat) the psychiatrist; that alone would bring new charges and would keep her in jail.</I><BR/><BR/>The fact that she could get away with that showed just how powerful Linderman is, IMHO.<BR/><BR/>None of the foreshadowing or knowing Sylar too well or any of that bothers me because it's all so true to the type of storytelling in comic books that I'm too busy geeking out to care :-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-1170862062133063112007-02-07T10:27:00.000-05:002007-02-07T10:27:00.000-05:00Anyone else bothered by the obvious problem surrou...Anyone else bothered by the obvious problem surrounding Nikki's release? Even if the prior charges were all dismissed, she still killed (or at least badly beat) the psychiatrist; that alone would bring new charges and would keep her in jail.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-1170813746441278542007-02-06T21:02:00.000-05:002007-02-06T21:02:00.000-05:00Am I the only person who thinks this show has an a...Am I the only person who thinks this show has an annoying problem with obvious foreshadowing? Given the promo and that it was clear that Nathan is her father, the line "I thought that my parents would live in some New York penthouse" was just way too obvious. There have been a few others, like when Ted said "I don't know what I could do; I could explode." or when Peter says "I need a plane to somewhere in the desert" and then the shot of Ted "somewhere in the nevada desert"Michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09004897378686734716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-1170811097485456222007-02-06T20:18:00.000-05:002007-02-06T20:18:00.000-05:00I do think the show made a crucial error in giving...<I>I do think the show made a crucial error in giving up Syler's origin and letting us know him so well. He was genuinely scary in the shadows. Now, much less so.</I><BR/><BR/>I agree, although he was fairly creepy last night. But in general, yeah, we shouldn't know him this well yet.<BR/><BR/>I was never a Trek fan so the Sulu thing didn't do much for me. And while I'm looking forward to supercool FutureHiro, I'm not too on board with depressed, losing his power PresentHiro at the moment. I thought this episode was pretty blah, actually; the only scenes that really came alive for me were the ones between "Claude" and Peter.<BR/><BR/>I was really hoping they wouldn't go there with Nathan being Claire's dad. And look, they went there. This had better pay off really well somewhere down the line.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-1170810307282118262007-02-06T20:05:00.000-05:002007-02-06T20:05:00.000-05:00This episode worried me. Normally my enjoyment of ...This episode worried me. Normally my enjoyment of Heroes is inversely related to the amount of screen time certain characters get. Yet this episode had little to none of Matt, Micah, Mohinder, and Nikki, but was still pretty unexciting. Oh well. <BR/><BR/>I do think the show made a crucial error in giving up Syler's origin and letting us know him so well. He was genuinely scary in the shadows. Now, much less so.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-1170809361060133902007-02-06T19:49:00.000-05:002007-02-06T19:49:00.000-05:00I'm glad I'm not the only one who was happy to see...I'm glad I'm not the only one who was happy to see Peter get hit. I like it that he gets knocked unconscious a lot. I may have some residual <I>GG</I> anger towards Milo.Machttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03092217234287469255noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-1170803221559552562007-02-06T18:07:00.000-05:002007-02-06T18:07:00.000-05:00When Claude was approaching Peter near the edge of...When Claude was approaching Peter near the edge of the roof, I thought he might do the clichéd thing and jump off so that Peter had to fly to save him. Throwing Peter off the roof was waaay better and totally cracked me up. Then he smacked him around to make him shut up! BRILLIANT!<BR/><BR/>Dude, that Trek guy was awesome! And HRG shot Sylar a bunch of times! Then told the Haitian to kill him! Sweeeeet!<BR/><BR/>Niki pounding on the mirror to get out and the mirror shaking while she did so was a cool effect. But doesn't her son know the difference between Niki and Jessica? Jessica's ruse won't last long, I suspect. I wonder if Parkman will "hear" Niki's cries for help when he encounters Jessica next week?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-1170801385185635002007-02-06T17:36:00.000-05:002007-02-06T17:36:00.000-05:00OMG, you just sed "emo."ROFFLECOPTER.I hope that w...OMG, you just sed "emo."<BR/><BR/>ROFFLECOPTER.<BR/><BR/>I hope that when Sulu returns, he brings with him another subplot that is completely solved by standing around and talking in subtitles. Not a bad way to get us paying attention to things like license plates, but... C'mon! Swords! Dinosaurs! Dude!<BR/><BR/>Dr. Who got to stop saying "Mate" every other sentence. Good move.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-1170799407009976572007-02-06T17:03:00.000-05:002007-02-06T17:03:00.000-05:00Dude! Doctor Who just punched whiny Peter in the ...Dude! Doctor Who just punched whiny Peter in the face! Absolutely my favorite moment of the episode. I was rolling my eyes as Peter rambled about how Claire "made him feel" and whirled through all of the powers he's accumulated while making tortured groans, so I loved it when Claude apparently shared my sentiments and put Peter out of his misery. That was even better than Peter falling off the jungle gym.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-1170799076966382642007-02-06T16:57:00.000-05:002007-02-06T16:57:00.000-05:00Takei's license plate should have been NX-2000 or ...Takei's license plate should have been NX-2000 or NCC-2000...Matter-Eater Ladhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07582100232490047227noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-1170798630532631092007-02-06T16:50:00.000-05:002007-02-06T16:50:00.000-05:0014 year old Dan sez: DOOD! He just namechecked Pet...14 year old Dan sez: DOOD! He just namechecked Peter David!<BR/><BR/>Nikki/Jessica's struggles are reminiscent of the Hulk/Banner MPD stuff in his run on Hulk, though it got really interesting when Banner stopped being afraid of the Hulk in the dreams and started confronting him. It'll be interesting to see if Nikki tries to stand up to Jessica. <BR/><BR/>I'd rather Mr. Bennet be a good guy, because I still find him more interesting than any of the other characters. <BR/><BR/>Eccleston did a fine job with some embarassingly cliched dialogue (did Loeb script this episode?) coming out of Claude that thankfully served its purpose. It's clear he's been set up as so cynical that Peter will eventually melt his cold heart, just in time for him to sacrifice himself to Save Us All- but I hope the writers throw a small twist on that, like they do with most things. Besides, Eccleston mops the floor with Ventimiglia acting wise.<BR/><BR/>I love that actor playing Linderman's lawyer (Or shall we start calling him Kobayashi?). He's overdoing it, but in a strange way, it works.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com