Yeah...I was kinda trying to ignore that part! Not that I want Simone back, necessarily.
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Posts: 28795 (08/12/08 10:05 PM) Reporter Cheese |
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Posts: 4022 (08/12/08 11:26 PM) al-Jubna al-Raaqisa Cheese |
Hispanic men stay dead, too. (Alejandro and Isaac Mendez--two for two. I'm not so bitter about Isaac, but I'm super bitter about Alejandro. He was some
quality eye candy AND he was the better character of the twins).
I don't mind the Company having done some good deeds, though, because we know the Company started out with good intentions and had to be good enough for basically good characters (like Clyde and HRG) to work for it for lengthy periods of time. |
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Posts: 8935 (08/13/08 8:30 AM) Fishy Cheese |
I forgot about Isaac, but Alejandro bought the farm too close to the end of the season. I won't be convinced he's really dead until we get several
episodes into next season and he stays dead.
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Posts: 29605 (09/23/08 12:44 AM) Reporter Cheese |
I'm halfway through the two-hour premiere and I had to just stop. They aren't even trying to have this show make sense any more, are they. Maybe the
second hour is better but I'm so dismayed to see Maya again that I don't even know what to do with myself.
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Posts: 2825 (09/23/08 2:26 AM) Late to The Party Cheese |
Heh. I apparently forgot to turn off the auto-record AND was wrong about the time of the premiere so I ended up recording it without missing anything that I
meant to record. I must be a very strange person, because now that I have it, I'll totally watch it, but I'm actually hoping I'll hate it, because
I WANT to be done with the show instead of stuck in my Smallville mode where I recognize that in many, many cases its just not good, but I'm hanging on
because sometimes it is.
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Posts: 29606 (09/23/08 8:17 AM) Reporter Cheese |
TWoP folks loved it so maybe I just was in a mood. We'll see how the second hour goes.
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Posts: 4189 (09/23/08 8:19 AM) Penicillium roqueforti |
I was so disappointed to see Maya again, too! And to see so much of her! However, shirtless!Mohinder can hang around all he wants to. The "science"
was cringeworthy and made me roll my eyes nearly out of my head -- they just need to stop trying to explain that part already.
For a premiere, it seemed like a lot of filler. OTOH, I guess it kind of had to be, since it's been so long since the finale. |
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Posts: 29607 (09/23/08 8:22 AM) Reporter Cheese |
The one line I did like from the first hour was "Eat your brain? Claire, that's disgusting."
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Posts: 4190 (09/23/08 8:26 AM) Penicillium roqueforti |
Yeah, that was good! But if he doesn't eat brains, then what exactly did he do? He took Claire's power without taking it from her -- she still heals. I
wasn't sure she would after he poked around in her brain like that.
ETA: Moppet, did you watch the whole thing? If not, you missed the Mystical Negro in the African desert!
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Posts: 29611 (09/23/08 11:46 AM) Reporter Cheese |
Oh, super. I'm definitely looking forward to watching the whole thing now.
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Posts: 1013 (09/23/08 12:04 PM) Brie Cheese |
Matt wandering the desert seriously reminded me of that Simpsons ep where Homer eats the insanity chili peppers. It even had a turtle!
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Posts: 1575 (09/23/08 12:52 PM) Heartless Bastard Cheese |
Sylar's Power has always been the ability to determine how things work. It was set up with the whole watch thing with Mohinder's father many episodes
ago, though this is the only time they've ever fully explained how he steals powers. I think this was a joke at all of the assumption that Sylar eats
people's brains, which they've never said.
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Posts: 29612 (09/23/08 1:29 PM) Reporter Cheese |
This is just one of my many questions from the first hour -- I don't know how Sylar even knew where Claire was, but maybe that's something I forgot
from last season -- but since he was able to use his powers to freeze Claire, spin Claire, slam all the windows and doors shut and all, why was held back by a
little chain wrapped around a doorknob? It can't be that he can only control things that he can see (my original fanwank) because he was able to slam all
the doors and windows and stuff when he was still upstairs.
I was also thinking last night about how awesome it is for scriptwriters that there are such things as electric paddles that administer shocks to people in defibrillation. HOW MANY TIMES have I seen that used on television, seriously. |
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Posts: 8421 (09/23/08 2:20 PM) Breezy Cheese |
My favorite line was from Hiro's dad: "I told you not to open the safe!"
Other than that, how stupid was Hiro for 1) removing this thing that he was supposed to guard with his life, 2) letting it get stolen twice, and 3) trusting the word of a known thief! And Mohinder has officially gone mad with power, and this was before he injected himself. Yeah, let's give everyone in the world super powers! That plan doesn't have any problems, except for maybe the already crazy/evil people with powers who recently escaped from the Company. Not that he would have known about them specifically, but come on. You know there are bad people and criminals in the world who would wreak havoc with this kind of power (hello, Sylar?) I also laughed at how a little chain around the doorknob was able to stop Sylar. And Weevil and Veronica, together (sort of) again! |
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Posts: 2826 (09/23/08 2:54 PM) Late to The Party Cheese |
I tried to watch the premiere. And while I find the idea of sort-of-evil Peter to be interesting, the idea of maybe-evil-Claire is less so. I cannot stand Hiro
(though, I do like Ando), I don't care about Mohinder and Maya, and I finally had to turn it off in the middle of Nathan's God talk. The only truly
edge-of-my-seat moment was when Claire was fighting/running from Sylar, but I kept wanting to yell at her NOT to wander around with her back exposed to giant
rooms. Find a wall, girl, and stick to it! That, and yeah. The little whatever on the flimsy wood-slatted door was ridiculous.
So, really, the only real selling point for me is maybe-sort-of-evil Peter and a curiosity for where Matt was sent. That's not enough for me to keep watching. I didn't immediately erase, but some of these other comments have totally encouraged me to do so. I'm free!!! |
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Posts: 29614 (09/23/08 3:11 PM) Reporter Cheese |
The second hour may be awesome, though! But yeah, if there are other things you like better, why bother.
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Posts: 5624 (09/23/08 3:35 PM) Choose Your Own Cheese |
See, all your points make total sense, and a lot of it was ridiculous, and I was very tempted to fast forward more than once. But, I think I'll keep with
it for now. I'll have to give up Terminator to do so, but at least that's easy enough to find on their website. I'm just too curious to see what
ridiculous thing they come up with next. But there wasn't one single character's storyline I didn't consider fast forwarding through last night.
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Posts: 44 (09/24/08 11:24 PM) Cheese Whiz |
"Thank you, turtle!"
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Posts: 4215 (09/28/08 1:12 AM) al-Jubna al-Raaqisa Cheese |
Wow! That was bad. The gender issues are out of control, and I can't enjoy the show anymore. It started with Hiro's forgotten sister (you know, the one
to whom Hiro's father was going to leave the company after a whole mini-arc about Hiro not being a businessman and her being a great business woman) and
just went downhill from there.
I'm hella pissed about Niki's apparent death, Monica's and Micah's disappearances, and (still!) the stupid death of D.L. I may give the show one more episode, but probably not. The gender issues have been bothering me for a while and clearly it's just going to get worse instead of better. |
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Posts: 9409 (09/29/08 1:13 PM) Fishy Cheese |
OK, so, Mohinder is now The Fly (Jeff Goldblum version), with the manic energy and horniness of a barnyard goat and the jumping to and from the ceiling and the
hanging from the ceiling and the crawling up and down the walls and (in the previews) the chunks of skin peeling off.
I loved the part where he went out on the pier to inject himself so he would be conveniently semiconscious in a deserted neighborhood when a pair of muggers showed up to rob him, thus allowing him to display his new-found power. For a TV show it was kinda stupid (as is much of the show), but as comic book it was classic. I find that a lot less of the nonsense bugs me if I just keep reminding myself that it's a comic book, because a lot of what makes no sense is actually comic book tropes filmed for TV, like the constant frowning and the swept-back hair and the black leather outfits of all the heroes who might be bad in the future. |
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