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Comic books have been my particular brand of geek for close to thirty years now. I've been waiting patiently for a great comic-book TV show. This is not it. #heroes
11/04/09
this whole cat and mouse game they play with the characters just reeks of old dbz episodes. they work all this buildup and then when he season reaches climax, it goes from excitement.. t complete anti-climax, followed by more confusion. some day there will be a great comic-book tv show, i hope other producers are watching it, and using HEROES as a cautionary tale on how run a series to the ground. #heroes
11/04/09
Matt was supposed to be a recovering alcoholic, right?
1. He would not be capable of casual driking, so what the hell is he doing having a beer?
2. What the hell is he doing having a bottle of whisky at home? that's just stupid, no recovering alcoholic would have even a beer can at home #heroes
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In response to your points in your first post, his wife knows that he's not an alcoholic, and is trying to stop using his powers, which is the reason that he's going to the meetings. There would be no reason to keep alcohol out of the house, other than to appear to visitors that he was an alcoholic. #heroes
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He was never supposed to be bad-ass.
He is a comic book geek/lovable nerd, the last thing Heroes needs is a bad-ass future Hiro.
A dark/bad ass-Hiro would be like a bad-ass Hurly on Lost.
You -dont- want these characters bad-ass but you DO want them to stick up for themselfs in cool ways occasional, butjust rarely e nought to be both a surprise and entertaining.
"First of all, he can stop time. SO WHY NOT JUST FREAKIN RIP SYLAR'S HEAD OFF WHILE HE IS FROZEN?! "
As he explains, he dosnt want to mess up the timeline. The whole point was he could make a single change without messing up the rest.
Amazingly, the time travel in this episode actually made sense, he changed time, but also ensured things happened anyway due to very slightly different reasons.
Now, as long as Heroes keeps the "timelines stay correct as long as they are close enough to the original" view of time travel, they are ok. #heroes
11/04/09
Why does no one on this show ever realize what their powers can do! #heroes
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Or, go back in time and kill Inkstain for being the douche that he is. As far as Hiro is concerned this is the present, he can mess him up a few minutes ago and not ruin any destinies.
I like the show, and I think it is a major improvement over last season, but the carnival story is pissing me off. #heroes
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Why would Syler NOT kill Hiro and take his powers?
Syler: Look dude, it's cool that you control fucking TIME and SPACE, but I seriously got to get to this high school and get some regeneration power. Which is way better than THE POWER TO DESTROY EVERYTHING.
Hiro: But you have to help me! She is the Marle to my Crono! Plus I'll totally tell you about your future, and what happens and stuff. It's totally way more awesome than what would happen if a person as insanely powerful as me wasn't written by lazy, incompetent hacks.
Syler: Okay, now you've really done it. You've made a reference to Chrono Trigger, and somehow you've made it lame. Somehow, it still made me groan. Now I've SUPER gotta kill you.
(Hiro freezes time, runs behind Syler, unfreezes time.)
Syler (turning around in bafflement): Ah! Fooled again! Cuuurrssses!
Hiro (smiling smugly): So we have a deal?
Syler(growling): Looks like I don't have a choice.
AND THEN, IN AN AWESOME TWIST:
Syler kills Hiro and takes his powers. Camera cuts to a line of graves with the names of ALL the other characters on them.
THE END
(of a show that needs to be put down like a blind, arthritic cat stuck in a mini-Iron Lung because its greedy asshole owner won't let it die.) #heroes
11/03/09
"Sylar kills Hiro and takes his powers. Camera cuts to a line of graves with the names of ALL the other characters on them."
I like it. It's a wrap. Great work everyone. #heroes
11/03/09
Signed,
Refuses to watch latest episode #heroes
11/03/09
EG: save Charlie, save the jumper, get his sister and Ando together.
Every time they realize they have created a plot hole (three or four times a week), changing anything would rip apart the space time continuum or kill Hiro.
EG: killing Sylar years before he even realizes he has power, saving Nathan, helping young Mohinder to understand, convincing HRG that working for The Company is evil.
This is the crux of failure for this show. #heroes
11/03/09
Yes. That's the whole point of his character at least in Season One. He was a nobody, the son of a watch maker until he discovered his ability. And he started to collect other abilities so that he could be more powerful, in that, no one could ignore him any more. Everyone would fear him and never forget him. He even changed his name to Sylar so that he could forget his nobody past. He hated being Gabriel.
For him to die alone and uncared for would be horrible. That's why the camera was on Sylar's face as Hiro told him of his future. So that we can see him realize that his dream would not come to past. Watch it again, you can see the smug smile on his face ever so slightly fade and grow cold at the idea. #heroes
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It was pretty good. I would watch the rest of the season, but if they bring back anybody else who isnt Charlie, I will be saddened.
Mohinder cannot be forgiven for his role in seasons 2 and 3. It was bad character development. I like the actor and he is hot. But the writers should not be forgiven, and must be punished by leaving that storyline alone. #heroes
11/03/09
Plus, I like the "where's the sword?" running gag which is so what the fans have been wondering as well. #heroes
11/03/09
I really hope they make a musical ep before they finish circling the drain. #heroes
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Oh, Annalee, what a disappointment. When I read the above, I thought the clip was going to be of you banging your inflamed head against your TV screen. Instead, it was a clip of the show. You're such a teaser.
"First of all, he can stop time. SO WHY NOT JUST FREAKIN RIP SYLAR'S HEAD OFF WHILE HE IS FROZEN?! Second, if Hiro is going to inexplicably avoid the face-rippage, why not contain Sylar in a way that makes sense? How will a little duct tape and a bus stop Sylar from eating Charlie's brains? This is Hiro of the future - he knows how deadly Sylar can be. And yet this is his big solution? The thing he's done despite knowing it will push him closer to death than he already is? I am completely mystified, people."
Hiro explains (to Sylar, no less) that he (Hiro) should not change the future, except for minor events like Charlie surviving rather than dying (questionable, yes, whether that's minor) and that Sylar has to walk the path he's meant to walk. Ok, he doesn't say it in as many words, but that's what Hiro has been all about lately, thanks to Uncle Sam(uel).
"Then he convinces Sylar to fix the aneurism in Charlie's brain by promising to reveal lots of neat things about the future."
I wondered why Hiro didn't ask Sylar to heal Hiro's tumor as well.
"You think Sylar cares if anybody sheds a tear for him?"
Given his daddy issues, mommy issues, and rejection issues, I'd hazard a guess that he does. Besides, the look on his face says that he does.
"...you don't even mind when HRG's potential office fling gets her mind wiped so she'll forget about her crush on HRG."
Or maybe she's just pretending to have had her mind Haitianed so that she'd still have a shot with HRG in the future. #heroes
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Right?? Hiro, ask for a twofer while you've got Sylar fixing brains for you! You don't have King Jeremy the Wicked to heal you in the future anymore, so Sylar was kind of your chance. #heroes
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Bonus point: Since Charlie skips the preceding 3 years you greatly reduce the amount of history that changes due to her not being dead. #heroes
11/04/09
With so many plot holes, is it at all surprising that I missed that one? #heroes
11/03/09
You also didn't mention the last scene, in which poor Sendhil Ramamurthy is dragged kicking and screaming back to the show. (as a corpse, apparently, but if that's not the Unquiet Dead I don't know what is.)