Comments on: Heroes!

By: Madeleine

Madeleine — Wed, 02 May 2007 02:43:25 +0000

HTML error on the sexism link. Thanks for the link, though I’ll also try not to get too annoyed by it. Oops, too late.

Awesome episode, didn’t want to see it end.

By: wolfa

wolfa — Wed, 02 May 2007 12:23:54 +0000

I fixed the link. The post is accurate, about something which would annoy me about the show if I allowed myself to think about it. (And which *will* annoy me, if they don’t take pains to fix it next year. Which they won’t.)

By: sheepish

sheepish — Wed, 02 May 2007 15:11:40 +0000

I really liked this episode. Things happened! People didn’t act like chumps! People other than Sylar effectively used their powers!

Random bits:
-Future Hiro listed a bunch of names to Bennett, and I assumed they were just people he helped during the intervening five years.

-I hate the name concatenation thing that TWoP (and other sites) does. It took me forever to figure out who the hell Sythan was.

-Sylar flying off in the press conference made sense to me. He was finally invulnerable, having killed Claire. The only thing that could stop him was Hiro going back in time, so he wanted to put an end to that nonsense.

-If Sylar could kill invulnerable Claire, then couldn’t Peter kill Sylar in the exact same way?

-I really want to know more about the elder generation too.

By: wolfa

wolfa — Wed, 02 May 2007 16:11:08 +0000

I made up Sythan on my own. Because I hate typing Sylar-as-Nathan and crap. Hiro listed names all of which we knew, except Molly. Candace, DL, um. People who Sylar ate, it seems.

Ok, I’ll grant the Sylar flying away. I assume he managed to freeze Claire’s powers somehow? Or stuck something in the back of her brain?

Which makes me wonder: why didn’t he eat the Haitian? Wouldn’t he want the power to neutralise other Heroes?

I’m not entirely sure why Peter didn’t freeze time, then kill Sylar. (This ability makes Peter way too strong a character, of course, so they will need to change that somehow. This is also a problem with Hiro.)

By: Madeleine

Madeleine — Wed, 02 May 2007 16:26:56 +0000

Yes to the freezing time comment. Hiro rarely seems to use that technique. He teleports more often I think. Probably, as you said, because that makes him too strong for anything interesting to happen.

By: sheepish

sheepish — Thu, 03 May 2007 05:37:21 +0000

Sylar-as-Nathan gets old after typing it about once, I agree.

Peter is way too powerful. Probably some blah-blah about only Hiro having mastered time travel and freezing? Who knows.

By: wolfa

wolfa — Thu, 03 May 2007 14:34:19 +0000

Or he’s so pissed about Sylar killing his brother that he’s not rational. But I mean more that Peter is a problem for the series in general — if he has every single power in the world, all of which he can control at will (it seems like he can only use one at a time, though), and which cause no problems for him (he lived 5 years with them in alternate timeline, so I guess we dropped the “all these pwoers together will kill you!” idea) — what’s the point of anyone else? Even with Hiro, if he’s perfectly competent at stopping time for an indefinite period of time, and teleporting accurately wherever and whenever he needs to go: too powerful.

By: sheepish

sheepish — Fri, 04 May 2007 15:45:25 +0000

Also, what happens with Peter’s invulnerability/healing power? That’s not one that is consciously used; it just happens. So he can never die either?

By: wolfa

wolfa — Fri, 04 May 2007 19:45:28 +0000

Well, it looks like decapitation would kill him, since it severs his brain from his spinal cord, and happens fast enough that he cannot heal. At least, I’m assuming.

I do not know if healing is conscious or not. I do think the “one at a time” idea would be really interesting. Like, sure he can stop time, but while it’s stopped he can’t use his other powers. I still think he’s too powerful, but there we go.