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And so my lonely struggle as one of the last few people interested in discussing UK Heroes continues ...
Well, last night's episode = pretty tasty, all in all. There was considerably less Mohinder and no Dreamboy, which was very wise of them. They also finally came up with a way to use Isaac which was a little more interesting (only a little, mind). Good that he's off the smack and can do his whiteeyed futurepainting thing straight now, though. Triumph of the human spirit, that.
I personally was disappointed that Hiro couldn't save Cassie? Carrie? (the waitress) and immediately took this to mean that he couldn't change the future when he blatantly could have if he hadn't jumped back to the present at the point where she kissed him. If he loves her, he will go back and try again! (I hope he does - we think she's dead but she doesn't have to be. Mind you, how much use super-fast learning skills will be against telekinesis, brain-eating etc. I'm not sure).
Impressed by Isaac's reaction to the news that in the future he's had his head cut off; slight widening of the eyes, little shrug, "uh huh?". He is a Hard Bastard.
Peter and Claire, sizzling in prison, are going right off the sexual-tension-ometer, which is of course nearly very very wrong, her being 16, but they MIGHT let it happen. He's her hero - squee!
Interesting that Mr. Blank (who has not spoken until now) is outed by Eden as a mute and then speaks for the first time in the same episode. I didn't realise he could blank people's minds as well as their powers, and make them forget. Basically if Eden and Mr. Blank ever turned on Claire's Dad, he'd be toast, and it looks like they're starting to. They must have a REALLY good benefits package.
Jessica and Niki appear to be splitting into actual separate people, unless that was just weird camerawork. DL's phasing powers still criminally under-used - unlocking a door he could totally have kicked in without even trying? Teh lame ... I want a flashback where we see DL walking right through the walls of Folsom. Now that's good phase. Loved Niki deciding she's too dangerous and giving herself up to the confused cop though.
I still think Peter, or possibly Mr. Blank, are the key to defeating Sylar (unless all the others dogpile him) and I really liked what they were doing with Peter and Matt getting psychic feedback off one another when they were in the same room. The possibilities and implications of a fluid power like Peter's are huge, which is why I wish they'd start establishing some ground rules - like how near Peter has to be to other "specials" to absorb their powers. For example, when he was talking to Claire in the cells he was coughing and hacking and looking like crap, whereas if she was close enough to touch nothing should have been wrong with him, whether it was a cut on his hand or a nagging throat infection.
And when he collapsed outside the prison and had that weird vision of himself as the radioactive man, the bomb who blows up New York, was he near either of the two characters who could have conceivably either seen the future or gone forward into it, i.e. Isaac or Hiro? Not that I'm aware of, no. So WTF?
Also WTF: Sylar's kept in what appears to be a "powers-proof" prison cell and Mr. Bennett tells him his powers won't work here (although perhaps that's the Mr. Blank effect) - and they don't, cos I'm sure Sylar wanted to wipe the smug off Mr. B's face. And yet when Persuasive Pixie Eden comes in and tells Sylar to shoot himself, her powers don't seem to work but his do - he pulls her through the glass using telekinesis.
The various powers and counter-powers - despite all this X-Men fluff about DNA (tell Crick and Watson that they've found the gene for Doing The Impossible!) - reminds me very much of Mafia, actually, and especially the super-complex Mafia 4 we played on the board a few years ago, with loads of different special characters and reversals of fortune/allegiance.
Hmm. Maybe that's why I like this programme so much ... |
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