Heroes 1x08 Seven Minutes to Midnight
Wed, Nov. 15th, 2006 01:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
oyceterOk, I think I'm officially fannish about this show. I've stopped noticing clunky dialogue, or their writing is getting better, I care about a lot of the characters (or maybe it's just because this was Hiro and Mohinder episode), and I keep flailing around and squeeing and yelling, "That is SO COOL!" at the tv.
Getting the non-Hiro parts out of the way first. I mean, they were very excellent as well, and this was a great episode, but the Hiro squee deserves its own section (and probably could take up an entire entry!).
Mr. Bennet is sort of winning me over. Except, you know, the part in which he is evil! And shoots Isaac up with drugs again! And even though he totally uses his fatherly love to manipulate people, he really does care about Claire, which is strange and sweet and makes their father-daughter relationship really, really interesting. Eden is also much more interesting now that she isn't just spunky Girl Friday, and I'm wondering what her power is. Convincing people? I wonder why it didn't work on Mohinder, since she seemed to have tried to use it on him. And Isaac cleans up really nice!
And Mohinder! You are back! You have plot! You have fatherly angst and issues! You are in India! You have a mysterious and angsty past relationship with the head of a genetics company, who is, by the way, female! And I sort of missed it, but I'm guessing that the girl in the photo and in his dreams was his sister? She looks older than five...
Also, Mohinder's dad died at seven minutes to midnight, and it looks like Claire is set to get it then as well? And I keep thinking there was another watch somewhere, but I may have made that up.
I'm getting much fonder of Matt as well, now that he's not creepily telepathically spying on his wife. I was very impressed that he didn't just yell out that his wife was having an affair, or that he hated her and wanted to break up, or whatnot. I like that his current answer to if their marriage is over is "no." Maybe the show will actually be doing something interesting with marriage instead of just sticking in angst and recriminations... Plus, it was neat learning that Mr. Bennet had things to do with Ted the Radioactive Man as well, and wow, it so sucks to realize that a) you are radioactive b) that you accidentally murdered people and c) that you gave your wife radiation poisoning and cancer and eventually killed her. I think he wins at the best angst in the show game so far.
And one of my favorite things about the show so far is how little "OMG you don't believe me woe!" angst that there has been. People prove their power, and that's it. It's really refreshing.
On a side note, I get totally creeped out every time I type "Mr. Bennet" because I keep thinking of Pride and Prejudice.
And Hiro! I love Hiro! I love Hiro because he doesn't have angst! I mean, he does in that he wishes he saved the girl, but he goes and does something about it and he goes forward and is determined that he won't let it happen again.
As a side note, show, will you please stop killing off women, particularly as reasons to give the male characters angst?
I really love the interactions with Waitress Person, particularly her special power being a great reason to go past the language barrier.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rachelmanija made a really good point on the use of foreign language in Heroes vs. Lost and how the subtitles make it so that we share the characters' language frustrations. And it's just cool having the waitress meet Hiro and Ando as equals, in a way, because the inability to speak a language so often puts people into a subordinate position. So she can speak English, the dominant language where they are, but she also mostly talks to Hiro and Ando in broken Japanese, so they're teaching her as well. Well, Hiro is.
And Ando! I really adore Ando as well, even though sometimes he is overshadowed by Hiro. I love how he is more practical and less idealistic, but how he goes along anyway. And poor Ando, waiting in the end!
I thought I had cheered loudly enough last week when Hiro rescued DL, but OMG! SQUEE! The conversation with Ando! The conviction that he has to try, even if it doesn't work for him, but that he's got this ability, and he wants to use it to help! I love Hiro so much!
He actually reminds me a lot of an anime or manga hero or heroine. It's the good-heartedness and the determination to try and do better, even though he might not be able to, and it totally gets me.
And ZOMG! Next week is all about Claire! Please oh please oh please, show, let her be proactive and cool and kickass and don't let hordes of men sweep in to save her. Please?
Getting the non-Hiro parts out of the way first. I mean, they were very excellent as well, and this was a great episode, but the Hiro squee deserves its own section (and probably could take up an entire entry!).
Mr. Bennet is sort of winning me over. Except, you know, the part in which he is evil! And shoots Isaac up with drugs again! And even though he totally uses his fatherly love to manipulate people, he really does care about Claire, which is strange and sweet and makes their father-daughter relationship really, really interesting. Eden is also much more interesting now that she isn't just spunky Girl Friday, and I'm wondering what her power is. Convincing people? I wonder why it didn't work on Mohinder, since she seemed to have tried to use it on him. And Isaac cleans up really nice!
And Mohinder! You are back! You have plot! You have fatherly angst and issues! You are in India! You have a mysterious and angsty past relationship with the head of a genetics company, who is, by the way, female! And I sort of missed it, but I'm guessing that the girl in the photo and in his dreams was his sister? She looks older than five...
Also, Mohinder's dad died at seven minutes to midnight, and it looks like Claire is set to get it then as well? And I keep thinking there was another watch somewhere, but I may have made that up.
I'm getting much fonder of Matt as well, now that he's not creepily telepathically spying on his wife. I was very impressed that he didn't just yell out that his wife was having an affair, or that he hated her and wanted to break up, or whatnot. I like that his current answer to if their marriage is over is "no." Maybe the show will actually be doing something interesting with marriage instead of just sticking in angst and recriminations... Plus, it was neat learning that Mr. Bennet had things to do with Ted the Radioactive Man as well, and wow, it so sucks to realize that a) you are radioactive b) that you accidentally murdered people and c) that you gave your wife radiation poisoning and cancer and eventually killed her. I think he wins at the best angst in the show game so far.
And one of my favorite things about the show so far is how little "OMG you don't believe me woe!" angst that there has been. People prove their power, and that's it. It's really refreshing.
On a side note, I get totally creeped out every time I type "Mr. Bennet" because I keep thinking of Pride and Prejudice.
And Hiro! I love Hiro! I love Hiro because he doesn't have angst! I mean, he does in that he wishes he saved the girl, but he goes and does something about it and he goes forward and is determined that he won't let it happen again.
As a side note, show, will you please stop killing off women, particularly as reasons to give the male characters angst?
I really love the interactions with Waitress Person, particularly her special power being a great reason to go past the language barrier.
rachelmanija made a really good point on the use of foreign language in Heroes vs. Lost and how the subtitles make it so that we share the characters' language frustrations. And it's just cool having the waitress meet Hiro and Ando as equals, in a way, because the inability to speak a language so often puts people into a subordinate position. So she can speak English, the dominant language where they are, but she also mostly talks to Hiro and Ando in broken Japanese, so they're teaching her as well. Well, Hiro is.And Ando! I really adore Ando as well, even though sometimes he is overshadowed by Hiro. I love how he is more practical and less idealistic, but how he goes along anyway. And poor Ando, waiting in the end!
I thought I had cheered loudly enough last week when Hiro rescued DL, but OMG! SQUEE! The conversation with Ando! The conviction that he has to try, even if it doesn't work for him, but that he's got this ability, and he wants to use it to help! I love Hiro so much!
He actually reminds me a lot of an anime or manga hero or heroine. It's the good-heartedness and the determination to try and do better, even though he might not be able to, and it totally gets me.
And ZOMG! Next week is all about Claire! Please oh please oh please, show, let her be proactive and cool and kickass and don't let hordes of men sweep in to save her. Please?
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Wed, Nov. 15th, 2006 07:51 pm (UTC)Also, eeee! More people are watching! I wasn't avidly reccing the show before because of the writing and some clunkiness and etc., but it is so shiny and so fun!