Originally Posted By christiemarsh88 Anybody know what his superpower was? Was it just that he was an awesome samurai? Because that's really more of a skill.
Originally Posted By Mrs ElderP no, but any clue as to the power of Nathan and Peter's mom? It seems obvious that the black guy of the same generation who died early on in Season 1 could manipulate time/dreams something like that. No one else's powers from that generation seem obvious. Oh, well, there was Mr. Linderman too, he of the life giving touch, but he's gone now.
Originally Posted By cstephens I enjoyed tonight's episode. Between the Japanese, Spanish and French, I think more of the show was subtitled than not! Still tickles me about that. Interesting about the twins - one kills and one heals. Wonder twin powers activate, my word. At the end of last season, I wasn't happy about where Hiro ended up, but I'm rather liking the story, and the Cyrano-esque tale is kinda interesting too. But I couldn't figure out if Hiro healed the gaijin or if the gaijin healed himself. And I think it's getting into one of those weird time-travel paradoxes where Hiro really was the Japanese hero that he learned about when he was a child. Oh, and I forgot to mention - I love seeing Stephen Tobolowsky. He's been in a bunch of stuff, but he's most memorable for me from "Sneakers". "Passport"! /cs
Originally Posted By seanyoda I'd say that the English guy can heal himself -- which would explain how he could survive cutting out his beating heart.
Originally Posted By chickendumpling <<Was it just that he was an awesome samurai? Because that's really more of a skill.>> You know, like nun-chuck skills, bow-hunting skills, computer hacking skills... Sorry. Couldn't resist.
Originally Posted By DAR Good episode last night. I don't know where their going with the Mexican Wonder Twins though.
Originally Posted By hopemax Okay, bad I know, but DH and I have been calling the twins "Nikki and Paolo" after Lost's cast additions last year. As long as they aren't in a story with the other Heroes we just don't care. Hopefully, when they make it to the US they will be more interesting. I love David Anders from his time on Alias, so I am really liking the Hiro/Kensei story.
Originally Posted By SoThisIsLove (chickie d, i love napoleon, too So who got Sulu and, hopefully, Mommie Dearest? The invisible man? Hiro was adorable last night, especially, as cstephens alluded so beautifully, the Cyrano part where he wooed the lady in disguise. Lovely. Who knew Hiro was a romantic? Come on, Claire....watch out for the sneaky high school dude.....
Originally Posted By peeaanuut I liked the episode, but I couldnt help think of Back To The Future 3, where marty comes in and messes up the teachers death and the love story changes. Just something that sat in the back of my head.
Originally Posted By Kennesaw Tom I thought that whole thing was so stupid. Where was the question about if she could regenerate or not? Last season she wakes up literally torn with her chest cavity while open on an autopys table and this season she wants to test her regenerative abilities by cutting off her pinky... duh....
Originally Posted By christiemarsh88 ^^^Actually, I thought it was good that they explored that question. If you'll notice, in the first season she didn't heal until she closed her chest up. In other words, it seemed like the skin had to be touching to heal--more of an instantanious skin graft. Now we know that's not necessarily the case. Also, she come back to life until after the mortician pulled out the branch--same thing with pulling the glass out of Peter's head. Can they not heal if something like that's going on? In the first season she mentioned that she could go through a chipper-shredder and be okay. Would she really be able to regenerate after that? Even a lizard can't do that. It seems like she probably does have some limitations.
Originally Posted By christiemarsh88 Left out a word: Also, she DIDN'T come back to life until after the mortician pulled out the branch...
Originally Posted By cstephens I loved season one, and I'd been liking season two, but this past week is the first time I've been kind of bored and consciously waiting for the episode to be over. I hope they're not falling into the same trap that "Lost" fell into in their second season. Season one of this show culminated in bringing them all together, but season two has seemingly scattered them to the four winds. Hiro has been banished not just to another place but another time, and he's now with completely different people - the gaijin hero Takezo and Yaeko, the woman they're both fighting for. I've enjoyed the Cyrano story to some degree, but I also hate that since Hiro's father died, Ando is reduced to doing nothing but reading restored scrolls. Meanwhile, Peter is in the same time, but on a different continent and unaware of who he is, also now with completely different people, including his new Irish girlfriend. Claire and her father are also in a totally different place, with totally different people, including Claire's new I-can-fly boyfriend and cheerleader group at school. Mohinder is now undercover at the company, but with the problem with Molly, you're sometimes not sure where he stands. There's the new head of the company. There's the twins with the power of life and death. There's the girl in New Orleans who immediately learns everything she sees. (Oh, by the way, when she and cousin Micah revealed to each other that they had powers and wondered where they came from, especially since Micah said his mother and father both had powers, I was yelling that they needed to ask Uhura what the heck was going on, cause you gotta figure that she knows.) There's newbie I'm-made-of-electricity girl who works for the company who is tracking down Peter. Horned-rim-guy, Claire's dad, is traipsing off to other parts of the world with the Haitian trying to track down the lost/missing paintings. There's Matt's dad, who is not the Daddy-dearest he initially posited himself to be. There's the picture of the original group of "superheroes". And there's that mysterious sign. And we have been given zero hint as to what happened to Peter and Nathan and Sylar from the end of last season and how Peter and Sylar ended up who and how they are at the beginning of this season. One of the biggest mistakes that the "Lost" people did was bringing on the Tailies and completely abandoning the original cast in the process. "Heroes" isn't quite doing that, but it keeps adding more and more players and opening more and more questions, and unlike last year, they so far have provided zero answers. Having continuous smaller payoffs worked really well. Here's hoping they haven't forgotten how to do that. /cs
Originally Posted By christiemarsh88 I kind of felt the same way you do, cstephens, until this week. I thought the reveal at the end, where Peter and Katelyn are in the future, in an abandoned NY was pretty impressive. Finally, these heroes have another reason for existing! But you gotta wonder...aren't there any other cities in the world worth saving besides NY? I mean, I know that's where it all started, but very few of the characters are based in New York anymore. And, for the record, I'm really glad I stuck around through Lost's second season slump. Here's hoping Heroes is the same way! One more thing: I really, really hate Molly Walker. Talk about annoying!
Originally Posted By gottaluvdavillains Okay I am going to jump in here - What is up with Sylar - I thought he was cool with his ability to get the others powers - but now he is powerless and he's a bore... The twins are cool - so far.
Originally Posted By smeeeko ^ehh there's enough 'evil villans' without having the Syler character around. I wish they hadn't renewed the guy. Oh well.
Originally Posted By koobar i'm still waiting for sylar to kill the lame twins and their stupid "powers", for the boogeyman to put molly out of our misery, and the infantile hiro storyline to end.
