[Movie] Heroes Season Two Discussion

What an incredible way to start off season 2! My thoughts in the spoiler

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First off it's so nice having the premiere episode be "limited commercial interruption"! Too bad next week we'll be back to 10 min worth of commercials seemingly every 5 min. ah well.

It's too bad that Zach is pretty much no longer in Claire's life anymore, although his "replacement" looks almost like a taller version of him. And whee, he can fly.....seriously could they have at least come up with something different for him? It's stuff like that which makes me like The 4400 a lot more since there were so many different abilities shown in that series.

WTF, Nathan looks like one of the highlanders from WWE RAW, only with hair on his head as well as the beard! o.O That was kinda freaky with that one image he first saw as his reflection.....it does make me wonder just how he survived too...which also makes me bet we'll have an episode of what exactly took place immediately after season 1.

Man, poor Matt keeps having his ups and downs. He finally becomes a detective, but he's already lost his wife....ah well that child she was carrying was prolly the other cops' anyways. Him taking care of Molly is a much better angle, and I hope she gets a lot more screen time this season.

Woot on Noah showing his boss who's REALLY in charge! I loved that moment and was hoping something like that would happen! Oh and a big FUCK YEAH to Noah and Mohinder working together to bring down the company!!!!

I'm suspecting that Maya and Alejandro both have abilities, and they each cancel the other out, thus why Maya unintentionally killed that entire wagon full of illegal immigrants. I can't wait to see how this plays out.

Too bad George Takai's (sp?) character had to die . I guess it's expensive having him in so many eps though, so they have to find a good reason for him to not be there, and well they found it. Also, did it give a clear shot of whether the assassin that came for him died with him? I couldn't tell. At least Ando's character has developed very well though! I can just see him now taking it up as his personal mission to find out who killed Hiro's father and exact revenge.

Hiro's journey in feudal Japan is kinda interesting, but honestly, after re-watching most of season 1, I didn't really care for Hiro's scenes as much as the other characters and it's the same case here. It's nice, but at the same time I wouldn't have minded if that hadn't even shown him at all.

Claire's struggle for a normal life continues, and it's a nice story for her character. I loved how she intentionally broke her legs after she thought everyone had left too! Seemed to be a reminder of just how different she still was from everyone else.

And of course, as was hinted at online after season 1 had ended, Peter and Sylar are both still alive. It's clear Peter has amnesia, but what of Sylar? Looked like he was taking a vacation at the beach in that preview. Good stuff overall tonight, and the perfect hook for once again grabbing my attention and not letting go till the season is over.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Grail

Ahah, I already have a theory to this, though it might be wrong.

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I have a good idea that somehow the haitian got to peter after he exploded. How else would he have wound up in a box, with no memory at all of who he is? And furthermore, he has teh Hatian's necklace around his neck.

Somehow I think mama petrelli still wants that bomb to hit New York.

Wow good point! I was wondering why the necklace looked so familiar! Holy smokes that's the most plausible theory yet, and it fits the best since everyone was wondering where the hatian disappeared to in the last few episodes of season 1.

Originally Posted by Tritoch

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I was disappointed by that too, but look at the info Crash posted in the OP of this thread. Since we already know this guy is probably in league with the company, maybe they've found a way to artificially give powers that they've seen before. It's possible that they managed to get a sample of Nathan's DNA and replicate his ability. That would make them much more dangerous.

Ah very true, that thought had not occurred to me at the time of my writing that, and it makes since due to Nathan having been taken by the Company in Season 1.

Originally Posted by Tritoch

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You couldn't tell if he was dead, but there was a second body collapsed on the ground. I highly doubt that the assassin died though. Didn't Takei say that there were only 9 of those extremely powerful guys? He recognized which one he was too. Plus, if this assassin was supposed to be so powerful, I doubt he would just tackle Takei on the edge of a roof without knowing he could survive.

Once again good point. My memory is fuzziest on the details of what Takei said, and such, so I'd have to watch the episode again to get it all. That assassin will pretty much become Ando's number 1 target too.

Also, I used spoiler tags since I literally posted my message right after the show ended and figured there might still be folks in the other U.S. timezones as well as international timezones that were waiting for the show to come on, so I figured I'd air on the side of caution. If they aren't needed though, I'll stop using them.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

I guess I'm going against the flow here in that I like Season 2 so far. True, it's starting off slow, but then so did Season 1. I'm sure it will start picking up in an episode or two now that Matt has more of a reason for being around other than to read Molly's mind while she's sleeping. And I was actually glad that there weren't any Hiro scenes in this recent ep *puts on flame protection suit* BUT I will admit that his scenes have been getting better lately!

The only thing that keeps me going with Claire's scenes is that I'm waiting for West (or is it Wess?) to then contact Bob from the company and report in on Claire when she's all off in la-la land over her "new" life.

Being somewhat of a wrestling fan, I loved it when that girl did the 619 to the robber! And I don't even like Rey Mysterio that much. Still nice sly cross promoting there!

I still feel that the biggest weakness that the show has is that they kill off people too quickly or that it's often the reason to remove a character from the show. Instead of having them disappear somewhere for awhile only to return and make a big bomb splash of a twist it's more like: New power? Sylar fodder. Don't have a power? We'll find a way kill you anyways. That's what I liked more about the 4400. The continuous story had very few deaths within the main cast, and thus characters who have died have their deaths made a little more meaningful. Looking forward to next week's episode all the same though.

How ya doing, buddy?

Thanks for the links striped! Managed to get the ep downloaded before I left for work this morning.

Good episode, and I love how more events are finally happening. Although I now think Mohinder is the biggest moron on the show. Did he forget that just a little while back, the company was going to use Molly to locate any and all people who have abilities?! Now they're only a step away from doing that once they'll inevitably bring her out of her coma like state. I really hope that reality hits him hard.

It's really looking more and more likely that Peter's story is going to stay in or around Europe for most of the season until he has a reason to travel back to New York. Why he didn't think, "hey the box didn't tell me anything, maybe I should return to New York where I'm from." is beyond me.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Originally Posted by Mucknuggle

Reason to travel back to New York? It's pretty obvious that he's going to be going to Montreal. The intersection they showed in the painting is real and the big church in the background is likely the Notre-Dame Cathedral. It's going to be really fun to see them running around the city - assuming they actually shot that part of the show on location here.

True, but before he saw that painting all he had was his origin from new york and a montreal plane ticket. Personally, if I were in his shoes, it would've been new york, not montreal.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by nuttyturnip

Observation:

It was mentioned several times that blowing Adam (or Peter's) head off is the only way to kill them. How did the company establish this? Was there another immortal that they tested this on, or did they just go with Highlander rules?

Well with Chandra's old theory that "it's in the brain", destroying the brain before the regeneration could kick in would make that somewhat plausible.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?