[Movie] Heroes Season Two Discussion

I'm annoyed that they decided to add New Orleans into the picture. Any other city would have been fine. I'm from Louisiana and watching these actors pretend to be southerners is irritating. Especially the overly optimistic black girl. The lack of subsequent accents and how actors deliver dialog is usually what makes television shows fail in realism. I've gotten used to it in Heroes since its over all a great series, but this time they've gone and hit a new level of fakeness.

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So far, I have been ridiculously disappointed with the second season. I rather enjoyed the first after watching it on DVD, but the second season has just been a soap opera. Hopefully it will get better.

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Originally Posted by Guest

I'm annoyed that they decided to add New Orleans into the picture. Any other city would have been fine. I'm from Louisiana and watching these actors pretend to be southerners is irritating. Especially the overly optimistic black girl. The lack of subsequent accents and how actors deliver dialog is usually what makes television shows fail in realism. I've gotten used to it in Heroes since its over all a great series, but this time they've gone and hit a new level of fakeness.

Speaking of that subplot, I finally got around to catching up on some Chuck last night, and was somewhat weirded out to notice that the same actor plays the manager of Buy-More and the manager of Burger Bonanza. Different networks, I could deal, but the shows are on the same network back-to-back.

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Originally Posted by knkwzrd

So far, I have been ridiculously disappointed with the second season. I rather enjoyed the first after watching it on DVD, but the second season has just been a soap opera. Hopefully it will get better.

Yeah, same here. It kind of sucks. But I didn't give up yet!

However, the Haitian nigger black skinned guy made his first and only joke ever, but it was a rather good one:

HRG: "Odessa, Texas?"

The Haitian: "No Odessa, Ukraine."

lol!

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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.

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I'm a big fan of season 1 - but like most of you, I am really disappointed by this new season. Every scene just seems to be a re-cap of what happened last week. By the time the audience is "caught-up", it's time to go to the next scene, which will re-cap what happened last week.

Isn't that the point of the "previously on?" segment?

Entertainment Weekly had a good column this week called "Fallen Heroes". They hit the nose on the head.

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HEROES Season 2

Episode 05

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Needs more Sylar and the stupid amnesia storyline to gtfo. I want Sylar vs Peter MK. II please. I am loving Nathan this season though. Easily the best thing about S2.

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In my mind, Nathan always was the most interesting character. That hasn't changed this season.

I enjoyed the last episode of heroes by far the most. I'm not sure whether that's a result of something actually happening, or the show not containing any scenes involving Claire's angsty teen romance. The preview also left me with high hopes for next week. It seems like the beginning of the season was merely introducing us to the situations the heroes found themselves in 5 months after the blast, but now the show is starting to actually have some plot.

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What I want to know is, what is up with Nathan seeing his face all destroyed like it is? I mean, was he close enough to Peter that he was disfigured, and then had surgery to recorrect it? Or is it his guilt that is getting the best of him?

On another note, I can't even remember her name, but Micah's cousin or whatnot...she has the ability to 'copy' whatever she sees. Does this mean only physical things? Or if she sees a power she'll be able to do that as well?

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I can't stand how they keep adding characters. The key to making a good show isn't adding new characters out the ass, it's developing the characters you already have. I think the biggest problem with this new season (besides the soap opera bullshit) is that I don't think that any of the characters have been developed at all since last season's finale.

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Originally Posted by Grail

On another note, I can't even remember her name, but Micah's cousin or whatnot...she has the ability to 'copy' whatever she sees. Does this mean only physical things? Or if she sees a power she'll be able to do that as well?

Micah referred to her as a "muscle mimic", implying that her muscles are involuntarily performing actions. If that's the only augmentation she has, then she would be unable to mimic powers like flight or healing, i.e., powers that the human body isn't normally capable of doing.

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Well, if anything can be agreed on, it is that Season 1 can be viewed as a self-contained masterpiece.

I'm hoping Season 2 will pick up the pace soon, too, but at least the first season had a goal and a conclusion, like 24. I like this much better than other shows like Lost or Alias, where they don't really finish "arcs" and instead rely on the entire series to be viewed as a whole.

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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.

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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.

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Haha what in the hell, this episode was wack.

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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.

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Oh, so it really is Montreal? I figured with the French and our current New Orleans storyline, that the street was actually in New Orleans.

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Originally Posted by nuttyturnip

Oh, so it really is Montreal? I figured with the French and our current New Orleans storyline, that the street was actually in New Orleans.

Nope, it's Montreal. You can't really see the cathedral from that intersection though. There's kinda 3 blocks or so worth of buildings in between... but anyway

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I think that towards teh end of the season, with the way everything is playing out....Peter is probably going to have to end up battling both Sylar, and Matt's Dad...

In the heat of the fight, Peter's little girlfriend is killed...

Peter goes Super Saiyen, end of season 2

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Wow. That episode was horrible. Whoever they have writing dialog for the show needs to be shot. There weren't many scenes that I could watch and avoid cringing. Without a clear bad guy, the show just seems pointless and with no plot direction. The scenes with Hiro in the past, all of Claire's scenes, and Mica's cousin's scenes are all pretty huge disappointments.

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You have to admit the scene with Mr. Bennett killing the Russian guy was awesome, even if the rest of the episode was only so-so. Now that Hiro has altered the past, there's some potential for that storyline as well, though I don't see how it will tie in to everything else.

What's up with New York being the center of the disaster again (with such horrible blue screen effects, too)? This season has had a huge emphasis on showing far flung locations, and they couldn't pick a new spot for the epicenter of the action?

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I like how she's not gonna be able to charge that iPod because he didn't give her an iPod USB cable.

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I like how she's not gonna be able to charge that iPod because he didn't give her an iPod USB cable.

I wonder, could Micah connect it for her? Or she could get Electronica Mars to just charge it herself.

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