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Nov. 21st, 2006 10:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
trinityvixenHeroes last night deserves this icon. Because, seriously? Dude.
I never really enjoy watching super-healers put themselves back together. Really don't, actually. If I wanted to watch Claire and Peter pull themselves back together after being broken horribly, I'd have enjoyed last night's climax a bit more. As was, ewwwwwwwwww.
Not to mention that I think Peter is already the most guilty (after maybe Matt) of having powers that are incredibly ill-defined limits-wise. It's going to be what's convenient for the writers, obviously. Peter had to touch Nathan before he flew when he fell down in the alley, but on the roof, physically distant from Nathan, he was able to float long after his earlier leeching should have worn off. Duration of ability and Peter's mastery of it are totally, no pun intended, up in the air. He touched Claire and was able to heal himself maybe ten minutes later completely after what should have been a fatal fall (I assume he broke Sylar's fall because how else did he survive it?) even though their contact was minimal and fleeting. Mrmmm.
Not that I didn't love the long-awaited confrontation with Sylar. This show is being praised for its pacing, but I really think it's going way too slowly, and with Hiro being in the past as the focus of the next episode, I'm not sure that's going to get better. I actually loved Eden talking Sylar down. Loved it. She's annoyed the piss out of me the whole way--probably because her cupie-pie act was featured in the Mohinder segments, which are annoying in their own right--but I'm digging on her being an autosuggestive. Mostly because I'm totally in love with anyone who has a power that, if stolen by Sylar, would make him that much more frightening. He's already nearly impossible to beat down, even for supers, and if he could talk them into letting him cut their heads off...dude...
Otherwise, not much else to say here except I don't know what they're trying to set Isaac up as. His future predictions, to a painting, have all come true. They don't tell the whole truth, yes, but they have all come true, which bodes ill for the one on his gallery floor (whole truth or not, there's little room for subtlety or manuevering when an atomic bomb decimates New York City). If the paintings can't be thwarted--the old Oedipus struggle to change the future being the reason it comes true--then woo boy, we be fucked.
Blink and you'd have missed: ikiN! Hi, ikiN! Bye, ikiN! Micah, still likeable, if getting a bit shrill. I wonder if he's got it in for his dad or what. Because he clearly knows when Jessica is on the line, yet convinced his Dad to go back. If Niki told him to knowing what Jessica was about--drama. If Jessica fooled Micah--tragedy. If Jessica didn't fool Micah--fucking awesome going, Micah. DL is way less interesting than your psychotic mother. Time to pick sides. Also, hi Nathan! Bye Nathan! I really don't like that he sabotaged the painting (uh, hello, dude, that's on loan to you and was probably really expensive), especially since I believe he had the right reason to do so (somewhere under Adrian Pasdar's fine, furious features, he plays Nathan as keeping genuine affection for Peter). It made it seem like Nathan was out for himself again, but I really do think he was trying to protect Peter. There was only one way to read that painting, and if you knew it would set off your brother to try and make it come true...Okay, that made it sound self-interested again, but I didn't mean for it to. It's just that Nathan keeps his human emotions so close to the vest, it's hard to see he actually cares.
Watched the latest Torchwood, too. I'm not sure what I think. It's definitely better than the week before, but I still don't buy what they're trying to do with Jack's character. If I hadn't seen Doctor Who before this (which, to be fair, you don't need to at all to understand everything going on), I would probably be okay with it. As is, it contradicts the Jack Harkness they introduced on that show first and makes him into some schizo Jack. It does not help that I don't think John Barrowman does dark very well. You can be tough and not dark, as Jack was originally, and he excels at being shamelessly flirty and falsely shallow, suggesting self-respect and -knowledge that run a lot deeper than the characterizations being flung at him in Torchwood that just aren't sticking. Whatever happened for however long Jack was on Earth after leaving at the end of Doctor Who had better be something incredible or this is going to piss me off royally.
I never really enjoy watching super-healers put themselves back together. Really don't, actually. If I wanted to watch Claire and Peter pull themselves back together after being broken horribly, I'd have enjoyed last night's climax a bit more. As was, ewwwwwwwwww.
Not to mention that I think Peter is already the most guilty (after maybe Matt) of having powers that are incredibly ill-defined limits-wise. It's going to be what's convenient for the writers, obviously. Peter had to touch Nathan before he flew when he fell down in the alley, but on the roof, physically distant from Nathan, he was able to float long after his earlier leeching should have worn off. Duration of ability and Peter's mastery of it are totally, no pun intended, up in the air. He touched Claire and was able to heal himself maybe ten minutes later completely after what should have been a fatal fall (I assume he broke Sylar's fall because how else did he survive it?) even though their contact was minimal and fleeting. Mrmmm.
Not that I didn't love the long-awaited confrontation with Sylar. This show is being praised for its pacing, but I really think it's going way too slowly, and with Hiro being in the past as the focus of the next episode, I'm not sure that's going to get better. I actually loved Eden talking Sylar down. Loved it. She's annoyed the piss out of me the whole way--probably because her cupie-pie act was featured in the Mohinder segments, which are annoying in their own right--but I'm digging on her being an autosuggestive. Mostly because I'm totally in love with anyone who has a power that, if stolen by Sylar, would make him that much more frightening. He's already nearly impossible to beat down, even for supers, and if he could talk them into letting him cut their heads off...dude...
Otherwise, not much else to say here except I don't know what they're trying to set Isaac up as. His future predictions, to a painting, have all come true. They don't tell the whole truth, yes, but they have all come true, which bodes ill for the one on his gallery floor (whole truth or not, there's little room for subtlety or manuevering when an atomic bomb decimates New York City). If the paintings can't be thwarted--the old Oedipus struggle to change the future being the reason it comes true--then woo boy, we be fucked.
Blink and you'd have missed: ikiN! Hi, ikiN! Bye, ikiN! Micah, still likeable, if getting a bit shrill. I wonder if he's got it in for his dad or what. Because he clearly knows when Jessica is on the line, yet convinced his Dad to go back. If Niki told him to knowing what Jessica was about--drama. If Jessica fooled Micah--tragedy. If Jessica didn't fool Micah--fucking awesome going, Micah. DL is way less interesting than your psychotic mother. Time to pick sides. Also, hi Nathan! Bye Nathan! I really don't like that he sabotaged the painting (uh, hello, dude, that's on loan to you and was probably really expensive), especially since I believe he had the right reason to do so (somewhere under Adrian Pasdar's fine, furious features, he plays Nathan as keeping genuine affection for Peter). It made it seem like Nathan was out for himself again, but I really do think he was trying to protect Peter. There was only one way to read that painting, and if you knew it would set off your brother to try and make it come true...Okay, that made it sound self-interested again, but I didn't mean for it to. It's just that Nathan keeps his human emotions so close to the vest, it's hard to see he actually cares.
Watched the latest Torchwood, too. I'm not sure what I think. It's definitely better than the week before, but I still don't buy what they're trying to do with Jack's character. If I hadn't seen Doctor Who before this (which, to be fair, you don't need to at all to understand everything going on), I would probably be okay with it. As is, it contradicts the Jack Harkness they introduced on that show first and makes him into some schizo Jack. It does not help that I don't think John Barrowman does dark very well. You can be tough and not dark, as Jack was originally, and he excels at being shamelessly flirty and falsely shallow, suggesting self-respect and -knowledge that run a lot deeper than the characterizations being flung at him in Torchwood that just aren't sticking. Whatever happened for however long Jack was on Earth after leaving at the end of Doctor Who had better be something incredible or this is going to piss me off royally.
