Yee haw.

[trinityvixen]

That didn't take long. I gather the PR editor was as despondent as I over last night's Heroes.

I spent most of the review doing my impression of David Tennant: "What. What? What!?" But there are some parts I'm proud of. Towards the end, things got philosophical because actual developments not entirely predicated on the majority of characters being stupid assholes were made. There was good acting, even.

-I'm not the only one who thought there was something more than fright in Claire's reaction to Sylar picking her brain...right?

After he’s gone, she’ll crumple. She asked about death because she wanted it, and he gave her nothing but endless tomorrows. Sylar is crueler for not killing. She doesn’t get to stop being the victim. A few lives ago, a boy tried to rape her, but she got to die and come back and get revenge. Today, a man did something just as bad and her body pretended that maybe it was okay if death would take her away afterwards. But she’s still alive. Sylar leaves, but the tick-tock of the crazy gears stays with Claire.

-Nathan's development into a religious zealot MUST BE A PLOY or I'll kill someone. But it did make for nice allusions:

Nathan does know something about angels. He sees one in the shape of a devil—it’s always the person you least suspect. Linderman talks to Nathan alone about the great things God has sent them to do. Nathan wants to know if Linderman healed him. He doesn’t know about the magic blood he got from Adam. Linderman talks only about plans, not about resurrections. That’s how you know he’s an angel and not God.

-I've been reading too many of Jacob's reviews at TWoP with this one:

“Safe” is Level Five. That’s the myth of Level Five. Put things here and they will be safe and we will be safe. Safe is Present!Peter stashed inside a Level Five inmate’s body. Safe is killing two birds with one cage. Safe is Noah Bennet playing with a tennis ball in his cell on Level Five, the only human dangerous enough to be trapped with the supers. (If they had a Level Six, they might put him there. If you owned Level Six and Hell, you’d rent out Level Six to Noah Bennet and live in Hell. And be safe.)

-If I don't have the chance to immolate the writers who came up with Mohinder's dialogue, I can never die happy:

Imagine feeding a pharmaceutical textbook to your dog and piecing together medical jargon from the strips in his feces. Add in a few science-y sounding verbs, and voila! You have Mohinder’s dialogue. [...] It’s like the writers knew the audience was savvy to the bad layperson science and decided to compensate for their ignorance with vocabulary instead of research.

and

Perhaps Mohinder composed his aphorisms while writhing in pain as his genes exploded. I listened to the voice over (for a change) and not a word of it belonged together. It’s like trying to read a sentence out of scrambled pieces of a magnetic poetry kit as someone keeps opening and closing the refrigerator door. Meaning comes in and out of focus; nothing connects to what came before or after it.

There. I've excerpted the best parts. So no on has to read my agony ever again, least of all me.

Comments

[neo-leviathan.livejournal.com]

It's kinda implied that Sylar has lost all his abilities bar "I know everything" and Telekinesis. He states that he lost everything that made him special and that he needed to rebuild or some such. He doesn't use any power in the show other then Telekinesis.

They couldn't take away his Telekinesis because it's too much part of him, the rest of his abilities are just fluff.