Heroes Ep: Cold Snap

[the_other_sandy]

Watching Heroes last night gave me something to do while my PC's hard drive attempted to reconstruct itself after a massive system failure. Yay.

I'm utterly crushed that Sylar didn't even try to kill Danko. Not even a little bit. I am, however, very happy that Sylar gave him a gift-wrapped Eric Doyle. I'm not in favor of rounding up specials as a general thing, but if anyone deserves to be dropped down a well and never heard from again, it's Puppet Man.

Angela was looking a little beaten down this week. And I was disappointed she was caught so quickly (well, in the episode, anyway; I suspect she was looking so stressed because she'd been evading Danko's men for a bit already). Anyway, she may not have much in the way of action hero cred, but she has plenty of smarty brains and I was hoping to see her outsmart Danko's men a little longer. Her escape from the limo was awesome and very her. She's just lucky that Peter is the most forgiving son on the planet.

What was the point of dragging out the suspense about whether Daphne was really dead or not after she got shot if they were only going to bring her back long enough to have her really die? Pooey. I liked Daphne. Parkman gave her a very sweet sendoff, though.

On the other hand, I'd be a lot more enthused about Tracy's death if I didn't think Ali Larter was just going to come back again as yet another character. I just hope the next one is more obviously different from Jessica. I kept forgetting Larter was playing Tracy now.

Micah grew up fast! I didn't want to be disappointed that Micah turned out to be Rebel because I like Micah and he always wanted to be a hero, but since 90% of fandom had already guessed that Micah was Rebel, I was kind of hoping that the show would throw us a curveball and that Rebel would turn out to be Hana or something.

The Hiro/Ando/BabyMatt storyline was cute. I loved how BabyMatt kept turning on the TV while DaddyMatt was on. I'd love an explanation for why BabyMatt only jump-started one of Hiro's powers, though. Danko lost some evil overlord points from me when he sent out a team to bring Janice and BabyMatt in "for questioning." You're not really fooling anyone with your agenda when you bring in a baby who isn't even walking yet, let alone talking, for questioning.

Bets on how many episodes until Ali Larter turns up again? And could I please have a scene where Peter finally confronts his mother about how she wanted him to explode and die in season 1 so that his brother could be president? Pretty please? Just a little one?

Comments

[ykoriana.livejournal.com]

I feel strangely giddy after watching this episode. The Micah/Rebel thing managed NOT to be predictable (loved Micah trying to be all grown up and talking about political rights).

About that Peter/Angela confrontation... I think you may get your wish in the next episode.

Missed Sylar, but that red bow cracked me up.

[the-other-sandy.livejournal.com]

I can't wait to see the Peter and Angela scenes. The Petrellis are never more awesome than when they're together.

that red bow cracked me up

I loved the oversized gift tag like the ones you always see in cheesy Christmas shows.

[fey-cooks.livejournal.com]

I know this is old - but I'm reading through your old reviews and this keeps coming up. So I wanted to point out another pov. I'll have to watch the show again if you want chapter and verse but, Angela has stated that she didn't think Peter would die... Claire's power was supposed to protect him.

So, blow up New York - yes. Kill Peter? No.

[the-other-sandy.livejournal.com]

It's been a long time since I watched any season 1 episodes, so I can't really dazzle you with an awesome counterargument. ;-) I just don't remember seeing or hearing anything in the dialogue at the time that made me think that Angela thought Peter would survive. I'm sure she's not sorry he did, but I don't think she expected him to. And more importantly, Peter doesn't think/know she expected him to survive, which is why I've always wanted them to have it out about the explosion. Then Angela could detail her plan to Peter and make it clear to him (and us) exactly when she knew what and how she expected things to play out.

And thank you so much for reading through my old reviews. You may be the first and only reader for some of them.

[fey-cooks.livejournal.com]

I think she had said something to Nathan about it at one point.
But you might be right that it would make sense for Peter not to know - I figured he assumed she had put that part together, seeing as how I figured it out the moment we knew he was going to explode (by that time he already had Claire's power).

As for how Angela knew - she'd been dreaming that moment for years according to back history. I'm not going to say that Angela is up for any awards entailing her nice lady of the year... far from it
but then I tend to prefer morally ambiguous characters as I tend to be one. Her one weakness has always been her family (at least that's how I read it.) as for how long it's been since season one - I just started watching two weeks ago... we've been watching the back episodes on streaming vid through Netflix.
We're hooked we're doing like 4 - 5 eps a night and more on the weekends.

I like your reviews =)

[the-other-sandy.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid I tend to see things from Peter's point of view because he's smokin' hot my favorite character.

The problem with Angela's dreams is that she's said she gets images and impressions, so unless we see her dream, and we haven't seen that many, it's hard to tell what she's seen from what she thinks it meant. Case in point: Angela's and Peter's dream about Emma. Angela didn't think Sylar was there to help, but Peter did. Yet the real question is why either of them were seeing Sylar with Emma. Peter knows she's supposedly going to kill thousands, and what does Peter do when there's trouble? Throw himself directly in its path. Plus, Emma is his friend, so why isn't anybody dreaming about Peter helping Emma? Where is he and what happened to him that he couldn't be there for her?

We're hooked we're doing like 4 - 5 eps a night and more on the weekends.

Season 1 was awesome like that. I used to watch the first-run episodes on NBC on Monday, then watch the repeat on SciFi (and, later, G4) on Friday.

[fey-cooks.livejournal.com]

Did I mention I'm a total lesbian with a Persephone complex?

I spent all of season one, two, and three like that wondering what everyone was bitching about... of course it helps that I have a modicum of writing talent, and my wife is an aspiring author (and well known fandom writer within her areas... calafraxed several times.) We do a good enough job filling in the blanks we sometimes fail to notice that they didn't.

[the-other-sandy.livejournal.com]

Continuity fail is my big pet peeve, probably from all those years reading fan fic. Every show has its gaffes, but Heroes has such spectacular whoppers that I keep wondering what the heck is going on in the writers room.

[fey-cooks.livejournal.com]

Like I said both the wife and I are big fandom geeks so we talk about our latest passions a lot. It wouldn't be a stretch to say that we never notice the holes because we quite often fill them in ourselves without noticing it.

That happened to us with Eastwick, it wasn't until the show kind of jumped the shark that we realized the we thought the show was so cool because of the back story we had already given them, and the super cool way we had filled in the blanks.