The Second Coming/The Butterfly Effect
Sep. 24th, 2008 08:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
meddowI'd read the term 'shark jumping' mentioned a lot in discussions of these episodes, and a lot of people seem to have gone off the show. I am…hopeful. Really, I didn't think it was bad at all.
What made me want to throw things at the TV last season was the fact that so much of the plot would have been resolved if the characters just talked to each other. With these two episodes, I can't think of a single time where one character didn't say something important to another character. Hiro told Ando about evil!Ando, Bennet told Claire exactly what he was up too, Future!Peter confessed to Nathan. Communication! At last! And they even had Claire ring Peter.
Add onto that, the writers seem to have clued onto the annoying things about most of the characters. (I say most, Mohinder hasn't improved). Claire's decided to be less of a victim and take control of her life, Bennet's found something to do with himself other than protect his family/his own ass, Sylar's been separated from Maya, Hiro's back with Ando, they've teamed Milo up with the better actors and Nathan has apparently decided he's tired of hanging out in the gutter.
Saying that, so far I don't like Tracey - in fact, Tracey makes me miss Nikki - and I've not warmed to speedy girl either. And Mohinder and Maya's storyline is bad bad bad bad bad. Please end it now and either give both characters a purpose of kill them off. And if Maya is pregnant, I will throw things.
There was a hell of a lot of stuff happening though – they've gone a bit too far with speeding up the pacing. It really needed to slow down.
Other stuff with bonus caplock:
On the final bombshell: I think she's lying. This may be a little backflip my brain has taken to stop it from being fried by the sheer plot lunacy. I mean, even for a show with superpower's it ridiculous. But how cool would that be if she was lying? Angela spends most of a season pretending to be Sylar's mother to control him, and then it gets out she's been lying all along.
And this season, because I can, I've decided to do a statistical analysis of a subject close to my heart
Episodes: 2
Shirtless Scenes: 1
Chances of fanservice: 50%
(Last season it was 8 shirtless scenes in 11 episodes - that's a 73% chance of fanservice. 45% chance of Peter getting his shirt off)
Next week it's written by Joe Pokaski, who wrote Fallout, Five Years Gone and Cautionary Tales, all of which would make it onto my top five episodes, so I'm looking forward to it
What made me want to throw things at the TV last season was the fact that so much of the plot would have been resolved if the characters just talked to each other. With these two episodes, I can't think of a single time where one character didn't say something important to another character. Hiro told Ando about evil!Ando, Bennet told Claire exactly what he was up too, Future!Peter confessed to Nathan. Communication! At last! And they even had Claire ring Peter.
Add onto that, the writers seem to have clued onto the annoying things about most of the characters. (I say most, Mohinder hasn't improved). Claire's decided to be less of a victim and take control of her life, Bennet's found something to do with himself other than protect his family/his own ass, Sylar's been separated from Maya, Hiro's back with Ando, they've teamed Milo up with the better actors and Nathan has apparently decided he's tired of hanging out in the gutter.
Saying that, so far I don't like Tracey - in fact, Tracey makes me miss Nikki - and I've not warmed to speedy girl either. And Mohinder and Maya's storyline is bad bad bad bad bad. Please end it now and either give both characters a purpose of kill them off. And if Maya is pregnant, I will throw things.
There was a hell of a lot of stuff happening though – they've gone a bit too far with speeding up the pacing. It really needed to slow down.
Other stuff with bonus caplock:
- THEY KILLED BOB! I liked Bob. *Cries for Bob* And he didn't even get a decent death.
- Elle seemed slightly…off. I can't put my finger on why.
- Angela called future Peter and idiot. Yay for Angela
- Level 5 – where all really dangerous people with abilities are kept…and Noah Bennet. Dude doesn't have powers and he made L5. HE IS THAT BADASS
- Not only that, but he's decided to go back to the Company on his own violation to save the world. Hurrah for Bennet finally meeting the bigger picture. He is so Batman (but without the morals)
- However, not near enough Bennet.
- Sandra got on the name, place title thing. Is that a first for her? Yay for Sandra moving up in the world (I do adore Sandra).
- I miss Micah and Monica and Nikki
- More of the Elle & Bennet team please
- Finally we know Angela's power
- The Nathan finds God thing wasn't half as bad as I thought it would be. It still wasn't all that great, but he seemed capable of talking about stuff other than God, like sex. He hasn't changed that much.
- Nathan and Linderman are most excellent together
- Matt's little African diversion was also much better than I thought it would be.
On the final bombshell: I think she's lying. This may be a little backflip my brain has taken to stop it from being fried by the sheer plot lunacy. I mean, even for a show with superpower's it ridiculous. But how cool would that be if she was lying? Angela spends most of a season pretending to be Sylar's mother to control him, and then it gets out she's been lying all along.
And this season, because I can, I've decided to do a statistical analysis of a subject close to my heart
Episodes: 2
Shirtless Scenes: 1
Chances of fanservice: 50%
(Last season it was 8 shirtless scenes in 11 episodes - that's a 73% chance of fanservice. 45% chance of Peter getting his shirt off)
Next week it's written by Joe Pokaski, who wrote Fallout, Five Years Gone and Cautionary Tales, all of which would make it onto my top five episodes, so I'm looking forward to it
