Guess who spent 10 hours this weekend getting caught up on this NBC series he hears so much about, because he needed to watch another show that leaves 50 unanswered questions per episode. Questions like, oh, let's see...
- If Hiro went back in time to save the waitress, why didn't she recognize him?
- And he he hadn't yet, how does she know Japanese already?
- If Niki's one of the good guys, why does she want to kill her ex-husband, who came back to save her?
- Did Sylar kill the professor? And if he did, why'd he have to physically bash his head in, instead of throwing fifty forks or a half dozen gym locker doors?
- Who the hell is the Haitian dude?
- What's the Vegas mob guy got to do with any of this?
- If Peter absorb's people's powers, why didn"t he go all Sylar on us when they met?
- Why didn't Sylar kill Hiro in the diner?
- And is Claire's stepdad a good guy or a bad guy? (He is trying to save her, isn't he?)
PS: Who noticed the cheerleader before anyone else?
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Eventually people will realize, as they are starting to with Lost, that Heroes is generally crap.
Disagree, Lost didn't start out as crap, it degenerated there when it became evident that they can't tease people forever without giving some answers.
Hero's, on the other hand, has a comic book arc style in place where they pose a problem/plot point and then solve it over the next several episodes. They are avoiding the Lost problem all together.
You are working under the assumption that JJA and his talentless hack writing staff HAD answers to give. They didn't. They had teases and no ideas at all of followthrough. They didn't shoot their wad in the first season, they just didn't finish anything.
God help us with what the new Trek is going to be like under these people.
Heroes is better than that. Heroes is just 100% derivative. Everything about it is a rip from the X-Files or various good superhero genres or Buffy or Farscape or whatever else. I have watched it, because it is there next to Studio 60, but I haven't seen an original idea yet in the show.
Hi. My thoughts:
1. She was just being nice in the future, playing along even though she knew she was a goner. Or b, we're operating on the Back to the Future idea of timetravel in which all butterfly effects are null and void.
2. She's google-powered, remember?
3. Niki's good, Jessica's bad. See last episode of 2006, right.
4. TV storytelling problems. They hadn't revealed Sylar yet when they showed Prof's death, which would reveal who killed him at the time.
5. See last episode.
6. Nothing.
7. I think he just takes on powers, not personalities. He probably did have the powers but didn't know it in the brief time. Also, Sylar gained his powers by sucking brains out, not being born with it. So maybe it don't work none.
8. I don't think Hiro was on the list (Prof's list). I dunno. Maybe Sylar didn't want to look constipated when he used powers.
9. He's got old glasses, so he's BAAD right? I think they play with us too much, but he's bad -- maybe an antihero.
*Bonus: Yes, I hated Heroes at first but it has grown on me. And I loved Lost when I saw the first season. Then Abrams went off to do M:I 3 and it has been downhill ever since. Except that last episode of season 2. That was cool.