I've seen only the first 10 minutes, will watch it all tonight. I liked how it began, no annoying fortune-cookie monologue (I hear there's no Mohinder) and I like Peter jumping the garbage truck, cool acrobatics (BTW, what power were those?, Mohinder's?)
so far annoyed by Claire's roommate, not liking Hiro's shenanigans (yet again), but I'm interested by the rest of the episode...
I'll be back tonight
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Yes, but he'd be in pieces or he would become water. If such an event were to take place, the only way he can come back is to take Tracy's ability so that he can reform himself.
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Indeed, I liked Ray Park. Oddly enough, any scene he was in actually had a fight scene! A rarity for Heroes...
I like the motivations of the characters thus far. Hiro's could get very interesting and I'm wondering what Samuel gains by pushing Hiro in that direction. Peter's being good ol' Peter; maybe not the most exciting but he'll get his call to adventure soon enough.
And that was Mohinder's power that Peter used, as stated by Peter, to jump the garbage truck.
Never mind, I saw I forgot to put kill in quotes, as in truly incapacitate Sylar.
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I found the episode to be boring. I'll probably still watch it since there aint much going on on Mondays. At least until 24 starts again. Two things I liked the most was Ray Park (of course) and Samuel. He was brilliant as T-bag on Prison Break. Hopefully he'll be brilliant here as well. I really, really didnt care for Claire. She should take a season off. I put money it was that new girl that killed that other girl. Hopefully the season will pick up steam.
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I just like that they kept things simple for the season opener. Last season it was 'SYLAR HAS BROKEN INTO LEVEL 5 AND EVERYONE IS LOOSE AND ALL THIS IS GOING ON AND OH NOOOO.'
the first half was boring (actually the first episode "Orientation") but the second half picked up quite nicely. I like the direction it's taking...orthe direction I sense they're taking. Good call airing both episodes as one.
the first time I heard about Sylar being on Matt's head I thought it was stupid, but seeing it play out, I now think it's brilliant. It was quite amusing, they both pull it off nicely. best bit of the entire episode. Sylar (or better said Matt's conciousness/guilt/inner-self) playing with him and his jealousy... great.
And the Carnival people are interesting on their own, and were pretty well introduced... less exposition, better pacing
there's quite a few grievances, but overall I felt satisfied with the premiere, it didn't suck as hard as I thought it would.
...and the preview for next episode has me excited to see it next week.
so... what is Samuel's power exactly?
I thinking he might be like Peter and have quite a few more powers to show off
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Last edited by S_D_J on Sep 26th, 2009 at 03:08 AM
Yeah, it may be that Samuel has empathic mimicry... my friends and I were talking about it and he had some sort of earth-controlling power when he closes the grave at the start of the episode... but then he controlled the tattoo that closed around Edgar's neck. Not sure how he did that; mineral-control?
I thought Lydia (the tatto lady) was the one who controlled the ink, as it turns out she doesn't, but the ink itself forms the figure (or picture) they are looking for. Samuel doesn't do that
... and while Samuel could control the ink, it doesn't explain how he could choke Edgar just by drawing a hand around his neck.
though that can be explain by telekinesis (force choke, anyone?)
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