It was a very long summer for me. All work and nothing worth watching on television. I even resorted to adding all sorts of strange videos to my NetFlix cue just to have something to watch.
The long drought is now over and I can finally get back into my TV viewing pattern. Heroes may not be the first show of a new season that I am watching but it is one of the most looked forward to on my list.
When last season ended we were left with a few big questions.
- Season ender questions
- Why is Hiro back in Feudal Japan and what will happen to him?
- Sylar, I thought he was dead?
- Peter and Nathan, dead or alive?
Yeah I know there were a host of other questions but these are the main ones I was left with after last season ended.
Now that the first show has aired a few of these questions have been answered but not all.
We still do not know what happened to Sylar but we do know both Peter and Nathan survived Peter going nuclear. I think Nathan became a drunk because he feels guilty over Peter's death but... didn't he win an election? Shouldn't he be in D.C. now?
You might have missed it but in one scene Nathan looked at himself in a mirror and saw himself covered in radiation burns. I know Nathan can fly but how did he survive all that radiation with no after effects?
Claire is now going to school somewhere else but the school is just like all other high schools. She has a run in with some cheerleaders and a strange boy that is trying to get her to admit to being special. A boy that can fly! Is this another one of Nathan's kids?
As for Claire's dad. Both my wife and i silently cheered when he grabbed his annoying boss's finger and proceeded to lay the smack down on him! Woot for the office store workers!
Does anyone know why the symbol of the Kensai is so important in the story?
What about Hiro? It was a bit of a crushing blow when he found out his great Japanese hero was actually a man from England with no desire to be a hero. will Hiro persuade this man to become great or will Hiro don the armor and become the great Kensai himself? Will Hiro become his own grandfather so to speak?
What's up with Peter? He just appears inside an empty cargo container handcuffed to the wall? It looks like he has amnesia. I guess being blown to bits and frying up in a nuclear blast can have that sort of effect on people, it just does not explain why the superman of the show is so easily bound inside a cargo container.
What of those two coming up from South America? I have a feeling they have some sort of joint mutation where she becomes a killing machine when removed from the calming presence of her brother. We'll learn more about them as the series moves on.
Now we also know how the super secret hero society funds itself, they have a man who can turn anything into gold! Which begs one question, why the heck would they send him out on missions? Isn't he far to valuable to the cause to risk him getting killed somewhere?
What I did not like
It was a long summer and I was eagerly awaiting the return of Heroes. I am similarly awaiting the return of Lost but that will not be back until next year. So, after all this time and waiting what did I not like about the episode?
Content wise I think it was all good. By saying, "four months later" the writers were able to skim over what happened in the intervening time and possibly cover it again later. That is all well and good.
So what is my complaint? I watched it on TV and the product placement/sponsorship was over the top. Claire's father just happens to give her the same car being advertised during all of the commercial breaks? Not only that but they played the same commercial during all of the commercial breaks!
I started getting vertigo watching that commercial and had to take my glasses off while it was airing.
I understand TV producers looking for new ways to make money and fight the ad blockers and time shifters who fast forward through commercials but couldn't you be a bit more subtle?
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I would think that Peters amnesia would have something to do with the necklace he is now wearing. I can’t be sure but in the preview it looks like Sylar also has a new necklace, could just be chest hair though.
It’s similar to the necklace that the Haitian wore in season one. So it’s conceivable that Peter was knocked unconscious from the blast, fell to earth, and The Company (or perhaps the people going after the original heroes, not sure that’s the company anymore) found him and drugged him up enough for him to be powerless. I dont know, but that necklace was pretty big, and aside from being the symbol we see everywhere, I’m sure it has to be significant.
I forgot he was wearing the necklace with the symbol on it. The same symbol is on the Kensai’s sword and is somehow connected to the events of the series.
You mentioned a lot of the things that I noticed in that episode. However, you didn’t mention Hiro’s dad getting a death threat (and eventually being killed). That seemed to be Company-related. But who knows. At first I thought the hooded man was Peter but that obviously couldn’t have been true since he was handcuffed in that container.
Also you didn’t mention how Mr. Bennet and Suresh are trying to take down The Company along with Parkman. Molly’s dreams were strange, but who knows if that’s a new character or an old one who is just scarier.
What do you think about those parts of the episode?
Oh and I really didn’t enjoy the repeating commercials either. I mean they should have at least produced some different commercials if it was for the same product. Oh well, it was different.
True, I did leave out a few parts. There was just so much packed into that episode!
Death threats: Very interesting. Probably a new character doing the killing.
Taking down the company: They started that storyline in season one so I did not feel it needed to be brought up.
As for Molly, she saw the bad guy in season one and I think she said it was not Sylar.
From memory when Molly was trying to track down Sylar in season one, she mentioned that there were two bad men. One REALLY bad man, and Sylar. I presume “Sauron”, is the REALLY bad man.
Ok, I admit I am visiting this blog regularly because I don’t have to read purely about blogging here. And then I get this Heroes thing. Thanks for keeping me up to date in this part of the world, HMTK - I just went to get this episode. :)
My wife picked up the season one DVD set for me today. I just finished watching the second episode and when Saresh uses the computer to see the data his father recorded that funky S “Kensai” symbol can be seen in the data stream!!!