Heroes season 1 - Genesis
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lathanyI'm going to try and write these without spoilering for future episodes, but I may refer to stuff said in the commentary (where I've seen it).
Previous summary: Nice start, hope this lives up to expectations. Love the comic strip. The ending had me hoping that Peter would survive. Also, I think that Niki was a shrewd move - a scary rather than a useful power. Hiro looks overpowered.
In more detail: It can be difficult to both introduce characters and provide some action. However, Genesis is pretty impressive on a person by person basis.
Claire: Her ability and her current opinion of it are both established. We also get that she's HRG's daughter (whatever that means), but adopted. The train crash scene marks her in as a "good" as she rescues the engineer. Zack's nice as a side character and is looking like a love interest. Plus Mr Muggles gets a nice if Eeew scene licking up her blood.
Hiro/Ando: Hiro's great in both unambiguously having a power ("Hello New York!" - my favourite Hiro moment from this episode) and in taking a complete joy in it. Despite starting in Japan, he's already zoomed over to where the action is by the end and I was anticipating him meeting some of the other characters shortly. Ando's a bit dull, however, and I feel his Niki stuff was only put in as a blatant cross-over between two unlikely characters.
Peter/Nathan/Angela: If this episode it about anyone, it's about these three. There are a lot of scenes establishing who these three are, what they do for a living (or not with the sock-stealing!), what their relationships with each other are (including mention of the dead father) and what the tensions between them are. It also establishes Nathan's power and raises the question of whether Peter's dreams are a true power. Finally, the end scene is lovely; just because it surprised me so much over which one could fly (and, as I indicated in my shorter summary, I wondered if the pilot was actually about falsely establishing Peter as a character, but really aiming to kill him off and leave Nathan with some serious angst to start the series proper with).
Isaac/Simone: Isaac's power is established without question as is his collapsing relationship with Simone. I didn't take strongly to either of these characters from their scenes, but then I think they have less air time than some.
Mohinder: I liked Mohinder for his "do". His father has died, so instead of sitting around moping/panicking about it, he gets on the next plane to New York - that was great. Plus his (brief) stuff with HRG [in India and in the taxi] was equally great. I particularly liked how Peter got out of the taxi for HRG to get in. His scene with the landlord about the taxi was very nice as well.
Niki/Micah: I liked Niki's power a great deal - but found her domestic situation dreary. The struggling single parent having made bad calls on the money front has, like, been done (usually repeatedly by EastEnders and co).
Character absences: Matt, DL and Sylar.
Overall - promising, whilst dealing with all the necessary intro stuff. I think it's also longer than an average episode as well.
Previous summary: Nice start, hope this lives up to expectations. Love the comic strip. The ending had me hoping that Peter would survive. Also, I think that Niki was a shrewd move - a scary rather than a useful power. Hiro looks overpowered.
In more detail: It can be difficult to both introduce characters and provide some action. However, Genesis is pretty impressive on a person by person basis.
Claire: Her ability and her current opinion of it are both established. We also get that she's HRG's daughter (whatever that means), but adopted. The train crash scene marks her in as a "good" as she rescues the engineer. Zack's nice as a side character and is looking like a love interest. Plus Mr Muggles gets a nice if Eeew scene licking up her blood.
Hiro/Ando: Hiro's great in both unambiguously having a power ("Hello New York!" - my favourite Hiro moment from this episode) and in taking a complete joy in it. Despite starting in Japan, he's already zoomed over to where the action is by the end and I was anticipating him meeting some of the other characters shortly. Ando's a bit dull, however, and I feel his Niki stuff was only put in as a blatant cross-over between two unlikely characters.
Peter/Nathan/Angela: If this episode it about anyone, it's about these three. There are a lot of scenes establishing who these three are, what they do for a living (or not with the sock-stealing!), what their relationships with each other are (including mention of the dead father) and what the tensions between them are. It also establishes Nathan's power and raises the question of whether Peter's dreams are a true power. Finally, the end scene is lovely; just because it surprised me so much over which one could fly (and, as I indicated in my shorter summary, I wondered if the pilot was actually about falsely establishing Peter as a character, but really aiming to kill him off and leave Nathan with some serious angst to start the series proper with).
Isaac/Simone: Isaac's power is established without question as is his collapsing relationship with Simone. I didn't take strongly to either of these characters from their scenes, but then I think they have less air time than some.
Mohinder: I liked Mohinder for his "do". His father has died, so instead of sitting around moping/panicking about it, he gets on the next plane to New York - that was great. Plus his (brief) stuff with HRG [in India and in the taxi] was equally great. I particularly liked how Peter got out of the taxi for HRG to get in. His scene with the landlord about the taxi was very nice as well.
Niki/Micah: I liked Niki's power a great deal - but found her domestic situation dreary. The struggling single parent having made bad calls on the money front has, like, been done (usually repeatedly by EastEnders and co).
Character absences: Matt, DL and Sylar.
Overall - promising, whilst dealing with all the necessary intro stuff. I think it's also longer than an average episode as well.
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Date: 2009-05-04 07:51 pm (UTC)I really hope you don't mean hairdo there! ;-P
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Date: 2009-05-05 01:40 am (UTC)Anyway, Heroes has far too many pointless, uninteresting women serving purely as motivation for the men. Simone, Caitlin, the Swordsmith's Daughter, etc etc - they're all flimsy.
And it has far too much of people falling in love at the drop of the hat, leaving me yelling at the screen, 'Dude you just met her!!!'
But I still love it. Off to watch some more now.
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Date: 2009-05-05 06:19 am (UTC)For the most part you can just replace "Heroes" by "TV" there.
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Date: 2009-05-05 05:09 pm (UTC)With the exception of something in season 3 that I really like, but which doesn't really count... oh, poo, I'll have to wait and explain when you've seen it.
That's OK. It may be October, but I will remember to ask. And you can watch it again with me if you want!
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Date: 2009-05-05 09:54 pm (UTC)