Heroes 1.8: Seven Minutes to Midnight

[drewbear]

Previously: Ordinary people, extraordinary abilities, blah, blah, blah, Radioactive Man debuts

Mohinder expositions again. But at least it actually applies to his situation this time. I still crack up a bit that everyone in India apparently speaks English instead of Hindi in their daily lives.

Eden McCAIN? Yeah... that's not symbolic or anything.

Okay, so Definitely Evil Pixie is powered, then? And "guiding" Isaac in the non-drugged-out usage of his precognition. I'm betting on pheromone control of some kind.

I like how they change the font size for Hiro's subtitles to emphasize certain words.

Okay, so Waitress definitely has super-memory and Sylar (still in the shadows, natch) definitely has telekinesis. Hey, maybe he has a secondary power to always be in shadow. Kinda like Morticia Addams' face is always shadowed except for a strip of light across her eyes.

Why do I get the feeling that one of the people Mohinder knows in India is going to turn out to be a super?

Cool paperweight: DNA helix etched inside a lucite block. And the photo on the back of Papa Suresh's book has changed back to the "star" again. I guess that different photo back in the scene where Peter had a copy of the book was just a continuity goof.

Have we actually gotten a name for FBI Chick?

"what's the bad color?" "Not green." ::snerk::

Aww... Hiro's about to give away his secret to Miss Understanding (the waitress). Or should she be called Miss Remember? In either case, I can't wait to see the square-off between her and Deep Cleaner.

Radioactive Man is looking to commit suicide-by-cop, isn't he? Understandable, considering he's distraught and feeling guilty over his wife's death and suspected of being a terrorist. He appears to have a reasonable control of his power, though. Except for the emotional output, of course.

I liked that they immediately addressed the mysteriously appearing tattoo (or whatever) instead of just letting it linger in the background.

Papa Suresh hides things in odd places: notebooks in disk drives, keys in wallets...

Okay, so is the trip down memory lane "normal" or a power manifestation? Having present Mohinder in a third-person perspective makes it a little odd. And his seeing scenes that he wasn't in at the time lends credibility to the "power" theory. Interacting with those scenes makes it iffy, however.

So Radioactive Man's power progression and Thought Police's power progression parallel fairly similarly. I guess Mr. Bennet and Deep Cleaner did something to amp up their powers. Too bad RM is going to be buried so deep that we're likely to never see him on the show again. Until sweeps week, that is.

So The Face Of Evil is working out of a converted warehouse in Odessa? Okay... Bennet continues to be creepy, however.

Isaac definitely looks better with the stubble. It softens the angularity of his face.

Oh shit. Miss Understanding just got Sylared. :-( Maybe Hiro will go back in time to save her?

Mohinder has a dead sister? Now the question is whether she was powered or not. Papa Suresh definitely seemed to think so.

So Sylar isn't working for Bennet then. Good to know, I guess. Bennet's been tracking and monitoring supers for years? Wow. And Claire was the child of supers as well.

Okay, so Mohinder's dream-child is definitely a result of SOMEBODY'S power, since there's no way that Mohinder could've imagined Sylar's watch.

Persuasion Pixie definitely has some sort of "control" power, which seems to be sonic-based rather than pheromone-based like I thought.

"Head ripped open"? Oh, Hiro's remembering Isaac and is not happy. And I bet this is the first step on him maturing into Future Hiro. Of course, now we have the paradox issues to worry about, with Hiro going back in time to change things.

::sigh:: Can we just end the "cheating wife" storyline? Please?

FBI Chick is way too close to that burning car, especially since she knows that it has to be radioactive as hell.

Ah... so I was right: dream-child is Mohinder's dead sister.

Wait... so Hiro went way too far back in time, did he? That photo of him and Miss Understanding was NOT taken that day.

Comments

[cubhaystack.livejournal.com]

I wonder how the dad has been tracking the specials for years... I guess they've always been around in limited numbers, but something has been triggering powers en mass lately?

Did they actually call the dad the "Face of Evil" in the commercials? Is that where "foe" comes from? Or is it a subliminal reverse psychology message?

I thought the same thing about Hiro at the end. He's been so goofy and almost entirely care-free the whole time, despite the huge task on his shoulders. When the waitress was found dead and he was talking about how he was given powers to use them and they're worthless if he's too afraid to use them, etc, you could *definitely* see the beginning of a new, more mature Hiro. I really, really dig that character.

[drewbeartx.livejournal.com]

I agree that more powers are appearing and in more places, but I don't think that there's anything in specific triggering them. The eclipse (from the first episode) was initially a likely suspect (for some reason), but the writers and producers have said that it was a symbolic event that linked all the main cast.

As for the Face, yup, the previously always refer to Bad Touch Bennet as "the Face of Evil". At this point, the red herring issue could go either way, since we really don't know what he and his organization are doing, aside from tracking and tagging supers.

Hiro, in my opinion, has on some level been thinking about this entire thing like a video game: difficult, exciting and you get emotionally attached to the characters, but you can always go back to a save point if necessary. Not saving the poker players shook him out of that a little, but having Miss Know-It-All get killed right there broke him out of that way of thinking. He's still thinking in terms of going back to prevent it (he's already doing it to stop the nuke, remember), but now he realizes that it isn't a game. When people get hurt or killed, people get hurt or killed.

[boysnightout82.livejournal.com]

Oh man I love this show but I miss so much like I did not realize that was Mohinder little sister in the dream or that Pixie girl had a power. Dammit!

[drewbeartx.livejournal.com]

Well, after rewatching it on the website, I'm not so sure that that's his sister after all. The file on the kid has a different name ("Iyar") and while I initially thought it was a girl, it's probably a boy. And in either case, the dream-child is definitely older than 5, which is when Mohinder's sis died.

But hey! Conjectureland is a wonderful place to vacation!

[enigmacub.livejournal.com]

I was wondering about Sylars powers also. Considering that light is both a wave and a particle, it could be possible to have such a command over telekinesis that you could block a certain percentage of light. How this does not freak people out, I will never know. This also means he should have the ability to split open a person's head with such precision that is looks like it was cut and not severed.

I so want that light up helix paperweight. I must have it, hehehe

Yeah I noticed the change also a few weeks back. It went from a chubbier guy with a turban to the actor from the Mummy, who is thinner and had no headpiece.

If the mark is indicative of how long they have been using their power, then Nicki has been using her powers for a long while. Hers is fully formed. Now the question is, will it appear on her normal body or just Jessica's

I'm voting that the pixie is a siren of some kind. Not the singing kind but one with a kind of audio-hypnosis. Which means she can't outright make someone do something against their will, but she can act upon something in their psyche to make them do it. Like Isaac's brain still craving the smack.

Well it can't be his sister who is doing it. She is dead and can't interact with him. This may be the mystery he needs to solve to prove his father was not crazy. So it's someone his dad was working with, but is it a friend we have met or someone new? Yay for dreamscaping. I love that movie from the 80's

Sweeps is next week so be prepared for the fun. :o)