Heroes 2:2 and more
Oct. 2nd, 2007 05:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kd7sovA shorter review, this time, I think.
Claire, you are still being stupid. As I said before, your only task is to stay out of sight. Do nothing to draw attention to yourself. This includes asking what apparently are, in-canon, smart questions in biology class. You remember the advice your father gave you before the first day? "Don't raise your hand"? That's smart advice.
Further, you don't discuss your superpower in a public place. That is just the height of stupidity. No, not quite. Cutting off your toe is the height of stupidity. Especially when Flyboy is watching. Besides that, you used your mother's sewing scissors. She's going to want to use those again. Also they didn't look particularly sharp or sterile. And to compound your mistake, you leave a toe and a fair bit of blood lying around your living room unattended.
Peripheral to that, the toe grew back including the nail. Does this mean that her healing extends to hair and nails? If so, does that mean that a haircut will have no effect?
Peter, I think, is in a more complicated situation than he believes. While it would be nice to get his hands on the box, I doubt his wallet will get his memory back. What he needs to do is make contact with one of the significant figures of his recent past - Nathan, Claire, or Sylar, who would each tell him things even if they don't serve as triggers. Alternately, Claude is a possibility. Certainly he was an effective enough trainer before.
I don't much like Mrs. Petrelli, but I do like her telepathy defense.
I'd like to know more about the Suresh-Bennett plan, and I also want to know how much Flyboy saw in the gym, that being when his suspicions were obviously aroused, but all in all this was a pretty pleasing episode.
And now, my speculations on a single character (more Heroes spoilers).
I am assuming here that the person who killed Kaito (Hoodie Man) is the same person who attacked Mrs. Petrelli in the police station and who scares Molly (The Watcher). I will here examine his known deeds and how he might accomplish them.
We first find out about The Watcher from Molly, who says that she can't point him out because if she finds him, he'll see her. This suggests a few powers. He could have some variation of Molly's power, or simply an ability to sense when other powers are being used on him.
Our next knowledge is when he falls with Kaito off the Devereaux building. There are a number of ways to have survived that, not all of them currently canonical. The first, as mentioned last night, is flight. Alternately, what I first thought of was resilience. We have seen Sylar use this one - for instance, when he falls off the school roof with Peter or gets shot escaping from the police station. Self-healing, teleportation, and phasing also presented themselves as possibilities. Finally, he could have adhesion, to drag himself to a stop on the building itself.
If, as the evidence suggests, it is the same person who attacked Mrs. Petrelli, and if he was working alone in doing so, that throws a few more wrenches into the mix. First, he must have caused the power outage. We have seen a few powers capable of doing so - Ted's EMP, probably the electricity power of the old guy in the graphic novel a few weeks ago, maybe Micah's technopathy - but as we didn't see it happen we don't know for sure. Certain of what we saw during the attack suggests a telepathic projector, although that's not necessarily the only possibility. However, the scratches on Mrs. Petrelli's face look to me as if they were not her doing, which means the attacker was in the room with her, but disappeared by the time Matt and Nathan got in. This means phasing, invisibility, or teleportation.
Even if the outage was a result of Mrs. Petrelli's panic, no single power matches all the events. Therefore, either The Watcher and Hoodie Man are two different people or he is an absorber - either an Empath or a Sylar-class entity.
In a rather different vein, I went and saw Stardust this weekend. I quite liked it, although I preferred the ending of the book.
First, I must say that I really liked Captain Shakespeare. Several of the characters were quite good, but he was my favorite.
I don't approve of shortening the timespan to a week. Partly this makes it all take place in a smaller area, as if Stormhold is quite a small country. Also I have objections to the idea of love in a week. But most importantly, Tristan goes from "useless at fencing" to expert with what I can only describe as a Bloody Big Blade. Doing so in some six months is not entirely unreasonable, especially for a fantasy protagonist. But approximately three days can only mean one thing:
SUE.
Also, I would have liked some more expansion on the direction sense, although to be fair they didn't do much less with it than Gaiman did.
As I said, I liked the ending of the book more. The whole idea of saying, "here, mum, you rule for a bit. We've got to go wander the land. We'll take over when we get back" seemed to fit quite well. On the other hand, Jack Sparrow and the Rattatuille Swordfight of Impossibility probably made up for it. (Well, what else would you call it? Septimus was moving very much like Linguini when Remy was exercising complete control, and there wasn't really any way for Tristan to win, and it ended with Sparrow's signature trick, so...)
The music was spectacular. This is one of the things that makes me love feeling the music. One thing I like to do is pretend to cue things that would happen without my cueing - automatic doors opening, school bells ringing, etc. In this movie, the track and the scenes were so well aligned that, more than once, I was able to faux-cue camera shifts and character actions - and no, I'm not just talking about the Battle of the Can-Can. The part that exemplified this best was the Starshine Explosion at the end - having never previously seen the movie or heard the soundtrack, I was able to faux-cue every camera shift, every movement of the witch's arms, everything. I think I'll be asking for this soundtrack for Christmas.
Did anyone else think it was reminiscent of Princess Bride? Did they do that on purpose?
Claire, you are still being stupid. As I said before, your only task is to stay out of sight. Do nothing to draw attention to yourself. This includes asking what apparently are, in-canon, smart questions in biology class. You remember the advice your father gave you before the first day? "Don't raise your hand"? That's smart advice.
Further, you don't discuss your superpower in a public place. That is just the height of stupidity. No, not quite. Cutting off your toe is the height of stupidity. Especially when Flyboy is watching. Besides that, you used your mother's sewing scissors. She's going to want to use those again. Also they didn't look particularly sharp or sterile. And to compound your mistake, you leave a toe and a fair bit of blood lying around your living room unattended.
Peripheral to that, the toe grew back including the nail. Does this mean that her healing extends to hair and nails? If so, does that mean that a haircut will have no effect?
Peter, I think, is in a more complicated situation than he believes. While it would be nice to get his hands on the box, I doubt his wallet will get his memory back. What he needs to do is make contact with one of the significant figures of his recent past - Nathan, Claire, or Sylar, who would each tell him things even if they don't serve as triggers. Alternately, Claude is a possibility. Certainly he was an effective enough trainer before.
I don't much like Mrs. Petrelli, but I do like her telepathy defense.
I'd like to know more about the Suresh-Bennett plan, and I also want to know how much Flyboy saw in the gym, that being when his suspicions were obviously aroused, but all in all this was a pretty pleasing episode.
And now, my speculations on a single character (more Heroes spoilers).
I am assuming here that the person who killed Kaito (Hoodie Man) is the same person who attacked Mrs. Petrelli in the police station and who scares Molly (The Watcher). I will here examine his known deeds and how he might accomplish them.
We first find out about The Watcher from Molly, who says that she can't point him out because if she finds him, he'll see her. This suggests a few powers. He could have some variation of Molly's power, or simply an ability to sense when other powers are being used on him.
Our next knowledge is when he falls with Kaito off the Devereaux building. There are a number of ways to have survived that, not all of them currently canonical. The first, as mentioned last night, is flight. Alternately, what I first thought of was resilience. We have seen Sylar use this one - for instance, when he falls off the school roof with Peter or gets shot escaping from the police station. Self-healing, teleportation, and phasing also presented themselves as possibilities. Finally, he could have adhesion, to drag himself to a stop on the building itself.
If, as the evidence suggests, it is the same person who attacked Mrs. Petrelli, and if he was working alone in doing so, that throws a few more wrenches into the mix. First, he must have caused the power outage. We have seen a few powers capable of doing so - Ted's EMP, probably the electricity power of the old guy in the graphic novel a few weeks ago, maybe Micah's technopathy - but as we didn't see it happen we don't know for sure. Certain of what we saw during the attack suggests a telepathic projector, although that's not necessarily the only possibility. However, the scratches on Mrs. Petrelli's face look to me as if they were not her doing, which means the attacker was in the room with her, but disappeared by the time Matt and Nathan got in. This means phasing, invisibility, or teleportation.
Even if the outage was a result of Mrs. Petrelli's panic, no single power matches all the events. Therefore, either The Watcher and Hoodie Man are two different people or he is an absorber - either an Empath or a Sylar-class entity.
In a rather different vein, I went and saw Stardust this weekend. I quite liked it, although I preferred the ending of the book.
First, I must say that I really liked Captain Shakespeare. Several of the characters were quite good, but he was my favorite.
I don't approve of shortening the timespan to a week. Partly this makes it all take place in a smaller area, as if Stormhold is quite a small country. Also I have objections to the idea of love in a week. But most importantly, Tristan goes from "useless at fencing" to expert with what I can only describe as a Bloody Big Blade. Doing so in some six months is not entirely unreasonable, especially for a fantasy protagonist. But approximately three days can only mean one thing:
SUE.
Also, I would have liked some more expansion on the direction sense, although to be fair they didn't do much less with it than Gaiman did.
As I said, I liked the ending of the book more. The whole idea of saying, "here, mum, you rule for a bit. We've got to go wander the land. We'll take over when we get back" seemed to fit quite well. On the other hand, Jack Sparrow and the Rattatuille Swordfight of Impossibility probably made up for it. (Well, what else would you call it? Septimus was moving very much like Linguini when Remy was exercising complete control, and there wasn't really any way for Tristan to win, and it ended with Sparrow's signature trick, so...)
The music was spectacular. This is one of the things that makes me love feeling the music. One thing I like to do is pretend to cue things that would happen without my cueing - automatic doors opening, school bells ringing, etc. In this movie, the track and the scenes were so well aligned that, more than once, I was able to faux-cue camera shifts and character actions - and no, I'm not just talking about the Battle of the Can-Can. The part that exemplified this best was the Starshine Explosion at the end - having never previously seen the movie or heard the soundtrack, I was able to faux-cue every camera shift, every movement of the witch's arms, everything. I think I'll be asking for this soundtrack for Christmas.
Did anyone else think it was reminiscent of Princess Bride? Did they do that on purpose?
