Liked that the flashbacks weren’t just retro in their sixties stylings and monochromicity but also in hinting the thematic concern of older superhero comics
My own thought was that it was the visualization of the "morally grey" theme which HRG in particular and the Company in general is associated with.
Bennett thinking in Japanese (and just a little smug about it, he could easily be a working class kid made good as neither Ted nor Matt did).
You're right, that background would make complete sense. (We're not told either way so far where he came from pre-Company days.) I'll have more to say on the interplay between him, Matt and Ted and the hierarchical structures at a later point in the show.
The theory is that episodic memory is stored differently and is more vulnerable (to viruses or the Haitian) than emotional or procedural memory. Music and love then are things that you feel or do more than think, like walking they make themselves once learned.
That works for me. I'm not sure whether or not it works that way within the Heroes universe because of a recent episode, but within s1, your theory holds. Regarding Sandra being wise and her strength and faith in HRG despite all new revelations: it also means the excuse that she couldn't have taken the truth either about her husband or later about Claire is gone. Clearly, she's able to deal.
Loved Claire. In Buffy terms she progressed from LMPTM through Helpless to Prophecy Girl in the space of one episode.
Great comparison, and yes, she did.
The ending was karmic, shot down and memory wiped by his own command. Easy to read the “be done to as you have done” aspects as a form of penance but Noah doesn’t necessarily see it in those terms.
At that point, it's the most efficient way to protect Claire, but the location of the shooting, which he chose - it being the very spot he shot Claude - suggests he might be thinking of at least the irony of fate, if not karmic payback. Again, I could say more on his likely belief system, but it relates to future stuff.
Were you surprised to see Kaito Nakamura (and little Hiro), or were you already spoiled for that?
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Date: 2007-11-04 06:33 pm (UTC)Liked that the flashbacks weren’t just retro in their sixties stylings and monochromicity but also in hinting the thematic concern of older superhero comics
My own thought was that it was the visualization of the "morally grey" theme which HRG in particular and the Company in general is associated with.
Bennett thinking in Japanese (and just a little smug about it, he could easily be a working class kid made good as neither Ted nor Matt did).
You're right, that background would make complete sense. (We're not told either way so far where he came from pre-Company days.) I'll have more to say on the interplay between him, Matt and Ted and the hierarchical structures at a later point in the show.
The theory is that episodic memory is stored differently and is more vulnerable (to viruses or the Haitian) than emotional or procedural memory. Music and love then are things that you feel or do more than think, like walking they make themselves once learned.
That works for me. I'm not sure whether or not it works that way within the Heroes universe because of a recent episode, but within s1, your theory holds. Regarding Sandra being wise and her strength and faith in HRG despite all new revelations: it also means the excuse that she couldn't have taken the truth either about her husband or later about Claire is gone. Clearly, she's able to deal.
Loved Claire. In Buffy terms she progressed from LMPTM through Helpless to Prophecy Girl in the space of one episode.
Great comparison, and yes, she did.
The ending was karmic, shot down and memory wiped by his own command. Easy to read the “be done to as you have done” aspects as a form of penance but Noah doesn’t necessarily see it in those terms.
At that point, it's the most efficient way to protect Claire, but the location of the shooting, which he chose - it being the very spot he shot Claude - suggests he might be thinking of at least the irony of fate, if not karmic payback. Again, I could say more on his likely belief system, but it relates to future stuff.
Were you surprised to see Kaito Nakamura (and little Hiro), or were you already spoiled for that?