Heroes 1:18 Parasite

[hazelk]

Quickly before the new episode begins


Structurally Company Man was a slight departure from the Heroes norm, Parasite reverted to the multi-threaded format with some threads stronger than others but I did like where they all ended up.

Hiro and Ando’s story feels like it’s been played as comic relief for too long, the final shot of them both hurled into a devasted future would seem to mark the end of that period and how. I did like Hiro’s meeting with Nathan

“I thought you were nuts.”
“I thought you were mean.”

I probably need to rewatch and check what he and Nikki said but going to shoot Linderman rather than entrap him never felt like Nathan’s style so the fact that he didn’t seemed more a reversion to type than a falling to temptation. Still a good endpoint to have reached with the promise that both will now talk openly to one another. Similarly, the parallel reveal of Grandma Petrelli as a player in the game. I’m most curious about the Haitian and how he became aligned with her, is she the only person he’s spoken with until now?

Mr and Mrs Bennet were heartbreaking, I know arithmetically Noah is probably my age but their marriage recalls the way things seemed to work in my parents’ generation breadwinner and homemaker clearly defined and never discussed. If you think about it the show is being quite startlingly harsh in its depiction of that traditional family structure. All that holds it together are lies and erasures.

I like Candace. I don’t think she’s good but it was hard not to enjoy her taunting of Issac and to a lesser extent Noah. There’s a vengeance demon aspect to her - I suppose since her ability seems to be illusionism she could grant wishes or at least seem to if the need arose.

I can’t prove it but I did think Mohinder caught something of a clue about Sylar in the talk they had before checking in the night he killed Dale. As written that isn’t necessarily the case, he could have had no idea until seeing the news story, but I prefer it if it was. There is some truth in Sylar acusation of both Suresh’s being blinded by their pursuit of science and letting murders happen while they investigate. Not quite how he means it but in the scientific propensity to test hunches rather than acting on them. Intellectual caution costing lives. Sylar also seems quite desperate that Peter be ‘like him.’ Starting with the haircut.

Comments

[londonkds.livejournal.com]

He's spoken quite a lot to Claire, although Bennet and Thompson both think he's mute.

[yourlibrarian]

their marriage recalls the way things seemed to work in my parents’ generation breadwinner and homemaker clearly defined and never discussed. If you think about it the show is being quite startlingly harsh in its depiction of that traditional family structure.

With the Petrellis as well, yes. Marriage doesn't do well in this verse.

[bradcpu.livejournal.com]

Hiro and Ando had definitely been played as comedy relief to this point, but I didn't fault the show for that because their thread was the only one that had *any comedy at all*. Every other thread in the show was pure, straight-faced drama/horror/suspense.

[selenak.livejournal.com]

I did like Hiro’s meeting with Nathan

Their scenes together are among my favourites of the first season. I just adore them. (Which, naturally, resulted in fanfic.) Also, note this time Nathan is seeking out Hiro when he spots him; in a season where usually people bond over life-threatening situations when they meet (a la Peter and Claire, for example), Hiro and Nathan hit it off simply because they like each other, against all the odds, since they're at the opposite ends of the superpowered characters, Hiro the exuberant fanboy and Nathan the jaded, skeptic politician.

I’m most curious about the Haitian and how he became aligned with her, is she the only person he’s spoken with until now?

As Londonkds says, he spoke a good deal to Claire. But she's clearly whom he's referring to when he says to Bennet that he took his orders "from someone who outranks you" (Bennet: "In this Company?" Haitian: "In your daughter's life") in Company Man.

Did it surprise you Nathan was working with the FBI and had in fact initialized this post-"accident" in Six Months Ago?

I like Candace. I don’t think she’s good but it was hard not to enjoy her taunting of Issac and to a lesser extent Noah. There’s a vengeance demon aspect to her - I suppose since her ability seems to be illusionism she could grant wishes or at least seem to if the need arose.

Oh, interesting comparison. Candice has some good character stuff coming up in the episode Landslide where we find out a bit about what motivates her. And yes, her ability is creating illusions; physically, though, not mentally. (I.e. she can't read minds.) (But she's not a shapeshifter like Mystique, a mistake people made who didn't pay attention that in "Parasite" she hides Simone's dead body from the cops while, she doesn't just assume her appearance; again, in Landslide it's stated quite how her power works.)

Sylar's taunting of Mohinder: imo he's not exactly lying about Chandra's sort of adoption of him, either. The Mohinder-Sylar dynamic on the road is probably a pretty faithful recreation of the one between Sylar and Chandra before Chandra clued into the fact people were dying and what that meant.