Heroes - The Line

[mllelaurel]

- Mohinder and Monica are reminding me of Giles and Buffy right now. A lot.

...Which would make the Company the Watchers' Council. It still fits oddly well.

Wow, Mohinder's situation sucks right now!

- Russian-speaking characters (as opposed to ones with laughable Russian accents.) Huzzah! Someone did their language research here, too.

- ...And West is back to annoying the living daylights out of me. Wow.

He also gives me quite a bit of a sociopath vibe. If this is where the writers are really going... most interesting.

- Rationally, I should cut Maya some slack, even though she's blindly trusting Sylar. He's not acting creepy or anything. Still, I think I'm past rational thinking regarding her passive attitudes toward everything. She could still do something cool and win my admiration, but this goal gets more and more difficult with every episode.

- Yep. Noah gets to be verreh, verreh grey again. He kind of scares me here.

- Oh no, Mohinder, you aren't!

That's my boy! His life is going to get a shit-ton harder now, though.

- It's sad when Sylar's the sane, rational one in the car.

- Ok, slightly more respect for Maya.

- Hurray for Yaeko being smart!

This is bound to make things more complicated, though. Originally, I postulated that Kensei's 'conversion' wasn't genuine, but it may actually make things more twisty if it was, and he feels betrayed now.

- Beautifully chilling moment, with Sylar very calmly telling Alejandro he's going to kill both of them, without Alejandro understanding a single word he's saying.

- "I can't believe I let you talk me into that." Neither can I, Claire. Neither can I. Carrying the idiot stick again, are we?

- The dark-haired cheerleader is really sweet. I like her.

- I reiterate. Noah is being a scary bastard this episode. Seriously, he's scaring me - and my normal reaction to moral ambiguity is 'yum'.

- ...And I was right about Kensei.

- "You're like my own personal Oprah." <3 Monica.

- I know this will hurt my jaded rep, but I think Bob's remorse is genuine. The man isn't stone, and it fits the grey area everyone walks in this episode. In Bob's case, unlike the others, it meant going closer to white is all.

...But I could be wrong.

- I'm starting to think Peter's amnesia didn't originate at the explosion. I think he did some stuff after it. Maybe he worked for the Company. ...Maybe he and not Isaac was the one who painted those paintings. I'm trying to figure out why he'd want to work for them, though. To save Nathan's life would make the most sense, and it would fit with the images Nathan keeps getting of himself burned and disfigured. And then, the memory loss...

...If the Haitian turns out to be this Adam, I reserve the right to say 'I told you so.'

- You had to ask, Peter. You had to ask. Have a Dark AU, dearie.


Excellent episode! The first one I can really say that off in all earnestness. Everyone's nicely morally ambiguous. You gotta love it.

Comments

[ryenna.livejournal.com]

I totally agree. I hope the season keeps up this way. I also have a theory re: Kensei, if you'd like to hear it.

[mllelaurel.livejournal.com]

Oooh, I'd love to hear it!

[ryenna.livejournal.com]

I think Kensei is this season's big baddie. He's quasi-immortal, his symbol's popping up in modern times, he's got a reason to be curious about the heroes and he's got a reason to exact vengeance on Hiro's father in particular.

Even if it's not true, it's keeping me amused.