The Return Of Il Palazzo's Weekly Heroes Rant
Welcome back, Heroes! I've missed you...sorta. To be completely honest, you really did not impress me with the last volume. Between the characters constantly changing sides, characters getting written out, and Ando getting superpowers, it was hard to follow it the whole way through. However, the last bit at the end of "Villains" did make me intrigued enough to come back for volume four. Is Nathan going to be as much of a douchebag as we think he will? Will Sylar find his parents? Is Micah coming back? Is little Timmy gonna get stuck in a well again? Get off your couches everyone and gather around. Your resident Heroes watcher, Il Palazzo, is here with none of those answers, and more!
Read what I thought after the jump.
Ok, I do have one answer. Nathan? Complete tool.
Anyone else catch the weird-ass Super Bowl ads? Especially the one where they pit the characters against football players? I thought it was odd that NBC would hype a show so much that's been struggling in ratings. Maybe it's a sign that the network's not quite ready for Heroes to bow-out just yet.
Wow, TRACY was the first to get captured? Damn, Nathan's more of a dick then I thought.
Hey, with everything going down, you think they might actually disguise themselves to help people? Me neither.
LOL at Hiro living through Ando.
Heh, Ando has a hidden headquarters bought by a rich benefactor.
...Where'd Ando learn to ride a motorcycle?
Oh yeah! Peter was a nurse! Think it took him a while to find this new job after flaking out on the last one to go save the world?
HA. Claire can go to Yale with a GED. Man, the Petrelli's have some serious pull.
I forgot about Sylar's dad. They never really bothered mentioning what happened to him, did they?
Yay! African Isaac's sticking around...kinda.
OMG! Sylar went five minutes without scalping someone he knows! He must be growing up.
Hahaha, they pulled an X-Men. I would have NEVER thought to compared the outcast don't-call-them-mutants to a minority. Or gay people. Nope. Not me.
Why did Peter take a cab? It was just a few blocks.
I thought Primatech was government sponsored. No, they never said one way or another, but it would make more sense. I mean, there's not really any good business sense in policing superpowered peoples is there?
Haha, did Noah steal his wife's minivan?
So, Matt didn't know Usutu died?
How can Parkman suddenly use the painter ability? It feels like a poor forced plot point, but hopefully there's more to it (and his seeing dead people) that we don't know about.
Why did Hiro get nabbed? He's powerless. And to be honest, I hope he stays that way for a little while. If I see one more "bad future" I'm gonna be a little bit pissed.
I hope to God Noah's working some kind of angle. He has to know his daughter would just keep running away if they keep her uncle imprisoned.
Shouldn't Sylar have known he had an uncle?
For that matter, how did the government even find Sylar?
Rachel Mills survived the explosion at Pinehurst.....Who's Rachel Mills?!?
Why didn't Hiro's computer have asterisks instead of the letters for a password?
Hell yeah! Claire finally got to see some action!
So Peter has to touch someone now to get their power? Attaway to fix the walking plothole!
Geez, why couldn't the premier be two episodes like most premiers?
Ok Heroes, you win. I'll be back for the next episode. Don't let me down. If Nathan changes sides again though, I'm out.
Il Palazzo
Posted to Television on 2 February 2009
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Does anybody else think this totally rips off X-Men Unlimited? Or...rather...everything ever written for the X-Men? I know comparisons are pretty pointless...but...C'MON!
Counterpoint: I was far less disappointed in the premier than I had expected. I guess that's a good thing since this show has been 'ho-hum' ever since season one (Milo Ventimiglia and Zachary Quinto notwithstanding...GOD THEY'RE HOT!)
I don't know how I feel about tonight's premier. I think it would have felt more relevant before the election.
I'm going to stick around for now and hope that they get it back on track.
I was just happy to see Claire actually DO something. She's usually spends so much time whining about wanting to get in the action that she never actually gets around to involving herself.
And as for the heavy X-Men similarities, I kinda saw that as inevitable and it really doesn't bug me all that much. If they can keep me entertained, then it is fine by me.
Honestly, I always thought Sylar's (now adopted) father was dead by the way he was mentioned in "The Hard Part" (like the clock that "was Dad's"). Little disappointed to find him to be a deadbeat runaway, but given what Mrs. Gray was like, I can't blame him.
Yeah, Matt probably wouldn't know of Usutu's death unless Hiro or Ando told him, and they wouldn't really know that Matt knew him... Very little reason to bring him up in conversation.
The only people who would know that Hiro lost his power to Arthur would be Ando, Matt and Daphne... Oh, and Claire. Forgot she was there, too. In light of the whole "Arthur had the catalyst" news, she probably didn't mention, "Oh, and Hiro lost his powers and was thrown off of the roof to his supposed death." On the flip side, only that select group sans Claire would know about Ando's ability. Leave it to the U.S. government to act on outdated intel.
The way Sylar said "At least that's the story" makes me think that he wasn't old enough to remember his dad leaving and was just telling him what little his mom let him know about. He probalby doesn't know much of anything about his father's side of the family.
As for how the government found Sylar... I bet Angela probably tipped Nathan off about him wanting to find his real parents and set the trap accordingly.
Hope it was halfway helpful. :-)
Just a FYI, Rachel Mills is a character briefly shown in the series and expanded upon in the online comics. She was one of the Military recruits, and her power is teleportation.
There was some nice hand-action between Mohinder and Peter:)
Personal theory as to why Peter has to touch people to get their powers now. Thats how his *dad's* power worked. So get this. Dad is vacuuming the power out of Peter, Peter is taking daddy's power via "proximity osmosis." BAM. Dad has Peter's power, but Peter took Dad's power at the same time, ending up being his ONLY power until he gets all snuggly with Nathan and gets to fly again (queuing the comment when asked what powers he has, "Well you saw me fly didn't you?").
Anyway, just a theory, but its very Xmen-like, and that seems to be the route they are taking.
I just wish they'd hurry up and put Peter in yellow spandex and get it over with.
Not only does Peter have to touch someone to get their powers but he can only have one at a time.
Did you see how he was beating people up with Mohinder's powers until he accidentally touched someone else (Tracy?) and then got beat up by the army guy?
Ohhhhhhhh! Well, CJG you're smarter than me, because I was wondering the whole time why he would be afraid of being sucked out of the plane if he could fly. But that makes sense now.