Heroes (spoilers for #9 and #10)
Sep. 13th, 2007 12:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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I was glad I caught it yesterday, I didn't see it last week, so had to make the bbc1 showing or miss an episode.
Oh, I say. It all joins up, doesn't it? And I didn't know how many episodes there were, I thought that might be *it*, but it goes on. And now it feels like it's reached the tipping point, everyone's joined up and knows what they're doing.
The realisation of the cheerleader-on-the-steps painting was dramatic.
The backstory was good -- it filled in lots of things that I hadn't even wondered about, but cemented the whole well. Great to see about Syler!
Does "running two seconds slow" have an accepted meaning? Two seconds per day? Two seconds per year? I would have thought it meant *is* two seconds slow, as in, two seconds before real time, but that just means it's set wrong, and that's not a mechanical defect, so you can't hear it. Maybe watchmakers would know, but guys in hornrimmed glasses? He seemed to know what he meant.
Am I just ignorant of common usage, or does it just not make sense? If not, it's completely easy to ignore, so I can see how you'd write that, but it seems ironic to have a sentence that simple knowledge of common parlance can tell you is meaningless.
I was glad I caught it yesterday, I didn't see it last week, so had to make the bbc1 showing or miss an episode.
Oh, I say. It all joins up, doesn't it? And I didn't know how many episodes there were, I thought that might be *it*, but it goes on. And now it feels like it's reached the tipping point, everyone's joined up and knows what they're doing.
The realisation of the cheerleader-on-the-steps painting was dramatic.
The backstory was good -- it filled in lots of things that I hadn't even wondered about, but cemented the whole well. Great to see about Syler!
Does "running two seconds slow" have an accepted meaning? Two seconds per day? Two seconds per year? I would have thought it meant *is* two seconds slow, as in, two seconds before real time, but that just means it's set wrong, and that's not a mechanical defect, so you can't hear it. Maybe watchmakers would know, but guys in hornrimmed glasses? He seemed to know what he meant.
Am I just ignorant of common usage, or does it just not make sense? If not, it's completely easy to ignore, so I can see how you'd write that, but it seems ironic to have a sentence that simple knowledge of common parlance can tell you is meaningless.
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Date: 2007-09-13 12:36 pm (UTC)Oh yes! Though that didn't even occur to me here. Syler seemed odd but sympathetic, insofar as someone who's going to become a serial killer can be. Though maybe that just says something about me.
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Date: 2007-09-13 12:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-09-13 01:05 pm (UTC)Wow, that was some typo!
Ahem. As I say, maybe it was just me :) But I think it's possible because he's a character rather than just a stereotype. In a short scene, you get an idea of who he is, why he is, his dress is a little odd, but different rather than inherently bad, he's emotional rather than just random.
And even if you do hate him, he seemed interesting. Not maybe as lovable as some villains seem to be, but you want to watch rather than just have it go away?
So I don't know. I guess, he's a bad guy, but written and cast well.