Heroes (spoilers for #9 and #10)

[jack]

Do spoiler cuts fail for people reading feeds/lj2news? Do you have a preference for what to write instead?

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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[pavanne.livejournal.com]

I expect it's one of those things that is just industry convention, and means 2s/hour or 2s/day or something. Since Gabriel is pretty wrapped up in his work at that point, he uses industry jargon without thinking that the other person might not precisely understand it.

For example I often refer to solar module factory capacity in 'MW', when in fact I mean "maximum possible MW production per year". I wouldn't do it first use in an official document, but might well use it in conversation without the 'per year'.

Also, I was pretty sure at that bit that Sylar's talent had something to do with time or accuracy (how else could you hear that a watch was even 2s/hour slow?), but that idea wasn't developed at all.

(Incidentially, if you read atreic's lj, there's a recent rant on another example of Presentation of Geeks in the Media. Admittedly in Heroes there are several geekish positive characters).

[stephdairy.livejournal.com]

Cuts don't work in RSS feeds from LiveJournal. Fortunately I've already seen all of Heroes on SciFi.

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