Heroes Season II
Sep. 26th, 2011 11:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jackWith a lot of reservations, I watched heroes season II. On the one hand, it was good in many ways. On the other hand, it also had:
* a voyage into the future to see a disaster-ridden new-york
* devoting the rest of the series to preventing that
* discovering that Peter, while trying to prevent the disaster, actually caused it
* another person who could regenerate
* another person who could fly
* good guy and bad-guy-pretending-to-be-someone-else track down all the members of a list. Good guy asks them for information. Bad guy kills them behind his back.
* characters with "grey" morality seeming to define it as "alternating between good and bad with each episode" rather than "adherence to moral principles orthogal to normal notions of good and bad"
* Sylar coming back to life and (after a tantalising suggestion that he would start over acquiring a different set of powers) acquiring exactly the same powers he had before
Was that seriously just an attempt to paint season #1 by the numbers again?
Some things were surprisingly well done. Maurie Parkman was creepy. Matt discovering his powers was creepy. Several moments of the Hiro/Peter conflict were tense: despite both sharing power over time and space, it makes sense that Peter has all his other powers, but Hiro has more control over his teleporting, whereas Peter can only use it passively; and Peter walking into the building was impressive (in the short time after acquiring powers and purpose, before they become so overpowered nothing matters any more).
But many things didn't make that much sense:
* Hiro, the first words out of your mouth should not be "I have to stop him, he killed my father" but "I have to stop him, he's going to release the virus" (I mean, ok, I understand why Hiro would focus on the other, but he didn't seem to be enraged, just bad at planning)
* Peter, you can walk through walls. Ahead of you is an (airtight?!) vault containing a virus deadly to the world's population. Beside you is a man of questionable aims. Should you (a) walk into the vault and destroy the virus or (b) rip open the vault
* So, seriously, is the future fixed or not?
* Matt, when Molly says it's dangerous for her to find someone, it probably IS dangerous. When she says it's safe, it's probably safe. I understand overcompensating, but how the hell did you do the opposite of what she said in BOTH directions??
* a voyage into the future to see a disaster-ridden new-york
* devoting the rest of the series to preventing that
* discovering that Peter, while trying to prevent the disaster, actually caused it
* another person who could regenerate
* another person who could fly
* good guy and bad-guy-pretending-to-be-someone-else track down all the members of a list. Good guy asks them for information. Bad guy kills them behind his back.
* characters with "grey" morality seeming to define it as "alternating between good and bad with each episode" rather than "adherence to moral principles orthogal to normal notions of good and bad"
* Sylar coming back to life and (after a tantalising suggestion that he would start over acquiring a different set of powers) acquiring exactly the same powers he had before
Was that seriously just an attempt to paint season #1 by the numbers again?
Some things were surprisingly well done. Maurie Parkman was creepy. Matt discovering his powers was creepy. Several moments of the Hiro/Peter conflict were tense: despite both sharing power over time and space, it makes sense that Peter has all his other powers, but Hiro has more control over his teleporting, whereas Peter can only use it passively; and Peter walking into the building was impressive (in the short time after acquiring powers and purpose, before they become so overpowered nothing matters any more).
But many things didn't make that much sense:
* Hiro, the first words out of your mouth should not be "I have to stop him, he killed my father" but "I have to stop him, he's going to release the virus" (I mean, ok, I understand why Hiro would focus on the other, but he didn't seem to be enraged, just bad at planning)
* Peter, you can walk through walls. Ahead of you is an (airtight?!) vault containing a virus deadly to the world's population. Beside you is a man of questionable aims. Should you (a) walk into the vault and destroy the virus or (b) rip open the vault
* So, seriously, is the future fixed or not?
* Matt, when Molly says it's dangerous for her to find someone, it probably IS dangerous. When she says it's safe, it's probably safe. I understand overcompensating, but how the hell did you do the opposite of what she said in BOTH directions??