Heroes 2x01 quick gloss
Since I missed the heroes_meta posting deadline, I won't go all out for this. But I do want to set my thoughts down, and also give me an excuse to post with my happy new user icon. Because honey, it's true.
No Sylar.
No Niki/D.L./Micah.
HIRO
My husband falls onto his face in the middle of a field. In 1672. We knew this already. He stops time to save who he thinks is Takezo Kensei, but is actually just a goon for hire, who runs off. The actual Kensei is actually a bleueyed devil gaijin sexbat hottie, played by the dangerously arch and strangely kissable David Anders. OK, people, I have to admit it now - I have never seen Alias. Not even a little bit. Not even a single episode. I am now bound and determined to watch it, if only to see him bringing bitchy back, and in contemporary clothes, at that. He's not that good-looking, but there's something fierce about him. I likee. Anyway, Hiro has fucked up history yet again, and the village of Otsu is toast, and the swordsmith's daughter totally hates both him and the Honkey. "Dai pinch", indeed.
ANDO/KAITO
Meanwhile, Unspecial Ando has been kickin' it with George Takei for the last four months, and also getting steadily more tasty while he's at it. (Ando, not Kaito - Kaito's already at maximum sexy.) Ando unfortunately isn't very perceptive, because Beardy!Nathan bumps into him on the street, and Ando doesn't recognize him. (More on that later.) Ando brings Kaito the paper with Kaito's Death Note in it, just in time for Angela Petrelli to meet Kaito on the roof and do the most ill-advised thing she's ever done - slap him in the face. Oh no you di'n't, Angie! You are FUCKED NOW. Anyway, a mysterious hooded figure knocks Kaito off the Deveaux building roof, and unlike Peter, Kaito neither flies nor regenerates. Splat. Bye, George! I hold out hopes for a guest starring appearance later in the season!
ANGELA/NATHAN
Crazy Petrellis! Angela has lost her goddamn mind, if the Kaito-slap is any indication. Nathan has lost his goddamn mind, if the Jeremiah Johnson beard is any indication (and is he wearing Peter's clothes??? Oh, honey). She and Nathan have a little girly slap fight over the photo from Nathan and Peter's wedding (...what?), breaks the glass in the picture, and then tells Nathan, "You're drunk." Nathan doesn't even react to that at all. Actually, he mildly says that he was wrong to have listened to her, and that she's evil (OH SNAP) and then throws her out of Peter's apartment, where I guess Nathan is now sleeping in a cardboard box and jerking off to Peter's picture every night. Oh yeah, and also he ran Heidi and the kids off, thus clearing the way for Nathan to nail as many blonde ne'er-do-wells with superpowers that he wants. I dunno, maybe he's changed... he's certainly not going to be attracting his usual caliber of women with that beard and the ill-fitting coat and frayed-hemmed thermal shirt (which I think is actually Peter's... OK, it's just weird).
BENNETS
The Bennets are now all Witness Protection Programmed out in Costa Verde, CA, which is probably almost as bad of an armpit as Odessa, TX (but probably not). The gang's all there - Sandra, Lyle, Claire, Noah, and Mr. Muggles, our lord and master. OK, here's the best bit - Noah Bennet now works at Copy Kingdom, which goes up there with Dunder Mifflin and Initech in the pantheon of Shitty Fictional Workplaces We Know And Love, under the aegis of a megalomaniacal piece of shit manager. Noah just wants his coffee, so he puts the smackdown on the little asshole, and a nation cheers in unison.
Claire, however, is in a nearly identical high school, champing at the bit because she doesn't have any friends and wants to use her powers and so keeps on hurting herself in stupid ways just because. Unfortunately for her, a very cute but hyper-annoying, smug asshole named West has taken a shine to her, and he also has the superpower of unbelievably faggy-looking flight. He's no Powershot Nathan Petrelli, boy howdy. Mostly, though, West is a dipshit, and I dislike him incredibly strongly - not just because there's no one good enough for my ClaireBear who isn't Peter, which is... unfortunate to say the least. Since Peter's got his hands full with Nathan. (Er, not really - but more on that later.)
Mr. Muggles continues to be awesome.
MY TWO DADS (MATT/MOHINDER/MOLLY)
Or 3M for short. Hey, they have their own sports arena. So I guess Matt and Mo have taken responsibility for Molly, which makes sense, and they all live in Mo/Chandra's apartment, which doesn't have like a terrible history of violence and horror in it or anything. Really, though, Mo's not there - he's traveling the world giving crazy lectures about crazy talk and trying to get the Organization Without Initials to rise to his bait, so he can infiltrate their ranks... and does that seem like a bad idea to anybody but me?... but anyway, it works, because Steven Tobolowsky meets him, takes him out for a drink, and shows that he can turn any metal into gold with his touch. SWEET, DUDE. Mo calls Bennet and is all "It's ON" and Bennet grins, because he wants to put foot to somebody's ass. Meanwhile, Matt's passed his detective exam, cheating of course because Matt is a cheater, and Molly yells at him, and then has some nightmares about ... the boogeyman? (Which is Sylar?) or Worse? (Which is the villain we ain't seen yet?) We need answers.
MAYA/ALEJANDRO
Gorgeous. Honduran (maybe). Siblings who are very close and loving. (Because it's Heroes! Whee!) They run! If they're separated, Maya kills people somehow! What the hell's going on! Don't know! They are hot! Please get to the US soon and start speaking English because I hate your yellow subtitles!
THE ANGEL OF MY HEART
Peter is chained up with amnesia in a cargo container. Hotness in a can. No shirt on. Short hair. Super defined muscles. Godsend pendant necklace. Amnesia. Shirtless. Slackjawed. Body. Hair. Face. ...Mmmmmmmm no idea what's up. Hotty hotty hotty hotty hotty. Thank you, whoever decided to include that big wet chunk of fanservice in this episode; please keep it coming.
According to Adrian Pasdar (via his YouTube account) that shit blows up this week, and then just keeps blowing up. I am incredibly excited. This was a good episode that sets up all manner of things - both backward in time and forward. Oooooooh yeah - it's a spherical show, not a linear one. LOVES IT. Let's see how the addition of women to the writing/production staff (and the lack of Bryan Fuller... *sniff*) changes the feel of the show. Hard to tell from this episode (besides the fanservice) because it was scripted by Tim Kring, and he's the master of graceless but essential exposition.
Roll on episode 2x02, "Lizards".
No Sylar.
No Niki/D.L./Micah.
HIRO
My husband falls onto his face in the middle of a field. In 1672. We knew this already. He stops time to save who he thinks is Takezo Kensei, but is actually just a goon for hire, who runs off. The actual Kensei is actually a bleueyed devil gaijin sexbat hottie, played by the dangerously arch and strangely kissable David Anders. OK, people, I have to admit it now - I have never seen Alias. Not even a little bit. Not even a single episode. I am now bound and determined to watch it, if only to see him bringing bitchy back, and in contemporary clothes, at that. He's not that good-looking, but there's something fierce about him. I likee. Anyway, Hiro has fucked up history yet again, and the village of Otsu is toast, and the swordsmith's daughter totally hates both him and the Honkey. "Dai pinch", indeed.
ANDO/KAITO
Meanwhile, Unspecial Ando has been kickin' it with George Takei for the last four months, and also getting steadily more tasty while he's at it. (Ando, not Kaito - Kaito's already at maximum sexy.) Ando unfortunately isn't very perceptive, because Beardy!Nathan bumps into him on the street, and Ando doesn't recognize him. (More on that later.) Ando brings Kaito the paper with Kaito's Death Note in it, just in time for Angela Petrelli to meet Kaito on the roof and do the most ill-advised thing she's ever done - slap him in the face. Oh no you di'n't, Angie! You are FUCKED NOW. Anyway, a mysterious hooded figure knocks Kaito off the Deveaux building roof, and unlike Peter, Kaito neither flies nor regenerates. Splat. Bye, George! I hold out hopes for a guest starring appearance later in the season!
ANGELA/NATHAN
Crazy Petrellis! Angela has lost her goddamn mind, if the Kaito-slap is any indication. Nathan has lost his goddamn mind, if the Jeremiah Johnson beard is any indication (and is he wearing Peter's clothes??? Oh, honey). She and Nathan have a little girly slap fight over the photo from Nathan and Peter's wedding (...what?), breaks the glass in the picture, and then tells Nathan, "You're drunk." Nathan doesn't even react to that at all. Actually, he mildly says that he was wrong to have listened to her, and that she's evil (OH SNAP) and then throws her out of Peter's apartment, where I guess Nathan is now sleeping in a cardboard box and jerking off to Peter's picture every night. Oh yeah, and also he ran Heidi and the kids off, thus clearing the way for Nathan to nail as many blonde ne'er-do-wells with superpowers that he wants. I dunno, maybe he's changed... he's certainly not going to be attracting his usual caliber of women with that beard and the ill-fitting coat and frayed-hemmed thermal shirt (which I think is actually Peter's... OK, it's just weird).
BENNETS
The Bennets are now all Witness Protection Programmed out in Costa Verde, CA, which is probably almost as bad of an armpit as Odessa, TX (but probably not). The gang's all there - Sandra, Lyle, Claire, Noah, and Mr. Muggles, our lord and master. OK, here's the best bit - Noah Bennet now works at Copy Kingdom, which goes up there with Dunder Mifflin and Initech in the pantheon of Shitty Fictional Workplaces We Know And Love, under the aegis of a megalomaniacal piece of shit manager. Noah just wants his coffee, so he puts the smackdown on the little asshole, and a nation cheers in unison.
Claire, however, is in a nearly identical high school, champing at the bit because she doesn't have any friends and wants to use her powers and so keeps on hurting herself in stupid ways just because. Unfortunately for her, a very cute but hyper-annoying, smug asshole named West has taken a shine to her, and he also has the superpower of unbelievably faggy-looking flight. He's no Powershot Nathan Petrelli, boy howdy. Mostly, though, West is a dipshit, and I dislike him incredibly strongly - not just because there's no one good enough for my ClaireBear who isn't Peter, which is... unfortunate to say the least. Since Peter's got his hands full with Nathan. (Er, not really - but more on that later.)
Mr. Muggles continues to be awesome.
MY TWO DADS (MATT/MOHINDER/MOLLY)
Or 3M for short. Hey, they have their own sports arena. So I guess Matt and Mo have taken responsibility for Molly, which makes sense, and they all live in Mo/Chandra's apartment, which doesn't have like a terrible history of violence and horror in it or anything. Really, though, Mo's not there - he's traveling the world giving crazy lectures about crazy talk and trying to get the Organization Without Initials to rise to his bait, so he can infiltrate their ranks... and does that seem like a bad idea to anybody but me?... but anyway, it works, because Steven Tobolowsky meets him, takes him out for a drink, and shows that he can turn any metal into gold with his touch. SWEET, DUDE. Mo calls Bennet and is all "It's ON" and Bennet grins, because he wants to put foot to somebody's ass. Meanwhile, Matt's passed his detective exam, cheating of course because Matt is a cheater, and Molly yells at him, and then has some nightmares about ... the boogeyman? (Which is Sylar?) or Worse? (Which is the villain we ain't seen yet?) We need answers.
MAYA/ALEJANDRO
Gorgeous. Honduran (maybe). Siblings who are very close and loving. (Because it's Heroes! Whee!) They run! If they're separated, Maya kills people somehow! What the hell's going on! Don't know! They are hot! Please get to the US soon and start speaking English because I hate your yellow subtitles!
THE ANGEL OF MY HEART
Peter is chained up with amnesia in a cargo container. Hotness in a can. No shirt on. Short hair. Super defined muscles. Godsend pendant necklace. Amnesia. Shirtless. Slackjawed. Body. Hair. Face. ...Mmmmmmmm no idea what's up. Hotty hotty hotty hotty hotty. Thank you, whoever decided to include that big wet chunk of fanservice in this episode; please keep it coming.
According to Adrian Pasdar (via his YouTube account) that shit blows up this week, and then just keeps blowing up. I am incredibly excited. This was a good episode that sets up all manner of things - both backward in time and forward. Oooooooh yeah - it's a spherical show, not a linear one. LOVES IT. Let's see how the addition of women to the writing/production staff (and the lack of Bryan Fuller... *sniff*) changes the feel of the show. Hard to tell from this episode (besides the fanservice) because it was scripted by Tim Kring, and he's the master of graceless but essential exposition.
Roll on episode 2x02, "Lizards".