Heroes: "Have you seen a scary white man?"
DAVID ANDERS HAS SOME INCREDIBLE BLUE EYES.
Just saying.
Lizards (2.02)
The scenes of Kensei doing his best white man's impression of Drunken Itinerant Ronin - a staple in Japanese samurai/Chinese kung fu films - aside, though, this episode was a bit of a turn off for me. Too many damsels in distress left me feeling nauseated, not to mention reminded me why I wasn't a mainstream comics reader. I'll keep watching, but you've been yellowed-carded, Heroes.
Maya, Caitlin, Mrs. Petrelli, Yaeko the swordsmith's daughter. It was hard to share in the excitement of Peter's omnipotence and Hiro's performative flair when they got to show off at the expense of the peril of a pretty (and, needless to say, grateful) girl.
I was hoping Yaeko would prove to have some ability, or at least a swordwoman to be reckoned with, but that pathetic little fight was like a pack of dogs taunting a puppy (or, okay, a very fierce but totally ineffective Pomeranian).
Although I did think the peach blossoms were lovely. (And I suspect Yaeko does have an ability after all: the power to repel all dirt from her person.)
Talking of showing off: who would want to still eat that poached egg after Claire had boiled her skin off in it. I mean, ew.
HIRO AND KENSEI. Yay for comic relief. (Misogyny is easier to take when it's light hearted.)
People are...meeting other people this episode. I really wanted Ando to give some sort of sign that he recognised Matt Parkman, but I guess he wasn't really in the mood to say, "Hey, you tried to kill me and Hiro in the future."
Also, the significance of Angela Petrelli getting arrested for shoplifting in the pilot comes into focus, intentionally or just damn luckily: the police have her fingerprints on file so they can link her to the Nakamura murder.
HRG, sneaking a teenaged girl into the storeroom? What must his co-workers think?
Don't get me started on the box with Peter's identity in it. He couldn't have used his TK and snatched that out of the fireplace?
I love the continued Shakespearean touches to Kensei's dialogue.
Kensei: "You stole my armour and left me withal!"
Now, sarkastic was saying that she felt there was a bit of a moment between Kensei and Yaeko when she handed the sword back to him. I agree there's definitely something there... But whether he was absorbing something from Yaeko or the sword (or Yaeko through the sword?), or just something else entirely, is unclear. Perhaps he was just then falling in love with Yaeko himself.
I have a feeling that somehow it's all connected: Yaeko's change of heart towards "Kensei", his reaction to the sword and to her, and it's all somehow related to the legend, which credits the sword's ability to focus his power as responsible for Kensei's transformation from "savage" to the disciplined hero.
And I know people are saying that Kensei only just discovered that he could resurrected from the dead (and I'm pretty certain that he did, in point of fact, DIE, before he started healing himself), but I'm not so sure. Whoever it was that said Kensei = Methos, you were totally right.
Kensei: "I'm sorry, carp. Maybe I'll be your hero next time around."
Next time around? Is this black humour or is he actually saying he knows that he'll be back. If it's the latter, is he saying that when he dies he goes through a personality change? Or something? I'm so confused, but then I have too much riding on this distinction, and I get a little tetchy when I've proven wrong.
And, okay, I admit it. He does look awfully surprised when he opens his eyes again, but HE DOES STILL HAVE AN ARROW STICKING THROUGH HIS LUNG.
And if Kaito's killer too has the power to regenerate/resurrect, that would definitely explain how he walked away from that crime scene, even after making a big splatt and losing all that blood.
Just saying.
Lizards (2.02)
The scenes of Kensei doing his best white man's impression of Drunken Itinerant Ronin - a staple in Japanese samurai/Chinese kung fu films - aside, though, this episode was a bit of a turn off for me. Too many damsels in distress left me feeling nauseated, not to mention reminded me why I wasn't a mainstream comics reader. I'll keep watching, but you've been yellowed-carded, Heroes.
Maya, Caitlin, Mrs. Petrelli, Yaeko the swordsmith's daughter. It was hard to share in the excitement of Peter's omnipotence and Hiro's performative flair when they got to show off at the expense of the peril of a pretty (and, needless to say, grateful) girl.
I was hoping Yaeko would prove to have some ability, or at least a swordwoman to be reckoned with, but that pathetic little fight was like a pack of dogs taunting a puppy (or, okay, a very fierce but totally ineffective Pomeranian).
Although I did think the peach blossoms were lovely. (And I suspect Yaeko does have an ability after all: the power to repel all dirt from her person.)
Talking of showing off: who would want to still eat that poached egg after Claire had boiled her skin off in it. I mean, ew.
HIRO AND KENSEI. Yay for comic relief. (Misogyny is easier to take when it's light hearted.)
People are...meeting other people this episode. I really wanted Ando to give some sort of sign that he recognised Matt Parkman, but I guess he wasn't really in the mood to say, "Hey, you tried to kill me and Hiro in the future."
Also, the significance of Angela Petrelli getting arrested for shoplifting in the pilot comes into focus, intentionally or just damn luckily: the police have her fingerprints on file so they can link her to the Nakamura murder.
HRG, sneaking a teenaged girl into the storeroom? What must his co-workers think?
Don't get me started on the box with Peter's identity in it. He couldn't have used his TK and snatched that out of the fireplace?
I love the continued Shakespearean touches to Kensei's dialogue.
Kensei: "You stole my armour and left me withal!"
Now, sarkastic was saying that she felt there was a bit of a moment between Kensei and Yaeko when she handed the sword back to him. I agree there's definitely something there... But whether he was absorbing something from Yaeko or the sword (or Yaeko through the sword?), or just something else entirely, is unclear. Perhaps he was just then falling in love with Yaeko himself.
I have a feeling that somehow it's all connected: Yaeko's change of heart towards "Kensei", his reaction to the sword and to her, and it's all somehow related to the legend, which credits the sword's ability to focus his power as responsible for Kensei's transformation from "savage" to the disciplined hero.
And I know people are saying that Kensei only just discovered that he could resurrected from the dead (and I'm pretty certain that he did, in point of fact, DIE, before he started healing himself), but I'm not so sure. Whoever it was that said Kensei = Methos, you were totally right.
Kensei: "I'm sorry, carp. Maybe I'll be your hero next time around."
Next time around? Is this black humour or is he actually saying he knows that he'll be back. If it's the latter, is he saying that when he dies he goes through a personality change? Or something? I'm so confused, but then I have too much riding on this distinction, and I get a little tetchy when I've proven wrong.
And, okay, I admit it. He does look awfully surprised when he opens his eyes again, but HE DOES STILL HAVE AN ARROW STICKING THROUGH HIS LUNG.
And if Kaito's killer too has the power to regenerate/resurrect, that would definitely explain how he walked away from that crime scene, even after making a big splatt and losing all that blood.