Heroes Rewatch Season 1, Episode 8 "Seven Minutes to Midnight"

[means2bhuman]

Heroes Rewatch Season 1, Episode 8 "Seven Minutes to Midnight"

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[game_byrd]

Yay! Two weeks late, but here I am. Wait, have I seen this one before? I mean, was this the last episode I watched?

[game_byrd]

Um ... this is Peter's dream again, with Charles. This was the last ep I watched. I must have picked the wrong one on the DVD.

[means2bhuman]

This is the latest one that neither of us have 'seen' yet. You're in the right place.

[game_byrd]

Well, sort of. I'd clicked on the wrong chapter on the DVD. So it really was last time's episode.

[game_byrd]

Okay, I went back to disk menu and found I was on Nothing to Hide. But I waited to watch Peter's scene with Charles first, because that's so cute and cool.

Anyway ... On to the right episode!

[game_byrd]

I'm just watching and enjoying here, mostly. I don't feel like posting comments per scene. But in the scene with Mohinder and his mother, my daughter (she's 8) asked me if I was going to get shorter when I got older. I told her I would and talked through spinal compression before realizing she was talking about how Mohinder towered over his mother. So then we had another discussion of nutrition, disease vectors, and growth rates. That was cool. And interesting that I think all the mature children on Heroes are taller than their parents except Elle (who had a horrendous childhood) and Claire (whom one could theorize stopped growing older as soon as her ability manifested).

[game_byrd]

I stopped the show to comment - Sylar was in the back seat of Chandra's taxi. But we also clearly see a fist go through the window of the car. So we see the fist go through the window, then Chandra looks startled, and Sylar - from behind him - grabs either side of his head and smashes him against the driver's side window, which is intact. What does this mean

[game_byrd]

I love all the family interactions here. It's something to remember, especially for writing. I write romance all the time, but there's an important backdrop of family that grounds a character and makes them real - their relationships, their connections. I wish they'd had Sylar (or someone) talk about that a little more at the end of S4, that it was what Sylar needed to be whole and human. He needed to be part of a network, a society, to have some ties. Because that's what we're watching here, is the play on those ties and how they shift under stress. That's what's interesting and engaging. We're programmed, genetically, to pay attention to this stuff. That's life. Any primatologist can tell you about the importance of tracking hierarchy and status in the social group. TV shows like this are just a way of tapping into that need to track.