The Eeek! Moment
Posted by Maggie
November 6th, 2007 at 11:21am
In Heroes
Heroes had its eek moment last night — that second where things change so dramatically that you immediately reassess everything you’ve already learned in an attempt to predict what’s going to happen next. To preserve the tender feelings of those who haven’t gotten to it yet, I’ll put spoilers after the jump.
I’m sure I’m not alone in expecting Kensei to show up in the present. In fact, as soon as I heard about this shadowy Adam Monroe character, I suspected it was Kensei (my theory was that Hiro would bring him into the future when he returned). But somehow, seeing him stroll around that corner, self-healing as he went, made my night.
Kensei’s immortal, you guys. And evil. And awesome.
Also:
- Caitlin is stuck in the future. The bad future. This is a dilemma for Peter: if he saves the world, and 93% of the population, will Caitlin just poof? Gone forever?
- Bob made it sound like Adam could control the weather. Is this just misdirection on sneaky Bob’s part, or does Adam have an ally that can control the weather? Who?
- Who is Kristin Bell’s dad? I thought Bob, but now I’m thinking Adam. You know, because of the evil. He’s hundreds of years old. He’s probably got kids all over the world.
- I think that Bob purposely mutated the virus. I think the whole point of the virus was never to cure our heroes, but to kill Adam. Because nothing else can!
- Some abilities are hereditary — i.e., Matt and Morrie. Some abilities we hope and pray are not hereditary — i.e., West and Nathan. Is Claire related to Adam somehow? Grandfather? Great-grandfather?
- Snag in my prediction: If Claire is the key to stopping the virus, and her abilities are like Adam’s, that would mean that Adam would also be the key to stopping the virus and so probably immune. UNLESS Bob in his manipulative for-the-greater-goodness was just trying to get Claire so that he could test the virus and make sure it was going to kill Adam. Oooh, morally questionable!
- Ugh, West sucks, and he sucks more every single episode. Am I right or what? He also seems only a teensy step away from evil.
- I love the idea that Adam has been nursing an evil, bitter heart for hundreds of years. Do you think he kept tabs on Hiro? Waited for him to be born? Has some sort of elaborate revenge planned?
- Kensei was always a dick. He only became marginally decent and cheerful when he had slavish admiration and prize money and a pretty girl. I don’t think Hiro made him this way. He just gave him a little push.
- Still hate the strike. This show in particular nails itself to dates — March 20 is the first case of the virus — that may be impossible to make if the strike drags on. Producers, give up already!
Anyone else got any thoughts? Am I alone in being re-energized about and re-invested in this show?
Not to harp on the comparisons to be drawn between Heroes and the Marvel Comics universe, but every word out of West’s mouth about anyone with powers being better than regular people is more or less a straight steal from any member of the Brotherhood of Mutants in X-Men. Also, there was a whole plotline in the mid 90s about the Legacy Virus, which at first only killed mutants, but then crossed over to humans. *ahem*
That said, it finally feels like Heroes is going to deliver this season. Immortal Kensei is probably the best thing to happen all season. My guess re: his weather powers is that he’s learned some way to graft powers, like Sylar, although not necessarily as murderous. We shall see!
Also, thank God Hiro and Ando have been reunited. Comic relief!
PS. WHERE IS CLAUDE?!?
Claude’s right there. You just can’t see him. Hey-o!
I get your specific stealing plot concerns (especially the virus — pretty blatant), but I don’t think it’s fair to harp on Heroes for West’s “special ability = special people” line of thinking. I mean, maybe he’s just going through his Ayn Rand or Nietzche phase. I think it’s a larger theme of science fiction and philosophy that can’t been solely attributed to comics that have come before Heroes, and so it’s something that Heroes will inevitably — and probably should — address. (Having read neither writer, I’m going to assume that this argument makes sense.)
As to Claire being the key to stopping the virus, that can’t be right. In the future, Peter was dead from the virus. As Peter has Claire’s ability, if Claire can heal from the virus so can Peter, but Peter didn’t so Claire can’t either.
Oh, and is Kensei immortal OR is he a time traveler too? Did Adam/Kensei go back in time to mess with the past and then come back or did he just live the whole time? I’m thinking the going back and coming forward again might be more likely but who knows.
I absolutely LOVED the episode last night. I can’t wait to find out what happens next week. I think it’s great that Kensei has turned out to be this super villain, who I’m sure weaves into many stories from the previous generation. One thought on the Kensei waiting to find Hiro: I don’t think he could because all he knows about Hiro is his first name right? Even if he did know his last name, does he know when Hiro was born? He could obsessively search birth records, but he doesn’t seem like the type…
Some other thoughts:
I don’t think Bennet will die, or at least not as it is prophesied in the paintings. Not everything in the paintings has to happen: remember the whole “atomic bomb in New York” painting…yea that didn’t happen.
I can’t wait to finally find out what is going on with Nathan. I think he is the dark horse in this season. There is something more that we don’t know and he is going to finally have his “a ha” moment with his powers and his own role in using them. Have we seen him fly yet this season?
I don’t think DL is dead. He wasn’t even hurt bad at the end of last season!
If Adam was using Morrie as a pawn, has he also been using others as a pawn? Was he in charge of the failed Sylar rehabilitation?
Hmm, I was thinking Adam had gotten some time traveling assistance from Peter pre-amnesia, but… immortality might work better. Why did I not think of it?
Actually the show doesn’t pin itself to real dates. Remember the bomb went off after election day last year on the show, which happened in May in real life. That is really where the show went off the rail for me. They pick this date early in the show (which was a Monday) and I sit down that night expecting a big explosion or someone at least stopping one and nothing. If you are not corrisponding your show to real life, you ahould at least clue your audience in early instead of having them learn like that. And I know I wasn’t paying close attention, but didn’t they say the first case was March 20, 2007? I remember watching thinking, “wait, it already happened?”
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