Heroes...the show

[wil]

Save the cheerleader....save the world...

I did have fun watching her get video'd and then straighten back up...or when she woke up in the morgue with all her organs removed and had to put herself back together....

Or the guy that absorbs everyone elses powers..(his brother's flightability) did they stick him in with the all powerful guy so he could absorb his?

I started it, got lost out of it...wasn't much into comic strips and this definitely had the feel of comic strip characters come to life...(even without the actual comic strip showing they were)...

So last five episodes starting this week...don't know if I can get back into it to watch the ending or not..

[17th Angel]

Originally Posted by wil

Or the guy that absorbs everyone elses powers..(his brother's flightability) did they stick him in with the all powerful guy so he could absorb his?

Sorry to tell you will, but that guy died... He got absorbed up by "self Absorbed man".... Don't get too close to him ;/ he'll suck you in.

[wil]

Originally Posted by 17th Angel

Sorry to tell you will, but that guy died... He got absorbed up by "self Absorbed man".... Don't get too close to him ;/ he'll suck you in.

Oh...now it has a tinge of reality to it! This would mean that the brother's political career wouldn't get sidetracked by his crazy sibling...

[dauer]

No no. That guy's still alive, at least for now. And Hiro's journey is turning out to be a real Hero's Journey. Nudge nudge. Wink wink. SPOILER IF YOU'RE WATCHING OUTSIDE OF THE US FOLLOWS:

he just faced his father, who then became his friend and taught him that the sword that was so important to him did not give him his powers back. His journey did. So he was able to transcend his attachment to the weapon. Then he stopped time for everyone else and his father trained him to use a samurai sword appropriately, and to maintain a more confident philosophy in living life. The guy who absorbs powers did battle the powerful guy that slices people's heads open and takes their abilities. He lost though. It looks like he may face him again on the finale next week. Right now the guy who takes everyone's powers (who killed his own mother a few episodes back, perhaps in a rage, perhaps accidentally) has now become very nihilistic and is going to be a bomb to blow up the city, using the power he just absorbed from the explosive guy. That group that tags people with abilities it turns out has been using a little girl's ability to track people. The guy who used to work for them went to kill her (he didn't realize it was a little girl) and the Indian prof guy is trying to stop him (cliffhanger) because he's been convinced by the people who tag everyone that they're the good guys (they're really in cahoots with linderman) who manipulated him into seeing the little girl as like the little sister he'd lost. The woman who it seemed was able to change her shape it turns out can mess with people's heads or something to change the way they see the world around them. She doesn't even look the way she appears and is very sensitive about her real self-image. Linderman used her to control Micah, the kid who can talk to machines, and get him to change the polling machines to vote for the flying guy and make him win by a landslide. So yeah, it's developing a lot. You can see all of the episodes online at nbc.com. They get posted the day after they air I think.

END SPOILERS

I did read somewhere that it's supposed to resemble a comic book in delivery. With the depth it has though, I think much more like a book than a strip. When it started there was a lot less depth to the characters, but now that their lives are getting entangled and the show's going deeper into who they are and what they do, it's coming.

Dauer