Ok, this is a slight departure from the usual asian reviews, but I've been watching Heroes, Season 1. Yes, I'm a few years behind everyone else but I'm watching it now and have decided to blog about it since I haven't seen any new Korean productions besides Full House. Oh, I bought Ninja Assassin on Blueray though and it's got some wonderful extra features including a segment called "Training Rain." I just have more and more respect for the Korean artists every time Americans talk about working with them.
Anyway! I'm currently on episode 16 of Heroes. If you're planning on watching this and don't want anything spoiled, don't read this posting!
I started the series liking Clair a little. She was a cheerleader but I tried not to let that make me dislike her right off the bat. She was different than the usual highschool cheerleaders and I began liking her more and more. Oh, Clair is the one who can regenerate at amazing speeds. She demonstrates this by jumping off a three story catwalk onto hard desert clay and then setting her broken bones and letting her skin heal itself. I thought it was cool that she chose to trust her secret to a kinda 'off' guy, one that seems nice but doesn't fit in with the 'in' crowd that cheerleaders are expected to keep company with. The longer the season lasts, however, the more I'm getting annoyed with her character. She's become obsessed with finding her birth parents and that scenario has just been done to death. Poor little teenager who has a couple issues at home decides that she needs to know who her parents are to know who she is. Whatever.
Peter Petrelli, the empath sponge guy, I really like. Yeah, he's having issues right now and he isn't the shining example of wonderfullness that I originally thought he'd be, but I'm hoping he'll either come back around or blow himself up before I lose all faith in the guy. He's being taught right now (by the guy who can become invisible) to control the powers he's sucking up from everyone else. He's an empathic man in both temperament and powers. He wants so badly to see the good in everyone and to believe that humanity's worth saving. I like him a lot more than his brother though the show keeps trying to hint that the senator to be is actually a really nice guy. I haven't seen it yet. Plus, when Peter learns to control his ability, he's going to be one of the strongest mutant people ever! He'll be able to fly, heal, move things with his mind, walk through walls, be really strong, read minds, become invisible, stop time and many things more that they haven't even showed yet. It's looking more and more like he's going to be exploding at the end of the season and destroying most of New York, killing millions. No one's perfect.
Parkman is a cop who's almost too nice to do his job well. He seems like a pacifist who doesn't stand up for himself at all. He's also having issues at home in the beginning of the season, attending counseling sessions with his wife. He develops the power to read minds, which helps him to locate a missing little girl and impress the FBI enough to get him noticed. He blows his chance with the FBI however, when he tells them that Sylar (the main bad guy who's going around killing other 'special' people) is being held in a paper factory and looks stupid when Sylar is not found at said factory. He find out that his wife had an affair and is all butt hurt for a while, but then things start looking like they're going to turn around and she turns up pregnant with Parkman's son, but things don't stay good for long. Needing to work after receiving a 6 month suspension for the paper factory fiasco, Parkman takes a bag of diamonds from a man who was killed while under his protection. Anyway, Parkman seems like he's really out there to help and serve and defend. He's sweet, but a little clueless and a little bit of a push over. He's ok. I like him.
Senator Nathan Petrelli, Peter's older brother, can fly. He's very reluctant to admit it though. He comes off as a man who is only interested in power. Period. He puts the election before his family and friends and everything else. His family has a lot of skeletons in the closet and most of his time on screen seems to consist of trying to clean up messes so that it doesn't hinder him in the polls. He's also not my favorite because he has an affair early in the show with Niki. His wife is in a wheel chair because of a car accident that happened while the senator was driving. In all fairness, the accident wasn't his fault because another bad guy (Linderman) had some ruffians in a big landrover type car, bashing into the senator's car. I also think that the senator didn't have enough control of his power at the time that he could help that he flew out of his open convertible and left his wife in the passenger seat of a speeding car that then smashed into a lane divider. You also find out later, that Senator Patrelli is Clair's Biological father.
And Hiro, pronounced like the english word 'hero' is one of my favorite characters because he's so funny. He's totally excited about his power, which is the ability to manipulate time and space. So he can travel back and forth through time and also teleport to anywhere in the world. He seems to have the most problems controlling his powers though. He actually couldn't use them at all for a while and decided that he had to have the sword of his boyhood hero in order for his powers to work again. I, personally, think it was all psychological, but who knows. I also think it's funny that he's such a nerd (he often references Star Wars, Star Trek, and various comic books) that he does Spock's 'live long and prosper' hand thingy and the person who plays his father is George Tekai, they gay asian guy from the original Star Trek! Ha! Anyway, Hiro's a dork and actually performs my favorite part of the whole series (so far). He doesn't speak good english. He calls Nathan Petrelli 'frying man' trying to say flying man, anyway: He calls out to Nathan, "You fly!" and he sails his hand through the air making 'whoosh' sounds to illustrate flying. Nathan, who doesn't want other people to know what he can do, says, "Sh! Keep it down!" So Hiro lowers his hand to chest level and lowers his voice, repeating the gesture. I'll have to see if I can find it on youtube or something because it is so much funnier than I'm describing it.
Ha! I found some funny Hiro moments. Um, some of these are so so funny, but there are some really good ones sprinkled in there. Hehehe.
And there are a few more, but I've become bored now and am ending this post. I may continue...you never really know. Bye!
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