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S01.E03: Under The Mask


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Maybe Self-Cloner has a separate Clothing Copier power, which could get him a career in retail if this security thing goes South. I felt badly for Cerebra until she rejected Glasses Guy's help. Speaking of Glasses Guy, the alert at the hospital said to look for a guy with glasses. I can't see for shit without mine, but even I would have taken mine off in that case. I hated seeing Orphan Paul as a bad guy (well, he was kind of bad on that show too), and I strenuously objected to hitting BatDude in the face! you don't have to be the only pretty guy on the show, Paul! GamerGuy was so obviously up to something that I cannot believe security didn't escort him out immediately. I'm assuming TeleTommy will teleport himself and his mother out of danger. Probably into the ice cream shop or, preferably, someone else's storyline.

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Just caught the episode. One thing I didn't see anyone touch on was that there was already a Luke in the original series with microwave hands. During Nathan's tenure as the Big Bad, he was sending out shocktroopers to bring in and round up EVOs because that was his original plan (dating back to S1). Sylar was doing his Sylar nonsense with a trooper at Luke's house, and Luke used his microwave hands to blast both Sylar's coffee and the trooper before the two of them went on a road trip to find Samson Gray.

 

Could Luke Collins be Luke Campbell, just deeply mindwiped to forget he had powers?

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That reminds me of something I forgot. Truckload of salt because I'm not the best at Japanese, but I'm fairly certain Harris said "your death," not "the death." If someone bilingual could confirm it'd be great, but I heard "anata wa." I'm thinking this girl is not really the dude's daughter too.

 

EDIT: HeroesWiki is confirming that the phrase was "Anata wa shinimashita" which does in fact mean "your death." Miko is probably a replicant of Otomo's original daughter.

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I don't think they see it as a problem. The stories they want to tell are of multiple, disparate threads, initially scattered around the world, where part of the fun and excitement is seeing how they come together and connect at the end. Personally, I enjoy it.

 

Because it lacks focus, makes the series uneven, especially when it cuts back and forth between storylines which makes it all the more jarring.  As for it coming together, it's already 3 episodes in a 13 episode self contained season at the moment, so timing becomes more crucial, not to mention Tim Kring has been beating this concept into the ground since the previous series.

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I've watched the 3 episodes so far, and I guess I don't have much to say about it. But I wasn't that excited about the reboot anyway.

 

They haven't pissed me off - so far; so that's good. Although they're recycling a bunch of stuff from the first series.

 

Very impressed with Robbie's American accent.

 

Katana Girl is oddly removed from the rest of the stories.

 

I'll probably keep watching, but time-delayed.

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Although they're recycling a bunch of stuff from the first series.

 

Even some of the lines are lifted straight from the original series, as well as some of the new characters feel similar to the old ones.

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I don't know half the characters' names.  Of course, it doesn't help I'm doing something else while it's on but I seriously couldn't just sit there only watching.  It would be too boring.

 

The knee-jerk discrimination against Evos doesn't make sense to me.  I'm also sick of people on bloodlust to kill Evos for no reason, and that wife characters' motivation makes zero sense unless she's a unredeemable sociopath.  Even Zachary Levi's character is pretty much unredeemable when they shoot Evos with benign powers at point-blank range.  They're just relying on his good-looks and sad face to make us feel for the character now that he can make a steak sizzle.

 

I don't think they see it as a problem. The stories they want to tell are of multiple, disparate threads, initially scattered around the world, where part of the fun and excitement is seeing how they come together and connect at the end. Personally, I enjoy it.

 

It's not so much a problem at this moment for me, with all these new characters.  It was a problem with the original series when Tim Kring insisted on doing this every single season ad nauseum in the most contrived ways.

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