The_Raven on 22/5/2007 at 22:16
Uncia, I was just about to post that same picture. It's not the sound barrier itself, but condensation.
Io, your math is all wrong. If he's going 761mph, then that's equivalent to saying he's going 761 miles every 3600 seconds. This works out to be ~0.21139 miles per second. This is, obviously, well below your estimated 6 miles per second. In my own defense, I just threw some numbers out there without giving any thought to them. That's just laziness on my part that came back to bite me in the ass, as it always does.
User123abc on 23/5/2007 at 00:11
This thread is right above one celebrating a TV series involving robots from outer space which morph into fire trucks and purple dinosaurs.
You crunch the numbers on that one yet?
I missed most of Heroes. It's a shame because, to my taste, that last episode suggests that it's a pretty good program. Thanks for the heads up about that online thing, I definitely want to check it out.
Scots Taffer on 23/5/2007 at 00:21
I enjoyed the finale but there definite shift down in terms of delivery from the anticipated payoff, that Sylar can simultaneously force-choke Peter (who has a lot of powers), do a Neo-slow-down of bullets shot at him, but not avoid a bitch with a parking meter or Hiro doing a jog at him with a samurai sword. Spare me.
Not to mention his "escape", unless you consider that someone else might have dragged him into the sewers. Still, I'm sort of glad Sylar isn't totally done, as that would've been a pretty weak way to go but at the same time the fact that he ended up in that predicament without the intervention of Peter or even Hiro's use of time-bending, was more than a little disappointing.
Especially given that they did actually go down the deus ex machina route with Peter "waking up" back when Charles was alive and having that bullshit discussion about "love" etc. I felt like I was watching The Matrix Reloaded and Charles was about to say "ergo" at any second. Also, it turned out to be pointless, Peter did nothing - except convince his brother with "love" that he had to make the right choice - which is so frustrating considering what possible awesomeness a Peter and Sylar battle could have been (we've still always got the potential for that future battle to pan out somewhere).
Anyway, Nathan's heroic sacrifice was not lost on me, however his manner up until that moment was - is it just me or did he move rather quickly from sending DL and Nikki to kill Lindermann to being all dark looks/moody/let NY blow up. That was all a little bit too convenient. Also, who says he's necessarily dead - it's very possible they got into the upper atmosphere and Peter told Nathan to let him go and Nathan tried to fly away as fast as possible.
So, who do we think Molly can't see without him seeing her? My guess: Papa Petrelli.
Volume 2 preview was curiously bizarre but 2 cool things at least, the eclipse and was that Takezo Kensai (looking suspiciously like a George Takei behind a mask ... is it possible he is the ancient warrior who perhaps cannot age)?
Overall, I give Heroes volume 1: 7/10.
D'Juhn Keep on 23/5/2007 at 11:31
I was hoping to see a tyrannasaurus rex :(
Good episode but strangely unsatisfying. I genuinely think this is a result of nothing being able to top 5 Years Gone. Even without that ep showing some of the cool, off-screen fight scenes, it was immense. And yeah, the 'everyone against Sylar' fight was a bit of a disappointment. Though it's cool he's still alive I guess.
Looks like my 'everything's inevitable' prediction was well and truly owned :(
Best bit, seeing Molly be all :D when Micah got the elevator to work.
Uncia on 23/5/2007 at 13:10
The problem was that it pretty much came down to luck, rather than an epic fight; Sylar was distracted by everyone and Hiro surprising him lead to the rather unsatisfactory ending. The problem with having given Sylar so many powers I guess, he'd likely have killed most of them if they'd actually made it an epic fight where everyone teams up and the writers didn't want to kill off the characters they spent an entire season developing.
Of course, if it were up to me, I'd've made it a single-season show and half the cast would have died to finaly bring the bastard down (for real), but hey, that's just me.
io organic industrialism on 23/5/2007 at 13:23
Quote Posted by Scots_Taffer
unless you consider that
someone else might have dragged him into the sewers. Still, I'm sort of glad Sylar isn't totally done,
sewers???? maybe the avi i downloaded didn't have the entire episode because i don't remember ANYTHING about that
guess i need to watch the end part again. the last thing i saw of sylar was him lying on the ground, and it shows his white contacts, and his life flashing before his eyes, ending in a picture of the current scene, of him lying on the ground bleeding. then the contacts go blank and you hear a little "bzztt" sound, which i thought signified him dying.
Quote Posted by D'Juhn Keep
Best bit, seeing Molly be all :D when Micah got the elevator to work.
i liked that part too. season 2 will be all about how Micah wants to ask Molly out, but he is too shy
io organic industrialism on 23/5/2007 at 17:54
i think i was too preoccupied with the nuclear radiation thing to notice that crap
Uncia on 23/5/2007 at 18:45
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i think i was too preoccupied with the nuclear radiation crap to notice that important plot point
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io organic industrialism on 24/5/2007 at 13:19
i do remember seeing a shot of a roach crawling on the ground, and thinking it had the soul of sylar or something. but i didn't notice the sewer or blood ... because i was busy thinking about how they say that after nuclear winter, the only creatures that will survive are roaches.
