Favourite Heroes Character
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Claire. Just because she's hot.
Good thing she is because she's got nothing else going for her. Certainly not brains.
Im really worried that the current online discussions about the metaphysical significance of the Sylar/Nathan scenario will end up being more interesting than whatever the writers are gonna end up coming up with. I can just see them reducing it to yet another attempt to make you feel bad for Sylar... one ep of Sylar wanting to be good b/c of Nathan's memories, then the evil Sylar side wins & Nathan gets forgotten for the rest of the season. Meh.
Unless...they stashed the preserved body somewhere for "future usage."
She's not even that hot. She could easily play cute though.
In fact, since they killed off Candice, us guys have been getting the raw end of the deal.
Checkmate
Commodore
I like Hiro. FutureHiro in particular.
I'm just disappointed that they've apparently forgotten about him entirely even though we saw evidence of him heading down that path by the end of the first season (with his father teaching him how to be a kung fu fighter). Discipline and fear of the repercussions of using his power is all that's needed to keep him in check. They don't have to strip his powers or make his brain melt when he uses them. The fear of being caught, the fear of knowing there's a power out there that can stop him dead in his tracks (and knowing it's in the hands of his enemy), and the fear of these still-yet-to-be-explained rifts (which I'm sure Memory Girl was the first example of, with Peter's Irish Girl being another) would have been more than sufficient. And yet it still allows him to open up a can of whoop ass when he needs to in the present, such as when he and Peter stormed the federal building to save PresentHiro.
Hell, he was terrified of going back in time to warn Peter about saving the cheerleader, and even when he did that's all he did. He didn't go back to try to stop it himself because that would have caused Very Bad Things(tm) to happen, and he was wise enough to know that.
Keeping him as the man-child he started off with, and making him even more of one as time goes on, just ruined the character for me. This brain melting thing isn't helping much either.
But I still love the original concept and direction.
That said, my favorite character is currently Micah. He's got a great power and they're actually writing him as using it intelligently. Which for this show is simply amazing -- even Sylar is a dunderhead most of the time.
My favorite power belongs to Ando, however. It's a combination of bad-ass offensiveness against bad guys and even badder-ass soup-up-my-buddies or overburden-the-villains. Just all around a great tactical power with a fantastic physical manifestation. Similar to some other characters in the comics, but not nearly as flashy, and that's what makes it fresh and original for me.
I just wish he'd try to actually use it more often. I'm still in disbelief that he didn't try to give Hiro his powers back, especially when Power Cell Baby who, arguably, has a limited version of the same power, could do it.
I'm just disappointed that they've apparently forgotten about him entirely even though we saw evidence of him heading down that path by the end of the first season (with his father teaching him how to be a kung fu fighter). Discipline and fear of the repercussions of using his power is all that's needed to keep him in check. They don't have to strip his powers or make his brain melt when he uses them. The fear of being caught, the fear of knowing there's a power out there that can stop him dead in his tracks (and knowing it's in the hands of his enemy), and the fear of these still-yet-to-be-explained rifts (which I'm sure Memory Girl was the first example of, with Peter's Irish Girl being another) would have been more than sufficient. And yet it still allows him to open up a can of whoop ass when he needs to in the present, such as when he and Peter stormed the federal building to save PresentHiro.
Hell, he was terrified of going back in time to warn Peter about saving the cheerleader, and even when he did that's all he did. He didn't go back to try to stop it himself because that would have caused Very Bad Things(tm) to happen, and he was wise enough to know that.
Keeping him as the man-child he started off with, and making him even more of one as time goes on, just ruined the character for me. This brain melting thing isn't helping much either.
But I still love the original concept and direction.
That said, my favorite character is currently Micah. He's got a great power and they're actually writing him as using it intelligently. Which for this show is simply amazing -- even Sylar is a dunderhead most of the time.
My favorite power belongs to Ando, however. It's a combination of bad-ass offensiveness against bad guys and even badder-ass soup-up-my-buddies or overburden-the-villains. Just all around a great tactical power with a fantastic physical manifestation. Similar to some other characters in the comics, but not nearly as flashy, and that's what makes it fresh and original for me.
I just wish he'd try to actually use it more often. I'm still in disbelief that he didn't try to give Hiro his powers back, especially when Power Cell Baby who, arguably, has a limited version of the same power, could do it.
Pretty much just +1 to this entire post.
kitsune
Captain
I never understood this. Her face is so smooth, it looks like she has half a pound of make-up on. Make-up = Icky.
All Seeing Eye
Admiral
All Seeing Eye
Admiral
I'd like to see some kind of Incredible Hulk/Doomsday type of power where they can transform themselves into a huge kickass monster.
Hey that's an interesting question, can Sylar turn into an animal? hmmm
That is the one thing they must NOT do!Unless...they stashed the preserved body somewhere for "future usage."
I'll hang in there with the metaphysical conundrum of Nathan-Sylar, and even some ameoba-splitting scenario would be tolerable, but if they ever re-animated Nathan's corpse, that would be the biggest cop-out this show has ever pulled, worse than Claire's Magic Blood.They killed Nathan, it's permanent, end of story. The last thing they should do is turn this tragedy into a joke.
Me too. But I don't know if Hiro as the bad-ass from the future would work instead because I never bought the actor in that role - the evil future versions of people need to be performed by really good actors, like Adrian Pasdar's performances as Sylar.
They need to add the kid to the story as a regular, definitely.
All Seeing Eye
Admiral
WHAT!
You posted this topic without being up to speed on the latest episode? Right after the series finale, yet?
How the frak are we supposed to discuss our favorite characters without describing what they've been up to lately, how the writers have been jerking them around, or even which ones are still among the living?
Checkmate
Commodore
Right off the top of my head, the Misfits of Science had one. Now that's a show that could really benefit from a reboot.
Waaaaitaminute...how did you know Ando had the red-light-superpower unless you've seen this season? That's a spoiler right there!
Waaaaitaminute...how did you know Ando had the red-light-superpower unless you've seen this season? That's a spoiler right there!
I dunno. I mean sure, Nathan's dead, but they found a way around that. How the heck are we supposed to get season one's "Future Hiro" when they killed him off in the present? And what was the point of putting Siresh through all that lab testing stuff last season and then give him Nathan's flight ability in the last five minutes? wtf, seriously?
All Seeing Eye
Admiral
Waaaaitaminute...how did you know Ando had the red-light-superpower unless you've seen this season? That's a spoiler right there!
I'm relying on UK terrestrial TV to watch Heroes, i've seen all episodes except the final episode which doesn't air on UK terrestrial TV until this Monday night on BBC3. "I am Sylar" aired last Monday and the final is in 3 days.
But I was just joshing with you anyway, I know he dies because i've already read the spoiler before.
