1st Season Heroes - Seven Minutes to Midnight - 5 star poll

"Seven Minutes to Midnight"
11-13-06 Heroes

pv+usenet...

3.5. What is it with the abrupt jumps from episode to episode? Mohinder is
back home, Eden has taken over care of Isaac. I have no problem with those
events, but I would have liked to see them established onscreen in the
process of happening. *

jewahe...

All of these events have been set up.

A couple of episodes back, Mohinder was packing up to leave New York
and return to India. That's when Eden laid a dry, disinterested kiss on
him to convince him that he can't live without her.

Eden was then shown talking to HRG, who told her explicitly to bring
Isaac in (in that same phone call, Eden mentioned the possibility of
Hiro's existence, and HRG said, "Really, that's cool" and then went on
to discover the threat to Claire).

Next time we saw Eden, she was ringing Isaac's bell (doorbell, that
is). In the next episode, Peter and Simone were at Isaac's loft,
discussing the fact that he had abrubtly absconded with all his
paintings. Neither seemed overly alarmed, though.

5 stars (9-1-45)

0-1 stars (8-31-39)

oj...

4.85. Partially for Hiro's cheesy acting when trying to speak halting
English.

Two questions:

1. Why did the waitress bleed blue? Or was that just bad color on my
tv?

jewahe...

Very dark blood.

2. The folder under the desk with the picture of the Indian kid in the
dream. The folder label was "Sxxxxxxxx Iyler". Him finding the folder
wasn't part of the dream, so can we assume in some sense that the
Indian kid is "Syler - evil genius" ?

~consul...

That's his sister, right? The indian kid that he dreams of, who has the soccer ball, is
his sister that died when he was young.

So the black guy that some folks thinks looks like DL is actually a grown up girl who
looked like a boy in the past?

orljustin...

I didn't get that at all, that the kid was his sister. Pretty sure it
looked like a boy. And since the picture in the folder was with the
Iyer name, doesn't seem related.

~consul...

I thought he was a he at first too, but then, with the talk about the sister, I was
thinking how with that type of haircut, he could be a she that was into sports.

Clell Harmon...

Big Sis was supposed to be 5 when she died, the kid with the ball was
at least 10.

I assumed that it was the kid adjusting his dreams, not that he has
some magical power to relive the past. Seems there was at least one
point in there where we see the kid where it wasn't a dream. Was
there?

jewahe...

Name on the folder is "Sanjog, Iyer".

Probably not Syler (who was busy in a diner in the middle of nowhere).

well, a third. Does Homeland Security thing he has a plutonium nugget
in his stomach or something? They should be able to tell something is
up there.

~consul...

Seriously, everyone knows that he is putting out rads, but no one comes in wearing a rad-suit?

Rob Jensen...

The human body can process radiation up to a certain level -- that's
why they had the dosimeters. The problem is, IRL, the dosimeters
don't go back down once you've been exposed above the danger level
because it measures cumulative exposure.

At least, that's how I remember my dad telling me how the dosimeters
worked when he worked at Lawrence Livermore Nat'l Laboratory.

William George Ferguson...

You remember right. The badge type dosimeters they showed are simply film
strips, whose exposure to radiation can be calibrated. (the changing colors
is essentially nonsense for this kind of dosimeter, they aren't litmus
paper). There are electronic dosimeters that look something like a
ballpoint pen.

In pretty much all cases, dosimeters are useful for measuring long-term
exposure to radiation, but not so much use for short-term exposure (the
film type has to be developed to be 'read'). In no case, since they are
specifically for measuring cumulative exposure, do you clip one on, go into
a potential exposure area, and then remove it when you leave the area. If
you are using one, you pretty much have it 24/7, and it is periodically
read and charted, then recalibrated or replaced (depending on the type).

-- Rob

Disneygeek...

I loved the fact that they'd just had her opening up a can of tomato
sauce, and then (if you have a graphic imagination) Syler pretty much
did the same thing to her! (Direction wise that is, not the fact that
it had actually happened! yuck!)

Disneygeek...

That was what I ment when I voiced concern that this might go "Brisco
County Jr." on us!

James Gassaway...

3.5 Don't know why, but it just didn't strike me as that great of an
episode. The bit with Hiro and the waitress was good but all the rest just
felt like filler. And Mohinder's (sp?) dreams are just confusing.

Oh, and how's this for speculation? Regenerating cheerleader is _Sylar's_

wdstarr...

Could be. He seems to be Caucasian at least (we saw one of his
hands when he was drinking coffee.)

Here's *my* silly prediction: the Cheerleader that everybody needs
to save isn't Claire. It's the other girl, the one who falsely took
the public credit for saving the fireman.

Disneygeek...

I thought that myself, "what if they're chasing the
cheerleader?"

Kricker...

I actually thought one of the paintings of the cheerleader was
that other one. hmmmm, interesting.

random speculation: skylar is hiro from the very distant future!
(just making all possible permutations)
and he needs all the powers to save the earth from some terrible
thing in the distant future.

daughter. :P

wac...

My idea is that she could be _Nathan's_ lovechild.

cloud dreamer...

4.85 (1-21-09)

marc0ni...

4.5 Gotta save something for a really spectacular episode.

I love the way the episode titles are being integrated into the opening
scene. This one was especially effective: well into the scene, the
camera finally finds the title lying at an angle to the camera frame
and parallel to the shoreline. And after the full title comes into the
frame it is subsequently washed away by the incoming tide. Just the way
I'd imagine Will Eisner might have done it if he'd been a director.

Disneygeek...

Y'know I'm glad I'm not the only one who made the "Spirit" connection!

muzicmakr...

5 stars.

The only thing I didn't like about the episode is that it was only an hour.
This show rocks.

Jon Drukman...

I'm gonna give it a 4.8. It was near-perfect!

David B...

4.5, looks like Mohinder does have some kind of power after all. I was
pretty sure that he'd be the only heroes without powers.

Lizard...

Why does everyone assume Mohinder has a power? I thought it was the
kid invading/manipulating his dreams.

jewahe...

It could go either way.

Mohinder may just be extremely receptive to mutants, kind of like a
magnet is to metal filings.

stocksami...

4.8

They just keep throwing surprises at us. What next?

Electric Frog...

4. The Indian scenes seemed to slow the episode down and how do you identify
a guy is from Haiti from across the room ?

ravenlynne...

5.0 How dare they make me wait until next week for more!

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