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Heroes #1-3 [spoilers]
References - or at least things that reminded me of other stories:
- Claire being involved with a train crash connects to Unbreakable (you could say that of the involvement with comics too)
- "Probably lots of Sureshes where you're from. Like Smith. Or Anderson." Matrix.
- Hiro's half-asleep travelling reminded me of Fight Club.
- "How was school?"
"Very school-like. How was work?"
"Very work-like."
...reminded me of Heathers. - When Claire goes off with the quarterback at the party, another girl watches them go. Straight out of The Rules Of Attraction.
- Claire in the morgue obviously put me in mind of CSI.
Most of the interconnections are pretty obvious but some seemed a little subtler:
- Micah Sander's comic matches Hiro Nakamura's screensaver.
- Hiro's colleague (what's his name?) is watching Niki on the net.
- Spotting things that Isaac predicted is probably mostly too obvious to be worth mentioning, but one of his paintings has the kind of cursive f shape seen on the pool at house Matt Parkman attends and later on the necklace of the black guy in the bar.
Finally:
- Matt got dumped by telepathy!
- Drunk people seem to think double as well as see double.
- If the magic powers are supposed to be genetic then Micah presumably has something too.
- Were the cheerleaders told to change into uniform before meeting the fireman or was it their own idea?
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ProtagonistNakamura. But shut up already with the stupid technobabble explanation for the superpowers. I don't believe a word of it and it just wastes time that these episodes desperately need because there are so many characters to catch up with.no subject
If the magic powers are supposed to be genetic then Micah presumably has something too.
Well, they're presumably not supposed to be *always* inherited, or someone would have noticed by now. But it does mean he *could* have something, and the laws of narrative say he probably will.
Were the cheerleaders told to change into uniform before meeting the fireman or was it their own idea?
LOL. I think they just wear that all the time (seriously :)).
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(I'm glad it was helpful, I checked ahead to next week to make sure I wasn't going to tell you they'd gone and put half the eps on bbc3 only and you missed it :()
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Is Ando watching a recorded session of Niki? She didn't seem to be spending an awful lot of time in front of the camera. Is $40 for a 20-minute webcam striptease the going rate? Sounds a bit steep to me, not that I have any experience in such matters.
I don't know Fight Club very well, but doesn't it have a scene with buildings blowing up in the background?
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Yes, though Isaac's painting could *in theory* be a gigantic conventional explosion... the mushroom cloud is (if I remember Sonic and Martin's explanations) an atmosphere effect, not tied to the bomb, just the size of the boom :)
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Actually that sounds pretty, I wonder if I could get funding to do a really big experiment.
By the end of the series the interconnections were making my head spin and I was forgetting who knew who. It didn't get as insane as Lost though.
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Well, I suspect that was poetic license. But afaik I don't think that's stupid. She's a mysterious death, right? So you have to do a full autopsy to find out what killed her (whether the head injury was first, or the river was first, or drugs or something was first). I don't know which you'd do first, but cutting her open should be at least as *important* as examining the chunk of wood, as you can *see* the chunk of wood would have killed her, what you want to find out is if there was anything else. Removing the wood looked very casual, maybe she was *finished* and removing it was the end of the autopsy and the start of sewing swtuff back up?
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I assumed the first time was real, and then he was watching a recording of it (maybe a little cheekily), after all, her studio was trashed and she's on the road. But I'm not sure. I notice he didn't recognise her :)
Is $40 for a 20-minute webcam striptease the going rate?
I've no idea, but it doesn't seem too extreme. (Someone could look it up, but not me...) She'd have to do a few hours a day to equate to a professional salary, but there's also setting up and finding clients, and likely doesn't enjoy it -- I think I'd rather do seven and a half hours of programming than three hours of stripping for sleasy people, which suggests it's on the right order of magnitude. (I don't know how much such online 1-1 stuff exists though, presumably it does, but all I know comes from TV dramas :))
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