Heroes #1-3 [spoilers]

[ewx]

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?

Comments

[ewx.livejournal.com]

Yes, though it's ordinary demolition, not a nuclear attack on a city.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry for the length of comments at this time in the morning...

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 :)

[sonicdrift.livejournal.com]

If you popped a huge balloon full of a pretty coloured gas which was less dense than air you'd get the same effect. Alternatively, get JamesR to take you up in an aeroplane a burst a balloon full of denser gas for an upside-down mushroom cloud.

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.