This whole business with the eclipse has me wondering. What is the eclipse doing that messes around with people's abilities? Is it like a Kal-el red sun/yellow sun sort of deal?
Daphne was all gimped up! No wonder she didn't want to go back to her old life...
I really hope everyone does get their powers back. But I'm wondering if this acts as a reset button and Peter will get his back as well? Will all the absorbed powers be restored for Peter, Sylar and Arthur?
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
The race might be on to see who can absorb as many powers as quickly as possible.
It seems that Peter would win in that case. Is it possible to have two total eclipses in the space of two years?
I thought this episode was also a little slow. They need to pick up the pace a little like earlier in the season. Granted it can't be 'wham bam' every episode... or can it? Battlestar Galactica manages to do that.
Anyone catch those 3 posters for 9th Wonders on the wall of the comic book store?
Would 9th Wonders really be a good read?
Posted by WizArtist II (Member # 1425) on :
I thought the scene of the two geeks in the comics shop with a 9th Wonders gawking when Hiro and Ando showed up was funny.
I really have a hard time with the 'Eclipse' causing/taking their powers for the following:
When Hiro TP'd back to feudal Japan there was an eclipse that occurred soon afterward that had NO effect on his ability.
The Company were certainly using their powers before the eclipse in the first season
IF the eclipse erases powers, then Adam should been dusty in season one's first eclipse (Or before if there's been an eclipse in the last 400 years)
Sylar/Gabriel's ability was present long before the initial eclipse, so why does he NOW not understand things?
I'm ready for the remastered version where Kring gets to make these episodes the way he REALLY imagined them. I can just see Hiro throwing both arms in the air and yelling "RETCON!"
Posted by Mars Needs Women (Member # 1505) on :
Hmm...maybe there's something special about this particular Eclipse.
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
Thought that too - like some initiate powers and some - or just this one takes them away.
Stil want to know why Arthur is all of a sudden using the future-vision powers... African Mr. Isaac was using paste to get it to work in Parkman and Hiro. Did Parkman paint? Maybe the actual power is the painting while seeing the future while what Parkman and Hiro did is different. It's starting to get confusing!! Or there's less in-season continuity since Voyager's season 3.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
"...the two geeks in the comics shop..."
Seth Green and Breckin Meyer of Robot Chicken (and, independently, of other stuff), for those who didn't notice.
And I'm not sure that the writers quite understand how eclipses work.
Posted by Johnny (Member # 878) on :
Yeah, they certainly seemed to take some artistic license with the duration and coverage of this eclipse.
It'll be interesting to see how they explain why this eclipse took powers away. There's a good precedent for eclipses giving powers as in the pilot and with Adam in season 2, but this one doesn't seem to make any sense. Oh well, we'll see.
Best bit of the episode for me was "why are you turning your head like that?" Hilarious. Posted by HopefulNebula (Member # 1933) on :
Like: Matt, Hiro, the one-liners ("New comic book day!"), Bennet being a badass again, Nathan speaks French!
Dislike: Continuity? Science? Common sense? What are those?, Claire in the refrigerator AGAIN
Can't decide if I like: Daphne's disability. On the one hand, they're trying to foster pity, and pity kills. There's also the matter that her ability is a miracle cure. On the other, it's in character for Daphne, so I can't really fault the writers...
Posted by HopefulNebula (Member # 1933) on :
quote:Originally posted by AndrewR: Stil want to know why Arthur is all of a sudden using the future-vision powers...
Because he has Peter's powers, and Peter leeched futurepainting from Isaac.
Posted by Johnny (Member # 878) on :
What I don't get is why Noah hid Claire in the "safe house" where he'd previously brought Sylar. Okay, you could say maybe Nathan hadn't passed on the info that Sylar had turned bad again, but after Noah comes face to face with Sylar as he tries to kill Claire in the safe house, why does Noah then hide her in the family home? The one that Sylar previously broke into when he cut the top of Claire's head off?
Noah shouldn't be this stupid!
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
quote:Originally posted by HopefulNebula:
quote:Originally posted by AndrewR: Stil want to know why Arthur is all of a sudden using the future-vision powers...
Because he has Peter's powers, and Peter leeched futurepainting from Isaac.
Yep, yep - but they sorta made it out as if he got it from Usutu - with him spending most of his time drawing since he returned from Africa.
Posted by Reverend (Member # 335) on :
I think it's because if he had another pre-cog working against him, it would make the visions useless or counter productive, like a feedback loop. Hence him wanting the guy dead.
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