I guess I'm just a sucker for future history -- while it does occasionally try too hard to be Lost, I think its started to settle down over the last two episodes. I'm enjoying the whole "discovery of super powers" theme, as each person learns of and then tries to deal with their powers, and I wish we saw more of that. The show is struggling to maintain a balance between telling the origin stories and moving the plot along, and its not doing it nearly as well as Lost.
None of the characters have really had enough set-up, and some -- like the cop whose name I can't remember (and which just proves one of your poines -- disappears just as soon as we start getting to know hi.
But I like the storyline with Peter as he transforms from someone who's just drifting through life to someone who's actually doing something, and while it often strains believability (who brings their kid with them to bury dead bodies? in the back of a convertible, in the freaking desert sun?), I'm enjoying the mysteries surrounding Nikki (split personality mom).
Ultimately though, it's the future history that hooks me. It brings to mind the classic "Days of Future Past" storyline from the X-Men (which Hiro mentions in the pilot, when espousing Kitty Pryde's theories of space and time) and my interest in that story tends to overshadow the uneven writing.
Thu, 10/19/2006 - 8:29am
I guess I'm just a sucker for future history -- while it does occasionally try too hard to be Lost, I think its started to settle down over the last two episodes. I'm enjoying the whole "discovery of super powers" theme, as each person learns of and then tries to deal with their powers, and I wish we saw more of that. The show is struggling to maintain a balance between telling the origin stories and moving the plot along, and its not doing it nearly as well as Lost.
None of the characters have really had enough set-up, and some -- like the cop whose name I can't remember (and which just proves one of your poines -- disappears just as soon as we start getting to know hi.
But I like the storyline with Peter as he transforms from someone who's just drifting through life to someone who's actually doing something, and while it often strains believability (who brings their kid with them to bury dead bodies? in the back of a convertible, in the freaking desert sun?), I'm enjoying the mysteries surrounding Nikki (split personality mom).
Ultimately though, it's the future history that hooks me. It brings to mind the classic "Days of Future Past" storyline from the X-Men (which Hiro mentions in the pilot, when espousing Kitty Pryde's theories of space and time) and my interest in that story tends to overshadow the uneven writing.
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