Heroes – S01E15 – Run!

Heroes is back in the lead spot tonight! Instead of watching 24, Ron and I will be heading over to Josh’s place to resume our old Monday night iFanboy Dinner & TV tradition — eat food and watch Heroes and Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip as a family.

Tonight’s episode: “Run!”

Raise your hand if you were shocked my the revelation of the identity of Claire’s father. I wasn’t. Apparently, the local TV reporter for my paper was. Good for him.

Comments

  1. Apparently, the local TV reporter for my paper was

    I have a picture of him(local tv reporter) right here

    http://www.cyburbia.org/tmp/you_win_the_prize.jpg

  2. Mostly I found I didn’t care. And that wasn’t so much of a surprise.

  3. Oh, Fred. You’re so going to hell.

  4. heroes is getting a lil bit too hokey when it comes to that storyline with claire i mean we know that petrelli is what we in the islands call a “c*cksman” but this is pushing it. Heroes is great but lets move on already. Greatest addition so far is Dr.Who as the Invisible Sensei

    Dupes Out

  5. i wasn’t surprised then again i read it in one of the threads here.. 🙁

  6. If anything I was disapointed because it seemed like it would be too obvious. That scares me a bit because if it is already that predictable then where will we be in another season. 🙁
    I was really hoping they would make it either a new interesting character or some sinister background character(Linderman). Clair was totally giving her “Uncle Peter” the hungry eye when she visited him in jail. She is going to need a shrink in a few years me thinks!

  7. 1/2 way through, and I think this is the best episode yet, Nikki/Jessica is a way better character now that Jessica is in control and the Nikki/Matt faceoff was way too cool.

    Who’s cooking for the iFanboys? Josh’s wife?

  8. What the–? Ali Larter is participating in the storyline?? I don’t even know where I am anymore.

  9. A very good action-y episode. What is the plastic sheet guy’s powers I wonder.. Super drool?.. is that what the pan was for?
    😛
    Anyone watching Extras on HBO?.. It is my new favorite TV show. (semi off topic but it ties in because Heroes was my favorite.. it got bumped to #2.)

  10. Definately one of the best episodes so far. I really liked the pace of this one.

  11. The lack of Peter was disappointing, but another overall good episode. Anyone been keeping up with the Heroes Graphic Novel? Some pretty interesting stuff there, I wonder how much of it makes its way into the actual show.

  12. Actually, I cook. She did make cookies though.

  13. I wasn’t shocked per say, but I really didn’t think it would be him. My money was actually on it being Linderman. He’s the one character we haven’t seen yet (unless he was in tonights episode, I haven’t watched it yet, it’s sitting on the DVR.) So I figured it would be him.

    I’m not sure I like him as the father. Too easy.

  14. Actually, I cook. She did make cookies though.

    Whatcha’ make.

  15. Claire’s mother is definitely my new least favorite character. Lying to Claire and then Nathan, blackmailing…. I hope she drinks the water in Mexico.

    Isn’t that dude’s power the ability to melt inanimate objects. Or maybe just objects? Oh, and how the fuck did Sylar know where to find that dude? Does he still know where people with powers live from Suresh (sp?)?

  16. I made a roast chicken with garlic, lemon, rosemary and thyme, with roasted sweet and red potatoes.

  17. Great Studio 60 last night–must have been partially inspired by Aaron Sorkin’s life.

  18. Great Studio 60 last night–must have been partially inspired by Aaron Sorkin’s life.

    I agree. Josh and Ron sooo do not.

  19. I admire what he tried to do, but I don’t think it was his script. Where he was trying to poignant, I just felt it came off a bit cheesy. It may have been my mood. It was still fun to watch. But Sorkin treads that line.

  20. Where he was trying to poignant, I just felt it came off a bit cheesy

    See, I didn’t get that at all, because the reveal at the end betrays all the flashbacks and memories. IAll of that stuff may not have happened, or at least not have happened in the way Matt remembered it. Matt himself may have been romanticizing his own past with Harriet in a drug induced haze. I felt that was one of the darker and sadder episodes they done, especially when you consider the last few mins-Matt, Harriet and Luke together again. Harriet and Luke have progressed in life, but Matt is now writing someone elses old skits. Another great idea that was woven in there was the notion that maybe Matt isn’t as good a writer as Luke–after all, the skit Luke wrote is still being done, while the skit Matt wrote in the flashback was so topical that it could never play now.
    I only said that stuff about it being influenced by Sorkin’s life because of Sorkin’s much publicized drug battles (and the story about how he wrote the first few episodes of West Wing high out of his mind in a hotel room)

  21. I agree completely with you, AlexG. It was a very emotional episode.

    Well, actually I don’t agree with this part:

    Another great idea that was woven in there was the notion that maybe Matt isn’t as good a writer as Luke–after all, the skit Luke wrote is still being done, while the skit Matt wrote in the flashback was so topical that it could never play now.

    I think it’s the opposite – that Matt’s skit was too good for the show. Too topical. Too hard-hitting.

  22. Good point Conor, I hadn’t thought about it as being too hard hitting, but it’s true.

    I guess the thing that really got me was the idea that Luke and Harriet created something that could still be performed, while Matt created something that could be brilliant in short period of time, but that would have a shelf life…maybe that’s the allegory to the relationships w/matt-harriet-Luke? Dunno.

  23. OK, I’m back liking Heroes, this is how the show needs to go. Who Claire’s father is, or other things like that, are not that important to me — tying meadering plot threads and getting to the core of the story and moving it along with character development that will matter later on in relation to what else is happening elsewhere is what I want, and this episode delivered.

    Claire’s father is the elder Petrelli brother, fine — where do we go with that? That’s what I want to see. Bringing in George Takei for a one shot appearance (like last episode) and then going nowhere with it is just a waste of time as far as I’m concerned. The Nikki/Jessica character is now compelling because it’s no longer “Days of Our Lives” whimper whimper meander meander, but instead linking up with other characters and the central mystery of Linderman.

    “Oh, and how the fuck did Sylar know where to find that dude?”
    Great question, you could also ask, why does he find that guy the same day the guy happens to call Suresh? Lots of “convenient coincidences” moving the story along, but not too bad, there’s heaps of character development and story movement in 45 minutes that could have happened many episodes ago when time was wasted, and it was worth it for the Nikki/Jessica vs. Parkman face-off, way cool. As long as a “convenient coincidence” is not a cop out as a way to solve a cliffhanger, I’m OK with it.

    And Hiro? Whatever — Ando I find interesting, but the Hiro/Ando dynamic is again a strong point, and both were used very effectively (and with great pacing) in this episode, nice to see.

    SO, I’m back into Heroes. But who knows, based on past episodes, the next one could be as bad as this one was good.