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May. 28th, 2015 12:53 amStill rewatching Heroes. You know, I think half the reason why I still love Nathan Petrelli so much (in spite of the fact that he's a total dick most of the time - a big part of the Heroes-watching experience for me is going "Nathan, don't do the thing .... no Nathan ... DAMMIT NATHAN!") is because of his desperate efforts to keep his life normal in spite of all the weird around him, and his face when the weird intrudes on it anyway. I just rewatched the episode where Hiro shows up at Isaac's apartment in New York cheerfully nattering about flying people. Nathan's expression, omigod.
I'm also noticing pretty strongly on the rewatch how most of the factors that made the show go completely off the rails in later seasons are already present -- melodramatic buildup to events that don't end up affecting anything, EVERYTHING being connected all the time even when the writers have to strain credibility to the breaking point to shoehorn people into each other's storylines (and a corresponding lack of follow-through on a lot of character relationships because everyone is wandering in and out of the others' storylines all the time), failure for anyone to give basic information when they can drop cryptic hints instead, and so forth. But the characters are really fun, and the characterization in the first season is pretty solid. I'm up to, I think, 1x12 or 1x13 and still enjoying it. At the very least, it's good background noise for doing art.
ETA: Also, I'm loving Claire so much on the rewatch. I think she was one of my favorites the first time around too, but she's probably my very favorite right now. She's SO GREAT. And I had forgotten ( okay, this is actually a spoiler, if it matters )
I'm also noticing pretty strongly on the rewatch how most of the factors that made the show go completely off the rails in later seasons are already present -- melodramatic buildup to events that don't end up affecting anything, EVERYTHING being connected all the time even when the writers have to strain credibility to the breaking point to shoehorn people into each other's storylines (and a corresponding lack of follow-through on a lot of character relationships because everyone is wandering in and out of the others' storylines all the time), failure for anyone to give basic information when they can drop cryptic hints instead, and so forth. But the characters are really fun, and the characterization in the first season is pretty solid. I'm up to, I think, 1x12 or 1x13 and still enjoying it. At the very least, it's good background noise for doing art.
ETA: Also, I'm loving Claire so much on the rewatch. I think she was one of my favorites the first time around too, but she's probably my very favorite right now. She's SO GREAT. And I had forgotten ( okay, this is actually a spoiler, if it matters )