basically, she had no escape plan. noob mistake.. but that's pretty much expected. i don't think she's developed a sense for sneaking around w/o getting caught, obviously.
this was an upsetting episode in that benet's "death" was a bit too drawn out and the twins were back. the end was a little silly too.. why the hell didn't hiro just tell peter that adam was planning on releasing the virus. sigh...
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alkemyst
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Originally posted by: Fenixgoon
she got up there when it was dark, what's so hard about getting back down? plus she viewed those parkeur videos, so she should be able to roll off of a fall like that
She sped up the front, she didn't observe the front yard doing so. She also didn't get the camera angles we got. She 'rolls' off the balcony and lands on a yard sprinkler she's fked, she lands and one of the doorags is there with a gun she's fk'd...her plan would have worked if the backpack was secure.
MmmSkyscraper
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This week's episode was weak. The season started off poorly, picked up a little and now the writers strike has fucked it good and proper.
Originally posted by: Minjin
I was actually thinking about this during the episode but not quite in the same way. I found myself siding with Noah against Claire in every argument. Are some people actually empathizing with Claire? Or does everyone else think that she's a stupid teen girl?Originally posted by: nakedfrog
I was actually having a little discussion with my daughter throughout the episode (during breaks, natch) about Noah. All the way up until the end when he got shot, she said she didn't like him and that he was a bad guy, so I was explaining his motivation when he was with the company versus now. I guess bits of the story are complex for an 11 year old
Claire is annoying because she never listens to her dad. The first thing she does after he dies is punch that window out and threaten to the Lightning Girl that she'll go public with her powers (her whole argument there was pretty stupid).
Even more annoying than Claire though, is her boyfriend. That stupid character doesn't respect anyone else's privacy, or wishes. He goes over to her house unannounced to give her the evolution book that she told him she wasn't interested in, and spies on her through the window to see her cutting off her toe. Then he goes over to her house uninvited again and meets her mom, and he knew that her dad told her not to see him. I'm a dude, but if I were her I would have told him to leave right then and never talked to him again. In a real situation, imagine how pissed her dad would be if he had been home? What kind of clueless retard would do these things?
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I think the Spanish girl and Nikki are going to die. There is a possibility of Nathan dying as well since he hasn't had much face time this season. But I'm definitely placing my bets on the Spanish girl because the writers wrote it so that you don't really care about her. If they had shown the wedding scene first then maybe I would be more attached to those characters, but I think they did that purposely so that when they die you're not too sad. My wife thinks Matt has a chance of dying too.
What do you think Mrs. Petrilli's power is?
What do you think Mrs. Petrilli's power is?
why does everyone blame the writers strike? I thought the first half of the season was done and written already.
Originally posted by: alkemyst
Originally posted by: Fenixgoon
she got up there when it was dark, what's so hard about getting back down? plus she viewed those parkeur videos, so she should be able to roll off of a fall like that
She sped up the front, she didn't observe the front yard doing so. She also didn't get the camera angles we got. She 'rolls' off the balcony and lands on a yard sprinkler she's fked, she lands and one of the doorags is there with a gun she's fk'd...her plan would have worked if the backpack was secure.
1. She came from the front, she can exit from the front.
2. People are coming into the house, would you rather hide in the house where you don't know the layout and possibly have no escape route, or run out the balcony from whence you came, and even if someone else is still in the car you at least have a chance to run or hide?
3. She didn't need super powers or any special abilities to get up there in the first place. I could have done that, in fact, I've had to break into my house by climbing onto a roof (steeper than the one in the show, and with more slippery roof tiles too) and climb into the 2nd floor bathroom window before.
4. She doesn't need to jump, she could hang off the roof and then drop down, which would be a drop of maybe 4 feet.
alkemyst
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I am sure in your mind you can win every fight scene in a movie too.
This is a real girl learning her powers. She is probably afraid of getting shot, getting Micah shot...
I would like to see you on video get to your second floor like she did. Getting there wasn't impossible, getting their in a split second was beyond most's ability.
I didn't say I could get up there the way she did. I said "she didn't need super powers or special abilities to get up there in the first place. I could have done that...", meaning I could have gotten up to that balcony.
I just re-watched the scene, still don't think any of it was that amazing. I think you should re-watch it. The instant I saw it I was thinking to myself that the show producers were really skimping on special effects with that scene. Here's what she did:
1. Jumped over a 3.5 foot chain link fence. I can do this just by my sheer jumping ability, wouldn't even have to hold onto the fence the way she did. Obviously I don't have a 3.5' vertical leap, you lift your legs when jumping an obstacle. Holding the fence with her hands would only end up making a racket of the chain link fence rattling around.
2. Jumped up and grabbed roof ledge, and did some gymnastic move to get herself up. I can't do the gymnast move, but I could grab the ledge and hoist myself up, especially if I do it somewhere I can use some surface for leverage -- either a vertical one like a post supporting the roof, which would make it as easy as scaling a wall, which I've done tons of times. Or, even easier, a horizontal surface; I'm assuming that probably wouldn't exist though.
3. Hopped over a balcony that looks even shorter than the 3.5' chain link fence, only she did a totally unnecessary pseudo-run-up-the-wall-while-holding-onto-the-balcony while doing it to make it seem cool. I could easily do this without the wall run, and probably do it with the run since she was holding onto the balcony. However, I would not waste my energy on that if I were sneaking into the house in the first place.
Um, there shouldn't be any need for special effects. Her power allows her to mimic the muscle movements of other people. She can't do anything she isn't physically capable of. So what need for special effects was there, its not like she can fly or anything, all she can do is copy a gymnast/pianist/boxer/etc by sight.
Okay, so stunts, not special effects. Same idea still stands: they should have come up with something more interesting than those three moves I described.
MmmSkyscraper
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They had to change the way the season wraps up to accomodate the lack of episodes in the season. Hence everything is being crammed in which results in a mess.
Just watched this on the dvr last night. Please, please, PLEASE let Maya be one of the "heroes" that dies. She's worse than Nikki/Jessica from last season, I can't stand her character. Sylar is getting rather annoying too.
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