Comments on: 2.07 “Out of Time”

By: Eric

Eric — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 22:50:51 +0000

Otto -

Great review. According to Hiro, the real Kensei ripped his own heart out and gave it to the Dragon, thereby killing himself. Since this ended up not happening as history was changed, is this how Adam is alive in present-day seeking vengence? Is Adam an immortal who can also regenerate or is Claire immortal unless her heart is ripped out?

Secondly, what are your thoughts on the Special effects of Hiro teleporting? During the first season, the camera would close in on Hiro’s scrunching face, then pan out to his new location. The effects of him just disappearing without the panning in-and-out ruins the “coolness”.

By: KellyH

KellyH — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 20:40:44 +0000

Yes, this episode was up there with the best of S1, but since critics and others have already been trumpeting hackneyed clich

By: Daniel P

Daniel P — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 10:42:37 +0000

I’m loving the new pictures. It adds a lot. Did it happen to have anything to do with the review delay? Just curious. My Thursday felt empty.

By: tree1138

tree1138 — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 10:02:23 +0000

I definitively think this was one of the best episodes of this season. Aside from that, the plot device of going into the future and revisiting what happened x months before the story started, might start to seem redundant if it is used to often. Thankfully this issue was avoided by only having Peter’s story line be in the future. Besides that, is anyone else upset by the way Caitlin was left? I strongly suspected this would be her last episode, but I hope her storyline is resolved and she isn’t dropped without much further mention.
In the future did anyone else find it a bit odd that all of the citizens in the warehouse were wearing white cotton looking clothes? Also, going by the episode and the graphic novel “Quarantine” it said the virus had spread through out the world. Do you think it is meant that since it is a “super” virus that it could spread over “super” distances; or like the scenario in the SG-1 season 9 episode “The Fourth Horseman” where people don’t know they are infected, so they get on one of today’s various long distance transports. I know those are trivial pondering but so what.
Looking forwards, I hope the writers strike won’t end Heroes before it can come back, since now it really is getting good.

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 05:09:55 +0000

Regarding why Maury chose Niki, remember that Maury can read minds. He probably scanned everyone’s mind (except Matt’s) without them realizing it.
As for Matt not hunting down Maury, he was supposed to use his powers to stop Maury. Unfortunately, he had no idea how to do so. It’s amazing he figured it out at the last minute.
I don’t think that Maury is “morally grey”. He abandoned his son, put his son’s foster daughter into a coma and apparently partnered himself with a man who wants to kill 93% of the planet’s population.

By: Brandon

Brandon — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 02:59:03 +0000

I was under the impression that Peter regaining memories of his mother was the work of his (Matt’s) mind-reading ability.

“Peter, you need to remember”, the last line before all those Angela flashbacks, had that tell-tale echo that implies a mental thought in the show.

By: Daniel P

Daniel P — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 02:50:56 +0000

Whew. What an episode. Definitely the greatest of season 2, and I would say it’s as good as Homecoming.

It’s a shame that people hate the Maya/Alejandro storyline so much. Much in part due to the fact that the characters themselves are very interesting ones that were thrown into a currently disconnected and decreasingly compelling storyline.

By: Henrik

Henrik — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 01:10:22 +0000

This does, however, raise the question of Maury’s proximity to the victim. He gave Molly nightmares and put her in a coma all the way from Philadelphia. Was he at the police station where Angela was held, or did he scare the life out of her from his apartment? And if he doesn’t need to be within a certain distance of his victims in order to get inside their heads, WHAT THE HELL IS HE DOING HERE? The plan was very clearly to use the people surrounding Bob to kill him. If that’s the case, Maury could pretty much have gone back to his apartment and curled up on the couch while this whole thing went down.

It might be that he has be in a certain range of the victims, but he can scare Molly from a great distance because of Molly power. Maybe they have a kind of connection because of it?

By the way, this really was the first real Heroes since “How to stop an exploding man”. I really don’t get why people didn’t like the finale. Since this episode was so awesome, there’s hope that Heroes has returned to its old ways..

By: Raissa

Raissa — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 00:52:50 +0000

This ep. was definitely the best of the season in and of itself, but that still doesn’t change the fact that all it did was minimize the pre-existing story damage in context. S2 will be the season of really cool moments and performances; the overall flow and coherence still make me want to weep.

Re: Mohinder — Putting the context aside, I for one reacted to his spilling everything to Bob, because of previous spy show experience. Double agents should never cop to being double agents; it’s just not a good long-term survival strategy.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 00:21:36 +0000

Chops to Beeman for admitting some of the flaws in the season thus far, and lets hope this was a start of better things. Sadly, next weeks episode going back four months looks like it’ll bring back the toxic twins. To give Hiro credit on ditching “his great love” in the past to face Kensei’s revenge, it looked like Kensei was shredded fairly thoroughly when the gunpowder blew up. We know that Claire regenerates, rather than reconstitutes from having body parts re-attached, I assume it took a LONG time to grow back a body. Maybe a couple centuries?