Were we supposed to be surprised last night on Heroes when it was revealed that Kristen Bell's character, Elle, is working for Bob? The way the two of them were shown together it felt as though we were supposed to be shocked and surprised by the revelation. However, it was telegraphed from the moment we saw Elle on the phone back in Ireland. Was it also stated outright at some point? Frankly, I can't remember. That's really the problem with this Heroes this season - it's been so dull and all the reveals so boring that one can't quite tell if they're reveals at all or something the audience has known from the beginning.
Frankly, I don't understand the reasons the show is progressing the way it is. D.L. died. We all knew that. Yet, last night D.L., we find out, didn't die at Linderman's as we had suspected, but rather was killed by some random schmo in a nightclub while trying to rescue Niki. What was possibly the point in that? I think we already got a pretty good farewell scene for D.L. in season one, it was tearful and sad, and complete. Or, so I thought, I guess, in the producers' minds, I was wrong and the show just had to reintroduce and rekill him all in the same episode.
One thing I'm definitely not wrong about is the foolishness that continues to pervade the super-twins, Maya and Alejandro. Okay, so her first manifestation of powers was upon finding her brother's new wife cheating on him on their wedding day. I'll give you that such an event completely sucks, but without any build up or lead-in to the story, it very much had a "who cares" feeling to it. There was never a moment when we didn't know the wife was going to cheat on the husband, she was never painted sympathetically, she was never even a real character, so who cares about her death. Okay, so Maya knocked off a whole village the first time she did her superpowered black ooze in the eye thing. Without us knowing about any of the people there it's hard to care. The more I see Maya and Alejandro the more I'm reminded of Lost last season with the addition of two characters that had an alternate storyline before getting written off as a bad idea.
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1 - Brian aka Guppusmaximus
For instance, who thought it was a good plan to have Livia live in the past on Journeyman.
Every implication we've gotten this season is that there is a group of people controlling Dan's time travel.
Man, we must be watching two different shows. Dan finds Livia in the past after he thinks she dies in a plane crash but she is not alive in Dan's future. How would that be possible if she was really from Dan's time?! I think they did a pretty damn good job.
As for a group of people controlling Dan's time travel... I guess I must not be paying enough attention because the call he got from Elliot Langley in the past proves to me what Dan was questioning him about last night. Elliot is/was probably working on time travel to stop terrorism but how does that control Dan??
Journeyman is an excellent show...I would stop trying to rush it.
As for Heroes, I think they need to stop trying to make each person's power mesh with reality. If your gonna have comic book powers than they should work that way all the time. Other than that, they were trying to present a back story to where they are now. Why should we spend time getting to know the characters that Maya kills the first time she realizes her power. They had to bridge the cooperation of Niki w/Bob somehow. So, they did it through D.L.
I just don't think that you really watch these shows in full, but that's my opinion.
2 - Maskay
I agree with the first comment--I love Journeyman and think having Livia from the past traveling in the future is a great twist--every week I think the show gets better!