Nov 5 2009 at 12:31 PM wrote
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Wow, C.T. I totally feel what you're saying. I had just posted something similar in another post not too long ago.
You were right about the Noah Bennet thing. I have every episode. So naturally, after watching the latest Heroes episode, I went back to watch Season 1: Seven Minutes to Midnight. Noah did say, "Because no one knows where he is," instead of "Because no one knows what he looks like." That was a mistake on the writer's part.
My problems with this episode was by the very fact of Hiro going back in time to save Charlie, there should have been some major butterflies happening afterwards. In Seven Minutes to Midnight, her death was a major influence in the Past Hiro's decision to go back in time to save her, thus the episode Six Months Gone. I can understand that the writer's tried to make it work by Present Hiro catching the Past Hiro in the bathroom and telling him to go back six months before. But originally, Hiro's original goal was to catch her the day BEFORE her death, and going back six months was an accident. But I guess, not anymore, huh. Plus, what about the cops who were supposed to be there in the diner, and everybody else whose lives were impacted by Charlie's death afterwards. I know their lives weren't too important character-wise, but none-the-less, their lives WERE effected. And now, they have completely new lives as an affect of Present Hiro's rescue. What he should have done was let everyone THINK she was dead, including his past self. But even doing this could possibly back-fire. Because if the new Present Hiro goes back to save her, it would turn to find out that she never died in the first place. So then his question would be "where's Charlie?".
Another thing that bugged me with this episode was Sylar. I just didn't find him to be DARK or MYSTERIOUS enough as he was in the first season. To me, he actually seemed kind of...nice. It was disappointing. Another fact, though not too important, was that Sylar's hair style was different in Once Upon a Time In Texas than it was in Seven Minutes to Midnight, Homecoming, and Fallout. But hey, that's just me.
Oh yeah, time has aged Charlie's hair in this episode than in Seven Minute's to Midnight. But, that's not really important. We do age in real life, even though the characters we play tend not to.
Unfortunately, even though I'm a 110% Heroes fan, and I'm glad to see that one of my favorite characters, Charlie, was saved and will survive happily with Hiro, this episode was a big disappointment, and by all means, should've worked.
But, like I said before, I'm glad Charlie's back now.
