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I saw the pilot a few days ago but thought I'd hold off commenting until it aired. It dragged a bit until the perking up in the final act and I fear them fucking up a love quadrangle, but having the dead fiancée also travelling made it interesting. Though it's the prospect of watching Kevin McKidd be intense and glowering that'll bring me back. Even if his accent did slip a bit, he's still gorgeous and intense and digs up paving slabs hotly - as well even with a faux yank accent being exponentially sexier than the ghastly horror that was Scott Bakula of the irritating voice in the parental time slip show.

Heroes I finally got to see after trying all day. Molly has two daddies:)
Mohinder cooks.
Matt considers takeaway pizza and ice-cream a balanced diet.
Love:)
Plus - both further setting up of the season's big bad and de-too-dumb-to-live-ing the stupendously pretty Mohinder with the plot with Noah. Hopes Noah's handling the smart pragmatic planning stuff while Mohinder does the monologuing
And they got the story stopping dullness of Mrs Parkman off the show without killing her wi- bonus.
Though I'm hoping that Claire's new love interest of blahness does get offed. Smug, irritating and if he's flying surely a cousin. If she's going to shag within the wider family group she needs to go fetch 'Uncle' Pete.
Who, chained up, miraculously un-bearded if he's been in a container for four months and un-clothed - I can be shallow and live with that.
Even if the mix of Oirish accents weren't promising.
The Latino brother and sister didn't bore me, so they get more time to prove themselves.
I would like to have learnt whether DL lived or died. I'm not really bothered either way, but the story telling me would be good. And if he did croak having the white guy take four chest shots - even if he did used to be in Alias where entire sub-machine gun magazines are survivable if you're a regular - and the black guy not is more than a bit dodgy.
Like David Anders accent. I know it's been a while, but there were more things wrong in this episode than the whole of his Alias run. Posh or common - make a decision and stick to it, and btw it's not 'black-guard' it's pronounced 'blagard'. And even if they hung a fucking ginormous lantern on the problematics of a white guy as a famous Japanese hero by Hiro's reaction, it's still totally dodgy.
Having Kensei be nothing like his billing means Hiro has to turn him into it or bugger up the time-line and does set out his arc.
And does explain Alias - Sark was Rambalidi - he was just immortal, hid in England from the Inquisition - no one expects the Inquisition! - and had amnesia by the time Sloane started his quest. Boy will he be pissed off when he gets his memory back.
And the odds on Sloane, Jack and Irina being one of the nine sending Kaito and Angela photos of death! well up there.
Speaking of Kaito - if he was offed to pay for K Bell I will be most miffed. I'd far rather have Sulu. He really has to have been offed by Checkov/Bester's orders. In the absence of the telepath war from the B5 apocrypha Walter Koenig could do that beautifully sinisterly. I did like Kaito's double act with Ando - though he surely had to realise that if you're sent off for a sword you will be too late - it's in the rules - and the time would be best spent getting the info from Kaito to give to Hiro when he gets back.
Noah would know this. Him putting annoying git in his place - pure love.
As was the giving the car keys to Claire. Loves them so much.
Even when she's two-timing her dads with each other and both Daddy and Daughter Bennett are being naughty and letting out bits of who they really are. Hopes for crunched obnoxious cheerleaders.
And she can always hide the evidence in Daddy Petrelli's beard, which taking on Assyrian king proportions and is probably holding separate negotiations of its own for a prequel to 300.
Angela presumably gets offed in sweeps after reuniting with 'dead' son and before she can give her boys any immediately useful info on the Company Founders Of Genre Stars and character actors.
Could the virus thing be more of a Legacy Virus rip-off?
In all not blown away but interested enough.