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It's not that it's long. It's that it seems to show every single one of his revenge kills. I now know where and how he kills each person.

Exactly. There were so very few "gosh wow" moments in Heroes. They weren't even attempted. It's like they were deliberately avoided as being a bad thing. They mostly came from the villains. The exception to this being most of the flying scenes. In fact when Nathan first flew away escaping HRG and the Haitian I rewound and watched that scene like a dozen times because finally, "FINALLY" somebody had gotten super flight right. NOF tried for the gosh wow factor multiple times. They managed it really well during the SS vs teleport fight and not bad during the run down the freeway but the point is they attempted to do it multiple times.

It's about the concept and I'll say it again. NOF is about heroes. Heroes was about angsty whiners with powers.

It's not that the characters in Heroes didn't embrace their powers. It's that not a single one of them tried to become a hero and succeeded. Try watching the series again, I have. With very few exceptions the only people they tried to help were their friends, family, or themselves. And when they did try to be a hero in general they gave it up almost immediately or they wound up punished for it. In fact the only ones who used their powers constantly and without reservations were all the villains.

Hiro, who most wanted to be a traditional hero waited until the last season to form a company to help ordinary people. But even then he couldn't get any real clients. And the couple of clients he did get were treated as a source of humor rather than a source of heroics. He rescued a cat from a tree and did a groundhog day thing where he tried to rescue the same guy over and over but kept failing. And even when he succeeded it wasn't from being heroic, it was from him just talking to the guy.

Claire. The only time in the entire series she did something to help somebody other than her family or other people with powers was when she entered the burning train in the first episode.

Peter. The only time he did something to help ordinary people was when he was using his powers as a paramedic to rescue people. And the moment the false victim filed a lawsuit against him Peter said, "Forget it, mom was right. It's not worth trying to help people."

Micah, only out to help others with powers.

Monica. The only character who decided to become a traditional type hero. For this she gets captured, almost killed, and then vanishes from the series completely. And her failed attempt at heroics was to get back Micah's bag of comics. So again, it was somebody she knew, not a stranger in trouble.

D.L. and Hiro rescue some people from a car crash but that's the extent of D.L.s onscreen heroics and the purpose of the scene is to introduce the characters to each other.

The seasons did focus on the threats of trying to keep the city from exploding, trying to prevent a disease from destroying most the world, to prevent everybody in the world from getting powers and trying to prevent Samuel from starting a war between people with powers and normal people. But although each of those story arcs in general did involve saving the world each of them also was completely isolated from the public and only involved the interaction between the major characters on both sides.

The only exception to this pattern was the very final episode where they gathered as a group and used their powers to rescue innocents and fight the big bad. That final episode showed a lot of potential at a new direction but we'll never see that new direction unless possibly at some point there is a movie.

I'm not saying I disliked Heroes. I was a big fan and hated when it was canceled. I'm just saying it featured very few true heroic actions and when it did feature those actions it was either a one off by that particular character or the action resulted in bad consequences.

And the reason I'm saying that NOF has already done better than that is because in the very first episode Michael Chiklis immediately decides he has to use his powers for good, and he starts patrolling for trouble. When as a result he is wounded he doesn't complain that it's not worth helping people. Instead he says that he has to keep trying even though it's dangerous. If the show continues in this vein then it will be about super HEROES. Where as a contrast despite it's name Heroes was just a show about people who had super powers.

Or to put a large mass inside the ring which will prevent the gate from operating. As opposed to putting something close to the event horizon which will allow the gate to open but won't allow the vortex to form or matter to fully materialize. If you just leave it in a vented cargo bay people could still send MALPs or some such through. Even ones which carry explosives. And people in spacesuits could still come through.

I don't see Crews for the role unless the movie is played for humor. I like him but I've never seen him play a character I can take seriously. He's move of a caricature. He might be able to do it, I just haven't seen any proof.

On the other hand Mustafa doesn't have the body bulk for Luke. So a good compromise would be Terry for Luke Cage but only if we get Isiah for Black Panther. And only if both are taken seriously.

Whatever the results I don't want to see Marvel start turning out campy versions of their properties. They definitely don't need to go the way of Schumachers Batman.

My guess is that the room she was left in was the ships med bay, or at least one of them. Some sort of magical healing radiation thingy leak fixed her up. They will find a way to use this effectively so that main cast members can be up and back in action only one episode after being critically injured. Red shirts will of course not make it to the room in time.

Yes FX. It also features humans attacking the space ships. Giant robot insect thingies (at least I think they are insect like) stomping around. A helicopter being snagged out of mid air. And humans watching and commenting on the invasion. Mad it look much more entertaining than the first preview.