No Ordinary Family premier
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Posted on: 2010-09-28 17:21 in Comic and Hero-Villain Culture
I don't know that I'd call him the meta of the week given that he's attached to the big bad and he'll obviously be around for more. He is nasty though and his power is one that could cause problems for both of the parents.
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I wonder how come animals never develop super powers. I'd love to see some raccoon that could bampf into peoples houses and clean out their pantries or a cat that could mind control people or some stray dog that could chase cars and catch them and rip the tires off.
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Originally Posted by Marcian Tobay
Thinking now that there was a "Crate o' Super Flower" on the plane. When the crash happened, super flower spilled into the water.
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CoH needs some warning billboards...
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Originally Posted by Pouncer
a cat that could mind control people
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| some stray dog that could chase cars and catch them and rip the tires off. |
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So they off'ed the female dick. The thing I don't get is - why do these guys follow mom's boss and why are they just robbing banks if he is a ceo at a big company?
They also never showed the perps being arrested - did they have a powered escape plan or what ?
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I don't think the bank robbers worked for the CEO, they never showed any connection to him. The only person that did was the TKer, and he wasn't working with the robbers. He was only at the bank as he was following the officer.
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Originally Posted by Lohenien
So they off'ed the female dick. The thing I don't get is - why do these guys follow mom's boss and why are they just robbing banks if he is a ceo at a big company?
They also never showed the perps being arrested - did they have a powered escape plan or what ? |
Watched the first half of last night's episode, with my daughter.
We both thought it sucked 
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Originally Posted by Lohenien
So they off'ed the female dick. The thing I don't get is - why do these guys follow mom's boss and why are they just robbing banks if he is a ceo at a big company?
They also never showed the perps being arrested - did they have a powered escape plan or what ? |
So they apparently off'ed the female dick.
Nothing definitive was shown. Still possible she is OK, and now convinced that Powell is worth helping.
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Christina Chang isn't on the cast lists for future episodes so it seems a pretty safe bet that Detective Cho is dead.
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Originally Posted by Chyll
So they apparently off'ed the female dick.
Nothing definitive was shown. Still possible she is OK, and now convinced that Powell is worth helping. |
"Tell my tale to those who ask. Tell it truly, the ill deeds along with the good and let me be judged accordingly. The rest is silence." -- Dinobot
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Lol. I read that as "they offered the female..."
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Originally Posted by Lohenien
So they off'ed the female dick. The thing I don't get is - why do these guys follow mom's boss and why are they just robbing banks if he is a ceo at a big company?
They also never showed the perps being arrested - did they have a powered escape plan or what ? |
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ah, I didn't do any checking anywhere - letting the story play out as it were. oh well.
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Originally Posted by Wayfarer
Christina Chang isn't on the cast lists for future episodes so it seems a pretty safe bet that Detective Cho is dead.
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Horryd - Myriam - Dysquiet - Ghyr
Vanysh - Eldrytch
Inflyct - Mysron - Orphyn - Dysmay - Reapyr - - Wyldeman - Hydeous
well, it seems pretty obvious since the only commonality is the CEO, since the water was a "red herring" ... thought as much anyways, since the family wasn't the only ones ... the company that Stephanie Powell works for, mainly her "boss" is most likely responcible for the powers, maybe useing the family as unknowing test subjects, since he's already in command of atleast one other powered person, maybe a previous successful test
I don't think it is the boss. If he was knowingly responsible for their powers I would think he'd be having the family monitored and would know what Jim is up to. It's not like he and George are being super sneaky right now. And that, in turn, would give him a good starting point for figuring out what happened to the teleporter instead of what his minion has been doing instead.
My money is still on Stephanie's super plant.
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ah, good point... not really monitoring them and all, just that's the only common denominator is him, or rather the Lab in general where they both work, but the why would Stephanie Powell (and her family by proximity i'm assumeing) be exposed along with the CEO's henchmen, and not Steph's chipper little side-kick and such ?
I hope somebody writes a continuity bible for the series on how their powers work. Mom is the one who bugged me this week. Last week when she super sped everything seemed frozen around her and to her perceptions she was moving at a normal running speed or possibly even slower. This week her perceptions are normal human speed so she can't avoid collisions, she can't read signs because she passes them too fast, and she can talk on a phone while running hundreds of miles per hour.
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I can't believe nobody has mentioned that she's also a Regen!
Secondary powers ftw.
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Well both the parents have some enhanced ability to withstand damage since they re the two likely character to do any super brawling.(which I would almost thought Step would wanted to help Jim save Georg given she could have gotten there faster.) They can both take some beating then but aren't unstoppable. |
Originally Posted by MaestroMavius
I can't believe nobody has mentioned that she's also a Regen!
Secondary powers ftw. |
Both the kids likely would end up doing support stuff later. Given it's ABC they probably won't portray much violence toward them directly. (unlike Heroes which ....well some Cheerleaders didn't get saved.)
I was surprised they took out Detective Cho. I was expecting her possibly work with Jim in the future. Guess we won't have worry about any love triangles between her and Jim forming later.
Lastly don't trust Katie. She's a french spy I tell ya hehe. (bonus to anyone who gets that.)
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It's not that she can't avoid collisions, it's that she has trouble if she doesn't actually LOOK at where she's running.|
Originally Posted by Mandu
I hope somebody writes a continuity bible for the series on how their powers work. Mom is the one who bugged me this week. Last week when she super sped everything seemed frozen around her and to her perceptions she was moving at a normal running speed or possibly even slower. This week her perceptions are normal human speed so she can't avoid collisions, she can't read signs because she passes them too fast, and she can talk on a phone while running hundreds of miles per hour.
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She was distracted initially because she was looking at her phone instead of the road. She looked up in time to avoid the cyclists and the car, but then turned to look back at them and wasn't paying attention to the direction she was running in, which is why she tripped on that bicycle.
It's like a fighter pilot flying through a canyon deciding to look down at his phone. Bad idea.
And in both episodes time does seem slowed down, but everything around her is also slightly blurred. So that probably doesn't help in the reading of signs.
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Originally Posted by NinjaPirate
It's not that she can't avoid collisions, it's that she has trouble if she doesn't actually LOOK at where she's running.
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I compare it to Jim finding out a gun fired from close enough to him could break his skin.
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R.I.P.
Chyll - Bydand - Violynce - Enyrgos - Rylle - Nephryte - Solyd - Fettyr - Hyposhock - Styrling - Beryllos - Rosyc
Horryd - Myriam - Dysquiet - Ghyr
Vanysh - Eldrytch
Inflyct - Mysron - Orphyn - Dysmay - Reapyr - - Wyldeman - Hydeous
As an aside, I really REALLY detest folks who futz with their texting devices while driving.
You can literally SEE them start to weave in their lane while they're reading or texting. It's worse than actually talking on the phone - at least with talking their eyes tend to be actually on the road.
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I am wondering if Jim's powers actually have something to do with him seeing it coming. He stopped, well caught, a bullet in the police station while he saw the whole thing happening. He could see the baseballs and George was facing him when he shot him as well. Then he was facing both the cars and the van when he tried to stop them. The only time he was hurt was when he was shot at point blank range in the back of his head.
I am suprised neither Jim nor George has suggested a mask of some kind and I want a lair... with WiFi.
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Interesting side note, if someone shoots a gun in a police station, don't you think the police would look for the slug, you know, as evidence? And, having found said slug, notice that it never stuck the wall, or the floor, or where ever? CSI would have a field say with that magic bullet.
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Originally Posted by Maximilliean
I am wondering if Jim's powers actually have something to do with him seeing it coming. He stopped, well caught, a bullet in the police station
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Jim really does need a disguise of some sort if he continues to be a superhero.
I'm not exactly wanting bright spandex colors or anything, maybe something more along the lines of Bruce Willis' character in Unbreakable.
Just enough of a disguise so Cho wouldn't have recognized his broad shoulders and bald head from 50 ft away. Yet still allows him to walk the streets without looking out of place.
Now I'm even more curious as to the origin of power. I lazily assumed it was just the CEO using them as test subjects in the real world. As others have pointed out though, he doesn't seem to be aware of Jim or anything else for that matter. Maybe he is but a puppet in a bigger picture.
Since it wasn't the water, which was a long shot IMO anyways, the natural assumption would be on the flower. Yet all the workers in her lab were handling the specimen... Wait, were they all wearing gloves in that scene?
Hmmm...
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Maybe they always had them and the tramatic event of the plane crash released them.
I liked the 'catch a car' training in tonight's episode.
The kids didn't bother me too much.
Meta of the week was just plain nasty.
I'll keep watching.
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