It was...interesting. I watched it whilst plodding away on the intraweb last night. I will check out next weeks episode and make a more solid determination on the writing.

Only person that I didn't really care for was the angsty cheerleader.

I didn't mind project-x girl, especially as it became apparent her angst was not all due to her powers. One wonders just how/where her parents (dad) adopted her.

My favorite character so far was Hiro (think the writers are Neal Stephenson fans?), who captured the exuberence of someone discovering they had super powers brilliantly.

I second the vote for Hiro. I found myself excited with him. The show was very well done. The writing was solid and had a nice flow to it. The hour went by way too quickly. My wife is ranking it up there with BSG, but I think I am going to give it a few weeks before I allow it to enter such hallowed ground.

Did anyone see the politician brother having powers coming? That came out of left field for me.

Also, in the trailer that had been on XBL Marketplace, I swear in the scene where the nurse goes to help the artist, the artist had cut off one of his hands. But, last night in that scene I didn't notice it looking like he cut off his hand. Did I miss that/make it up during the trailer?

Can't wait for next weeks episode.

Done.

Split personality maybe? Like a female version of The Hulk?

Edit: oh and sorry about bother for the spoiler tag, just that i don't want any of us getting by some angry Goodger that can teleport and have super strength for posting spoilers.

Edit 2: I remember there used to be a show (maybe still ongoing) called like Mutant X (?) Any relations between the two show? ( I hope not because I remember that show to be pretty cheesy...)

Female Hulk... interesting idea, we'll just have to see how her story develops. I loved how Hiro embraced having powers, in fact seemed like he was even seeking them out.

No worries on the spoiler tag, it makes perfect sense. I would hate to get my ass kicked by super strong teleportation guy.

At first I thought the stripper-mom could control her reflection, but that's more of a "magicky" power and the show seems to be taking a "realistic" scientific approach, so that wouldn't make sense. Based on what happened with the fish tank, where all the fish froze, mental powers seem a good bet, but you could always say that was just in her head.

The reflection powers things would be cool, but how would they give an explanation of how it works? Bending light to have physical properties? There was that scene where she left the room and her reflection stayed behind, which I think implies it's not just a hallucination, because with how television and movies work, once the character has left the room, their perception of the room has gone with them.

If it is mental I wonder if they are going down some sort of "physical" manifestation of multiple personality disorder. We could also read into it that it has to do with consciousness. I.e. when she was tired she had hallucinations, yet when she was hit and hypothetically knocked out, her protector manifested in a physically real enough form to mutilate the goons.

It would be cool if the cheerleader became infused with an adamantium skeleton... ;P j/k How can you not love a girl that can push her ribs back in?

It was barely understandible but I was under the impression that cheerleader was "adopted". I recall her saying something about asking of her real parents.

Also, is IPSM's son just smart or do you think he's super too?

I dled the pilot because the Saints game was airing during when it was going to premiere here, but in the version I saw he did cut off his hand. It was on the floor, still "in" the handcuffs he was using to try and go cold turkey. So the impression I got was he sawed off his own hand to free himself so he could get a fix. They didn't spend a lot of time zooming in on it, just panned by it, but it was there.

Did they reshoot it and alter it from the leaked pilot?

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I just made it up =) Just now in fact!

IPSM I hope it sticks.

I hope the professor's father isn't alive. I like the idea of the young having to do this on their own, the older either too broken down or too entrenched in the world to really be apart of it. Having the younger professor be their "Xavier" figure, I think, makes a much more interesting dynamic than to pull the blindfold away and - aha! he's not dead after all!

Angsty cheerleader didn't bother me at all. Perhaps because she's hot and not whiny.

Stripper mom I think is definitely a Hulk figure, but in that, her "Hulk" form is like River Tam crossed with Wolverine. The "split" personality, I think, comes from her split life - the life she shows to her son, and the life she doesn't.

The younger brother has very strong dreams, because he's a dreamer at heart. The older brother can fly, because he's an alpha male who essentially wants to "fly" up the ranks of whatever it is he chooses to (in this case, politics).

I like the unique take they have on how personalities match their powers, in a way. It's very subtle. I hope that kind of finesse remains throughout the season.

Thats interesting Logan.

I can see the japanese fellow follow that logic too. He really doesnt want to be where he is so he develops teleportation powers.

The cheerleader perhaps has some abandonment issues so like a lot of teens says to herself that if she doesnt let them in, they cant hurt her. Hence, in her yearning to not get hurt, she develops tissue regeneration.

It looks like there are two people sitting in the back of the truck, and she is shocked when she sees one of them. Maybe her dad?

I think the hulk hypothesis makes the most sense, but it does't explain why her reflection lingers in that scene where she's already left the room. I think there's more to her reflections than they're "just in her head".

Any idea what role Micah is going to play? His name means "who is like God" or "who resembles God", that seems too good to be a throwaway choice for a name. I mean, in his first scene he's rebuilding a computer's logic board with a soldering iron, and making a pinhole camera for the eclipse. And then later he's buying a train ticket on the phone. I think he's trying to get to where the eclipse will be total, Saresh mentions that in New York it won't be. I also forgot he wants to tell his dad someone's after him and IPSM.

and what about the map? And Patient Zero? Are super-powers... Contagious? Makes more sense it would be genetically transferred, honestly, considering they're all different ages.