![]() ![]() Son Lyle was established as a dud in the pilot episode with his remark about finding a “homeless Mexican” whom he thought was dead (good to know: racially-insensitive remarks pass without comment at the Bennet dinner table), and has done nothing to redeem himself since. And while this was acceptable and even darkly humorous in Volume One when Noah, while sort of innately cool and likeable, was certainly not supposed to have our sympathies, it’s objectionable now that the series is striving to present him as a devoted family guy whose love for his daughter gives him a blanket pass to commit terrible deeds. Yes, it’s been drilled home that Noah did this to protect her from his employers, but: a) that’s not his decision to make, and b) it’s still abusive. ![]() Sandra Bennet has had a couple of strong moments (holding Bob off at gunpoint in “Powerless”, revealing her secret knowledge of her husband’s occupation in “Parasite”), but there’s something so inherently creepy and queasy-making about the way she’s portrayed: she’s flighty and vacuous, with brain damage caused by her husband constantly having her memory erased. ![]() The Bennets - Noah, Sandra, Lyle, Claire - were kind of an appalling family unit in Volume One, but that was okay, because it seemed like they were supposed to be reprehensible: Noah, certainly, was painted as a shady character, if not an outright villain, right from the start. ![]() Heroes’ moral compass really goes all wonky where the Bennets are concerned. Showed little inclination toward becoming a decent human being.Īnalysis: Wow. Discovered she had magical deus ex machina blood, which resurrected her father. Pulled an unfathomably stupid and cruel stunt on a classmate and set in motion a series of bizarre events that culminated in the death of her father. Volume Two Summary: Relocated with her family to California to hide from the Company. ![]()
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