Re: Heroes *Spoilers*
Micah is sorely underused. Just because he's a kid doesn't mean he can't have a complex character and internal conflicts. I mean, he seems like a real sweetheart, and he basically is... but he also hacked a ****ing congressional election and has yet to show the slightest regret and we've no indication that he ever told anyone.
When I started watching Heroes, I didn't like Nikki. She had brief moments of badass later on and I liked DL and I liked how she acted when she was with DL, but I think that for at least the first half of season 1, she was season 1's South American twins.
I have a suggestion as to how to remedy both of these, although it is tragically too late to implement the plan.
In season 1, introduce Nikki and Jessica through Micah's eyes.
Micah is a gifted little boy with an eerie skill with machinery. He's naturally a kind, outgoing person, but his behavior is very subdued and strange.
Despite living in poverty, his mother clearly loves him very much and will go to any lengths to provide him with the best possible life. She's enraged with DL and his betrayal of her trust. He's not the man she thought he was. Micah doesn't know the details of why DL was sent to jail and doesn't understand why his mother doesn't love his dad anymore. He doesn't believe that DL could murder anyone.
At first, Jessica coming out would just seem like Nikki cheering up, and he'd be happy. But then she'd start to act really strange, snapping at him or making a smug comment about DL's imprisonment, and then not remembering it later, or something like that. You know all those times she stared at the mirror while Jessica looked back? All Micah would see was his mom going catatonic and staring at herself with a creepy expression. Imagine how horrible it would be to be him. Just a nice little kid with a great relationship with his parents, and one day everybody's talking **** about his dad who's gone forever and his mom is acting creepy and not herself and he can't figure out why.
All this would be encapsulated in the first episode and elaborated on a bit in the flashback. At the end of the first or second episode, we'd get this scene:
Micah is standing in front of a window, looking out in horror at a scene illuminated faintly by a streetlight. It's Jessica taking the corpses of the mob goons out to the trunk of the car, using superstrength and carrying two men at once, one over each shoulder. She slams the trunk shut and notices him. He gasps and recoils. She smiles at him, puts her fingers to her lips like "ssh", and winks as she walks around to the front of the car and drives off.
Awesome, right? Elaboration onto Micah's character, exploration of the mystery behind Jessica, Nikki, and DL, all with a tense atmosphere. Also, Micah is frankly way more sympathetic than Nikki.
I missed season 2 so this should be great for me
