Logan's information helps Max to find a Manticore fugitive she hasn't seen since the night of the escape... but their reunion might land both of them in Lydecker's hands.

 
 
 
jessica alba ~ michael weatherly ~ alimi ballard ~ jennifer blanc ~ richard gunn ~ j.c. mackenzie ~ valarie rae miller ~ john savage
 
 
 

Replay Meter	Initial Observation	Closer Look
Expletives none	Violence mild	Audience unknown

Initial Observations	Analysis
One of the first episodes where i understood what was going on, i didn't even know that it was a rerun at first.  Heat was good in that it gave us more of Max's background, but it was a little boring.  The flashbacks are what really offer the most interest (another great performance by Geneva Locke), and the only good stunt is where Max and Hannah slide down that cable from the top of the dam to the riverbed.  I can't tell if it's really Jessica Alba and the actress who played Hannah:  too much static.  My copy of this ep is all messed up:  i've only got about two-thirds of it.	I still haven't seen the Pilot, so i don't have a frame of reference, but Logan and Max seem really casual with each other in this ep.  It's as if they've known each other for years (if not their entire lives) and are so in tune with each other that they can predict what the other will do. Heat really isn't that exciting of an ep, but it does help lay the framework for an incredible season.  TPTB chose to get the boring stuff out of the way and tell us what we'd need to know to get to know the show's characters.  Case in point:  Herbal and Normal's conversation (with Sketchy chipping in) is entirely typical of a Jam Pony day.  The entire exchange only lasts a few seconds, but it's one of the most intresting scenes (for me) because you're trying to understand Herbal and the exchange is right on for who they are.  The writers already had the characters fleshed out and it was only the second episode, making it possible for them jump right into the story that made this season great. I also appreciated Max's bike ride to Logan's house.  TPTB showed us the norm for post-Pulse Seattle right off the bat, and the difference between Max's world and Logan's (with its tree-lined streets and pristine apartments) helps set the tone for the series. Lastly, i think it's interesting that they chose to tell Max about what happened to her mother so soon in the series.  Could have just been a way to fill time, but i think that it's more likely that TPTB wanted that to be part of Max's character.  It also leads up to another great way to end the episode, the part that everyone misses:  Max looking down on the world from the Space Needle.  Her observations should go in the quotes nine times out of ten (but sometimes they're too long!).
On the Screen		Interesting Revelations...
Geneva Locke looks so much like Jessica Alba that sometimes it's hard to remember that they're actually two different actresses		It's reportedly the first ep where Max goes into Heat, but i missed the first third of it, so what do i know? Whatever possessed Max to bring home Eric?  And why did Original Cindy find it necessary to insult Gilligan? Is it just me, or was Kendra/Blanc a little pudgy at the beginning of the series?  Most of the eps i've seen her in she always looks so thin and perky, but in the screencaps for Heat and Flushed she looks like she has chubby cheeks (as if they were swollen, really)...  And this is a totally immature observation. Max and her X-5 brothers and sisters lived in Block 12. Kyley Stathem/Jondy is in this episode:  for about half a second in a flashback. (:
Top Five Lines in "Heat"	Angelic Aptitude
"Blowin' on my pager, better be major." ~Max "Let me just say up front that I've always been someone who could be counted on in a pinch." "That's good to know." ~Eric and Logan "Oh, we're gonna have to do something about that." ~Max, of Logan's fear of heights "Eric:  you're the man." ~Max "So now I know:  I had a mother who loved me.  And maybe she's still out there somewhere.  Like that changes anything in my life.  Only it changes everything." ~Max	Okay, so Max didn't sleep with Eric, but why did she even bring him home?  And how does Kendra get off calling Max a slut when she's the one who ends up with Mr. Multiples?  (Of course, that's a ways away.) But what really happened to Eric the night before?  I've read something to the effect that he passed out from sensory overload when they were in foreplay, but i don't have that part of the episode on my tape.  I've always known that i had missed some of the ep (i thought that it was just the teaser), but after seeing some new screen captures, i'm beginning to wonder if i missed more than i thought (the counter on my vcr says i have about forty minutes). (I hope there's nothing inappropriate that i'll disapprove of once i'll finally see it... but judging by the rest of the season and the ep's transcript, i actually doubt it.  I trust the people who make the show:  probably too much.)
"Pilot"	« gotta blaze »	"Flushed"

 
 
 
jessica alba ~ michael weatherly ~ alimi ballard ~ jennifer blanc ~ richard gunn ~ j.c. mackenzie ~ valarie rae miller ~ john savage
 
 
 

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06/06/02
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