By now you happy few who are regular viewers of the "Heroes" TV series are probably telling a few others you know (like me) that the show is dangerously close to jumping the shark.
Get me some water skis.
Here's your SPOILER ALERT so please watch the latest "Heroes" here and come back when you're ready.
THE SITUATION: SYLAR is still partnering with NOAH to track down escaped super people. This time we get a cameo from another actor from "The Wire" who plays a guy who has the power to open miniature black holes. First, that is kind of a cool power and second, I wish the quality of the storytelling matched the impressive (for television) special effects.
CLAIRE goes out to fight villains and prove how bad she is. Does she still have to prove that? Let me be serious here - Claire was my favorite character on the show and not for her groovy cheerleader outfit either. Claire was scrappy and a stand up person with courage that belied her recuperative powers. Remember she took down the nuclear man with her skin peeling off and no idea whether she would survive to save everyone? Sure, it's easy to be brave when you don't die but she is a far cry from the victim we have seen since this season began.
Hayden Panettiere has some acting range so give her a chance to show it guys. Check out her video from Funny or Die here.
PETER has been silenced now that he has Sylar's power and cannot control his urges to steal powers. I'll back up. FUTURE PETER advises present Peter - The one I'm talking about - to take Sylar's power to help him avert future disaster. Now he's just another power vampire. How does that help with anything? The only smart thing he almost did was kill his deceptive mother.
Yeah, I said it. (Editors note: I meant that all in jest because his mom is sort of evil. And speaking of...)
DR. MOHINDER SURESH (BWAH! HA! HA! HE'S EVIL!!!) finally does something to silence the whiny MAYA. He puts her in a web cocoon. Suresh is apparently Spider-Suresh and now he is a full time villain. That is, after all, the name of this "Heroes" chapter.
Get me some water skis.
Here's your SPOILER ALERT so please watch the latest "Heroes" here and come back when you're ready.
THE SITUATION: SYLAR is still partnering with NOAH to track down escaped super people. This time we get a cameo from another actor from "The Wire" who plays a guy who has the power to open miniature black holes. First, that is kind of a cool power and second, I wish the quality of the storytelling matched the impressive (for television) special effects.
CLAIRE goes out to fight villains and prove how bad she is. Does she still have to prove that? Let me be serious here - Claire was my favorite character on the show and not for her groovy cheerleader outfit either. Claire was scrappy and a stand up person with courage that belied her recuperative powers. Remember she took down the nuclear man with her skin peeling off and no idea whether she would survive to save everyone? Sure, it's easy to be brave when you don't die but she is a far cry from the victim we have seen since this season began.
Hayden Panettiere has some acting range so give her a chance to show it guys. Check out her video from Funny or Die here.PETER has been silenced now that he has Sylar's power and cannot control his urges to steal powers. I'll back up. FUTURE PETER advises present Peter - The one I'm talking about - to take Sylar's power to help him avert future disaster. Now he's just another power vampire. How does that help with anything? The only smart thing he almost did was kill his deceptive mother.
Yeah, I said it. (Editors note: I meant that all in jest because his mom is sort of evil. And speaking of...)
DR. MOHINDER SURESH (BWAH! HA! HA! HE'S EVIL!!!) finally does something to silence the whiny MAYA. He puts her in a web cocoon. Suresh is apparently Spider-Suresh and now he is a full time villain. That is, after all, the name of this "Heroes" chapter.
HIRO does something to show KNOX (Super strength from fear) and DAPHNE (super speedster) that he has got what it takes to be down with their team. He stabs ANDO and puts a temporary end to their comic relief. This was supposed to be what the show has been building up to all this time as a punctuation on the rift between these two. It was supposed to be a shocker but it struck me as less than genuine somehow.
And finally, the new main bad guy is revealed! ROBERT FORSTER! He appears in this episode as the master villain who is apparently manipulating everyone. Except Suresh who is trapped in a storyline that has not really gone anywhere yet.
Anyway, that's all for now and I'd like to apologize for putting the "Heroes Watch" this late in the week. I am getting word more and more that "Heroes" has fallen short so far of being the can't-miss show it used to be on Mondays and I have pushed it back to give people their Web or DVR view time.
Please feel free to comment and tell me what you think.
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