David Kronke was appointed Mayor of Television after a bloodless coup in 2000. Since then, he has improved infrastructure, championed greater educational opportunities and fought for reforms that have utterly erased corruption and incompetence from the television industry. Since Mr. Kronke has ascended to power, Television is a far better place. With "Heroes" like these, who needs villains?
“Heroes” provided a textbook example of a cliffhanger tonight (we won’t see another new episode until April 23). Suffice it to say, everyone’s in deep, deep trouble, or, at least, not exactly where they’d like to be despite their best intentions.
Only two questions this week: Wouldn’t Peter (Milo Ventimiglia) have found time, somewhere along the line, to have cleaned Simone’s blood off his face? And wouldn’t H.R.G. (Jack Coleman), having seen his new partner’s shape-shifting powers, been a little more circumspect when re-uniting with his wife? (That plot twist was obvious from a mile away.)
Other thoughts:
* They need to contrive more ways to get Nathan (Adrian Pasdar) and Hiro (Masi Oka) to work together. Those guys are great fun together, if only for a few seconds.
* Creator Tim Kring and company have really been artful in mixing it up as to whether the characters are trustworthy or not and in shifting their allegiances. I’m bewildered, yet not confused.
* NBC’s getting particularly clever with its in-episode promo obfuscations, with a particularly clever cheat, suggesting that Simone (Tawny Cypress) was not dead.
* Mohinder (Sendhil Ramamurthy) really should have been a little smarter than that.
* Malcolm McDowell is Lindermann? Clearly, NBC’s given this show a much bigger budget than from which it started.
* Touting more “Spider-man 3” footage in HD at NBC.com? Really – how many people have computers with HD?
* There were a lot fewer “Black Donnellys” promos during the episode, not surprising given its disappointing debut last week.
* Nice of NBC to invite fans to share their sundry conspiracy theories about the show at the network’s website, allowing the writers to cherry-pick potentially more inventive plot twists than even they (who have managed quite capably to this point) might’ve imagined.
* And, finally: Someone bothered to do something about Peter's hair always covering his face.