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by Jason Hughes, posted Oct 6th 2008 11:23PM
(S03E04) A lot of people have said in the comments that it appears as if I don't like Heroes. Believe me, that's not true. I'm actually a huge fan of the show. As a huge comic book junkie for more years and dollars than good sense will allow me to admit, the potential and general premise of this series is tremendously exciting. And the fact that it achieved such mainstream success right out of the gate was nothing short of astounding.However, just like you'll tell your wife whom you love more than anything else that she has a piece of lettuce stuck in her teeth, I'm not going to just put on rose-colored glasses and pretend that every scene, line and moment of each episode is solid gold. If I see lettuce, I'm going to call them on it. Because the way I see it, it's just lettuce. It doesn't change how wonderful and beautiful she is in the slightest. It's just a little thing that needs to be taken care of because it's distracting me and it doesn't really fit the whole look her face is going for. Kind of like whatever's going on with Mohinder.
Nikki, Tracy and Barbara were identical triplets who were separated at birth by Dr. Zimmerman, when then proceeded to perform experiments on them. We haven't met Barbara yet, but I already find Tracy a lot more interesting than Niki/Jessica ever was. Sure, she's just as mentally unhinged but at least she seems to be more capable. But in light of what we learned tonight, does that mean Micah's gone for good?
Four Years From Now
Now a world filled with people containing abilities will destroy the world. It's always something new, isn't it?
Claire and Daphne are bad guys and in cahoots with the fear-based powers guy. But they're still under the President's authority, somehow? The future is an interesting place. Lots of mysteries and unanswered questions.
Meanwhile, Sylar is living in the Bennett household and is a 1950's sitcom ... mom (you thought I was going to say dad). And we finally learned what Sylar's true ability is I finally thought about how Sylar's ability really works: understanding how things work. It works with everything, explaining why he looks at people's brains to understand how their abilities to work. It also makes it far more plausible that he and Peter are brothers, as he can do with effort what Peter does automatically. But what does that mean about Nathan? And what about Peter now that he also has "the hunger."
I did like the transition with Mohinder's tape recorder into the "Four Years Later" setting. It also gave us a sneak preview of where his transformation may be taking him. In fact, maybe Heroes should have taken a nod from Desperate Housewives and jumped the whole show ahead four years as what's happening here is a helluva lot more interesting than what's going on in the present era. Well, except for the explosion. That kinda sucked. But the time we did spend in the future really brought together the threads that have been woven thus far this season.
Heroes
- Why do battered women always defend their abusers when someone intervenes to help them on TV?
- Why did we repeat so much of the Parkman in Africa sequence. If you need to repeat that much of it to make the story clear then maybe save it for the next episode. It's going to turn into an episode of Extra where you have ten minutes of content and twenty minutes of blurbs about those ten minutes.
- Future Peter has a raspy voice. He must have taken acting lessons in "badass" by Christian Bale.
- Dania Ramirez managed to show even more boobs than usual. Is this really what she's been reduced to: a sexual object?
- Every time someone's going to die this year, someone else swoops up to save them. Of course, Nathan would save Tracy. He's banging her. Oh, and she's important to his career.
- It was good to see Molly again, but if that's what she looks like for real, and four years in the future, how can they possibly use her in the present era? Puberty's a bitch in shows that play with time travel. Just look what they've had to do with Walt on Lost.
- If Parkman went to the future and saw all that we just saw, he didn't seem to be much more important to the larger arc then than he is now.
- Having a turtle as an animal guide must suck ass. It takes forever to get anywhere!
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| The commercials |
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