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Heroes 2.9 – Aren’t You The Guy Who Hit Me In The Eye?

November 19, 2007 /

Let’s just lay it on the line right here, baby: this was the best episode of the season to date…and then some.

Claire’s such a teenager, particularly the way she totally shrugged off her father’s highly valid point that her troubles didn’t really begin in earnest until she and Flyboy pulled their stunt with the head cheerleader, but, really, her melodramatic speech to her winged beau could only have been uttered by someone in their teens. After their encounter, you knew he was going to have a tête-à-tête with HRG; I appreciated the throwaway line from Flyboy about how he didn’t have super strength and wasn’t going to be able to hold HRG for long, along with the incredibly crappy way they landed, which also rang true.

(Sidebar: Right before Claire got snaked by Bob, I discovered just how much of a music geek I am. I’m sitting there, watching a squadron of high school cheerleaders doing a routine, and yet the thing that was first and foremost on my mind was, “Damn, that song they’re doing cheering to is catchy! Who sings that?” How embarrassing.)

I actually rather liked Flyboy this episode…which is definitely a change, since my opinion of him has pretty much ranged from indifference to annoyance…but the scene with him swooping in and knocking the hell out of Elle was pretty awesome, and his delivery of the line, “Hi, Mrs. Butler, it’s…good to, uh, see you again,” was perfect. For that matter, I also liked that small conversation between him and HRG about cars.

So Elle’s Bob’s daughter? No shock there…and no electrical-powers pun intended, either. “He’s adorable! Can I keep him?” God, I love Kristen Bell. Way to work that straw, baby.

HRG once again came through as a guy who, for as dark as his soul might be, really and truly does love his daughter. I loved the way he growled, “No-one’s taking my little girl,” though it ended up being superseded as my favorite line of the episode at the precise moment he looked into the camera and sneered, “Stings like a bitch, doesn’t it?” Hey, it’s nothing compared to taking a bullet in the eye from Mohinder Surersh! Whether you figured HRG was gonna get a transfusion from Claire or not (as I must admit that I did), it didn’t change the sunset beauty of how that whole death sequence played out; Bob’s expression was more pained than I would’ve expected, but the look on Mohinder’s face was just right. Just because you know you’re doing the right thing doesn’t mean it’s easy to live with the repercussions…especially when, in this case, the guy you’ve just killed is now back from the dead and has rarely been known to keep a cool head when it comes to extracting revenge.

Hiro going back in time to try and save his dad? Not too surprising. I mean, really, has anything ever happened that Hiro didn’t try to go back and fix? For such a sci-fi nerd, he really doesn’t seem to grasp how much trouble he’s potentially causing by mucking with the space-time continuum so often. George Takei seemed like he was about a hairsbreadth away from telling Hiro, “With great power comes great responsibility,” on several different occasions, but it was still a nice moment in the end, when Hiro asked his pops to tell Mom “hi.” It also wasn’t terribly surprising to find that Adam had been Mr. Nakamura’s killer, but maybe we were just supposed to appreciate Hiro’s shock at the revelation.

So after all the mental issues Molly’s suffered through over the past few episodes, what does Matt do? Test his newly enhanced mental abilities by forcing her to eat cereal. Once he used them to make his boss change his mind, I realized that, yeah, this might explain why he was so dark in that alternate future we saw back in Season 1. I was a little surprised that he actually got a fair amount of answers out of Mama Petrelli (along with that great line, “Our generation mortgaged our souls to protect yours!”), but I’m as curious as I’m sure everyone else is to find out who this mystery woman from the picture is…though by episode’s end, we did at least know that her name was Victoria Pratt. That was a very subtle thing at the end, with the post-it quietly but noticeably now on the photo above her face, but it means that Matt crossed the line, and all bets are off.

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Speaking of last night’s “Heroes”…

November 13, 2007 /

…did anyone happen to notice that Sprint commercial which talked up how fans can go online, select the attributes for their own new hero, and possibly see said hero brought to life in a new online live-action series?

Does no-one at NBC have a clue how that looked to those of us who are rooting for the writers in the WGA strike to get their fair share of the profits for online productions? I understand they’re trying to make it look as though it’s business as usual, and that there’s still new programming online even when the stuff on the network runs dry, but, really, to run that commercial in the wake of “Heroes: Origins” being yanked off the schedule…I mean, that’s just a slap in the face to Tim Kring and the other WGA members on the “Heroes” writing staff.

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Heroes 2.8 – Back in Time

November 12, 2007 /

After a week that’s brought us an apology from “Heroes” creator Tim Kring for the slow pace and iffy elements of this second season, perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised that Episode 2.9 was one of the best of the season to date. Then again, it also probably spurred more than one wag to suggest that, had the show picked up from this point originally, maybe Season 2 would’ve been a hell of a lot better to begin with. Whatever the case, we were given a decent amount to chew on this week as several blanks were filled in.

Well, obviously, we knew that neither Peter nor Nathan really had truly blown up over New York City, but now we understand a bit more about what happened immediately afterwards. Nathan scored himself a trip to the hospital after getting a considerable amount of flesh burned off, losing his family in the process, thanks to the meddlings of Mama Petrelli…and, of course, we also finally learned conclusively that Mama’s power is that of suggestion, as well as how Nathan ended up recovering from his burns.

Peter, meanwhile, got picked up by Bob (Steven Tobolowsky) and Elle (Kristen Bell), and in the case of the latter, you could argue that that’s a double entendre. Man, Elle was all about the “grrr, baby” tonight, wasn’t she? I’m going on the record, people: when it comes to sexy, Kristen Bell puts Hayden Panetierre to shame. (Screw the obvious pun; that kiss was electric.) As far as the other goings-on during Peter’s confinement, I felt like the relationship between Peter and Adam was built up reasonably over the course of the time they shared as “guests” of The Company, so no complaints there.

With Nikki and D.L., I gotta say, I was surprised to find that that was a pretty decent subplot. Frankly, I’d written D.L. off as dead after the season finale; it was a damned cool way to utilize the uncertainty of his fate and provide both a “yay, D.L.” moment when he saved the young girl from the fire, as well as the inevitable but no less effective “oh, shit” moment by having him meet his death outside the L.A. nightclub.

I have to say, though, that I was perhaps most surprised by how much I enjoyed the Maya and Alejandro sequence at Alejandro’s wedding. Damn, that was dark. If we’d gotten that impressive an introduction for these two from the get-go, maybe we wouldn’t have been mocking them so mercilessly all this time.

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Bullz-Eye’s back with their latest TV Power Rankings!

November 8, 2007 /

NBC may not be King of the Nielsen Ratings just yet, but we know good television when we see it, and the Peacock has returned in full force with a dominating presence that includes the top three shows and five of the top six. HBO, on the other hand, is experiencing the opposite, with the departure of “The Sopranos,” “Deadwood” and “Rome.” Add to that the fact that our list features a whopping 10 new entries — five of which are freshmen — and you’ve got one heck of a Power Rankings shakeup. Much of this has to do with so many shows being on hiatus until next year, but whatever the cause, it’s nice to see some much-needed change to a usually familiar lineup. And, hey, don’t miss the list of our favorite shows which are currently on hiatus (and are therefore ineligible for the Top-20), our farewell to “The Sopranos,” and our stable of Honorable Mentions.

Check out the list here, then come back and let us know how we did…or if we missed any of your favorites!

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Heroes 2.7 – Mind Games

November 5, 2007 /

First off, how cool was it to have Hiro say, “Previously on ‘Heroes,’” except in Japanese rather than English, with the logo translated accordingly as well?

Hiro’s doped up on opium back in the 1600s until his new lady love proves that women should never be underestimated. (How could that not occur to anyone? Surely that little fact was pretty well-documented even then!) Poor Hiro is still hopelessly naïve when it comes to believing in the inherent good in all people. Oh, well, at least it made for a good swordfight…not to mention a hell of an explosion! It didn’t occur to me ‘til Hiro was sorting through the rubble that Kensei had the power to heal and might well have managed to survive the explosion, but when things wrapped up, I began to think I’d been on the wrong track. (More on that in a moment.) I liked how it turned out that the final Kensei story was a metaphorical one, based on Hiro…and for as long and drawn out as I felt Hiro’s storyline in Japan was, it was still a very sad yet sweet ending. But, c’mon, how awesome was his reunion with Ando? Well, I mean, until Ando had to tell him that his dad was murdered, anyway; talk about your buzzkill.

So I’m thinking “making waffles” could be a new sexual euphemism…well, if it isn’t already one, that is. But swinging by Claire’s house for breakfast confirmed for me once and for all that AngelBoy is totally a stalker. Well, okay, maybe he isn’t, but that doesn’t mean I didn’t still relish watching him get comPLETEly freaked out when he realized who Claire’s dad was. Speaking of her pops, it looked like we weren’t going to be getting much of him this week after that scene at the beginning where HRG and Brother Voodoo were going all “burn, baby, burn” on Isaac’s paintings. My question, though, is this: was it really all that great that we got that Bennett family scene toward the end? It was pretty melodramatic and felt less like a “Heroes” moment and more like something from “Dawson’s Creek.”

Mohinder starts out sitting by Molly’s side, with Nikki…erm, Jessica…watching him every minute until Matt and Nathan show up to warn Bob about Matt’s dad. “Now is not the time to recant the past,” says Bob. Yeah? Well, when the hell is? Bob indicates that Matt might share his father’s power, even if he hasn’t exercised it to its fullest. Matt doesn’t believe it, so he goes to vent to Molly, who manages to hear him through her coma. Aw, what a “love conquers all” moment…rather the antithesis of the creeptastic moment when Jessica…erm, Nikki…was visited by her late husband. Actually, Matt’s scene with his dad looked for a second like it was going to get as melodramatic as his “I love you” scene with Molly before it took that rather dark turn toward the end…and, of course, it finally got there with the big Matt / Molly embrace which closed it. “Adam is…complicated,” sayeth Bob, during his decidedly dark conversation with Matt. Yeah, complicated and then some. So Linderman was Adam’s disciple? That little revelation spoke volumes about the dude. I’m sure a lot of people cheered when it was revealed that Nikki…erm, Jessica…oh, screw it, I’m gonna start calling her Nikica again. Anyway, when it was revealed that she was stricken with the Shanti virus, I know a lot folks were, like, “Goodbye to bad rubbish,” but, hey, lately, I’d rather see her story unfold than Claire’s.

Peter and his new Irish lass are in 2008, in a version of New York City that’s been ravaged by disease…the Shanti virus, to be specific. The government official painted a dark picture of the future, but as soon as Peter’s mother showed up, I immediately began wondering, “Is this whole thing just something that’s been constructed by Adam?” And then look who walks in at the end of the episode. Better yet, Adam is Kensei!

Yep. That right there was an “oh, shit” moment.

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