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Heroes 3.13 – When They Said to Choose A Side, It Made You Want To Hide

December 16, 2008 /

First things first: Hayden Panetierre is not a great actress. When her time on “Heroes” has finally come to a conclusion, I’d bet dollars to doughnuts that she ends up doing the straight-to-video or TV-movie circuit for the remainder of her career. I’ve been wrong before on guessing people’s ultimate career fates, but having watched the scenes tonight where Claire and Sylar are battling over the intercom, I’m feeling pretty good about this one. With precious few exceptions, she just can’t seem to deliver a menacing line without making it sound like the height of cliche…which it is, of course. But a better actress could’ve made it sound cool, while her delivery just made me groan.

I was way disappointed with how little action we got out of HRG’s plan to release the villains to serve as chum. In the end, it basically just felt like an excuse to break out the Puppet Master again…not that there’s anything wrong with that. But even that didn’t pay off. You knew the showdown between Sylar and the Puppet Master was going to turn out poorly for the latter, but I was hoping for at least a little more action than just Sylar asking, “You think you can control me?” Bam, Puppet Master’s strings are cut. Boring.

Sorry to see Claire’s biological mom go, as I kind of liked her, but once she got that shot of adrenaline, I figured she wasn’t long for this world, and I was right.

Finally, Tracy breaks out her powers again…and, subsequently, Knox breaks into a whole bunch of little pieces. It was a nice and shocking moment, to be sure. We really only got one other Tracy moment that’s worth discussing, but it was arguably the best scene of the episode: her encounter with Hiro. First, Tracy’s David Spade impression made me laugh (“And you are…?”), then she called Hiro “Pikachu,” which earned a giggle, but then Hiro offering an apology followed by a sock in the face was almost as funny as Daphne’s expression thereafter.

Speaking of Daphne, when she said, “And you were there, and you were there,” all I could think was, “Hello, ‘Wizard of Oz’ reference,” and the same went for “A Few Good Men” when Sylar screamed, “Tell me the truth!” Was this intentional? Were there more unabashed line thefts that I missed…?

Who doesn’t enjoy the opportunity to see George Takei wielding a sword again? There wasn’t really much to that scene, except to get a good laugh out of the father/son battle and to finally show the moment where the formula was torn in half, but, again, it’s George Takei wielding a sword.

Overall, I was really only “meh” about this episode. The scenes with Nathan and Peter were just more brotherly bickering, the conversation between Sylar and Mama Petrelli had limited emotional heft, given that we knew full well that she wasn’t his mother, and the whole subplot about Ando developing his time-travel-related ability was just plain ridiculous. Frankly, I’m glad to see PrimaTech finally go up in smoke; it’s about time we got more of a look at the heroes and villains outside of the same world they’ve always been centered around.

Then again, maybe I’m just tired.

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Heroes 3.11 – Hope Will Fall Tonight with Broken Wings

December 1, 2008 /

Sylar and Elle had a bad case of coitus interruptus, huh? Well, if you’re gonna be shooting up HRG’s little girl, you’ve got to be willing to pay the price. The cat-and-mouse game between HRG and Sylar and Elle was pretty cool, particularly when Sylar threw the money at the guy in the drugstore in the most pitiful attempt ever at buying time, but, wow, I totally did not expect HRG to slit his throat like that.

Claire, meanwhile, was having trouble dealing with her gunshot wound because her body is reacting to infection as if she’s never been sick before…which, given that her healing abilities would’ve kept her in top-notch condition, makes sense. But, wow, I didn’t quite expect her condition to go into as much of a tailspin as it did, nor did I expect them to actually kill her. Granted, it’s not like you didn’t know that both she and Sylar were gonna come back when the eclipse ended, but even so, I was impressed with the way they took both storylines to the edge like that.

I wouldn’t have thought that Peter and Brother Voodoo would make a good team, but I liked Peter’s comment about wanting to prove to his father that he could be a hero even without his powers. Hey, that’s what Papa gets for shrugging off his son just because he wanted to be a nurse! You know, I was actually more intrigued by this storyline than anyone else’s, possibly because it seemed so unlike anything else that’s gone on before, what with the Haitian general and everything; with Pete turning into a gun-toting Rambo and Brother Voodoo cracking heads and then going all apeshit on his brother, I was not disappointed. Nathan’s change in attitude was an unexpected one, but it’s a fascinating one which has a lot of potential.

Mohinder’s stuck in the lab, trying to figure out the connection between the eclipse and the loss of the abilities of the heroes and villains. The good news is that he’s under the watchful eye of Flint, who’s about as much of a dumb lackey as you could hope for, and although he might still be a tough guy even without his powers, he proves to be no match for Mohinder. Well, actually, it looked pretty close there for a second; at first punch, I wasn’t entirely sure that Mohinder’s attack plan was going to succeed. But, hey, he pulled it out, and that’s what counts. Surely I’m not the only one who cringed, however, when he picked up that post-it with Maya’s name and address on it. Thank goodness for the small blessing that his “curse” came back before she had a chance to drag the episode down. I also appreciated the fact that Mohinder’s fly-ish tendencies are downplayed when he’s in the lab.

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Heroes 3.10 – The People with the Answers Won’t Tell the People with the Questions the Answers

November 25, 2008 /

When a music geek is handed an episode with a title like “The Eclipse,” you’re given a lot of different choices for lyrical references as the title of your blog entry. Should I go with Pink Floyd (All that you slight, everyone you fight…), or should I go with Bonnie Tyler (Once upon a time, there was love in my life…)? Instead, I went with a relative obscurity – a line from the closing track of the Beta Band’s Hot Shots II – but given the way the series has been going, it seemed rather appropriate.

Let’s split this week’s blog into two parts, shall we?

Before the Eclipse:

Arthur has just been a sketching fool since taking on the power of poor Usutu, but, wow, he’s really let his people skills drop off. Really, though, can you blame him? Thanks to his new abilities, he knows what’s coming…and, yet, he can’t seem to do a damned thing to change it.

The relationship between Sylar and Elle turned darker this week than I expected. I mean, I know I made a comment a few weeks ago about how Sylar’s so freaking wishy-washy that he’ll probably switch sides half a dozen more times before the end of the season, so I shouldn’t have been surprised that he left his touchy-feely side behind, but I just didn’t expect Elle to be the one who turned him. She’s a complex character, that one. (Her throwaway description of HRG as “Glasses himself” was hilarious.)

Mohinder really just isn’t a very good scientist, is he? “I, uh, didn’t think the eclipse had anything to do with it,” he mutters. Whoops. From there, it was back to “Return of the Fly,” unfortunately.

Matt and Daphne’s quest to find Hiro turned out to be a short one when he and Ando turned up, courtesy of their comic book intel. I loved the interplay between Ando and Daphne, not to mention Hiro and the turtle, but I’m wondering how long this whole back-and-forth thing between Matt and Daphne is going to go on. That said, once the boys followed Daphne to Lawrence, Kansas, I had to laugh at Hiro’s exclamation: “Holy crap!”

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Heroes 3.9 – It’s Coming…But Is It Something Good? (Could Be! Who Knows?)

November 17, 2008 /

Aaaaaaaand we’re back in the present again. But was it worth the trip?

Well, as goofy as they were, I have to admit that I enjoyed the breeziness of the segments with Hiro and Ando, though to do so required me to set aside my uncertainty about what the hell had happened to Hiro in the first place. I mean, we’ve seen Brother Voodoo make with the mind wipe maneuver, but based on the way Hiro was screaming, I figured Papa Petrelli was all but ripping his brain to shreds, and when he announced that he thought that he was 10 years old, my presumption was that Papa had wiped out everything he’d known prior to that age. But given Ando’s conviction that he can trigger Hiro’s memories to return, I guess we’re supposed to presume that Papa now has the ability to inflict hysterical post-traumatic amnesia…? Well, fair enough, then. It’s not like it’s the most ridiculous conceit I’ve had to buy into with this series. The scenes in the bowling alley were silly fun, and as a geek of the highest order, Hiro’s rant about the changes in comic books was very much of the “it’s funny ’cause it’s true” variety for me.

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Heroes 3.8 – Another Villain on the Cover of Every Major Magazine

November 10, 2008 /

Even with the major media outlets gleefully listing off the reasons to be less than enthusiastic about a new episode of “Heroes,” it’s hard not to excited about any show which offers up an episode with a cast that features Robert Forster, Malcolm McDowell, and Eric Roberts.

Fortunately, the series did not disappoint.

Oh, sure, when one looks back at this episode in the grand scheme of the season, it will be one that can be easily skipped, since all it really does is fill in a few blanks that didn’t really need to be filled in. But this was an episode for the longtime fans, those folks who have watched the evolution of the characters over the course of the show’s run and have had various little plot details gnawing at them.

Given my past praise of Robert Forster, it will come as no surprise that I thoroughly enjoyed seeing him get the opportunity to dive into the role of Papa Petrelli during all of the key moments from the past that we’d heard about but never seen. He’s clearly having fun playing the villain, as seen during his scenes with McDowell and his declaration that having his own son knocked off would be just another day at the office. Then again, it seemed like Cristine Rose was having a ball herself, particularly during the sequence where we got the skinny on how Papa Petrelli came to be paralyzed in the first place. (It’s not nice to fool Mama Petrelli…)

It was also a lot of fun to see Eric Roberts return to his role as Thompson, watching him smirk as he treated Meredith and Flint – hey, who knew they were siblings? – like his playthings, trying to train Meredith while keeping Flint under lock and key with assurances that he, too, would become a field agent one day. Roberts has been known to have a little too much fun with his roles, but he plays Thompson perfectly, with the moment when he gave Meredith the opportunity to reconnect with Claire a particular highlight of his performance.

There was, however, at least one real bummer to the episode, and that was the storyline where Sylar and Elle became best buds. It felt like someone said, “Hey, the good news is that we’ve got Kristen Bell for another week, but the bad news is that it’s for the week that we’re filming the flashback episode. Heads we shoehorn her into the Sylar story, tails she’s working with Thompson.” The Elle / HRG scenes were fun, but the show died a slow death every time it went back to Sylar and Elle. Maybe it’s because there was no suspense whatsoever, since we knew that every word that came out of Elle’s mouth was a lie and that Sylar was going to snap eventually.

There were some great one-liners scattered throughout the episode, such as Peter’s bemusement that his father couldn’t bring himself to describe his son as a nurse, or Meredith’s comment to Flint that “God didn’t give you a brain, he gave you an older sister.” As far as flashback episodes go, it certainly didn’t live up to the standards of Season 1’s “Company Man,” which delved into HRG’s back history, but it was nonetheless enjoyable to finally have Papa Petrelli’s role in the recent pasts of Nathan and Peter fleshed out. Those guys have an evil, evil father…and if you didn’t feel that way during the course of the flashbacks, then you sure as hell felt that way in the last two minutes of the proceedings.

Yikes.

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