Heroes

Heroes s02e11 – Powerless

Thursday, December 6th, 2007
by Jeff

This will be a quick Heroes review. YAY!!!! The annoying Mexican twins are dead! Now can we get back to the Heroes we know and love? This “volume” seemed to be too much about explaining history then kick ass powers by kick ass Heroes. Did we really need 11 episodes to do this? Condense it down to a couple of episodes and move on to a real story.

Hiro buried Adam alive? Lame.

Nathan is shot when he’s about to announce publicly that he can fly? Predictable.

I’m just disappointed that it didn’t end better.

When’s the new “volume” start? Maybe the writers should just stay on strike and I’ll catch up with all the seasons of The Shield and Weeds.

Hereos se02e09 – Cautionary Tales

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
by Jeff

Hereos is good again. I just hope it stays that way. 

I’ve said before that there are too many sub plots going on at once.  This week they kept it down to an easy to handle three, but there was a lot going on within them.  At this point, I could care less what’s happening with the other Heroes.  Let’s just hope the Mexican twins are dead.

All throughout this episode I felt they were borrowing from other geek movies. Hiro goes back in time and his father tells him not to save him because even though they have the power of gods, they can’t play God.  In a nutshell, don’t mess with the timeline or bad things will happen.  Doc Brown said the same thing in Back to The Future

At the funeral, Hiro said his father is not dead as long as he carries what his father taught him in life.  Dr. McCoy said "He’s not really dead, as long as we remember him" talking about Spock in Star Trek II.

West is way too much like Superman without the superhuman strength.  He even looks like Clark Kent. Compare that to Smallville or any Superman movie that doesn’t co-star Richard Pryor or feature Superman throwing all the world’s nukes out to space.  You can go figure out which ones I mean.

Matt now has the power to not only read people’s minds but put thoughts into their heads to make them do what he wishes.  That’s called the Jedi Mind Trick first used by Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars: A New Hope.  "These aren’t the droids you’re looking for.  You can go about your business.  Move along."  Angela Petrelli isn’t as dumb as a stormtrooper though.

Once again they pull the old bait and switch with a death scene.  You think Noah Bennet will die because of the painting depicting his death, but wait!  Noah sees what the painting depicts and is able to avoid the bullet and he lives.  But wait! Mohinder ends up shooting and killing him anyway, just later. But wait!  He’s not dead! He just woke up in a hospital bed pumped full of Claire’s blood that regenerated him.  Holy !@#$%.

End of episode.

The writers love playing with us, and I eat it all up. 

Let’s not forget the revelation that Adam isn’t time traveling, he’s actually 400 years old!  Didn’t see that one coming, but it makes sense.  Oh yeah, he killed Hiro’s father too. (Sulu)

So now we’ve got two episodes left? Well, only eleven were shot before the writer’s strike.  Leave it to NBC to hype this like it’s the end of the season.  I’ll be curious to see how, and I guess more importantly, WHEN this ends.

Heroes s02e08 – Four Months Ago

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
by Jeff

Well that’s better.  Non-linear story telling can be as intriguing as it is frustrating. I love finally figuring out how we got to where we were last week, but did it really need eight episodes to do it?

The best twist?  D.L. isn’t dead!  No, wait, yes is. At first I thought this was a lousy way to get his character back into the show.  Maybe the writers thought they’d resurrect him to try and boost the lower ratings this season. Luckily he really is dead, he just didn’t die the way we thought. I’m confused with Niki though.  She now has a third personality?  Great.  This one acts like a bimbo and manages to get D.L. shot in the back.

The Mexican twins have got to go!  I really hope Syler splits their heads open killing them, but finds out he can’t use their power.  This whole bleeding black from your eyes and killing everyone within a hundred yards is lame.  Either explain what the hell you’re doing here, or kill them both. 

Adam is going to be fun now.  Is he the new bad guy, or is Bob the head of the company the real bad guy? I’m going to go with Bob for now, but reserve the right to change that theory at a later date.  Speaking of Bob…remember him from Groundhog Day?

"Ned!  Ned Ryersen? PUNCH!"

Am I the only one who thought Nathan looked a lot like Two Face from Batman? Ok so his skin wasn’t purple, but you get the idea. I love how Peter blowing up went down.  He blows up, Nathan is going to die, but Peter regenerates (I think) and saves Nathan who is horribly burned. Peter gets put in "jail" by Bob (PUNCH!), escapes with Adam, heals Nathan, gets caught by lighting lady, has memory erased as a favor by the Haitian, and gets locked in a cargo container with amnesia.  Brilliant!

Now we’re back on track for some exciting episodes.  It makes me wonder if they shouldn’t have just started the season with this episode instead.  I think you’d have a lot less pissed off Heroes fans.  They fumbled the ball, but luckily recovered it before time ran out. Now just kill the twins and we can all have a Merry Christmas.

Heroes S02E07 – Out Of Time

Tuesday, November 6th, 2007
by Jeff

Heroes is hit or miss lately. What’s worse is it’s not just hit or miss from episode to episode, but actually within episodes as well. This episode is the hit or miss within the episode variety. Peter is in the future in June of 2008 where most of the world’s population is dead from the "Shanti virus."  Sounds like the world was killed by a young pop star. Actually my wife tells me that was Mohinder’s sister’s name.  She remembers those details better than I do. 

I like this concept of the virus thing, but where’s it going? I’m lost now. The good news is that Hiro is finally out of 17th century Japan.  That plot was old by the second episode of the season, but gets all new again when Takezo Kensei is revealed to be Adam Monroe a founding member of "the company" who is out to kill everyone.  He shows up with Peter after Peter was mysteriously transported to present day Montreal.  My head hurts now, but this is really cool. You had to know this guy was time traveling from the first time Hiro met him.

Am I the only one that thinks West is too much like Clark Kent/Superman? If I didn’t know better at times I’d swear I was watching Smallville.

Answers are coming…I hope.  Previews for the next episode say that all the questions will be answered.  I can’t wait to see them explain exactly what happened to Peter when his brother flew him away before he exploded. 

Heroes needs to get back on track, and not have so many sub-plots going on at once. You know you have too much going on when you don’t even see half the characters in an episode. What’s going on with Micah and his cousin, with the woman who bleeds black from her eyes.  It’s not tying together for me and it’s getting too hard for me to follow. I need to dumb things down and go watch an episode of The Flintstones.