Last week: Hiro plays dress-up in Kensei’s armor and gets Kensei plunked with a few arrows, but Kensei gets better. Mama Petrelli used to get it on with Papa Sulu, but these days she just gets it on with invisible stalkers. Claire grew a toe, much to the consternation of her more visible stalker. Mohimbo fixed up the Haitian and hooked him back up with Noah. Maya’s twin did his best Head & Shoulders impersonation. A shirtless Peter made plans to get all up in an Irishman’s box.
This week: Mister Muggles reveals a shocking secret!
So what the fuck were they thinking keeping Siler alive! Do they have to tatoo “do not turn your back on me” on the guy’s forehead? (Whoever “they” are.) Sheesh.
I’m starting to lose patience here. God, there’s a lot of annoying things going on here.
Smallville is incredibly, obnoxiously annoying. And a terrible actor to boot. Candace, and whoever she was working for, are complete morons, like, moreso than Mohinder (unless Sylar is still in an illusion, that would be kinda cool). And now Sylar’s trapped on the island from Lost.
It’s just sloppy. So was the first half of the first season, but they have enough experience by now that I don’t think it’s terribly unreasonable to expect the higher quality of the latter half of season 1 again.
You can see network suits busy ruining this show. “We need a teenage romance for the 16-24 demographic. And no more bloody open skulls. It scares the below-13 demographic. And the brother and sister can kill as many people as you like as long as they don’t stay dead.”
And now Sylar is on the “Lost” island! Like those people don’t have enough trouble.
Well, Claire proves she’s a Petrelli – she gets a little tail, and her brains get tossed out the window. Just like Uncle Peter. Just like daddy, last season. Maybe like Angela (too soon to call that one).
at least the previews show the beard parasite growing on Nathan’s face is gone next episode! hate it that spread to the rest of the family.
At least Maya steps up and uses her power to do something, for the first time. Maybe she won’t be a Niki redux.
Possibly Uhura will make the Niki storyline interesting. crosses fingers
And we were thisclose to being done with the snoozeworthy samurai storyline – more Ando! less Lost In Time storyline!
What? Who? I’d narrow down the obscure nickname, but there are too many terrible actors around. I’d suspect it’s West, but nobody flies on Smallville. Is there a dumb Irish crime boss on Smallville?
Okay. I officially nominate the whole “flying the girl around the block to make her fall in love with you” for the big list of super hackery. Get a girl a hundred feet off the ground and she forgets that you are an annoying stalker poser boy. Must be the thinner air.
I understand the concept of super heroes and their weaknesses. Superman has kryptonite. Green Lantern has (had) yellow, or wood if you’re kicking it old school. Batman is lactose intolerant. Poor Illusion Lass drew the short straw and gets the coffee mug weakness. That or Sylar hit her right in the sweet spot.
Nikki’s weakness must be decision making. She takes her son from Las Vegas to New Orleans for a better life. Good choice. And hey, good luck with that government job. Can’t wait till next season when she get’s the Iraq job working for Blackwater.
The great Star Trek reunion tour continues. We all know that Leonard Nimoy is destined to be Sylar’s relative. I’m just wondering who’s family tree has a Shatner branch.
I believe that was an homage to the first Christopher Reeve Superman movie. They probably couldn’t afford the rights to “Can You Read My Mind.” That was a song in there wasn’t it? I’ve tried to blot that part out of my memory.
They also couldn’t afford to show use the glorious battle Kensei had for the Scroll of Wonderment, or whatever the hell it was.
I’m beginning to wonder if I can afford to stick with this. Life is short, you know.
Homage Schmomage. Next thing you’ll try to tell me that Jem and her Holograms trying to seduce Sylar with himself was an homage to the infamous “Max on Max” skit from Conan O’Brian.
Really. I tried to find a youtube clip of it, but the interwebs done let me down.
It was off my Tivo with the season opener. My problem with it is that there are too many characters – not just too many for my pea brain to keep track of, but too many for the writers to do anything substantial with. They’re all just game pieces on a board.
If they could tell the story in a different way – organically, instead of just getting the heroes in and out of perilous situations, and making sure each week ends with a cliffhanger, and more questions being raised.
The way they’re doing it though, you can never escape the fact that you’re watching a TV show. You can’t get into the story. At least I can’t.
It was probably the happy face on the coffee mug that did it. If he didn’t have his powers back did he cut her skull open with a shard of that coffee mug? That would be some heavy duty porcelain if it cut through skull bone. They still didn’t show us exactly how he absorbs others powers. If he noshes on brains I’d expect some blood around his mouth since his hands were quite bloody, unless he’s just a dainty eater. So who here thinks Sy’s problem is that he has the virus? Yeah, me too. Unless it is still just an illusion and Candy and crew aren’t as dumb as they appear to be which would be nice for a change.
I’m tired of our Heroes doing things that don’t lead the plot forward. Like Hiro staying in the past, Peter not opening the box, Maya getting weepy eyed and sort of killing people. The Claire vs. Dad storyline was the only interesting thing that happened this week. That and the reappearance of Claire’s SUV. That car is getting more plot than half the characters.
What’s with the little leg tug when you start to fly. Isn’t that Superman’s signature move? I think we need a Congressional investigation into a potentially huge copyright issue!
