As if I weren’t convinced enough that Noah Bennet was pretty much the only reason to be watching Heroes, we get an episode that barely featured him, and suffered greatly because of it. Seriously, this was nearly a complete hour of moping. Samuel moped, Sylar moped, and Hiro moped. Mope, mope, mope.
Luckily we did see some storylines come to a head, so hopefully this was the last slow episode before the final installments of the year.
Hiro visited with some old friends (and enemies) in this episode as he underwent emergency surgery for his brain tumor. While he was being operated on, he experienced a “trial” presided over by his father while being prosecuted by Adam Monroe. Hiro was accused of messing with the time-space continuum for selfish reasons. It all ended with a sword fight between he and Monroe. I have to ask: am I the only one who was cheering for Adam? I think I’ve had enough of Hiro. It was nice to see George Takei and David Anders back on the show, but it merely served as a reminder that Heroes has a penchant for killing off the more interesting characters.
Sylar continued to be an incredibly uneven character. It seems like from one week to the next he changes from whining emotional wreck to the familiar homicidal killer. In this episode he skewed toward the former and tackled his emotional struggles; it was just creepy. His scenes with Claire were quite “ooky,” particularly when he psychically held her down and kissed her. That was a little over the line for me. It went to a very dark place that seemed out of tone with the rest of the show. At least Claire shoved a pencil in his eyeball. Now he’s off to see Matt to have his powers removed? Really?
Samuel seems to have finally been pushed off the deep end after being rejected by Vanessa, and it couldn’t have come at a better time. With the earth-moving maniac completely unhinged, I think the season is going to come to a head.
Clacked by Bob Degon
on Jan 18, 2010 @ 22:30 EST5EDT
I didn’t find this episode nearly as objectionable, most likely because I was cheering everything Adam and Kaito said. And Sylar got stabbed.
It’s frightening that with the NBC implosion, there’s a good chance this show could be back next year. Yet another thing for which to blame Leno.
The main problem with this show is Tim Kring. He admitted in an interview awhile back that he gets bored with characters and can’t be bothered to write actual storylines cause he likes random events better. Well that’s exactly how this series has felt…like a bunch of random events. There’s never any follow-through on anything. Why should I bother to get invested in a character when they’ll be in 2 episodes and then gone for the rest of the season…cause Tim Kring was too ADD to bother to have storylines for them.