Heroes Watch: Do Not Try This at Home

Too many heroes, too many storylines. We need a rampage, be it Sylar or Papa Parkman or little Molly, to prune the show.

Agreed that the dialogue is a bit. . . well, lacking in areas. Not a lot of character developing dialogue, much more plot-driven than character-driven of late.

Yay Kristen Bell! Woo-hoo!!!! Can't wait. Dude, it's gonna be so freakin' sweet. I don't care how many stupid lines they give her, she will deliver the heck out of every one of them.

Agreed that Monica's power is way cool. It reminds me a bit of Charlie's power in season 1 - starts out subtle, but is still really cool. I thought her question about the 'morality' or whatever of her dreams of "getting out" was really interesting - she wondered if her goals were being destroyed because they were "selfish", to better her own family rather than trying to make the whole community better for everybody. I think that it totally fits into the whole "being connected to something larger" issue that our Season 1 heroes were facing, but adds another interesting level of social consciousness to the picture. Yeah, the girl is starting out a little cheezy, but she's got a lot riding on her, and a girl's gotta have dreams (even if they are just substitute, replacement dreams for her real ones).

Samurai Jack hahaha. That was a great show. I think the episodes are picking up, each week seems to be better than the previous one. Kristen Bell is the girl who makes illusions I bet.

I do think the whole "we're all connected" thing is a bit weird. Everyones father knows everyone elses father... I wouldn't be surprised to find out that Devaux was was D.L.'s father. Everything comes full circle. Definitely not as much intrigue on an epic scale like there is with Lost.

Outside of Claire/ HRG and Sylar, I'm rapidly losing interest in the show although I know it's early in the season. And if Lost S3 proves anything, a bad early season doesn't mean the whole season is shot.

I'm hoping the addition of Kristen Bell and more David Anders juices things up in the next few weeks. But I feel like a lot of groud is getting retread while other plots are stuck in a ditch (Peter's, Nathan's). I also wish they'd stop with the blatent Superman ripoffs with the West/ Claire story.

I was estatic there was no Hiro. Hiro in modern era rules, in fuedal Japan drools.....

I thought this was a much improved episode. Although James some of your points a very valid.

James, you forgot a couple kernels:

While not in this episode, the general idea that not only do we have an amnesia storyline with Peter but when given the opportunity to learn who he is, he decides to get a tattoo and make out with a mediocre bar girl.

Nathan punches a mirror while snarling "leave me alone" at his own guilt looking back at him.

I figured out what one of my majors issues with the show is. The best shows have serious subject matter, but that tension is maintained with tone and music and editing - the characters themselves are not always as super duper serious, everything we do is vital to the fate of the world as the Heroes are. Can we have a normal conversation, just once, to break the tension? That's what Hiro gave us last season but with him galavanting through a bad Kurosawa pastiche it's all just way too heavy.

Ok...some questions for the Heroes writers.

Are they implying the Hiro's mom might be Mrs. Petrelli (the hug that lasted too long)?

Where is the invisible guy? He was a great character with a lot of moral ambiguity. He helped make Company Man a great episode. We need him back.

Why didn't they just kill off Nathan? Is he adding any value?

So is Bob the head of the company? He implied in the first episode that there were higher powers than him. However, him being in the picture puts him on the same level with Linderman and friends.

Would Claire really help kill her father? C'mon, that is totally not in character. She was pretty forgiving of everybody last season so why would that change now. Plus, another story arc where we prove the painting wrong is just old hat.

Why the ticking and bugs everytime Sylar is around now? And, how did he lose his powers? And finally, are we ever going to find out how he steals the powers? Does he have to look at the person's brain to see how it functions then mimic it with his?

At what point do we reach the main character saturation point? I count 19 right now not including Kristen Bell and Parkman's dad who will be added in the coming weeks. Can a show survive with over 20 characters contributing to the end game of the season? I think it's time to abort and kill some folks off.