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Heroes: Season 2.1

Quite an opening act tonight until the end, yeah spoilers follow, but plenty of new and old plot twists kept the night moving even if the pace seemed slow.

Heroes catches us up with most of our favorite characters from last year pretty efficiently and with a touch of cleverness. HRG in the copy shop had to be a highlight. Parkman finally getting to be a detective was also a big score for all the nice guys out there.

What bothered me most about the opening is what annoyed me about last season. Get some original storylines people. Seriously, you're going with a virus as a main theme? Been done. Brother and sister with wonder powers? Been done. And the capper is Peter's amnesia. I mean come on, how cliche is that? This isn't Guiding Light. The only thing that will make that ok is if the Haitian did it to him.

Overall I thought they did a good job of presenting all the fragmented stories. It's an interesting way of doing things. Let's hope the whole season can sustain it.

Be A Hero Quiz

One of the many kind of lame, kind of goofy extras on the NBC site let's you see which Hero you'd be like. Guess who I got...lame. Oh and look, a tie in to Spider-Man 3. Yay!

Anyone with thoughts on tonight's episode? I won't spoil anything...

Heroes, finally back tonight

I don't know about anyone else, but it has been way too long since "Heroes" went the way of hiatus. I'm really hoping there is a five minute "catch-up" intro because I've forgotten almost everything. My big question is: Are we getting a flash forward episode tonight? What's your biggest question?

Heroes Review: Company Man

Coming to you a little late but what can I say it’s been a busy day. Last night’s episode of Heroes was simply awesome. I don’t know how else to say it. Perhaps it was the complete lack of a Niki storyline or the excellent screen presence of Jack Coleman and to a lesser extent, Greg Grunberg. Obviously Coleman’s Bennett is THE character everyone is drawn to on this show and I think the writers and everyone working on the show realizes that, now! And so they’re writing for him. Excellent.

I didn’t like Eric Roberts, he’s just a washed up guy they didn’t really need there. George Takai, OK I dig that because where else are you can find a Japanese sci-fi actor of that age? Plus wasn’t the Hiro cameo as a kid brilliant? I also thought the camera effects and blue-ish black and white during the flashbacks were well done and fit the overall look of the show.

I’m not quite sure I like Bennett being all good now but it makes for an interesting twist to say the least. They’re definitely building up to something and I think there’s a break coming up in March before they bring it back for April and then May sweeps. I can now say I’m officially loving the show. I think a neat way to do season two would be to do an entire season on the first generation of heroes set in the 1980s. That would be cool.

Heroes/Office Mash-Up

Not much to report since I'm in American Idol induced limbo with DVR and The Other Half's watching habits...Anyway, I got a kick out of this parody of "Heroes." Total hat tip to Pop Candy.

Heroes Review: The Fix

This is getting out of hand. I’m not talking about all the idiocy between the Petrelli brothers, I’m talking about all the commercials. In the second half of the show we’re getting a commercial break for every 8 minutes of shoe. Very annoying. I’m not sure if its greed on NBC’s part or them just trying to stretch out the season because they haven’t written anything last night.

As for the show, the big deal was the not so surprising revelation that there were heroes before this current crop popped up. Did the writers snatch this concept from "Lost?"
Here’s a look inside the writer’s room:
“Oh geeze we’ve gotta fill a season or two more, we need more plot, more dialogue. How do we do it…how do we do it…I’ve got it! More heroes!”

I will say the special effects with Claire’s mom and her flame power was pretty good. Otherwise I feel like there wasn’t any action, just exposition. That made it a mixed episode for me. And I DO NOT like the invisible man played by the former Dr. Who. He was so good as Dr. Who (although I like the new guy better) but he doesn’t come off as well as a surly dude.

What did everyone else think of the new heroes?

Heroes: Godsend

It’s back. “Heroes,” the savior of NBC. Jeff Zucker’s own personal non-spandex, non-musclebound superhero of a phenomenon is back. It was even pretty good. There was very little attempt to explain the first half of the season we just leapt right in, head first.

There’s Peter in a coma (I’d certainly trade his character’s annoying life to get Eden back) and his brother fretting over him. The only thing I liked about the brothers this time was Nathan finally accepting he has powers during his conversation with Hiro. BUT how come he’s intrigued by Hiro and believes every word he says while he doesn’t believe his own brother?!

The whole Niki story sucks. No need to go over it.

Heroes 360

I just blogged this for my real job over at Cars.com but Nissan is sponsoring the new Heroes TV 360 some interactive doohicky that'll give online users a glimpse at background info like this list we keep hearing about. Spiffy.

Heroes: Fallout Review

That was a jam packed episode wasn’t it?

I’m not going to start from the beginning I’m going to break down what we now know and what the hell happened.

The biggest whammie was Eden blowing her brains out instead of letting Sylar get a hold of her. Wow. But why didn’t H.R.G tell her that only he was impervious to Sylar’s powers? Duh. Now we're stuck without one of the most interesting characters.

Hiro learns his power, while possible to jump through time and space, really only allows him to impact the future not the past.

Hopefully the Niki storyline is over with.

Heroes: Homecoming Review

What a let down. After all that hype we don’t know WHY they had to save the cheerleader. Only Peter really made it there while the rest of the “heroes” were MIA. This sucks. And it looks like the rest of the season when it resumes will be all flashbacks. WTF?!?!

Well, you’re not going to stop watching right? I don’t’ think I will either but I’m a bit bummed how this episode played out and especially how it set everything up for the rest of the season.

Let’s recap shall we? Peter seemed to be the only one doing a damn thing while everyone else was busy worrying about themselves including Micah’s dad, Mohinder, Nathan, Horned Rim Glasses Guy etc. The Cheerleader stuff was good with the “freaks” voting her in as homecoming queen. I liked that whole storyline but there’s lots of good intrigue that seems glossed over like Eden. She seems like she could rule the world with that power if she can stop the mighty Sylar. Also did Peter absorb Sylar’s powers for a bti and that’s why he had to limp off into the woods?

Did HRG know Peter would be picked up by the cops to cover Sylar’s trail so he could experiment on him? So many questions and you know they’re going to take the rest of the season to get all the way back to this point. Bastards. Way to string us along. Although, since they were writing with no assumption they would get picked up I guess flashbacks are really the best way to fill airtime. Sheesh. Anyone else feel this way?

Wait a sec, it looks like next week’s episode is called “Six Month’s Ago” and the week after that “Fallout” so maybe the flashbacks will be just one episode? Let’s hope.