Heroes once again gets creds for shrewdly coasting the paradoxical rapids of time travel - and for having another good match-up of super powers.
I was also glad to see Adam Monroe extinguished by Papa Arthur Petrelli, well played by Robert Forster, as I mentioned last week. I didn't much like Adam last year, even though it was good to see David Anders' Sark from Alias back in action.
And speaking of power match-ups, it was good seeing Claire getting the last laugh on the creepy puppet master. Indestructibility is hard to trump.
So we now have the heroes and villains pretty well set, with some powerful people in the middle. HRG, Hiro, Ando, and Claire on the good side (though we saw Claire turn bad in the future), Arthur Petrilli, Knox, and maybe Peter turning bad as the villains, with Mrs. Petrilli, Sylar, and Daphne somewhere in the middle, but closer to good, especially with the Daphne-Parkman alliance. And Nathan and Tracy good, though presently out of commission courtesy of Mohinder, who is scaly and bad - but they have to do something more interesting with his character.
Hey, talking about Mohinder just gave me an idea about Ando - maybe he can go see the doc who gave Nathan and Tracy their powers, and get some powers spliced into his genome ... On the other hand, it's not clear if the powers can be spliced in as adults, and I think part of the appeal of Heroes, and Hiro and Ando in particular, is the one of us, one of them theme of this season.
See also Heroes 3 Begins: Best Yet, Riddled with Time Travel and Paradox ... Sylar's Redemption and other Heroes and Villains Mergers ... Costa Nuclear ... Hearts of Gold and the Debased
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Here in the UK they're airing Heroes season 3 around two weeks behind you guys. So I've been keeping up.
Or more specifically, I watched episodes 1-3, and stopped keeping up.
I'm afraid that my opinion of the show is unsalvageable now. It's a different beast to the almost entirely superb first season. These characters have all lost a single dimension, and the result is a gaping hole.
(Possibly that analogy is topologically confusing, but hopefully you know what I mean). :)
Heroes doesn't need adrenaline and new plot lines. It needs old plot lines brought to fruition, and slow-burn character development, a la 'Battlestar', 'Lost' or 'Fringe'.
So you'll find me watching those shows instead, I'm afraid.
(ps. On your recommendation, I watched 'Journeyman'. Great show. Cancellation was horribly unfair - another 'Firefly').
I was a bit concerned about Hiro, though. In real life if you get hit over the head hard enough to lose consciousness, you probably have at least a concussion. If it happens again just a few minutes later, I would expect the victim to have permanent brain damage.
tvindy - but there's a long tradition in comic books and cartoons of people being hit over the head, hearing birds chirp, and getting up with no damage at all ...:)
mike - great to see you here again. I agree that Heroes has changed a lot since the first year, when its main appeal was how each of the heroes discovered and then learned how to live with his or her powers ... but I do like its slightly greater sophistication now.
Do you get The Sarah Connor Chronicles in the UK? Definitely recommended.
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