Wednesday Heroes Blogging
Starting a recurring blog feature on Heroes the week before the finale has got to be as stupid as, well, half the characters in this last episode.
Not content with setting last season's finale in New York City, this episode builds things up for a dramatic showdown in Odessa, Texas. Both Adam and Sylar and their new and reliably dumb proteges have set their sights on the Shanti virus.
Peter teams up with Adam to go pump Victoria Pratt for information. Even after Adam shoots her, Peter doesn't suspect that the 16th-century Englishman with the inexplicably non-rhotic accent might suffer from baser motives, despite, you know, bring able to read minds. (This is, of course, the "Superman problem.") Adam defends his actions by pointing out that she was going to blog Peter's head off, and that "there's no coming back from that one." How would he know? More to the point, why didn't the company use that bit of information to rid themselves of Adam? Unlike in the real world, life imprisonment is more expensive than the death penalty if the person involved is immortal and you can dispense with appeals.
We're also told that Victoria left the company after her tiff with a younger Kaito, who, for the record, looks and sounds nothing like George Takei. How then is older Victoria in the picture with the other founders?
The last few minutes of the episode are the best: Hiro and Peter gear up for battle, with a cute Inigo Montoya line from Hiro. I think telling Peter that Adam is a murdering crazy who's trying to release the virus might have been more effective than talking about Kaito, though.
Maya is an idiot, 'nuff said. Is "I convinced the babysitter to take the night off" a nice way of saying that the dynamic duo killed him/her? Sylar's honey-coated words are too opaque to tell. But when will Maya have her Anakin Skywalker moment?
It was nice to see Veronica Mars back at her stakeout, but the real Veronica wouldn't fumble her keys, much less take that window-breaking from Claire. I liked Monica's scene as well.
This show depends on bad communication, lousy writing, and temporary stupidity to get itself over the rough patches, but I still love it. It's like an abusive relationship.
Not content with setting last season's finale in New York City, this episode builds things up for a dramatic showdown in Odessa, Texas. Both Adam and Sylar and their new and reliably dumb proteges have set their sights on the Shanti virus.
Peter teams up with Adam to go pump Victoria Pratt for information. Even after Adam shoots her, Peter doesn't suspect that the 16th-century Englishman with the inexplicably non-rhotic accent might suffer from baser motives, despite, you know, bring able to read minds. (This is, of course, the "Superman problem.") Adam defends his actions by pointing out that she was going to blog Peter's head off, and that "there's no coming back from that one." How would he know? More to the point, why didn't the company use that bit of information to rid themselves of Adam? Unlike in the real world, life imprisonment is more expensive than the death penalty if the person involved is immortal and you can dispense with appeals.
We're also told that Victoria left the company after her tiff with a younger Kaito, who, for the record, looks and sounds nothing like George Takei. How then is older Victoria in the picture with the other founders?
The last few minutes of the episode are the best: Hiro and Peter gear up for battle, with a cute Inigo Montoya line from Hiro. I think telling Peter that Adam is a murdering crazy who's trying to release the virus might have been more effective than talking about Kaito, though.
Maya is an idiot, 'nuff said. Is "I convinced the babysitter to take the night off" a nice way of saying that the dynamic duo killed him/her? Sylar's honey-coated words are too opaque to tell. But when will Maya have her Anakin Skywalker moment?
It was nice to see Veronica Mars back at her stakeout, but the real Veronica wouldn't fumble her keys, much less take that window-breaking from Claire. I liked Monica's scene as well.
This show depends on bad communication, lousy writing, and temporary stupidity to get itself over the rough patches, but I still love it. It's like an abusive relationship.