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Wednesday, 12 December 2007 |
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Powerless
aka: "Burn in hell, Nikki"
by Peter Sorensen
In the final episode of season 2, Sylar and Maya arrive in New York and their reunion with Mohinder doesn't go quite as planned (or maybe it does). Peter returns to his former level of "Chuck Norris"-itude and reunites with Nathan; Claire has a strange reunion of her own. Hiro continues his quest to find and bring justice to his father's killer, and we say goodbye to two Heroes permanently (by permanently, I mean until they think up some lame way to resurrect them next season).
Wow, Heroes writers. It seems that some of you were paying attention last year because quite frankly:
That is how you write a season finale. Wow.
It was action-packed, it was funny, it was thrilling. It said what it needed to say, it got characters where they needed to be, and it left us all with a big surprise (myself included). Maybe they need to quickly rewrite all of their episodes from now on; it seems to work out pretty well for them!
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Sunday, 25 November 2007 |
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HEROES
Truth and Consequences
aka: "Hit and Miss"
by Peter Sorensen
In the tenth and next-to-last episode of season 2, we again jump right into the muddled mess that is Heroes: Generations. Hiro continues his quest to find Adam Monroe and stop the Shanti virus (which could kill us all); Nikki goes home to give Micah more bad news; Peter Petrelli helps Adam track down Victoria Pratt and learns more about the Shanti virus (which could kill us all); Claire mourns her not-quite-late adopted father; and Mohinder works on a cure for the Shanti virus (which, in case you didn't know, could kill us all).
Things were looking up last week, they really were.
But, it's a new week here at BleepingGeek, and with it comes another episode of Heroes that makes this writer want to throw his hands up in the air in frustration and cry "uncle". Sure, it had it's moments: the pace was still much quicker than it has been and certain characters were decently written, but it also had moments where I had to double check the NBC website to make sure that they had not in fact started hiring (poorly) trained chimpanzees to write for them.
Turns out they haven't... yet.
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Sunday, 18 November 2007 |
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HEROES
Cautionary Tales
aka: "Bikini. Guh."
by Peter Sorensen
In the ninth episode of season 2, Heroes finally comes out swinging. Mohinder betrays Bennett in his season-long quest to become the most hated man on television; Hiro honors his father and finds the identity of his killer; and Parkman walks a fine line between good and evil as he comes to grips with his new abilities. Unfortunately, I didn't see any of that because the episode also had Kristen Bell in a bikini. Mmmmmm.
Finally an episode worthy of the Heroes name! Whether it was the dangerous and inevitable standoff between Bennett and Bob or Hiro jumping through time to save his father, this episode delivered in a way that has been greatly remiss from the previous episodes of the season.
God help me, I even didn't totally completely hate West in this episode, and that's saying a lot.
A whole lot.
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Monday, 12 November 2007 |
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HEROES
Four Months Ago
aka: "Maya's guide to peaceful conflict resolution"
by Peter Sorensen
In the eighth episode of season 2, the missing months between Season One and Season Two are finally filled in. Niki gets her Studio 54 action on, DL goes out like a punk, Peter Petrelli spends a lot of time in a little locked room of love and Nathan Petrelli masters his TwoFace impression.
It was amazing. It was stupendous. It was awe-inspiring. It was...
Ok, I'm sorry: it was a lot of people sitting around in a lot of rooms.
Not exactly the dangerous and exciting past shrouded in mystery that I hoped it would be, but then again, when is any show as good as I hope it will be?
Maybe I'm just being pessimistic.
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Sunday, 04 November 2007 |
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Out of Time
aka: "Running out of time to explain this lame plot"
by Peter Sorensen
In the seventh episode of season 2, we finally get to see one measly little swordfight; Peter Petrelli goes back to the future, but forgets to bring Doc Brown; Nathan, Nikki, Bob, Parkman, Mohinder, Molly, Maury, and D.L. (yes, even D.L.) all join together in one giant clusterf**k of an episode, and the West/Claire romance takes one step closer to the Fatal Attraction moment we're all silently hoping for.
Newton's third law states that for every action there must exist an equal and opposite reaction.
For instance, when a bird flies, it's wings push down on the air around it. In return, the airpushes upwards against the bird's wings, keeping the bird in flight.
Or, for a better example, when a television show spends six whole episodes of it's second season taking the absolute longest time possible to develop any kind of action or story, the remaining episodes must compensate (or react) by cramming all the necessary action and story into a very short amount of time.
Welcome to Newton's Third Law of Television.
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