This episode was probably my least favorite episode ever of Heroes. The skipping of the Angry Ronin fight along with Peter's wussy truck block move pissed me off. It seems whenever the show is about to have a really awesome action sequence, it just skips over it. I am so tired of it!

Then you have Peter not opening his stupid box and Michelle being a complete idiot with Sylar. People always think they can contain him...

Thanks for the comment, manzy704!

Same here. After watching the Takezo Kensei documentary over at yamagatofellowship.org, I was really looking forward to seeing some of the battles they describe. I suppose they may have skipped it because Takezo was probably getting chopped up left and right and it might have been too graphic for NBC, but still. This is the show that showed a girl mid-autopsy and various heads getting sliced open.

It's almost like they have to pick and choose their effects. Almost as if, in some faraway subterranean basement of NBC, there were five sweaty accountants saying "Well, we can either have the flying scene or the ronin battle, but not both".

They should have stayed with the action scene. That's why people watch Heroes, for the cool action, not for the dramatic storylines. The drama is just icing on the Heroes cake. I want to see Peter tearing down skyscrapers in a knock-down, drag-out battle against Sylar. As for the future of Takezo Kensei? I want to see Hiro put the smack down on an army of enemies, Nightcrawler style. Have him teleporting in and out of the battle furiously. That's what people are waiting to see.

And Candace deserved what she got. You've got a serial killer with a penchant for braining superpowered people, and you don't change the illusion so that you're out of his reach? All she had to do was stand in the corner and make him think he was talking to someone at the table. Apparently, the lessons we learned in horror movies are true in Heroes too: stupidity gets you killed.

Man I love your insites on Heroes. I still love the show but its good to get step back a bit every once in a while to view it from another perspective. Keep up the good work!

OOPs... i posted this in last weeks review as well....my bad

Hey Pete sorry to hear about the server issues. Great to see you back online.

What is going on here with my one of my favourite TV shows? 3 episodes have come and gone and all I am left with is a serious case of 'lovers ache'. I haven't been teased and toyed with like this since I was 15! Stop showing me hints of the brilliant show it was and can clearly still be and then slapping me in the balls with CG circa 1997 *, erroneous/annoying characters, terrible pacing, stupid character decisions (peter.....your the most powerful guy on the planet, you don't need to steal a truckload of cash to get a small box back off patty o'flannigan....you just take it. Candace....you're aiding the evil dude who steals powers...might be an idea to engage yours, if you don't use it ya lose it with ol sylar, I could go on but I won't) and a distinct lack of action and/or adventure.

Please let episode 4 make up for all of this. PLease let this all be a set up for something epic. There's too many good shit TV show on at the moment for one of the heavyweights to take a dive in the 5th.

* The new traler for 'JUMPERS' shows what Hiro should look like when he's using his powers. That's the level of CG and polish a show like this should be getting.

Thanks for the great comments!

@DevilsTinkerToy: Thank you very much. Glad to have you on the site!

@Tr0n: Honestly, you make a great point about Peter Petrelli. Until this very instant I didn't even think about it, but yeah: just take the damn box, Pete! *slaps forehead*

Also, despite having Hayden "I helped ruin Star Wars" Christensen in it, the trailers for Jumper do look really f-ing cool. I'll definitely have to check it out.

Ho ho ho! Thank you so much for saying so well everything I was thinking. I was passionate about Season 1 and I am anything but for Season 2. If it doesn't pick up soon, I'm moving on. Keep up the wit. "I don't care land"...hilarious!!!

Thanks, Tom!

I've been trying to avoid saying it, but I'm getting a very "third season of Lost" feeling about Heroes lately. I think they're just trying too hard to live up to their own monstrous hype and losing track of what people really like about the show.

With any luck, they'll learn from Lost, kill off Maya, Alejandro, and Nikki soon (and maybe the Micah storyline, depending on how that turns out), and then put the show back on track with some actual compelling storytelling.

On an unrelated note: rumor over "the interwebs" has it that one of the new heroes introduced in the Micah storyline will have the ability to recreate any physical motion once she's seen it, ala Echo from Marvel Comics. Basically, if she watches a Kung Fu master, she's a Kung Fu master. Interesting stuff if true...

"Third season of lost" I don't know about - never got on that boat - but you're right on the money with "losing track of what people really like about the show." I was discussing this yesterday. One of the cool things about the show in season one, especially at the start, were the interracial relationships. It never seemed to matter, which was novel. Suresh and Eden. Nikki and DL. Hiro and the waitress. Where is that now? We have Claire in Wonderbread school, DL is dead and Maya and Alejandro are in ethnically homogenous land.

Add to that HRG and Suresh are conspiring over cellular telephones. Ugh. I'm sure no one is listening to "I'm going to bring this compnay down." Sigh. Isn't that missing the subtlty and intrigue of season one.

And finally, to close this diatribe, what about the mystery of discovery and wonderment? We've got two regenerators over the millenia, two fliers, two empaths - although one eats brains and WON'T DIE.

How do a bunch of people sitting around a table come up with a latino gal who bleeds death out of her eyes adding a lot of story value to a season? Really? With a fraternal twin who brings people back to life? Was this even thought through? What a waste of a fine actress in Maya.

Sad. I am losing hope.

@Tom - Good point. I too, was a little let down when Kensei's power turned out to be superhealing, just like Claire, and West's power turned out to be flight, just like Nathan Petrelli.

In a world where they could come up with hundreds of different powers, why are they reusing powers?

One of the powers I really liked from the first season that got almost no mention was the one guy Sylar killed that could melt things by breaking apart the electrons inside it. The scene of Sylar melting the toaster into a puddle of metal was awesome. Then... nothing.

Thanks for the review.
I have a couple theories and questions. First theory: I think Candace/Michelle perhaps put another illusion on Sylar making him think that he did something nasty to her brain, when in fact she turned into the table or something and it was all just in Sylar's mind. Would she really be that stupid to trust a total psychopath? Who knows.

I hope Sylar kills Maya and Alejandro...or somebody else kills them...the sooner the better.PLEASE...for the love of GOD...
(I don't know why they're so tiresome and annoying, but they are to me!)

I have a question about Sylar in season one. Do you remember when he was about to kill Clair's mom and HRG and Haitan dude bust in the door and HRG shoots Sylar about five times in the stomach and chest. How did he survive that? He's not bullet proof, and he was taken by surprise so he couldn't stop the bullets like he did with Mohinder and Parkman later on.

Also, when he jumped over the highschool stadium dealy with Peter, and Peter was mangled, how did Sylar manage to walk away? (before meeting up with Haitan dude and the other girl?

One LAST question, again re: Sylar - When he was locked up in the paper factory cell, how did he manage to make the girl ( I forget her name) shoot herself? Wasn't he subdued and drugged by the Company? OR - was he just playing like he was powerless? I think these are issues are either sloppy writing, or may be explained in future episodes? I don't think so!

Thanks,
Paul

Paul - great questions!
The Candace/Michelle character does seem to be a little too trusting, and keep in mind that this is a emotionally troubled goth girl who ran away from home, so chances are good that she might just be dumb enough to let Sylar kill her. On the other hand, Candace still being alive might explain why Sylar couldn't use her powers afterwards.

In the episode where Sylar attacks Claire's mother and is shot, he was able to deflect some of the shots, but not all of them. In scenes afterwards, he's seen tending the wounds and if I remember right, he makes some kind of coy comment about how it would be easier if he had some kind of "healing ability".

As for the initial showdown with Peter, he was actually very injured by that fall, but Peter took the brunt of the impact. Sylar managed to get up and limp away, but if Eden and the Company hadn't snagged him when they did, he'd probably be dead now. (Damn you, Company!).

The last question is the hardest. When Sylar was captured, he was put into the special cells, which supposedly block powers, but it's never been shown that they do or do not actually do that. It could have just been a bluff by HRG to convince Sylar not to try anything, or they could actually have tech that blocks powers. If it was a bluff, it would explain why HRG didn't want anyone in with Sylar unless he was sedated, or with HRG and the Haitian. If they do actually have the technology, it doesn't seem to work on Sylar (which I think is the case).

Eden is taken by surprise when Sylar uses his powers, and rather than let him take her brain, she shoots herself first. Now here's where it gets interesting:

When he's tranquilized after the Eden thing, later scenes have doctors testing him. They inject him with massive amounts of drugs that supposedly make special abilities manifest. The doctor says something about how they've taken him to the brink of death, and they still can't find any powers other than telekinesis. Weird, right?

It's possible that this is how Sylar's powers work. We all know he has this strange ability to figure out how to duplicate powers. Maybe he's just telekinetically altering his brain to match theirs. If this is the case, then he can probably switch them on and off at will to hide them from the Company. Not to mention, if this is the case, he wouldn't be able to use them when he's unconscious or if taken by surprise (like having a sword stabbed through his gut). This could also partially explain why he's lost his abilities this season. After being nearly dead (again) maybe that part of his brain that normally mimics the powers has been partially damaged.

But going back to the episodes in question: "Fallout", "Godsend", and "The Fix", Sylar is declared dead in the Company's holding cell. What's odd about this is that prior to Sylar suddenly coming to and escaping, there is a small scene where we see a cockroach near Sylar.

Why is this odd? Well, because in the season finale after he's been "killed", we see that Sylar has either crawled into the sewers, or has been dragged by someone. And, all around the manhole? Cockroaches. I have a feeling that the Nightmare Man or another villain has been subtly helping Sylar and that he's somehow connected to the cockroaches.

Then again, I could be totally wrong on all of this. Let's hope they give us some answers further on down this season (keeping in mind that Zachary Quinto (Sylar) is leaving the cast and the show for a few months while he films the new Star Trek movie in November).

New guy here. Well developed reviews@! I stumbled upon Heroes well after the first season started. I was attracted to the character development and the writing. I found it better than naything else - for TV...

Keep writing, Peter, and I'll keep reading.

Thanks and welcome to the site, Mark J! Glad to have you!

Keep reading, and I'll keep writing.