anko, but obviously that isn't going to happen as he is the villain. I do like that all of our main characters are uniting for the same purpose, and I totally get that having HRG on the inside will eventually serve that purpose, but his scenes trying to get Danko to trust him are just falling flat to me, and Danko's "Imprisoning and killing people is so awesome!" attitude is wearing a bit thin. I will admit though, they do a really good job making this guy totally creepy in every way. Even his diminutive stature somehow works to make him seem even more evil instead of less intimidating. The actor played a lawyer on Homicide years ago and I remember thinking that he seemed really clean cut and sweet. So he's doing a great job with the character, I just really hate the character. His motivation needs to be fleshed out a bit at the very least.
So no Peter in this episode, and I didn't even miss him, which I think is a good sign. Nathan is still a dumbass, but he seems to be wising up a bit. In some ways I am glad about that, because his plan is just so terrible, but in other ways I am a little disappointed that they backed away from Nathan being the The Big Bad of this season. He's all conflicted and shit (which I suppose he would have to be, since he has an "ability" too) but I think if we can understand anyone becoming a conscienceless evildoer, it's one of the Petrelli's boys, considering their parentage. I just wish his plan wasn't so so dumb that he eventually had to pull back on it to prove that he wasn't, in fact, intellectually disabled. 
Sylar, (a serial killer, let's not forget) so that we can keep rooting for him. Because I have to be honest, I want to keep rooting for him. I can't help it. Maybe it's because I am sick. Maybe it's because he is cute. I don't know, but what I do know is that it's working for me. 
Hey did you guys know that Chuck and Sarah love each other? But they can't be together because of the Intersect, the fact that she's a spy and he doesn't even know her real name and because it would probably be illegal? Well, if you didn't have any idea about that, good for you, because that is what both these episodes were about. I am not trying to say that I didn't enjoy these two episodes, because I really did, and I know I always say that I appreciate how the show accepts the reality of the Chuck/Sarah situation, but I just feel like I need them to move forward somehow. If Sarah just told Chuck that she loved him and that they would somehow find a way to make that work it would have been such a shock that I feel like the unreality of it all would have worked for me. Instead they had the same conversation where he tells her he's crazy about her, she says nothing and then looks sad that she can't reciprocate. I get it people, they are star-crossed! Star-crossed I tell you! 
The Lethal Weapon both featured the very hot and too awesome to be true Agent Cole, hanging around, taking bullets for people, lusting after Sarah and just generally making Chuck feel completely inadequate. I really like this character for a few reasons, only one
Whoa. I have to say that the first half of this episode kind of bored me. Echo auditioning, meeting people, having to take her top off backstage, Boyd worrying about her performance, etc. I started wondering if I was watching Fame or something. BUT, then, it veers into some pretty dark territory, with Rayna contacting her stalker and pretty much agreeing to let him kill her. I had to agree with Echo (or whatever her name was during the engagement) when she was like "You are seriously unwell!" For real lady.
retain her general Eliza Dushkuness (I mean they made the backup singer from Southie for god sake's!), because she is special, and seems to retain parts of all of her engagements. She is a composite, like Alpha, and someone wants her dead because of it. But, maybe they all are, since Sierra seemed to like Echo and to get it when she nodded at her when Laurence was there. Hmmm. Brains are crazy. That could be this show's subtitle.
And what of Sylar and his most annoying road trip companion? (You are very welcome for this adorable picture of Zachary Quinto.) Well I enjoyed his "Fleetwood Mac themed memories"(Mike O'Neil) and even though he didn't kill that kid, he slammed him up against the wall real good, so I'll take it. He is saving up all of his killing for his evil dad, who killed his (maybe) non-evil mom telekinetic style! Now we know where he gets it from! Just a chip off of the old block, that Sylar. Also, he was a very cute little kid, and it was apparent from moment one that his new parents (nee aunt and uncle) were not up to the job, since just after buying him, they let him wander outside into the parking lot to witness a murder. This kid's fate was pretty much sealed.
I have to say, I felt like this episode was a VAST improvement over the pilot, which is always a good sign. It also scared the bejesus out of me, which it meant to, so that was good too.
not during an engagement, which is what I had originally guessed (That she had been an active, and was imprinted with a doctor's personality after she got too messed up.) I also liked the introduction of Echo to her handler, and the way it was called back to in the woods. "Do you trust me?" "With my life." She is obviously retaining things from her original life as well as each of her engagements. I liked how startled he was when she was just like "No, everything is not going to be alright, a crazy man with a cro
ssbow is hunting us!" Right on lady, there is nothing "alright" about that situation.
Okay, if you weren't grinning like a loon during Jeffster's cover of "Africa" at the end, then, you my friend, have no soul. It was pretty much the cutest thing ever, and Lester was looking almost (almost!) attractive rocking out like that! Ellie and Awesome were adorable, and Chuck told Sarah that she did have someone who cares about her in her life, and it was awesome! Considering I am still in the hating-all-people-in-love and stupid-sappy-love-stories mode, it was pretty amazing that I only felt happiness while watching that scene. That's because it was a really good scene of a really good episode!
Oh Heroes. Why have you forsaken me like this? You make me all these promises ("Everything will be different now! We totally get where we've gone wrong, we're going to fix it!), give me all this build up and then....nothing. More of the same. Okay, so here's one thing that is wrong with the show that you have not yet seen fit to fix...everyone is a moron! I mean Peter does some stupid things sometimes (not shooting that dude, believing anything Nathan says, teaming up with Matt and Mohinder, etc.) but he looks like a fricken rocket scientist next to almost everyone else on this show! I mean let's take a look at the people this man has to deal with.
an of Nathan's for at least a few weeks, and even after they are all arrested he doesn't see fit to mention it to anyone? Also, he doesn't think that maybe some of this will come out when Matt reads HRG's mind?! So maybe he should just come clean? Maybe? Nope, just let Matt see it in HRG's head instead. I am sure that will make him stop being such a yelly psycho. 
in one person! Let's just wrap your head around it and move on now please! (She wasn't even in this episode, but whatever.)
I thought that even though it was a pretty well worn concept (oooh the suburbs are scary!) that this episode really succeeded. Even the scene using "Once in a Lifetime" got me, even though you couldn't come up with a more cliche song for a cliche situation. The direction was part of it, but as usual, I think the cast just really sold me.
es as FULCRUM agents living in the Valley, though I feel like McCarthy was a little bit too campy. What can you really expect? I do keep getting the feeling that FULCRUM is getting too close and wonder how long can Chuck's identity really be protected. Also, what are the implications going to be now that Chuck has the Intersect and FULCRUM's intersect thing in his head? How much can his brain really take?
retty interesting part of his character that he is not (yet) willing to change his dream of having a normal life to be with her. It changes the dynamic from the hot chick/nerd who wants her cliche into a pretty mature portrait of relationships and the fact that they cannot just overcome every obstacle because two people love each other. Just watching them playact a marriage and the regular life Chuck craves was heartbreaking! It was interesting to see that Sarah desires this kind of life as well, and maybe that will change something between them. It didn't seem so at the end though, when Chuck told Ellie that he and Sarah would never be anything more than they are, and he was okay with that.
Dollhouse) and a pretty good sketch of the characters, except of course for Echo, the main character, because she has no personality. Which is creepy. Oh there's that again. Sorry! We did see a little of what she was like before her personality was wiped, and she seemed, well kind of like Eliza Dushku. Actually, one of the things I worry about for this show (and many others have said the same thing), is can Dushku really carry this part? She's good at hot tough girl, she's okay at blank lady with no personality, but as the hostage negotiator she just seemed kind of robotic and weird, which maybe they were going for, but I couldn't exactly tell, which is not a good sign. This is her baby and I hope she can do it, because I have always liked her, but I've never really though of her as an amazing actress. We'll see I guess, she was passable here, but there were some scenes where the emotions were kind of flat from her. When she carried that little girl to safety I wanted something more, but she couldn't give it to me. We'll see.
Now normally when watching television shows, I do not root for the serial killing characters to have more victims. Even if said character is totally charismatic and likeable, not to mention sexy, I still would like him or her to refrain from murder. Oftentimes I am disappointed, which comes when watching shows containing hot serial killers and rooting for them in a weird way. While watching Heroes on Monday, everything was different. All I wanted in each and every scene was for Sylar to saw that damn kid's head open and be done with it! He wanted to do it too, for most of that stupid car ride, I could tell. I could really really sympathize with him during this episode. That kid was an annoying little sociopath, and not in a hot or funny way like Sylar. I was so excited when Sylar ran off and left him for the Feds! Alas, their road trip of annoyingness will continue, because Sylar went back for him. I'd like to think that it is because Luke has vital info about where Sylar is headed, not because he has developed some sort of feeling for him and has decided not kill him horrifically. That would be disappointing.
ilities' that has been captured so far. Poor Tracy is stuck shackled to a chair, being tortured by her dicky ex-boyfriend while completely screwing up her only chance at freedom by freezing some poor 'analyst'. Tracy's power is actually pretty cool, and seems to be useful in a battle scenario, unlike say, breathing underwater or super-charging other people's powers, so it is kind of baffling that Nathan's goons got her and kept her. She has also been portrayed as pretty smart, and I would really like to see escape for real, not just escape long enough to show her former friend that she is a cold blooded killer who must be tortured and locked up forever. That was a bad move on her part. Good move on the part of that creepy hunter guy.
camp/Gitmo type situation, but he still feels kind of bad when his plans lead to the death of innocent people. Not bad enough to reconsider or anything, just bad enough to yell about it for a minute." Urgh I really hated Nathan in this episode, and I thought the lady from One Tree Hill/The Cutting Edge might at least be an interesting thorn in his side, but instead she was won over to the side of torture and suspending the rights of American citizens pretty easily. I mean there are people who are against torturing and or killing people even if they are murderers and/or terrorists or horrible people, just on principle, but not this lady. You freeze one person to death in front of her and she is ready to intern anyone who might be genetically similar to you. She seems cool, like someone who can really keep her head together in a crisis and still uphold ideals and stuff. Oh, no wait, she does not. At all. She sucks. 
Ugh, Valentine's Day. You might think that the reason I pretty much hated this episode is because it was about Valentine's Day and I am all bitter and brokenhearted, but you would be wrong. The reason I pretty much hated it was because it was kind of dumb and boring as most television shows based on holidays are. I mean the entire Silver/Dixon story was just completely boring and stuck in autopilot (love melts heart of tough girl, tough girl goes all gooey, plans perfect V-day, gives boyfriend her v-card) and then it took a turn for the dumb when Silver got Dixon's name tattooed on her. Crazy much Silver? (Yes. Did I see her flip out about that cake? Both Dixon and I were scared.) I couldn't even tell if Dixon was supposed to be happy or freaked out about it. Maybe a little of both? Apparently Dixon is a tiger in the sack, because she couldn't keep her hands off of him and she got his name inked on her for life. Silver and Dixon are two of my favorite characters, but they needed something less lame going on. Though I suppose right up until the whole tattoo thing it was a pretty standard old style 90210 storyline, so I will give them that, but it was so boring that I kind of wanted it to be about Annie and Ethan, just so I could just fast forward through it.
azy face making (see photo!) when she was complaining about Rhonda, when she was trying to "act", when she heard Rhonda's sad story, when Ethan discovered her treachery and when she was crying. I think I am going to make a 90210 drinking game where every time Annie pulls a weird face, you have to drink. It could be dangerous though. Anyway, my original point was that I was kind of liking this story, until the ending where Ethan acted completely offended and taken aback that Rhonda like him and thought he liked her even though she had very recently admitted she had faked being hurt just to hang out with him. Girls just don't usually do that kind of thing for dudes that they just want to be friends with. I know that Ethan has a low IQ, but even he should have been able to see that coming. Also, he clearly hates Annie, so I don't really get why he doesn't get rid of her and be done with it. 
Ok, maybe it's because I was so tired I could hardly open my eyes, but this episode felt a little pointless to me. The only real forward motion in the plot was with Sylar and his ?brother? or whatever that weird kid is and even that was minimal. I mean he met the kid, thinks they might be related, and now he's REALLY going to find his real dad, just like at the end of the last one. Though it did give us a few great Sylar lines, including "I let you live, that's kind of a big deal for me." Yes, I still love Sylar. However, most of the events of this episode just brought us back to where we were at the end of the last episode: pissed at Nathan, ready to fight, giving up normalcy, etc. I mean, yeah Daphne is dead, I think, and that is sad, I guess (which means that NONE of that alternative future Matt/Peter saw is going to pan out), but at least she won't inflict that weird piecey 1990's hairdo on the world any longer.
ions, oh HRG. I am so sick of hearing your lame excuses. Your plans to "protect" Claire almost always suck and fail, so maybe you should think about a different tact here. I mean you didn't kill Peter, twice, which was cool, but other than you are really on the wrong side here bucko. Even against machine guns, I would side with the dudes with crazy super powers in a fight, just generally. Then you add in the fact that they are your daughter's friends and family, maybe you should help them instead of sending them to some kind of crazy prison to be tortured. Just a thought, you crazy morally ambiguous guy!
Ok, can I just say that I am so pissed that Rhonda turned out to be faking it! (It = a punctured lung? I don't really know how you fake that, but alright.) I have never wanted a TV character to cheat on his crazy faced girlfriend more than I wanted Ethan to cheat on Annie with that sweet, mousy car accident victim. Especially since it was Annie's lameness that caused her to get hit by Ethan in the first place. If she weren't such a baby about not getting the lead in the play and had just went to that incredibly fancy "You Got A Part!" party, the accident never would have happened. You also really can't blame Ethan for getting bored with Annie, because she is literally the most boring person on earth! Seriously, do the producers of 90210 really think that there was anyone NOT rooting for Ethan to dump Annie for Rhonda? Is that why they threw that random scene of Rhonda bouncing out of bed with ease? Or the scene where Ethan quits the play and Annie doesn't give a damn?! Because if this show had any desire to be true to her stupid-ass character, then she would have flipped out like an idiot, because that's what she does. Also, she pulls ridiculous faces, all the time. In case you haven't noticed.
Now it is time to go to Prego-Town, population, Adrianna. Could Ty and his parents have telegraphed their awfulness any more obviously? Poor Adrianna is just constantly surrounded by even more obvious awfulness though, so she couldn't see it. At least Naomi talked some sense into her, again. I like how when Naomi is just a part of someone else's story, she is usually smart and non-annoying. They should never give her her own story. Then she would be the third best character on the show. (1st Brenda, 2nd Tabitha. I know they are both gone right now, but I can feel in my soul that they are coming back!!) But at least Adrianna got a free doctor's visit out of the whole experience.
hat actress pregnant herself or did they just think that the character should always wear weird shirts that are overly detailed in the stomach area?) So now her mother will stop driving her like donkey and actually be nice her I guess! Adrianna should have made a series of HUGE mistakes with her life sooner, if for nothing else than to make her mother be kind of nice to her. Even though her character is pretty dumb, you really can't help but feel for her, because her life is JUST SO TERRIBLE. I couldn't feel any sense of victory or of "Adrianna is so brave and badass" after her little video, because she is still pregnant with that jerkwad's baby, and the smartest and most stable person in her life is Naomi. That is not good. That poor child.
Ok, admit it, that was good. I mean I know Heroes hasn't lived up to its Season 1 potential in a long time, but this episode was pretty damn awesome. It was stressful and and pretty sad too, but they are finally giving us what should have been the next logical step for this show after everyone discovered their 'abilities'--Heroes working together! I honestly do not understand why this idea took a season and a half to get to, but I'm glad they finally made it. I mean to me, If I were running a show with a chemistry laden cast and a powerful mythology, I probably wouldn't say, "Hey, why don't we spread these people out into like a million disparate stories, and only have the
m meet for say, five minutes at a time, or maybe talk on the phone." I would say "Let's bring these motherfu%*ers together and get some awesome hero sh#@ happening!!" (And yes, I would bleep myself like that, because I would be at work.) So finally Tim Kring and the rest of his ilk have come around to my (correct) way of thinking. (Do we have Bryan Fuller to thank for this? I knew there was a reason why I didn't even try to watch Pushing Daisies, besides of course the fact that it was clearly going to get cancelled and I just couldn't deal with falling in love with another doomed show...) The titular heroes are working together towards one end that actually makes sense. They don't want to be jailed in an internment camp by crazy Nathan and his evil political allies.
