Heroes S3 E09...

[starvinbohemian]

And here is my recap for [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com].

This week was a whole bag of WTF, but on the bright side...


No deaths this week! Well, except for some of my soul...


Ando: What the hell was with that huuuuge jump towards Papa Petrelli? That was kwazy! And since when can be manipulate Hiro's powers for him?

Hiro: It's kind of sad that I couldn't tell the difference between 30-year-old Hiro and 10-year-old Hiro. "That's the stupidest thing I've ever seen," he says. "Yup," says I. Oh, and Hiro-the-child is a douche. First thing he does after discovering he has powers? Mess with people's shoelaces and food.

Waffles: I think it's time that waffles get their own section since they've become as much a part of this show as Mr. Muggles or Lyle. *Sigh* Poor Lyle.

Tracey: Finally, some personality. Unfortunately, it's a personality taken from the Mohinder box of who-am-I-this-week. This week, she's cool with having killed those people, as opposed to being so upset that she tried to kill herself over it. Whatever, I still don't care about you, clone-baby.

Nathan: Don't hug your father! Oh, good. Once again, Nathan proves himself to be smarter than Peter, which is to say... yeah. Arthur picked Heidi for him? Like hell he did. The deleted scenes from S1 tell us that Heidi was a poor townie Nathan married against his parents' wishes. Stop retconing Nathan and Heidi's marriage! Heidi, where are you? Come slap some sense into your husband.

Apparently, Nathan is still a senator, but is he still religious or what?

Matt/Daphne: Gross. Okay, maybe not gross, but she can't seriously be in love with him already. Come on. How far can they have come from him being the crazy dude with the pet turtle who told her she's destined to have his baby?

African!Isaac's Head: Why, thank you, writers, for reminding me that you cut off African!Isaac's head last week. Good times. Yeah-huh. Wait, he's back to... still guide Matt, huh? Dude, even this guy's after-life sucks.

Arthur/Angela: Oh, you crazy kids. I'm running out of synonyms for "badass" here. With Nathan being Papa's favorite, and Peter being Angela's (supposedly), then the lesson we learn is that being the favored child of a Petrelli clearly doesn't spare you from the occasional murder attempt.

Papa Petrelli: Nathan, look out, because Papa has the bad touch, too! OH, HELL NO. Papa Petrelli, you did not chain up Elle to play bait for your father-son games. Ewww, Papa, stop watching Sylar and Elle. No, really, the Petrellicest has just gotten out of control now.

Sylar: "What makes you think I'm capable of that?" Haha. Good question. Oh, for the love of... YOUR MOTHER DID NOT MAKE YOU A MONSTER. Why do the writers feel that they have to retcon everything about Sylar's past in order to redeem him? Virginia Grey did not create a monster because she had larger aspirations for her son than merely becoming his father. We've seen child abuse on this show, and that is not it. Shut up, show.

Sylar/Elle: Ack, no! Stop that! For the love of all things pure in this world, stop bonding! Elle, I know he's shirtless, but stop being adorable together! Really, writers, this doesn't work without character assassinations of epic proportions. The love of a good woman does not equal redemption, and why the hell would Elle teach Sylar how to use her powers BETTER? No, no, no.

Guys, resist this pairing. All that cuteness we're seeing is the actors' friendship/chemistry shining through. It's not their characters. How could it be?

Peter: Aw, Peter, you were smart this episode! Well, smarter than Flint, which is to say... *Sigh* You want Claire to stay innocent, huh? Wow, that relationship just hit a whole new level of creepy. Oooh, you're still worried about her shooting you? That's somewhat less creepy. I would have gotten that right away if I hadn't gotten so used to this show playing fast and loose with the continuity. For all I knew, Peter had already forgotten about future!Claire shooting him. It's been a few hours, right?

Claire: The "defensive player of the year?" Say what now? I think the same person who wrote that line wrote the "You're grounded" line. How exactly did Claire figure she was going to play bodyguard for Peter? Keep letting people smack her around until they got bored of it? I knew she was the catalyst as soon as I heard there was going to be one some time ago. It's "save the cheerleader" again. *Sigh*

Euthanasia!Mohinder: Okay, pseudo-science says what? The powers did not appear during the eclipse. In fact, I can't think of ONE character who first got their powers during the eclipse. What the hell, show?

9th Wonders: How the hell is the 9th Wonders comic still being published? Isaac is dead. Unless Usutu was air shipping the issues from his tent in Africa or else Papa Petrelli has a secret hobby, there should not be more issues.

Comments

[ilikethequiet.livejournal.com]

*uses Heidi icon* I miss her terribly, watching Arthur go on about the Petrelli legacy did they completely forget he has two little adorable sons out there?

[starvinbohemian.livejournal.com]

Seriously. You would think that with all of this inner-family feuding, someone would recall that there are two darling little potential players up for grabs.

[ilikethequiet.livejournal.com]

Even if Nathan's powers were synthetic you can't tell me the little ones escaped the superpower gene pool.

[starvinbohemian.livejournal.com]

The genes from Grandma and Grandpa alone should have at least put Simon and Monty on their radar, but Angela didn't seem particularly interested even back in S1. There's that scene where they're having brunch and Angela tells Simon to eat his strawberries, but Heidi has to remind her that he's allergic. Where's the love for the mini Petrellis? It just seems like-- from an ambitious megalomaniac's perspective-- it would be easier to work with them rather than chase after the illegitimate granddaughter who hates them all the time.

[ilikethequiet.livejournal.com]

And who is kind of whiny. The boys could be molded into becoming better bad-touching powerful Petrellis and yet nothing ;_; Like that scene they cut out of season 2 where Heidi and the kids visited Nathan at the hospital, I saw that and thought wtf was that cut? I would have much rather have seen that than watch Maya and Alejandro run around in the dark.

[starvinbohemian.livejournal.com]

They're Petrellis, so the development of the bad!touch is inevitable. ;) I think Claire's the only one without it, but she makes up for the lack thereof with her inappropriate uncle!crush.

I thought the same thing about that deleted scene. It would have explained where the hell his family went and why they weren't around the hospital. Without that scene, all we can surmise is that Heidi took the boys and abandoned Nathan when he needed them most, despite how he stood by her (relatively speaking) after her own accident. That isn't Heidi, damn it all.

[jaina.livejournal.com]

Wasn't 9th Wonders also an indie comic? Yeah...that's not gonna get sold overseas.

[starvinbohemian.livejournal.com]

That's one amazing indie comic. It creates, ships, and markets itself, plus it predicts the future! Hot damn.

[eriah211.livejournal.com]

I think I didn´t catch as many holes as you in the timeline but it´s probably because I got used to it by now... the whole missing family is epic (when was the last time Nathan said something about his wife and children?).

I didn´t like Papa Petrelli moment of weakness(Why did he let free Angela? Because he still loves her? Buh! I thought he was the big badass this season), now that Sylar is just a big-softie I needed a real Villain...

And Elle? She just toasted Sylar a bit so they are even and they can make out... ugh! Have you seen next week canandian promo? I just screamed NO-NO-NO-NO!, you can shout with me in sympathy and cry over a good show gone cheesy.

Mama Petrelli is back! Finally we will have some decent scenes next time.

For making this shorter: the romantic plots are VERY forced (it´s like speed-dating for super-heroes) and the writers don´t follow their own backgrounds/timeline.

Just one big WTF: "an eclipse gave them their powers" (from 3x10 promo) what??? was I watching an alternative season 1?

[starvinbohemian.livejournal.com]

It's sad that we had to become accustomed to crazy discontinuities from episode to episode. *Toasts with you to a good show gone cheesy*

The last time must have been in S2, when he visited the boys at school? Wow, that was a long time ago. Geez.

Haha, "speed-dating for superheroes." Yeah, Sylar's villain badge has been revoked as of this last episode. I haven't seen the Canadian promo, and now I'm afraid to. :(

[aldrius.livejournal.com]

"For making this shorter: the romantic plots are VERY forced (it´s like speed-dating for super-heroes) and the writers don´t follow their own backgrounds/timeline."

I don't understand this weird need for these... bizarre relationships. Seriously. Do we really NEED a romance every season? Do we really need to see every normal happily married man break up with his wife and have tons of drama (one of the things I LIKED about Heidi was that she wasn't into drama). Hell, I didn't even mind the hackneyed love triangle between Peter, Isaac and Simone in season 1. At least it naturally evolved from the storyline rather than being randomly shoving characters together or creating someone solely to be someone else's love interest.

And I kinda think the Elle/Sylar thing proves my theory that if two actors are hot and have chemistry, an audience will buy any romance involving them regardless of characterization or logic.

(Sorry for the random LJ assault, starvinbohemian saw your review on Heroes_TV)

[starvinbohemian.livejournal.com]

Heroes-related assaults are always welcome, aldrius. ;)

It's strange that they forced these romances together this season when Kring made such a point of excusing some of the missteps of S2 as "obviously, romance isn't a good fit for us." He more or less admitted that the Heroes writers suck at writing romance, so why all the horrible romances?

I'm disturbed by how well Sylar/Elle is being received, considering where these characters are coming from. He killed her father and a zillion other people. She's no saint, but still. It was her dad, and he was all she had.

Heidi was awesome for a lot of reasons. Lol. I love how this entry became a Heidi-fan support group. ^_^

[eriah211.livejournal.com]

It´s true! He (Tim Kring) said that! He promised they wouldn´t make the same mistakes again.. obviously he lied *pout*

I think people likes Elle/Sylar pairing because they (individually) are... hot, basically (and Zach and Kristen have a lot of fans). I like Zach, I have never seen Veronica Mars, but, anyway, I support the "My name is X, you killed my father, prepare to die"-attitude.

[starvinbohemian.livejournal.com]

I'm a big fan of both of them, and I love their characters. They have a ton of chemistry, etc. etc.

But I can't get past the fact that he killed her father. It doesn't help that I was a big Bob fan. XD