Heroes 3x01 and 3x02

[seriousfic]

Mohindar experimenting on himself? Apparently they don't have sci-fi movies in India. Or TV. Or books... radio... Although I must admit, as soon as he gets superpowers, he uses them for science and sex. Man has his priorities in order.

Oh, great, Matt's going on a vision quest. That should eat up some screentime.

Nathan's like a slot machine, with near-death experiences instead of a lever. Nuke him and he turns into a bearded boat of fail. Shoot him and he turns into an evangelist. In season four, I'm guessing he'll have an anvil dropped on him and turn into a hairdresser named Fernando who expresses himself through song and dance. Ooh, ooh, there should totally be a Hero who's power is to create musical numbers. That's totally what I would do if I could manipulate probability like the Scarlet Witch.

Read that again, knowing what you know about Wanda.

How many "Hiro lives through a tragedy and becomes a responsible hero" plot points have there been now? His girlfriend died, his dad died, his Best Friend Forever turned out to be his Best Friend For NEVER, yet he always goes back to being a goofball. Really, I don't want him to become as angst-ridden as the rest of the cast, or lose his love of his powers, but is it too much to ask that he's not such a schmuck? And Hiro, have you read a comic book before? It's entirely possible that in the future, you're a villain and Ando's a hero. Especially given that you've ALREADY MET A VILLAINOUS VERSION OF YOURSELF (okay, anti-heroic, but same principle). Just staple-gun the Idiot Ball to him and be done with it. And what happened to his sister? Shouldn't she be running the company, or did Sulu not update his will?

I'm still pulling for Peter to become a villain (sorry. VILLAIN). He's just too powerful to be really interesting as a character, without any of the inherent drama that makes Superman or Samaritan or even the Sentry interesting (no secret identity, no drive to save people beyond his little sphere of friends and family). So instead of him being a character you can put into a situation and make interesting, you have to impose all sorts of artificial, exterior plots in an attempt to make him interesting. He gets amnesia, he's duped by the villain into helping an evil scheme (not hard to do), and now he's in a body-switch plotline (which means he's going to spend several episodes inside another man, DUR HUR HUR). Just turn him evil or kill him off already.

As soon as Elle went down to Level 5 with Jessup (Francis Capra's character, right?), I felt that just for a moment we were living in a really weird Veronica Mars AU. It's basically the feeling any Farscape fan would get from tuning into the tenth season of Stargate.

By the way, all the secrecy about Jessup's power can only mean one thing... (skip to 1:30 and don't worry, it's safe for work, if not sanity.)

(Sat through all of it? Yeah, I know. To quote Wonderella, "God DAMN all ya'll are messed up. Must've been our nukes, am I right?")

Sylar getting Claire's invulnerability and being the third Summers brother third Petrelli brother is a pretty obvious attempt to keep him relevant now that there are other supervillains running around.

So, Tracy Strauss. Question: Just how hard can I ship her with Niki, considering they haven't met yet and are quite possibly long-lost twins? The answer: Pretty hard.

Claire's BioMom safeguarding the Bennetts is pretty obviously just there for the DRAMA, because there are about a thousand people more qualified for the position.

Bottom line: I feel kinda like we keep being cheated out of a cool show for the same old, same old. Another dystopian future the heroes have to prevent, more Sylar, more Petrellis. And I was pretty interested in the Bennett-shoots-Nathan show, or even the "Claire learns to fight from her dad as they hunt down supervillains" show.