Above Average - this season is a real hoot so far. Sure, some things are messy/sloppy, ok, a LOT of things, but this is a big epic serialized saga with a dozen great characters all pulling the story in different directions like wild horses, so of course it's going to be harder to keep the writing consistent/comprehensible/sane. I'll take this over some unambitious episodic procedural that someone is trying to pass off as "sci fi" anyday!
Assume Hiro freezes time and fakes Ando's death to get into Pinehurst (how he knew about Pinehurst or why he decided to join is anyone's guess).
He froze time and ran over to a nearby magic shop to get a fake sword and some packets of blood, and then swung by a hospital for some kind of drug to knock Ando out. After stabbing Ando with the fake sword, he froze time again, hid the fake sword (or returned it politely) and replaced it with the real sword, which from Daphne and Knox's perspective, he seemed to be drawing out of Ando's torso. And it's about time Hiro started using his time-freezing in a truly creative way!
Maybe he figures Pinehurst is a likely place to look for the formula which Daphne delivered to them. The bigger question is why the Pinehurst people believe for one instant that Hiro would join them or really stab Ando - don't they do any research on people before approaching them? They know Matt will be a hard sell, but they have no faith in Hiro's innate goodness? There should be a lot you can learn about any person's character just by doing normal private-investigator stuff.
I am thinking we haven't seen the last of the guy with the vortex powers.
I hope not, like a lot of people here, I liked the guy. I'd like to see where exactly he goes in that vortex - could be really interesting/freaky.
I was trying to decide during the vortex-guy-kill-Sylar scene if Sylar could actually hear them. The filming did make that ambiguous, but in the car afterwards, it was clear Sylar knew what HRG had intended to do.
Hard to know, but the scene was filmed so you could interpret Sylar's expression that he was hearing every word and was curious to see how far Noah would go with his plan. Why would he feel endangered, considering that Noah and Claire were much closer to the vortex than he was? There was no indication vortex-guy could "throw" a vortex, so Sylar would have plenty of time to, say, use the TK to levitate quickly away.
If he wanted to be mean, he could have turned the carousel into molten metal and killed Noah & vortex guy and trapped Claire. (If he still has TK, he's still got all his other powers, since the TK wasn't original any more than the others were.)
I'm rather disappointed with the "it's the power's fault that I'm evil!" theme we're getting this season, namely with Sylar, Peter, and Mohinder. It's just flat out lame.
Yeah that does seem to overwhelm the characters. They need to be given free will or they become boring. It's okay if the power gives them the urge or just the ability to be evil, as long as they are acting in character to resist or succumb to it.
Sylar apparently trying to play nice expands his character's possibilities but Mo and Peter just being absorbed into eeevil makes them little more than pawns of the plotline. Maybe neither has had time to really wake up to what's happening to them (Peter certainly hasn't) and they will return more to being their own selves instead of Generic Evil Guy,
I don't know where that's going to take the characters, though. Mo might be guilt-ridden and obsessed with compensating for his crimes by going back to his original idea of removing powers - he could become fanatical about the idea that all the powers are inherently evil. Mo can't do anything halfway, that's for sure. With Peter, it might evolve into a self-justification thing, where he keeps thinking he's a big enough hero to control the "hunger" and if he could only get it right, everything would be okay...his problem is sheer stubbornness.
If Sylar's career with The Company fails, he can always join the Nerd Herd at the local Buy More... where he will proceed to cut open Chuck's head and take the Intersect. Then hook up with Sarah.
Hah, no sane woman would throw over adorable Chuck for creepy Sylar.
Angela's confession that Nathan is a synthetic hero makes me even more suspicious that baby Gabriel was the first attempt at an ultra-hero who can absorb all powers, and since he got screwed up, they kicked him to the curb and tried again with the next kid down the line...wow, COLD!
If Gabe had come out ok, would Peter even have been
born?
Lastly, glad to have Adam back, he really adds a lot to the Hiro/Ando circus.
Oh right, ratings.
Up a tad from last week.
Heroes averaged 8.63 million viewers (#3) and a 4.2/10 among adults 18-49 (#2)
As expected,
Heroes is heavily timeshifted - adding the timeshifted viewing increases the ratings by 37% and kicks it into the 12M range - which doesn't help for ad dollars but does help for Nissan Versa product placements. What type of car were Noah and Sylar driving, anyway?
