I think I liked just about 100% of last night's Heroes. All week I was thinking, "Oh, Heroes. Nothing's going to happen on you until the season finale." Then yesterday afternoon, I thought, "Oh, maybe they'll set up a good cliffhanger to resolve on the finale . . ." Which they did and actually, I'm almost afraid to talk about the series of plot twists and stunts, for fear of presenting as a gaping fan boy. Eric Roberts -- dead! Ted -- dead! Linderman -- dead! D.L. -- dying? Candice -- fat? OK, I actually don't care about Candice's weight that much -- or Ted or D.L., for that matter. D.L. dispatching Linderman was pretty cool -- it's been nagging at me, though. Have we seen that move somewhere before? Did Kitty Pryde ever do something like that?
Should we talk about the political subtext of Heroes? I've certainly detected certain messages in recent episodes. "Five Years Gone," seemed, in part, to be about September 11. In this episode, we had Micah using his powers to get Nathan into Congress. I'm not sure what to say about that, except that we really have to consider the dangers of super-powered children tampering with electronic voting machines.
Any thoughts on what's coming next week? Boom? -- Peter
Wait, you think that the bomb and resulting oppressive government might be a reference to 9/11? Well check out the brain on Brad!
The only thing I didn't like was killing off DL like that. Its not that I care about DL, its just that the guy can phase through stuff. How can he get shot? Why doesn't he, you know, use his power?
And don't say that he didn't have time, because he had time to step in front of his lady to take the bullet. He had plenty of time to grab her and let the bullet pass through... and strike Micah who just walked through the door! Now that would have been a surprise.
Oooh, or it could have hit the fat lady, and she would have morphed back to her natural state, which would have looked cool.
Posted by: Mike | May 17, 2007 at 01:49 PM