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[ebonlock]

Once again Lance Mannion sums up this week's episode of Heroes better than I ever could.


The level of willful stupid required of the characters on the show in order to make them do what the plot demands is starting to actively push me away from it. One more episode like this and I won't be back after the break. I'm sorry, just no.

There were two moments that made me want to stick around for next week's cliffhanger. First was Ando's pouty comment about Hiro always having to be the one to save the world. He just looked so sad when he got left behind (again). And of course when the male half of the Wonder Twins ended up dead I could cheer, "One down, one to go!" Alas, they killed off the least annoying of the two.

On the other side of the equation the stupid burned fierce and bright in the episode, and even the usually smart characters were forced to ride the superhero short bus. The teaser for next week made me bury my face in my head and groan aloud. Oh gee, Sylar gets his powers back...wonder how that might've happen-...oh, you're just going to show him shooting up with Claire's blood well that answers that. Bloody hell. And their big selling point for the next episode is "Hey we're going to kill off two of the major characters, don't you want to see who?" At which point I'm screaming, "But you jackasses have already shown us that that doesn't matter 'cause Claire's blood can resurrect the dead! GAH!!"

Seriously, just give Hiro and Ando their own spin-off series and I'll just watch that instead. Let Noah pop by from time to time, that's all I need.

Comments

[eponis.livejournal.com]

I had that same reaction (and I pretty much second everything else in ebonlock's post), but I saw someone point out that we don't actually know that HRG died. Obviously, a bullet to the head would've given him severe brain damage at a very minimum, but I'm given to understand that that kind of wound isn't necessarily instantly lethal. And I'm much happier about a "Claire's blood is a full healing potion" plot point than the alternative.

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

I would've bought that if they'd given him a transfusion immediately on the beach. But it looked like his ass was dragged all the way back to headquarters, his eyes were open and he didn't appear to be breathing. So I'm really thinking it was straight up resurrection.