Four Sweaty Men In Search of a Plot

io9 commenters are veracious . You keep asking me why I ’m watching Heroes , and after last night ’s installment I ’m last beginning to enquire that myself . Now you’re able to vote : Should I keep see this show ?

First , permit me to retort even before you start , um , torting . Last night ’s sequence , “ Cold War , ” should have been fucking great . It was an HRG - centrical episode , sort of a associate objet d’art to “ Company Man , ” which remain one of the most memorable Heroes installment ever .

Peter , Suresh , and Matt have snatch HRG so that Matt can understand his mind and get more information about the secret government program which led to their abductions . Again , this should have been peachy . The formerly rounded - up and rack hombre are now pulling the same manoeuvre on their former captor . They ’ll be torturing HRG for selective information , using drugs on him , playing with his thinker . We should be asking ourselves : Has every hero gone dark ? Who is the moral center of this show ? Nobody ? Those are honorable questions when pose graciously in the context of a show like Heroes .

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Instead of grace , we got the bad Three Stooges - stylus episode ever . Except without the rummy , and that ’s saying a sight considering that Three Stooges are barely funny at all ( sorry to Stooges fans – I ’m more of a Marx Brothers soul ) . Anyway , my point is that all this episode delivered were a bunch of scene where Peter flew a gang of places and Matt and Suresh hit each other a lot . Plus flashback into HRG ’s judgment , cunningly rendered in black and white to make them seem like they were Really In The past times .

The big reveal , which you see in this scene , is that Suresh kinda sorta recognise about the politics program . Oh and also Speedy is still alive , which is the dumbest reveal ever . Also , here ’s another not - new - who - care thing about the episode : the Hunter is MEAN even though he ’s short . Yes , former Heroes buff , the supervillain of the season is mean . Can you conceive it ? I am in fear of this awful new plot development .

I know , I am unleashing the mean value myself and I should give this show yet another chance for the ten millionth time and you are all tempestuous at me for saying that Heroes is delivering the suck despite Bryan Fuller coming on board to rescue us from lame txt mssgs from Rebel . But lease ’s be true . This show has moments of awesome and moments of atrocious , and this was one of the most tremendous and insistent ever . HRG is a twofold agentive role YET AGAIN and we visit his flashback mostly to see him get a retirement endowment from Mama Petrelli and the gift is n’t even a goddamn laser canon .

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Even more awed ? The episode ends with Peter and Matt at Isaac ’s old apartment / Suresh ’s old laboratory where Parkman has just painted the floor of the apartment EXACTLY THE WAY ISAAC DID . Except this time it ’s different ! Instead of New York City brag up , it ’s Washington , D.C. ! This is not a clever callback . This is just terrible story recycling . If you ’re going to flagrantly rip your own show off , at least call back to the alternate future thing , because you could have a million alternating futures . But you’re able to only peril us with a metropolis Hell once . Seriously , relocate the inferno to Washington does not throw out the secret plan , even incrementally .

I am seriously conceive terminate my kinship with this show . What do you think I should do ?

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