Recap: Heroes (S3E1 & E2)

The Second Coming & The Butterfly Effect

I'll be frank -- I didn't care for last nights' doubleheader of Heroes, and here's why. I'm never a fan of any show or movie that dips heavily into the inevitable paradox that is time travel. The show has danced on the brink of chaos with Hiro's ability (going to the past, meeting Adam, blah blah) but now its total chaos. For me, I get tired of wondering what is real, what isn't real and almost always get disappointed with way in which the inevitable question of what happens to history, time, reality when someone has the "omnipresence" of God. Almost always its resolved with a lame flashback to the origin of the "jump point" and wow, everything is back to the way it should be. I feel as if the show is steering itself into a chaotic mass of confusion that they can't explain in what was originally a fun and simple universe (and now seems to desperately be trying to enter into the realm of LOST, but without the established premise/setting). Don't get me started on the amazingly cheesy and lame hour long special teasers to the season start. Ouch, that was painful. And that whole contest and the next new hero, bleh -- it seems as if they've run out of "special powers" ideas -- and now are just recycling them (THE NEXT HERO - "Darla", a Seattle girl who has the ability to mope and pout in complete darkness and nihilistic apathy that anyone near her has a strong desire to commits suicide)

What we learned

• We did learn a few things -- That Sylar seems to learn how the brain of the others works and then alters his own brain to take on the abilities (I guess? It wasn't explained very well). I can't figure out how that relates to his obsession with clocks, etc -- most likely because I'm dumb.
• Angela Petrelli has dreams about the future. Whee, that was a huge, boring let down.
• Mr. Linderman is either a figment of Nathan's imagination or he invisible? Either way it seems like the writers wanted to bring back Malcom Gladwell because he has a British accent.
• Peter messes everything up, again. Just chop off his head. That'll solve it.
• Hiro has a nemisis who can go really really fast, but not go back or forward in time -- yet somehow she can steal get things from Hiro; as if he couldn't just back up 2 minutes and stop her from taking it? Oh wait, that's right he's vowed to never go back in time. Meh.
• Nikki is now Tracy; and her powers of super D.I.D. have always transformed her abilities. She's the ice queen -- and she killed Ralph Hinkley, the Greatest American Hero! (or did he turn himself into ice?). She's still a slut though.
• 'Needle Nose' Ned Ryerson, aka Bob Goldfinger Bishop is dead. That makes Elle sad. So sad. She might just stomp her feet and put up a fuss.
• Claire gets nabbed by Sylar, as mentioned (who obtains her power of virtual invincibility; unless you behead her) and she looses the ability to feel pain, which sends her on her videotaped suicide missions again. Thankfully Peter somehow knows EXACTLY where she is and swoops in and stops her from getting splattered by a train. And she cries and renews her crush for her uncle. And also, HRG leaves her (and her mom and brother and rat-dog) with her real mother who will somehow be able to protect them all against Sylar because she can do fire tricks.
• Why does Mohinder still exist? He's miraculously and quickly discovers at all the powers come from the adrenal gland and just as quickly makes a magic potion that immediately turns anyone into a hero -- so what would you do? That's right -- inject yourself! And now Mohinder is the fly, or maybe a spider; a "spider man" if you will. Or maybe he's a cockroach. Either way he should be squashed, because like Peter, he seems to f*** everything up.
• Matt Parkman is in Africa, which is cool, because that means he's away from people and won't get nosey and confused. Sadly ANOTHER future seer or whatever, finds him and is leading to the Confederacy of Africa United Against Dumb American Hero's Who Seem To F Everything Up (or CAUADAHWSFEU for short)
• Where's Molly? Where's Micah? Oh, that's right -- they're children and suck at acting, thus they have to be neither seen nor heard

Obviously, I was unimpressed. That doesn't mean I'm abandoning the show, I'm just skeptical. Quite (and also blatantly sarcastic).