I suck at witty references. The one in this post's title is a play on last night's Heroes episode, which was the best episode of this season. That doesn't mean it was better than decent, but hopefully it will set a trend for the episodes to come.
First of all, there was no Claire-stalker boy nonsense, finally. Teen melodrama is not what we're looking for in a show with super heroes. And be "we", I mean geeks. We want more superpowers, and better use of whatever powers characters in the show already have, no more recycling of the same ones. Seriously, how many more people can we have who are copying others?
On the subject of superpowers, it was great to see the writer's to explore telepathy on a deeper level that Parkman's usual, simple, mind-reading. The way his father uses that same power provided for the best, and darkest scenes of the season so far, as nothing beats a good mindfuck. Pardon my language, but it's true.
Naturally, this being Heroes, the writing was again pretty mediocre at places, with some scenes being so bad they hurt. So it takes two whole episodes for Peter to open that damn box, and when he finally decides to open it, what's inside? Nothing of importance, of course. Fantastic. And then his prophetical power kicks in just in time. How convenient. Writing like this really makes me cringe.
Still, Kristen Bell's appearance makes this episode worth watching (yes, I'm a fanboy) as she was kicking ass and taking names. Always good to see her again, as she's a great actress. Not sure about her being Electro, but at least she's not a flyer or copying other people and their powers.
All in all, as I said earlier it was a pretty decent episode, but there's still a lot of room to improve before they catch up with the quality of certain season 1 episodes, like "Company Men". I'll be sticking with the show for the time being, I guess. But I'm not going to call myself a "fan" or anything of the sort.
P.S.
That whole scene with the "Scary Door" in papa-Parkman's apartment reminded me of a certain Futurama video... Probably wasn't intended, but said video is hilarious so it's worth embedding it:
"Saw that coming."
Bender.
P.P.S.
Why was Taskmaster-girl watching Dragon and not an actual Bruce Lee movie?
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