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What bugs me, I think, is that NBC continues touting the show with these "Which hero will die tonight?" promos. The problem is that with an apparently unlimited supply of Essence Of Cheerleader floating around, death is a state so impermanent that it can't even be counted on to persist until the next commercial break. When resurrection or miraculous escape becomes the rule, rather than the exception, the stakes of life and death are considerably lowered, and the show pisses away any potential for dramatic tension.
Honestly—who here thinks Niki is really dead? (No body, no death, remember?) At worst, the trauma is gonna send her on another auxiliary-personality jag. Who thinks Nathan is gonna stay dead? He's come back from worse, after all.
Resurrection is, of course, a common enough comic-book trope, and so it belongs in the HEROES universe; but when it's overused, as it has been in the last five episodes or so, we rapidly reach a point of diminishing returns.
Random observation: Peter has a heart of gold, obviously, but he really is kinda stupid, huh?
I continue to be interested in the Bob/Elle and Noah/Claire dynamic, each a skewed reflection of the other; and after Noah got religion at the end of last season, they've managed to re-inject some of that nice moral ambiguity WRT the Company and its role (hey, they've been keep the genocidal Adam on ice for thirty years—maybe taking them down isn't such a great idea after all?)
Elle's semi-face turn, on the other hand, seemed pat and false; to go from sociopath to do-gooder in an afternoon because someone tells you that daddy doesn't love you? Not resonating, sorry.
And frankly I'm growing tired of all the little in-jokes and references. The subliminal rune CGI'd into the dust in Peter's palm after he destroyed the virus was bad enough; but Sylar reaching out for a spinach can with his newly restored TK? WELL BLOW ME DOWN! I GOTSK ME STREN'TH BACK! HYUK UK UK UK UK UK UK! |
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