Heroes - Season Four News (spoilers)

[jedijeff]

I finally caught up with Heroes for this season. So far pretty good, though I agree that some of the stories are going to take a bit of time to get into. The carnival story I will be interested to see where that goes, and might be good as Peter might be tied to it. Hoping that Ray Park shows up more this season, as for me never get to see him perform enough. Since my Wife and I met Ray at a con a few years ago, I always point that out to her, even though she tells me she knows already :)

[alanp]

I think they are pushing all the right characters this time.  I didn't expect the Nathan/Sylar thing to be as interesting as we saw it get.  Thought the girlfriend mystery was a nice touch.

Clare's story started strong but I hope they get back to the roommate death mystery.

[alanp]

I'd have to rule this last one a clunker.  Why did Nathan/Sylar have amnesia?  If he can heal, the gunshot wound and get out of the grave, why did he forget anything?  Totally unexplained.  I wanted to see him freak out at the discovery.

And did they ever drop the ball on Clare's story.  We had a strong mystery she didn't solve it.  Just explained by the villains.  We go from her having something interesting to do, to this sorority story.

Though I really like having a deaf character on the show but I fail to see how seeing sounds is a useful power.

[sheldor]

I thought it would have been more in character to have the roomie be responsible for everything.   Introducing InvisiGirl out of nowhere was a bit of a let-down.  I like Emma and her story.  We got a little bit of Hero at the end.  Sylar - what are we going to do about Sylar?  I hope we learn more about the carnival.   It's not the best season but better then last year.

[Rico]

I actually enjoyed this last episode quite a bit.  The Sylar stuff makes perfect sense to me.  See below:

[spoiler]Many of Sylar's powers are just kind of instinct now.  One of the more recent ones (shape-shifting) he has to control more, so he reverted once shot.  Basically they are showing the Nathan stuff fading and Sylar taking back control of his body.  The Claire stuff I thought was ok.  Oh, and the sound girl showed near the end that her power (and now Peter's) is much more powerful than just seeing sounds.  Again, I liked the episode.[/spoiler]

[X]

I'd have to rule this last one a clunker.  Why did Nathan/Sylar have amnesia?  If he can heal, the gunshot wound and get out of the grave, why did he forget anything?  Totally unexplained.  I wanted to see him freak out at the discovery.

And did they ever drop the ball on Clare's story.  We had a strong mystery she didn't solve it.  Just explained by the villains.  We go from her having something interesting to do, to this sorority story.

Though I really like having a deaf character on the show but I fail to see how seeing sounds is a useful power.

they've been explaining this the whole season. Sylar's body is pretty much a blank canvas that was convinced that it was nathan and reinforced by his contact with Nathan's stuff. the tenuous hold that nathan held was gone when he was shot. Sylar wakes up knowing nothing because his consciousness is doing battle with Matt Parkman. I think that it made perfect sense and followed the rules that they have been setting up since the start of the season.

I'm still not happy about Peter's powers or apparent lack of control, but Sylar and Hero's stories are both working for me.

[moyer777]

I kind of liked this last episode too.  I really dig the whole color and sound thing.  Of course, that's just me. :)

[ElfManDan]

I liked the last episode of Heroes if only for Peter and Emma's storyline. I thought Sylar's was ok, but didn't especially interest me. Same with the Carnival folks. But I'm real tired of Claire. Personally I'd be happy to see her off the show.

[Feathers]

From something I read, we're not getting this until next year sometime. It's odd because Heroes was probably one o the first things on terrestrial TV to be shown in near synchronous timing with the US.

[alanp]

I had to watch it on Hulu because all of our network stations interrupted programming to follow the story of an empty apartment building burning to the ground.  Here are my thoughts....

In drama, the antagonist normally carries story to create suspence.  Why do we need to be afraid of the evil super carnies?  So far our biggest fear as the audience is Hiro's tumor which we already have the cure for.

Nice to see Noah with something good to do in the recent episode.

Parkman has a strong story, yet we haven't seen much of him.  What little we saw was great.

Written out? How about just writing her something to do?  Claire had an interesting story, they spoiled it.  There was no need for the audience to discover what happened to her roomie before Claire. She's not in a situation that calls for the use of her ability, nor puts her in danger, and now she can't even solve the mystery for the audience. "Nathan" with everything going on in that story solved the case of the old girlfriend. I hate to beat up on Claire because I really like that character but what's the point of her story this year?

I'm on the fence about the Syler story.  Could go either way.

Where is Dr. Suresh?  Shouldn't he at least be narrating?

OK, enough ranting for now.  Sorry about all the negativity.  Serenity now.

[Rico]

I'm liking this season and want to see where things go.  It certainly is paced a bit different than previous years.  Each week (as they have done in the past) we usually only see some of the heroes.  So we don't get everyone each episode.  But yeah, where is Suresh?

[KingIsaacLinksr]

I've watched up till now...and quite frankly, this is a train wreck.  

The racist? cops:

Wow, aren't we done with the "IF YOUR DIFFERENT YOU SHOULD BE DEAD!" deal?  Its stereotypical about cops and quite frankly, disgusting and annoying to watch.  I have yet to meet a cop who is like this, enough already.  

Clair's story.  Ok, we hazed her.  Another stereotypical thing about sororities.  Seriously?  WHY?  Why oh WHY did we need this?  The rest of her story is just really lame. 

Peter + Hiro + Colorized Woman (sorry forgot name).  Interesting, but no real point as far as I can tell.  

All I'm saying is, except for Sylar's story, its all stereotypical behavior with predictable plot.  Throw everyone else out and keep Sylar and this show would probably be gold quite sadly.  If this doesn't improve, I'll probably just throw the towl in.  

Don't get me wrong, the Sylar bit is great and is why I love watching this show, but everything else is dragging.  Hopefully it gets better, but we'll see.

King

[Bryancd]

Come on, King, at least we have carnies!! ;) I agree, the whole cop thing was so poorly done and over the top. The Claire stuff was a snoozer. I did enjoy Matt boozing it up, and I have to admit, Ilike the carnies even though I don't get them. Who is that actor who plays their leader? Where have I seen him before?

[alanp]

Well as bad as it's getting, I'm still not watching anything else on TV this season with the only exception of House.

Does anyone think Claire is being used correctly?  I didn't hate it as bad as her segments in previous episodes.  I think it would be cool to be in college with an ability, and think I could find cool and heroic things to do.  This should be a no brainer for the writers.  

Again, Noah given something cool to do and taken away, just like Claire.  Still no reason why we need to be afraid of the super carnies.  I enjoyed the Parkman/Sylar story this week.

EDIT:

Robert Knepper plays head Carnie.  Looks like he does bit parts for lots of TV shows, CSI, Murder She Wrote, Brimstone, Law and Order, etc.  He was in TNG as Wyatt Miller, and VOY as Gaul.

[moyer777]

He had a major role in Prison Break too.   I didn't realize he was from that TNG episode!  HOW COOL!