The. Most. Dissapointing. Episode. Ever.
Yes, I just said it. I have nothing but tears for it. Episode 13 of Heroes Season 3 sums up the horrible ride, where strange things happen with thick whiffs of cliche. So bad that you’d wish Sylar killed Claire and Hiro get turned into a apple pie. Read on for spoilers.
The main problem with Heroes is the “heroes” are a bunch of morons. You have the ability to control time, and you stay frozen for 10 seconds waiting for the villian to take your powers away. You have telekinesis and can stop bullets in mid air but fail to dodge a katana moving at a speed 10 times slower than a speeding bullet. And then you have the ability to control minds but can’t do shit with it.
Let’s start with Peter. He’s like the most useless super-powered hero ever. He has the ability of mimicry. Powerful stuff, being able to take on other people’s power just by being close to them. The problem is, he’s too damn stupid to be any useful at all. Compassionate? Kind? My ass. More like a complete moron who doesn’t know how to handle ANY situations. It got so bad to the point that when he actually take charge, it seemed out of character.
And then Hiro. This dude scores the lifetime award for the longest period of screentime spent OUT of the main storyline. Let’s recap. In Season 1, he’s the only “hero” that enjoys his powers and even have fun with it. Which is good. Then in season 2, he’s stuck in feudal japan for half the season. Uh oh… downhill detectors blaring now. And in season 3, he gets his power taken away and gets stuck in the past. Sigh, the fucking idiocy is just overwhelming.
The finale has 3 major plots. Pinehearst, Isaac’s loft, and Primatech. In Primatech, Sylar’s playing a game of survivor with Claire, Noah, Angela and Meredith. Along with the rest of the level 5 prisoners. Now first things first… when you hear level 5, you’d expect there will be level 4, 3, 2 and 1. But no. Primatech, the facility where they contain dangerous superpowered individuals, only has 1 level and that’s level 5. Well at least that’s what the show tries to tell you. Anyway, what happens is pretty much anti-climatic. Sylar becomes a super bad ass (the only thing likeable about this episode), and mindfucks everybody.
And then Claire ends him with a glass to the back of his head. Yeah, just like that. When in season 1 he could turn around and stop bullets in mid flight, again he falls to a melee weapon. Like he’s got a visual handicap with close ranged objects or something. Also, you’d wonder how come when Sylar said to Claire “I couldn’t kill you even if I wanted to” when he took her powers, and all of a sudden there’s a way to kill a regen-man? Plot holes… BIG ones.
At Isaac’s Loft, the Matt, Ando and Daphne gang tries to save Hiro by injecting Ando with the superpower injection concoted by Suresh. Comedy follows, which is fine, and Ando discovers that instead of time-travelling he gets a power to supercharge other people’s powers. Which is fine, because Ando is the penultimate sidekick since season 1. What is not fine is how Einstein… sorry, Matt, tells Daphne that using this supercharger they can travel back in time by running very fast. Like, really really fast.
Relativity PHAIL.
Anyway, in Pinehearst, Arthur is dead, which is funny because he had regeneration skills. And while you might say the existence of the Haitian prevents him from regenerating, how come it failed to block Sylar’s powers but not Arthur? And Arthur, having a plethora of powers and fully capable of escaping death, suddenly is unable to fight off Sylar and just stands still waiting for his death to come?
Not only that, Flint and gang decides to trash the lab so that they’d stay special. The problem is, why now? Why even work for Arthur in the first place if they’re not happy with the arrangement? Super-morons. And then you have Nathan going to a black president to request for an X-man treatment for the heroes in season 4.
My god. Can I ever stop ranting?
Lemme end this post with an unrelated picture.
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