Heroes - Season Four News (spoilers)

[Rico]

I liked this episode with Hiro trying to save Charlie.  Really good use of the past I thought.  I like the bit with HRG and the lady agent too.  I thought that was handled very well.  The ending was kind of hard to take and I'm starting to not like "Butterfly Man."

[ElfManDan]

Personally I hated this episode. It just didn't makes sense to me. I loved the Charlie story from season 1 and I just felt like changing it now ruins that which I loved from season 1. I've been getting more and more annoyed with Heroes week by week, to the point which I'm ready to give up on this show. I'm just not enjoying it anymore.

[Scott]

Simple, don't watch if you're not enjoying it.

I'm still enjoying it.

[alanp]

Oh we like it.  We are just worried about the show getting stale, losing raitings and getting in danger of cancelation.  We've lost too many good shows because of raitings trouble.  It's still better than amost everything else on TV.

[jedijeff]

I am not sure what to think of this Episode, but if they only doing 20 Episodes this season like Alan said, then they really need to bust a move on advancing the plot a bit more. To me, Noah's story felt a bit forced in this one, but I do see how it fits in with the previous episodes with him wanting to do good. With how they ended with Samuel, hopefully in the next few episodes we find out more about his story. He has been a bit frustrating to me, as I don't really know what he is about and he seems like a pivotal character this season, and for me, it might tie this season more together finding out much more about him.

[Scott]

I agree that the plot is a little slower this season. Maybe they have something big planned and it will drop like a bomb.

[spoiler]I'm happy they're bringing in Mohinder. I liked his character before he got the powers. I hope they make him interesting again though.

It seems to me like we may start to learn about the motives of the Carnie guy. He seems to be evil in one episode and semi-good in another.[/spoiler]

[Bryancd]

I liked this episode with Hiro trying to save Charlie.  Really good use of the past I thought.  I like the bit with HRG and the lady agent too.  I thought that was handled very well.

Yeah, I agree I did enjoy those aspects of this episode. It did nothing really to advance this seasons story but it was a fun time travel romp with hiro. I liked the stuff between him and Sylar. My wife actually stayed and watched this one, she gave up after last season, and she liked it. It kind of felt like one of the earlier season shows and I always like Hiro stuff.

[alanp]

Here are my concerns. (Probably all of ours)  Heroes is a very expensive show to produce and goes up against House and Dancing with the Stars every Monday Night.  If there was no danger of cancelation or budget reductions, I would be all for them taking their time to build up to whatever finish they want.  But there is a danger that they may cut back even more.  Or cancel the show.  It needs to get better because I like the show and I want to see it continue.

[alanp]

So what did we all think of the last one?

Here are my thoughts.  When Claire sold the idea that they had just been drugged at the beginning of the last episode; I thought, geez they don't seem to want to give Claire many problems this season.  Maybe the writers love this character too much.  I was thinking it was going to be another bad episode. 

Thankfully, HRG seems to have regained his fangs. Returning to the morally grey character.  (What would Bennet do?)  I wonder why the Haitian needed to come and remove the girl's memories; if they were going that route anyway, why not just make them reject Claire's drug explanation and panic?  But not a big deal at all as we got the HRG of old.

To me the BEST segments were the Sylar/Matt segments. This kind of high conflict constantly changing stories is the exact reason I got into Heroes.

As far as Sylar's body, I don't get it.  Nice to see a return of Nathan (in a way) but how did he get the flying ability?   Sylar never killed a flyer.

But even with these potential plot holes, I think this week's episode was best episode thus far this season.  Hopefully we'll have a few more like this one.

[Scott]

It has been established that Sylar didn't need to kill to get a power. Remember what he did with Elle? Maybe since it's Nathans memories his body figured out how to fly because it knows how Nathan feels. Sylar learned out how to use Elle's powers by learning how she feels.


But the writers could just be stupid and not realize we would have noticed that.

[Rico]

I liked the episode and enjoyed the different stuff going on.  I'm still not quite sure what Samuel from the Carnival is really up to.  I also liked the Sylar/Matt scenes too.  Interesting season I think so far.

[alanp]

Well last 2 week's stories brought some the much needed excitement, this week's....  Well I wasn't board.  Not excited but not board.  Nothing painful to watch except for the opening title declaring this to be episode 10. (Halfway through the season.)  I was just thinking that we should have been farther along by now.

Did anyone else wonder if Sylar was doing Heath Ledger's Joker at the Thanksgiving dinner scene?

[Rico]

I liked this last episode quite a bit too and enjoyed Hiro standing up to Samuel.  The Thanksgiving stuff was interesting and I'm glad certain things have been revealed about Sylar/Nathan now.  I'm enjoying the season and the pacing.  Oh, found this pic online that I thought was kind of funny.

[cosmonaut]

Spock with Spot!!! :D

[moyer777]

yeah, this was a great episode.  I enjoyed it a lot.