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TV Tuesday -- Heroes
I just wanted to sound off on the new season of Heroes. The year of the writers' strike, season 2, was pretty much a steaming pile of poo. Season 3 wasn't very good either, so I was tempted to give up on it, but honestly I haven't been as interested in Heroes as I am now since I discovered the show midway through the first season. They've slowed down a bit, they've focused on some of the main characters and developed them a bit, and I've liked it, from Peter's obsessive use of his power to save as many people as he can to Parkman's equally obsessive resolve not to use his powers, from Claire's attempts to be normal to her father's attempts to find himself, and most especially with the Hiro/Ando storyline. Hiro is showing some real growth, and a big part of that has been his coming to grips with the way that his powers are tearing his body apart--yet here he is quite literally spending his life trying to "make things right." The Hiro storyline in tonight's episode was, I thought, exquisite. He starts to see the limits of his powers, the realization that some people are just going to screw up no matter what... and he saves his target by helping him pick up the pieces instead of making sure nothing gets broken--and at the same time, he has an epiphany about his own life. Really, really well done, I thought (even if it's a little hard to buy, now, that Hiro and Ando could have had all the adventures that they've still evidently had, now that Ando's got a long, committed relationship).
It's hard to see where the super-freak-show-carnies storyline is headed: obviously a collision course with our Heroes' regular cast, but how's it all going to go down? And I'm nervous about the apparent reemergence of Sylar out of Nathan--as long as he was just a voice in Parkman's head, I could handle it, since Parkman's probably just a little nuts, but I'm fairly sick of the Sylar character and would have liked for him to, at the very least, have stayed gone longer. And it's at least possible, of course, that he is. Just because his body has apparently re-set to be Sylar doesn't mean that his mind has, and therein lies my hope for this storyline. Time, as they say, will tell.