“Heroes” — The Hard Part
Mommy issues.
I’d say the hard part is going to be convincing an audience that there are still surprises left in a series that has all ready told us how thing may or may not end up. After last week’s relentlessly amazing look at a possible future, its expectedly rough to go back and have to wade through action that will inevitably lead to a moment we are all certain will transpire one way or another. So over the next two episodes (three hours), we’ll have to try to convince ourselves we’re having a good time even though there is only one moment we really want to see: does someone go nuclear and level Manhattan or not?
Regardless of which event transpires, it can’t possibly be all that exciting. We know its coming. Unless of course, the writers do the right thing and take us in a direction none of us expected, which is what they’re being paid for in the first place, right? At this stage in the game, that’s what I’m rooting for and I’m afraid anything shy of the complete unexpected will be a tremendous let-down (I wonder if this would still be the case if “Five Years Gone” hadn’t blown me away?). Monday’s episode was surprise and suspence free. Everyone did exactly what the paintings and comic books said they needed to do, leaving me, the viewer, bored beyond belief. There’s more after the jump…
The one interesting facet of “The Hard Part” was Sylar’s initial moralizing about his fate, and the introduction of his “why can’t you be an investment banker!” mother. His initial reaction to the possibility that he could kill millions seemed slightly out of character given his murderous ways, but hey who can’t related to the old “I don’t want to do what my parents want me to do” story? Of course, his subsequent killing of said mom with a comically large pair of scissors justifiably put him over the edge.
Could anyone make out his blood painting? Seemed awfully abstract to represent the future, but maybe after the big explosion everything goes cubist.
The mother issues don’t end with Sylar. Mrs. Petrelli seems to be slowly embracing the role of super-villain as each episode her line readings become more sinister, cold and calculated. Is it just me or does Adrian Pasdar look a little like Anthony Perkins? Of course running for congress is hardly opening a motel.
I have this bad feeling that Micah is going to be an integral part of these last two chapters. No offense to Noah Gray-Cabey, but that kid is a horrible actor. He’s suppose to seem adorable but just comes off as grating. Look, just fix the thing thing that is inevitably broken and then politely disappear. You’re taking valuable screen time that could be going to Jack Coleman.
May 8th, 2007 at 4:23 pm
The blood painting was a mushroom cloud. I think.
May 8th, 2007 at 10:25 pm
My father said Sylar’s blood painting was one of the most disturbing things he’s ever seen on Network television. Could this be true?
May 8th, 2007 at 11:47 pm
It could be true. Though he clearly must not have heard that line form Arrested Development when Oscar said, “Maybe I’ll put it in her brownie.”
Yikes!
May 9th, 2007 at 1:32 am
Yeah, on the HD version of the episode the blood painting was clearly a mushroom could.
May 9th, 2007 at 11:19 pm
Rick, I’m proud to say that that exact line from AD, the “brownie” one, is what one of my friends chose to use as the ringtone on his phone when I call him. I could explain how this isn’t because of any weird thing I do, but I think I’ll pass. Anyway, too odd to not give a shout out to. I’ve rarely laughed harder than that. Kudos.