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Rating the new Heroes: Who we love and who we hate
We're six episodes into Heroes' likely last season, and, as usual, we've met a host of new characters, some with abilities and some without. Some of them show promise, others ... not so much.
But we've seen this before. Heroes has a history of introducing characters that we either loved (like immortal Adam Monroe) or hated (remember the sad state of the season-two characters, especially the virus twins, Maya and Alejandro Herrera).
This season, it's been a long, slow road to getting on with the story, as some of our heroes fiddle around trying to figure out what they want to do with their lives. We could handle one having a life crisis, but does almost every hero have to have one right now?
Here's the lineup of new characters ranked according to how much we love and/or hate them, with a ranking of 10 meaning totally in love, and a 1 meaning totally in hate.
Samuel Sullivan is head of The Sullivan Bros. Carnival, and he has the ability to manipulate earth and other minerals with his mind.
Rating: 10 out of 10
Played by Robert Knepper
We Love: The sadness he showed when he asked time/space traveler Arnold to send him into the past one more time.
Nastiest Deed: Pulling his childhood residence into a sinkhole and letting people die.
There's no doubt about it. Samuel Sullivan is one of the best recurring Heroes characters ever. He's evil and loving and complicated and more than a little psycho. He'll do anything to protect his people, as long as they don't cross him. They love him and are terrified of him. If this season works, it's going to be because of Samuel, and Knepper is perfect in the role.
Edgar or Super Fast Guy with Knives. He's Samuel's right-hand hatchet man.
Rating: 8 out of 10
Played by Ray Park
We Love: That he wants to be a better man.
Nastiest Deed: Taking out anyone Samuel tells him to with his deadly knives.
When Samuel talked about redemption, Edgar took it seriously. He doesn't want to kill anyone. He'd like to be one of the good guys. Unfortunately, Samuel's got revenge in his heart and Edgar is the perfect tool to get his bidding done. And then there's the latest addition to the carnival family, Sylar. Edgar's more than a bit jealous to see Sylar's gotten on Lydia's good side.
Joseph Sullivan, deceased brother of Samuel.
Rating: 8 out of 10
Nope, we've never met Joseph, but his death has certainly done interesting things to Samuel. We're betting Joseph will show up in one form or another to give us the full story of what revenge Samuel is really looking for. And maybe we'll find out how and why Danko ended up with the People-With-Ability-Detecting Compass. Maybe.
Lydia, the tattooed lady. She shows you what you need to know through tattoos on her back.
Rating: 7 out of 10
Played by Dawn Olivieri
We Love: Her beauty and her touch of sadness.
Her Best Asset: She's willing to tell Samuel things he doesn't want to hear.
Lydia seems to both love Samuel and be afraid of him. She goes off with Sylar at Samuel's direction, to help draw Sylar further into the family. During Heroes' commercials we've been introduced to a story called Slow Burn, which is continued online and involves Lydia's attempts to contact her daughter Amanda.
Becky Taylor or Invisible Sorority/Carnival Chick. She calls Samuel her uncle.
Rating: 7 out of 10
Played by Tessa Thompson
Becky Is: The best surprise of the season.
Nastiest Deed: Pushing Claire's roommate, Annie, out the window.
You've got to love an invisible girl with murder on her mind. Strange things were happening around Claire, and the mystery could have dragged on for a long time. However, we discover that Becky is responsible for killing Annie and making it look like suicide. Annie was so annoying we think she deserved to die. We loved this little plot twist, which firmly pulled the carnival and heroes stories together in a terrific way. And it looks like Becky's going to be busy in tonight's episode, "Strange Attractors," which features Claire and her new roommate, Gretchen, going through Hell Week with the sorority, literally.
Minor Carney Characters with Abilities.
Rating: 6 out of 10
Arnold, old space-time traveling dude (played by Jack Wallace)
Damien, who can restore memories (played by Harry Perry)
Chris Bowman, fire breather (played by Daryl Crittenden)
Teddy, who can make things disappear and reappear (played by Edward Gusts)
While we don't know much about the second string of the Sullivan Bros. Carnival players, they add to the atmosphere. We especially like Arnold, who is dying.
Jeremy Greer, the healer.
Rating: 4 out of 10
Played by Mark L. Young
Worst and Best Move: Accidentally killed his parents by sucking the life force out of them and later shot Peter. Then he saved Peter, who got his healing ability.
We Hate: He's a character who will never have an impact on the story.
Most likely we won't see a lot of Jeremy in the show's future, now that Peter can heal (in fact, think how many people Peter could save just going around hospitals and touching everyone who's sick). It was an interesting turn for Noah to FINALLY figure out what he can do with his life (and no, we don't know what happened to the new Company he was supposed to start after last season). It is nice to see what can happen when someone with abilities doesn't learn how to use them properly.
Gretchen Berg, Claire's new roommate.
Rating: 3 out of 10
Played by Madeline Zima
We Hate: The kiss between Claire and Gretchen, 'cause it just wasn't real.
Her Best Line: "Maybe we could swipe a cadaver from the medical school. What? It's a victimless crime." ... regarding figuring out if Annie was pushed out the window or jumped.
Honestly, we have nothing against Gretchen. She's been more interesting than Claire so far this season. We don't even have a problem with Gretchen "crushing" on Claire. But unless Gretchen turns out to have an ability and/or be part of the carnival, what's the point?
Minor Characters Without Abilities
Rating: 2 out of 10
Millie Houston, friend of Angela, who hired someone to kill Nathan/Sylar when she discovered he was responsible for her daughter's death as a teen (played by Swoosie Kurtz)
Dr. Coolidge, mom of Emma (played by Louise Fletcher)
Hesam, Peter's paramedic partner who's starting to doubt him (played by Assaf Cohen)
Mike, Matt's partner in LAPD (played by Rick Worthy)
We love Swoosie Kurtz and Louise Fletcher, and it's great to see them on Heroes, but again, it just doesn't seem likely they'll pay any part in the bigger picture. So when it comes to these characters, who cares?
Emma, deaf file clerk who sees and manipulates sound waves. She's learning to accept her ability with the help of Hiro and Peter.
Rating: 1 out of 10
Played by Deanne Bray
We Hate: Once again going through someone discovering they have an ability and learning to accept it. Again!
Although: Her ability is kinda cool, especially when she gets mad.
Oh, yes, we're going to hell for picking on the deaf woman character. It's just she's so nice and so perfect for Peter. She even has a nice mother. A little complexity would help this character a lot. She could have been a thief or another hero rescuing people like Peter or, well, anything interesting. And do we really, really have to go back to the beginning with a character figuring out they have an ability and how it works? Really!
So ... what characters do you love and hate on Heroes this season?
By drudd82 at 6:19 PM ON 10/26/09
Deaf Character is best character. The knife guy is stupid. You must be the Heroes character whom has the ability to write crummy lists that get lots of traffic.
By Dreamtime909 at 6:33 PM ON 10/26/09
Please let Sylar and Samuel just kill everybody so we can start over with a story that will go somewhere!!!
By niafabo at 6:43 PM ON 10/26/09
What only 1 for Emma and 6 for Becky you must have that backwards. Emma is one of the best characters of the season she finally brought the show in some small way back to the first season when it was still at the top of it's game. Real people not just some fancy thing runny around trying to entertain. As for Becky she is the sort of character that shows what has gone wrong with the show cliche, no depth, a pawn there only for some generic plot twist meant to bring on shock and awe while failing miserably at it. I agree that Samuel is an excellent addition to the staff though so I will give you that. Over all I am just hoping the Heroes writing staff has better sense on what characters deserve to stick around or not.
By JohnTaber at 7:04 PM ON 10/26/09
WOW...I totally agree! Nice work gents. :)
By AstroBoy58 at 7:32 PM ON 10/26/09
Is it just me or has Heroes gotten totally lost this year? Without a doubt the best season was the first. Since then there doesn't seem any high level vision on where the story is going in the future. Seems like every new chapter starts on a new direction. And now the current story which feels like it's going nowhere very fast. I'm rapidly loosing interest and unless something happens to draw me back in by the winter break I'm giving up all together. I hate because it definitely was some story telling magic for a while.
By ET II at 7:39 PM ON 10/26/09
'Is it just me or has Heroes gotten totally lost this year?'
It's just you, most people think that Heroes lost it with the season one finale.
By CourtoftheWell at 7:53 PM ON 10/26/09
Wow, a 1 for Emma? Because people discovering and coping with their abilities isn't interesting? Way to hate on the core of Heroes.
What made Season One of Heroes so intriguing and addictive was the concept of normal people suddenly finding out that they weren't so normal anymore and making life-altering moral decisions based on their newfound power. It wasn't about the special abilities but the people who owned them. Season One introduced us to sympathetic, compelling characters that showed the world of a hero isn't black-and-white or guaranteed a happy ending.
Emma is taking the show back to its roots and, frankly, she's one of the few reasons I don't give up on Heroes altogether after a slippery slope of suck these past few seasons.
And Gretchen - god-forbid Claire have an ordinary friend (like in Season One) whose life may be permanently altered by jumping into the super-hero fray. Gretchen doesn't need to be special powered or sinister to be a character. Granted, I think her character comes on way too strong and is gimmicky in certain respects but those are better reasons give her character a 3 than she's not blowing up and back-stabbing enough things to everyone's liking.
By jedimaster at 8:10 PM ON 10/26/09
Emma is clearly the best new character. The Carnival people are ridiculous.
By Hellking at 8:24 PM ON 10/26/09
Gretchen is definitely a failure as a character. I'd give her a one (while increasing Emma to a three - not a big difference to be sure). She's almost as annoying as Claire's first roommate and the actress seems to be merely downgrading the intelligence of the character she plays in "Californication."
While I'm at it, I'd say that Claire is a one. Her character just never seems to learn a damned lesson and makes a mistake to give her a storyline for a season. Kill the cheerleader, save the show. It will give the other characters something to do, and maybe her pops will grow another pair of balls in the process.
And where the hell is Parkman? Although being married again - with a kid - has pussified the guy, his storyline of inner turmoil had some promise.
By Notaheroesfan at 8:44 PM ON 10/26/09
@It's just you, most people think that Heroes lost it with the season one finale.
I thought it lost it long before that. The guy who created it after all was the creator of Judging Amy. I had zero faith in it from the start.
It honestly felt like an X-men cash in/rip-off with someone with no genre experience as a head writer.
It would be the equivalent of Ronald D. Moore making a Glee clone. Actually, that might be kinda interesting. lol
By Praetor ShinzonII at 9:16 PM ON 10/26/09
Emma is the only cool new character. Kill the rest off. The whole 'Carnavale' thing is just stupid. This series needs to die for good.
By L34h1093 at 9:32 PM ON 10/26/09
wow, really? I think Emma is the best new character this season, her and Samuel. Emma's bringing the show back to its roots of people who find they have powers and don't know what to do with them. And I agree that Samuel is a great bad guy.
Also, I gotta say the Sorority Girl, not really that great of a character from what I've seen.
By ScottA at 10:08 PM ON 10/26/09
Wow. To whoever wrote this article... I couldn't disagree with you more! If you pretty much flip-flopped this list, I'd agree with it. The whole "magical carnival" storyline is cliched, boring, and unimaginative. And the family is NOT interesting at all.
While I agree that Robert Knepper is giving a decent performance, I could care LESS about his character. Everything he says, every scene he is in, is just filled with ambiguous, mysterious dialogue.
In six or seven episodes he has said nothing but "I love the family" and "I want to restore the family". Why? What is the family? What are they up to? Why are we supposed to care? We'll probably eventually find out, but in the meantime they are just spouting meaningless dialogue over and over and over again.
When it comes to writing a mystery, there's being mysterious and clever... and there's being laborious and boring... and the entire carnival storyline is boring.
Also, you said that Darth M -- I mean, the fast guy with the knives (The Flash combined with Wolverine) is interesting? Howso? He's delivered maybe three lines. And. Umm. He cuts people up. Ooooooh. How original. Boring.
Finally, a show that is filled with regular cast members who are always complaining and grousing about their lives and hate using their powers (with a couple of exceptions, Peter and Hiro) I think it is actually REFRESHING to have a new character who is just discovering and showing joy with her powers.
I for one think Emma, the deaf file clerk, is a fascinating character. But maybe that's only because one of my best friends is deaf and I can imagine how amazing it would be for him to be able to "see" sound for the first time and to be able to enjoy music. I think Emma's subplot and character is one of the most fascinating storylines so far this season. Refreshing and original.
Frankly, the biggest problem with "Heroes" right from the second season on, has been a lack of guts in killing off characters and keeping them dead. Season one SHOULD have ended with the death of Peter, Nathan, Sylar and Matt in the final battle. All of them miraculously (and stupidly) survived. And ever since the writers of the show have struggled with what to do with those characters.
If they'd had the huevos to keep them dead (or ANY character they've killed dead more than half a season) they could have introduced new characters and new blood and new life into the series. But they chose the "safe" route, kept everyone alive, and the series has been dead ever since.
I'm not even sure why I'm still watching. Maybe to see what happens with Sylar and with Hiro???
By suprememango at 10:10 PM ON 10/26/09
Emma is great. Can't we have a normal character struggling with her powers? Wasn't that part of what made season one so great?
Gretchen is just kind of there for me. Meh.
And this season is actually very very good. Sadly those who abandoned the show will not get to enjoy it.
For the loyal fans the pay off is huge!
By Gill Avila at 10:56 PM ON 10/26/09
I'm rather pleased that the producers of "Heroes" cast a deaf person, Deanne Bray, to play the part of a deaf person.
By ImmortalJedi at 10:58 PM ON 10/26/09
Best season since season one so far!
What's up with the "We're six episodes into Heroes' likely last season"? Likely last season? I hope not!
By me at 11:09 PM ON 10/26/09
I would like to see more of Lydia.
By Sithboy at 11:32 PM ON 10/26/09
I like everybody, and wish Heroes would stick around!
By Anatar at 11:51 PM ON 10/26/09
I must say that the author of this... this rating or whatever it tries to be, has lost touch with what makes the show enjoyable. People love to bitch about Heroes, but if it should be cancelled there will be a huge vaucuous hole where a respectable science fiction show used to be. Heroes is one of the few shows left on TV worth watching- I don't give a rat's a$$ what this author says.
By Guardian at 12:12 AM ON 10/27/09
Good list.
Can't disagree. I like that Emma may have some potential, but I found myself fast-forwarding through the (far too long) "colorful music strands" scenes.
Robert Knepper was a great choice!
Jeremy Greer (the young healer), would be a great fit for "Peter's latest power". After all, that's what he really wants to do.
SyFy -- for crying out loud, will SOMEONE PLEASE fix the bloody "Captcha"? You all know it doesn't work dependably, so PLEASE. . .SOMEONE??? Anyone??? Hello?
...is anyone there? ; )
By JeSinclair at 12:57 AM ON 10/27/09
OK, I know we live in the PC world (politically correct) but COME ON!
Emma is a TERRIBLE Heroes character!
Her power is 'sound waves'
So what is she going to do: carry a fiddle around and play till someones head blows up???
Also, the Becky character? 7 out of 10? Just cause she pushed an annoying character out the window?
When she does that to Hiro and at this point Claire too (I'm sick of the 'finding oneself' theme.. how about grow the hell up already?) then she get's a 7 out of 10 in my book. Otherwise... a 3...
As for Gretchen... well frankly, she is scary to look at. A 1 in my book for many reasons...
Otherwise, it's not a bad list... but like the show... it needs some work...
By DirtyOldMan at 1:05 AM ON 10/27/09
So, does Claire's hymen instantly grow back, too?
By S.W. at 4:57 AM ON 10/27/09
@DirtyOldMan;
Normally I'd be a bit offended by someone asking such a question in regards to an article like this, but, honestly, after tonight's episode I found myself asking the same question. o_o;
By Killian at 6:44 AM ON 10/27/09
@DirtyOldMan & S.W.
hahaha...you've been watching too much True Blood.
By Lehnsherr at 8:37 AM ON 10/27/09
I remember sitting by the TV feeling like a little kid waiting for my favorite show to start. Now these episodes sit on my DVR for a week before I get bored enough to watch them. I agree with Dreamtime909, Sylar should go on a killing spree. Maybe he’ll get a few of the writers and shake things up. Gretchen and the Invisi-girl never should have made it to the show. The best thing that has been done in 3 seasons is Samuel (and maybe the super hot Lydia). And what happened to Claire? She’s become my least favorite part of the show. “Save the Cheerleaders storyline, Save the show!”
I really do want to love this show…. I miss season 1.
By Lostlovefan at 8:46 AM ON 10/27/09
What killed the show for me was Claire once again wanting to be normal and somehow befriending someone that pokes her to share her so well hidden secret. I mean really! Has anybody noticed that her story is the same damn story every season?
And I really can't comment on characters that may or may not be in the next season like Copycat. I don't know. It's uncreative writting and boring. I stopped watching ages ago and it seems that I haven't missed anything.
By marcintosh at 10:13 AM ON 10/27/09
What Heroes needs is heroics. With the exception of Hiro (and by extension, Peter), no one is doing anything with their abilities to help anyone, but themselves. The world is no safer with them around. Samuel is at least getting people together in a group, but only to hide from the world.
By HeyThere at 10:19 AM ON 10/27/09
I find myself shouting "DO SOMETHING! FOR GOD'S SAKE JUST DO SOMETHING!" when I watch this show. Like AstroBoy58 I'm giving this show until winter break and if it doesn't start focusing its stories, I'm out.
By shockologist at 10:46 AM ON 10/27/09
"Jeremy Greer (the young healer), would be a great fit for "Peter's latest power". After all, that's what he really wants to do."
I wonder if peter is going to accidentally kill someone.
By jdmimic at 11:04 AM ON 10/27/09
I actually like Gretchen. But for me, heroes has again gotten so many story lines that it is taking forever to go anywhere with any of them and bogging the show down. They could really use some streamlining. have a plan that they are definitely building toward and get moving that direction. It is way too plodding if they want to keep interest. These storylines may be fine for daytime soaps, but not for a once a week primetime show.
By wordwitty at 11:16 AM ON 10/27/09
I can't believe no one mentioned how awful the Hiro storyline is. He acts like a idiot most of the time. He runs a Japanese mulitconglomerate. Think of how much good he can do with that kind of power. Pay to put honest politicians in office, donate to charities and hospitals. But he is so over the top retarded, and he doesn't grow as a person. He makes the exact same stupid assumptions season after season.
Also, Parkman is a deaed end character for me. He's another idiot wasting screentime. I think the show needs a culling.
By Allison&Jack at 11:50 AM ON 10/27/09
"Also, Parkman is a deaed end character for me. He's another idiot wasting screentime. I think the show needs a culling."
You mean there is actually a character that isn't a dead end for you on this show?
Seriously, this show has TERRIBLE writers, and the only reason people seem to stick with it is A) their standards are so low that they don't even notice the horrible writing, or B) they are so starved for genre programming that they will eat up any trite garbage the TV execs throw at them.
This show should have never made it past episode 4. The sad thing is it's taking up a slot on a very limited schedule that could go to a much better show. That is reason enough for me to hope it gets canned this season. Well other than the fact that it's a terrible show and bad shows should die instead of the good ones like Firefly and Farscape...sigh.
By Hercules40 at 12:03 PM ON 10/27/09
This show would be helped by killing off some of the characters. Something they should have done after the 1st season.
But, you have it wrong. Emma is Great.
The Carnival sucks.
By Cyrus at 12:06 PM ON 10/27/09
i hate Claire
i hate Peter
i hate Nathan
i hate Sylar
i hate Hiro
i hate Ando
i hate HRG
i hate Parkman
i hate Mohinder
i hate freeze chick or whoever the hell she's supposed to be now.
special thanks to the "writers" at Heroes for making me bored to tears and hating a show and characters i once loved so much.
By JeSinclair at 12:37 PM ON 10/27/09
To Cyrus:
Hate Claire: agreed. The character he has gone in a circle that really shows they (the writers) don't know who or what she is as a character. I mean... she's in college... why is it she is just as whiny and irksome as the teenager she started out as. At least as the high school teen, it made sense. It gave a starting point for growth... but where is that growth?
Hate Peter; Here i disagree. Peter is a good character whom the writers have completely screwed up. Ever since Papa Petrelli took his powers Peter has seemed more like the Claire character (whiny and irritating) than not.
Hate Nathan: I actually liked Nathan cause he was one of the few characters who always seemed to go back and forth between not quite good, but not quite bad. How they did it could have been better, but at least his character was more of the gray area that this show needed to keep it grounded.
I mean, if everyone is a hero or a villain, the show would be majorly boring (which is where they have headed anyways, but still...)
Hate Sylar: can't hate him. Just that the writers made a power puff girl last season. From company man, to good Sylar, back to bad Sylar. He's been bounced around more than a yo-yo.
Why I love Sylar: In the end, he is true to his nature. He is everything selfish and self loathing in every person out there. The writers just need to let him BE Sylar, and stop trying to be something else. Memory loss thing is cool i think, because in the end, I am hoping he goes on a killing spree. At least if thats how the show ends, it would be a hell of an end.
Hate Hiro: No one hates him more than me. Until 'future Hiro' comes to be, this character is a waste and has my utter contempt.
Hate Ando: hmm... I'm still conflicted here. I think he's the only truly good non whiny character on the show.
Hate HRG: again, hmm... I'd kind of like to see him get it on with Tracy and see if that creates any dynamics with those two characters as well as Claire being the jealous daughter (damn... that sounds too much like a soap opera...)
Hate Parkman: I like Matt... i just think the whole story with his ex wife is bogus. First it was his kid, then it wasn't, then he fell for speedster, then she dies, then not a week later it is his kid again and him and the ex are hooking up again... huh???
Hate Mohinder: I liked him up until he became Brundle-Fly. Now... uncertain. Of all of them... if there is a mass killing to end the show. He is the only one who should live. Otherwise, his role as story-teller from season 1 was meaningless.
Hate Tracy (IE: Freeze chick) : I just wish they could figure out a way for me to care for Ali Larter other than a piece of eye candy.
By stillwatching at 1:00 PM ON 10/27/09
I hate broadcast TV now. That's why I haven't watched a single episode of Flashforward, remembering Surface, which I actually enjoyed, but they feed you a little tiny bit every week. The show was actually cancelled before you found out ANYTHING. An entire season and little was explained. If they spent less time dealing with school trouble and detention and divorces, maybe we would have known something. Maybe it wouldn't have been cancelled. I know that all this stringing out crap is why I'm reluctant to take on new fantasy shows unless they are on Sci-fi. If Stargate Universe were shown on network TV, they wold spend 3 week setting up how awesomely secret it was before they showed a thing!
I stopped watching X-files for two years because of week-to-week conspiracies, and tuned back in when they went back to catching monsters.
I don't get why when it comes to fantasy, the big three think they have to string us along. Even Smallville has made you wait ten years to see him fly. He's a retarded superhero who never quite makes it to being superman and makes the same mistakes over and over. Now there is another season-long conspiracy on Smallville, with Runes showing up all over the world. People tune in to see Superman!
Heroes is like the first Hulk movie. It was a 30 minute great Hulk movie hidden in a 3 hour painfully long crybaby fest about a man coming to grips with the death of his mother. If you excise all the crap from that first movie, the Hulk becomes enjoyable.
TV has also always done this to heroes. Instead of showing is heroes as we see in comics. They give us the alter egos trying to be cheerleaders and cops. And they throw in the government conspiracy, and get you very intimate with that crappy part of the story, but string out tiny precious seconds of your heroes being heroes.
And look at Peter? How long will he be crippled, only holding one power at a time?
TV can do what it wants with heroes, but they should at least make it episodic. If something sucks, it shouldn't suck for an entire season. Work stuff out and move on. Ans these carnival people shouldn't be doled out in small doses either, because they already suck to me. now I have to wait for a crescendo of suck before it's over.
By Allison&Jack at 1:39 PM ON 10/27/09
Wow, it must be painful to be that jaded. :p
By MertaxQ at 2:57 PM ON 10/27/09
The writers have killed the show. Plain and simple. I would agree that a culling is needed. Claire needs to get over trying to be normal. Bennett needs to go back to bagging and tagging(this way they can introduce new characters and not have them bog the show down) Finally let Nathan rest in peace to allow Sylar to run amuck so we can have the final showdown between he and Peter. After all this has been accomplised the writers need to be fired so someone talented can save the show before it loses all its fans
By scifire at 3:51 PM ON 10/27/09
I've always loved and still love Peter and Sylar. I wish the two of them would share a kiss and see what would transpire between them! :-)
By kizer at 4:26 PM ON 10/27/09
Sad thing is I have all of this season on my DVR and I've yet to find a reason to watch more than 30minutes into the first episode. It was more boring than sitting in a dentist office waiting to get a cavitiy filled.
I just wish they wouldn't of butchered all characters. Peter and taking all of his powers and then saying now hes a wimping guy. Common you can't build up one of the baddest guys and then make him a freaking puppy dog. Was he getting to big and needed a smacking or what?
Hopefully I don't run out of space on my DVR anytime soon or I'll start missing episodes. Please do something with wild with the show.
By Kim at 4:43 PM ON 10/27/09
Samuel is the only new character who has stoked my interest so far this season... Love Robert Knepper in this role!
By Hmg at 7:29 PM ON 10/27/09
I've been totally smitten with Emma's story, and meh about almost everybody else. Maybe it's because I really want to go on a journey of power discovery again? It's really been long since we've seen one (if one discounts the amnesiacs)... and this is a "non-traditional" power so it's not like, oh yeah, you just close your eyes and appear where you wish, or go super fast. I have a feeling that what we've seen is just of the tip of Emma's power-iceberg, and I'm very much looking forward to seeing a) what it will evolve into and b) how she handles it.
Becky and Edgar seem shallow, and serve as plot devices more than anything. Lydia may have some depth to her, Samuel has tons, but remains murky.
Basically, I like the new heroes that have been given a personal backstory, and aren't defined by their power. The others are seem to be echoes from the Villains story arcs where it was "more about the powers, less about the people" to borrow a phrase. :)
By WizardDresden at 10:41 PM ON 10/27/09
I actually really like Emma and Samuel is just awesome. I'm not so hot on Edgar or Gretchen (she is just too weird). I don't feel like I've seen enough of Lydia to pass judgment.
By Melissa at 11:00 PM ON 10/27/09
Kill Parkman. Please.
Make Hiro that cool guy we saw with the sword on the train in season 1.
Bring back Micha and have him kick some cyber @ss.
By Linda at 1:15 AM ON 10/28/09
I totally disagree with your rating score. Basically everyone who you gave a 10, I would give a 2. The only person who gets a 10 in my book is Gretchen. She feels so right with Claire. Finally Claire gets to have someone who she can trust, hopefully they wont get rid of her or do the stereotypical kill the lesbian story
By Weljao at 9:55 AM ON 10/28/09
I keep waiting to like Heroes this year but the writing is awful and the show has become boring. Someone listen, fix this show before it dies.
By Duke at 2:23 PM ON 10/28/09
What about the character Reginald ...
Who has the ability to write a good TV show.
By SGA at 4:56 PM ON 10/29/09
I still love Heroes and believe this is the best plot/story since Season 1. I'm looking forward to each and every episode as the season progresses.
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