OldBoy

i thought this was a very good 2hr. premiere (period).

clckworang

I couldn't help but crack up when Mohinder discovered those spots on his back. Do I think they are blatantly ripping off The Fly right now with that storyline? Yes, but I wouldn't mind if it continues along the lines of The Fly and Mohinder slowly starts to fall apart.

Loved the Veronica Mars reunion and Greatest American Hero casting.

Deftones

didn't quite live up to the expectations i had, but was still better than all of last year's episodes combined.

buzzdalf

The whole Mohinder thing seemed like it was jsut a setup for his motivation to find a way to take powers away instead of give them to people.
Now he has to do it to save his own arse.
The whole thing with Peter putting the gun on the shelf really bothered me, too. Unless he wanted it to be found or something. There is no way a guy who can teleport and time travel needs to hide a gun (a gun he just brought from the future) on a shelf.

I loved the eating the brains thing with Sylar and Claire also. I saw that as a nod to the fans.

I'm reserving judgement on the season until we get a few episodes in and see where it's going.

fumanstan

I thought it was a decent opener, except for a few of the complaints already mentioned. Mohinder's change was laughably bad, especially with him bedding Maya but i'm down to see what he turns into. It seems kind of out of character for him to inject himself out of the blue like that though.

D'ohboy

First hour, bleh...
Why didn't Claire just blast through a window or something to escape Sylar instead of cringing in a closet.
Nathan's finding religion was lame and seemed forced and out of character.

Second hour, better...
After Mo injected the serum I told my wife, "Great, instead of being 'just' annoying, now he's gonna be Super-Annoying!"
!VM reunion!

aynrandgirl

It's unclear, but his telekinesis may be inherent rather than acquired.

mdc3000

I thought it was good, laid some groundwork for the season and despite a lot of it feeling like a redo of past plotlines with slight twists, I enjoyed it. Not the best show ever but pretty damn fun to watch - and as long as Kristen Bell is on it, I'm sold. Also, glad to see I wasn't the only one thinking 'Brundlefly' with the Mohinder plotline...hopefully he shares the same fate as Seth Brundle, and quickly...

Deftones

also after watching stuff about the serum, it sort of reminded me of the 4400. people will have the ability to powers, but there will be a faction of people that try to prevent it.

Shannon Nutt

My prediction for Season 3:



I was hoping we'd see more than a one-shot episode from William Katt (he's actually a pretty good actor), but I guess that's not going to happen. Probably for the best - that gray spot of hair on his chin was driving me crazy! (You're not 30 anymore, Mr. Katt!)

I'm a little surprised there's not a lot of "love" for last night's show...I thought it was better than ANYTHING they did in Season 2.

Timber

It'll be sad to see you go.

Honestly though, why make the threat? We all know at least one of the things on that list is going to happen. Why stick around a few more episodes even?

DeputyDave

No. The first person Sylar killed in the Season 1 flashback was telekinetic. He then went back to Mo's father to show him the power he just "discovered".

A far as I know Syler's only power is figuring out how things work by studying them. After killing the telekinetic and looking in his cracked open skull he said, "So that's how that works."

riley_dude

Is he still popular? I think he has outlived his popularity. They need to deal with some other villians now. He's done in my opinion.

Michael Corvin

Sylar is definitely played, although the best thing about the two episodes was the Sylar/Claire Halloween homage. Pretty intense.

She was listed as a 'Special Guest Star' so I don't have my hopes up for 'Elle' being around much.

Did we? He poked around a bit but what did he actually do? Just saw how it worked like a timepiece? The only thing we are 100% about is that he isn't Hannibal Lector.

Very well said.

Shazam

It was... okay... More happened in that two hours than in the entire second season.

Unfortunately, as a result, it felt EXTREMELY rushed. They're literally fast forwarding the characters through plot to get them to a point where they can tell a proper story.

I dunno. That magic from the first season isn't there. The first season had lots of really strong temporary secondary characters that really added to the fabric of the show. The second season had none. That damned Maya, although the actor is hot as hell (and looked gorgeous in the summary show), needs to be removed from the show. The time travel is getting annoying and dangerous for the plot.

And the new "villians" were totally laughable.

Doc MacGyver

Oh I know, I was just very disappointed the entire ep, and where but DVDTalk is better to bitch?


I think I am done with it... I may tune in for a little bit longer just to get my Kristen Bell fix, but I realized a little too late into season 2 that this wasn't the show I thought it was going to be. It seemed as if they had some huge, Alan-Moore-esque story to tell with a begining and an end. Now it's pretty clear that they are making it all up as the go (or rather stealing from more talented people a la the aforementioned Mr. Moore) and it's just a shame. Season one showed so much promise.




That's exactly my point. They're learning all the wrong lessons. It's like the WB execs who want to make all of their Comic characters "DARK" because they equate Batman's success with his "Darkness." (No, doofuses, it's because it was true to the character. Batman is dark as hell. His movie should thusly be dark as hell. SUPERMAN, on the other hand... The Dark Knight was successful because it was true to the character in the comics which has been successful because clearly it resonates with people and has for a long time)

Similarly, they figured "Well, badass unstoppable Sylar was really popular in season one... let's make him even MORE unstoppable.. then we'll make him a GOOD GUY!"

"And people liked 'Badass Future Hiro' and 'Badass Future Peter'... let's give them Badass EVIL future Claire! out-of-character?! Character-shmaracter! It'll be hot!"

"What if PETER shot Nathan?! To prevent a terrible future! (people love time travel)... what? What do you mean 'why doesn't he just go back in time to before the press conference and tell Nathan not to expose his powers'? That's not AWESOME!"

For the love of God, just once I'd like to see a network drama that doesn't treat its audience as if they were blithering idiots.



-Doc

DJariya

Ratings were horrendously disappointing. 9.89M viewers

Last season began with 16.97M

Goat3001

^Well thats what happens when you have a shitty second season.

majorjoe23

At this point I'm kind of "eh," but I'll just take it all as icing to the first season.

firteen88

Peter can only teleport things when it's convinient for the lazy writers.

Gizmo

Yeah, the GF and I thought the same thing.

Haduken!


Exactly my thought. Hiro assumes Ando is the villain...but it could be the exact opposite. Why does Ando have special abilities? Did he have to acuire them to destory the evil Hiro?

Overall...decent episode. I love Elle and Sylar.

Jadzia

I wonder if that ad campaign that acknowledged it backfired on them. I have never seen a network use that as a selling point before. "Yeah, we know last season sucked, but it will get better."

El Scorcho

Wow, 7.08M people were masturbating to Brett Favre on their HDTVs? Wow.

ElementZ

Who's Shenkar?

Doc MacGyver

Too Fucking True.




-Doc