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Believe it or not, with the whole Leno debacle the chances of this getting a 5th season have dramatically improved.

Believe it or not, that's good news to me. I don't mind the bad writing... everyone knows it happens from time to time is real comic books.

Not everyone can be Chris Claremont or Peter David.

Wow. I don't know what to say about yesterday's episode. A few really good moments, and a few terrible ones.

- Matt & his wife, that was awful acting in that sequence
- Peter, Ma, & Cello girl, terrible
- Samuel kidnapping Vanessa and her plea to be released was just the worst

Seriously, it feels like 8 different people write 5 minute bits on this show and they just paste it to make the episode.

Finally something sort of happened. I guess I'll take anything at this point after 2 hours last week of nothing.

Didn't Peter say he wanted to keep Claire's power for a while last week? And then take flying boys power in pretty much the next scene.

Why did Ando take Hiro from Japan to a mental institution in Florida?

I was ready to say enough with Cello girl but they got in interested in her again with Peter's dream.

What's frustrating with this show is that even now, after 2-3 bad seasons, there's still plenty of potential with all the characters. So it's worth checking out if they manage to make something good. Sadly, the show was only half good.

Wow, what a dearth of posts.

There are some things I liked about yesterday's episode, where they actually recognized things that happened in past episodes! Mohinder mentioning that Hiro was the one who put him in the asylum (I know that was only a few eps ago but I thought they would just drop it). Ando remembering that there was an alternate future where he electrocuted Hiro (even though that particular Deus Ex Machina was a little lame). Parkman actually questioning all the stupid stuff he did in the past (though his sense of responsibility will no doubt force him to act). Parkman actually questioning HRG's methods (why not just ask your daughter for the compass, dummy). There actually being a point to the compass tattoo on Peter. Peter using his power to forward the plot (although the whole confusing scene with his flying powers was rendered completely unnecessary). And I liked the last scene, with Hiro and co. crashing HRGs place (instead of spending three episodes wandering around a swamp). There was actually a point to introducing Cello girl, and a point to her powers. Very little of Claire and her idiocy.

The Vanessa stuff was terrible, but maybe that was to show the cult-like pull that Samuel has. I still don't understand how Samuel transformed from somewhat of a bumbler to such an accomplished cult leader. And how stupid is Peter, still?

You mean the guy who told the deaf chick "I'll call you later"? Also, Peter signed his apologies and stuff to her when she wasn't actually looking at him. Did he forget how this works or something?

My DVR screwed up and I missed the first 20 minutes or so. Could somebody please tell me why Parkman was working with Noah? Parkman has been MIA for like the last 6 episodes and if I remember correctly, had absolutely nothing to do with Samuel and the carnival folk. Why would he just all of a sudden be working with Noah? Was that explained at all in the first 20 minutes of the episode.

Yeah.

Since being hunted by the cops for murder, shot nearly dead, escaping from police custody in the hospital, and not being cleared for any of it, Parkman's been reluctant to re-enter the job market. Not because he's a wanted man or anything but because he wants to be a stay-at-home dad!

When HRG asks him for help on the case, Parkman reminds him that the last time he was asked to lend a hand, he had a serial killer stuck in his head and was turned into Swiss cheese. Parkman asks for one good reason why he should go, HRG obviously said "FOR CLAIRE!", and he agreed since this is Heroes.

Adam Tyner beat me to a recap. But if you have any of the OnDemand channels, check them out. For me, they always have the preceeding week of Heroes, though it goes away by the time the next episode airs.

Well...that makes PERFECT sense.

HRG said "For my..." - pause (gulp) - "..dotter!"

Ha! Somehow that didn't strike me as odd.

Again too, she was walking out the door at the time and probably wouldn't have been able to read his lips anyway. Poor Peter.

Maybe the show has been doing what it did in the first year? Like maybe there was a webcomic last week that explained that since she can see sounds, she's learned to hear what people are saying by watching the colors that float by?

I haven't looked at those webcomics since the first season. I wonder if there was one focusing on the paramedics (Peter's coworkers?) who were treating his wound last week when he just sat up, removed his bandages and healed while ten feet away from them.

Yeah, I thought that was odd too.

But we're talking about a guy that got re-instated as a Police Detective a few months after he was arrested on national TV in front of the White House strapped with a bomb.

I thought Parkman agreed because HRG insinuated that they would come after Parkman's son eventually. That's also why he was staring at his son later on while deciding whether or not he was a coward.

But yeah, him jumping back into his old life after all that had happened seemed a little odd, though he of all people could do it, considering his power. And he actually acknowledged that he let Sylar go and then didn't do anything about it! It's like someone remembered there should be some continuity in this show. Now they only need to work on moving the plot forward without showing their main characters to be idiots.

Also, does Samuel and his circus travel underground with his power, somehow?

I thought this was twice as good as last week. Probably because it was half as long.

This.

Suresh can break out of his padded cell, but has problems picking Ando up off the floor?

And this is just being picky, but it cracked me up when the alarm started going off and Suresh said "They must have searched my cell!" I don't know if they bother with an extensive search of a cell when the door is lying in the hallway.

Thought I'd put this here...

I know that there is a René / Samuel anecdote in here somewhere, but I just can't bring myself to it.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/TV/0...iti/index.html

You'd think that a series that has a compass as its main prop might have a better sense of where its going ....

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