If you’re a fan of The CW (and statistics prove that you’re almost certainly not), then you were likely on pins and needle last night waiting for the Heroes debut of Veronica Mars star Kirsten Bell. And if that’s all you were looking for, then you didn’t go to bed disappointed, as indeed Heroes was on TV last night, and a character played by Kirsten Bell did appear on it. Everything else about the show would likely have let you down greatly. And disappointing fans of The CW is no small feat.
Despite my eloquent protests last week, this episode continued to spend an inordinate amount of time on the development of a new Hero with uninteresting powers. I consider it a personal slap in the face that the show’s creators were unwilling to scrap a multimillion dollar episode and then rewrite and re-film it within a week. Come on guys. Someone learning how to jump rope is not very gripping television. That should have been taught to you on the first day of television school.
Other things we learned:
Kirsten Bell’s character was introduced, although I don’t recall her character getting named, so we’ll just call her “Veronica Mars” to keep things simple. She’s looking for Peter, and claims to be working for “a company.” As near as I can tell, she pretty much proves that there are at least two unknown groups at work in the Peter subplot. One, the group that tipped off the Irish gangsters that he was in the shipping container. Two, the group that Veronica Mars is working for - she didn’t seem to have any clue about the Irish container thieves until she got to the docks. I still have no idea which of them put Peter in the container in the first place, although it seems likely that Peter was in the presence of the delightful Ms. Mars at some time in the past, given his newfound electrical abilities.
The new character Monica spent the first half of the episode reciting lines we heard last season. “Something is happening to me,” “I was supposed to be somebody,” etc… She then spent the second half of the episode explaining her ability aloud, to any audience member who hadn’t figured it out yet. This led into the aforementioned learning to jump rope scene, which was right about when my head exploded. WE KNOW YOU’RE CONFUSED AND UNCERTAIN. WE KNOW WHAT YOUR POWERS ARE. WE DON’T CARE.
I thought it was kind of odd that the Nightmare Man had to lure Parkman and Nathan into another room to be able to use his powers on them. I can understand why he needed to talk his way out of the handcuffs, but once free why didn’t he just use his powers then? Why the subterfuge of luring Parkman into a closet? The Heroes canon already has volumes of evidence that proves Parkman is an idiot, did we really need it confirmed again?
Wasn’t there something weird about Mohinder insisting on taking Molly in for treatment at the Company? He knows that she used to be held there right? Because of her incredibly useful powers? Hell didn’t he help rescue her from the Company? So by taking her back, isn’t he demonstrating that by being in possession of Molly, he’s the one who fucking took her in the first place? And yet Bob sure
didn’t seem to care: “Wow, you seem to have found that massively powerful little girl that got stolen from us a few weeks ago. That’s lucky! Of course we’ll help her, no questions asked. Hey, wanna have this taser?” Keeping track of who knows who is working for who in this show is making me dizzy, and unexpectedly, a little aroused.
Watching Ando reading the notes that Hiro stuffed into the sword is one of the most contrived framing devices I’ve ever seen. It’s sort of like watching an episode of Quantum Leap, only without the delightful company of Scott Bakula.
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June 25th, 2009 at 11:22 pm
I like to watch Veronica Mars episodes as well Lost. I found your blog on google and read a few of your other posts. I just added you to my Google News Reader. Keep up the good work. Look forward to reading more from you in the future.
November 6th, 2007 at 2:13 am
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Man i just love your blog, keep the cool posts comin…..
October 29th, 2007 at 8:10 pm
It is nice living between U.S. and U.K. series scheduling, knowing that pretty soon Heroes will become dull and difficult to watch. Knowing stuff like that makes me really miserable that some day everything I once knew and loved will probably only exist as a rerun on some Godawful cable channel.
Knowing how The Sopranos ended and being able to ruin it for so many people around me anxiously waiting for the end on British TV cheered me up though.
October 29th, 2007 at 4:46 pm
I think you’ve been overlooking one big introduced character and all the mystery surrounding. The Nissan Rogue™ seems to show up at odd times so I’m wondering if it’s not working for the company as well. But will it parter with Sylar in upcoming episodes? He did take quite a liking to it in episode 4.
October 25th, 2007 at 2:27 pm
It wasn’t ‘Enter The Dragon’ it was ‘Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story’, so instead of learning awesome kung fu from ‘The God of Kung Fu’[TM] she learned how to jump up and down from Mowgli.
October 24th, 2007 at 3:19 pm
I was just assuming the introduction of all these boring characters was a result of a scrapping of that “Heroes: Origins” series (which apparently is not being scrapped).
I must have been in some sort of haze to have liked this series last year. I am astounded at its badness this season (in particular, the acting).
I think the constant threat of an explosion in NYC in Season 1 made me overlook a lot of narrative creakiness, but with no big threat to give the new season a dramatic arc all the weaknesses are more apparent.
We just have a dumb symbol constantly repeated that no one gives a crap about.
But hey, at least it’s not Lost.
October 23rd, 2007 at 11:12 pm
vombie: the second season hasn’t been that bad, all thing considered. I’m being deliberately hard on it, because quite frankly, a guy who fawns all over something is less amusing than some asshole tearing it down. Don’t ask me how the world works.
In the five episodes we’ve seen so far, the shows creators have managed to develop some fairly interesting subplots. Things are moving, albeit slowly.
If they can manage not to get too bogged down with new characters, and keep all the subplots moving, I think the show will be all right. If they don’t, well… I guess I’ll keep watching anyways. At least it’s easier to make jokes about a bad show.
October 23rd, 2007 at 1:44 pm
*hear even
October 23rd, 2007 at 1:44 pm
I absolutely love the fact that you put that pic of Bakula up there, haha. I adore that show. Still I’m dissapointed to here the rest of that stuff about Heroes… ah who cares, Bakula is the man!
October 23rd, 2007 at 12:31 pm
I’m really getting bored with Hiro’s tour also. Is he destined to mess stuff up and have to fix history? Seems kind of “Yankee in King Arthur’s Court”. I’m getting confused about who’s in what Company and who’s working for it and who’s rogue.
I agree about the new girl. The Bruce Lee thing was cool, I was just hoping they weren’t going to cop-out that her power was to absorb/learn ONLY from tv. That’s be very lame!
And, don’t we have 2 people that can fly now? Do they think they ran out of powers??
October 23rd, 2007 at 11:29 am
being in england im not lucky enough to have seen the second series yet
- however from what i’ve heard its become a rollercoaster of dullness and irrating character developement. I recently watched series one and felt that the season really didnt pick up untill the 4 episode, by the end of series one i was anxious for more. Could this be the case with series 2?? a slow start? with an addictive middle? and an anti climatic ending?
either way i need my fix of heroes…
October 23rd, 2007 at 11:11 am
I think the only saving grace with Monica’s new power is showing her watching “Enter the Dragon” by the end of that episode. Otherwise, this episode only seemed to show the ignorantly pointless lull between the time that she discovers a new power and that moment of impending doom where all hell breaks loose because of her power.