Very disappointed by this. Felt utterly flat with no surprises, apparently no dead Heroes and only a couple of new characters.
Spoiler Warning. Don't read this if you haven't seen the episode.
I was so looking forward to the new series after loving all of the first. Lots of rumours raced around over the summer. Sadly it looks like none of them were true and Heroes may be settling into soap opera territory.
The episode starts with a quick summary of what has happened so far. Then we start seeing how each character is getting on:
- Claire and family are in California. She is starting in a new school. Dad works in a photocopying place. No-one is happy. She immediately meets cool loner dude (you can guess what we discover about him later in the episode)
- Parkman the cop didn't die. Gets detective badge. Taking care of little girl who is having nightmares and doing scary drawings.
- Suresh is lecturing to empty rooms on virus that is killing the Heroes. Dodgy character from "The Company" tries to recruit him. But Suresh is playing him
- Hiro is back in the 1600s and meets his hero who turns out to be a gaijin mercenary.
- Hiro's dad and Nathan's mum get messages indicating that they will soon die
- No sign of DL Hawkins and family
- Oh look, Nathan survived but is an alcoholic
The only additional characters are two people from Central America trying to get to the US. The girl can kill with her mind.
And so it meanders on. Nothing vaguely approaching a surprise. Then it weirdly cuts to Cork Ireland where English people put on bad Irish accents and open a container in the port. It is empty except for, yes you got it in one, Peter Petrelli alive and kicking.
All we need now is for Sylar to appear in next weeks episode to realise that the writers are complete chickens and need a serious kicking.
If this is as good as it gets, I have to wonder if Heroes will make it out of pilot season this year. Very very poor effort.
Rated /5 on Sep 26 2007 by The Bandonian
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"It is empty except for, yes you got it in one, Peter Petrelli alive and kicking."
Right, you guessed that before it happened, sure you did...
If you're "very dissapointed" why did you give it 3/5?
Posted by: DNA | October 09, 2007 at 11:29 PM
Friad so. As soon as I saw the person lying there I thought "ah no, no no no, they've killed no-one".
3/5 because I want to like it since I loved season 1. Episode 2 was better apart from the the worst Irish accents since Tom Cruise in Far and Away.
Posted by: Conor O'Neill | October 10, 2007 at 12:26 AM
I was watching first two seasons breathlessly. I haven't seen something so interesting for a while. I couldn't wait for a next episode. But when the third season started I was so disappointing. I couldn't believe that they can make such a big turn to worse. Pity.
Posted by: Biz | September 14, 2009 at 12:58 PM