Heroes: Welcome Back
Star TrekStargate:AtlantisFireflyBy Lisa Fary
Cake fixes everything.
When I’m feeling poopy, baking usually gets me out of it. I like to bake cupcakes while wearing a multi-colored, swirly skull cap that makes my head look like a cheerily frosted cupcake from a Dr. Suess book.
Sylar got his cheery cupcake in this episode. After rooting through a human lie detector’s brains, he’s confronted with her obnoxious office sunshine committee, bearing birthday cake and smiles.
Until Sylar rises from behind the woman’s desk, hand covered in her blood and brain bits, gleefully exclaiming, “Cake!”
I’m so glad he’s back. And also glad he’s not being taken so bloody seriously! I actually guffawed at that scene and again at his elevator scene. Not in the bad way, either, like I’ve been laughing all season.
Also back this episode is Hiro, for a minute until Papa Petrelli interferes and leaves him hanging. On a pole. On the side of a building. A whole bunch of floors up. Without powers. Sixteen years in the past.
On another note, does Pinehearst not have a single hot nurse in its employ? They had to send the creepy, scaly monster guy in to inject that Marine with Red Promicin? Really?
Actor Chad Faust was an appropriate choice for the Marine test subject, though. His pre-injection interview with the Flying Senator could have gone like this:
Flying Senator: Why do you want to be a superhero, son?
Marine: I’ve been there before, sir. I survived basic cable. Was on a show that wasn’t as loved as this here Heroes, sir. But, we weren’t as hated, either. I believe you fellas got some of your season three concepts from my old post, sir. The 4400? Promicin? Sound familiar? Ours was neon green, though, which I understand is totally different, sir.
I didn’t think Heroes could be like this again, but I was blown away by this episode. The only weak part was Matt and Daphne in the search for Isaac’s sketchbook. Matt says, “You’re a good person!” and Daphne’s daft smile says, “I am what you tell me to be!” The same daft smile crept across her face when she took down the runaway bike messenger, as if to say, “I have pleased The Matt!” That couple is an episode of Dr. Phil waiting to happen.
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Lisa Fary’s early exposure to classic Battlestar Galactica in 1979 is largely responsible for her lifelong interest in science fiction and her childhood ambition of being an intergalactic space cowgirl. She thinks diagramming sentences is a fun alternative to Sudoku.
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