Look at that! Heroes didn’t suck!

By Lisa Fary
Two whole hours without the show lagging or me getting bored? Good job, Heroes. You deserve a cookie.

Mmmmm. Cookies.

How did Heroes not suck tonight? Let me count the ways:

1. A bloody effective, moving funeral for a character who’s been irrevocably dead to the audience since the end of last season. Adrian Pasdar was there, but Nathan was completely dead (you have to specify between “dead” and “completely dead” with Heroes. Usually, if there’s a healer in the same hemisphere, they’ll find their way to a Petrelli).
2. Peter wanted to be Superman, the golden boy swooping in to save the day. But with all his new emotional baggage, his only option is to become Batman, sitting on rooftops, listening to a police scanner, prowling for bad guys. His family has the money – I’m sure he can set up a lair and paint a logo on some body armor. For the first time in years, I’m not annoyed by Peter.
3. Hiro’s end appears to be nigh. His brain tumor has tossed his speech faculties into a fanboy word salad, indicating that the tumor is growing and time is short. It’s time for Hiro to go. Unless he’s near a Petrelli, in which case, there will be a healer rushing in to save him any second.
4. I didn’t know what Sylar was going to do all episode. His MO is pretty set in stone: locate, taunt, kill. I thought the Sullivan Bros. Carnival was toast when he showed up, but, over the hiatus, I forgot one very important thing about Sylar: he’s a moron. All this time he’s relied on his powers to control people with fear. A guy like Samuel only needs a second to get his foot in the door and instill doubt. I suppose Sylar never really had a chance against Samuel, the man who knows what everyone wants to hear.
5. Samuel ripped Sylar’s face off and he feels a tortured, pining kind of love. It looks so good on him.

As an aside, could you imagine what would happen if Samuel and Mama Petrelli worked together? They’d be unstoppable.

Lisa Fary is a graduate of the creative writing program at Florida State University and holds an advanced degree in Special Education. Her earliest influences are Princess Leia, Rainbow Bright, Astronaut Barbie, and her 6th grade teacher, Ms. Palmer. She’s angry that it’s almost 2010 and she still doesn’t have a hovercraft, but will accept a jetpack as consolation. That jetpack had better be pink with a rhinestone monogram.

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