Written on January 12, 2010 at 10:05 pm by TrintiyVixen

Heroes: Close to You

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By TrinityVixen
Volume Five, Chapter Fourteen – “Close to You”

Somebody obviously told the Heroes crew that this episode would be paired with the first of the new Chuck episodes—one ending with a cliffhanger, no less! They, wisely, if unfortunately for those of us watching this show, decided not to make “Close to You” at all essential to the overall story. Instead, we caught up with the least popular, least interesting characters and watched them run around and be silly or angsty as appropriate. There’s nothing to this episode that can’t be summed up by the “Previously on Heroes…” intro next week.

The lowlights:

-Hiro and Ando bust Mohinder out of the least progressive looney bin this side of that House on Haunted Hill remake. They go to find Bennet just as he’s getting his smooch on with Lady Law & Order.

-Mama P has the wiggins about Emma and her cello being responsible for lots of death. Peter borrows her ability; also gets the wiggins; destroys Emma’s cello; and makes a general freak of himself.

-Matt protests about liking being a stay-at-home Dad despite running off to help Bennet find the woman with whom Samuel is obsessed. Janice, rather than be grateful that Matt isn’t being a prick about her exerting her independence for once, keeps goading him until he’s half-convinced he’s a coward just for not wanting to get mixed up in the Company again.

-Samuel kidnaps the woman he has been stalking. This is a disappointing, petty development, though I can’t help but squee about the fact that Vanessa, the woman in question is played by always talented, luminous and yet melancholically beautiful Kate Vernon, lately of Battlestar Galactica. (A show so superlatively better than this one, they shouldn’t be rightly measured on the same scale.) As I predicted, Samuel gets what he wants. Whether he can hold onto this woman is harder to say, though she, like Edgar, seems unable to entirely dismiss Samuel as evil. Oh honey, I feel you on that one.

Next week: EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW STOP HAVING SYLAR MAKE OUT WITH CLAIRE FOR PETE’S SAKE.

About TrinityVixen: There’s an asterisk on TrinityVixen’scollege transcript that assures anyone who reads it that, though there is no specific major, degree, or certificate for it, she did, in fact, complete some kind of creative writing program as an undergrad. Armed with that symbol of irrelevant experience, she has polluted the internet with her opinions and horrible fanworks ever since (and for quite a long while before). Living poor in New York until she finds a means to become independently wealthy, she must subsist on the juicy meat of fandom. Fandom and noodles. And instant soup.

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There’s an asterisk on TrinityVixen’scollege transcript that assures anyone who reads it that, though there is no specific major, degree, or certificate for it, she did, in fact, complete some kind of creative writing program as an undergrad. Armed with that symbol of irrelevant experience, she has polluted the internet with her opinions and horrible fanworks ever since (and for quite a long while before). Living poor in New York until she finds a means to become independently wealthy, she must subsist on the juicy meat of fandom. Fandom and noodles. And instant soup.