Heroes Heroic Return

Yay!!! The best show currently on television is back in action! BLISS!

Basically last season ended with a "bang" - hee, it's a pun because the Petrelli brothers blew up! Read the prior post if you didn't catch the extravaganza.

Now, it's four months later and here is what people are up to:

Mohinder - Indian Doctor Extrodranaire
He's in India giving not very well attended lectures and standing in front of his projector. Move outta the way 'hinder! Get a Gore Crane or something. Talking with a map across your face is very ineffective although I do appreciate your attempt to cover up that hair cut. Basically, all he gets out of this is letting 10 people know that heroes can have a virus. Then he's contacted by a member of The Syndicate or whatever they call themselves. Dude can change any metal into gold so we'll call him the Bespectacled Alchemist. I'm sure he's got a real name but I can't keep up. Anyway BA wants Mo to track down and cure heroes with the virus. Cause Mo's blood IS the cure. It's like every paranoid schizophrenics worst nightmare. Mo agrees but it's just doing it as a ruse to help out Mr. Bennet. He sneakily cures, wait for it... THE HAITIAN!! Hooray! Welcome back guy. Then it's back to New York where he now lives with

Matt - Psychic Detective and Loser
Matt Parker used to be my favorite character. He was lovable and honorable, had a hot wife and a baby on the way. But that was last season - now he's annoying and questionable, lost the wife and lives with 8 year old Molly Walker. I guess I can't blame him cause Molly is about the most irritating little girl on the planet but come on Matty boy where's the spunk? And why is he not all concerned about his own child? Boo. Anyway, he's made new york detective by shooting black people. He's worried about Molly's dreams where someone uberevil is stalking her. Creeeeeppppyy. He interrogates Mama Petrelli about Kaito's murder and she screams him out of her head. Way to go mama! Matt reacts like he's been slapped and I have to give some kudos to Greg Grunberg because he does a good job with the mental acting. Speaking of Mama Petrelli....

Nathan "I've got a Rooster Nest on my Face" Petrelli
I don't even know what to say...the beard...it's...terrible. I know he's supposed to all hard up and stuff but, seriously? That is the best the costume folks could come up with? It reminds me of those godawful Domninoes commercials hocking the new oreo pizza. I can't look at it. So I don't. Next!

Peter Petrelli - MMMMMMM
He lives! I so knew he would but it's still exciting when they open up his box and there he is. I don't know about the new physique...I like Milo skinny but I'll take it anyway I can. He's all confused and doesn't know who he is and being in Ireland home of the whiskey doesn't help. So he's taken to (where else) a bar and thankfully not given a shirt. He gets beaten up, discovers his powers and is washed down by an Irish lass. Being the superhero hero that he is he busts loose and saves the day! Sweet. Saving the day a few hundred years earlier is...

Everyman's Hiro
In the most predictable plot line thus far, Hiro is setting up to be his personal hero Takezo Kensei who is actually a drunk british expat - is there any other kind? Anyway, to keep history on track he takes up the mask and saves the girl then nobly allows the brit to take the credit. This would all be a snoozefest if it weren't for the totally adorable/sweet/complex way of Hiro. Awww....

Spanish twins
One thing I really like about this show is that they aren't afraid of subtitles. They understand that when you are Japanese you speak Japanese. I like that. So the fact that the twins speak Spanish does not bother me. Nor does their slightly incestuous feeling relationship. In fact, I think it's kind of hot. What does bother me is the stupid nature of their 'powers'. First off, ummmm, how are you infected with the black oil? Call Mulder! Change shows! Second of all, quit whinnnnnyyyyinng. This duo had better get either naked or dead real fast.

Clairebear and Papa
Mr. Bennet is still supergreat. He takes a job at a "kinkos" to help hide his family. Unfortunately for him he's got a huge softspot for his indestructible daughter. Who happens to be an idiot. But I let it slide because she's 16 and we were all idiots then. And she can't help that she was spoiled rotten for the first part of her life. At school Claire meets West who can fly and who is pretentious. I miss her old gay boyfriend. I think West needs a better power than flying, like maybe the ability to only make eastward turns? Then you could have some irony. Anyway, Claire sucks at being inconspicuous what with jumping off tall things and wearing shirts that barely cover her nipples. In the end she decides to lop off a toe to see if it grows back and it does! Ewwwwwww! One wonders if the chopped off toe grew another Claire. Unfortunately, West is a perv and sees the whole thing through her window. He leaves her Chandra Suresh's book which is pointless seeing as Claire has lived it.

Minors
Ando is still Ando and I love him. Kaito gets pushed off a building. Bye!

Where art thou?
Nikki - don't care.
Micah - meh.
Sylar - previews on an island!!! How very Jordon Collier of you.

What did you think of the first two eps?