Heroes 303: One of Us, One of Them

The myriad characters that inhabit this world are not all interesting; some are downright annoying--like Daphne. French fries are more French than that girl. But without all these characters, how can the writers ensure that as little happens as possible in each episode?

Nice, though, to see Jamie Hector, aka Knox, aka Marlo Stanfield from The Wire. Having absorbed the realism of The Wire, I was unable to watch certain shows that I started right after, such as Veronica Mars (Veronica was such a user and yet remained popular, despite her declarations to the contrary) and Prison Break (I was told this was a great show if you can suspend your disbelief, but I just wasn't able to). Speaking of Veronica Mars, I don't mind seeing more of Elle, though I guess there's no more Weevil/Jesse to see.

Sylar is still the main attraction. I wish the writers would stop humming "It's a Small World" and make everyone related. And Sylar's "hunger"--some powers just seem a bit unnecessary given the ones he already has. Does he need a sonic boom voice when he can effect the same strength with telekinesis? Perhaps if he's bound but not gagged. He has forgotten about some of his abilities, too, or perhaps he's on the road to recovering some still. We don't see him using his super-hearing ability or his paint-the-future ability.

Painting the future was always one of the shittier abilities, not necessarily in a story sense but in an imagine-if-I-had-a-power sense, but now we have discovered an even shittier one--being able to paint the future of only Parkman. And since when does this finished product . . .



require this startup . . .



? Where are my beautiful black blots in the final painting? We need to see more care in the production of this once-interesting show.