Heroes - 10/13/2009 - Hysterical Blindness

I liked Peter's WTF moment when he realized he'd lost his speed and picked up SoundSeeing Girl's power.

 

i'll repeat what i asked before, what is the plot/storyline this season? so far the best i can come up with is 'strange carnys who also have powers are looking for others for some unknown reason and sylar is still on the show and can't be killed but has no point or story either'.

 

I actually liked this episode, a lot.

Maybe it's just a fluke that all the plotlines happened to hit high points simultaneously. But I even enjoyed Peter and Sylar, and the carnies got a lot more interesting.

It will be interesting to see if it continues to all come together, or if it was just a lucky week.

 

I have no idea what Samuel's deal is..maybe a Magneto makes Genosha storyline ala X-Men? Sylar is going to go thru another round of trying to be good and then the real Sylar comes thru and wreaks havoc...boring. And Synesthesia Girl her power is sound wave manipulation?

Claire's kiss was uneventful, she didn't even kiss back.

 

It seems like a lot of unrelated bits and pieces are being put out there and will all come together at the end. At least I hope they'll come together. Wading through all this backstory is boring.

 

Looked to me like she definitely kissed back. She didn't recoil from revulsion, that's for sure.

And I officially admit I was dead wrong about the new roommate killing the old roommate.

 

I'm trying to figure out how the Carny's circus appeared for Syler, and then seemed to immediately disappear. Do they have some sort of cloaking power? Does the circus move through space and/or time like Hiro? Remember they were in Japan when Ando spilled the slushie on Hiro's sister, now they seem to be in metro DC (Syler was arrested in Baltimore, and the Sorority Queen is in Arlington VA).

And in other concerns, if Peter was using his super-speed to rescue people (or get to accidents faster than the ambulance) he will be less effective now, will people notice? And since "seeing sounds" has to be the most useless power they have ever introduced, you know it has to have a dark side (witness the crack in the wall that playing the cello generated).
So far I'm cautiously optimistic about the series --the disparate threads seem to be coming together in a decent way and the motivations of the characters make a little more sense (although there have been so many retcons that you can't really attribute motivations to the characters).

 

Claire's kiss would have had more shock value if it wasn't in last week's previews and if the other girl wasn't so homely.

 

I liked this episode a ton. And I almost deleted my SP this past weekend.

As for lack of plot or where it's going... I'm liking it that way. It's more like the beginning of Season 1 where we (and the characters) didn't know what their deal was and where anything was going at all. We just went along for the ride with the characters and learned things as they learned them. I think when there's been a definitive plot, is when the show actually suffers.

 

Perhaps more to the point, when the plot takes over at the expense of the characters or, sometimes, basic common sense.

 

Overall this was a big "Meh" episode.....felt like all we did was watch Syler yet AGAIN struggle with then use his powers to harm folks...then the rest of the time was watching sound rainbows....ugh...I'm not giving up on the show, but sometimes it drags and drags and makes me want to just give up.

 

Which sounds become colors? It isn't loud/soft, it isn't pure/harsh... Or is it more based on special effects budget?

 

I liked learning about invisible girl and how she did it. My kids liked that the kids were singing the theme to the Greatest American Hero, they all sang along.

 

Your kids remember that show? Cool.

What would be the benefit of being able to see sound? Useless power IMO.

 

My guess is, Peter wanted to "connect" with SoundSeeing Girl, and his power reacted to that. If she had been an ugly guy with BO, Peter would still have his speed.

 

Yeah but at the end when she got frustrated playing the cello or whatever it was, she was able to crack open her apartments wall...so the sound can be a destructive power.

 

Agreed. I really liked this episode.

So it makes me think who wasn't featured. Parkman, Hiro, HRG.

Hmm... I know I don't like Parkman, but I thought I liked Hiro and HRG.