Heroes: The Hard Part
May. 9th, 2007 12:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sdelmonteThe hard part, I am afraid, is getting through an hour of this entertaining show without feeling like I need to nitpick. I want to love Heroes. I want to embrace the way I have embraced Lost and Supernatural and Veronica Mars, but something always stops me.
Case in point: Sylar and his mom. Well acted, well directed, creepy as anything, and quite gripping. But in ended pretty much how I thought it would. It strove to humanize Sylar - which I approve of entirely - but I'm not sure it really succeeded in expanded our understanding of him more than that great scene with him and Mohinder at the beginning of the episode. In short, I was left dissatisfied when I should have been enthralled with Zachary Quinto's performance.
This, however, was at least something that was trying to move things along for Sylar, and also for Hiro and Ando. Mohinder's scenes were just pointless. "I'm going to stop Sylar!" "Yes, but first you have to cure a cute little girl of her Coincidental Fatal Illness so she can use her powers!" "You are manipulating me!!" "Yes, you and the audience. Now go save her, and we can deal with Sylar after he explodes." "What was that?" "Nothing." I just don't see what we gained here.
And if Molly's powers aren't working, wouldn't the Company still have its technology to track the mutants...supers...metas....what ARE wwe calling them? I don't want to call them Heroes because Sylar sure isn't a hero.
Anyway, I think I have said why I was not madly in love, again. Not that I didn't enjoy this episode. Not that Hiro doesn't break my heart. Not that I don't adore Claire, who gets all the best lines when her dad is offscreen. And not that I wasn't trying very hard to figure out what's up with Mama Petrilli, doing her best Angela Lansbury-in-The Manchurian Candidate impression. It's all that these things that make me want to love this show. It's just a shame it never quite gets there.
Oh, and the best moment? Nathan's shrug when Claire learns he can fly. That one little bit of non-verbal acting was great! Adrian Pasdar rocks.
Case in point: Sylar and his mom. Well acted, well directed, creepy as anything, and quite gripping. But in ended pretty much how I thought it would. It strove to humanize Sylar - which I approve of entirely - but I'm not sure it really succeeded in expanded our understanding of him more than that great scene with him and Mohinder at the beginning of the episode. In short, I was left dissatisfied when I should have been enthralled with Zachary Quinto's performance.
This, however, was at least something that was trying to move things along for Sylar, and also for Hiro and Ando. Mohinder's scenes were just pointless. "I'm going to stop Sylar!" "Yes, but first you have to cure a cute little girl of her Coincidental Fatal Illness so she can use her powers!" "You are manipulating me!!" "Yes, you and the audience. Now go save her, and we can deal with Sylar after he explodes." "What was that?" "Nothing." I just don't see what we gained here.
And if Molly's powers aren't working, wouldn't the Company still have its technology to track the mutants...supers...metas....what ARE wwe calling them? I don't want to call them Heroes because Sylar sure isn't a hero.
Anyway, I think I have said why I was not madly in love, again. Not that I didn't enjoy this episode. Not that Hiro doesn't break my heart. Not that I don't adore Claire, who gets all the best lines when her dad is offscreen. And not that I wasn't trying very hard to figure out what's up with Mama Petrilli, doing her best Angela Lansbury-in-The Manchurian Candidate impression. It's all that these things that make me want to love this show. It's just a shame it never quite gets there.
Oh, and the best moment? Nathan's shrug when Claire learns he can fly. That one little bit of non-verbal acting was great! Adrian Pasdar rocks.
