‘Heroes’: Lizards and the Haitian’s return
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It’s like getting the tiniest sliver of Grandma’s pecan pie. It’s good, not always enough to satisfy, and enough to make you go back for more. The show did pick up a bit this week, and despite recent complaints of ratings double-dipping, ‘Heroes’ is still strong.
Recap: Some recurring themes came up this week. Claire hates hiding who she really is (her identity is discovered by the flying kid, and I loved how her toe flew into the air when she cut it off); Peter saved somebody (did the Irish guy really call him ‘’Boyo’’?!?); the mysterious evil attacked (this time, Mrs. Petrelli); Suresh and Bennet hatched another piece of their plan; and Hiro acted like his namesake. Still conspicuously absent was the Sanders clan (D.L., Micah and Jessica/Niki) and Sylar. What’s up with that?! I can see excluding characters for an episode, but leaving us hanging at the beginning of the season? Maybe ‘Resident Evil’ got in the way.
There were some interesting new developments. It was revealed that Alejandro can negate and even reverse Maya’s eye-bleeding virus power; the importance of Isaac’s paintings (and Tim Sale’s great art) will come back into play as HRG begins a search; Hiro’s hero Takezo Kensei has a power way back in 1621; and the Haitian (left) is back, baby!
We’ll see what all this means, but savvy viewers can hear the gears turning in Tim Kring’s and the other writers’ heads. Hopefully there are some more twists coming up since everyone is in early speculation mode. Though UGO’s death watch from last season was fun to follow, no one really knew.
‘Origins’: By now fans know about the ‘Origins’ spin-off planned, including the superstars who are signing up to write and direct (‘Hostel’ director Eli Roth and ‘Superman Returns’ writer Michael Dougherty are the latest to sign on). Noted comic book enthusiast Kevin Smith gets to release the first episode. In the latest Wizard magazine, when asked what he could reveal about the power he’ll be giving to his character, all the ‘Clerks’ director would say was, ‘It’s one that every comic book fan is very familiar with but one that I consider to be the lamest of all the superpowers.’
Lame superpower. Hmmm. Well, we’ve already had language assimilation and super hearing and turning metal into liquid, soooo ... which power are we talking here? Here’s a few I came up with, and of course it can be argued that each of them would be great to have.
Malleable skin. Light manipulation. Roof repair. We could do this all day. If you have other powers to add, lame or not, join in with your comments. I have my own theories, as I’m sure many of you do, on what the powers of some of the upcoming characters (especially the musically inclined Dana Davis) will be. Even a possible one for the second ‘Star Trek’ original supposedly joining the cast -- Nichelle Nichols (Uhura) -- but we’ll leave that for next week. Though things fall through, like Jessica Biel as Wonder Woman, we’ll (hopefully) have a cast interview!
Until then, enjoy some music from Hayden Panettiere’s MySpace music page!
Photo: NBC.com
-- Jevon Phillips
