I still feel the show is the best sitcom currently on air, but I really think making it an hour-long show for an entire month is too much. The episodes would be so much tighter and funnier if they had stuck to the half hour format. I mean, like, Dwight Schrute is funny in small doses. An hour of a freaky character who killed a live cat by placing it in a freezer without any remorse gets a bit too grating.
Agree. Although I've never truly warmed to the American version, not out of anything it did wrong but out of everything the original did right. I still re-watch the Ricky Gervais model occasionally and still get the same laughs. Not so much the Carrell model,though.
Back on topic . . .
Heroes
Episode 3 - - in which Sylar displays the extraordinary ability of cleaning bloodstained hands in the time it takes to walk out of a screen door.
Maya and Alejandro are starting to to get on my nerves. Week in week out, they run, whine, get caught, display abilities ,whine, run, whine, get caught, display abilities, whine, run, whine ,get caught, display abilities, whine . . . nothing has happened to them storywise or characterwise in the three weeks we've seen them. Get to where you're going already, Wondertwins.
And am with you on the Peter subplot. The Reverse
Regarding Henry Amnesia trope - - -good and evil are aspects of memory - - -and easing him into an antihero role is interesting but there are smarter ways of doing it.
"You're one of us now . . ." then cue little sister nodding in glee
Peter's character here is just going through the same conflicts his character went through last year- - -stumbling around in a haze trying to figure out who he is, what he is. How long will this guy soulsearch anyway? The amnesia is sort of belaboring it but it's the tastiest wrinkle in his story. And NOT opening the box - - -now there's a lame way to stretch out the season as much as they can.
And those notes in the sword - - - and the inscription to open on the hilt that turns out to be soooo easy to open. A bit dumb eh? If Kring doesn't have a big reveal planned for this - - -or at least explain why no one bothered opening it all these years - - -this goes in the Peter Petrelli-not-opening-the-box slot.
Felt a tingle of geek pleasure when that other Enterprise crewmember made an appearance - - -as a New Orleans
doyenne ,too. Hope her story turns out to be interesting. Looks it.
Also think the last painting is forged or at least something to that effect, if only because you could see that reveal coming all the way from middle of Season 1. It's a pretty
blah reveal is all and I'd like to think Tim Kring is upping his game this season around so he's not bothering with
blah reveals like that anymore. Misdirection bodes well if only because it means he has something up his sleeve and that he's gonna make me eat all my disgruntled fan ranting - - -like turning Mohinder and Parkman into his show's Midnighter and Apollo or bringing back Chris Eccleston's invisible man or having something happen with Claire's . . . um, appendage. Making me eat all my disgruntled fan ranting is something I want this show to make me do as soon as possible . . . like maybe next episode?
The whole thing with Noah/Mohinder/Parkman/Molly/The Company is possibly the only interesting subplot in the series so far, the one with the most possibilities for an interesting ride.
The return of Sylar did give the dose of endorphin the series needs at this point. (Fat Candice was a hoot) The third episode was so-so but for the scenes that he was in - - - not including that aforementioned gaffe,of course.