HEROES Episode Review: Acceptance and Hysterical Blindness

Well you can definitely say things are heating up on Heroes, even with the slow simmer that was this week, and the week priors, episode.   Even though every episode ends with their usual “To Be Continued…” moniker, these past two episodes really seemed like they fit a little bit more into the two-parter mold.   Mostly because the characters from last weeks and this weeks episodes were prominent in both and it didn’t really veer off into what the overall arc of what this season is about.   And what is this season really about?   So far they have been taking their time with what could possibly be the life ending, earth shattering point of it all.   Not that I really have a problem with a nice, good build up but I’m really dying to know what’s up with that compass and what the final motives of Samuel and his circus are.

And why did these episodes fit so well into two parts?   Well from where last weeks episode left off, it made it such the perfect cliff hanger for this weeks episode.   But let me start off by jumping back to last week and throwing in some explanation.   Mostly the episode centered around Nathan as he continues to figure out he might not all be right in the head and slowly Sylar is creeping out.   He also starts to get visions of an accidental death that he was involved with that may have been erased from his memory.   But once he goes digging for answers and talking to all the wrong people, Swoosie Kurtz among them, his fate at the end of the episode doesn’t bode well for return.   We also see Hiro as he continues the only slightly interesting “Dial a Hero” story line he’s been given as well as facing the fact that his power is now slowly killing him.  And speaking of powers not going to right, we also get Tracy trying to work some angle with H.R.G. and her powers start to back fire on her.

Then we have this weeks episode which was pretty good and that was mostly do to the fact that Madeline Zima’s character professed her interest in Claire and they had that girl on girl kiss that we got a glimpse of from last week.   Of course Claire also suspects her of being a nut job stalker trying to take people out to be close to her but later its revealed other hands are involved with those more dastardly deeds.   There’s also the continuation of Peter and the new girl on the block with powers as they have a slow build up to hooking up, come on its soooo going to happen.   Now Sylar is also back in the game and they work the amnesia angle for a little bit but hopefully that will be cast aside rather quickly because if there’s anything that’s more overused then amnesia in TV I’d like to hear about it.   Well sadly I looked at the numbers and not even a pretty hot girl on girl kiss was enough to bring in too many big numbers for the show this week, a pretty sad 5.6 million, so I don’t know how long Heroes may be fated to last.   It’s sad because it’s up against stiff yet ridiculously dumb competition.   I can’t profess how much I hate Dancing with the Stars and all the IQ lowering stupidity that show offers, and yet there’s really no other place to move Heroes.   Yet again, crappy reality programming reigns supreme over shows that can actually offer a stimulating story line.