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heroes_meta - Heroes 4x03 Review

- "Imogen" Heap's Bad Body Double makes me squee, although it's as thought the song itself is criticizing Heroes, saying, "This is not Jessica! It looks like her, is slightly murderous as well, but it's not her! Stop trying to trick us, writers, you're lousy at it."

- Ando, where's you're brain gone? What, getting laid regularly has now completely killed the ol' neurons? Hiro can be at your wedding next year because he's a flippin' time traveller. Hell, he could go to your wedding next year right now ~~and make you spill the cake over Kimiko, resulting in the shortest marriage in history~~.

- Isn't it funny how Nathan!Sylar's using his memory-from-objects powers to simultaneously fake his way through Nathan's life and fuck it up tremendously? A power given to him by Angela way back when for no apparent reason? Oh, Angie, why'd you do it?

- Also, isn't there the risk that Nathan!Sylar touch something that gives him the memory of, oh, I don't know, dying and being mind-flipped? LIke, he'll be putting on a tie in the morning and *whoop* "Oh, hey, Season 3 recap. Ouch."

- Apparently the writer's now think that the audience has very short-term memory and won't mind watching the exact same scene four or so times. There are better ways of showing us how futile it is to change the past and oh guess what you already did! Or was Charlie chopped ~~liver~~ brains?!? (Also, I hate to compare Heroes to Supernatural because it only shows how much my brain's been overrun by SPN, but Mystery Spot beats Acceptance on time-loops and failing-to-save-character-from-death.)

- Hiro's become too dependent on his powers because, honestly, what's so hard about talking to the suicidal guy instead of trying to fix his past? And Hiro, really, when someone tells you, "I guess it all began when...", ignore them because there's a lot of other spots where it could have gone wrong that you can fix. So he photocopied his butt and you couldn't stop him. Fine. Why couldn't you have gone back to where suicidal guy chose not to tell his family, for example, which is another time-place where this "all began".

- So Nathan!Sylar, your estranged daughter's one-time casual fuckbuddy, shows up at your door and you just...leave the house and let him wander around? What the fuck?!?

- Sylar's hair - recently deceased and covered in dirt - is still awesome.

- Whoot! Two evil, manipulating, rich ladies with so many ulterior motives sitting at a table drinking wine! I want a whole episode like this.

- The senator was such a stereotypical sleeze. "Oh, look, my old sex-toy! And, what's this? She has ambition and aspirations? Ha! Obviously the course of action is to imply she's just a 'ho, I'm her pimp, and we need to get it on right now. That'll work."

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