I think I’ll open by saying after I finished watching episode 305 I took a nap. Not because there was any good reason for me to be tired at the time, but because when I finished the episode I really felt like going to sleep.

Things I really didn’t like:

- Hiro killing Ando? At first I was like “No, there’s gotta be some keikaku going on. Hiro wouldn’t do that. And more importantly it wouldn’t be directed in such a halfassed manner if Hiro really did just do that.” But from the looks of the end of the episode, he really did do it. What the fuck guys? Do the directors not even have a soap-opera level grasp of creating tension/suspense/drama in important scenes?

- I realized what Nathan’s head!Linderman reminds me of: Battlestar Galactica. Yeah, you heard me; I said it (I also realize that BSG’s not the only or even the first thing to pull something like that, but the style of the direction is what made me think of it–also BSG’s probably the most popular thing lately to have made use of it). The thing is, Baltar and his head!Six hijinks are just about the only thing that’s kept me watching BSG( (just to clarify, this shouldn’t be read as a butthurt BSG fantard bitching about how Heroes ripped off their favorite show, because for the record I really don’t like BSG) and Nathan is not nearly that entertaining (I feel like they were trying to play the ‘lol, talking to someone not there’ gag a couple times but it didn’t work very well). Copying BSG is bad and you should feel bad Heroes writers/directors.

- In the car, that scene between HRG and Sylar where Sylar’s like “lol, rehabilitation takes time” was one of the most poorly written/acted sequences I’ve seen in a while. Fuck, their joke timing was all off even though the jokes were simple and not very funny (it’s like you could tell the actors thought so and had a hard time covering it up).

- HRG’s character development has been really schizo lately, or maybe I just think it is. I really didn’t like the bit where he tried to coerce vortex-boy into killing Sylar (maybe it’s just because I was thinking he was going to be more clever about killing Sylar rather than something so direct and stupid, especially after that like to the Haitian last week “Just until I find his weakness, then I’m going to kill him”–death by evil vortex of doom is not a weakness HRG, stop being a fucking retard and start working the Xanatos roulette!).

- In a brilliant bid for the worst written/acted scene in Heroes this week, the bit with Nathan confronting his mother about the experiment nearly takes the cake from the HRG/Sylar car scene. I don’t think the writers have actually read/watched any SF that handled the experiments-on-humans trope before because they’re going about it all wrong (I also feel the need to add that the whole viral angle they’re working here is very reminiscent of Lost, not gonna fault them for using the viral-evil-company ploy since it’s pretty common but the presentation is so similar it’s kinda lame).

What I did like:

- Sylar saving Angela from crazy!Peter. Dunno why, but I really like the idea of Sylar turning ‘good’ like this (something about his personality in that one future scene and when he’s being protective of people is really interesting–it feels a lot more genuine than Peter’s fucking hero complex). 

 

tl;dr: Goddamnit Heroes! Stop sucking!