Thoughts on HEROES, Season 3, Chapter 5 - Angels and Monsters

8:01 - Nathan as narrator. Nice change, if only because I'm sick of Mohinderance.

8:02 - "What would make me happy is some straight answers." You and me both, Nathan.

8:03 - Okay... did I miss something? Why is Mohinderance shaking down drug dealers and not for the drugs?

8:05 - Damn. Thought Peter was actually going to follow through.

8:06 - So are Meredith and Mrs. Bennet going to join to form... The Mom Squad? And it looks like Maury Parkman IS on the loose.

8:07 - Miniature black-holes. That's a new one.

8:10 - "I promise to put you in a more spacious cell. With a window. And a vent." - Hee hee.

8:11 - Wait a second... Daphne can see Linderman? And he's forming The Legion of Doom?

8:13 - Noah is still one walking, talking Crowning Moment of Awesome.

8:14 - Why do I get the feeling that this guy honestly was one of the innocent people The Company kidnapped? Apparently Claire is carrying the Idiot Ball this week, having completely forgotten how corrupt The Company is given... oh, EVERYTHING THEY HAD TO DO WITH HER AND HER FAMILY FOR THE LAST TWO YEARS!!!!

8:15 - Oh gods... Maya is back. I guess it was too much to hope that she had left.

8:16 - Okay. Stan Lee? Call a lawyer now. Actually, wait until they totally drive Mohinderance over the line, let him get gunned down by The Company THEN sue someone. Come to think of it, Mohinderance is still working for The Company. You'd think - what with the security cameras in his lab - SOMEONE would have noticed all this by now.

8:20 - Hmmmmm... Pinehearst. First mention of them in the show, though they've been in the comics for a while.

8:21 - Aha! Yep. Another case of wrongful kidnapping. And... in defiance of the entire tone of the Season so far... Claire is actually listening to the guy and offering to help? Good sign.

8:24 - "Who do you think gave you these powers?"... "A doctor in California." Hee Hee.

8:25 - And, of course, Sylar screws things up again and undoes the most heroic thing on the show in a good while.

8:26 - Okay. If Noah actually starts accepting Sylar RIGHT AWAY as a result of this... I probably won't stop watching, but I am going to be really unhappy.

8:30 - Oh, THANK GOD! Noah takes Sylar to task. Claire takes Sylar to task. Nice to see that THEY still know who the bad guys are, even if the writers seem to be forgetting.

8:31 - "Like the Cantina. I never knew there was such a place." Okay... good sign again. Hiro being allowed to be geeky AND clearly out of his league rather than playing know-it-all master planner.

8:32 - Case in point. Everyone complains Hiro is over-powered. I say, not so long as he has his glass jaw.

8:33 - Ah. Exposition time. The Company created synthetic abilities - tested them on kids. Tracy, Niki, Barbara and Nathan among them.

8:36 - Put her in a cocoon, Mohinderance! End all of our misery!

8:37 - Oh, please say that we are getting the best of both worlds - a dead Maya and an irredeemable Mohinderance?

8:41 - Knox is working for Linderman? But wasn't he locked up on Level 5?

8:42 - Okay. Someone is wanting to restart the program and it isn't Angela... or so he claims.

8:42 - Nathan just got a Crowning Moment of Awesome there.

8:43 - Oh hell... he's going to Mohinder to try and fix this? This can't possibly go well.

8:44 - Yay! Now if only we could have confirmation that they are, in fact, dead. Maybe I shouldn't cheer until she's visibly digested.

8:45 - Ummm... does Sylar still have super-hearing? Because I can't see this going well if he does.

8:46 - Is it a sad reflection on the show that I like the black-hole guy a lot better than 90% of the people I'm supposed to care about?

8:47 - Well, at least Hiro is being written in character for the first time in a few episodes.

8:48 - I stand corrected... unless Hiro is getting ready to pull one hell of a rabbit out of his ass.

8:52 - Okay. Bennet and Claire... please be smart enough to see through Sylar's B.S.

8:53 - Uh-oh. Where is Meredith...?

8:54 - Okay... is this guy just a very powerful telekinetic? Or is this a Purple Man kind of thing?

8:56 - Wait.. who is that in Angela's head. Not Maury?

8:57 - Ah... THERE'S A Maury. And he wants Matt on his team.

8:58 - Oh crap... it's Arthur Petrelli. And he's ... what?



Final Analysis: I didn't see that ending coming.... am not sure if I like this or hate this... but I'll keep watching for a while longer.