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REVIEW FOR

HEROES
Season Three
Episode Seven
“Eris Quod Sum”
Written by Jesse Alexander
Directed by Jeannot Szwarc

The good definitely outweighs the bad in this episode, though there was indeed some bad to be passed around.  Let’s get to that first.  I’m not sure how many more twists they can put in each episode.  Major characters die like it’s nothing… but wait, it was a trick!  But wait, that actually was a trick too because someone involved in that aforementioned trick is actually working for a trickster who is tricking the initial trickster!  I wish the story was strong enough to not rely so heavily on tricks… hell, I wish they’d just watch the first season over and over again so they could re-learn how to do what they used to do.  And that’s deliver constant 9/10, 10/10 Lost-quality episodes.  Plot holes come with the medium sometimes, but let’s try and not make them so gaping.

On the positive side, Elle is back.  Also, there is a pretty great Veronica Mars reference from Lyle.  When they discover that Elle has broken into the house, Lyle says “The bitch is back,” which is a direct reference to V-Mar’s finale.  The Elle/Claire stuff was good, and I still am in love with what they’re doing with Sylar.  They’ve made an increasingly stale character (as of Season Two) suddenly the most interesting member of the growing character collection, and I can do nothing but respect that.  I’m sort of shocked that they’re killing off all the villains that were being built up in Season Two (I mean, the disposal of Season Two’s Big Bad Adamwas necessary for Arthur Petrelli to rise up (quite literally), but the villain they killed in yesterday’s episode hardly got a chance to be badass… and Season One set him up to be even worse than Sylar.  Overall, the great stuff about this episode is gold, which already makes it as good as last weeks, but I just wish there could be more consistency in the show.

8/10

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Bad News

The Ex-List has been cancelled.  Since there is no Fringe on tonight, I’ll be talking about that tomorrow.  Out of all the new shows, honestly, how is The Ex-List the first to go?

CBS gets a -16.

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