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Heroes
Season Three
Episode Nine
“It’s Coming”
Written by Tim Kring
Directed by Greg Yitanes

Okay, I’m aware something big is coming.  I mean, the episode is titled“It’s Coming.”  I’m just left wondering WHAT is coming and why it’s taking so long to come.  That’s what she said.  But still, were nine episodes deep in the season, and other than some character development from Sylar and a reveal here and there… what has happened?  The strength of the episodes are moderately high, for the most part, but the arc seems to plod around aimlessly.  This week was okay.  It had some great stuff, some boring stuff, and some okay stuff.  Here’s the lowdown/downlow.

+ Sylar and Elle:  Best scenes in the episode.  Kristen Bell is by far the best actress in the series, so it’s always a joy to see her perform the more dramatic scenes.  This bit of the episode has HUGE significance in Sylar’s development, and takes both characters to a really strange, captivating place.  The dialogue could have been better here, but that’s never being Kring’s strong point.

+ Claire and Peter:  Horrible.  Worst scenes in the season, probably.  They have a confrontation with Knox and Cheddar Bob… and it just doesn’t really make sense.  I like the “Claire’s blood” development, but how they got there was careless.  Claire, in escaping from Knox and Cheddar, had a plan to distract them from Peter, who she thought they were chasing.  What was her plan?  Jump out the window in the exact direction Peter was climbing down.  What would that do?  Worse yet, when she landed, she said to Peter, “I told you I had a plan.”  The only thing that could have amended that was if Peter called her an idiot.  Spoilers: he didn’t.

+ Matt:  Meh.  Not bad.  Kind of anticlimatic, but I did like how, in the end, this plot made it seem like two definite sides were forming.

+ Hiro and Ando:  It’s like carnival food.  It’s good at first, but gives you the sh**s later.  So Arthur Petrelli made Hiro think he was ten years old.  Funny, yeah.  Stupid, yeah.  An excuse for Kring to make Hiro behave like an Anime character–very, very much yeah.  It might have been okay in an episode that had stronger B plots… but this just didn’t.

Hope it’s better next week.

5/10

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