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It’s, to say the least, an incredible improvement over “Going Postal.”  While the end of this four episode webseries did completely and utterly suck, the first three webisodes were actually pretty solid.  With better acting and more interesting characters this time around, Heroesimproves their efforts by introducing a guy with goals that the audience can relate to and throws him in a dark situation that doesn’t attempt to tie into the over-arching plot of Heroes.  The backstory of the character, Santiago, is revealled nicely, and the special effects are damn good for a webseries.  The “love interest” here is able to turn into water, and it looks very, very sleek, especially in the shower scene. 

On the negative side of things…

It’s still not as good as it should be.  While it’s interesting enough for free online media, it could have been a lot better.  Santiago’s power–accelerated probability–is lame, but I can’t really blame the creative team, because the fans of the show are the ones who voted on this power.  While the series does get major bonus for the interactive element, they didn’t do a great job of making his power interesting.  It’s literally a mix of Hiro and Daphne’s power.  But, that said, all the powers other than the water transformation are rip-offs.  One of the characters from episode four looks and acts like Antonio Banderas doing a lame impression of Elle’s power, and Santiago’s mother’s ability is the exact same thing as Meredith’s… and she reveals it in exactly the same way Meredith did.  So sloppy, and even sloppier that it seems as if this was an attempt at being clever.  Also… there’s a scene where Santiago says “You torture me!” …But, as it happens, they didn’t.

So while the episode definitely gets horribly cheesy at the end with the faux-Banderas and the faux-Meredith, the first three webisodes were still basically solid.  Hopefully, the webisodes will keep improving series by series.

5/10