dear mania writers,

this is how you write a review.

sincerely,

the public

p.s. nice jobe, stephen lackey!!

"A"?! Holy $*#%. Never thought I'd see the day.

Can somebody get me back up to speed? I've watched all episodes but things are so convoluted.

So has the government just given up on dealing with these people? Danko's team just went away?

What happened to "The Company" HRG, Claire and the Petrelis formed in that diner? That whole idea was abandoned the next show without mentioning it.

Mom's new b/f was annoying. I'm glad they're not on regularly any more. Good to see Noah might get some.  She's a cutie, too.

I think once Nathan wasn't bending the President's ear any more, and Danko got killed, there wasn't as much of a push.  The Company still seems to be alive, maybe just still in the getting-off-the-ground phase.  But Noah's Wall of Weird showed that he's still tracking people w/ abilities.  Angela's just been a bit distracted by the Nathan situation.

I was glad to see Hiro pushing back against Samuel.  Unfortunately, he just doesn't have the killer instinct to compete with Samuel.  If he really wanted to take charge, he could have stopped time, broken a couple of Samuel's fingers, then started time again and threatened to repeat as necessary until he had Charlie back.  Glad to see he was wising up a little, though.  At least he figured out that Samuel needed him, and therefore he had a degree of leverage.  Was Mr. Dreadlocks another guy like the Haitian?  Looks like that's what he was doing -- scrambling up Hiro's memory.  Didn't do as good a job as the Haitian, though.

Overall, I thought this was a pretty good episode.  Keep up the good work guys!

Sylar was awesome. Had the best lines of the episode. I don't remember them off the top of my head, and any paraphrasing will ruin them, but his lines at the Petrelli Family Dinner were fantastic.

Not as good as his "Ooh, cake!" line from season 3, which was, I think, the best line of the entire series (that's my opinion, so calm down), but they're up there.

Also, re: the lens flare.

Have you not noticed that the lens flaring has been in every scene that takes place at the carnival since the beginning of this series? I think it's a nice little bit of expressionism (expressionism? In HEROES? You jest, sir!), and I like it.

All in all, I think this season is WAAAAAAYYYY better than it's been, and if they can keep this level of work up, I'll continue watching. Glad I stuck with it through the last season and a half.

-Rifty

jdiggitty, that's a good question about the new company.  I'd forgotten about that and it seems the writers did too, or it may have died with Nathan.

Stephen, it's funny you mention the Star Trek DVD.  I watched the DVD with my newly purchased Rifftrax commentary.  It was okay, not the best rifftrax, but decent.  There was one riff that had me LOL because it was just out of nowhere.  One of the guys on the commentary asked, "Why did Heroes suck so much after the season?"  While this episode was much better than many previous ones, I think a lot of us on Mania have asked that question too.

redhairs,

that's why this show gets so frustrating. They made such a big deal out of forming a new "company", as that was the direction the show was going then BAM!, Nathan is back in Washington, Peter is a Paramedic, HRG is unemployed, Claire goes to college, and Angela isn't doing anything. WTF?

They constantly introduce these big plotlines and then pretend they never happened two shows later.

And Peter didn't seem to think much of just giving up the Healing power that cost so much to get, without even doing what he went to get it for.

so for a couple weeks now they have been plugging another big showdown between Sylar and Peter.  This fight will be extremely boring unless peter becomes smart and steals sylar's figure how things work power.  But then sylar will have to feel overconfident and just mess with peter giving him time to figure out how a couple of sylars powers work. It would make the fight interesting. Peter is a much better relator then Sylar so it should not take him long to understand powers especially the ones he had before.  Every power Sylar uses against him he would only get to use once before Peter could toss it back at him.  If its not done that way or if they dont give Peter some way of using more then one power. Sylar will just mop the floor with him

This was probably the best episode this season. Nicely done all around.

The Bennett scenes were the least important plot-wise but easily the most fun. It was everybody's hateful Thanksgiving with people they don't really like, only with spies and superpowers added. And its always fun to see the REAL evil mastermind of the show--Mr Muggles.

The Nathan/Sylar battle was extremely well done and would have been very riveting if we hadn't known for quite some time now how it's going to turn out. Like I said last week, get on with it.

And fft had it right about Hiro vs Samuel. The writers are actually using that naive sense of good and evil that everyone hates against Hiro. He just doesn't know to deal with someone who consistently  fights dirty. It's going to be fun to watch for those of us who haven't already made up our minds. And seriously, who else on the good side is even remotely strong enough to take on Samuel? Parkman? Claire? Mama Petrelli? (Well, MAYBE...) Since Peter's been toned down, there really aren't any powerhouses on the good side.

I do have two issues with this episode:

1. Where's Tracy? They made a big issue of her joining the carnival just last week and she's gone this week. If nothing else she should have had a cameo at one of the dinner tables.

2.Claire gets Gretchen back only to immediately turn around and drag her off  on the exact kind of dangerous, silly adventure that drove her away in the first place? THAT"S gonna work...

Great episode.  Regarding Peter though, I'm so confused as to how his power works at the moment.  He's lost and gained it so many times I don't remember.  So basically he can absorb and use only one power at a time now, right?  Like dracor said, not much of a match for Sylar.  Hopefully when he said he'd find a way to defeat Sylar and keep Nathan around, that meant he'd figure out how to get his original power of absorbing all powers back.  I think that the writers probably took that away because if he'd stayed that way, Sylar wouldn't seem so threatening.  But I really want to see Peter in full form again.  He was more fun that way.  If only they would let him get them all back and give us the Sylar/Peter fight we've all been waiting for since the dismal ending of Season 1.

jdiggity, you are right about Peter giving up the healing power without healing Hiro.  By the way, is Hiro still dying from the brain tumor?  He was doing really bad a few episodes ago but now seems to be alright.  I still don't know why he didn't get Sylar to heal his brain when he healed Charlie's.  

Also dracor, I don't think Peter would want Sylar's power because he had it at one point in the last two seasons and it gave him the hunger for powers that make Sylar kill for them.  I forgot to ask in my last post, how did Peter end up only absorbing one power only in the first place?