heroes recap

Sylar Is a Shock Jock, and Worf is President

Last night’s Heroes ended the “Villians” chapter and inaugurated “Fugitives.” Unfortunately it was a recappy mess, though hints of what’s coming give us hope that the show is headed for an upswing. Spoilers ahead! As you can see in this clip, a lot of the episode was devoted to the theme that has been beaten…

Television Annalee Newitz Dec 16

Time Travel Means You Can Change Your Own Diapers

Last night’s episode of Heroes, “Our Father,” brought on the superhero sentimentalism you’d expect from an episode about supervillain parents and their ambiguously ethical offspring. Once you got past the tearful reunion scenes, this episode turned out to be a great example of how Hiro’s power to control time can actually change the past –…

io9 Annalee Newitz Dec 9

On Heroes, Everything Is Back to Normal

Last night’s episode of superhero freakout show Heroes, part two of “Eclipse,” brought an unexpected plot development. Everybody went back to normal. And I don’t just mean the plot arc from this two-parter about how an eclipse (which, strangely, takes place everywhere in the world) temporarily robs our heroes of their powers. I mean that…

Television Annalee Newitz Dec 2

Too Much Destiny on Heroes, and Not Enough Seth Green

Monday night’s Heroes, part one of a double-header called “Eclipse,” called back to some great moments in the show’s first season, right down to a kind of silly but charming love of comic books. In this clip, you can see the show’s latest guest star, Seth “Robot Chicken” Green, playing the manager of a rural…

Television Annalee Newitz Nov 26

What Have They Done to Hiro and Sylar?

Last night’s intriguing episode of Heroes, called “It’s Coming,” brought us deep into the crises suffered by central characters Hiro and Sylar. As one man regresses and the other moves forward in his self-transformation, it’s becoming obvious that Heroes cannot deal with the idea of making Hiro into a true hero. Why does Sylar get…

Television Annalee Newitz Nov 18

Shave Your Wrists with Heroes

Last night was the first new Heroes episode in three weeks, and a lot has happened since we last watched Hiro eat a pile of hallucinogenic hyena dung in Africa. Last week brought the big announcement that NBC was firing two major contributors to the show: co-producers Jeph Loeb and Jesse Alexander. Though the firings…

Television Annalee Newitz Nov 11

Heroes Is Saved by Homoeroticism and Daddy Love

Once again this week Heroes picked up steam by focusing in on one central conflict that has tugged all our characters back into each others’ orbits. It’s clear now that this season will be about family drama, featuring the dueling children of the Petrelli clan and the dueling corporations of its elders. More importantly, this…

io9 Annalee Newitz Oct 28

Vote to Kick One Subplot Out of the Heroes Timeline

Things heated up and came together in last night’s Heroes, just like when you put a bunch of peeps in the microwave and they swell up really big and kind of merge into a sugary, hardened blob. A blob that tastes really good. Our patience was rewarded last night: Disparate plot lines met in intriguing…

Television Annalee Newitz Oct 21

If the Writers Don’t Kill Half the Characters on Heroes Now, I Will

Once a fun show, Heroes has become an unrelenting barrage of new characters whose faces blur together like the hours of a crazed night spent with six hookers and a pound of bug powder. Why can’t the writers have the decency to at least kill a bunch of people before introducing ten new ones? I…

Television Annalee Newitz Oct 14

Heroes Has Lost Its Spirit Guide and Is Growing Slime Fingers

Last night’s Heroes returned to a problem the show had in its first season — too many characters doing too many random things — without returning to that season’s strengths. What was rewarding about that season was that we watched our main characters coming together and pulling the narrative threads of the show into an…

io9 Annalee Newitz Oct 7

Heroes Avoids Credibility, Grounded By Budget

Click to viewEnjoyed last night’s Heroes, but thought that some scenes were a little… underwhelming? You weren’t alone; series director Greg Beeman has been spilling the beans on what was originally planned for last night’s three set-pieces before budgetary concerns forced them to bring everything back down to earth. One of the cool things that…

io9 Graeme McMillan Sep 30

Heroes: Why Don’t We Do It In the Lab?

You can tell that Tim Kring, creator of mega-mutant soap Heroes, was overcompensating in a big way last night. In the exciting two-hour premiere, he proved to the world that he can make his scenes smaller, shorter, and faster than anybody else’s scenes. No more of those long, dreary trips to Feudal Japan like last…

io9 Annalee Newitz Sep 23

It’s Our Turn to Be Baby Boomer Fascists

Heroes ended on a high point last night, despite the fact that show runner Tim Kring had to wrap everything up in the eleventh episode due to writers’ strike woes. In fact, the best part was that nothing got resolved at all. Not only are we left wondering about several possible deaths, but we’re also…

Television Annalee Newitz Dec 4

Secret Identities Explained

Super-mutants fighting to save the future on Heroes are having to resolve all their issues in speeded-up time. The writer’s strike has forced show lead Tim Kring to wrap up in 11 episodes a plot arc he expected to unfold over 24. So last night’s episode felt a little frantic, with characters making bizarro decisions…

Television Annalee Newitz Nov 27

Sylar Is a Shock Jock, and Worf is President

Time Travel Means You Can Change Your Own Diapers

On Heroes, Everything Is Back to Normal

Too Much Destiny on Heroes, and Not Enough Seth Green

What Have They Done to Hiro and Sylar?

Shave Your Wrists with Heroes

Heroes Is Saved by Homoeroticism and Daddy Love

Vote to Kick One Subplot Out of the Heroes Timeline

If the Writers Don’t Kill Half the Characters on Heroes Now, I Will

Heroes Has Lost Its Spirit Guide and Is Growing Slime Fingers

Heroes Avoids Credibility, Grounded By Budget

Heroes: Why Don’t We Do It In the Lab?

It’s Our Turn to Be Baby Boomer Fascists

Secret Identities Explained

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