wildcat

Well, I finished watching Heroes Season 2. Which was basically season 1 all over again, except with a murder plot. Oh, and instead of the big apocalypse being a nuclear explosion, it's a global pandemic. Once the Writers' Strike ends, what does season 3 hold? Is the big scare going to be propaganda and information technology wars?

And it's not even like Claire got any good horrible body trauma scenes, other than when she cut off her toe to see if she could actually regrow one. Instead, Claire mostly got a jerkface boyfriend with whom she had no chemistry -- is this the best they can do? Her friendship with Zach from the first season was so awesome, and they go and replace it with lame boyfriend who baits her like a jerk and then overprotects her -- first he's an emo outsider boy and then he's lame Protector Grunty Boy-Man.

Hiro is suddenly very good with his powers but consequently all the special effects are a bit blah and they don't really do anything exciting with him, visually. He just pops all over the timeline regardless of possible universe-peril, in hopes of saving everyone.

And basically, the story arc of the series as a whole could best be articulated by the actors playing Matt Parkman and Mohinder Suresh hitting each other over the heads with thick scripts while screaming "Daddy Issues!" Over and over again. Forever. Until they die. Until we die. Until the world is dust. Because that's basically what happens constantly in the second season. It's not even just that they have daddy issues, but everyone does, and everybody keeps talking about it, over and over and over and over and over and over again.

Which isn't to say there's nothing good about the season at all. Kristen Bell did a good job as a sociopathic electricity-flinging assassin. Except that she's a sociopath because her father screwed her up, of course.