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HEROES Vol 5 #5:Hysterical Blindness/Season 4/09
Hysterical Blindness
Lydia cautions Samuel against bringing in new members to their clan. Peter tries to connect with Emma, who wants nothing to do with him, and Sylar struggles to find the person he once was.
I actually pretty much liked this episode, which is a nice change of pace. I LOVED the children singing the theme to Greatest American Hero. That was way cool.
I actually pretty much liked this episode, which is a nice change of pace. I LOVED the children singing the theme to Greatest American Hero. That was way cool.
Agreed - the Greatest American Hero thing just made me all misty eyed...
Over all, a fairly decent episode. Sure, a couple scenes seemed like forced add-ons that broke a little from the tone of the rest (I mean, you can have different stories but they usually hold together with some theme or parallelism), but I guess over all it was fine.
Some people were commenting in earlier threads about how the suicide roommate angle would get dropped. but, they did address/explain it this episode..
As a random point, I just realized that the elderly woman doctor who was treating the deaf lady (and said she was her mother) is the same actress from Star Trek: DS9 (that recurring bajoran kai that Kira and Sisko hated). Her voice still makes me shiver with contempt (for that character, not the actress ).
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"Dancing with the Stars" gave ABC Monday's biggest overall audience, and CBS' comedies, particularly "The Big Bang Theory," helped the Eye score a demographic win for the night.
ABC snagged 14.3 million viewers and a 9.3 rating/14 share in households for the night. CBS (11.5 million, 7.2/11) came in second, beating out FOX (10.4 million, 6.1/9). NBC continued its struggles, averaging just 5.4 million viewers and a 3.4/5. The CW drew 2.6 million people and a 1.6/2.
CBS (4.0) narrowly beat FOX (3.9) for the lead among adults 18-49. ABC finished third in the demo with a 3.1. NBC scored a 1.9 and The CW a 1.2.
Monday's hour-by-hour breakdown:
8 p.m.
ABC: "Dancing with the Stars" (16.1 million viewers, 10.4/16 households)
FOX: "House" (12.9 million, 7.5/11)
CBS: "How I Met Your Mother" (8.6 million, 5.4/8)/"Accidentally on Purpose" (7.8 million, 4.9/7)
NBC: "Heroes" (5.6 million, 3.5/5)
The CW: "One Tree Hill" (2.6 million, 1.6/2)
18-49 leader: "House" (5.0)
9 p.m.
ABC: "Dancing with the Stars" (16.8 million, 10.9/16)
CBS: "Two and a Half Men" (13.3 million, 8.2/12)/"The Big Bang Theory" (12.8 million, 7.9/12)
FOX: "Lie to Me" (7.8 million, 4.6/7)
NBC: "Trauma" (5.5 million, 3.5/6)
The CW: "Gossip Girl" (2.5 million, 1.6/2)
18-49 leader: "The Big Bang Theory" (4.7)
10 p.m.
CBS: "CSI: Miami" (12.9 million, 8.3/14)
ABC: "Castle" (10 million, 6.7/11)
NBC: "The Jay Leno Show" (4.9 million, 3.2/5)
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I like this episode. And honestly, though college drama's not particularly interesting to me, Claire's actress (Hayden P . . . however you spell it) is really engaging.
The whole season so far has been interesting.
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This season has had its interesting moments, but it feels like two episodes worth stretched over five. I'll keep tuning in (I've stuck with it through far worse), but I'm not really feeling like they have a strong direction for the show to go in.
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This season has had its interesting moments, but it feels like two episodes worth stretched over five. I'll keep tuning in (I've stuck with it through far worse), but I'm not really feeling like they have a strong direction for the show to go in.
This is the same feeling I received. As I watch Heroes, I can't help but think that even their mini seasons are too long. I am interested to see how important this music ability will be (up until this episode it seemed about as useful a power as being blue).
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I am interested to see how important this music ability will be (up until this episode it seemed about as useful a power as being blue).
It may be that the writers are trying to expand the world's notion of powers a bit. So far all the powers manifested are useful in some way, but there must be a whole lot more people who don't have a "combat useful" ability and just get hippy vision; though at the end where she crack the drywall makes me rethink that.
It may be that the writers are trying to expand the world's notion of powers a bit. So far all the powers manifested are useful in some way, but there must be a whole lot more people who don't have a "combat useful" ability and just get hippy vision; though at the end where she crack the drywall makes me rethink that.
This is the same feeling I received. As I watch Heroes, I can't help but think that even their mini seasons are too long. I am interested to see how important this music ability will be (up until this episode it seemed about as useful a power as being blue).
Did you miss the part when she put a big old crack in her wall when playing her new violin at home!?!?! Seems to me there is a dark side to his "happiness and light" super power!
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Was she happy when she put that crack in the wall? I thought (and maybe I remember wrong) she was sad or angry. That the music is related to the emotion of the person playing. Guess I have to re-watch that scene.
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I liked Pete's and the deaf woman's interaction. Was the lady's husband a musician? She can obviously play the cello (viola?), but is it a result of her power, or something that she's been able to do, but didn't see the point, having lost her hearing? Could Peter always play the piano, even somewhat haltingly, as they did, or does the borrowed gift allow some capability with sound production as well as sound manipulation?
The deaf woman(name, anyone?) had to have amplified and modulated the sound from the cello in order to crack the wall. She could probably do it with any sound, with practice. Does anyone else think that the colors represent different pitches or frequencies? Or maybe are connected, as an earlier poster said, to the person's emotions?
Sylar's in a cool situation, now. If he goes psycho again, then he'll be in a veritable smorgasbord of genetic material to absorb! I don't really want him to go completely villainous, though. I hope he becomes some sort of antihero. Doing nasty things to nasty people for the good of all.
I think the problem with plotting, in this show, at least, is due to the characters being separated from each other, geographically, ideologically, experientially, and emotionally. I look at other, very successful shows, and compare them to Heroes, and the thing that the other shows have in common is the common element of that show.
Brothers and Sisters, the family dynamic and its satellites are want keeps the plot going in one direction, instead of going all over the place. Heroes has only the powers to tie everyone together within the plot.
The show Grey's Anatomy is about a bunch of doctors and such.
FlashForward, my favorite new show, has something that everyone has in common, except for, apparently, two people. (Dominic Monoghan rocks!)
Heroes really has nothing like this for its characters to wander around in. Its like switching DMs every week. The story can't advance, even if the players keep their same characters, because they keep switching refereeing styles, house-rules, standard-rules-preference, etc.
Plus, it seems like, season to season, large scale events within the Heroes world are not referenced again. All the empowered people were being rounded up, but what is the upshot of that? Just because Djenko is dead, does that mean that the effort is going to stop? Bizarre drowning deaths? Does no-one tie this to the empowered? Now that Sylar has his true shape--I guess Nathan's personality was the one "killed"--where has Senator Petrelli gone? To be fair, this one might be answered.
Just a few thoughts.
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