Have our heroes turned into Zeroes?
Short answer - Yes!
Long answer - Hell yeah!
Volume four - Fugitives - opens with the heroes all trying to live under the radar having returned to their normal, mundane lives. Key word here is mundane and serves to describe the episode in full.
While a group of Nathan's Hunters begin rounding up the heroes in order to send them to his version of Guantanamo Bay, Claire is the only one who finds out the dastardly evil plan Nathan and Angela are plotting - cue evil maniacal laugh - oh wait there wasn't one! This show is a shadow of its former self and isn't even so bad it's good!
The whole plot device of having claire running around in a desperate effort to save Parkman only for her to put her hands up when the hunters arrived, was very, very weak. It only served to position her as the saviour of those captured and allow them to commandeer the plain flown by none other than her daddy!
If there is one piece of advice I have for the writers of this show, it is to stop ripping your ideas from other shows. The last few years we've had plenty of ideas and even guest stars from the badly missed 4400 (a show with class, style, originality and plenty of substance) and now it seems you're raiding the rejection bin at the Days of Our Lives office. This show is going down hill so fast, I can't keep up! It needs to sort itself out quick. Either that or the show will end up like Prison Break, which would be a shame given it has such potential. I can't be the only person who feels this way, just look at the plummeting viewing figures on both sides of the pond!
The only reason I'm continuing to watch at the moment is the excellent, underused Angela Pettrelli who knows how to play all sides from all angles whilst making a fish pie! Bring her to the forefront and give her time to shine and I'm a happy bunny. Either that or I feel next year the bad guy, probably still the ran-his-course Sylar, will be stroking a cat in an underground lair!
Goddess of SciFi verdict 3/10
1 comment:
The first season was fantastic and they just seemed to lose it after that.
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