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1. jen* wrote:

   Color me pissy about the decapitation and then naming of our (somewhere-in-) African brother. And then Hiro – my long-time fave – spending the show under (literal!) crap-sedation, and then waking up to be attacked by Superbad……ugh.

   How did Ando miss all that, anyway?

   I feel like the show’s writers are actively trying to make me stop watching. Like they specifically do not want me in the audience. I wonder how long it will be before I comply?

   Posted 11 Nov 2008 at 11:15 am ¶

2. jmn wrote:

   What bugs me so much about this show now is that every bad guy isn’t really a bad guy. It has only worked once, and that was with HRG in the first season. Every other attempt at “humanizing” bad guys, particularly Sylar and Elle, are both poorly conceived and executed plots. I guess in the next chapter, we’ll find out that Arthur P. was really a misguided do gooder who was only trying to help everyone realize their potential by giving everyone abilities. What ever happened to ordinary people with extraordinary abilities?

   Posted 11 Nov 2008 at 11:47 am ¶

3. Lola wrote:

   Well it is official, all non white characters exist for the sole purpose of assisting white characters. They have no lives and often no names of their own. Once their usefulness to white characters is over they will be disposed of and never return from the dead.

   Posted 11 Nov 2008 at 12:13 pm ¶

4. Madame Zenobia wrote:

   It was Arthur who masterminded the attempt on Nathan’s second wife’s life in Season 1

   Nathan’s SECOND wife? Have I missed something here?

   both were well-meaning kids before each was undone, Gabriel by “The Hunger,” and a misguided crush on her, and Elle by the realization that Primatech was bad people.

   Frankly, they were a waste of air-time. I didn’t need to see them being all gooey-eyed and innocent to know that once upon a time in their life they were gooey-eyed and innocent.

   Claire has yet another super-powered relative

   Again, I can name about 3-5 dead/forgotten characters they can bring back to this show that would prove to be more useful to me than Meredith, queen of the trailer-park and her brother, Flint, king of liquor-store-holdups. I mean, really, again this to me was a waste of time. It was nice seeing E.Rob. I like his amorality where concerns these idiots-heroes/villains. This storyline just furthers the Bennett line and its connection to the Petrellis; giving way to Kring’s ultimate vision…Dynasty/Dallas/Knots Landing/The Colbys on comic-book acid. *shaking my head and hating it*

   Usutu can’t escape his own destiny

   It was after that reveal that I decided I will no longer donate my precious time to viewing this series.

   Instead, it came off as the flattest of the series’ temporal adventures, and undermined several existing characters in the name of “providing depth.” Sylar as a hurt geek? Elle as a disillusioned nutcase? Linderman as a conflicted soul? Sometimes, bad guys need to be bad, period. The stink of sentimentality (toward white characters, anyway) continues to grow on this show, and at a time when it can ill afford to alienate more viewers.

   I agree. And consider this viewer alienated. I’ll continue to visit your site as I like the commentary and the viewpoints here in regards to this saga. But last night’s episode cemented it for me. I’m DONE with this.

   At least the writers were kind enough to let Hiro name-check Usutu before we saw the corpse.

   Still not enough for me. Screw Kring. Screw the writers. Screw the show. PERIOD.

   Will Ando be able to stop Arthur from deep-frying Hiro’s brain?

   I was so in a state of WTF at Utsusu’s death/beheading that I couldn’t bring myself to care about Hiro’s fate.

   Next Week: The forecast calls for an eclipse. What will happen? Who packed their suntan lotion?

   Maybe another writer’s strike will happen. Yeah, like smack dab in the middle of taping. And if not that, hopefully Armageddon and maybe some post-nuclear fall-out will rain down on this series and we’ll be left with the inimitable, enigmatic cockroach of Season 1’s voiceover fame. At this point, I think I’d rather watch it crawl around endlessly doing its nocturnal thing in the midst of this trainwreck. I’m harsh, I know, but really….just can’t gel with this show anymore. Maybe its expectation? Maybe mine are too high for it? I don’t know…

   Posted 11 Nov 2008 at 12:18 pm ¶

5. Madame Zenobia wrote:

   @ jmn,

   I totally concur. Why psychoanalyze these villains? I don’t want to feel sorry for them. I want them to be badass, I want to cheer them on, I want to hate them and love them…I don’t want to hold hands with them and recite the serenity prayer. Sheesh.

   Posted 11 Nov 2008 at 12:20 pm ¶

6. Madame Zenobia wrote:

   @ Lola,

   You are right; so it seems, doesn’t it? And it’s a cot damn shame, too.

   Posted 11 Nov 2008 at 12:21 pm ¶

7. David wrote:

   @Madame Zenobia:

   I dunno, I like humanizing evil characters personally. There’s nothing like a little complexity in a show as simply titled as “Heroes.”

   That said, this episode was, in my opinion, AWFUL. Beyond the whitewashing of the active cast, or the name reveal post-decapitation, I couldn’t see the meaning in nearly anything that went on.

   Things have always been bad? Super. I don’t care. You haven’t progressed the story an inch by connecting random dots in the past. News flash to Kring, connecting arbitrary events to scenes we’ve seen before doesn’t create meaning or flow in itself.

   /sigh

   Hopefully I’m wrong, but only time will tell…

   Posted 11 Nov 2008 at 1:01 pm ¶

8. Diana wrote:

   I’m mad they killed Usutu. In addition to just killing off POC, they tend to kill off all the seers who to me always make the story more interesting. Otherwise, the series has definitely lost focus and logical sense. Episode upon episode, we move back and forth in time, and people long dead somehow always come back to life. It’s tedious.

   Did anyone on this blog watch The 4400? I liked that formula much better, where you had a core group of good guys and a core group of bad guys and plots progressed more centrally. The show was kept interesting with guest characters with “special powers” wreaking havoc on the regulars. Also Isabel was bad-ass. I miss that show.

   Posted 11 Nov 2008 at 1:10 pm ¶

9. EvilAngelfish wrote:

   Ugh. Is anyone other than the Petrelli Clan fans enjoying Heroes these days? It’s so disappointing, on so many levels. It’s like they’ve gotten rid of every unique character, plot element and story line and devolved into the stuff I never liked about comic books. It would be one thing if Heroes had been set up as the Bennett/Petrelli Superpower Wars from the beginning but since it wasn’t, it’s extremely difficult to interpret the hatchet they’ve taken to the stories of the characters of color as anything but an insult. It’s basically saying ‘*those* characters aren’t interesting enough,’ except as jesters or convenient plot devices. Let’s feed them to our main characters! Let’s not even give them names or countries!
   Despite my disappointment with Season 2, I had such high hopes for the ‘Villains’ volume and it feels like they’ve all been spat on by Kring and Co. Bets on how long it’ll be before Mohinder gets killed/written off?

   Posted 11 Nov 2008 at 1:17 pm ¶

10. EvilAngelfish wrote:

    Oh, what’s most disappointing about this season is the lazy, sloppy job they’ve done in exploring the stories of the villains.

    Posted 11 Nov 2008 at 1:21 pm ¶

11. elaine wrote:

    guess i’m the lone wolf out there. i still am hanging in there. two of the shows show runners were fired, so perhaps the show will take a positive turn for those folks out there who feel that heroes is lacking. from a fangirl/boy standpoint i’m still in.

    this season 3 is better than what happened to the first half of season 3 of lost. i gave up on that show before it got supposedly “good” again.

    @David i agree with giving villains some humanizing characteristics. it seems rather one note for villains to only be evil. it turns into some arch villain type a la campy adam west batman era

    Posted 11 Nov 2008 at 1:56 pm ¶

12. Mary wrote:

    I dunno, I like humanizing evil characters personally. There’s nothing like a little complexity in a show as simply titled as “Heroes.”

    I agree with you. In fact, I loved it in the first season when they showed Sylar’s past as a watchmaker. That was an incredibly cool episode and a really creative way to delve into his past, without morally exculpating him. Which is what I feel like they are trying to do now, and it just sucks. Because I think Heroes is crossing the line from “humanizing” villains to cheapening them, by offering all kinds of “well, it’s not really his fault, because…” explanations.

    Posted 11 Nov 2008 at 2:05 pm ¶

13. Mahsino wrote:

    back before i saw the series premier, I assumed Heroes would just be a poor mans 4400 that happened to be on network tv. Maybe they can hire those writers?

    Posted 11 Nov 2008 at 2:09 pm ¶

14. jen* wrote:

    ‘Nother Isabel/4400 fan, here. I’d love an infusion of life/substance into this [soon-to-be last] season of Heroes.

    I’m close to the shrug/whatever, when it comes to this show.

    Posted 11 Nov 2008 at 2:21 pm ¶

15. polerin wrote:

    @evil – To be honest killing off seers makes sense for the same reason Angela was taken out by Aurthur… they are dangerous to schemes.

    Beyond that though, Sylar’s “normalcy” was sorta telegraphed by Peter’s visit to him in the future and I think intended to support his current struggle to control his addiction. Personally I think it was a mistake, and I wish they had just let him struggle and achieve his humanity that way.

    Also, where is Micah in all this? With his ability I’m surprised that there isn’t a “protect Micah from the power hungry corporations” storyline going on. It could be a blind spot for me, but I can’t believe that any major organization would be able to keep all information off of computers, or would even attempt to.

    Posted 11 Nov 2008 at 2:25 pm ¶

16. Madame Zenobia wrote:

    @ David and elaine,

    I agree with what you’ve said. I think my initial statement just comes from frustration of them going back and making sweet those villains from before. Like polerin says, “Sylar’s “normalcy” was sorta telegraphed by Peter’s visit to him in the future “. Do we ‘have’ to go back and see Sylar AGAIN as the mousey-clockmaker? We’ve seen it, we know he struggles now (as evidenced by past episodes of season 3)…just don’t wanna see anymore. Stay evil, stay bad, or stay ‘consistently’ conflicted.

    If I didn’t say it before, I’ll say it again, this episode was full of meaningless filler with the exception of the Petrelli mess, but even that is a bit filler-esque, too. Great discussion. So loving this site

    Posted 11 Nov 2008 at 4:46 pm ¶

17. Renee wrote:

    @Polerin
    You are right to ask where is Miccah I cannot believe that with his power he is not being sought out. I miss seeing that little guy and hope they bring him back soon.

    As for last nights hereos I guess I am in the minority because I really liked it. I like knowing that villans have a human side and I loved the return of Eric Roberts. I also think there should a huge shout out to Mrs.P for poisoning her evil husband, talk about standing up and kicking ass. Women are to often portrayed in the media as helpless victims and love that they showed her giving Mr,P exactly what he was looking for.

    Posted 11 Nov 2008 at 4:51 pm ¶

18. EvilAngelfish wrote:

    @Mary – exactly! There are ways to humanize villains without explaining away all their evil deeds with cheap cliches and retconning. Sylar was one of my favorite characters in the beginning, even though he was clearly a villain, because of the glimpses of humanity and vulnerability we got to see from his character. And while I enjoyed seeing upstanding future-Gabriel and his son (!) because it’s an interesting trip from the Sylar we used to know to that point, I couldn’t hop on board with the long-lost Petrelli brother thing (I still kinda hope they were tricking him and it’s actually a lie) or the “misguided crush” on Elle turning him into a sociopath.

    @polerin – ? Were you referencing Diane’s (#8) comments?

    Posted 11 Nov 2008 at 5:25 pm ¶

19. tj wrote:

    @Lola. You are right. Tim Kring did say that the show was about the Bennets and Peterllis so I guess the ethnic characters are just lucky to be on the team.

    Posted 11 Nov 2008 at 5:49 pm ¶

20. ieishah wrote:

    yeah, i didn’t need the decapitation of usutu. it was like a scene out of heart of darkness.

    Posted 11 Nov 2008 at 6:46 pm ¶

21. Nicole wrote:

    The only reason I started watching was because of Hiro and Ando; and so, now I feel so stupid for getting trapped into a typical dysfunctional family drama.

    Posted 11 Nov 2008 at 7:14 pm ¶

22. Peter Pixie wrote:

    Usutu is not done…. He WILL be back. The one thing about this show is Death doesn’t stop anyone they want to continue to write about.

    The issue as I see it is that the rest of the story line is so weak that we, as fans, have decided that Usutu’s storyline is yet another of good-ideas-gone wrong stroke on the paper.

    I find that I was sad at the end of this episode for sucking so badly. and I dang near cried when I say next weeks teaser. really. near tears. I thought it couldnt get worse than this episode, but I see they are going to do their best to show it next week.

    (Something that wouldnt surprise me… next week we get to find out that Claire is, in fact, A BOY but she had no idea until the reveal!)

    PLEASE SOMEONE… tell them to just… stop. It’s like watching the cycle race on the Tron Game. they are boxed in and just don’t seem to notice – and think we don’t notice too.

    Season 4 spoiler: Mr. Petrelli isn’t a bad guy at all. In fact, he’s just being maniulpated by SATAN himself! Poor Mr. P.

    Posted 11 Nov 2008 at 7:31 pm ¶

23. jgrl wrote:

    I’m so mad they killed Usutu! I didn’t even notice that they finally said his name because I was so upset at his death! However, I can’t bring myself to give up on Heroes yet – I’ll echo elaine’s hope that with different people behind the scenes, the show will improve.

    I’m SO SICK of Peter/Arthur/Angela/Nathan – I still like Sylar since at least he’s interesting and hasn’t inherited the full Petrelli whiny annoyingness – at least not yet.

    I stopped following 4400 a while ago…is it still on?

    Posted 11 Nov 2008 at 9:23 pm ¶

24. Erica wrote:

    To be fair, the main cast is still not entirely white — Mohinder, and the Japanese BFFs — but I am astounded by the drastic downturn in screen time, development, and just basic respect for the diverse side of the cast. Part of this is a knee-jerk reaction from just seeing Usutu’s head ripped off his body, but the trend is there and it’s NOT GOOD.

    They may have named Usutu, but it was after he was killed and we still don’t know where (besides “somewhere in Africa”) he died. FAIL.

    We did learn how Arthur got the power to steal powers — by sending HRG on the observation mission to watch Sylar, and then setting up a biotech firm to artificially enable that in Arthur, and then bringing Adam by to get the power sucked out of him. But while that’s an interesting part of the plot, I’m overwhelmed by apathy towards the “family drama” we’re being put through.

    It’s almost not fun to critique anymore. It used to be “Geez, Heroes, why are you doing THAT with the plot? Haha!” and now is “WTF, Heroes, why are we watching Family Feud while you kill off interesting people? OMFG!”

    Posted 11 Nov 2008 at 11:54 pm ¶

25. jgrl wrote:

    A thought: maybe Usutu isn’t really dead? Maybe it’s an illusion somehow – kinda like Matt faked his and Daphne’s death? Oh wait, I forgot that people of color die for real on Heroes – just the white ones get to come back.

    /Except for Ando’s faked death but that was so obviously faked.

    Posted 12 Nov 2008 at 12:59 am ¶

26. anonymous wrote:

    :::meekly::: I actually like this season. I didn’t find much of the first season all that compelling, to be honest.

    I like the fact that the plot isn’t linear–isn’t that why you do a serial instead of a movie? How would a linear, clear-cut storyline make sense in a world where people can travel through time–thus, always messing w/it and creating parallel timelines–and seers can predict the future, which often results in altering said future?

    I like that the show troubles the notion of “good guys” and “bad guys” for the same reason I was disturbed by Bush’s appellation, “Axis of Evil;” stuff just isn’t that simple. I also like characters that are “messed up.”

    I appreciate sci-fi/fantasy in this vein. I never got waaay into Buffy, but I did appreciate the fact that the title character was really, really screwed up as a result of her abilities. I’m more a fan of a screwed-up Batman–although the whole “Asians destroyed all the great civilizations of the West” b.s. in the 1st of the Christian Bale movies really p**d me off—than depictions of an exceedingly functional Superman. I love the fact that in TNG, Klingons have become allies, and that the most evil dudes are the Borg for their attempts to assimilate all. I also love that the crew is constantly screwing up, constantly making bad decisions and betraying the “prime directive” all the time–they’re far from perfect. I’m really interested in the ambivalence in Battlestar Galactica (haven’t finished–please don’t spoil!).

    I wouldn’t say the show has gotten better, just that it is more my style now than when it began. To that end, it might be that the show is directed towards a different type of fan now than it was when it first came out.

    As for race, I agree that the depictions are pretty troubling. That said, I am still glad that people of color are present on the show. I was always so annoyed with Seinfield’s and Friends’ depiction of a lily-white New York City–particularly because Manhattan wasn’t quite as gentrified in Seinfield’s time.

    To end this over-long comment, anyone game for sparking a discussion of race on Ugly Betty? There’s a lot going on if you’re looking for it.

    Posted 12 Nov 2008 at 2:37 am ¶

27. LTP wrote:

    I don’t think Usutu died. I think Hiro is still in the vision. We already know Authur has that power.

    Posted 12 Nov 2008 at 3:07 am ¶

28. tj wrote:

    @Peter Pixie> Only white characters have the luxury of coming back from the dead or having their past revisited. Of all the characters they could have featured in this episode, the choose Meredith and flint.

    Posted 12 Nov 2008 at 5:16 am ¶

29. Madame Zenobia wrote:

    (Something that wouldnt surprise me… next week we get to find out that Claire is, in fact, A BOY but she had no idea until the reveal!)

    PLEASE SOMEONE… tell them to just… stop. It’s like watching the cycle race on the Tron Game. they are boxed in and just don’t seem to notice – and think we don’t notice too.

    Season 4 spoiler: Mr. Petrelli isn’t a bad guy at all. In fact, he’s just being maniulpated by SATAN himself! Poor Mr. P.

    *DEAD* at this. LMAO!!!

    Turn Claire into a boy, I say. That would make her more interesting for me, at least.

    Posted 12 Nov 2008 at 10:12 am ¶

30. jen* wrote:

    Dude. Can we vote for Claire to be a boy? This would be the thing to keep me watching.

    We should totally write this show.

    Posted 12 Nov 2008 at 1:15 pm ¶

31. Arturo wrote:

    LTP,

    You know, at the time, my flu-addled head didn’t consider that option. But thanks for introducing that.

    Posted 12 Nov 2008 at 2:36 pm ¶

32. Andrea R. wrote:

    My boyfriend and I talk about Heroes a lot because we’ve been a huge fan since the beginning. We do, however, look at it for different reasons, he looks at it for story and super-heroness, I look at it for race and super-heroness (we’re comic book fans). How am I represented, how are people I know, being represented on a show? On this show, we (Latinas) are martyr-like figures that have no back bone. Great. Why couldn’t *we* have been a chearleading heroe or some type of different bad ass. As the show goes on, I point out to him more and more of the “good” characters of ethnicity that have been dying off or written off: Isaac, Simone, DL, Micha, his cousin, warp dude, black-eyed crying girl (can’t remember her name), her brother, Ututsu. Either they die, get written off, or turned evil (Suresh, Anger dude). He is now starting to notice that.
    Some of the shows I’ve enjoyed that I think deal well with characters of color is Ugly Betty (as someone mentioned) and Ghost Whisperer. I’ve never quite seen Ghost Whisperer analized here. I loved the first and second season. This fourth one, I could go with out due to creative differences, but one thing has always remained constant, there are ALWAYS people of color on the show, as major and minor characters and extras. They are never targeted due to their race unless that episode is specifically about racism or their ethnicity, other than that, they are just people who are friends with the main character or town folk. They do not get reduced to a stupid stereotype much how Heroes has been doing to theirs. Case in point:
    http://www.nbc.com/Heroes/heroesdestiny/
    When I saw this ad in the last episode, my jaw dropped. Seriously? He’s Mexican AND plays soccer. Of course! He’s Mexican, it makes sense. I bet he likes Mariachi music too. But as my boyfriend pointed out, well, a lot of Mexicans play soccer . . . arg. He’s trying. But:
    PLEASE!

    Posted 13 Nov 2008 at 3:08 pm ¶

33. Jeremy Pierce wrote:

    I think it was Ando who name-checked Usutu.

    Others not MIA:
    Peter (with a nice reference to his being a nurse)
    Noah (who I must note was shown in about an evil a way as we’ve ever seen him, which puts the lie to the claim that the writers are simply trying to make him a hero; he’s only acting good to protect Claire)
    Claire cameo (nice ironic twist that the train fire was caused by her own biological mom; in the original pilot it was caused by a character who was dropped but who eventually became Ted Sprague)

    I can’t say I agree on either Sylar or Elle. Elle was certainly damaged as a child, but her memories were erased. So she couldn’t have been more than morally immature when she first started doing missions. She did need something to harden her. As for Sylar, there was nothing new here about his guilt over his murders. We’ve seen that since the first season, but it’s been prominent all of this season. Now we just know that he was successful at controlling the hunger for a brief period until Noah and Elle managed to bring it back out. It’s more of a character development move for Noah than for the other two, actually, and I think it’s worth continuing to remind us how evil Noah can be. The Ukraine scene did that in the second season. It was about time for another.

    I think people are misunderstanding the point about humanizing bad guys. The point isn’t that bad guys are all good guys. It’s that bad guys need some motivation to be bad, or they wouldn’t do it. For Noah, it probably started out trying to protect humanity, but it’s become trying to protect Claire. For Sylar, it was a hunger to be special (and it was always that, actually, not just now that they’ve made it clear that it’s a biological addiction). For some (e.g. maybe Flint), it’s material gain or to have fun feeling better than others without powers. We don’t quite know Arthur’s motivation, but it isn’t to make everyone super-powered. He’s already said that.

    Anyway, the point the writers are making is to show the difference between good guys and bad guys by pointing out that it isn’t always a difference between good and bad motives. Sometimes the difference is that Noah is willing to do very bad things for a justification that seems good at the outset. Hiro, on the other hand, will at best pretend that he’s doing the bad thing. He’s guided by moral principles. Noah isn’t. He’s guided by his elevation of one principle above all others, including moral ones: protect the daughter he loves.

    One seer returns next episode, I hear. Also, Sylar and Arthur are seers who are still around.

    I think everyone ought to keep in mind that arc 4 Fugitives is set to be very different from Villains, so those abandoning now might be missing out on a return to form in some ways.

    It’s disappointing that POC are becoming less central, but think of the particular characters. Micah didn’t have anywhere to grow really, and neither did DL. I liked them both, but I’m not sure how they could have continued to be interesting. I liked them both because I liked the actors, but the characters were kind of boring. Maya is even more boring. Her whole storyline was probably a mistake. I suspect Hiro and Mohinder have a good deal still to come and will remain central, especially in Fugitives, and Ando will probably be part of that too, perhaps with powers. Usutu was basically an excuse to get Matt Parkman away from everyone else while Grunberg took a break to be with his kid for surgery. They kept him around a little to interact with some other characters, but he was never intended to become a main character, so they didn’t develop him much. I do suspect we’ll see him again, but they have too many characters already, and they weren’t intending for any of the new season three characters to be mainstays after the third season. I’ve heard that they’ve changed their minds on some, but it was never in the plan.

    They couldn’t be tricking Sylar about his parentage. He has an ability now that prevents that. In fact, his mother gave him that ability in order to make it clear to him that she wasn’t lying.

    Posted 13 Nov 2008 at 10:27 pm ¶

34. Mary wrote:

    It’s disappointing that POC are becoming less central, but think of the particular characters. Micah didn’t have anywhere to grow really, and neither did DL. I liked them both, but I’m not sure how they could have continued to be interesting. I liked them both because I liked the actors, but the characters were kind of boring. Maya is even more boring.

    This excuse drives me nuts. It makes it sound like the boringness of minority characters was this freak act of nature. As if the writers and producers are completely helpless to control what happens in the story… when the entire job of the writers is to come up with what happens in the story.

    If they write Maya as someone who does nothing but a) cry, b) pray, c) yell ALEJANDROOOOOOOO!, and d) get duped by other characters, of course she’s going to become an unpopular, boring character.

    Or for DL and Micah, I reject the idea that there was nowhere to go with them. Niki contracted the virus at the Company. Why not have DL and Micah (and the ass-kicking Monica) determined to take revenge on the Company? That would give them a pretty interesting motivation, it would bring them into conflict with the Petrellis, and the three of them could form a formidable little guerilla warfare unit. That’s just one idea off the top of my head.

    Basically, I just don’t find it believable that it’s coincidence that the writing for the minority characters “just happens” to start sucking and hit dead ends that require them to be killed off, while the writing for the white characters suddenly blossoms into all these amazing side stories that requires finding increasingly silly plot contrivances to bring them back to life after they die.

    I’m not saying the Heroes writers are consciously screwing minority characters either. My suspicion is that they just have a group of majority-white writers who have subconsciously gravited to people who are “like me.” I suspect just simply easier for a lot of these people to write about a middle-class American white guy who’s kind of lonely and misunderstood, than to do research and write about an African tribesman or a Dominican illegal immigrant or what have you.

    The end result is still the same, though: characters of color get horrible story lines and lame deaths at a much higher frequency than white ones, which is SO horrendously disappointing for a show that was originally touted for its diversity.

    Posted 13 Nov 2008 at 11:08 pm ¶

35. Sarah wrote:

    Did anyone else get to the end of the episode and think “In death a member of Project Mayhem has a name. His name is Usutu.” ??

    I want to know what happened to Micah and his cousin Monica. I think it would make a really interesting contrast to all this villain stuff. What happened to Nikki is a great example of good intentions gone horribly, horribly wrong. I want to see how Micha and Monica have grown and changed from that experience. How do you deal with knowing that you got your cousin kidnapped for trying to help you and your mom killed for trying to rescue your kidnapped cousin?

    I also really want to see Arthur steal Monica’s power followed up by him playing jump rope in the streets while wearing that power suit of his.

    Maybe if Hiro’s power is taken we’ll finally get to see him start to evolve into that super cool future Hiro from first season?

    Posted 14 Nov 2008 at 7:31 am ¶