… And not a moment too soon: The Racialicious Review of Heroes 3.13

Hey, wait a second. Super-powered people on the run from a world that fears them? Hmm … why does that sound familiar? Nevermind. One hopes, at least, that banding the Heroes together in adversity will lead to a better-organized set of stories in the next volume. It could work.

But then again, I said the same thing at the start of the season. If Claire starts growing mutton chops and calling everybody “bub,” that’s gonna be the last straw.

The Racialicious Scorecard:

Hiro &; Ando: Reunited, and it feels so good? Ando was indeed the key to bringing Hiro back from the early ’90s and destroying the formula. Funny thing, though: Ando’s powers make him the ultimate sidekick – no powers on his own, but he can charge up anybody else’s skills. Can we dub him The Ornament? Not a strong outing for Hiro otherwise, but – and not that this series doesn’t have enough problems re: violence against women – his at least saying “excuse me” before belting Tracy was good for a laugh.

Mohinder: Daphne stole the formula from him before he could cure his condition; Flint, Knox and Peter trashed his lab and beat him up; he lucked into a cure when he got slimed with the Catalyst; and he got stuck wandering home after everybody else left. Oh well, at least Tracy picked him up. Nowhere to go but up, right, Mo?

Knox: Alas, poor Benjamin, we hardly knew ye or your flaring nostrils. Just as he was making his move and taking on Nathan, Tracy puts the literal deep freeze on him. Really, did he accomplish anything?

Echo DeMille: The unnamed third Level 5 inmate Noah freed in this episode was a character in a couple of webisodes and comic-book supplements to the series. So if you followed that media and liked the character, congratulations: all that character development went toward making your guy a footnote. Way to reward the fans, Mr. Kring.

Usutu: Truly, a moment for the Magic Negro pantheon. Dude’s ghost just appears out of nowhere at Matt’s victory party and doesn’t say a word? Is Matt’s spirit walk over? Has it “only begun”? Why not have the guy offer up one of these?

The Haitian: Normally we’d file him as MIA, but this was so egregious it deserved its’ own entry. Last we saw of the guy, he was sent by Peter to tail Sylar. Not only did we not get a resolution to that chase, but the Haitian didn’t appear at all, despite the chase leading back to his home base. What a suitably lazy note for the writers to close this chapter on.

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Previously: Racialicious Heroes Archive.

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