I’m going to start today’s Heroes discussion with a game of “Really!?!” as seen on SNL.

Sylar can stop speeding bullets without looking, but he can’t stop a Japanese office worker moving at the speed of slow? Really!?!

Peter can save the world through the power of heart? Really!?!

Bennet’s name is Noah? Really!?!

Bennet thought he could somehow not get his ass kicked long enough to shoot Peter in the head? Really!?!

Hiro teleported away from the site of him saving the world to Feudal Japan? Really!?!

Okay that was fun. So the first season of Heroes is behind us and what are we left with? Other than a slightly anticlimatic ending, we’re left with a pretty good show overall. The characters are good and the writing is … mostly good.

Hiro falling from from the sky and landing in Feudal Japan sounded a bit too much like the sound made when someone jumps over a shark, though. I pray that my ears hath deceiveth me.

In an effort to keep up the Heroes blogging for what little time we have left, I’ve got to blog about last night’s episode, “Landslide.”

Most interestingly, I think, is this setup we have about an age-old question — can we change the future? In reality, the show has asked that question for a long time and really already answered it. Claire was saved, afterall, which as minor as it may end up being, did change the future.

This premise makes the characters of Isaac (now Sylar and Peter) and Hiro extremely interesting and almost at odds with each other. How can one predict the future if the future is uncertain? Somehow Isaac was able to do it, and in a strange causality loop Hiro even uses Isaac’s comic books to change the future. Puzzling.

Enough about Star Trek time theory, let’s talk about the episode.

The Good: Parkman is finally using his powers for cool things. He should totally be in Vegas or something, though.

Sylar outsmarted Peter somehow despite the fact that Peter could read Sylar’s mind. Kudos to Sylar, slap on the wrist for Peter. I mean, honestly Peter? Pay attention.

DL killed Linderman by punching his brain. That’s so gruesome that it’s cool.

We learn that Candace is really a fatty underneath and just hides it. That was a chuckle moment for me.

Three cheers for reliving moments from Star Trek by having Sulu with a sword.

The Bad: Ali Larter.

Ali Larter.

Ali Larter.

That whole plotline is just dumb, cheesy, and disjoint from the rest of the story. It’s like a whole different team of writers is in charge of DL and Jessiki.

Ted gets shot and he almost blows up. He gets his head cut off and he sits there like a little baby. Where’s the Nuclear explosion now, Sprague?

Billin. Billin. Billin. Confused? That’s my written impression of Hiro.

Overall, it was one of the more disappointing episodes of Heroes. It felt a bit like they were trying to cram everything in, and it was an episode of things we knew had to happen, happening. It had to be done, though, so you can’t fault the writers for going there.

Now it’s down to Sylar or Peter to blow up NY. Who will it be? I guess we’ll see next Monday for the Season Finale.

It’s sorta shameful that I haven’t blogged about NBC’s hit tv show, Heroes. I mean, it’s a tv show made for someone like me. I haven’t missed an episode and I’ve gone so far as to research the show and theories surrounding its plot. It’s just that kind of show.

Heroes I can sink my teeth into. So what if it’s the same basic premise as the entire X-Men franchise? The TV Show approaches it with class and a touch of realism that makes it worthwhile. Besides, I don’t have a weekly X-Men show to watch — or even weekly X-Men comic book for that matter.

It would seem that I got on the Heroes blog train a little too late, because there is no way I can blog everything there is to say about Heroes at this point. So let’s just pick up where we are, shall we?

There’s gonna be a bomb. It’s either gonna be Peter, Sylar, or Ted. Hiro wants to stop it. Future Hiro thinks that can be done by killing Sylar. All of this really doesn’t make sense because we know that 5 years in the future that it’s actually Peter who was the bomb. We also know that Peter already met Ted and has is nuclear-tastic powers.

So, what’s the use in Hiro killing Sylar at this point? Certainly, the future as was depicted in the “Five Years Gone” episode would change if Sylar were dead, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that New York will be saved from apocalyptic annihilation.

I think the more interesting question with only a few episodes left in this first season is whether the bomb will really go off at all or if they will stop that from happening. It seems the show can easily jump the shark by every season being them trying to stop the same damn bomb by doing what Future Hiro or Future Peter tell them to do.

Assuming they’re not gonna do that, I’m behind the theory that the bomb will go off. People will die, but not necessarily Peter or Sylar — maybe not even Ted. This all revolves around my belief that Isaac can’t paint a false future. If he could, then he’s useless and I might as well be Isaac. I can totally paint a picture of what I think is going to happen tomorrow.

If the bomb does go off, I think the show will become even more awesome. A show about a post-apocalyptic New York City is an awesome premise in its own right, to say nothing of superheroes flying around… well in Nathan’s case anyway.

It’s a shame I haven’t blogged heroes all along. So many theories I have, so little space to write. This will have to be the beginning of hopefully something for folk to read that’s more interesting than my vacations or whether or not I mowed the yard.