Zach's Heroes Watch - "Let It Bleed"

Previously on Heroes: that was an hour ago. Pay attention.

Samuel demonstrates his Picasso power by drawing a picture of someone, but he’s interrupted when Sylar chucks Doyle at him. The two baddest mothers on this show are chewing up the scenery together, so Samuel whips up a twister and wipes out Sylar. Later he wonders why Sylar was unable to kill him, so he sends in Lydia to seduce Sylar. She must be a Spock fan, because she dives right into bed with him. Sylar knows Samuel’s messing with him, so he does what any rebellious young’un does – he gets a tattoo, which tells him that his place isn’t at the carnival but being a creepy flying stalker outside Claire’s window.

Realizing they ended last episode without satisfactorily explaining the emotions we were supposed to be feeling, the writers decide to treat us to a Lost-style flashback moment in which, no surprise, the heroes are sad about Nathan dying (seriously, guys, we’ve been through this before). Peter’s still peeved about Sylar, but Mama nixes revenge even though Claire seems super-set on it. Is Mama trying to fix Claire up with Peter? In the words of my sister, “Yay for sketchiness.” But Peter and Claire have a team-up to save folks during an office shooting; Peter gets all Sam-Jackson-in-Pulp-Fiction on the shooter and saves the day, but not before getting shot. Claire’s peeved about Peter jumping into danger but gives him her power to fix him; New York must have observant paramedics that no one notices this. For some reason, Peter wants Claire to hook up with West again.

At home, Noah’s shadow is doing weird things while Speedy Edgar shows up, but Noah’s such a badass that he tasers him with no questions asked (and with a priceless CSI: Miami reference). So Noah chucks him in a freezer (his secret weakness) and gets ready to interrogate him. Just when things are about to get 24-level interesting, Noah’s new girlfriend shows up and isn’t cool with torture. So Noah tries giving Edgar tea, which works until Edgar thinks Noah might hurt the carnival – so he splits. Noah mulls reconnecting with Claire.

Verdict: I’m sort of unenthusiastic about these new episodes of “Heroes.” I’ve made no bones about falling back in love with the show this season, mostly due to Robert Knepper being awesome, but there’s just something not as charming in these last two episodes. Too many people have too many powers, and I’m really only interested in Samuel’s plot, which the writers seem to be trying to jam into every other plotline on the show. In other news, I hate “Chuck” commercials so much that I’m never watching “Heroes” live again.