Yep, still watching this show...

3.12 "Dual"

So obviously it was a long time before I got around to watching this one, but here we go.

Why was there a Sylar monologue?

Well, at least a few more people died in this episode. Meredith, Knox, Puppet Guy, new PTSD Marine Guy and possibly Sylar. I think that was all of them. Although I'm pretty much not convinced about Sylar. There's no way the show is going to get rid of Zachary Quinto until he's asking to leave. I was excited for a minute there that they had really killed Mohinder. Clearly that was too much to ask for. And even in death his ridiculous monologues probably would have lived on.

As for the plot of this episode, if I'd wanted to see Saw (or Saw II-V), I'd have watched it already. I didn't need the Heroes version of it. Plus, Sylar wasn't really very committed to the task. That's what happens when villains have agendas that they need to constantly monologue about. They get distracted and stabbed in the head before they can follow through with manipulating their hostages into killing each other. And speaking of manipulating, I'm glad that Angela finally admitted that that's just what she does. I wish someone else had been around to hear it. Like maybe Peter or Nathan so they would stop taking orders from her and grow their own brains. Doesn't look like that'll be happening anytime soon though. Of course, even if they had heard her they probably wouldn't have managed to remember for more than 10 minutes.

I'm not going to discuss the "saving Hiro" and "destroying the formula" plots that were going on at the same time. They were both just as dumb as Saw Heroes. Daphne moving so fast she travels back in time? Really show? One thing I will say about the whole episode: terrible dialogue all around. That's one thing I'm hoping will improve with Bryan Fuller around again. I mean some of the crap that Sylar and Claire had to say was so completly inane that I almost stopped watching. That does remind me that part where Angela says something about Sylar being a bratty child and Claire responds with "I'd like to give him a spanking"! What the hell? Are they stealing dialogue straight from the fanfiction these days? 

The episode had at least a couple of good moments. Try as I might to not enjoy it, I did think the scene where Daphne and Matt watched while Ando tried to time travel was pretty funny. I also tended to enjoy the hits and/or punches to faces. Peter punching Nathan: Good. Hiro punching Tracy: Good. Nathan hitting Knox in the face with a paperweight: Good. 

Um, I know there was something else I wanted to talk about in terms of this episode, but I really can't think of what it was anymore. I guess I shouldn't stress about making a blog post about this show perfect when the makers of the show aren't making that kind of effort for the show itself.