A lesbian kiss... really? Reaaaally?
Yeah, nobody saw that coming. Thank goodness they didn't start telegraphing that the very minute Roommate Girl skipped onto the set.
The show still seems lost to me. And I don't mean
LOST, which also seems lost. I'm actually pretty tired of watching characters reinvent themselves over and over, sometimes multiple times per season.
I can't tell yet if they've really figured out that Hiro, likable as he is as a character, has been wrecking story arcs since the second season. There's a reason science fiction series turn to time travel when they run out of ideas: it's a cheap trick for writers. How many storylines have they obviously floated and dead-ended by using Hiro to cheat their way out of them?
The Carnival Folk remind me of the Telepath Colony from the final season of
Babylon 5, and that's not a great thing. It was a weak and annoying story arc populated with insufferable characters the first time I saw it a decade ago.
And then there's Sylar, or rather
Sylars, since they've technically managed to make themselves two of them now, more or less. They're officially betting the farm on Quinto's charisma and talent, which are unquestionably formidable, but they're using him as a crutch. In many ways it's the same problem they have with Hiro. He's a great character that turns out to be incompatible with great stories.
