Heroes Two Hour Premiere plus other Monday Goodies

The fourth season of Heroes premiered on Monday with a two hour event and I have to say this is actually shaping up to be a pretty awesome season.   I thought they did a great job with it and they really kept it a tight two hours and didn’t let too much of it get away from them and become stale storylines like they have done in seasons past.   There’s no annoying boy toy fawning over Claire.   In fact her story line seemed like it might be the weakest with her starting college.   Yet they graciously ramped hers up pretty quickly instead of dawdling with your stupid typical college story lines we’ve all seen a thousand times.   I especially liked the addition of Madeline Zima, who is hot as hell in Californication, popping up as her new possible friend and confidant.

This volume of the series is called Redemption, whose redemption I’m not sure but all the usual players are back with intriguing enough stuff going on in their lives.   Whether it be Nathan who is actually in Sylar’s body and is kind of losing his mind a bit.   Or Matt who everybody thinks is losing is his mind as an unexpected caller comes bouncing around in his brain.   What I definitely like, even though I was a little wary at first, is the bringing in of the new villain.   Apparently a man who runs a carnival with a gang of other powered individuals and uses some weird ink power that he can stab you with and do all kinds of crazy stuff.

This whole angle may seem questionable at first but they really get into with the villain and set up a pretty good story line for him right off the bat.   His motives are not yet completely known yet but what a lot of this season boils down to is some kind of old compass everybody is now after and also how he wants to draw certain heroes into his fold of carnival people.   I’m sure it will all lead to the fate of the world being in peril by the end but they have put a lot of curiosity into me about how the season will unfold.   Also there’s a great character played by Ray Park, Snake Eyes from the G.I. Joe movie, who plays a villain with super fast moves and big ass knives.   All in all a season that may be as tight in story line as the first season and may start finally to make up for some of the others that have been lacking.

In other Monday TV news what was most worth watching if it wasn’t the two hour Heroes premiere was the season premiere of How I Met Your Mother.   Still funny as ever in its fifth season, we now see Ted starting as a professor of architecture and some good Indiana Jones jokes get thrown around with a bull whip being the funniest of them.   As well we get to see Barney and Robin’s relationship progress but of course it can’t progress without being hilarious and they definitely keep it that.   In other TV that definitely wasn’t worth watching was the season premiere of Two and a Half Men in their like tenth or something season.   This show has gone too long on the same premise and they have changed nothing from its inception.   Charlie Sheen still gets to walk around saying unfunny lines and bang hot chicks throughout while getting paid vast sums of money and have millions upon millions tune in for this crap.   I’m not going to say he sold his soul to the devil but I think I’ll just say that’s what he’s probably done to have this horrible show live on for so long.