HEROES Episode Review: ‘Ink’

I hope some of the naysayers out there are watching this new season of Heroes because all I can say is that, so far, it’s delivering on pretty much every level.   It really seems like they have learned from their mistakes from seasons past and actually discovered how to kick off an engrossing season.   There are definitely some good things they did right off the bat this time that saved their asses from falling into yet another disappointing season.   For one it seems like they might have completely written out Dr. Suresh.   He was never a terrible character but they did just keep give him bad story line after bad story line.   That whole him turning into a monster was just a sad and pathetic rip off of The Fly.   Also they seem to be keeping these episodes so far pretty tight and not letting them meander over too much useless story filler.   What helps is that they don’t seem to be trying to cram every character into every episode anymore like they used to.

Take Monday night’s episode ‘Ink’ for instance.   They really only focused on three of the characters and had a few others intermingle among those three story lines.   No sign of Hiro or Ando in this one nor Tracy Strauss doing her water tricks and looking sexy as hell for all them heroes.   It really helps the show to just stay focused on each episode and keeps it from getting too bogged down in what every character is doing towards their eventual goal and plot line of the season.   I especially liked Parkman’s story line this week as he now has Sylar pretty much permanently stuck in his brain and destroying Matt’s mind mentally in the hopes of being able to get back into his body.   Matt assumes he’s just an irritating figment he can just ignore but Matt soon finds out he can do much more and make his life so much worse.

Even Peter who’s story line didn’t amount to too much more than himself running into this seasons latest villain was enough to hold my attention.   Partly because this ink man villain is actually pretty bad ass I gotta say.   It may just be the actor being able to do a kick ass performance with the part, but there’s just something about him that makes you feel the foreboding around him.   Also I liked Peter’s other run in with the entrance of yet another person with abilities at his work, a deaf woman that has the ability to see sound in light or something and can play one of hell of a cello without any lessons.   I’m not exactly sure what her powers are exactly but I am excited to see more.   We also get to see a little bit more of Claire interacting with her new friend played by Madeline Zima, who I absolutely love in almost anything, and basically we get to see them become chummier after she saw Claire fall out a window and put herself back together.   Keep on keeping on Heroes and try to make it so this season rivals the first in being just plain bad ass.