"Heroes" Flashback: What Was the Point?

Last night, I actually watched “Heroes”…

How could I not? After all, this was the episode that was going to tell us what happened right after Peter blew up and fill in all the other details between the finale and the premiere.

So after all that buildup and all those months of waiting, what’s the first thing we see? Those blasted twins Maya and Alejandro! Does anyone out there care why they’re on the run?

I didn’t think so…

No, we care about the characters we came to love last season. But unfortunately, we didn’t spend much more time with them last night than we have all season…

Apparently the whole purpose for the episode was to tell us that Adam (the artist formerly known as Kensei) convinced Peter to break him out of The Company facility to heal Nathan and to “save the world.” But did we really need an hour to do that? Couldn’t a quick flashback have shown us just as well without all of that Elle craziness?

We did find out how D.L. died, but did we really need to drag that out for an hour as well? And quite frankly, did any of us really care?

Those of us who were hoping to find out how Sylar survived were sorely disappointed, as he wasn’t even shown. And we got nothing from Claire as well (although that was probably a good thing). Ditto Matt, Mohinder, or Molly.

I guess watching that black stuff ooze out of peoples’ eyes is more important…

I was told that last week’s episode was a major improvement, but even though I didn’t see last week, I’ve got to believe this was a step back. The story was pretty much pointless and with each commercial break knocking of another month, it was unbelievably choppy as well.

And what is up with that Elle chick (Kristen Bell)? Could she be any more annoying?

Wait. Don’t answer that…

Tim Kring says he’s figured out the show’s issues (and I believe him) but he came to those conclusions after completing the first chapter of the season (which will now serve as the only chapter due to the strike)—which means we’re stuck with the issues until the finale on December 3rd.

And which means that I am done with “Heroes” once again…