After so many weeks without Heroes, I was growing concerned that excitement had deteriorated into estrangement. Every Monday without it seemed easier to handle, and the quivering anticipation for this last night’s return was barely a tremor by the time 9:00pm Eastern rolled around. But that was until a very special cameo.
Message boards and IMBD could not yet confirm it (and I deleted the show before it occurred to me to watch the credits), but I would bet my very life that the role of “super-enthusiastic bike messenger” was played by Air Guitar Nation star, and former Air Guitar World Champion, David “C-Diddy” Jung. Though he could only stick around for a minute, and no one gave him the opportunity to totally rock out, C-Diddy did share a lovely moment with one of Heroes’ less exciting characters before he bit the dust. I was a little confused at first because the film lent the impression that David had given up his acting career to sell pooper-scoopers with his father, but I never forget a face – even an Asian one.
Obviously, the awesome was just starting. Heroes was, is and will likely continue to be the most entertaining thing on television this year. They treat every episode like a season finale, and despite the constant distraction of absurdly large The Real Wedding Crashers promos flashing across the screen, last night was no exception. Characters who we’ve long been waiting to cross paths, finally did; Adrian Pasdar inched closer to becoming the darling we know he can be; Linderman and old lady Petrelli filled us in that the Hero situation goes back longer than we’d imagined; and Greg Grunberg maintained his status as the biggest dufus ever, with the most undeserved luck at winding up on successful shows.
Before the last three episodes of the season, next week get to see what happens to the heroes (the ones who lived!) if they don’t save the world. A flash-forward to the year 2012 finds the cheerleader as a brunette, Adrian as El Presidente and Milo Ventimiglia bumpin’ uglies with the last person you’d expect him to. That latter bit doesn’t look too pretty, neither.
You’re seriously the only person i know that puts my tv-watching skills to shame. I’d be interested in your opinion on Heroes back when it came out. For a long time there I thought it was the worst best show on TV – extremely condescending and stupidly directionless. I’m not sure if they got new writers for their return in January, but now their biggest hurdle seems to be coming up with a catch phrase that doesn’t make me homicidal. Someone flies. Garry Cries…