Heroes: Chapter Thirteen 'Dual' (2008)
Season 3, Episode 13
5/10
*Groan!*
18 December 2008
Warning: Spoilers
I liked the previous episode (the stuff with Hiro as a 10-year-old provides a lot of much needed comic relief, and the thing with his mother was genuinely touching), but this one was back to being bleh. People change from good guys to bad guys without adequate explanation, and Peter inoculates himself despite working against a future with powered people - it doesn't make sense. The story is becoming too convoluted because it has to be about the same few key characters, so some of the heroes have to occasionally become villains. That completely undermines any heroic message. At the end of this episode Suresh delivers some cock-and-bull story about how we're all capable of both good and evil. We have to ask ourselves, then, does heroism mean anything at all? That's a heck of a poor message to send in a show that's supposed to be about... heroes. Too bad.

5 out of 10.
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