At this point, I'll agree with you. I really DID like the idea of him making a Faustian choice and being driven mad by it, but now that they've decided to make him not crazy, I'm not feeling it at all. Heroes. >:(
Oh, yes, I liked that he made the decision deliberately at first, too. But after this episode I was just left feeling bzuh? Now I have to wonder if that was the director's interpretation of the script, who then subsequently made the actor behave in a non-crazy way? I get the feeling from reading the interviews with the writers and even from Beeman's blog that Mohinder's simply been reduced to being "the bug man" on the show. And that's it. You know, if they were really stretching for something for Mohinder to do this season while they explored the family dynamics of the Petrellis and Bennets, then I think it would have been better to just disolve his storyline for this volume - Mohinder takes Molly to India, maybe, while Maya joins the Company as an agent. He could have made a return with Molly for "Fugitives".
My biggest hope for his story in this volume is that he gets cured and de-crazified in time for what I assume will be a story arc that is similar to the X-Men's hiding-from-the-government plots. Then he can help the powered characters stay in hiding. I want Mohinder to stop playing for the villains' team in the future, and he needs to earn the trust of the other characters in order to do that.
Sylar needs less redemption at this point than Mohinder.
lol, I don't know why I'm posting this when you're going to be here soon where we can just talk about it. Eeeeee! :D :D :D
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Date: 2008-10-29 02:26 pm (UTC)From:Oh, yes, I liked that he made the decision deliberately at first, too. But after this episode I was just left feeling bzuh? Now I have to wonder if that was the director's interpretation of the script, who then subsequently made the actor behave in a non-crazy way? I get the feeling from reading the interviews with the writers and even from Beeman's blog that Mohinder's simply been reduced to being "the bug man" on the show. And that's it. You know, if they were really stretching for something for Mohinder to do this season while they explored the family dynamics of the Petrellis and Bennets, then I think it would have been better to just disolve his storyline for this volume - Mohinder takes Molly to India, maybe, while Maya joins the Company as an agent. He could have made a return with Molly for "Fugitives".
My biggest hope for his story in this volume is that he gets cured and de-crazified in time for what I assume will be a story arc that is similar to the X-Men's hiding-from-the-government plots. Then he can help the powered characters stay in hiding. I want Mohinder to stop playing for the villains' team in the future, and he needs to earn the trust of the other characters in order to do that.
Sylar needs less redemption at this point than Mohinder.
lol, I don't know why I'm posting this when you're going to be here soon where we can just talk about it. Eeeeee! :D :D :D