HERO worship

I wish tptb@ Heroes would simplify Hiro's powers. Time freezing is rad enough and I'm cool with the teleportation too but any story with time travel tends to make my noggin ache. Although I suppose anyone who can teleport themselves through space can teleport through time...it's sort of a package deal. At least that was my understanding of the time-space continuum (held over from when I made that flux capacitor prototype for junior high science fair) I suppose the whole time travel premise is a hellah fun hypothetical playground for a script writer, but it usually just baffles yours truly... zipping off to 2525 to fuck around with future events, journeying to the past to alter history and the ramifications thereof... BAH. I can't even handle it. Consider, for instance, what if Marty McFly, on his jaunt back to the '50s had had a sociopathic break and killed Doc Brown? Perhaps he'd heard the ol' fruit exclaim "GREAT SCOT!" one too many times and so he on purpose accidentally backed over him with the DeLorean... It could happen..Doc Brown is a smidge abrasive to the nerves, don't you think? Anyways, if future-Marty kills 1955 Doc, then the time travelling DeLorean was never invented...the same time-travelling DeLorean that enabled future-Marty to kill 1955 Doc so would that not negate the 1955 murder? And Doc, not having been murdered, would go on to create the time travelling De Lorean...the DeLorean that takes future-Marty back to 1955 where he kills Doc.... and...OWWWIE MY HEAD!! Y'see what I mean about time travel tales? All that said, Back to the Future is worth the headache partly because of the huge 2min of screen time that a young (&foxy) Billy Zane gets (he is one of 1955 Biff's thuggish pals) but mostly due to the terrific Mr Crispin Glover (he is your density!!)

But back to Heroes for a spell, shall we??
Aside from my general dislike of time travel plots, there were other things I disliked about this episode (things I liked too, but let's dispense with the bitching first, eh??) Probably the MOST distressing development of 2012 is that future Parkman is a total douchebag. Yeah, yeah, I know, estrangement from his son has embittered the dude but still... he has no good excuse for the extremes of douchebaggery that he has sunk to, I mean, he like, SHOT BENNETT ok? Ain't no excusing that!!!
Also, I didn't like Nik-sica & Peter being a future item. I see why it's necessary (as the show is scarce on female characters not related to the Petrellis) but I still no likey. I just cannot warm up to Ali Larter, although I do find her & her character(s) vastly preferable to that lame-arse Simone (whom I've heard is UNFORTUNATELY not as dead as we was lead to believe. But that was a rumor...hopefully a groundless falsehood)
Things that were good-- HRG Bennett continuing on the path of being an awesome renegade. Initially -when I started watching Heroes-- I found HRG to be slightly creepy and offputting, but, maaan, after he made good in the " Company Man" episode, I did a total 180 on my feelings for the guy. So I was glad to see future Bennett was still a good egg.
I also enjoy Peter being a badass for a good cause. They gave future Petey a grizzled makeover with a smattering of stubble and (of course) a scar (that universal symbol for "I've-been-through-a-lot-of-shit-that-has-robbed-me-of-my-naivete-and-made-me-world-weary-and-jaded") But even with the "dark Peter" look, there was never a doubt in my mind that he was a good guy.
The preview for next week's episode was tres intriguing. Who is this little poppet Molly ? The only one that can stop Sylar? Does she bend people's will via the power of her cute little girl cuteness? HRG's late protege Eden was a will bender (though I don't believe she used little girl cute-power)...so why not? I think they should have a few people with duplicate powers...having each new Hero bring something new to the table...well it's interesting for sure, but a bit too neat and Justice League-y. Oh this vexes me...I guess this Molly has already been on the show..according to IMDB anyways. I really only started watching this show around ep#10...yeah so, apparently I missed something. Grrrr...I hate being an uninformed Janey-come-lately.

Let's travel back in time to the time of my tangent about time travel...set the coordinates for-ohhh, 4 or 5 paragraphs ago. I did want to point out that there was one time travel flick that I thoroughly enjoyed with absolutely no headachey side effects..and that movie was Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure. If I were going to time travel, I think a phone booth would be the bestest ride ever. Concealment is a bit of a problem, but that minor negative is totally outweighed by the bonus of not having to deal with murderous foreign Plutonium purveyors (see Doc Brown; De Lorean ) And the Yellow Pages that come with seem quite handy dandy & user friendly.
I just cannot say enough good things about that movie (oh,and the sequel is fairly rad as well). Bill S Preston Esquire and Ted Theodore Logan....just those names amuse the shiz-nit outta me (sometimes it amuses me to tack an esquire to the end of my name. It is absolutely delightful...I recommend it!!).
And --it's way sappy of me but --I love when Abe Lincoln imparts his inspirational message to the student body of San Dimas High. "Be excellent to each other"...it's really kinda moving. If Bill & Ted were to change the course of world history the way they are fictitiously supposed to...daaang, I can't see anything but good coming out of that. Seriously, I am ready for the reign of Wyld Stallions. In conclusion.... SAN DIMAS HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL RULES!!!