Overview:

The Smallville boys combine forces. Loeb writes a great script and Beeman gets a great performance from the cast. Peter likes to hang out in the playground with little kids watching. Nathan humiliates his brother, but he might be doing it to help him. Claire wants to be normal, but gets into a horrible situation with the quarterback. Dig, Niki, dig … a better story! Simone is in turn annoying and endearing, so I’m reserving judgment. And Hiro steals the show for the third week in a row. Yatta! Also, buy an iPod! And a Nissan Versa!

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Peter wakes up in hospital, draws a picture, then acts out the stick-figure sketch with Nathan. Daddy Bennet wants Claire to be his little girl forever and ever (ew!). He now knows about Claire’s attempts to kill herself, but doesn’t seem too upset about it. Meanwhile, Niki has alternate-personality issues, Mohinder meets his father’s ‘friend’ (yeah, right), and a cop becomes telepathic. A tightly-scripted episode, developing the characters at the same time as introducing new ones. It’s made spectacular by Hiro’s visit to the future and the final twist to his story. The premiere was good. This is even better.

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We meet the characters. Each has a super-power of some kind. Some of them dream about jumping off buildings. Others like filming amateur stunts or teleporting to the ladies’ room. At present we’re all yogurt, but we should strive to be cockroaches. Like God. We’re all “special,” but some are more special than others. Lots of ideas about the meaning of life and our sense of isolation come up. It could have been sentimental, pretentious garbage. Instead, it turns out to be a beautifully realized vision of each individual’s struggle to come to terms with who they are. An awesome premiere from start to finish.

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