Chuck and Heroes

What a great night of TV last night.

Chuck did not fail to entertain me last night. Though there was a surprising lack of beautiful women wearing almost nothing, there was several sets of tight leather and good high kicks.

James Hong who was David Lo Pan in Big Trouble in Little China, (one of my fav movies of all time) was the bad guy in it. And there were several references to the movie. In one scene Chuck is pushing James Hong in a wheel chair and asked him if he had ever seen the movie. Truly excellent.

Then of course Heroes does not fail to impress me week after week. Three main stories ran last night.
1. A new character Monica Dawson, played by the very lovely Dana Davis has a cool little ability of muscle memory. Basically all she needs to do is see someone do something once, and she can then do it. Playing the piano to doing wrestling swing kick moves. Smartest thing she did was immediately turn on a Bruce Lee movie.
Her and Micah are living in the same house and he has helped her discover herself and understand it.

2. Nathan goes with Parkman to find Parkman's father. There he finds out his father can also read minds. But then the real killer, he finds out his father has taken his ability a step further. He can trap people in their own nightmares. So while they were busy with their nightmares, Parkman, the father, just walks out of the house.

3. And then we have Peter. He has formed a relationship with the bar girl and finally opens the box. Of course it tells him nothing except his last name, a ticket to Montreal and a picture of his brother. But he sees an empty canvas and does the whole painting the future gig. Nothing too revealing in the painting except that he is supposed to go somewhere the street signs are in French. Combined with the ticket to Montreal in the box, that is the likely destination.
But someone is hot on his tail. Enter Veronica Mars star Kristen Bell. The sweet little girl who use to solve mysteries at Neptune Beach now can shoot lightning bolts from her hands and has no problem killing anyone who doesn't tell her what she wants to know. Including Peter's new friend and brother of his girlfriend.
But, IMO, Kristen's character needs to know Peter is not an enemy you want to make.

Some other small side stories.
4. Hiro stayed in the past to help his childhood hero fulfill his destiny. Ends with the 3 of them looking down at an entire army they will have to fight.
5. Suresh takes Molly into the Company for help. There he runs into Niki. He wants to rescue her, but she tells him she is there of her own free will and wants to stay.
6. Suresh is sent to pick up Monica for observation by the Company.

Highlights for next week look awesome including bringing Syler back into focus. As well as continuing the story of Peter and HRG (Claire's Dad Noah) gets back into the action.

Should be another great episode.

Until next time...