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“Sometimes you have to remember who you were to figure out what you want to be.” These insightful words aided a couple of characters alter their concept of themselves, and recognize who it is they want to become. These exact same words are precisely the type of twaddle that have famously become so annoying in many episodes of Heroes. “Acceptance”, all in all, was yet another underwhelming episode that muddled us through an entire hour of crap before arriving to where we discovered what characters would end up doing what.

The issue with this particular episode is that the adventures the characters embarked upon were almost completely boring. Because the episode started out with Tracy, I’ll begin there, also. She started off the hour anxious to get back “into the game”. Her so-called game is as a political operative for the governor. So she hops along back to Governor Malden, who is more than happy to take her back with open arms and some pretty lusty innuendos – if you consider such cliché phrases as “Let’s make each other happy” to be ‘lusty’, that is. Naturally, her ‘old’ life, the same one she was so desperate to get back to only two episodes previous, was lacking something. So, of course, she remembers who she used to be, and what she once was (a political operative), and decides that she does indeed want to be something else. Fine, whatever, we’ll take it. Not the best journey ever, but we do at least get to see Bruce Boxleitner, and watch as she partially turns into water in a ladies’ room.

Noah also took to heart those ever- inspiring words, uttered by none other than his ‘Claire bear’, and was able to pull a 180 by the end of the episode. He started out as a cereal-eating loser, wallowing in self-pity, who reviewed over his life and only focused on the anguish he brought to many people as a ‘mutant hunter’, and ended up as a guy who seemed to be getting ready to go mutant hunting. (X-men here we come?) Once more, I’m really not complaining as much about where the characters have ended up, but how it is that they actually got there.

The most humongous of time was seeing Hiro finally come to terms with his ‘sickness’ and confess to his sister that he was dying. Just two weeks ago, Hiro was encouraged to journey through time and fix the wrongs he himself had created, even though those types of travels would more than likely speed up the process of his medical condition. Week number three, however, shows us that he has traveled back in time a whopping 47 times in an attempt to fix someone else’s mess up. The grand mistake, worth risking ones life, and making 47 trips to the past: an office party butt-in-the-photocopier prank. Hiro had to confess to his sister, and, indeed, acknowledge that he was dying. The idea was nice; that no matter what you do to right or wrong the past, some things are simply un-changeable… But to die over a photocopied caboose? Even Hire deserved a more just and interesting death.

Really the sole story worth following was Nathan recalling the death of one of his former girlfriends. Sylar, or should I say, Nathan, hasn’t really been feeling much like himself recently. Angela tries to help him recall his past by giving Sylar items from Nathan’s past, knowing that he can sense the past of an object. She hoped that this would help to bring back some of Nathan’s missing memories. It seemed like a wonderful plan, but backfired spectacularly when one of the items shows Miss Ex-Girlfriend dead in a pool of blood. For a moment, I thought this would actually turn into a few episodes worth of mystery, perhaps one showcasing Adrian Pasdar, but was disappointed when the mystery was figured and solved before the episode even ended. I found that the story was hard to get lost in, because I, we, don’t know who any of the people involved are. We had never really heard of ‘Kelly’ before, and had merely seen ‘Millie’ once. When you take into account that it isn’t even really Nathan, maybe you’ll agree that it seemed like a bad rehashing of Law & Order.

But there was promise at the end. Understanding that Millie was dealing her payback to the Petrelli family by ordering that Nathan be abducted, murdered and buried was a completely and brutally cold move. Getting confirmation about the endeavor whilst having supper with Angela was splendid. Might Millie be a returning adversary for the Petrelli’s, or will this end out of the blue, too? One has to wonder, is Nathan really ‘gone for good’ as it was Sylar that managed to escape from the somewhat shallow grave? I wonder, too, how those who didn’t know Nathan’s dirty little secret will react when it is undoubtedly exposed? How on earth will Sylar retrieve his mind from Parkman and get back into his own body? These are the things that I am actually interested in – avidly interested in. It really sucks that we had to watch “Acceptance” just to get it all started.

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