Believe it or not, I actually WANT to like Heroes‏

I actually thought that I was going to make it through the day without sending out an email about Heroes. (Cuz I actually kinda liked last night's episode.) But then I started reading some reaction articles to last night's ep, and I couldn't help myself. While I think that last night's episode was certainly the best of the season - not surprisingly both Peter and Mohinder were nowhere to be seen and the episode focused on the most intriguing cast member (No First Name Bennet) - the reaction that I have been reading online was that it was somehow transcendental TV. I still don't get it. I feel like I am missing something. I have been trying so hard to love this show (I struggle to even like it some weeks), and I just can't. And I really don't know why it bothers me so much, but it really does. It probably has to do with NBC's marketing, which I have always hated for pretty much every NBC show ever. It also probably has to do with the fact that I feel like the butt of a hysterical joke that I don't get. Everyone else is rolling on the floor laughing and I'm just sitting there confused. Every time I think about the show, my first reaction is to shake my head. I was hoping that emailing all of this to you guys would be cathartic, but it's not. And you probably are just shaking your head at me. Anyway, I've always been a fan of Mr. Bennet, so it was nice to see him front and center and get some clues about who he really is. I loved seeing Claude in his flashbacks, because Claude is also one of my favorite characters. And seeing Sulu again (which could have been an unexpected twist, except George Takei's name was in the opening credits) was definitely interesting. And one of the Heroes (Claire) actually being heroic is a nice change of pace. And Parkman being interesting was also a nice change of pace (especially since I've thought all season that the show was wasting Greg Grunberg's talents). But why can no one who works at that damn paper company have a name? It would be one thing if we were supposed to think that Eric Roberts is Linderman, but then the promos show us that it's not him, but apparently Santa Claus who runs everything. (Speaking of the promos, I hope that ZombieSimone is just a hallucination or something, because I'm already set to complain if they somehow bring her back.) And why if Bennet is a good guy, did he allow Ted to live? What possible good could he do? He wants to die and he's obviously unstable (in more ways than one). And while I neglected to mention the cheesy "Murder" line that Matt pointed out last week (that one actually made me bury my head in my hands), I shall not neglect the cheesiest line of this week which went something like: "You didn't grow inside your mother, you grew inside our hearts." What nonsense that whole scene was.