It all would've mattered, had it not been for that meddling Hasbro and its tantalizing piles of cash!

I don't know about that. Huston has his moments (even if he or his agent can't really come to grips with cherry picking the better roles) but he's no Ian McShane.

After Ian McShane stole the show in Asylum I was expecting something similar to go down with Huston's scenes in this. Sadly it didn't get to that same level.

Parker Brothers is owned by Hasbro. Hasbro has the trademark for the "Ouija Board".

In contrast, that seems like the kind of hamfisted explanation that would've been served up on the likes of Lost.

Fairly certain that it's trademarked by Hasbro.

The real twist would be the discovery that the Sanders family dog is actually an alien who has co-opted the minds of a few key people, using them to orchestrate a plot to assassinate the president of earth. The plot's potential successful outcome being that the race the dog belongs to can place into power a candidate…

Somewhat trumped by the vast number of quotable lines in Cabin Boy, however.

I often tend to forget Heroes ever had a full first season (seriously - how do you screw up a decent/good freshman season with a finale that sucks so bad?), much less a second, third or fourth.

Somehow this makes me relieved to know that it wasn't just Eureka and its ill-conceived Degree deodorant products chatter (which was still awful, no matter how kooky they tried to make it "fit" in with the show's universe in dialogue exchanges) that suffered such a fate.

I'd place it just under the Smallville episode that tried desperately to build an entire plot around Stride gum in terms of utter awkwardness.

Negahban seemed like he was cycling through accents each time he talked. I started having flashbacks of Marsters on Smallville.

Felicity & Roy together at last in… A Time to Shill.

The cops doing the attempted assassination and bringing their badges seemed like a means of the show reminding viewers that HR as a whole believes itself to be untouchable. Though why anyone on the writing staff would think after serving up establishing scenes featuring numerous players in the organization…

An episode like this reminds me of why I stick with certain shows, sometimes against better judgements. The cavalcade of character actor guest appearances made it all worth it.

Seems like an eternity ago. I lost interest around the same time they started pushing their "Characters welcome" motto while simultaneously dropping the axe on characters or key figures involved with production across numerous shows. Now it seems like the network is in a weird state of limbo where re-runs of Modern…

I've seen it - doesn't mean that they're in Nanda Parbat. Imprisoned on a cargo ship on the outskirts of Lian Yu != Nanda Parbat, unfortunately.

And so far there's been no indicator that it is, just as it was with Smallville.

Seems like she's led an interesting life - http://www.nytimes.com/2010…

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