All of the above … and a Charlie Sheen reference to boot.
While No Ordinary Family was rather the throwaway episode story-wise this week, there were some key elements making it an interesting set-up piece for things to come:
But as I stated, the story — outside the above — was goofy. As with Daphne’s boyfriend’s father from last episode (Anthony Michael Hall), we’re briefly acquainted with another rather dopey villain, Sophie Adler (Tricia Helfer), who’s got super smooches and enticing “perfume” which causes the guys to not only go wild for her, but bow to her every whim. *yawn* Truth be told, I’m glad Mrs. X offed this impossibly white-toothed smiling bimbo and decided to aim her intentions at the greasy-looking Lucas instead. I look forward to seeing what NOF does with Balfour’s character …
Whereas I missed the last episode when it aired (“No Ordinary Proposal”), I did catch it on the rerun … and there are a few things worth mentioning in that episode. The most obvious and series-changing was Katie’s discovery of Joshua’s past monkey business, courtesy of Dr. King’s meddling. While Joshua had asked her to marry him at the beginning of the hour, it was nice to see an episodic wrap-up with his ass being sent packing on a bus when Katie ultimately spurned him.
How ’bout Stephanie’s antidote to Joshua’s trilsettum-induced powers in her effort to cure him? It won’t be so easy to patch him up … that is, if he does come back (and he will.) His powers are still full force. Add to that the fact Joshua has continually been the conflicted character and he’s just as dangerous as he’s ever been. No … we haven’t seen the last of him. Joshua / Watcher will be back … count on it.
So toss out the dippy story this episode, revel in the new twists and let’s keep on keepin’ on. I’m enjoying No Ordinary Family right now. You?
“You don’t think she’s a super, do you?” – Stephanie
“It would explain why Jim’s behaving like Charlie Sheen …” – George
Clacked by Michael Noble 
on Mar 03, 2011 @ 13:05 EST5EDT
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Lucy Lawless Danged I may have to start watching!
Can anyone make a connection between Eric Balfour and one of the other main characters of NOF?
Let’s just say that a debt of sorts was repaid in this episode :)
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I know both Balfour and Jason Antoon (Mr. Litchfield) have been on Law & Order: Criminal Intent …
Not what I’m looking for………………..
The show is dead, the writers better see that even V has better ratings than NOD. They moved way to slow with the show and wasted the audience they had.
That slow start seems to be an epidemic affecting genre shows in the last few years. The truly tragic thing is that if any kind of show needs to hit the ground running, it’s science fiction. True and self-proclaimed “sci-fi sluts” such as myself will watch season after season of slow burn, but the majority of Nielsen families (which I think makes up something like 0.02% of total households…absurd!) seem to require immediate stimulation or they’re off to play in another sandbox. I would like to blame the viewers, who to a great extent are to blame, but the real blame lies on the shoulders of those that produce these shows. It’s pretty obvious you need to come out of the gate strong with sci-fi so until we can get enough mouth-breathers conditioned to watch the genre they need to be blown away right from the start.
I’m not saying it’s right, it’s just the only way I see shows like this having a chance. Same goes for my much lamented SGU, although I choke a little mentioning it in the same post with NOF.