HeroesAngels and Monsters
Original Air Date: Oct 13, 2008
Brittany – TwoCents Reviewer
Brittany@thetwocents.corp
I’ve been hearing a lot about the new season of Heroes. About how it’s still not great the way people are wanting it to be. Of course, I have my own opinions (people are expecting too much out of this show), but I’d like to hear yours. Especially as I keep failing to be shocked and surprised. Or even, dare I say it, completely entertained. Let’s see what this week had to offer though, shall we?
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Original Air Date: Oct 13, 2008
Brittany – TwoCents Reviewer
Brittany@thetwocents.corp
I’ve been hearing a lot about the new season of Heroes. About how it’s still not great the way people are wanting it to be. Of course, I have my own opinions (people are expecting too much out of this show), but I’d like to hear yours. Especially as I keep failing to be shocked and surprised. Or even, dare I say it, completely entertained. Let’s see what this week had to offer though, shall we?
Tracy and Nathan are sleeping together (naturally) and she lets the cat out of the bag that she wasn’t born with powers, she was made. Together they confront Angela and she says it’s true. Nathan wasn’t born with the ability to fly, and what she and The Company did was horrible, but that’s why they need to find the formula, so that powers can’t just be given to people willie-nillie. Nathan decides to find Mohinder, because he’s a very trustworthy guy who would never hurt anyone.
Speaking of crazy irony, Mohinder is killing people and wrapping them up in some sort of cocoon at the loft. Maya sees blood on the floor, and when she investigates while he’s out, she finds the missing wife abuser from upstairs still alive. She tries to free him, but Mohinder comes home and gives her a cocoon of her very own. It’s about time someone killed her off, anyway.
Angela had to put Peter into a medically induced coma after he tried to slice off the top of her head. He went just a little crazy after realizing that Sylar was his brother. As she sits in her office, she hears screams and goes to investigate. Tracy is crumpled on the floor in a pool of blood, Nathan is dead against a wall, and Peter has a pipe stuck through his head. A man tells Angela that he can’t stop her. In fact, she won’t even be able to move. It was a dream, as it turns out, but she’s frozen to her chair, either scared or stuck there by some force.
Sandra and Meredith can’t find Claire, and they figure out that she went after the villains alone. Meredith finds the picture of a man named Eric Doyle and says that since he’s in the area, and one of the worst villains, she’ll start the search with him. Apparently, he can puppet people into mirroring his actions and forcing them to do what he wants by controlling their bodies. He does just that and makes Meredith sit down to a fancy dinner with him after she barges in on him.
Claire, meanwhile, has gone to find a man named Stephen who can create black holes. He accidentally killed his neighbor, and after she realizes that he has issues with wanting to be normal just like she did, she decides to help him find his family. Suddenly, in bursts Noah and Sylar and everyone thinks they were set up all around, so good confusing times there. Stephen creates a black hole and bolts, and in yet another turn of hilarious irony, it’s up to Sylar to hold onto Claire and save her from getting sucked in. Once the threat has passed, she’s pissed that her dad is letting Sylar work for him, but Noah manages to convince Claire to tell him where Stephen is going. Once at the agreed meeting place with his family, Stephen starts to cry when he realizes his wife and kids aren’t going to show up. Noah, Claire, and Sylar do though, and Noah tells Stephen he can be let off the hook if he kills Sylar. Stephen isn’t a killer though, so he kills himself.
Hiro and Ando go with Adam to a bar as they try to find answers about where the formula is. The bartender throws a fit because Adam slept with his wife once upon a time and accidentally knocks Hiro out. Adam takes the opportunity to run, but suddenly Knox is there and manages to over power him and toss him in a van. After Hiro wakes up, Daphne arrives with Knox in tow and says that if Hiro wants her help, he’ll have to prove his badassery. Knox says he can do so by killing Ando since he’s not special at all. Hiro doesn’t even hesitate and stabs Ando through the heart.
Daphne gets a visit from Linderman and figures out that he’s not really there. She tells him that she doesn’t like that someone got killed, but Linderman shrugs it off before telling her that she needs to focus on a new recruitment. It’s Matt Parkman.
A man enters a building with the logo of a company called Pinehurst on the front. He starts having a conversation with a man in a bed and says that he’s appeared as Linderman to both Peter and Daphne. He says that everything is going smoothly and the gang is almost complete. The whole conversation is one sided, and we realize that the man in the bed is communicating with this thoughts. And then, to end the episode, we find out that the man is none other than Mr. Petrelli.
So what do you think? Was it really a shock that Mr. Petrelli was alive, or was it kind of ruined by all the NBC promos? When Sylar was standing at the car and Noah was asking Stephen to kill him, why couldn’t Sylar hear the conversation? When exactly will he be getting back all the powers he lost last season (like the super hearing)? And I don’t buy for one second that Hiro killed his friend that easily. He has to have a plan, right? Right?? Leave your Two Cents in the comments, or send me an e-mail with your thoughts!
As this episode unfolded it was easy to see the foreshadowing that Arthur was behind Pinehearst, the mind version of Linderman and Daphne’s theft of ½ the formula. I didn’t see the Maury part coming though because I thought he was trapped in his own mind still.
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And more importantly, I can’t figure out who is the good guy – Angela or Arthur? Or is it a matter of the lesser of two evils? Who do we cheer for? Who are the real villains?
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The Claire storyline was pretty boring except for revealing The Puppet Master (Eric Doyle). I have a feeling we are going to see much more of him.
And Mohinder transformation is just getting gross. However, I’m afraid of what he’s going to do to Nathan and Tracy next week.
The guy talking to Mr. Petrelli is Parkman's dad. But yeah, I also don't know how he escaped his mind trap, as it were.
ReplyDeleteI think they made it ambiguous as to whether or not Sylar could hear the conversation, but more importantly, I still don't understand WHY SYLAR IS BEING NICE! Did I miss the rationale for this somewhere?
I'm looking forward to finding out Arthur's plan, and how Hiro set that up with Ando (he must have!). The problem I have with the show is not that it hasn't been interesting or fun to watch, but that they've descended waaay too far into suspension of disbelief and lack of continuity. They don't put motivations behind their characters anymore.
Ok can some answer this question for me. We keep hearing Tracy was Niki & "Barbara"'s sister. But where does that leave Jessica? Why aren't they acknowledging that Jessica was a sister in this group as well? She was Niki's twin when they were growing up, so just because she's dead she's not a sister anymore? Wouldn't Tracy then be a quadruplet more or less and not just have been related to Niki and Tracy? So lost!
ReplyDeleteThe Sylar-Clair storyline is very interesting. I'm shocked and loving it at the same time.
ReplyDeleteAlso-I don't see either how Matt's dad got out of his nightmare that Matt put him in...I really hope that's explained soon because I don't think he'd be able to just escape it...