HeroesIt’s Coming
Original Air Date: Nov 17, 2008
Brittany – TwoCents Reviewer
Brittany@thetwocentscorp.com
After my last Heroes recap, I realized that I wasn’t quite as enamored by the episode as I thought, so now I’m hesitant to write down any newfound praise for this show. While I’m enjoying the show by pretending like I’m just a casual viewer, it still feels like the pace is frustratingly show, but let’s recap it and see what you think, shall we?
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ReplyDeleteIt’s Coming
Original Air Date: Nov 17, 2008
Brittany – TwoCents Reviewer
Brittany@thetwocentscorp.com
After my last Heroes recap, I realized that I wasn’t quite as enamored by the episode as I thought, so now I’m hesitant to write down any newfound praise for this show. While I’m enjoying the show by pretending like I’m just a casual viewer, it still feels like the pace is frustratingly show, but let’s recap it and see what you think, shall we?
The episode starts where it left off, with Arthur reading all of Hiro’s thoughts. Ando saves the day and Hiro blinks them out of Africa and back to Japan. He’s very concerned with getting waffles, and they’re in a bowling alley. Ando asks what’s going on, and it turns out Hiro thinks he’s 10 years old. Through a lot of coaching, Ando gets Hiro to realize his power, and I don’t think it’s a great idea for someone who thinks he’s ten to be taught how to move through time and space, but maybe that’s just me. Eventually, Hiro and Ando blink to a comic book store where Ando has a hard time convincing Hiro that they need to help save the world. He finds the 9th Wonder comic books though, which brings everything into perspective.
Arthur tells Sylar that he knows he saved Peter when he threw him out of the glass window, and that it is through his empathy that he can gain people’s powers without killing them. As a test, he puts his son into a room where Elle is shackled. She’s in a rage and still shorting out, and she plans on trying to kill Sylar. While electrocuting him, she screams at him for killing her father, she screams that he’s a monster, and then when she’s spent, she begs Sylar to kill her. He tells her that he won’t, because he won’t let the hunger take over. She calls herself a monster too, and he whispers that their parents made them this way. He forgives her for what she did to him in the past, and tells her that she has to forgive herself as well. With that, Sylar has learned her power without killing her, or taking her power away from her. He unshackles her and she starts teaching him how to use his new power. She ends up getting all touchy feely with him, they thank one another for being so awesome, and Sylar doesn’t have a shirt on, so you know where this story line is going.
The Fly is in Arthur’s lab, where he’s been experimenting on people. One guy looks like a Klingon that mated with the Alien Queen and a Gremlin. It’s seriously sick. Arthur comes in and The Fly tells him that people’s powers surfacing originally coincided with the first eclipse (back in season 1). He maintains that there is a catalyst for people gaining powers but it isn’t something – it’s someone. Arthur mutters something about Hiro’s dad and leaves, while The Fly kills the abomination he hath wrought.
Peter and Claire are bickering like they always do about how she wants to help but he just wants her to be safe and innocent. Knox and Flint come calling and Peter runs down a fire escape while Claire jumps through a window. They run into the sewer where Peter finally tells Claire that she kills him in the future. She blames him for all of her problems just as Knox and Flint catch up to them. It turns out they’re trying to get Claire, but Peter coaxes Flint into using his power in a room filled with gas. Claire and Peter run away, going to Primatech.
Nathan and Tracy decide to find Arthur, and when they do, Arthur tries to tell his son that together they could save the world and make the Petrelli name legendary. Nathan doesn’t really buy all of that anymore and leaves. Tracy confronts Nathan in the parking lot and tells him that he needs to stop being conflicted about what’s happening and actually try to understand. Instead, he decides to fly to Primatech to see his mother, asking Tracy to cover for him in Washington. She goes back to Arthur and tells him that he can’t be his own PR person because the world thinks he’s dead. She suggests Nathan, and even goes so far as to tell Arthur that she’ll push Nathan in Arthur’s direction.
Matt and Daphne are at Primatech and he finds Angela, deciding he needs to help her. He goes into her head and sees all the things Arthur has done and she tells him that he can’t free her because Arthur is too strong. A dream version of Daphne appears and stabs Matt. Non-dream Daphne starts freaking out and makes her way into the dream just as Arthur appears. He tells Matt that Daphne betrayed him, and Daphne said she only did it because she was scared. She claims to actually have feelings for Matt, and Angela tells Arthur that they used to be in love. She then tells him that he’s going to let her go, and he does. They all three come out of the dream, just in time for Peter Claire, and Nathan to show up. Angela explains that the only person who knew who the catalyst for the formula was was Kaito, but it doesn’t matter as long as Arthur doesn’t know. Claire takes the time to remember the night Sylar picked at her brain and told her that she was special; different from everyone else. Everyone in the room realizes in that instant that she’s the catalyst.
The final scene is of Arthur, and he’s used the future painting skills he picked up in Africa to draw a picture of an ominous eclipse. He simply says: ‘It’s coming’ before the episode ends. Can you tell it’s sweeps month?!
So, what did you all think? I’m starting to feel like there’s a lot going on, but nothing is actually happening. Am I alone in that? How can Matt trust Daphne so easily now? Did Angela use her power to persuade Arthur to let her go, or does he really still love her? How in the world did Hiro revert back to a 10 year old? And why is everything always about Claire? E-mail me you theories, or leave your Two Cents in the comments!
I think the reason Hiro thinks he is 10 is because Arthur did something to his mind to make him that way.
ReplyDeleteand my guess why everything centers around Claire...maybe someone on the writing staff has a crush on her or something
My guess is that Arthur used some sort of Matt's dad's power to make Hiro think he was 10.
ReplyDeleteEverything about Claire? "Save the cheerleader, save the world" again, as far as I can tell. Which actually makes me happy, since the world clearly wasn't saved back when they saved her before.
And personally, I think that Arthur does still love Angela in some way. From his talk about empathy with Sylar, I think it's a possibility, at least.
As for Matt trusting Daphne, in my opinion, he's just a little naive, and he probably really wants the future that he saw with them together to be true, minus the whole dying part.
I feel like there is A LOT going on now, and I don't so much like it. If we could go back to just a couple storylines, I feel like a lot more would get done each week.
Just my two cents.
i hate elle/sylar. hate. so much.
ReplyDeletei also hate claire a lot this season. and her stupid ugly wig.
with all this hate, i guess i should show some love somewhere. mama petrelli, you are one bad ass bitch.
"I’m starting to feel like there’s a lot going on, but nothing is actually happening." you are not alone in this. i'm really hoping things will pick up soon.
"And why is everything always about Claire?"
AMEN. as soon as claire said she was the catalyst, i went "of COURSE she's the catalyst!" ugh.