HeroesVillains
Original Air Date: Nov 10, 2008
Brittany – TwoCents Reviewer
Brittany@thetwocentscorp.com
After a week hiatus that I think we all needed, Heroes is back this week in rare form. Usually I like to say a little bit about the show, but it was a jam packed (awesome) episode, so let’s get to it, shall we?
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Original Air Date: Nov 10, 2008
Brittany – TwoCents Reviewer
Brittany@thetwocentscorp.com
After a week hiatus that I think we all needed, Heroes is back this week in rare form. Usually I like to say a little bit about the show, but it was a jam packed (awesome) episode, so let’s get to it, shall we?
We start with Angela and Arthur 18 months ago, celebrating with their family. Arthur is a little bemused that Peter is graduating from nursing school, but more importantly, ADA Nathan is going after Linderman to bring him down. Linderman asks Arthur what he’s going to do, because if Nathan digs around enough, he’ll find out the truth about the powers and ruin the future. Arthur takes a hint from Shakespeare and says that he’ll kill his son if he has to. When Nathan won’t let go of the Linderman case, his father arranges for the accident that paralyzed Nathan’s wife. Of course, Nathan was supposed to die, but he flew out of the car. Angela overhears Arthur telling Linderman that they’ll have to try killing Nathan again, so he brainwashes her into believing Nathan has to die. Little does he know that Linderman is playing devil’s advocate, and he warns Angela. That night, she poisons Arthur’s soup, intending to kill him. Nathan comes home before she can incinerate her husband’s body and calls 911. The doctor, apparently working for Arthur, tells Angela and Nathan that he’s dead. He’s not – just paralyzed seemingly forever by the poison. It’s no wonder he’d probably like to kill Angela as soon as possible this season.
A year ago, Meredith and her brother Flint (!) are robbing a store. One of the Company men (Noah’s old partner; you have to help me with his name) captures Meredith and tells her she can either be a prisoner or an agent. She picks agent, and after nabbing her first bad guy decides that she likes her new job well enough. However, when she hears that they want to make her brother an agent, she gets suspicious. She busts him out of Level Five and they hop a train, but the Company man follows them. Flint escapes and Meredith starts a fire in the train, leaving her no choice but to jump with the Company man before it explodes. He handcuffs her, and as they walk away from the wreckage, she tells him that she hates the Company because they killed her baby; Claire. That gives him pause right before he lets her go. He knows exactly who Claire is. In an excellent twist, the train crash they’re walking away from is the same one Claire ran into back in season one.
One year ago, Sylar was still Gabriel, and he was so distraught over killing a man that he planned on killing himself. Elle happens to find him just in the knick of time and as she holds him, he confesses that he did a bad thing. She tells him that he’s a good person, and after leaving him, she runs to a Primatech Paper Company van. Her partner is Noah, and their plan is to make Sylar trust Elle. She brings him a pie the next day, and he confesses to her that he has an ability. Demonstrating, he flings silverware into the sink and she’s appropriately surprised. He tells her that he used to get jealous of people with powers, but since meeting her he hasn’t felt that way; it’s enough for him to not be special as long as she’s around. She gives him the Sesame Street speech about being special just the way she is, and it’s clear she does not want to take him down. Noah reminds her that orders are orders, and to tempt him into killing, she brings over a man named Trevor with the ability to shoot things with just his fingers. When Elle starts fawning over how awesome his ability is, Sylar gets jealous and throws him against a wall. She doesn’t want this, so she shocks Sylar which does nothing but piss him off. He can’t quite kill her though, so she makes a run for it, begging Noah to help him. Their orders are to set him free and let him roam the world for now. When she can no longer protest, Noah catches a cab. Awesomely, it’s the same cab we first saw him in back in season one: Mohinder’s cab.
We’ve been witnessing all of this through Hiro’s spirit walk. When he wakes up, he declares that he has to warn Angela, Nathan, Meredith; everyone really, about Arthur. African Isaac screams off screen, and when we see him again, he’s decapitated. Arthur appears and grabs Hiro by the head, either manipulating his memories, reading his mind, taking his power, or all three.
During commercial, we learned that there is a new hero. He’s not a part of the show (yet), but you can follow him online at http://www.nbc.com/Heroes/heroesdestiny/
So, what did you think? I have to admit that this is the first time in a long while this show has had me riveted. When they just focus on one or two stories at a time it’s so much more captivating. I’m actually ready for next week’s episode, although I know that we’ll soon get all of the story lines criss-crossing again and we’ll have to wade through an overload of information once more. While watching the episode, I also came to the conclusion that the show might be more captivating if it were 30 minutes versus an hour. The show could have ended on a perfect cliff hanger after Arthur caught Angela overhearing his conversation with Linderman. How did you feel about this week’s episode? Did it feel like a breath of fresh air after what we’ve had so far? Email me, or leave me your Two Cents in the comments below!
papa petrelli is a creepster. big time.
ReplyDeleteHRG's old partner -- thompson? thomas? something like that?
i pretty much loved that they named meredith's brother flint. very appropriate. also, when she said to him something like, "God gave you a big sister instead of a brain," i knew i had something to say to my little brother next time he did something stupid. ;)
i hate elle. i have no reasoning behind it. i just hate her.
HRG getting into mohinder's cab was awesome. i love how it went full-circle.
african isaac. :( i really, really hope that papa petrelli doesn't kill hiro.
Oh, two Brittanys :D It's good to see you over here, albeit maybe little confusing.
ReplyDeleteI finally feel like something worked to pull the show together. Now, if only it could stay that way.
I don't think Thompson (that's the name you're looking for) was ever Bennet's partner, he was his boss. Claude the invisible man was HRG's partner.
ReplyDeleteAnd also, I totally agree: this was by far the best episode this season.
I agree with what you said toward the end. As I mentioned before, I failed to mention how much I enjoyed the episode despite how many inconsistencies I was coming across.
ReplyDeleteAnd KBell was astounding to me in this episode. I really was taken by her acting.
By far, one of the best but the strongest parts of the show was both Angela and Noah.