If we didn’t know that Heroes was ending for the season next episode, this would have been a relatively satisfying episode. We got to find out a bit more about the Company and Adam Monroe, there was a modest amount of gunplay, and one of the Wondertwins got butchered. That ticks off a lot of check boxes. But knowing that we’ve only got 42 minutes of Heroes left this season, it’s hard not to feel like things are getting a bit rushed. The plague that threatens the world just doesn’t feel terribly menacing yet, there’s still a billion unanswered questions about Adam Monroe and the Company, and Sylar has been sidelined for most of the season. In the (potential) final episode next week, these topics are either going to be handled quickly, or not at all. That feels like kind of a rip. At first glance, the only ones we have to blame for this are the striking writers, and by extension, Communism. However, here at Cracked, our editors encourage us to take the long view, so I’m also going to blame George W. Bush, Rich Hollywood Jews, and my parents.
Things we now know:
How did Adam know exactly where Victoria Pratt was? Everything we knew about her suggested that she had gone deep into hiding, and very few people knew where she was. I’ll guess that the Nightmare man read Angela Petrelli’s mind and told Adam about it, even though we haven’t seen any direct evidence that the two are co-operating. Still, it beats my other theory, which centered around an edited scene of Adam and Peter Googling her.
We still don’t know whether it was Bob or Mohinder that decided to save Bennet’s life, although both are aware he pulled a Lazarus. The big question here of course is what form the inevitable father daughter reunion will take when Claire and Noah cross paths again. I’m personally hoping that it’s some kind of Three’s Company-esque situation, where having both had their memories erased by the Haitian, the two meet on a blind date. They immediately hit it off, and are only moments away from a passionate kiss, when they’re interrupted by Matt Parkman, who’s now their landlord.
Micah and his cousins are back, and take part in one of the most inane stories I’ve ever seen on television – the Great Backpack Caper. I understand that there have to be some lighthearted moments in a show that features such grave threats to the world, but this is taking things a bit far. Last year Hiro and Ando’s hijinx managed to lighten the mood of the show without coming off as contrived or trivial. Micah’s cousin (I’ve completely forgotten her name) has gotten a pretty raw deal. To be the worst new cast character in a field that also includes West and the Wondertwins is both astounding and shameful.
Speaking of everyone’s favorite Hondurans, a couple weeks ago I said I’d tolerate their return to the show once they finally did something. Technically they didn’t actually do anything this episode, though fortunately for us, someone did do something to them, in the form of a knife to the abdomen. Alejandro’s ambush of Sylar while armed with nothing more than a wispy mustache was woefully ill-advised.
Incidently, watching Sylar smooth-talk Typhoid Maya is really unpleasant to watch. It feels a little bit like watching old people flirt.
I’m a little fuzzy on how Peter intends to save Caitlin. How exactly does he think that changing the future will save the girl that he left there? For a plot device as overused as time travel, you’d think someone would have figured out by now how to use it properly. I’d suggest writers should steer well clear from using time travel in their stories. Aside from some very specific exceptions - e.g: stories where characters from Star Trek : The Next Generation travel back in time to take twentieth century fan fiction writers back to the future with them - I never use time travel in my own work any more.
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May 27th, 2009 at 1:21 pm
Informative and entertaining. I’ve added your blog to my “reading material.” Keep me updated!
January 3rd, 2008 at 12:19 am
lengthen my penis…
lengthen my penis…
December 5th, 2007 at 2:14 pm
Maya y Alejandro are Dominican, not Honduran.
November 29th, 2007 at 7:27 am
“Also, it occurs to me that the Company might wind up intentionally releasing the virus. They just came up with the cure, so they can save themselves and whoever else they care to.”
Done already - anyone remember “Millennium?” The only way to better screw a show with a short season is to recycle story arcs from another show in its death spiral.
November 29th, 2007 at 3:17 am
All I can say is: “The emo male nurse sponge-boy sucks”. He’s soooo stupid. Maybe if I tell him “kill yourself or I’ll kill myself” he’d kill himself.
Why don’t you want the HRGM to die? I was really expecting him to die.
And Sylar’s still great.
November 28th, 2007 at 7:12 pm
I was gonna stop watching the show too if Noah really did die, but on to my gripes with the show. Peter has the power of everyone he’s come into and unknown (to me) distance or contact with. So from dealing with Sylar he should “know how things work” and in that mind set be aware of his position and powers. How can he be led around like this when he has telepathy? Is Adam that calm or Peter forget about the enhanced hearing cause liars would have an irregular heartbeat. I thought Hiro and Peter were friends, not the best of friends or hanging out but just enough to know each other Peter should know that Hiro’s sword has only been used to save live regardless of the revenge thing. Read his mind!!! You can use that power and not be a total dirtbag. Then calm down figure out how the time travel thing works or ask Hiro and go find Caitlin. Then expand your power and make sure Sylar’s actually dead. I had to vent after coming across this page so after I calm down myself I’ll post a better rant. But just in case I don’t get back to it Peter has been there done that. Not like a comic character but he’s been around and shouldn’t be farting around this time. Not with the resources he has.
November 28th, 2007 at 2:27 pm
Sylar has basically devolved into a cartoon villain at this point, all he’s missing is a handlebar mustache. I expect he’ll tie Maya to a railroad track in the season finale while wearing a tophat. Adam has become a far more interesting villain. Also, why does Sylar seem so excited to steal Maya’s cry power? For one thing, he’s clearly incapable of human emotion, other than his Ozzy Osbourne “I am Evil” smiling. So actually using it would be essentially impossible for him. Second, he quite obviously already has the power to make people die. Not sure what the big attraction is there.
Also, it occurs to me that the Company might wind up intentionally releasing the virus. They just came up with the cure, so they can save themselves and whoever else they care to. And get rid of the hoi polloi. Kind of like getting 6 billion free murders. Adam obviously wants to release the virus because people suck, and frankly I think we can all sympathize. But when you have a get out of jail free card in the form of Mohinder’s antidote, well I wonder if that might not be the master plan.
November 28th, 2007 at 1:17 pm
Haha, I thought Sylar was pretty sexy in this episode! What a stud.
Only one episode left? That’s so lame. ):
November 28th, 2007 at 6:51 am
Bel-Rand remeber who those people actually were I get the feeling that the babysitter may just be dead.
November 27th, 2007 at 6:56 pm
This show is pretty stupid. I’ve only seen a few random episodes, it seems to be in the same vein as shows like Lost and Alias to me. Meandering along plotless until people stop watching and nobody cares anymore.
November 27th, 2007 at 4:22 pm
All I can say is, Mohinder gotta die. The boy’s moral compass apparently came from the dime bin at K-Mart. All he can manage to do is screw with the best character on the entire show, moralize while uniquely unqualified to do so, and get his arse whupped by pretty much anybody and everybody. PLEASE, somebody, ANYBODY–Micah, even, beat him like a rented mule already.
November 27th, 2007 at 2:33 pm
What’s up with every character attacking Peter as soon as they see he with Adam? Doesn’t Hiro know he’s one of the good guys? Why not clearing things out before going all crazy with the samurai-shit..I mean, you’ve frozen time, you’re not really in a hurry.
“I convinced the babysitter to go home”. That’s is one shitty babysitter. Two strangers just walk in to the apartment and tells her to leave…
November 27th, 2007 at 10:08 am
No one ever accused Peter of having super-human smarts. He’s the character with the steroid-induced heart strings that lead him to mucking things up. Hence him shooting strung-out future artists, turning himself in to The Company, and taking Caitlin on an exciting revenge caper that ended with her getting lost in germville.
November 27th, 2007 at 4:44 am
Lol that’s why time travel is stupid. If she was transported to the future with the virus, is she suddenly un-transported…or is she in the same place in the future only her surroundings have changed, and now she’s naked on a dining room table?
They’re lucky they didn’t kill HRG, or I would’ve stopped watching.