Meh.
It was pretty good.
There's still some stupid, and most of the complaints are levied at previous episodes... but this one wasn't 'great'. Was
good though. But it being good actually just proves how
annoying the previous episodes were.
It feels like "Season 3 didn't happen" is going to be a new rule.
First up - why didn't Sylar just nuke Elle's body?
Think about. Sylar is
somewhere. He doesn't know where. Elle shows up. It's night and they're on a beach. He then kills her. He wants to get rid of the body/pay his respects. He waits SEVERAL HOURS (it was dark, now it's sunny) and finds a can of lighter fluid. I assume those hours were spent looking for said can of lighter fluid.
Why doesn't he just use Ted's powers to burn her? Or Elle's? Remember, Elle burned someone in her first appearance (the cool Irish guy). There's no need for the lighter fluid.
To be honest though... it's not a deal breaker. It's just a little silly.
Anyhow, some silly things. Hiro having amnesia. The whole emotional point of the scenes is that Hiro meets his dead mother and is all tearful about it. Yet, his dead dad doesn't rate because he's got no memories. His dead dad reunion was one of the best things in season 2. Hiro having amnesia just prevented that added emotion.
And not only that, but there's no point at all for Hiro's amnesia.
Hiro has no amnesia, what does he do after the African? He goes back in time to get the catalyst. He gets the catalyst. Papa Petrelli shows up. Gets catalyst. Strands Hiro. Angela knows "he won" because he has the catalyst and thus the formula. Oh, and there's a goddam phone in Pinehearst. He can just call her. Claire in the past
does nothing.
Also, there's another problem: What was the 'special thing' Sylar saw in Claire? Was it the catalyst? If so... Hiro has changed the past.
Something he can't do. There was a time travel rule in Heroes. You can't change the past, but you can change the future. This made sense, both logically and creatively, as it solved a lot of inherent problems of a time traveller. The problem here is that, yes, Claire could, in hindsight, never have had the catalyst, but that just brings up what Sylar saw. I dunno.
I'm also annoyed, kinda, that Hiro's mum had powers. I wonder if Adam purposely introduced special people to each other to mate and breed powerful offspring.
Speaking of things that didn't matter (we shall call them "Eclipses" or... "Wastes of time") - Sylar. Now he's bad. With the line, "I almost forgot how good this feels" Sylar was
back. And then they kinda did the cake and elevator scenes as dark humour which was okay.
But here's the thing; yes. It is cool that Sylar is a scary mass-murderer again (kinda - like I care Sue Landers, who everyone in the office called "Sam" died), it just makes me irate. First of all, Sylar is back to being 'evil' again, killing people for their powers (or revenge)... which is something he was at the beginning of the season. Sylar didn't need to have a reason to kill Arthur Petrelli. He already
had one.
Arthur Petrelli is going to give the world super powers. This will make everyone special. This will make Sylar not special. Sylar upset. Sylar goes and kills Papa Petrelli to retain his position on top of the food chain.
No need for the bull**** of Sylar being a Petrelli or a good guy.
Mama Petrelli fed Sylar a woman (whose power has yet to come up) to get him to go kill Arthur. The Petrelli thing doesn't need to be there. She just feeds him and sends him on his way. He already has motivation to kill Papa Petrelli.
Oh, and the whole "I almost forgot how good this feels" brings up the "hunger" bull****. Sylar was
enjoys killing people. The hunger doesn't matter. It was invented to give him a reason to be good. Which was unnecessary.
Also, I bet you any amount of money, Sylar
was supposed to be a Petrelli. I reckon, when it was revealed, the backlash caused them to rewrite it back out. The reason? The way Sylar got Elle's power. It's Peter's power. How does Sylar possess it at all? And how on
Earth did Papa Petrelli know that Mama Petrelli had lied to Sylar? That man must have mad improvisational skills. And why would he lie to Sylar? He doesn't need to. He can just steal his powers and kill him.
Sylar was retconned twice, in one season.
And speaking of Papa Petrelli - how does the bullet death work? The Eclipse removes powers; Sylar and Claire die. The Eclipse passes, they come back to life. Now, the only time this is different is if something is lodged in the brain. This is the kill shot. Their eyes go white, and so on.
Except... the bullet went through Papa Petrelli's head. And his eyes didn't go white.
As soon as the Haitian leaves... Papa Petrelli regenerates.
And Papa Petrelli is a jerk. He just wins when the writers want him too.
How did he know Hiro was 1992? HOW HOW HOW?! And how could Hiro not teleport with Claire to somewhere else? Last episode, when he thought he was
ten years old, he took out Sylar and Elle, and then Claire. This episode, with his post-Kensei bad-assery, Hiro is ****ing USELESS.
I can't take a show seriously when the writers have their characters work at the speed of plot. There's no ****ing consistency.
Like, out of the blue, the Haitian has to
actively turn off people's powers. Which he's
never needed to do before. Not only that, but in THIS SEASON,he turned off Daphne's and Hiro's powers
without realising they were even in the building.
They just came up with that for two reasons; 1) To add "drama" to Peter killing Papa Petrelli, and by "drama", I mean a ticking clock because they wanted Peter to
stand around and look cross for five minutes. They dragged out that scene. And you know what? Where was Knox? Where was Flint? *sigh* 2) So Sylar could kill Arthur Petrelli in a cool tk fashion, and set up so next week, Sylar can kill the Haitian.
Here's the thing; first, to add 'drama' to the scene, when Peter shows up to kill his father, he's with Knox and Flint. Haitian turns off their powers, and a brawl ensues. And two, Peter kills his dad in cold blood. **** Sylar.
But here's a better way: the whole Peter/Arthur resolution is only possible because of the Haitian because Athur has no powers.
WHAT ABOUT THE DAMNED ECLIPSE? Why didn't the writers, when they came up with the idea of the eclipse, write in the scenes where Angela is aware of the eclipse and sends Peter off to kill Arthur while the eclipse is on.
There's your ****ing ticking clock you jackasses.
Imagine, instead of the Haitian sweating, the SUN is coming out and Peter has to decide
now.
The Eclipse now has a purpose. A ****ty one, but something happens.
OH! And one more thing; Arthur Petrelli is convinced that the apocalypse Peter saw is
a matter of perspective. "In
your opinion, Peter." Papa Petrelli can travel to the future.
WHY DON'T THEY GO TO THE FUTURE TOGETHER AND WORK THIS **** OUT.
:arrgh:
AND ANOTHER THING! The Haitian is in the building. Why don't Mohinder's scabs stop? Wouldn't it have been funny as hell if Mohinder gave the serum to Steve Rogers and because of the Haitian... nothing happened? That would make sense.
But none of this has been thought out.
The messenger has a sketch book that fan boys have been asking about for ages. Why is it not on ebay?!?!?!?! He should've ****ing sold it by now. It's been a YEAR. He's skimming money off the top. He'd've put it on ebay and ****ing sold it as soon as he realised people were really desperate for it.
And **** you, Daphne, Matt, and Ando. How long did you spend on the ****ing cover to that comic? Comics take no time to read. Stop the ****-teasing.
Oh, and the marine heroes... did they choose to give him super strength or not? And... I could care less. The Ultimates, this is not.
So, yes, this was a pretty good episode. Masi Oka and Zachary Quinto were particularly great.
But it just isn't thought out. It's inconsistent and very little actually
matters. All this episode had was two good acting scenes and a major death of a **** character.
Case in point: if Hiro hadn't lost his powers in episode 7, this would've been episode 8.
4 weeks of bull**** for no reason.
I won't be happy until, instead of going "Previously on Heroes", the show opens with Tim Kring going, "Hi. Sorry, but Heroes has been **** for a while and we really ****ed up. We're going to rectify that now. Sorry we ****ed up. Here is your time back."
Or until they do something
awesome.
Of course, then Arthur, who, with everything else, has the amazing ability to be exactly where he's needed to push the plot forward and create complications, had to go and render everything that just happened completely pointless. Seriously, not ten minutes ago, he was tearfully assuring his mother, in a very heartfelt moment, that he had grown up, and was not just "powerful" enough, but strong enough emotionally, to take care of the catalyst. And then Arthur shows up and effectively renders her sacrifice moot (I also think it's interesting that the writers keep finding ways to make Hiro inaccessible; he knows too much, so they first make him ten years old, and then strand him back in time. It feels like season two all over again, only instead of being trapped in Feudal Japan for half a season, he's been rendered completely useless for half a season).
Hiro and Peter suffer from "Writers aren't smart enough to write me" syndrome.
Also, am I the only one who really, really wants Peter to stay powerless? He's much, much more interesting this way. He actually has motivation, and has to make difficult decisions, and what's more, his every stupid action doesn't have the question of "well why didn't he just use his powers?!"
As I have been saying since season 1. Peter without powers is more interesting. Hiro without powers is not.
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