Heroes 03/30/09 “Into Asylum”

Cafe Society
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Having blown the budget freezing a parkade and shattering Tracey last week, this week we get a bunch of Petrellis sitting around talking:

From the show site: http://www.nbc.com/Heroes/nexton/episode_321.shtml

Now that Nathan’s (Adrian Pasdar) ability has been revealed and he has lost control of his operation, he and Claire (Hayden Panettiere) go into hiding in Mexico. With Emile Danko (guest star Zeljko Ivanek) now in control of the government operation, his plan to destroy everyone with abilities is set into motion as he teams up with an unlikely partner. Meanwhile, Angela (Cristine Rose) and Peter (Milo Ventimiglia) seek refuge in a church and begin to mend their broken relationship.

Someone broke their relationship? What did I miss? And per the preview, Claire gets bangs. Any chance someone will talk Sylar into a decent haircut too? Naaaaaaaa. :stuck_out_tongue:
In the episode commentary last week, (Here, if you aren’t on the wrong side of the Great Firewall of Hulu)Bryan Fuller told us what to think about Tracey, winking, blinking, death, and the ability to move from a solid to a liquid and possibly vapour:

She’s alive. Aliiiiiiiiiiiiiive!!!

Or we can just see if she’s still in the credits tonight.

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Okay, the Nathan/Claire story was pretty boring and slightly creepy, but I thought this was a top notch episode. Especially both of the car scenes and Sylar’s “death.”

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Oh god, I thought the creepy was just me! I think it was when Nathan flaked out on just one side of the bed. No, it was when Claire was trying to unbutton his shirt.

I forgot to look-was Ali Larter in the credits?

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And the look she gave him after he put the necklace around her neck. Maybe, Hayden is moving on to another brother.

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I got the creepy vibes as soon as they walked in the room and there was just one bed.

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The only story worth anything was the Sylar Danko arc.
Angela-Peter Boring! Except the “Let’s go see my sister!” part.
Claire-Nathan Boring! Nothing really happened. And creepy.

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Annie, Thanks for the link to the commentary. I did not know they were doing that. How long after the show airs will they put it up (I want to see the commentary for this week’s ep.)?

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Is Danko out of his mind, or what?

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He does seem to underestimate just how dangerous Sylar is. I think he figures once Sylar gets rid of them all, he can take out Sylar. Or he figures he can’t stop Sylar, so he might as well use him.

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I loved the fake-out with apparently-Sylar looking suspiciously at maybe-Danko.

I know everybody’s going to say they saw it coming, but I’ll admit I was fooled. The reveal was like in a good magic trick where the misdirection was done just right.
So now Sylar can impersonate anybody provided that he can touch them for more than just a moment first and have a private minute to change. Will the writers use this to its fullest potential? And he can be female! That provides for a lot of possibilities of various levels of creepiness.

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So, Danko obviously took Noah’s ‘one of us, one of them’-pep talk to heart, but I don’t really think that’s quite what he had in mind…

Going clubbing with your former number one target, that was a bond formed fast!

Oh, and getting drunk will not solve your problems, Nathan!

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I fell for it.

While I agree the Peter/Angela and Nathan/Claire stuff was horribly dull (This is way it only takes 40 minutes for me to watch Smallville.), it got a lot of badly needed character development and resolution out of the way.

Nathan realizes he is a perennial fuck up who keeps managing to fall upwards. Now he’s going to try to make things right, and probably fuck things up even more.

Claire got to see that her Birth-father is just a man who really keeps trying to do the right thing, and isn’t a sinister villain. It is now a little more believable that she’ll try to help him.

Angela admits that she is a manipulative bitch, but that seems to work slightly better to avert horrible potential futures than the Cassandra approach.

Peter… uh… I got nothin’.

Yeah - I’ll take ways to make myself totally expendable to a serial killer for $1000, Alex.

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I think the budget for this episode went to the face bubbling effect. Also the severed head Danko found. Those props don’t come cheap yanno. :smiley:

I also thought Peter talking to the JC statue was stoopit!

On the other hand, Zachary Quinto has an AMAZING smile. Who would have thunk Mr. My-Eyebrows-Are-Too-Heavy-To-Lift-From-My-Brooding-Pout could pull that one off.

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“What’s in the box?”

:smiley:

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I thought one of them was the fake but didn’t know which. From Danko’s perspective, shooting ‘Sylar’ couldn’t fail-either shoot Martin, dies; shoot Sylar, revives.

Yeah, like 'Will Sylar manager to touch Beyonce once, then never come out of his bedroom ever again?":smiley:

Which leads to an interesting observation…Gabriel’s interested in women, Sylar is not. The only time he’s gotten anywhere near lucky is when he was con-romancing Maya (abilities gone) and that eclipse time with Elle. Then when his abilities returned he was so freaked out by the possibility of an adult relationship he killed her. Or because she was batshit insane. Or his desire for abilities supersedes his need for romantic love/sex; we’d accept either answer.

Next day, usually. I have to employ nefarious methods to view them, from this side of the border so unless it’s purported to be extra interesting, or involves guys in shorts, I usually skip it

The reverse for me- I wasn’t really buying that Sylar would overtly partner with Danko- spy on him, use him for intelligence on where to find squishy brains but not volunteer to be the cop-buddy(The only reason he did that with Noah in the first arc was because of Angela holding out the approving mommy bait). Unless Danko’s his latest parent surrogate, but I didn’t think he’s glom onto a normie like that. And Danko showed Peter like intelligence levels in his investigative skills. Needs to have the different clothes explained to him? Really?

They’re both cocky enough to think that once one is done with the other he can be killed. Good luck with that, Danko. I’m interested in seeing Sylar’s new non-invasive removal technique. Something he picked up from dad? The empathetic method he got at Pinehurst that seemed to require he show, y’know, empathy?

Petrellis were interesting, except Peter. They were all vulnerable and honest with themselves, for a change.

Is there some other narrative technique that allows a character to soliloquize about their tortured soul? Perhaps he could LiveJournal? Naw, the Ninja’s would find the wifi sig.

Something has to balance off the top of his face. And he looked so cute and vulnerable there dead in that bag.

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FREE PASS!
Did you get that?
No, please tell me again why Claire wasn’t rounded up with everyone else.

Great music in this ep. A little anti-climactic on the heals of the last ep, but very informative. I think it will be nice seeing all the Petrellis together again. Danko is so in over his head and I don’t believe for a second that HRG thinks Sylar is really dead. He knows that public enemy #1 is a shapeshifter, right? So, it has to have crossed his mind that dead Sylar isn’t serial killer Sylar. He knows Sylar’s in town, but doesn’t know that Danko has been in contact with Sylar. He could think that Sylar came after Danko, but why and what would Danko be doing at a nightclub. Okay, so maybe Danko went after Sylar? Okay, but what was Danko’s tip-off that Sylar might be…in a nightclub? And it’s not like Danko to go in alone; he usually sends in a bunch of guys to get slaughtered. Oh, yes, this isn’t as cut and dried as it looks.

So, what happens now, HRG? Do we take dead Sylar to some secure location and pull the knife out of the back of his head to see if he comes alive? Or do we just go with the whole Sylar is dead story? Hmm… I hope HRG is as smart as I think he is, because Danko is really dumb.

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I was fooled as well. I thought it was Sylar and the faker as Danko and Sylar was going to kill him.

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I just remembered. Did anyone else notice Danko’s tremor when he went to put his cigarette in his mouth?

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I think HRG knows – because the knife was in the wrong place! Although I can’t cite it, we’ve heard several times that the knife (or something) must be inserted at the BASE of the skull, not the TOP of the skull.

J.

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Looked like the base of the skull to me.