Let us note, with relief, that they actually used the apostrophe correctly in contracting “it is” for tonight’s episode title. Because, really, did any of us expect someone involved with this show was smart enough for that?
Any guesses on whether or not Hiro loses his powers, or timestopps himself away?
I’m guessing Ando hits Arthur with a rock or something to break the hold.
Hiro gets high on gazelle shit and has flashbacks to other peoples lives, including that evil brain splicer who, turns out, used to be an even bigger nerd than Hiro. Gabriel tried to kill himself but is saved by a pretty blond pie-bearing chick. Too bad it’s Elle.
Flint is another long lost Claire uncle. Grandpa Arthur demonstrates his superior head removal technique on Usutu. Arthur is nasty. Oops, show’s on!
Whoa, that was straight from watchmen wasn’t it?
You mean Sylar “blowing up”? I thought that for a second.
Are we zapping Sylar naked? 'cause that would be fun. And therapeutic. He really needs his karma balanced.
Mohinder got to smash him up for patricide last not-Falcon Crest-ep, now it’s Elle’s turn. Who else needs a crack at him?
You killed my dad! I’m going to spend a good ten minutes being mad at you.
Good thing you look fine without yer shirt, buster! Otherwise I’d try to kill you and you still couldn’t die, which makes it all moot I guess
LOL, Hiro has nerd rage issues over comics. Shout-out if I ever saw one.
I caught that too.
Jesus… this show just gets dumber and dumber.
Arthur: You have seen into my dark soul. And from another continent, even! I’m squishing yer head!!!
Ando: Hey you! Quit picking on my friend or else I’ll get a big stick and go all Ewok on your ass!!! Whoa! Hang!
Arthur: I am better than you. It’s a fact. Hey, Pretty picture.
Ando: BLINK, dammit!
Hiro: WAFFLES!
Mohinder: Hey boss, how was Africa? Did you pick up some indigenous medicine I can use on these lesions that act as a metaphor for the ever darkening state of my soul?
Arthur: Screw you. So what’s with the eclipse?
Mohinder: Lo, a great darkness fell over the earth, and from it an army of superbeings were brought forth upon our land, bringing with them the advancement of mankind. Eh, probably just a metaphor. Oh yeah, it looks like we need some midichlorians to keep me, oops, the test subjects from turning into mutants.
Arthur: Well,darn. Hey, Gabriel, guess what I got you for your birthday?
Sylar: Mom gave me a girl named Bridget to debrain! Top that!
Arthur: How about a chained up blonde who you conveniently blame for turning you into a sociopath? But try not to debrain this one, you need a blond mother for your future children
Sylar: Wow! Maybe she brought more pie!
Elle: YOU KILLED MY FATHER PREPARE TO DIE!!!
Sylar: Yeah, I get that a lot. OK, you get a free shot.
Elle :Bzzzzttttt… Oh, shit, you got the resurrect cheat, didn’t you?
Sylar: Yeah, but this is getting me kinda hot. Oh yeah, I feel your pain. Did you see that Buffy episode where Spike earned his soul back by getting the shit beat out of him? Don’t know why that popped into my head—OW! Hey, look, I can zap now too! And you aren’t dead. Cool. Oops, shirt fell off.
Elle: This is getting me kinda hot. So, you killed my dad? Huh. Let me show you how to barbeque Irish guys….
Sylar: Dad, turn off the camera, that’s sick
Arthur:Come give your dad a hug
Nathan: And if I hadn’t just left Peter trying to suture his own wounds, that could have worked… i’m going to put on my Fonzie jacket and fly over to mom’s.
Peter: Girl, you’re going evil. I don’t like that.
Claire: Yeah, Uncle Peter, quit staring at my tits. And run, my other uncle’s here to kick your ass.
Flint: Are you tricking me ‘cause I’m dumb? No, we’re tricking you! Into the van, missy.
Peter: Losing my abilities has made me grow half a brain. Eat gas, sparky!
Mohinder: Well, sorry human test subject, but it seems I’ve turned you into Gollum.
HTS: Kill me.
Mo: Well, it’s the only humane thing to do. See how I trick myself into thinking I’m really not evil?
HTS: Bitch, you’re evil. See, the lesions are a metaphor…
Matt: Hi Angela, here to mindfuck you again. Sure a lotta dead people in here.
Angela: Yeah, is the pixie chick with you?
Matt: Hi Daphne! Ow, quit stabbing me.
Real Daphne: I love you
Real Arthur: WTF am I doing here?
Angela: You love me, ya big lug, now let me go.
Arthur: Oh, all right, there’s no way letting you go could possibly backfire on me later. Well, gotta go back to my team of evil, which now includes Nathan’s new girlfriend. They’re coming over to watch me sketch
Angela: My favorite son Peter is back. Oh, wait, which one is my favourite again?
Nathan: you two really need to quit playing favourites. Neither of us is buying it.
Peter: Neither? Hey, Nathan, remember that third Christmas stocking Mom had in the ornaments box and we never knew why she kept it all these years…….
Etc etc.
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Indeed it was.
Damn, I’ve been kind of defending Heroes up to now, but this episode was just all kinds of painful. Elle and Sylar – oops, I guess it’s Gabriel now* – had me cringing, and why the hell didn’t Arthur take Hiro’s powers, but instead just removed all memory since he’d been ten? That didn’t make any sense at all.
*Though his redemption just flat out doesn’t work – if he’d truly been horrified by his killings, learning that he never actually needed to kill removes his kinda flimsy ‘it was the hunger’ justification and should have sent him on a guilt trip instead of down lover’s lane with Elle.
Yeah. That’s pretty much exactly what I was thinking.
And also, during the Sylar-Elle shipping: Turn on the damn lights! Cripes, just hook Elle up to the power outlet or something if you’re trying to save energy. Peter ran around for half of two seasons with no shirt on; we can survive shirtless Sylar.
My guess is that he was looking for some information and wiped his memories in the process, although they are probably not gone permanently.
I am really disappointed in the previews. Oh well, may as well just gripe about it next week.
My pleasure!
Hey, I rather enjoyed the sublimated sex, but I guess the next step will be to make the subtext rapidly become text with those two.Maybe Elle could have refrained from making goo goo eyes at her dad’s killer for, hey, how about a week? The redemption can be working out over the long arc, but, as with the rest of the season so far, character development has been rushed (Sylar, Claire) or inconsistent with what we knew the characters to be (Mohinder, Elle). My three big ‘aw, fuck!’'s about this season are
-Mohinder all out of nowhere wanting powers. Could you have spent a few eps showing this urge developing?
-Gabriel Petrelli. See ‘Falcon Crest’ and related shallow gene pool snarks
-“the hunger” being anything but a massive excuse for greed and poor impulse control. They still could go there, we’ll see.
Anybody else notice in the preview…
Ando and somebody else running through a cornfield next to a farmhouse? It’s not precisely Mother Abagail’s farmhouse from “The Stand” but helloooooo.
So we’ve had “Villains” and “Heroes” is next week going to be “Reguloar Shmoes”
Well, maybe they’re retconning Sylar out of his psycho murderer characterization, but they’ve proven Elle to be a complete sociopath.
“You killed my father! Prepare to die! Oh, oops. Your shirt came off. Heeeeey, how you doin’? Let’s play with my powers and screw around while your dad watches!”