Better yet, lock Adam and Sylar in the same room and let Sylar go Hannibal Lecter on Adam’s brain. The brain heals. Sylar gets to keep eating. We never have to see Sylar giving other heroes his creepy “O” face when he finds out they have powers.
Noah’s death scene would’ve made more of a serious impression if he hadn’t died in a bit of a hooray pose: arms up, head tossed back.
Notice how after Mohinder shot Noah, he lost his voice over powers. Better hope Hiro doesn’t kill anyone, or we’ll have to put up with the Peter Petrelli voice over. “So um…When something happens…something that’s bad. Then something else can…um…Wait. Can I start over?”
I don’t think that Parkman’s powers are automatically evil. They would be if he started using them to make people say “These are not the droids we’re looking for.” I will say that I expect the potentially evil nature of his powers to haunt him for a good period of time though.
OOOHHH, and they’ve developed Hiro to be just that type of geeky character, who might actually say something silly like that! I really hope they do it; I’d get such a kick out of it!
I hate Mohinder. Not so much because he shot Noah, but because he is just so unbelievably stupid. His superpower appears to be a crippling inability to keep a secret, tell a lie, make any decision whatsoever on his own, and I somehow wonder if Elle had to dress him too, rather than only putting on his holster. “Well, Bob, I don’t know if you’re good or evil, so I’m going to tell you all my secrets, and then you can tell me what to do!” and then “Well, Noah, I listened to Bob, but he thinks you’re evil, so how about I tell you all my secrets and then you can tell me what to do!” Why couldn’t the bullet ricochet off a passing porcupine and hit Mohinder in the eye? It would be a way better twist than anything we’ve seen or heard him do!
Since Adam and his magic blood disappeared over 4 months prior to the events of this episode, and since Bob was seen taking a pint (or more) of blood from Claire this episode, and they all happened to be on one side of the country while Adam was on the other, I think we can safely assume that Noah was revived with Claire’s blood.
I agree Mo was pretty stupid but he’s our Mohimbo and he’s pretty. He could have asked Noah to FedEx a pint of Claire blood his way for him to find out if it could cure but no, he says “we need Claire” and gives up Noah. Also, how does someone afraid of guns and who’s never really used one get a kill shot like that? I submit that Mo was trying to shoot Noah in the shoulder to incapacitate and he’s such a screw up that he accidentally hit him in the eye.
Who knows why Bob revived Noah? Maybe he was just trying to see if it could be done, maybe they never tried it in all the 30 years they had Adam locked up? I think it has to be Bob’s doing because he had Claire’s blood and Mo couldn’t exactly sneek dead Noah into the back of the truck and hook him up with Claire’s blood without Bob knowing. Does Noah still have a bullet in his head? The real question is why strip Noah down to revive him, he was shot in the head? I’m not complaining, I just hope they don’t get too carried away with the stripping down of the male characters because some of them should not go topless.
Ok. We have 2 episodes left for this “chapter.” They are going to have to cram a lot of stuff in there. The Shanti virus, Hiro’s revenge on Adam, what’s up with Maya and Alejandro, why did the company (or somebody else) save Noah, Elle’s allegiance to the company, the Patrelli brothers doing something and so much more.
One small thing, Hiro wouldn’t save his father, but he did time travel (back and forth, who knows where his real time line is anymore) to save Manhattan. Does that seem a little inconsistent?
Changing the past through direct action is forbidden. Seeing the future, and working to prevent it is allowable. Giving allies veiled warnings in a manner calculated to change the past with minimal disruption is borderline (and remember, dark future Hiro was damaged and darker than present Hiro due to the loss of Ando), but marginally acceptable if you’re trying to stop a massive casualty.
If you don’t get this, you haven’t read enough comics. Hiro and I are well-read enough to understand the subtleies of trans-temporal ethics.
I figure that they saved Noah so they’d have a bargaining chip to get to their ultimate goal - Claire. If they have Noah alive, they can use him to get Claire to cooperate.
Question - now that he’s been healed with Claire’s magic blood, will his eyesight be restored to 20/20 - making his HRG unneccesary? I mean, if his entire eye regenerated, wouldn’t it regenerate working properly?
Does anyone know if they always planned to end the season in two more episodes, or was it shortened because of the strike? And if the season was shortened, did they rewrite the episodes to wrap everything up early, or will it end abruptly?
Did anyone else think that the room that Noah woke up in looks like the same room that Sylar woke up in when he was revived? Maybe all cinderblock rooms with a single hospital bed look alike.
They had originally planned to split the season into two seperate chapters, but with the writer’s strike they retooled the end of the 1st chapter to work as more of a season finale.
Before the strike, it was explained that the season would follow two twelve episode arcs, one before the hiatus and one after. I have heard that there were some rewrites not to leave any dangling threads for the second half of the season, but I haven’t read it directly from anyone ‘official’.
They had always planned to end “Volume 2” two episodes from now. They claim that they did tweak the scripts before the strike so that in case the rest of the year is a wash, Episode 11 will be a fairly satisfying season finale.
Wow. That was probably the best episode, IMO. I love the ambiguity about the characters. And the “Sayonara desu” from Hiro was particularly poignant. “Sayonara” doesn’t just mean “goodbye”, it’s more like “goodbye forever”.
I am hoping that the resuscitation effect is limited to the freshly dead. Otherwise it’s too powerful.
Come to think of it, maybe Noah was only mostly dead? Perhaps he was essentially brain dead but his heart was still beating? Otherwise what good would a transfusion of blood do if there was nothing to pump it through the body? An IV drip would not be powerful enough to circulate the blood, it would essentially just start pooling in one spot once the blood already in the body started to clot and settle out. An IV pump might have more of an effect in pushing it through the body but it wouldn’t have the force of the heart beat and he was hooked up to a straight drip, not a pump.
I think we can safely assume that it was Claire’s blood. If the company had Adam for 30 years and knew his blood could heal, wouldn’t they have stockpiled it? Why would they even need Claire? (one possibility: they don’t need her for her blood. They did something more sinister to her than just take blood. Virus, perhaps?) But, I don’t think they knew that little twist until Adam healed Nathan.
Great episode. Agree with most everyone: Mohinder’s an unbelievable dumbass, West was almost bearable, Noah’s awesome and I’m glad he’s not really dead, Parkman’s getting creepy and I love it.
Other thoughts: Parkman said everyone in the picture was dead except for Bob, Angela, Maury, and “this lady” (later shown to be Victoria Pratt). What about the others? There’s a screenshot of all the post it notes on the Heroes Wiki, and he’s somehow got names for all of them. How? Wish we’d gotten to see that, perhaps instead of one of the Maya/Alejandro scenes.
I buy the bathtub trick for Elle, and that was actually pretty cool. But what was with the handcuffs? How did that work at all?
We already know Parkman can turn evil at the drop of a hat from the five years in the future episode from last season (in which he didn’t have any other powers besides mind reading btw) so i can definitely see him falling to the dark side.
She was bound by duct tape, which was another nice callback to his earlier threat to duct tape Claire.
Which actually works, since he didn’t know about his other powers before encountering his father. Which happened because he was living with Molly. Which had NYC been blowed up real good, he wouldn’t have been. So while it may not have been the creators’ intent, it does work.
