Last time on Heroes, they were falling to the ground at the speed of sound. And also, a plane was crashing- rimshot! Tonight, if Obama doesn’t run late, the gang will presumably survive and make like little rabbits and hide from the scary fed ninjas. Or they all die in the crash and we spend the rest of the season watching Daphne and Ando squabble.
Damn you Obama!
Ah crap poor nemesis, i kinda liked her.
Next Week:
Sylar and his protege, Heat-boy!
:rolleyes:
So… they thought it would be a good idea to give Sylar an adoring, underage sidekick? Seriously? The sadistic maybe-he’s-a-cannibal vibe wasn’t icky enough, that they had to add maybe-pedophile, too?
Now, now, I believe the correct term is ephebe-ophile. But I didn’t get that vibe at all, mostly because that kid is grade-A unfuckable. I give Sylar maybe until dinnertime before he thinks, "Christ, was I this annoying when I was 16? Who needs a reminder of that?" and gives him a cranial ventilation.
I enjoyed the episode, even with the standard cliches about “save yourself!” and “If you stay here, you’ll die!” and “we have to work together!” and all that. Yeah, nothing earth-shakingly new about any of this, but they’re managing to keep most of the cast involved in a single storyline with a common goal this time.
I don’t get any kind of ephebophile or whatever vibe from Sylar and Luke. I think Sylar is amused by the kid and wants to see how far he’s willing to go. He already nuked a guy, so he’s already a killer. I think Sylar figures that if Luke gets out of hand, he’s easy enough to handle with a TK neck snap or something.
I like that they absolutely addressed the issue of Peter’s powers, no guessing needed; he can only take one power at a time now. It’s an effective nerfing of his ability and makes him much more interesting than superpowerful, superstupid anti-Sylar like he was before.
One thing that the “roundup” of specials does is also essentially nerf Sylar, to a degree. With less specials running around for him to brain-suck, he’s less likely to end up with three dozen abilities.
If I were Peter in this situation, I would want to get Claire’s ability, then learn how to use a gun properly. Freezing stuff or flying isn’t too handy if you’ve just been shot.
Nathan, in Building 26 (because they ran out of dead politicians to name buildings after in Washington) Jesus, what’s with the freaky lighting in here? Are we on Defcon over-expose? We’re trying out a new past tense narrative framework, and apparently we need washed out white lighting for emphasis. Anyhow, my cunning plan to load a bunch of specials on a single plane went to shit. And who fucked it up? My family. No, no one’s asked why my blood relatives have this genetic abnormality and I don’t.
Matt :Hey hetero life partner, where’d you leave our daughter? That babysitter gets pissed when we don’t pick Molly up before 7
Mohinder: OK, I know guys get a little oblivious when they get a new girlfriend (and one half your age and size? You brain mojo’d her, didn’t you?) but Molly’s been out of the country for 2 months-you just thought to ask where our kid is? We have to get out of here
Matt: No. (white eyes) Me go color now.
Mo: Sure. I’ll follow the guy in a trance while 300 homeland security guys hunt my swarthy ass, sure. Is Cheney still VP?
Peter and Claire: They’ll never catch us running down this open road 80 yards from the crash site in orange jumpsuits!
Noah: I look so f’ing awesome in this tactical uniform. We never got gear like this at Primatech. Hey guys.
Claire: You’ll never get away with this, how do you hide a plane crash?
Incoming PATRIOT missile, blows plane wreck slightly farther to hell than it was before
Claire: Oh yeah, no one’s going to notice that.
The inverse relationship between Peter’s strength of ability, and IQ continues. Get his power toolkit down to zero or one, he’s smacking the loaded guns out of the hands of (whatever a CIA version of a Navy SEAL is) and Haitian drug goons, stealing uniforms and hatching evil schemes. Give him every ability short of Micah’s ATM vacuuming, he acts like the third Lindros brother after the 10th concussion. Thank god he developed his abilities as an adult, he never would have made it out of nursing school. Anyhow, he’s knocked out some SEAL and lifted his uniform and gun
Tracey: Quick, go find Nathan and then fly us to somewhere that doesn’t have an extradition treaty
Peter: No, we have to go find Nathan and, uh, appeal to his better nature?
Tracey: Yeah, good luck with that. How did you get caught by these guys again?
Peter: Last thing I remember I was with Nathan and he hugged-Shit! I fell for the hug thing again!
Sylar: Still pinning down my prey with sharp objects through the hands, but I use the remote to turn off the TV. Hey lady. I’m going to torture you and emo-brat until this narc tells me what I want to know
Narc: Hey, wanna torture someone else for a while? Fine.
Sylar: Mmmm, coffee.
Emobrat: Nuke bad man’s coffee!
Sylar: Oh, you get to call your mom a whore but I can’t, is that it?
Luke-Our latest addition to the Heroes of the Apostle-lypse- And you thought West was an annoying adolescent? You’ll pay cash money to have West back. This one whines and melts stuff- hey, at least the flying boy had an ability you’d actually want. Try impressing a chick with your melting abilities, I dare ya.
Matt: Oh no, I drew Daphne dying in my arms horribly, again! I have to go to her!!!
Mo: OK, buddy, think this through: you see prophetic paintings of Daphne dying in your arms, again. What do all these scenes have in common?
Uh, dying?
Yeah-and what else???
Daphne?
Good………what else??
Uh, me?
Very good! Can you work the rest of this out yourself??
No! I have to go save Daphne!!!
MO: facepalm
Hiro: that baby doll sitting on the table is freaking me out. And look, me somewhere.
Mo: I know that building- it’s in Delhi
Matt: I draw a vague sketch of a building with a couple of towers and a lady in a sari, and in all of India you know the subway stop?
Mo: Cab driver!
A little later:
Pew, pew , ventilated Daphne.
Matt: Argh! Rage! Irrational Fury! You shot my girl! Shoot each other! No, shoot the healing blood girl next to Daphne! Hit a big artery, she needs to bleed right into Daphne’s wounds! Atta boy, nice shoot’n.
Mo: So, any guilt about making these nice US forces black ops guys kill each other?
Matt: Huh?
Peter: But really, creative solution.
Noah:I’m doing all this to KEEP YOU SAFE!!!
Claire: Dad, my dad Senator Skyboy runs the program. He doesn’t need you around to make sure they lose my file, yannow?
SSB: don’t push me, missy. Ever wonder what happened to my other 2 kids?
Noah: Well, the economy’s taking a bit of a dump, and it’s not like I have a resume that lends itself to due diligence checks. A man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do to keep his girl in little pink cellphones
Scary Gun Man: I am the only person on this show short enough to have a 2 shot scene with you, young lady. That means I don’t have to bend over to blow a hole in the back of your otherwise bulletproof head.
Claire: DADS!!! He’s being mean to me!!!
Dads: Well, don’t be sabotaging covert black ops missions then come running to us when you get caught.
Sylar: I know what your son is going through……. Abandoned by a father, loathed by a mother who never loved him for who he really was, isolated, with an ability that scares him with what he can do to others………. And really? His mom’s a total hag. .
Boy No-Wonder: Dude, transference, ever read a psych text? My dad’s great, he just works out of town a lot.
Sylar:Lyle?
*Agent Simmons manages to pry the screwdrivers out of his hands and goes for his gun. Silly Simmons. But lo! Evil Robin makes with the microwaves until Simmons bleeds out the eyes. *
Mom: what are you???
Sylar: Shiny new toy! All mine!
Peter: now that I’ve called you all here on the cell phones that Black-ops let you keep on your persons while you were being secretly transported to god knows what secret facility, don’t use them ever again.
Matt: Peter’s so cute when he guns up.
Mo: Now what do we do?
Matt:We take the fight to them!
Mo: Matt, you always say that, and then you either get shot with your own bullets or sent to Africa.
Matt: They’re going to pay for what they did to Daphne!
Everyone: Yeah, what exactly did they do to her? We didn’t really get closure on that whole Daphne shooting.
Sandra: Oh honey, you look so much better when you don’t wear so much makeup.
Audience: No Claire, that was us. Hand over the bronzer and no one gets cancelled.
Claire: Excuse me, my ass is ringing. Hey, cryptic text message from some mysterious ally. I always trust unknown strangers texting me.
Legions of horndog Heroes fans: Why, hello there!
Nathan: Let me sit really close to you, freeze gal and tell you about how you’re all evil and dangerous. If I sit a liiiiiiitle closer, you might just be able to touch my balls.
Tracey: So, screwing my way out of this is off the table?
Nathan: Oh yeah.
Tracey: You’re ONE OF US!!! ONE OF US!!! Traitor!!!
Blackops guys: Well, duh. He gives up piggy back rides to Maui on weekends, we don’t rat him out….it’s a good business relationship.
Tracey: So, screwing my way out of this is off the table?
Black ops: Ball freezing chick? Way off. … Hold still, it’s time for your chocolate milk drip
Next week: Our gang finally notice how many security cams are on the streets of America;Tracey gets shackled inside a tanning booth, Sylar swipes a ninja uniform.No one apparently thinks of moving to Canada
I did like his “I didn’t kill you - which is pretty good for me.” or something like that line.
I was about to say that that was the only storyline that made sense - but it doesn’t. How is this kid supposed to know who Sylar’s dad is? Did he happen to melt the truth out of someone? What was his (kid or his mother’s, for that matter) previous connection to tortured black-ops guy? Is he just looking at Sylar and thinking “you have the same eyebrows as the guy down the street. that must be the dad you have yet to mention by name.” And if “dad” is far away enough to necessitate using a car, how does this kid plan to find him. But even though the plotline doesn’t make a lick of sense, Sylar does. He was a totally consistent character for 43 minutes, even if his plot had some serious holes in it.
None of the other characters managed to be even remotely comprehensible. And kept bouncing around stupidly and changing motivations, goals, and direction for no reason whatsoever.
I get the feeling he’s probably Sylar’s half-brother or something along that end.
Sylar did say that it wasn’t coincidence he lived so close to him.
Annie, I come here every Tuesday morning just looking for your breakdown of the show. It’s right on every time! 
I’ve realized I had a List Of Dumb from this episode:
- Matt. You’re a prophet, now. You drew your girlfriend getting shot. You went back to save her 'cause, you know, you’re a prophet now.
Maybe want to warn her before she parades around in the location you know she’ll be shot for the third time? moron.
- Pedo Boy. You make some stuff melt, just like the microwave. You make water boil, just like the microwave. You do funky stuff to pacemakers, just like… oh, hell.
Have you never heard of Google you whiny git? The writers are raining anvils with notes that read “hey! he makes microwaves” on us poor viewers – could you not have googled “microwaves” and spared us all by just saying “I can melt my childhood toys by shooting microwaves at them.” Seriously, we just got them to rid us of Mohinder’s stupid exposition. Don’t you be adding the stupid back in.
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Claire’s mom. The house has been lonely without Claire? Maybe it is time to go looking for your other child, then? Or Mr. Muggles? Been a while since we’ve seen either one of them. Been visited by the Haitian again, have you?
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Ando. You boost powers now. You’re surrounded by the army, with only (1) the guy who controlls minds, (2) the woman who can run you out of there one at a time, (3) the guy who used to stop time, and (4) the guy who used to copy ever nearby power. You can’t think of anyone in that group to juice up?
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Nathan. Inherited the Petrelli brains, I see.
To be fair Ando is a moron and his powers are pretty new to him.
How? He doesn’t know where she is right now, but he does know where she’s going to be. He figures he might be able to stop it. It may be the best plan, but it sure beats sitting around the trailer knowing Daphne’s going to get shot some where else.
He said “microwave” what, twice? Maybe explaining your powers to Sylar isn’t the smartest thing, but if you haven’t ever heard of him (and I don’t think anyone outside of Primatech, Pinehearst, the FBI, and the SuperSecret Black Ops i.e. most everyone else in the world ever has), and he’s the only person who’s ever shown you the least bit of encouragement, it’s understandable.
No, we haven’t. Then again, unless they’ve been taken hostage… again, they don’t move the plot forward any. All the more reason for them to be off screen.
Are you serious? Ando the office drone has almost no training in thinking rationally while people are shooting at him. Matt, the cop, is about the only one who has no real excuse for not doing anything. Oh wait, he did.
Yeah - I got nothing here.
Next up: People complain that Alabama looks just like the California mountains.
I was a bit confused by a sequence on this episode. Ando realizes that Hiro can’t be dead because, according to Hiro, Ando kills him in the future.
First- hasn’t it been clearly established that the future can always be changed?
Second- Hiro saw himself being “killed” by Ando shooting red lightning at him. Red lightning. You know, like his new power-boosting ability. Why the continued assumption that Ando’s going to kill him?
You got that right. I’ve only ever seen that area on TV, and yet my immediate assumption when we saw the wreckage was that they crashed in SoCal.
I could nitpick, but I honestly liked the episode. Much, much better than it has been lately…
And I must admit, when Peter took off and flew away, I cheered out loud. Even though some of the episode was a wee bit predictable, I didn’t think of that during the big show-down with Nathan and Tracey.
Well to be fair, it’s been a rough 24 hours for these kids. Capture, crash, Men With Guns. Sensible: no. Consistent- yes. Let’s see: Matt- goes off after Nemesis with guns(or lack thereof) blazing and not a moment’s thought about how he’s actually going to make anything better. Could actually bring a prophecy to fruition rather than thwart it. Yup, sounds like our guy.
Mohinder: Smart idea- swipe some clothes, get the hell out of town, move before daylight hits-and then rather than do the smart thing, he follows someone else. Again. For bonus points, it’s Mr “Take the Fight to Them/Girlfriend Hunter!!!” Mohinder, love ya, but you just don’t trust your own judgement. Unless it involves doing something really stupid with the lab experiments.
Hiro: " cannot run away. I must be a HERO!" Yeah, sure thing Mr. CEO of Yamagato. You’re just chock full o’ skills useful in evading a manhunt. Big help. Maybe you can go run screaming through the woods again.
Tracey: Bullshit/betray her way out of it (I’m not really clear what her and Peter’s plan was). Was Peter going to kidnap Nathan? Either that, or hug therapy. Anyway, Nathan brought a platoon, so whatever the plan, T&P didn’t plan for that sudden but inevitable betrayal. Curses! What surprised me was that Peter zoomed the hell off and left Tracey to her fate.
Noah: Like Mohinder, he’ll attach himself to whoever can support his work. His work requiring covert ops and big honk’n handguns.
Nathan: Thinks he has the situation under his control, slow to realize someone’s playing him like a Stratocaster at Woodstock.
C’mon team! Shake it off, think! Peter’s the only one who’s firing a few pistons here, you know that won’t last forever.
This could be the point in the series’s narrative when the characters start to grow and get their shit together and act effectively as a team. I know you can do it, little heroes, I just know you can!
I’m talking about when Matt was sitting in front of the wreckage where he knew she’d be shot since that is what he’d drawn.
Daphne shows up, walks around in front of Matt, right where she’ll be shot (as per what he’d drawn). Written in to get the audience to cringe in anticipation, of course.
Matt does nothing.
Blah, blah, blah, Ando and Hiro reconnect. Daphne still walking around in the place she’ll be shot.
Matt, still nothing.
Little more dialog, Daphne still walking in front of the wreckage, then Matt starts to warn her, just as – BLAM! – Daphne gets shot.
Should’n’t’ve been too surprised, given last week’s hijinks as he and Claire stared stupidly at a picture of them staring stupidly at a picture while Matt gets tasered. Maybe not the best choice for prophet.
Ando is a comic book geek, who has been running around with superpeople and getting shot at for three seasons.
And Matt only did something after his girlfriend got shot. Which was, you know, what he’d come there to stop in the first place.
I can forgive a lot of the stupid because they’d just been drugged and in a plane crash but the stupidest by far was Matt going back to save Daphne only to let her stand around talking and getting shot. He’s a big guy he could have just tackled her to the ground when she showed up and sat on her until she listened to him.