HEROES!
I'm going to preface this episode review by saying that it is criminal - CRIMINAL - that there are only two episodes remaining in Heroes' second season. Someone needs to put a beatdown on the Hollywood producers to make them cough up money to the writers so we can get this show back on the air! It's finally hitting it's stride, picking up the pace to what it should have been all season, and they're going to have to cut it off in mid-gallop. Criminal I say!
Okay. *breathing deeply* Let's move on to tonight's recap!
1. HRG, Claire & Family
Okay, I DARE anyone out there to tell me this episode didn't hit you in the gut almost from the very start. Like "Company Man" in the first season, Jack Coleman elevated this episode to a thing of beauty. The man deserves an Emmy nomination for the way he plays Noah, and since I know the Academy will never bother to give him one, I'm going to give him the very special Lemming Achievement Award right here and now. I was CRYING when Claire told him she hated him. I was cheering when he put the smack down on West and then Elle, only to cry again when he described Elle's treatment at the hands of the Company. Needless to say I bawled like a newborn baby when Mohinder killed him. I honestly couldn't see, I was so blinded by tears. So of course no one could have cheered louder than me when he resurrected on that gurney, mimicking Claire's infamous autopsy resurrection scene from last season. Brilliant, absolutely brilliant. I'm still grinning like an idiot because of it! People, I am in LOVE with Jack Coleman. LOVE.
Claire? Pissed me off. I was crowing with righteous delight when she realized who Bob was, where he came from, and that her father was right all along. See, Claire? THIS is why we don't do stupid things like fake our own death with our flying boyfriend! It was nice to see her come around in the end and realize how much her father cared for her and how much he sacrificed to keep her safe. Sandra's breakdown broke my heart. Sandra/Noah = OTP. *sob!*
And then for Claire to snuggle up with West, the prick who got them INTO this mess? ARRRGH! *tears hair in frustration!*
So the question becomes, who hooked Noah up with the IV Drip of Life? It didn't look like Mohinder, Bob or Elle were responsible, judging by Mohinder's expression and the fact that they were on the road at the end of the episode. Could it have been Adam and Peter? Or perhaps someone else? That looked like the old Primatech Paper location, but all those places look more or less the same. We'll have to wait and see!
2. Elle, Bob & Mohinder
Continue to love Elle and her psychotic babydoll tendencies. I LOVE that she got given so much more depth this week with the reveal of her treatment as a child at the hands of her father and the Company. If Sylar has taught us anything, it's that there is nothing so tragic as a psychotic villain who came from such humble roots by no device of their own. Just look at Spike on Buffy!
This show continues to take our favorite characters and place them in morally grey situations where you can legitimately look at them and ask, "Are you a good guy? Or a bad guy?" Look at Mohinder. He "killed" Noah, but he did it to save Niki and stop the spread of the virus. But he did it at the behest of the Company, and look at what the Company did to Elle, under her own father's watchful eye. I love this dynamic. We honestly don't know who's doing the right thing and who's in the wrong.
All we have to do is look at Peter and Adam, who admittedly weren't in this episode, but who perfectly encapsulate what I'm talking about. Adam has been introduced to us as a good guy gone bad, a murderer and a psychotic villain. But he saved Nathan's life, and once upon a time he was a hero. Could there still be some of that hero buried deep inside that chilly exterior? And what about Peter? Peter, who is the apex of goodness in this "Heroes" universe; the antithesis to Sylar. He's working with Adam to "save the world," but what does that entail? Peter's a good guy, but is he doing the wrong thing? Or is everybody else wrong about Adam and his motives?
So many questions! And I love it!
3. Matt, etc
Uh oh. *gulp* Matt's starting to practice mind control. This can't bode well for the future. Does everyone remember the old chestnut, "Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely?" It happened to Maury. I don't want it to happen to Matt! But he's already used Molly as a guinea pig to test this new power, and used it for his personal advantage at work. Yes, it was all in a good cause, but the road to Hell was paved with good intentions (among many other cliches).
So who is Jessica Pratt, the woman in the picture? I wonder... could she be Peter's mother? I wonder if she's the person Claude was protecting in the desert, which led to Noah having to kill him... Just throwing out wild guesses, because I honestly have no idea. But I want to knooooooow!
I don't have anything else to say except: GOD I LOVE THIS SHOW!
Okay. *breathing deeply* Let's move on to tonight's recap!
1. HRG, Claire & Family
Okay, I DARE anyone out there to tell me this episode didn't hit you in the gut almost from the very start. Like "Company Man" in the first season, Jack Coleman elevated this episode to a thing of beauty. The man deserves an Emmy nomination for the way he plays Noah, and since I know the Academy will never bother to give him one, I'm going to give him the very special Lemming Achievement Award right here and now. I was CRYING when Claire told him she hated him. I was cheering when he put the smack down on West and then Elle, only to cry again when he described Elle's treatment at the hands of the Company. Needless to say I bawled like a newborn baby when Mohinder killed him. I honestly couldn't see, I was so blinded by tears. So of course no one could have cheered louder than me when he resurrected on that gurney, mimicking Claire's infamous autopsy resurrection scene from last season. Brilliant, absolutely brilliant. I'm still grinning like an idiot because of it! People, I am in LOVE with Jack Coleman. LOVE.
Claire? Pissed me off. I was crowing with righteous delight when she realized who Bob was, where he came from, and that her father was right all along. See, Claire? THIS is why we don't do stupid things like fake our own death with our flying boyfriend! It was nice to see her come around in the end and realize how much her father cared for her and how much he sacrificed to keep her safe. Sandra's breakdown broke my heart. Sandra/Noah = OTP. *sob!*
And then for Claire to snuggle up with West, the prick who got them INTO this mess? ARRRGH! *tears hair in frustration!*
So the question becomes, who hooked Noah up with the IV Drip of Life? It didn't look like Mohinder, Bob or Elle were responsible, judging by Mohinder's expression and the fact that they were on the road at the end of the episode. Could it have been Adam and Peter? Or perhaps someone else? That looked like the old Primatech Paper location, but all those places look more or less the same. We'll have to wait and see!
2. Elle, Bob & Mohinder
Continue to love Elle and her psychotic babydoll tendencies. I LOVE that she got given so much more depth this week with the reveal of her treatment as a child at the hands of her father and the Company. If Sylar has taught us anything, it's that there is nothing so tragic as a psychotic villain who came from such humble roots by no device of their own. Just look at Spike on Buffy!
This show continues to take our favorite characters and place them in morally grey situations where you can legitimately look at them and ask, "Are you a good guy? Or a bad guy?" Look at Mohinder. He "killed" Noah, but he did it to save Niki and stop the spread of the virus. But he did it at the behest of the Company, and look at what the Company did to Elle, under her own father's watchful eye. I love this dynamic. We honestly don't know who's doing the right thing and who's in the wrong.
All we have to do is look at Peter and Adam, who admittedly weren't in this episode, but who perfectly encapsulate what I'm talking about. Adam has been introduced to us as a good guy gone bad, a murderer and a psychotic villain. But he saved Nathan's life, and once upon a time he was a hero. Could there still be some of that hero buried deep inside that chilly exterior? And what about Peter? Peter, who is the apex of goodness in this "Heroes" universe; the antithesis to Sylar. He's working with Adam to "save the world," but what does that entail? Peter's a good guy, but is he doing the wrong thing? Or is everybody else wrong about Adam and his motives?
So many questions! And I love it!
3. Matt, etc
Uh oh. *gulp* Matt's starting to practice mind control. This can't bode well for the future. Does everyone remember the old chestnut, "Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely?" It happened to Maury. I don't want it to happen to Matt! But he's already used Molly as a guinea pig to test this new power, and used it for his personal advantage at work. Yes, it was all in a good cause, but the road to Hell was paved with good intentions (among many other cliches).
So who is Jessica Pratt, the woman in the picture? I wonder... could she be Peter's mother? I wonder if she's the person Claude was protecting in the desert, which led to Noah having to kill him... Just throwing out wild guesses, because I honestly have no idea. But I want to knooooooow!
I don't have anything else to say except: GOD I LOVE THIS SHOW!