Heroes 3x05 "Angels and Monsters"
Uh. Well. Erm... this season just keeps getting more complicated with every new episode
Reaction stuff will be spoilerific, so I'll put it behind a cut.
- Adam. The first scene with Adam, Hiro and Ando was just hilarious. Also, this whole episode has reminded me why I like Adam so much.
(I went :O when he mentioned Appletinis, being a big Scrubs fan)
- Claire. Is practicing her BAMFing, though she clearly has a long way to go on that front.
- Stephen Canfield, or as I'm calling him, Vortex. I liked this guy. Awesome (and dangerous) ability, but likeable nonetheless. Also, he proved himself to be a decent guy in the end. *sniff*
- HRG. Oooh dear. I'm not happy with HRG at the moment. His distinctly not-awesome side came out this episode.
(see, Noah, you try to kill Sylar and this is what you get.) Admittedly though, the scenes with HRG and Sylar... well, bickering, were quite funny.
- Peter. Not a lot of Peter this week but what there was, was actually rather frightening - the "hunger" he picked up with Sylar's ability isn't just making him like Sylar, but I think it has the potential to make him a bigger threat.
- Mohinder. Okay, Heroes writers... I'd really like to know what the HELL is going on with Mohinder at the moment. Because at the moment he appears to be mutating into Shelob (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelob). And I think there may be scales appearing under the freaky rash, but that might have been a trick of the light.
- Hiro and Ando. Um. WTF HIRO? SERIOUSLY, WTF? *is speechless*
- Sandra Bennet. Still on course for that Mother of the Year award, and also still being her own brand of quietly Awesome.
- Meredith. EEEEEP. MUST SAVE MEREDITH FROM CREEPY GUY.
- Daphne. Oh, Daphne. You're awesome. Really. Like... probably my favourite of the new characters introduced this season.
All this(^) was great.... but the BIG, BIG stuff is basically Petrelli-centred.
1. Nathan's visions of Linderman? Uh huh... not really him. In fact, they were illusions being projected into Nathan's head by MAURY PARKMAN.
2. Angela may actually be one of the good guys after all.
3. Nathan was born without abilities, a disappointment to his father, so Arthur and Angela gave him the Formula of Doom to give him an ability. (That particular revelation was a bit WHOA... for me anywway.)
4. (THE BIG ONE) The Big Bad for this season, the one pulling all the strings.... is none other than ARTHUR PETRELLI.
(Yes, the one who's meant to be dead. Instead he's just in a coma. No, I have no idea either.)
5. Angela had a dream of Tracy, Nathan and Peter dead, and a man telling her that not only would she not be able to do anything to stop what was happening, she wouldn't even be able to move. She then woke up paralysed, eep.
6. Maury, on ARTHUR PETRELLI's behalf, has been "recruiting" specials for a "new world order". This in itself is a little scary... but the people being recruited, so far anyway, are Daphne, Knox, Hiro, Adam and Matt. Which does make one wonder what kind of new world order this is going to be, exactly.
As for the title of this ep... well, it gets confusing. The word "monster" does get thrown around a lot... mostly in the direction of Sylar, admittedly. The thing is, I'm not convinced that Sylar IS a monster. He just has an addiction that is rather more fatal to other people than normal. There's a scene with HRG, Claire and Sylar in HRG's car, HRG is doing his normal thing of telling Claire everything is fine and they'll talk later (he does do that a lot), and Sylar butts in saying that Claire doesn't believe a word HRG is saying. HRG later says to Claire that she can't believe Sylar because he's a "deranged sociopath".
I have a couple of issues with that. Mostly, Sylar is anything but deranged, and I'm frankly unconvinced on the "sociopath" front. Unless Isaac was a sociopath too for being addicted to heroin? Or Mohinder is a sociopath for wanting to know what that serum did?
Sorry, HRG, I don't buy it.
Another scene, again with HRG, Claire and Sylar, along with Canfield the vortex-maker, added to me really disliking HRG this ep. It happens like this:
1. Claire approaches Canfield, and talks to him about his family.
2. HRG approaches Canfield from behind and holds a gun to his head.
3. (Claire is "OMG, WTH DAD?") HRG offers Canfield a deal - Canfield makes Sylar disappear into a Vortex, and Canfield can go free and see his wife and kids. (Sylar is some distance away, by the car)
4. Canfield says he can't, he's not a killer.
5. HRG tells him that Sylar IS a killer, and that he needs to be dealt with. (Claire continues with the OMGWTF?)
6. Canfield (in obvious emotional distress at this point) says "I won't be a monster", and instead of sucking Sylar into a vortex, creates one next to himself and effectively commits suicide via vortex rather than kill someone.
Now, from my perspective, there was only one person in that scene who could be called a "monster". And it ain't Canfield, Claire or even Sylar.
(Now, that was a hard conclusion to reach for me. I like HRG. Back in the halcyon days of Season One I thought he was awesome and mysterious. Now... I'll just shamelessly reference Nietzsche: "Be careful who you choose for your enemy, for that is who you will become most like."
Maybe Noah Bennet has been chasing down "monsters" for too long.)
Reaction stuff will be spoilerific, so I'll put it behind a cut.
- Adam. The first scene with Adam, Hiro and Ando was just hilarious. Also, this whole episode has reminded me why I like Adam so much.
(I went :O when he mentioned Appletinis, being a big Scrubs fan)
- Claire. Is practicing her BAMFing, though she clearly has a long way to go on that front.
- Stephen Canfield, or as I'm calling him, Vortex. I liked this guy. Awesome (and dangerous) ability, but likeable nonetheless. Also, he proved himself to be a decent guy in the end. *sniff*
- HRG. Oooh dear. I'm not happy with HRG at the moment. His distinctly not-awesome side came out this episode.
(see, Noah, you try to kill Sylar and this is what you get.) Admittedly though, the scenes with HRG and Sylar... well, bickering, were quite funny.
- Peter. Not a lot of Peter this week but what there was, was actually rather frightening - the "hunger" he picked up with Sylar's ability isn't just making him like Sylar, but I think it has the potential to make him a bigger threat.
- Mohinder. Okay, Heroes writers... I'd really like to know what the HELL is going on with Mohinder at the moment. Because at the moment he appears to be mutating into Shelob (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelob). And I think there may be scales appearing under the freaky rash, but that might have been a trick of the light.
- Hiro and Ando. Um. WTF HIRO? SERIOUSLY, WTF? *is speechless*
- Sandra Bennet. Still on course for that Mother of the Year award, and also still being her own brand of quietly Awesome.
- Meredith. EEEEEP. MUST SAVE MEREDITH FROM CREEPY GUY.
- Daphne. Oh, Daphne. You're awesome. Really. Like... probably my favourite of the new characters introduced this season.
All this(^) was great.... but the BIG, BIG stuff is basically Petrelli-centred.
1. Nathan's visions of Linderman? Uh huh... not really him. In fact, they were illusions being projected into Nathan's head by MAURY PARKMAN.
2. Angela may actually be one of the good guys after all.
3. Nathan was born without abilities, a disappointment to his father, so Arthur and Angela gave him the Formula of Doom to give him an ability. (That particular revelation was a bit WHOA... for me anywway.)
4. (THE BIG ONE) The Big Bad for this season, the one pulling all the strings.... is none other than ARTHUR PETRELLI.
(Yes, the one who's meant to be dead. Instead he's just in a coma. No, I have no idea either.)
5. Angela had a dream of Tracy, Nathan and Peter dead, and a man telling her that not only would she not be able to do anything to stop what was happening, she wouldn't even be able to move. She then woke up paralysed, eep.
6. Maury, on ARTHUR PETRELLI's behalf, has been "recruiting" specials for a "new world order". This in itself is a little scary... but the people being recruited, so far anyway, are Daphne, Knox, Hiro, Adam and Matt. Which does make one wonder what kind of new world order this is going to be, exactly.
As for the title of this ep... well, it gets confusing. The word "monster" does get thrown around a lot... mostly in the direction of Sylar, admittedly. The thing is, I'm not convinced that Sylar IS a monster. He just has an addiction that is rather more fatal to other people than normal. There's a scene with HRG, Claire and Sylar in HRG's car, HRG is doing his normal thing of telling Claire everything is fine and they'll talk later (he does do that a lot), and Sylar butts in saying that Claire doesn't believe a word HRG is saying. HRG later says to Claire that she can't believe Sylar because he's a "deranged sociopath".
I have a couple of issues with that. Mostly, Sylar is anything but deranged, and I'm frankly unconvinced on the "sociopath" front. Unless Isaac was a sociopath too for being addicted to heroin? Or Mohinder is a sociopath for wanting to know what that serum did?
Sorry, HRG, I don't buy it.
Another scene, again with HRG, Claire and Sylar, along with Canfield the vortex-maker, added to me really disliking HRG this ep. It happens like this:
1. Claire approaches Canfield, and talks to him about his family.
2. HRG approaches Canfield from behind and holds a gun to his head.
3. (Claire is "OMG, WTH DAD?") HRG offers Canfield a deal - Canfield makes Sylar disappear into a Vortex, and Canfield can go free and see his wife and kids. (Sylar is some distance away, by the car)
4. Canfield says he can't, he's not a killer.
5. HRG tells him that Sylar IS a killer, and that he needs to be dealt with. (Claire continues with the OMGWTF?)
6. Canfield (in obvious emotional distress at this point) says "I won't be a monster", and instead of sucking Sylar into a vortex, creates one next to himself and effectively commits suicide via vortex rather than kill someone.
Now, from my perspective, there was only one person in that scene who could be called a "monster". And it ain't Canfield, Claire or even Sylar.
(Now, that was a hard conclusion to reach for me. I like HRG. Back in the halcyon days of Season One I thought he was awesome and mysterious. Now... I'll just shamelessly reference Nietzsche: "Be careful who you choose for your enemy, for that is who you will become most like."
Maybe Noah Bennet has been chasing down "monsters" for too long.)