This was a definite mind fuck episode. Literally. So much fucking convoluted shit happened that you have to decide whether everything is just a dream caused by Matt/Maury, and who exactly on the 'good' side... It could just as easily turn out that by defeating Mr Petrelli the world ends as it could by letting him win >_>.

Overall I'm liking it though. Lots of deaths and nerfing of the powers is good for the long term storyline but it's getting damn confusing just thinking of who's doing what and when.

Also, does anyone reckon that Sylar is out on his own agenda and is likely as not becoming a spy in Pinehearst?

 

Thats kinda obvious from the shifty look he gave his dad when asked why Peter didn't die from the fall, and hell even Peter pointed out Sylar saved him.

 

I find it interesting how Peter, Sylar and their dad all have powers which allow them to acquire other peoples powers. This points that what power you get (if it is passed genetically) will be related to what power your parents have. However Claire's mother can make fire but she heals.

 

And Claire's father has was giving the ability to fly by the formula, but didn't he heal from getting shot, or maybe that's from getting Adam's blood injected in him?

 

This has already been mentioned before, but I'll explain it again.

Claire's power is healing, she can regenerate any wound and can come back from the dead. Nathan's is flying and Meredith's is fire. Now being a Harry Potter fan can you think of any type of mythical creature that can fly, come back from the dead and is associated with fire? Seriously.

 

I thought future Peter healed Nathan.

An Angel? They come back from the dead right? Or god brings them back

 

Angels can't die and I believe the only ones associated with fire aren't likely to be the nice ones.

 

Yeah the phoenix connection has been discussed before. All of the natural heroes powers are somehow related to that of their parents so far.

 

Except for Micah's, and Molly's... Though we don't know anything about her dad so I suppose it cold be from her. But seriously, super strength + phasing = technopathy? Maybe he was just an oddball >_>.

 

Yeah I forgot about Micah. I really can't see the connection either, and he is too young to have been give the powers (from what I understand) so I guess he is just odd.

 

Maybe since Nicki had synthetic powers they did not pass on to her offspring in the same way as a natural-powered parent's would. So Micah got all his abilities from DL and they developed their own twist from there... Though phasing doesn't really have much to do with technopathy either, it's still a big improvement on super strength.

 

That was....bad. Not a bad episode per se, it just didn't deserve to be the delayed extra special episode. And their timeline is fucked.

 

Tonight was the best episode of the season, and probably the best one since Season 1. It gives me hope for the rest of the season.

The only complaint I have is that some of the meetings were a little too convenient so they could setup storylines for this season (Sylar/Claire). The best one hands down was the Angela/Arthur/Nathan Petrelli family dispute. It makes me care about Arthur as a villain so much more.

 

Wait..... I could have sworn that Peter and Nathan thought Arthur committed suicide in season one. Am I remembering things wrong? Also, wasn't Arthur already dead when Nathan and Heidi got into the accident? I haven't seen season one in a long time, but I thought thats how it happened....

I loved the Sylar flashbacks with Elle and Bennet. I forgot how badass Bennet could be, and I am now starting to care for Elle as a character; she had done nothing for me previously. I don't remember, did she and Sylar recognize each other at theend of season 2?

Damn my memory of this show is poor.

Also; it's about damn time we got an episode without the whiny cheerleader and whoever the hell Ali Larter is currently playing. Although, the return of the emo hair on Peter was amusing to see. I almost forgot that he was a male nurse. What a Focker.

 

No Cyclops you not wrong, they thought he commited suicide. Shortly before the car crash I believe. As I've said their timeline is fucked.

 

Wrong. In season 1 Nathan told Peter that it was a Heart attack. In season 2 Angela told Heidi it was suicide when she was convincing her of a mental disorder that Nathan inherited from his Dad, which was total bullshit.

There is some timeline confusion with the Suresh's since I had thought that the scene with Elle and Gabriel was shortly after is first kill but apparently it was after he killed Chandra or something. They need to clarify that part of the timeline. Other than that I don't see any timeline problems.

I thought the explanation of the train fire was a nice, and the Meredith/Flint interactions was great.

 

That last scene with Arthur and Hiro came out of nowhere and was simply fantastic!
Even though i really like Arthur Petrelli's character, it would really suck if he got Hiro's power since I hated Peter when he got it.

 

The problem with the characters who can absorb other powers (Peter, Sylar, now Arthur) is that they become *way* too powerful for there to be realistic tension, which makes the story fucking bo-ring... (this is the bane of basically every Uber!Harry fanfic in existence). Hiro is also too powerful, which the writers deal with by making him retarded ("Super heros shouldn't ever *use* their powers, or something.")

The way the writers deal with everything else so far is to have the characters inexplicably forget about their powers, or use them in completely retarded ways (hey Future!Badass!Peter: Why didn't you just come back and kill Arthur while he was still paralyzed? How the fuck did the future-painting African dude manage to brain Hiro twice but not notice that Arthur was coming to remove his head?)

And if Arthur can absorb powers, why hasn't he done it before now?

 

Major setback from last week's episode.

The only saving grace of this episode was Sylar. Even with the writers watering down Sylar's character, Zachary Quinto did a fantastic job along with Kristen Bell. Sylar's struggle to regain his humanity has been quite compelling, probably the best thing going for this entire story arc. It helps that Quinto is really distancing himself as the best actor on this show.

The rest of the stories were meh to downright bad. They killed any credibility Arthur had as a villain when he freed Angela, simply because she said he loved her. Wake the fuck up, the bitch poisoned you with intent to kill you, and you let her go.