"Unexpected" or "The Best Fucking Episode of Heroes Yet!"

February 19, 2007 9:05 PM

ow. That was definitely my favorite episode of Heroes so far. I mean--fuck! Spoilers follow.

There was so much awesomeness there I think I'm going to have to make a bullet list.

• Hiro. Though Hiro's been one of my favorite heroes since the beginning of the series, I had recently become annoyed that he hadn't done a lot of actually heroic things. But I think we can safely say that, after today, he is the man. First off, he faced what was arguably his most imminent threat: an angry dude with a gun. But, rather tha wuss out or run away, Hiro knew what he had to do, he knew how to do it, and he carried out his plan. He stood up to the guy with the gun and found Ando. Then he did something that every hero has to do at some point: just like Luke had to lose Ben and later Yoda, just like Frodo had to (at least try to) leave without Sam, just like Harry had to break up with Ginny (I'm still torn up over that one--the image of Harry, Ron, and Hermione standing together ready to face Voldemort after Dumbledore's funeral is awesome), Hiro had to leave Ando and go into the unknown on his own. Add a Stan Lee cameo, and you've got an awesome Hiro story arc.
  
• Parkman. Another one of my long-time favorites, it's been painful to see Matt essentially get fucked throughout the series. First he keeps failing the detectives test, then he's accused of being a serial killer, then he gets abducted by Mr. Bennet, then he finds out his wife's been cheating on him, then he gets to hang out with the (much hotter than his wife) FBI woman, only to disgrace himself and get kicked off the force. The past two episodes have been particularly painful to watch as Matt's justifiable anger leads him to do increasingly morally questionable things, culminating in breaking into a stranger's house and threatening his family with a gun. Not cool, Parkman. Not cool at all. I only hope that, like his wife said, Matt sees that he's better than this kind of shit before it's too late.
  
• Mohinder/Sylar. God, Zachary Quinto is awesome as Sylar; he's got the perfect mix of crazy and genius. In any event, seeing Mohinder and Sylar interact was really awesome. The scene where they discussed Mohinder's father's murder was particularly good.
  
• Claire. Yes. It was incredible to see Claire stand up to her father like that! Mr. Bennet's definitely had it coming, and it'll be so awesome to see what he does next week when he's forced to reveal more about himself. But Claire's definitely shaping up to be a good, strong-willed, and brave hero. She's probably right at the top of my favorites list, and this episode definitely helped her out.
  
• Isaac. I've always liked Isaac, even though he hasn't been one of my favorites, but he was so fucking paranoid today it was hard to remember why I liked him. Yes, I understand that Mr. Bennet helped you get off drugs, but does that mean you're just going to take his word about killing Peter? Isaac's greatest weakness, unfortunately, was the fact that he couldn't let Simone go. And then he killed Simone, albeit accidentally. He's either going to realize that he was being an asshole or blame Peter and redouble his efforts to kill him. I hope Isaac chooses the former.
  
• Peter. Wow. Peter was both awesome and frightening. He's really got his ability under control which, in the long run, is likely to be a very, very, very good thing. I couldn't believe when he stopped time and then flew away. That was so fucking awesome--totally a heroic moment. That's two times a Petreli has escaped Mr. Bennet in the same fashion. But then he kind of went off the deep end; I hadn't thought that Peter was capable of being so goddamned creepy and menacing. He was totally channeling Sylar. I wonder if that's an additional consequence of his power? Does he absorb peoples' personality traits as well as their abilities? Who the fuck knows, but Peter's hands aren't exactly clean when it comes to Simone: what the fuck was he doing playing mind games with Isaac?
  
• Nikki/Jessica/DL/Micah. You know what the best part of their part in this episode was? They didn't have one. God, the writers need to do something interesting with this super family or kill them off. Seriously.
  

4 Comments

Vice said:

I revise my earlier statement about Parkman's wife and the FBI agent. Turns out, they're both ass-ugly. Also, Peter was totally channeling Neo. First, stopping those eletrode things with his mind, then grabbing Claude and flying away? I thought I saw him donning the cossek (sp?) for a moment too. But yeah, he did get frightening at the end. At least they got rid of Simone, who I cared nothing for.

February 20, 2007 9:29 AM

Ismael Tapia II said:

I don't really care that Simone is dead. I mean, it'll suck for Peter and it'll be interesting to see what consequences her death will have, but I won't miss her too much as a character. Though, I did think she was vaguely hot.

I didn't even think of the Neo-Peter connection, but it was definitely there.

And Janice sure was not looking her best last night. Although, I generally think she's not very attractive. I still think that Audrey, the FBI chick, is pretty cute. Not necessarily hot, but definitey cute. Check her out here and here. I particularly like the freckles in the first one. On the Hollywood twenty-one-point scale, I'm giving her about a 4 or 4.5;she gets about a 7 on the real-world scale.

February 20, 2007 3:05 PM

Utah said:

Yeah, the FBI chick is attractive, I have to side with Ismael on this one. Parkman is still probably my favorite character, but it would be easy for him to slide off the deep end. Hell, with what he's been through, it's kind of a shocker he hasn't done so already.

I tend to see Ando more as a Sam than a Yoda. He'll be back because he's loyal and a believer. I'm also really rooting for him to get a woman by the end of the show as well.

Isaac is behaving like a little bitch, masking his flagrant jealousy in the more acceptable packaging of "protection." I would have liked to see him tossed off the balcony, but Peter isn't a murderer. And on that note, I seriously doubt he would have really hurt Isaac if things hadn't turned out the way they did. I'd probably react defensively too if someone pointed a gun at me.

February 20, 2007 3:22 PM

Ismael Tapia II said:

Mr. Utah,
I agree, Isaac is behaving like a little bitch. I mean, I know that Mr. Bennet basically got him off of drugs, but that doesn't mean he has to blame Peter for his own shortcomings. The fact is that Isaac's addiction cost him Simone, who then hooked up with someone who was not an asshole--Peter.

He's totally using the Peter-as-bomb paradigm to mask his jealousy and anger, which came out when Isaac pulled out the fucking hand cannon.

On the other hand, Peter was understandably pissed that Isaac had sold him out, but he kinda went off the deep end--it was the first time we've seen him be anything less than squeaky clean, which is a nice feature for his character.

It was a complicated situation, and both characters' actions were understandable to a certain degree, which evinces the talent of the writers to keep things from turning into the black-and-white dicotomy that plagues a lot of these series.

Awesome.

February 20, 2007 4:52 PM

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