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"Five Years Gone" or "Just Once I Want to See a Future that Doesn't Suck"

May 1, 2007 1:29 AM

ow we know what's going to happen should our heroes fail. And it's not pretty. Unfortunately, the episode raised a lot more questions than it answered. I think it's important to differentiate between questions that are really interesting (for example, how the fuck did Peter and Niki end up together?) and those that are helpful for figuring out what's going to happen in the last three episodes (like how Hiro and Peter are going to get together to stop Sylar?). And we have to remember that the future we saw hopefully isn't going to happen--so all the wacky shit might not happen at all.

As far as the episode is concerned, I really liked it, but it still fell short of my personal high-water mark: Company Man.

Even in the future, Niki/Jessica's annoying. Although it was interesting to see that she's apparently gotten her split personality thing under control. It's unfortunate that we didn't get to see whether she has her super strength as Niki.

What I liked the most was Peter. The five years between now and then really changed the younger Petrelli brother--but, then, I guess killing four million people will do that to you. I wonder how Peter got the scar, especially given the fact that he has Claire's ability. The most obvious theory is that Peter was attacked while he was around the Haitian. In any event, Peter showing up and saving Ando and Hiro after Parkman caught them was awesome! And it's great to see that he has an almost complete mastery of all of his acquired powers.

And speaking of Peter, while it's too bad that we didn't actually get to see Peter v. Sylar, 2.0, what we did see was pretty fucking awesome.

I was really sad to see Parkman be an asshole--I couldn't believe he was beating up Hiro. And did he really kill Mr. Bennet? What the fuck happened between him and his wife? And what power does his son have? And the most important question about Matt is whether he knew that President Nathan Petrelli was actually Sylar. Personally, I don't see how Sylar could have kept that information from Parkman, unless Candace's power somehow extends to creating illusions through peoples' powers.

I think it's really interesting that Bennet and Hana ended up working together--Hana really hated him. Their scene together was really kinda scary.

Seeing Claire engaged to that redneck hick was not cool, especially given her increased brunette hotness. I really did not like that douchebag. Although it was nice to see that Mr. Bennet found Claire, it was sad to see that they had to meet secretly and that their relationship was understandably strained. And, of course, it was extremely sad to see Sylar finally kill Claire. Looking back on it, it was pretty fucking obvious that Nathan was actually Sylar, but I didn't want to think they were going that way. But they did, and it was pretty awesome.

The scene towards the end with Nathan's voice over shots of all the different characters was one of my favorite scenes in the whole series so far. The ease with which Future Hiro and Peter were able to take out all those guards was just sort of amazing. And the ease with which Parkman was about to order their deaths was just sort of scary.

It was nice to see Mohinder kill the Haitian, although I didn't like seeing him die. Still, it served the greater good ("the greater good"), so I guess it was okay.

The best part of the episode, though, was Hiro and his future counterpart. The change in Hiro's character was the strongest indication of just how grim things had gotten. And seeing him die wasn't particularly encouraging. Still, I'm sure they'll figure out a way to change the future. The question is how.

Ad the most important person in stopping Sylar and saving the world is, apparently, Molly Walker. How can she stop Sylar?

Jesus, I need to see the next episode now.

On a non-Heroes note:
I want to thank all of you guys for sending your good wishes along. Today was a rough day, and I'm feeling sort of like shit (as any of you that saw me today are aware). I don't know when I'll be feeling better, but I'm sure I will at some point. Until then, thanks.



1 Comments


Vice said:

Yes, let us hope against hope that the Peter and Nikki thing is something that will change when the future is changed, but I have my doubts. It's hard for me to believe that the writers would put that in as a glimpse of the possible future without it having some truth to what will ultimately happen. And if that's the case, I shudder. As you said, even in the future she's a huge bitch that drags down the show in any scene she's in. So great, let's pair her with an awesome character so as to infect his storyline. Lovely.

May 1, 2007 9:56 AM



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