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"Four Months Ago" or "Again?"

November 13, 2007 4:08 AM

ast week's episode continues to be this season's high-water mark. After the revelations and questions they presented, tonight's flashback episode was rather anticlimactic, especially since it didn't really give us much new or interesting information. Moreover, it's a retread of a concept the writers used last season: take us into the past so that we understand our characters' present. The title of last season's analagous episode was even similar--"Six Months Ago." Unfortunately for those of us living in the present, last season's episode was much better.

The primary problem is that tonight's episode didn't do much to fill in any gaps. Who gives a shit about Niki's third personality or how D.L. actually died? Was any of that necessary? At all? Why not just have D.L. die from Mr. Linderman's gunshot wound? How is this death any different or better?

Peter's story was perhaps most interseting--especially because of Kristen Bell. But even his relationship with Adam seemed rather forced. And, seriously, did Peter really need someone to point out to him that he was in a fucking prison? Is he really that dense? I also wondered about when Peter met D.L. I don't remember if he did, other than at Kirby Plaza. Also, it was nice to finally have some confirmation that Peter couldn't fly away on his own because it was taking all his concentration to keep from exploding. I still wish they had included that line in last season's finale. It wouldn't have kept it from being a trainwreck, but it would have been better.

There were some interesting tidbits, such as the part where Adam's blood allows Nathan to heal himself. Now we know that Claire can use her abilities to indirectly heal other people, which is cool. We also know that her healing ability goes much, much further than we might have imagined--Adam had apparently been kept prisoner for thirty years, and he thought The Company would have killed him if they could. The fact that he wasn't dead suggests that they couldn't, due to his healing powers. That's just cool.

Next week's episode looks like it's going to be pretty good. I hope that something in this week's episode becomes somehow relevant, or I'm just going to be pissed.


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