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"Angels and Monsters" or "With Apologies to Ms. Henin"

October 13, 2008 11:42 PM

nother week, another episode of Heroes.

This time around, we get more on Claire, HRG and Sylar, Nathan, Mohinder, and Hiro.

Claire, as it turns out, is really, really bad at taking down "villains"--a phrase the episodes uses way the fuck too much, by the way. Anyway, Claire would be the worst public defender in the world: "Oh, sure, I understand. Here's my credit card number. You promise you're only gonna use it to buy food for your kids, right?" So, when the guy she's after--Bubbles from The Wire, here with the ability to open vortexes (how the fuck does some genetic abnormality allow one to mentally control the opening and location of "vortexes," by the way?)--convinces her he's really a good guy, she buys it. Then he tries to kill her.

Now, granted, the guy freaked out because HRG showed up with fucking Sylar in tow. Which also caused Claire to freak out, given that Sylar power-raped Claire. But it's ok, says HRG, because he's got an easy, three-step plan. Step one: lie to your daughter. Step two: try to do something ridiculous and cold-blooded. Step three: justify steps one and two by saying that it's all to protect your daughter. The exact circumstances might be different, but the pattern is exactly the same. And it never goes well for anyone. So Mr. Bennet needs to fucking learn that if you want your daughter to trust you, you have to trust her, too. Asshole.

Sylar is present, but only as an afterthought, really. Although he does appear to be making strides to redeem himself, so that's ok. But also not since I still think that the best thing the producers could have done with him was kill him at the end of the first season since he was such an awesome villain. Part of that, of course, was the complete lack of remorse. That's not so much the case anymore, so while I don't mind where they're taking his character, I still think he's overstayed his welcome.

Meanwhile, Nathan's running around trying to figure out what's going on with Tracy Strauss. Turns out Mrs. Petrelli gave Nathan his powers, but risked his life in doing so. So Nathan finally tells her where she can go. Which is all very well and good and does do something to demonstrate that Nathan's moral center is growing, except when you consider that it took him finding out that his mom almost killed him to get him to part ways with her. Nevermind that whole plan she had to blow up New York City--Nathan was gonna be just fine then. So, yeah, the symbolism here is kind of a wash.

Mohinder's getting even fucking stranger. He's not even really talking anymore. He's just sort of... pasting people to his wall using some kind of... magical semen, from the looks of it. Anyway, it's gross and weird and really, really sort of random. I'm not a fan.

But the thing I liked the least was the scene where Hiro fucking stabbed Ando. What. The. Fuck. All I can say on that front is that there had better be some fucking damned good explanation for why Hiro did that so fucking abruptly. Wasn't it just, like, last episode where they talked about how much they meant to each other? And now Hiro's just stabbing Ando? Fuck that. Unless there's some serious explanation, this might go down as one of the most unbelievable things in the series thus far. And that's counting the guy who can create abnormalities in the space-time continuum using his mind due to some genetic defect.

Anyway, all of that was really secondary, I suppose, to the big reveal of the episode. First, we finally find out what the fuck has been going on with Mr. Linderman appearing to Nathan--and Daphne!--from beyond the grave. It turns out that it's all the elder Parkman working his patented tricks. And he's working for... Mr. Petrelli, who's alive, but barely. And he's apparently a pretty big dick. Such a dick, in fact, that he paralyzes his wife, who is freaked the fuck out by him. So this is promising.