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"I Am Become Death" or "Brunettes Are Hot"

October 6, 2008 10:59 PM

he fourth episode this season continues to not completely disappoint. In fact, I rather liked it. There were good amounts of plot development, character interaction, and humor--all of which served to make the show so damned good during the first season.

The main storyline involved Peter traveling into the future with the aid of Future Peter to find out what the fuck Future Peter was all pissed off about. As it turns out, the future's all fucked up because everyone has powers and some are using them for less than noble purposes. But the most startling revelations involve the switched positions we find some of our favorite characters in. First off, Claire--now older, sporting a darker wardrobe and hair, and all around hotter--is apparently a bad guy. So bad, in fact, that she kills her uncle Future Peter and then tries to kill the other Peter. And she does so with the help of that strange black guy who has some fear-based ability. And Daphne, the chick that runs really fast. Who's also married to Parkman. Who's still taking care of Molly.

But the most drastic--and funny--change was Sylar. Apparently, he somehow manages to get the "hunger" to kill people--a side effect of his ability--under control. To the point that he has a little kid. A little kid named Noah. Wonder where that name comes from?

But, anyway, seeing Sylar be all sweet and lovey dovey--without a hint of irony or creepiness--was really sort of funny and refreshing. Also, it's a new direction for the writers, so that's sort of good. You always like to see them try something new and not fail.

The reason we see Future Sylar is that Future Peter told normal Peter that he needed to get Sylar's power--the ability to intuitively understand even the most complicated things. That way, normal Peter will be able to understand how things got so fucked up in the future timeline and stop them from happening that way. So Peter absorbs Sylar's power (shouldn't he have already done that?), but he also inherits Sylar's hunger, but without Sylar's self-control. So now Peter's out to kill people, too. Oh. And Sylar told Peter that they're brothers.

I mostly liked the future scenes, especially those involving Future Claire, and not just because she was hotter. It was sort of interesting to see Claire--who has constantly been an innocent, teenage, victim--take a more active and sinister role. The scene where she's cutting Peter with the scalpel really brings home the point that things are totally fucked in the new future we're seeing. But it's also interesting because it means some really interesting things are in store for Present Claire. Remember that the last time we saw her, she went off on her own to try to use her powers for good, even though we knew that her real motivation was revenge. I really want to see where this is going.

Also vaguely interesting were the developments involving Nathan and Tracy.

Less interesting were the vision-quest story involving Present Parkman, the stuff with Hiro and Ando (although that looks like it's going to pick up), and Maya and Mohinder. I'm pretty much done with Animal Mohinder, and Maya, while hot, just isn't all that interesting or compelling or complicated or anything. It's time to get rid of both of the characters, I think.

Still promising, but I think this season's best episodes are still coming up. I hope, anyway.



1 Comments


Justine Henin said:

This may be the gayest thing I've seen since the annual behind-the scenes lesbian fuck-off on the WTA tour.

Personally, I'd much rather have my plastic dildo inside of Anna Kournikova (we call her 'whore-nikova') than waste my time with this lame TV shit.

October 12, 2008 3:27 AM



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