Heroes: Playing Catch Up!

I’ve slacked off, and my apologies. But let’s catch up now, shall we?

Two episodes ago, “Cold Snap,” was actually pretty good. The quick version of what happened:
- We found out Rebel is Micah (no surprise)

- Rebel helps free Tracy, who is actually being set up so she can lead them to Rebel. When they meet up, she’s touched but tells Micah she’s not his mom, and she’s not a good person. He doesn’t really believe her, but she does redeem herself in freezing a slew of agents and herself to let him get away. The agents die, and presumably so does she when her frozen form is shattered. But, and I do groan so very much here, her frozen and broken face winks at us just before the end of the episode. UGH.

- Parkman has Daphne being treated at a hospital, and we see her hop up after being all patched up, tells him that seeing a vision of them married does not a marriage make, so long and thanks for all the fish, I’m going to Paris. But Parkman is somehow just a few steps behind her. How? He can fly. Before you get angry at this, it turns out that Parkman is just trying to give Daphne something to believe in as she lies on her deathbed and Daphne figures this out. She asks him to let her go, so he finally does, and she finally dies. Um, what? So why the hell didn’t they just kill her when we thought they killed her before? Dammit, Heroes!

- HRG’s hand is forced with Mama Petrelli’s whereabouts, and she narrowly dodges the agents for a while before Peter, the golden child, swoops in and rescues her. We’re treated to a shot of them hiding out inside the top of the Statue of Liberty for this week’s dose of SYMBOLISM! and that’s that.

-Oh yes, and Hiro and Ando avoided babysitting antics when they figured out that Baby Matt has a power, and is dubbed Baby Touch and Go! He can make thing stop or go, and he ends up making Hiro’s time-stopping powers “go”, which is integral in an escape from agents.

Then, we had the following week we had “Into Asylum,” which was downright boring.
- Nathan and Claire head for Mexico for safety. But not before Claire makes a stop to get some bangs. Teenagers! They hole up in a seedy motel, looking….well, seedy. Seriously, these two have no chemistry of any sort on screen, and it only makes their father-daughter relationship uber-creepy. Also, why should Mexico be safe when freaking Japan wasn’t safe for Hiro? Anyways, to get more money, Nathan decides to relive his glory days and try to outdrink some frat boys for cash. Um, dude, you’re like 40 or something. Not 21. Let Claire the human healing machine do this. But no, Nathan dons his Manly Hat this week, and as expected, loses. So Claire steps in and kicks some ass, just like I predicted. But don’t worry, if this show lasts another season, they’ll change their minds and say she CAN get drunk and expect us to forget this plot point just like they did. So Nathan gets drunk and maudlin, even though he should be drunk and vomiting up some organs at this point, manages to not die in his sleep as a drunken mess (sigh), and is just as lame a dad in the morning when he displays the new power of not having the worst frakking hangover known to man. He and Claire then apparently walk on back to the States, and we’ve all wasted our time.

- The other Petrelli family members, Mama and Peter, hole up in a church so Mama can try to sleep and dream and figure out what to do next, because just making a decision on her own is clearly impossible. So they’re here all night and Peter gets all angsty and mad at God and I don’t give a damn about his little “we had a deal!” speech, which is neither convincing nor original. And then, THEN! Agents arrive! They storm A CHURCH! THEY CAN’T DO THAT! That is not legal, or allowed, in any way! Dammit, Heroes! You fail at logic and reason and everything else! HRG spots the Petrellis, but says he doesn’t, and they’re safe until the next plot point. Mama manages to sleep and dream and says she knows where they need to go now.

- Dammit, Heroes! became my new catchphrase for this show.

-While all of this is happening, the one storyline that was kind of interesting is also happening. Sylar has made contact with the Hunter (whose name is Danko, btw), and wants to make a deal. He’ll help Danko hunt down people with powers (because we cannot say the M-word!), and Danko will let him take their powers. They begin with a shapeshifter. Annoying nitpick #1: it’s heavily implied early on that the shapeshifter must make skin contact with someone in order to take their shape, but later on they drop this notion in favor of making it easier to write and more powerful. This will inevitably bite them in the ass. Danko finally agrees, and Sylar berates him for trying to chase a shapeshifter, which is dumb. True! It is dumb! They break into the guys house, find out he likes taking new forms and identities and seducing women, and then head to his favorite bar to find him. He’s imitating Danko this time, so easy, right? Well, later on, he’s imitating Sylar instead, but they catch on and take him out. Interestingly, they kill him while he looks like Sylar, and Sylar takes his power the way he was shown by Elle (Oh my god! They referenced something from a past volume, holy crap!), so there’s no tell-tale head-splitting. Later as “Sylar” is bagged, HRG looks doubtful that this is indeed Sylar at all. As well he should.

So that’s me playing catch-up. I’ll get to this week’s episode of Fail and how it finally has driven me away from Heroes later.