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Heroes: It's Coming
by Jason Hughes, posted Nov 18th 2008 3:10AM
(S03E09) It's a shame that nobody's watching this show anymore, because tonight was all about setting the stage for the battle to come. With "Volume 4" coming either in December or early next year, we should be moving fast and furious to the big confrontation between Team Pinehearst and Team Primatech. By the end of this episode, all of our major players appear to have chosen sides. The stage is set, after only nine episodes, to get to the meat of this volume.Remember when we were told that there was going to be an examination of the generations of Heroes, and possibly struggles between them. It looks like the Writers Strike swept all of that off the table. Hell, the only people left from the "first" generation are Angela and Arthur Petrelli, and now they appear to be on opposing sides. It took awhile to get to this point, what with wasting all that time on Mohinder and Maya early on this season, but it looks like we're finally getting to the good stuff. Creator Tim Kring took pen to paper, or more likely fingers to keyboard, to write this pivotal episode. Is there anybody left watching to appreciate his efforts?
At this point, are we confident that Angela is now firmly on the side of good, with Arthur and Pinehearst representing evil? Angela certainly came across as pretty evil back in the first season, and both her and her husband appear willing to put their own agendas above the health and well-being of the world at large. In fact, the only difference I can find between them is that Angela cares for the health and well-being of her children, if nothing else. Arthur simply feels that they each have a role to play.
I'm glad to see Daphne finally pick a side, if we can fully believe that she finally has. I'm not sure at what point she fell in love with Parkman, but it was only at the moment she thought he would die that she changed her mind.
The scenes between Elle and Sylar were very sweet and touching, weren't they? I can't wait until next season when they're setting up Arthur as a good guy who only seeks redemption for his past misdeeds. "You're a monster!" "I'm trying to be better." Aw, now just hug it out. That said, Sylar is actually pretty damned effective as a monster attempting to reform.
Arthur tipping him off on a way to get someone's ability without killing them may have sated his hunger for good. After all, wasn't the craving for their abilities? He didn't want to kill them, he just wanted their abilities and to understand how to work them. And he managed to take Elle's ability without stripping them away from her. That got me thinking. Arthur, Sylar and Peter all seem to have variations on the same powers, or maybe they have the exact same power, they just manifest it differently. And since Sylar and Peter don't take powers away when they acquire them, maybe Arthur can't either.
He was able to erase 18 years of Hiro's memory, so maybe what he can do is erase someone's memory of how to access their abilities. You have to figure that Peter isn't going to stay depowered. He was whiny and pathetic enough when he was one of the most powerful people on the show, and he's gotten much more annoying and useless now. Oh, and save the catalyst, save the world? Why does that sound familiar?
| Team Primatech | |
|---|---|
| Team Pinehearst | |
| Team Bring on the Retooling | |
| Team Cancellation |
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