As I was watching ep18 last night, my partner and I were firing theories off about this and that, only to see them all pretty much happen in the same episode! Wonders never cease! American mainstream drama, actually setting something up and paying it off in the same episode! I may need to have a sit down now, I'm over-excited....
I thought that the Mohinder/Sylar scenes were excellent, and managed to pack into some 15 minutes what Lost would have spent half a season on. I was expecting a slightly half-assed episode after the amazing one last week, but this show has really really raised its game since returning from the Xmas break. I don't think there's a single storyline that isn't doing it for me at the moment, they are all coming together very satisfactorally. Even the Nikki storyline which seems to be the least popular around the web is coming along in leaps and bounds since she came out her rubber-room.
I think Mrs Petrelli being involved (in a big way, it seems), just pushes the show forward even more. I think it's almost certain that the late Mr Petrelli wasn't just a manic-depressive suicide-addict, he must have been a Power too. It explains where Nathan and Pete got their powers from (as the genes seem to be at least partially inheireted) and leaves some great questions as to exactly how did he die (if he is dead at all). I think there's a big story to be told about the last generation of Heroes, and Claude and Bennett's quest to catch them. What if Claude killed Peter's father?
And Lindermann... 'bout time! That whole scene was brilliant, so tense and mysterious. All we have heard about this guy, all we really know is that he is a bit (okay, very) dodgy and he is a collector. Where does he fit in the the scheme of things, dear Barbelith? Do we think he's going to become Heroes' Doctor Doom or Lex Luthor, or will he bit a little more ambiguous than we've been led to expect? Mr Bennett was baddie no. 1 at the start of the season, remember?
The one thing that bugged me about last episode was Mohinder - he's a scientist, right? So, if you have this powers-stealing serial killer tied-up and helpless in front of you, wouldn't you ask, just for curiosity's sake, how exactly he gets the powers from the victims' gooey brain-matter into his own brain? What does he do, slurp it up through a straw or something? I think it's amusing how the rabit internet community has just kinda dropped this massive plot hole, given how much we were talking and theorising about how it worked last year. Have we just decided to let them get away with it? |
