Heroes evolving
Well, the TiVo gods laughed at me this week as my DVR calmly informed me that “this program is not available at this time” when I tried to watch my beloved to Heroes tonight. Thankfully, NBC streams every episode online! In fact, there’s even commentary from the actors in a nice little side window with controllable audio, so in a way, it was a blessing to have this particular malfunction.
It’s good to see Isaac sober. The actor proves that he can do passion with or without the crazy, which I appreciate. Speaking of good acting, George Takei finally makes his appearance this week! He gives Hiro a second possible destiny, but of course our hero cannot accept. Instead, he is a hero to his sister as well, cleverly maneuvering her into the position his father wanted for him.
The invisible man continues his lessons with Peter. He urges Peter to shuck off the concerns of all these other people in his life—as impossible for Peter as foregoing his destiny is to Hiro—in order to fully realize his powers and pluck them out at will without the “benefactor” being present. He scorns humanity: “Everyone’s like the rest… that’s why they’re the rest!” Peter’s girlfriend starts to bear out this bleak statement by interacting quite closely with her old boyfriend, Isaac.
Convinced that Peter’s body will remember, even if Peter doesn’t, the Invisible Man throws Peter off the roof of a 30 story building; he seems to be all about the sink or swim. Peter decides on a third option, which is a little like growing gills. And he realizes that the key to his powers isn’t to cut out humanity, but to welcome them in.
As Peter is slowly learning to control his abilities, Sylar shows us that his control is second to none. Mr. Bennet is the first victim of Sylar’s escape. Now,I don’t want to call Mr. Bennet’s temporarily imprisoned circumstance a comeuppance, but he has put a lot of people through a lot of crap. In the end, Bennet gets out and Sylar runs away again, but not before giving us a long creepy look at his personality and his growing powers.
There’s now SO much Heroes content that I’ve decided to make two entries this week; stay tuned to see what’s going on in the graphic novel and what Primatech Paper has in their secret files.
