Season 4 - Episode 5
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lathanyLast Sunday's BBC 3 Heroes offering.
Details: Peter takes Hiro to the hospital where he learns that Hiro has a brain tumour and is dying. Emma arrives, wanting to talk to him, but Peter directs her questions to Hiro, explaining that he needs to find a cure and teleports to Noah. Noah suggests a healer he met through the Company and the two teleport to the teenager who is in a broken home. Turns out that the next phase of the healing power is the ability to give or remove life and the teenager (Jeremy) has killed his parents and is terrified. After a sequence where Jeremy threatens them with a shotgun, Peter saves Noah from a bullet, but stops time too late to save himself; Noah convinces Jeremy to try to save Peter and Jeremy succeeds. Noah stays to ensure Jeremy is OK whilst Peter travels back to Hiro (by plane). On arrival at the hospital, however, Peter finds Hiro has disappeared.
Hiro explains to Emma that all powers can be good and decides that perhaps he is in New York to save her and not Peter. Emma disbelieves him at first - in an echo of Maya she asks for her power to be taken away - but after he convinces her to join him in a magic show and demonstrates his own power, she is more accepting. During this time, he tells her about Charlie, who also had a brain tumour and realises that he forgot to add her to his list of people to save. When Peter returns he finds an empty bed and "Save Charlie" written on a note.
The final thread is Sylar and the carnival. He continues to show no memories of his own and the first name that comes to his head as his own is "Nathan". So one of the circus heroes takes him into the hall of mirrors and uses his power to show Sylar scenes from his past. These are all murders and Sylar is horrified. Samuel calls the policeman from the previous episode in, sends him into the hall, then sends Sylar after him. Sylar fights him, but refuses to kill him. The knife-man (Edgar) kills him instead and is unhappy that Sylar can not kill. Edgar also appears to regard Sylar as a rival; he is upset when Lydia shows a liking for Sylar.
General comments: Still five regulars only (Peter, Noah, Sylar, Hiro and Claire - although the less said about Claire's unnecessary presence the better). It's a weak one this, not least because it's becoming more and more apparent that the series is lacking any sort of plot or momentum. I thought that the Hiro stuff was rather sweet, but the Sylar sequence didn't really show the viewer anything new as we know that Gabriel would have been horrified by what Sylar became (from Villains and the early sequences with the blood writing back in season one). Peter and Noah was good - I liked the pairing, and we learned that healing turns into power over life and death - but it's the only real good part to this episode. The rest of which is Emma overcoming her "Maya" moment and Sylar catching up a bit with the viewers as to who he is. I ended the episode being keen to find out just how far back three years (when Hiro has gone to) is in terms of the show. I think it's before Six months ago from the first season, but I guess I'll have to wait and see.
Character by character:
Themes: Redemption - as it says on the volumetin title.
Refer back moments: New category to note the things it managed to accurately (or not!) refer back to. Nathan was apparently a pilot, which picks up on the toy plane from two episodes ago, but what I remember from season three was he talked about the Navy (where he learned the drinking game) and in season one he's referred to as a "soldier". Now a soldier can be either of the other two (although it's usually the default for army as people talk about pilots or navy officers), but in the UK you join only one of the three forces, not two and really not three. On the plus side, a big tick in the armed forces category. Second up - a big string of reminders from earlier seasons where Sylar kills people (Ted, Jackie, Trevor, Charlie). What else? Ah yes, Noah talks about the people the Company tagged but let go - true, it's what they did with Ted and Matt initially (although surely Ted should have hit the "danger" sign and wound up in level 5?).
Continuity errors and other weirds: This isn't yet a continuity error but... Samuel liked Peter in Ink because he apologised and cared about people saying something like "you're exactly what I hoped you'd be". Yet, he seems to want Sylar the Killer in this episode. Why? Is it each to their true nature? Or is it a f*ck-up in the making? Time will tell. More on the error side - the knife guy in the pilot hates being sent out to kill, but he's got no problem with the murder thing here - again, why?
Details: Peter takes Hiro to the hospital where he learns that Hiro has a brain tumour and is dying. Emma arrives, wanting to talk to him, but Peter directs her questions to Hiro, explaining that he needs to find a cure and teleports to Noah. Noah suggests a healer he met through the Company and the two teleport to the teenager who is in a broken home. Turns out that the next phase of the healing power is the ability to give or remove life and the teenager (Jeremy) has killed his parents and is terrified. After a sequence where Jeremy threatens them with a shotgun, Peter saves Noah from a bullet, but stops time too late to save himself; Noah convinces Jeremy to try to save Peter and Jeremy succeeds. Noah stays to ensure Jeremy is OK whilst Peter travels back to Hiro (by plane). On arrival at the hospital, however, Peter finds Hiro has disappeared.
Hiro explains to Emma that all powers can be good and decides that perhaps he is in New York to save her and not Peter. Emma disbelieves him at first - in an echo of Maya she asks for her power to be taken away - but after he convinces her to join him in a magic show and demonstrates his own power, she is more accepting. During this time, he tells her about Charlie, who also had a brain tumour and realises that he forgot to add her to his list of people to save. When Peter returns he finds an empty bed and "Save Charlie" written on a note.
The final thread is Sylar and the carnival. He continues to show no memories of his own and the first name that comes to his head as his own is "Nathan". So one of the circus heroes takes him into the hall of mirrors and uses his power to show Sylar scenes from his past. These are all murders and Sylar is horrified. Samuel calls the policeman from the previous episode in, sends him into the hall, then sends Sylar after him. Sylar fights him, but refuses to kill him. The knife-man (Edgar) kills him instead and is unhappy that Sylar can not kill. Edgar also appears to regard Sylar as a rival; he is upset when Lydia shows a liking for Sylar.
General comments: Still five regulars only (Peter, Noah, Sylar, Hiro and Claire - although the less said about Claire's unnecessary presence the better). It's a weak one this, not least because it's becoming more and more apparent that the series is lacking any sort of plot or momentum. I thought that the Hiro stuff was rather sweet, but the Sylar sequence didn't really show the viewer anything new as we know that Gabriel would have been horrified by what Sylar became (from Villains and the early sequences with the blood writing back in season one). Peter and Noah was good - I liked the pairing, and we learned that healing turns into power over life and death - but it's the only real good part to this episode. The rest of which is Emma overcoming her "Maya" moment and Sylar catching up a bit with the viewers as to who he is. I ended the episode being keen to find out just how far back three years (when Hiro has gone to) is in terms of the show. I think it's before Six months ago from the first season, but I guess I'll have to wait and see.
Character by character:
- Claire - Was there any point to that scene?
- Peter - Good idea for curing Hiro and I liked his pair-up with Noah. Given the number of times he's been mortally wounded, I thought it still came across convincingly.
- Hiro - I liked the whole set of scenes as they were very season one; except they are also rather sad in that way. When I saw future Hiro of season one, I thought it would be really cool for the character to become that person. And it's just not looking plausible at the moment.
- Noah - We'll, he's moving on with his redemption. Although I wish they'd do it alongside some plot.
- Nathan/Sylar - There were a couple of Nathan moments; but mostly this was about Sylar finding out what he once was.
- Emma - Well, at least she's got past the Maya stage; Maya herself never did. Also - did she ask if Peter sent her the cello? Does that mean it wasn't hers and yet she plays?
Themes: Redemption - as it says on the volume
Refer back moments: New category to note the things it managed to accurately (or not!) refer back to. Nathan was apparently a pilot, which picks up on the toy plane from two episodes ago, but what I remember from season three was he talked about the Navy (where he learned the drinking game) and in season one he's referred to as a "soldier". Now a soldier can be either of the other two (although it's usually the default for army as people talk about pilots or navy officers), but in the UK you join only one of the three forces, not two and really not three. On the plus side, a big tick in the armed forces category. Second up - a big string of reminders from earlier seasons where Sylar kills people (Ted, Jackie, Trevor, Charlie). What else? Ah yes, Noah talks about the people the Company tagged but let go - true, it's what they did with Ted and Matt initially (although surely Ted should have hit the "danger" sign and wound up in level 5?).
Continuity errors and other weirds: This isn't yet a continuity error but... Samuel liked Peter in Ink because he apologised and cared about people saying something like "you're exactly what I hoped you'd be". Yet, he seems to want Sylar the Killer in this episode. Why? Is it each to their true nature? Or is it a f*ck-up in the making? Time will tell. More on the error side - the knife guy in the pilot hates being sent out to kill, but he's got no problem with the murder thing here - again, why?
