Heroes - season four, episode sixteen
Apr. 19th, 2010 08:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lathanyHere's my usual Heroes write-up from BBC3 last night - just two more episodes to go.
Details: Two main plotlines this week with a few other threads.
Main plotline one is Bennett and Lauren attempting to take out Samuel. Claire visits Bennett to start building bridges, arrives to find Lauren and discovers that he is after Samuel. She disapproves despite Lauren's evidence of Samuel's mass destruction of a town and talks to Gretchen about getting involved. Gretchen counsels against, but Claire goes to the carnival anyway. She proposes to Samuel that he gives himself up, but instead he uses the information to stage a reversal in which the Carnival is shot at, killing Lydia, and whilst Eli is responsible Noah is framed and captured. Lauren is shot in the process and she rings Tracey for help - however it is yet unclear whose side Tracey is on. Samuel ends up being supported again and he plans to stop hiding his and his "friends'" powers.
The second main plotline is Sylar asking Matt to remove his powers. Sylar goes to Matt and asks, Matt refuses. After a little persuading Matt agrees, but seems unable to. Sylar then threatens Janice whereupon Matt has another go. This appears to work... except he's removed Sylar's access to powers through trapping him in his own nightmare of loneliness. However, right at the end Peter turns up in the believe that Sylar can save Emma - he intervenes, but appears trapped in the nightmare of loneliness as well.
The other threads include Peter seeing an expanded version of the "Emma" vision including Doyle in the background and further suggestion that Sylar may indeed help Emma. He goes to his mother when she calls him to see him (using the excuse of wording for Nathan's tombstone) and finds out where Sylar is from her. The threads also include further Claire-Gretchen stuff which suggests Claire still has some ways to go to build this relationship and also an indication that Claire believed Noah when he told her he didn't do the killing. Also Claire is now locked up at the Carnival too. Emma arrives at the Carnival and Samuel is pleased to see her.
General comments: I thought this was a pretty good episode, slightly marred by the Carnival's inability to see through Samuel. It had stuff happening and everything. If only this movement had started earlier.
On the better points - I loved the way that it ended with Peter and Sylar stuck in Lonely Central (separately? together?) and Tracey having been called. In both cases because I don't know how it will play out. I'm sure that Peter and Sylar will get out - but I don't know how. Likewise, I'm sure Tracey will be in the end game, but not on which side (for the first time in, like, forever). I also liked that Claire and Noah may be reconciled, and this must be the first time that Claire's done something stupid with far-reaching consequences (everyone else has managed this before, but not Claire). I also liked that Matt decided to do something about Sylar, although I'm more dubious about the walling into his own house thing - would you want Sylar walled alive into your house? I wouldn't!
On the worse points - The double-cross by Samuel was good, but seemed a little too implausible. Do the Carnival people honestly know him that little? And would Eli, a long-time member, be so happy to carry out a plot that involved Lydia's death for no good reason after Samuel had decimated a town? I just don't believe it.
One final comment - I agree with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bateleur that they should have done the Sylar-wipe plot earlier in the season when bugger all else was going on. It's made for an interesting thread at the time when all the other threads were finally moving.
Character by character:
Themes: Good and evil.
Refer back moments: Matt's used a "Maury" power - the one his father used to trap Molly. Also, the first time someone's been inside a vision for a while (it reminded me of the "Exploding Man" visions Peter had from season one). Not quite yet, but... I wonder if Peter is going to reference Sylar's "good" moments from Villains.
Continuity errors and other weirds: So, after Mohinder told them they needed a hero last episode... Noah and Lauren appear able to use the compass without one. Hmm. Whilst we're at it - how did Angela know where Sylar was? Here's hoping she had a vision - the only plausible explanation. And why, oh why do the Carnival people in general not have a clue about Samuel? He's not exactly subtle with his feelings and it's been obvious he's been anti-Lydia for a while.
Details: Two main plotlines this week with a few other threads.
Main plotline one is Bennett and Lauren attempting to take out Samuel. Claire visits Bennett to start building bridges, arrives to find Lauren and discovers that he is after Samuel. She disapproves despite Lauren's evidence of Samuel's mass destruction of a town and talks to Gretchen about getting involved. Gretchen counsels against, but Claire goes to the carnival anyway. She proposes to Samuel that he gives himself up, but instead he uses the information to stage a reversal in which the Carnival is shot at, killing Lydia, and whilst Eli is responsible Noah is framed and captured. Lauren is shot in the process and she rings Tracey for help - however it is yet unclear whose side Tracey is on. Samuel ends up being supported again and he plans to stop hiding his and his "friends'" powers.
The second main plotline is Sylar asking Matt to remove his powers. Sylar goes to Matt and asks, Matt refuses. After a little persuading Matt agrees, but seems unable to. Sylar then threatens Janice whereupon Matt has another go. This appears to work... except he's removed Sylar's access to powers through trapping him in his own nightmare of loneliness. However, right at the end Peter turns up in the believe that Sylar can save Emma - he intervenes, but appears trapped in the nightmare of loneliness as well.
The other threads include Peter seeing an expanded version of the "Emma" vision including Doyle in the background and further suggestion that Sylar may indeed help Emma. He goes to his mother when she calls him to see him (using the excuse of wording for Nathan's tombstone) and finds out where Sylar is from her. The threads also include further Claire-Gretchen stuff which suggests Claire still has some ways to go to build this relationship and also an indication that Claire believed Noah when he told her he didn't do the killing. Also Claire is now locked up at the Carnival too. Emma arrives at the Carnival and Samuel is pleased to see her.
General comments: I thought this was a pretty good episode, slightly marred by the Carnival's inability to see through Samuel. It had stuff happening and everything. If only this movement had started earlier.
On the better points - I loved the way that it ended with Peter and Sylar stuck in Lonely Central (separately? together?) and Tracey having been called. In both cases because I don't know how it will play out. I'm sure that Peter and Sylar will get out - but I don't know how. Likewise, I'm sure Tracey will be in the end game, but not on which side (for the first time in, like, forever). I also liked that Claire and Noah may be reconciled, and this must be the first time that Claire's done something stupid with far-reaching consequences (everyone else has managed this before, but not Claire). I also liked that Matt decided to do something about Sylar, although I'm more dubious about the walling into his own house thing - would you want Sylar walled alive into your house? I wouldn't!
On the worse points - The double-cross by Samuel was good, but seemed a little too implausible. Do the Carnival people honestly know him that little? And would Eli, a long-time member, be so happy to carry out a plot that involved Lydia's death for no good reason after Samuel had decimated a town? I just don't believe it.
One final comment - I agree with
bateleur that they should have done the Sylar-wipe plot earlier in the season when bugger all else was going on. It's made for an interesting thread at the time when all the other threads were finally moving.Character by character:
- Claire - After my "too wise" whinges of the last couple of episodes it was something of a relief to see her screw up. Thank god she and Noah are reconciled - I'd had enough of that separation too.
- Noah - Good stuff and he looks very doomed. I really like his relationship with Lauren, hope it survives the season.
- Samuel - A slightly implausible double cross, but hey. At least this might be a villain actually about to go down.
- Sylar - OK, I still think they should have killed him in season one, but this is finally interesting. In particular, I liked that he didn't have a totally reversal but was still in petulant "everyone else should help me as the evil thing isn't my fault" mode.
- Peter - A little too ready to forgiven Sylar in hope of him helping Emma, but, again, interesting enough to make up for it. Plus I liked that he ordered his mother to help him.
- Matt - Great stuff, but would have been better if he'd used somewhere other than his own basement.
- Angela - Hasn't really had much to do this season, which is a shame.
- Tracey - I think this is the best cliff-hanger Ali Larter's had since season one. Tracey is sufficiently in the morally grey that I don't know which way it will go.
Themes: Good and evil.
Refer back moments: Matt's used a "Maury" power - the one his father used to trap Molly. Also, the first time someone's been inside a vision for a while (it reminded me of the "Exploding Man" visions Peter had from season one). Not quite yet, but... I wonder if Peter is going to reference Sylar's "good" moments from Villains.
Continuity errors and other weirds: So, after Mohinder told them they needed a hero last episode... Noah and Lauren appear able to use the compass without one. Hmm. Whilst we're at it - how did Angela know where Sylar was? Here's hoping she had a vision - the only plausible explanation. And why, oh why do the Carnival people in general not have a clue about Samuel? He's not exactly subtle with his feelings and it's been obvious he's been anti-Lydia for a while.
