Heroes: I Am Sylar, Or Am I?
So this week’s episode of “Heroes” was the last before the big finale. It also went back a little in time, basically taking place when the Petrelli Clan was in Texas for the 1961 episode.
The main focus was Sylar, whose shape-shifting ability was driving him nutso. It turned out in becoming all these different people, well it was altering his DNA. He learned all he needed was to touch someone at any point in his life to take them on, so he started becoming his mom and having conversations with her. Paging Norman Bates!
Micah re-entered the mix, hoping to convince Sylar to do some good with his powers, to help the others. It seemed Micah was getting to him, and Sylar allowed Micah not to be caught by Emile Danko/The Hunter. Micah wanted him to use his shape shifting powers to help them, and Sylar remembered his mother telling him he could be president one day . . . uh oh!
Sylar held the conference as Nathan, basically taunting the world and the President with info that would blow them away, demanding the President meet him. You know what he’s planning here, to be the president! Nathan showed up at the end, but so did an angry Emile. Seems Sylar isn’t playing by his rules. Emile captured Nathan, then put a knife in Sylar’s head thinking he’d dealt with him. Guess his aim isn’t so great, Sylar got up . . . pulled it out . . . and said “That hurt!” I don’t know if Emile will be alive much longer honestly!
Matt, with his son, reconnected with Janice in this episode. He had a new outlook on life . . . and Janice !?! Basically he wanted to make a go with her and the kid, but eventually realized it wouldn’t work . . . he had to put an end to Emile or they’d never be safe. Before he could leave, Emile’s men arrived. Matt was doing his best to fend them off.
This is the story that annoyed me to no end honestly. Matt is one of my faves on the show, and I adored him and Daphne. She’s dead though, and is NOT coming back. So he finds out he has a kid with Janice and is ready to just pick up where they left off? Has he forgotten about the affair, the fact he didn’t know if the kid was his (well I think they want us to forget he knew she was pregnant). I’m sorry, no. No no and NO!
Hiro and Ando decided to try and infiltrate Building 26. Ando got captured by Emile’s men, and Hiro disguised himself as one of them to tag along. He let Ando know he’d have to play possum to lead them there. Well something is going wrong with Hiro’s powers lately, when he tried to freeze time, he couldn’t once and his nose started bleeding. The show ended with them being found out, and Ando blasting the van they were in to try and escape.
Meanwhile HRG, driving the Petreli gang, was pulled over and also captured by HRG’s men. So it looks like Micah, Sylar, maybe Matt, maybe Ando and Hiro are the only ones not in custody at this point!
SPOILER AHEAD!
Next week is the finale, and apparently within the first 10 minutes or so, a major season one hero gets killed in a way that it doesn’t look like they return! I don’t know if I like that at all!
You have the Hiro/Ando storyline a bit mixed up I think. Hiro doesn’t freeze the people who are touching him. He then tricked Ando into being possum and tagged along as one of the men. In the van, the other men found him out because he had his glasses on and that is when Ando used his powers to knock all the men out. Then they went to building 26 and when Hiro tried to freeze time there, he couldn’t and his nose began to bleed. That was where they were left, sitting outside the building with his nose bleeding. They aren’t in custody.
04.23.2009 at 9:37 am
Thanks! I knew I was getting them mixed up. I was working through the show and they interest me the least.
04.23.2009 at 10:04 am