Heroes 3.07
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selenakThe last two days were insanely busy, and I only now got the chance to watch this.
Scriptwriter Jesse Alexander makes me very happy and pairs up Claire and Elle. I've been wanting to see them interact again ever since those brief tidbits in season 2, and I absolutely loved what we got. Complete with intriguing new information about the season arc, because it hadn't occured to me before Claire's loss of pain sense might be connected to it in this particular way, rather then being a part of Claire's personal arc. But if Claire's abilities and Elle's abilities go into overdrive simultanously, well; chances are we have a common cause there. Both of them had a Sylar encounter recently, Elle in level 5 where she took him out by using her ability to the maximum and Claire when he took her cut her open and took her own ability, which one presumes also required a maximum exertion on Claire's part to heal, so it might be that. Or it might be deliberately done on someone else's part; I'd suspect Arthur, but he didn't have the necessary access to either Claire or Elle.
Anyway: the company girls teaming up and discovering their similarities before separating on one key difference - Claire leaving because she saw what happened to Peter and that he needed help, Elle going into Pinehurst because her own need to deal with her ability was more important (not that I blame Elle; Claire's ability going into overdrive isn't constantly painful and doesn't get planes crashing) - was my favorite part of the episode. More of that, please. Also, show, don't let Arthur kill Elle because he doesn't need her ability (he has it already via Peter). If that handholding and electricity discharge doesn't lead to fanfiction, there is no justice.
Claire continues to have a great storyline in all regards; the teaming up with Elle being but one example. When being presented with a neat recall of her Homecoming encounter with Peter (thrown from a height, Sylar somewhat to blame, bleeding), she doesn't waste time to get themselves away; and you can see she's grown wise in the ways of Petrellis lying to each other without hesitation by the way she's watching Nathan when he gives Peter his fake reassurance of not paying a visit to Arthur. (Wise in the sense that as opposed to the end of s1, she's not reacting with "zomg how could you/he?" but "that's how they/we are".) More about that in a moment. First let me say I was also amused at Claire's little dig about fathers not being all that, because it's said in this wry matter of fact way, not accusatory, and while primarily directed at Nathan at this point, also covers her relationship with Noah. She's growing up, oh yes she is.
I was a bit frustrated Nathan and Tracy were stuck in the lab for this episode at first (and also ready to yell when it appeared they let them remain there after Mohinder's departure as if they couldn't leave by themselves, until we saw they waited because Nathan had called Noah to take care of the Flyhinder victims, which, you know, was the responsible thing to do), but in retrospect can see the storytelling sense, because that way we can get the Arthur and Nathan encounter next episode without it being cluttered by the Arthur and Sylar encounter happening simultanously. Also, it led to the hilarious update of Tracy in Nathan's soap opera of a private life by Meredith, and the Nathan, Peter and Claire scene later on, which definitely had to happen before the third father-son-meeting.
Detour re: father-son: aaaand we get some sort of explanation as to why Gabriel spent his childhood in the Bronx (unless Arthur is lying, which is always an option). Okay, I can see Angela trying vision-caused infanticide as a reason. Loved the Petrelli parents dong the button-pushing thing big time here, what with first Angela playing the "you're my favourite, make mummy proud" card and then Arthur playing the "you're not her favourite, Peter is, she just uses you to rescue him, and btw, she tried to kill you as a baby" card. While Sylar currently is something of a wildcard, with the seemingly joining of Arthur on the one hand and the Peter saving on the other. (I still don't by the characterisation retcon and the sudden fraternal feelings, but ah, well.) Given how bent the writers seem to be on rehabilitating him, I'm assuming he intends to play double agent in Arthur's camp (while also trying to find out whether Arthur told him the truth about Angela).
Nathan's "I was there" statement re: his certainty that Arthur had to be dead probably makes canon of the fanon that Nathan found or saw Arthur's body after the "suicide". Which makes me ever more intrigued as to what actually happened. The Six Months Ago mini flashback early on also makes me hope their meeting next episode (it has to be next episode, right? they can't delay it any further?) will include a callback to the fact Nathan was about to go against Arthur in court when this happened, which added to his guilt trip later. Him intending to see Arthur now despite of what Peter said is inevitable given all that, and that if Peter is Angela's favourite, he was Arthur's. Which is why I think Peter is pretty clear he was just lied to as well. It's what they do to each other. Methinks we're headed towards at least one scene where Arthur and Peter both appeal to Nathan's loyalties, not Arthur and Angela.
(Sidenote: I only just remembered: Peter didn't update Nathan on the Sylar is our brother situation, did he? Did Angela back after she put Peter in a coma, or is that bit of happy news still waiting?)
In other news, Matt and Daphne: you know, I thought the "kill Matt" command was a bit too pointless villainy, but "make Matt believe you joined him so you can infiltrate the Company" makes way more sense. Mind you, I still don't see how Arthur can count on Matt not simply reading Daphne's thoughts, but hey, maybe we'll get an explanation for that as well. Daphne seems to be headed for a somewhat predictable "pretend double agent becomes real double agent as feelings for Matt overwhelm her and she confesses all" Bond girl storyline which I'm not that keen on, but BSG made it somewhat affecting with Sharon, so why not. Though I miss her interactions with Hiro and Ando. As for Matt, I'm really relieved we got him calling Mohinder, because to repeat myself from last week, when Matt left, they and Molly were living together and he still has no explanation where everyone is.
Scriptwriter Jesse Alexander makes me very happy and pairs up Claire and Elle. I've been wanting to see them interact again ever since those brief tidbits in season 2, and I absolutely loved what we got. Complete with intriguing new information about the season arc, because it hadn't occured to me before Claire's loss of pain sense might be connected to it in this particular way, rather then being a part of Claire's personal arc. But if Claire's abilities and Elle's abilities go into overdrive simultanously, well; chances are we have a common cause there. Both of them had a Sylar encounter recently, Elle in level 5 where she took him out by using her ability to the maximum and Claire when he took her cut her open and took her own ability, which one presumes also required a maximum exertion on Claire's part to heal, so it might be that. Or it might be deliberately done on someone else's part; I'd suspect Arthur, but he didn't have the necessary access to either Claire or Elle.
Anyway: the company girls teaming up and discovering their similarities before separating on one key difference - Claire leaving because she saw what happened to Peter and that he needed help, Elle going into Pinehurst because her own need to deal with her ability was more important (not that I blame Elle; Claire's ability going into overdrive isn't constantly painful and doesn't get planes crashing) - was my favorite part of the episode. More of that, please. Also, show, don't let Arthur kill Elle because he doesn't need her ability (he has it already via Peter). If that handholding and electricity discharge doesn't lead to fanfiction, there is no justice.
Claire continues to have a great storyline in all regards; the teaming up with Elle being but one example. When being presented with a neat recall of her Homecoming encounter with Peter (thrown from a height, Sylar somewhat to blame, bleeding), she doesn't waste time to get themselves away; and you can see she's grown wise in the ways of Petrellis lying to each other without hesitation by the way she's watching Nathan when he gives Peter his fake reassurance of not paying a visit to Arthur. (Wise in the sense that as opposed to the end of s1, she's not reacting with "zomg how could you/he?" but "that's how they/we are".) More about that in a moment. First let me say I was also amused at Claire's little dig about fathers not being all that, because it's said in this wry matter of fact way, not accusatory, and while primarily directed at Nathan at this point, also covers her relationship with Noah. She's growing up, oh yes she is.
I was a bit frustrated Nathan and Tracy were stuck in the lab for this episode at first (and also ready to yell when it appeared they let them remain there after Mohinder's departure as if they couldn't leave by themselves, until we saw they waited because Nathan had called Noah to take care of the Flyhinder victims, which, you know, was the responsible thing to do), but in retrospect can see the storytelling sense, because that way we can get the Arthur and Nathan encounter next episode without it being cluttered by the Arthur and Sylar encounter happening simultanously. Also, it led to the hilarious update of Tracy in Nathan's soap opera of a private life by Meredith, and the Nathan, Peter and Claire scene later on, which definitely had to happen before the third father-son-meeting.
Detour re: father-son: aaaand we get some sort of explanation as to why Gabriel spent his childhood in the Bronx (unless Arthur is lying, which is always an option). Okay, I can see Angela trying vision-caused infanticide as a reason. Loved the Petrelli parents dong the button-pushing thing big time here, what with first Angela playing the "you're my favourite, make mummy proud" card and then Arthur playing the "you're not her favourite, Peter is, she just uses you to rescue him, and btw, she tried to kill you as a baby" card. While Sylar currently is something of a wildcard, with the seemingly joining of Arthur on the one hand and the Peter saving on the other. (I still don't by the characterisation retcon and the sudden fraternal feelings, but ah, well.) Given how bent the writers seem to be on rehabilitating him, I'm assuming he intends to play double agent in Arthur's camp (while also trying to find out whether Arthur told him the truth about Angela).
Nathan's "I was there" statement re: his certainty that Arthur had to be dead probably makes canon of the fanon that Nathan found or saw Arthur's body after the "suicide". Which makes me ever more intrigued as to what actually happened. The Six Months Ago mini flashback early on also makes me hope their meeting next episode (it has to be next episode, right? they can't delay it any further?) will include a callback to the fact Nathan was about to go against Arthur in court when this happened, which added to his guilt trip later. Him intending to see Arthur now despite of what Peter said is inevitable given all that, and that if Peter is Angela's favourite, he was Arthur's. Which is why I think Peter is pretty clear he was just lied to as well. It's what they do to each other. Methinks we're headed towards at least one scene where Arthur and Peter both appeal to Nathan's loyalties, not Arthur and Angela.
(Sidenote: I only just remembered: Peter didn't update Nathan on the Sylar is our brother situation, did he? Did Angela back after she put Peter in a coma, or is that bit of happy news still waiting?)
In other news, Matt and Daphne: you know, I thought the "kill Matt" command was a bit too pointless villainy, but "make Matt believe you joined him so you can infiltrate the Company" makes way more sense. Mind you, I still don't see how Arthur can count on Matt not simply reading Daphne's thoughts, but hey, maybe we'll get an explanation for that as well. Daphne seems to be headed for a somewhat predictable "pretend double agent becomes real double agent as feelings for Matt overwhelm her and she confesses all" Bond girl storyline which I'm not that keen on, but BSG made it somewhat affecting with Sharon, so why not. Though I miss her interactions with Hiro and Ando. As for Matt, I'm really relieved we got him calling Mohinder, because to repeat myself from last week, when Matt left, they and Molly were living together and he still has no explanation where everyone is.
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P.S. Look what I just found!
Date: 2008-10-30 09:19 am (UTC)Look (http://www.heroes-france.com/news_1225304875.htm)!
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Date: 2008-10-30 10:52 am (UTC)Re: P.S. Look what I just found!
Date: 2008-10-30 10:58 am (UTC)Sidenote: it totally cracks me up that Arthur has that photo of Nathan and Peter next to his bedside. It's everywhere! It truly is!
And the other trivia I love is that Angela is wearing one of her elegant black costumes that looks completely like what she dressed Claire in for the s1 finale.
Re: P.S. Look what I just found!
Date: 2008-10-30 11:17 am (UTC)That's the first thing I thought, too!
Poor Heidi must have felt really unloved, since the only pictures the family kept from her wedding seem to have been the ones with Peter and Nathan.
Angela: she seems so loving. There is a complete difference in her behaviour, which is awesome.
So, do you think she tried to kill Arthur, or did he fake the whole situation, not just his death?
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Date: 2008-10-30 11:35 am (UTC)No wonder she finally chose to leave. It's a sense of "who got married again that day?", it truly is.
Angela: she seems so loving. There is a complete difference in her behaviour, which is awesome.
It also finally makes sort of sense out of Peter's comment in the pilot about Angela changing after their father died. Mind you, I interpret her "I'm sorry" at the end and stroking Arthur's cheek as her moment of realisation that he's lying, both because that's a Petrelli thing (i.e. tender body language in combination with either a cruel verbal statement or with a lie) and because it echoes the moment in The Godfather II when Michael tells Fredo he knows. Either way, though, even if she genuinenly does believe him - you do not only believe these two are married but that she loves him. (Affair with Kaito notwithstanding.) (And btw, since Linderman going after Nathan whe he was at the same time positioning Nathan to become President in Blow Up New York world always only made sense if you assumed his goons didn't mean to kill him and Heidi but just to scare Nathan, the retcon of Linderman not being behind the accident at all is inspired and sense-making.)
So, do you think she tried to kill Arthur, or did he fake the whole situation, not just his death?
Hm. I'm torn. On the one hand, I could have faked the entire situation simply because he didn't want the Petrelli versus Petrelli trial and wanted to move behind the scenes. On the other, given this clip and given Angela's statements to Peter in the pilot about love being overrated and given that Arthur in his bed was really dependent on minions like Maury and not in a situation he would have chosen until Adam was used as a healer: I think it's more likely that she tried to kill him and that after he somehow survived, he went underground.
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Date: 2008-10-30 12:13 pm (UTC)Re: P.S. Look what I just found!
Date: 2008-10-30 12:49 pm (UTC)Re: P.S. Look what I just found!
Date: 2008-10-30 01:17 pm (UTC)Re: P.S. Look what I just found!
Date: 2008-10-30 01:22 pm (UTC)Bonus points if Claire makes a comment about the photographs in Peter's apartment...
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Date: 2008-10-30 01:47 pm (UTC)As for Claire: undoubtedly she'd notice the avalanche of photos Nathan put up when he lived there, but alas, F!Peter was redecorating the apartment with strings since then!
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