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trillianastra) wrote2009-10-27 07:35 pm
trillianastra) wrote2009-10-27 07:35 pm
Heroes 4x07 "Strange Attractors"
Well. That was... oh, hell.
That was, actually, pretty AWESOME.
Claire's College Days:
This, though, was SO the low point of the episode. It was basically... blah blah, pseudo-lesbian crush, blah blah, let's-get-in-touch-with-our-feelings, blah blah, random physics, blah blah, sorority stuff, blah blah, random.... slaughterhouse? Er, well, okay.... oh, Becky the Invisible Girl is trying to kill Gretchen. Hmm.
That could have been interesting.
It... wasn't as good as it could have been.
Still, there was one decent bit, which involved two Random Sorority Girls seeing Claire get impaled on something and, y'know, not die.
(Incidentally... yeah, writers... trying to win ratings with the promise of girl-on-girl? And by sticking Claire and Gretchen tied up together in a car trunk, in very close proximity to one another? It's not big, and it's not clever. Now leave Claire alone and give the Carnival more screentime. *glare*)
This week on Matt Parkman's Difficult Life:
Poor Matt.
Poor, poor Matt.
OK, so, Head!Sylar's been getting more powerful, to the point where he can actually take control of Matt's body sometimes. (So, if Janice has wild monkey sex with Matt-controlled-by-Head!Sylar, is that cheating? Hmmmm.) Also... yeah, Sylar (or Head!Sylar, anyway) totally thinks Janice is hot. I'm... not even touching that one.
Matt would seem to remember all of that, incidentally, and knows that a) sleeping with Janice is the LEAST worrying of all the things Head!Sylar could use his body for, and b) he needs to get rid of Head!Sylar. SO he convinces Janice to take Baby Matt and get somewhere safe, and then... he gets drunk.
There was a reason for that, though - it would seem that Matt drinking alcohol hurts Head!Sylar. Or at least that's what it looked like to Matt. Afterwards (once he's slept off the alcohol, because there was a LOT), it transpires that, OOPS, he hasn't got rid of Head!Sylar at all. The alcohol (and this is my theory here) just lowered Matt's mental walls/barriers/whatever, allowing Head!Sylar to get inside his head properly and take control.
(THERE WAS TICKING)
This is SO NOT GOOD. But also, from a narrative perspective, VERY VERY INTERESTING.
The (Temporary) Bennet-Strauss Alliance
Well, Noah's still in Cainan, hanging out in the police station trying to help Jeremy, and being thwarted by the LEOs, who are (pretty much to a man) complete ASSHOLES.
Anyway, phase one of the plan is to get Tracy to show up, say that she's Jeremy's aunt, and sign him out. That almost worked, except for the Asshole LEOs finding his emo death-boy notebook and getting convinced that he had done *something*, even if he didn't kill his parents (which.. he did, but not on purpose).
Eventually, though, the Asshole LEOs let Jeremy out... but there's a mob of angry townspeople outside. (None of them had pitchforks or flaming torches though, it was disappointing.) One of the mob starts hassling Jeremy, and he gets stressed and, whoops, dead mob guy. So he gets taken back inside, and we're back to square one. Or rather, square minus-one-hundred, because while Noah's arguing with the Head Asshole LEO, some of the Subordinate Asshole LEOs drive Jeremy out to some back road, put one end of a chain around his legs and attach the other to their car, and drive around some more until he's not only dead, but seriously messed up.
Samuel's Carnival of Awesome
Now, because he's just that good, Samuel shows up in Cainan too. First, he talks to Tracy, and does some... earth-move-y stuff to bring her to the Carnival, where he tries to convince her that the Carnival would be the best place for Jeremy, rather than hiding under a new name, as per Noah's plan.
(Seriously, is that Noah's ONLY plan for keeping people safe? I'm starting to not like it very much. Must be Sam's influence.)
While she's at the Carnival, Tracy gets seen by Sylar, who has another Nathanflashback and recognises her. And when Samuel points out that the Nathanflashbacks aren't his memories, he raises the question of where his own memories are. (The answer, of course, is "inside Matt's head", but he doesn't know that.) Then Samuel gives her a compass and passes her over to Lydia, who gets her back to Cainan by some unknown means.
Not that it means much, but Samuel's attempts to persuade Tracy worked, I think. Because when she and Noah found Jeremy's body, she told Noah "he had a home". I'm guessing she meant the Carnival. She also said that they'd failed Jeremy (true) and suggested that hiding people with abilities might not be the right path (also true IMO). Then, she told Noah not to call her again, looked at the compass Samuel gave her, and drove off in the direction that it was pointing.
(Hey, at least we know what the broken-only-not compass is for, now. It's a Carnival-finder. I suspect the same applies to the random tattoo that Peter ended up with.)
Samuel's involvement this week doesn't end with his chat with Tracy, though. Ohhh, no. See, once Tracy and Noah have cleared out of Cainan, Samuel pays a little... visit... to the Cainan police station.
And when he walks away, it's a heap of rubble.
Yeah, I know, he killed everyone who was inside. They were the Asshole LEOs, and they murdered a teenage boy in cold blood. As far as I'm concerned, they deserved it.
This is what Samuel does to me, folks. He... IDK, he's loyal, and (RIDICULOUSLY) powerful, and fiercely protective of his family (which seems to extend to "people with abilities who might join the Family even though he's never met them", like Jeremy), and he's absolutely, absolutely certain of his ideas of right and wrong, and... well. He has an... attractive combination of character traits. And he's hot. (I have to say, the boots and the swishy black coat were... definitely not diminishing the hotness.)
That was, actually, pretty AWESOME.
Claire's College Days:
This, though, was SO the low point of the episode. It was basically... blah blah, pseudo-lesbian crush, blah blah, let's-get-in-touch-with-our-feelings, blah blah, random physics, blah blah, sorority stuff, blah blah, random.... slaughterhouse? Er, well, okay.... oh, Becky the Invisible Girl is trying to kill Gretchen. Hmm.
That could have been interesting.
It... wasn't as good as it could have been.
Still, there was one decent bit, which involved two Random Sorority Girls seeing Claire get impaled on something and, y'know, not die.
(Incidentally... yeah, writers... trying to win ratings with the promise of girl-on-girl? And by sticking Claire and Gretchen tied up together in a car trunk, in very close proximity to one another? It's not big, and it's not clever. Now leave Claire alone and give the Carnival more screentime. *glare*)
This week on Matt Parkman's Difficult Life:
Poor Matt.
Poor, poor Matt.
OK, so, Head!Sylar's been getting more powerful, to the point where he can actually take control of Matt's body sometimes. (So, if Janice has wild monkey sex with Matt-controlled-by-Head!Sylar, is that cheating? Hmmmm.) Also... yeah, Sylar (or Head!Sylar, anyway) totally thinks Janice is hot. I'm... not even touching that one.
Matt would seem to remember all of that, incidentally, and knows that a) sleeping with Janice is the LEAST worrying of all the things Head!Sylar could use his body for, and b) he needs to get rid of Head!Sylar. SO he convinces Janice to take Baby Matt and get somewhere safe, and then... he gets drunk.
There was a reason for that, though - it would seem that Matt drinking alcohol hurts Head!Sylar. Or at least that's what it looked like to Matt. Afterwards (once he's slept off the alcohol, because there was a LOT), it transpires that, OOPS, he hasn't got rid of Head!Sylar at all. The alcohol (and this is my theory here) just lowered Matt's mental walls/barriers/whatever, allowing Head!Sylar to get inside his head properly and take control.
(THERE WAS TICKING)
This is SO NOT GOOD. But also, from a narrative perspective, VERY VERY INTERESTING.
The (Temporary) Bennet-Strauss Alliance
Well, Noah's still in Cainan, hanging out in the police station trying to help Jeremy, and being thwarted by the LEOs, who are (pretty much to a man) complete ASSHOLES.
Anyway, phase one of the plan is to get Tracy to show up, say that she's Jeremy's aunt, and sign him out. That almost worked, except for the Asshole LEOs finding his emo death-boy notebook and getting convinced that he had done *something*, even if he didn't kill his parents (which.. he did, but not on purpose).
Eventually, though, the Asshole LEOs let Jeremy out... but there's a mob of angry townspeople outside. (None of them had pitchforks or flaming torches though, it was disappointing.) One of the mob starts hassling Jeremy, and he gets stressed and, whoops, dead mob guy. So he gets taken back inside, and we're back to square one. Or rather, square minus-one-hundred, because while Noah's arguing with the Head Asshole LEO, some of the Subordinate Asshole LEOs drive Jeremy out to some back road, put one end of a chain around his legs and attach the other to their car, and drive around some more until he's not only dead, but seriously messed up.
Samuel's Carnival of Awesome
Now, because he's just that good, Samuel shows up in Cainan too. First, he talks to Tracy, and does some... earth-move-y stuff to bring her to the Carnival, where he tries to convince her that the Carnival would be the best place for Jeremy, rather than hiding under a new name, as per Noah's plan.
(Seriously, is that Noah's ONLY plan for keeping people safe? I'm starting to not like it very much. Must be Sam's influence.)
While she's at the Carnival, Tracy gets seen by Sylar, who has another Nathanflashback and recognises her. And when Samuel points out that the Nathanflashbacks aren't his memories, he raises the question of where his own memories are. (The answer, of course, is "inside Matt's head", but he doesn't know that.) Then Samuel gives her a compass and passes her over to Lydia, who gets her back to Cainan by some unknown means.
Not that it means much, but Samuel's attempts to persuade Tracy worked, I think. Because when she and Noah found Jeremy's body, she told Noah "he had a home". I'm guessing she meant the Carnival. She also said that they'd failed Jeremy (true) and suggested that hiding people with abilities might not be the right path (also true IMO). Then, she told Noah not to call her again, looked at the compass Samuel gave her, and drove off in the direction that it was pointing.
(Hey, at least we know what the broken-only-not compass is for, now. It's a Carnival-finder. I suspect the same applies to the random tattoo that Peter ended up with.)
Samuel's involvement this week doesn't end with his chat with Tracy, though. Ohhh, no. See, once Tracy and Noah have cleared out of Cainan, Samuel pays a little... visit... to the Cainan police station.
And when he walks away, it's a heap of rubble.
Yeah, I know, he killed everyone who was inside. They were the Asshole LEOs, and they murdered a teenage boy in cold blood. As far as I'm concerned, they deserved it.
This is what Samuel does to me, folks. He... IDK, he's loyal, and (RIDICULOUSLY) powerful, and fiercely protective of his family (which seems to extend to "people with abilities who might join the Family even though he's never met them", like Jeremy), and he's absolutely, absolutely certain of his ideas of right and wrong, and... well. He has an... attractive combination of character traits. And he's hot. (I have to say, the boots and the swishy black coat were... definitely not diminishing the hotness.)