After last week's stupid stupid episode, this week's was much better. Sure there were weak points and it wasn't held together too tightly, but for the most part, it was well rounded and set up a great cliff hanger for next week.
Let's start with the Bennetts plus Meredith. Meredith was trapped in the clutches of the uber-creepy Eric Doyle in his magic land of muscle control. Momma Bennett felt the completely irrational need to come with her daughter on a rescue mission and it ended up being a stupid idea, as was easily guessed. A drawn out game of roulette was what happened next, with the again predictable ending of Claire getting shot and surviving so that she could take down the bad guy. A cold conversation with Noah and we were done with one of the weaker parts of the episode.
While we're on plotlines stuck on the a train to nowhere, let's talk about Nathan, Tracy and Mohinder. There was almost nothing to this at all. Nathan and Tracy showed up hoping to get a cure, Mohinder poisoned them, and then Tracy got out and then Mohinder threw a table and said something lame. I'm finding it hard to care about this thread. Please Heroes writers, do this better.
Alight, bad stuff out of the way, let's talk about what was good. The Patrelli Family Reunion went a little haywire tonight. Mamma is still in a coma and Peter was lashing out at his new brother for even thinking that he was really part of the family, despite Sylar's best intentions. Peter's reunion with his dad wasn't good either, as Papa stole all of Peter's powers. I liked where the plot is going, but I must say that having Peter and Sylar trade roles has been weird. I like Gabriel (AKA Good Sylar) but Hungry Peter is annoying. He was the only optimistic character of Season 1, and his turnaround is frustrating.
Hiro and Ando were pretty good tonight. Hiro's manipulation of time at the beginning was predictable (I think I see a trend), but turned out was just a set-up for a great gag. When he was looking for African Isaac (or AI as he will hence be known thanks to Hiro), Hiro though he could use his powers to grab him, but just got whacked with a shovel. This was only mildly funny until he hatched a plan to again use his powers and was once again knocked out. It looks like he's going to help AI get the bad guys, so he'll be a double agent for the villains, after being recruited by an increasingly disillusioned Daphne.
As for our favorite speedster, she met a turtle toting Parkman who was trying, very creepily, that to convince her they were soul mates. She left him briefly to recruit more people for Papa Patrelli which led her to try and convince Sylar, let out the guy from the Wire, and scold Mohinder for putting Maya in a cocoon. I like that while they have some Heroes turning into Villains, she seems like a Villain going Hero, which is great because she's an awesome character. I think this show has underplayed all of it's love lines from the very beginning, so I'd like to see this played up. Who knows, maybe Parkman and Daphne are the next Jim and Pam....probably not.
While I poked a lot of holes in this episode, I still feel like overall, it was very entertaining and did a good job of continuing to put the dominoes in place. Next week, we'll be picking sides in the Patrelli family squabble, so we'll see how that goes.
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