I've gotta say, this season of Heroes is really intriguing me. The plot hasn't moved along too much, but has more than last season. This episode was so full of twists and turns that I'm very excited for next week. This episode of very reminiscent of the season one episode "Five Years Gone," but in my opinion a lot better. I have always like the way that Heroes has played with space and time in accordance to the abilities of the characters. All this being said, let's break it down, as best I can:
First off, we have this whole business with with the future. It's a crazy different dimension where everyone has powers, Claire and Peter hate each other, and Sylar is a lovable dad. Future Claire's anger towards Future Peter still is a little unclear, but seeing her teamed up with Daphne and Knox was a startling sight. Daphne apparently ends up with Parkman and the two have a baby together, which was sweet, but irrelevant. Really the most enjoyable part of the entire future scenario was seeing Gabriel (future Sylar). It was essentially confirmed in this episode that Sylar actually has his own power, it's the hunger to kill others for theirs, which is strangely interesting. Gabriel as a nice guy dad was an odd sight, but I liked it. The humanity of that character is always overlooked, and I've been enjoying that coming out more this season. At the episode's end, Peter killed Future Nathan and returned to the present, where he went after Sylar in Level 5. Not a cliffhanger per se, but it will be interesting to see how that pans out.
Next up is the Tracy/Nathan thread. Finally, we found out, at least in part, why Tracy and Nikki were the same person, and thankfully, it's not because there's another Nikki personality. Instead, we found out that Nikki, Tracy, and a third triplet were experimented on at birth and thus, there are three different heroes. We'll undoubtedly meet the third triplet and find out what her power is, so we have that to look forward to. As for Nathan, we still have no real reason as to why Nathan is having frequent conversations with a dead Linderman, but presumably we'll find out soon. It appears to me that this plot thread is a do-over for the writers for all three characters. It seems like they wanted to go back to the Nathan as president idea, killed off Linderman too early, and led Nikki's plot so astray that it was too boring. Now they have their chance with Nathan in office, Linderman as a ghost or something, and Nikki, but not Nikki.
As for the others, Mohinder continued his decent into being a giant tool and Maya remained useless. Apparently now all she does is where revealing clothing and take care of Mohinder, which is only slightly less significant than anything she did last season. Hiro and Ando were largely forgotten in this episode, only appearing to make up during a failed escape attempt from Level 5. When we left them, they had just opened up the coffin that held Adam, as ordered by Mama Patrelli.
Heroes finally gave us the basis for this season. Just as Season 1 was about saving the cheerleader and stopping the exploding man, this season seems to be about preventing the formula from getting into the wrong hands. That's two solid weeks for this show. It appears, at least for now, it's found its way again.
B+
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