Heroes - Angels and Monsters
Wow. Another awesome episode.
This is turning out to be a great season. Too bad the ratings are just not there. Dancing with the Stars is just too much.
What made Heroes so good in Season One was the big ticket reveals during each episode and in the end. Season Three looks like it is embracing this surefire formula and I love it!
SPOILERS
The HRG and Sylar parnership is rocky -- HRG wants to kill Sylar -- but it looks like it is here to stay. What's not to love? It's so good, that Claire's storyline improved immensely! I thought HRG and Sylar meeting up with Claire was brilliant. Here's the three of them trying to capture a so called "villain" who has incredible powers, and in the end, he turns out to be the most heroic of them all. I'm definitely looking forward to more HRG and Sylar team-ups.
Meanwhile, Claire is fighting crime (or bad guys) on her own apparently -- and next week's encounter with the Puppetman looks so awesome. Naive Claire vs. a monster -- exciting.
Mohinder meanwhile -- ughhh -- but why??? I'm thinking that he will ultimately be consumed by his new evil spider powers, that somewhere along the way, he will have to commit to the ultimate sacrifice to save everyone from himself. The alien-cocoon thing was so creepy though. So not the Mohinder we knew from 2 seasons, which is probaly why the writers put this in there. Fight the evil Mohinder!
Hiro kills Ando. I hope it's staged.
Adam escapes but is caught by a new team of super-powered peeps mind-controlled by Parkman's father! Omigosh. Geez, Parkman's father is so powerful. In fact, Parkman himself is on the "list" of potential recruits -- and was described as "the most difficult". Really? By virtue of the fact that Parkman could do what his father is doing elevates his character a little bit -- but he still has the worst plot ever.
Also it turns out that Nathan isn't crazy after all is also being manipulated. The Linderman image is just a tool. Well! I was wrong again.
Finally, what's this a see on the horizon? A Peter and Sylar team-up? Vs. who? At any rate, it looks like somebody else is more evil than Angela Petrelli -- her husband! The unknown evil turns out to be him and he intends to create an army of super-powered soldiers to rule the world (evil laugh).
I just checked the upcoming episodes, and second to the last episode for Season Three is titled "Our Father" -- so this is definitely the story arc for the next 9 weeks. Wow -- no mid-season break! I'm excited.
Some theories: So the company creates a super serum, probably from Adam, to bio-engineer some babies -- which created all these people we are watching on the show. Maybe in the beginning they thought they could find a cure for diseases, but they ended up creating potential "monsters". (With Mohinder's experiment, we know that you could also inject this with adults to gain super-powers later on.) I guess at some point the founders thought they've had it with playing god, but it turns out that Mr. Petrelli wants a final say in the matter -- he's probably the bogey man that Molly described.
Level of enjoyment: Ploding.