Heroes: What a difference ‘Four Months’ makes
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- November
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So it turns out that Kristen Bell is a pretty good actress, after all, though I think I hate her character, Elle, even more than I hated Sylar last season. And by hate I mean “am extremely leery of.”
Peter letting himself be imprisoned by The Company was the worst display of gullibility since Mohinder went on a road trip with Sylar. And I’m not sure if Sylar’s any worse than Bob or Adam.
I do know he has a way cooler bad guy name.
“Four Months Ago” was supposed to fill in the blanks, and it did a bit of that. But it also advanced things exponentially. We know how Peter ended up shirtless and memory-deprived in a shipping container in Ireland. It felt a little anti-climactic. We found out how he met Original Kensei/Adam, who should be about 360 years old, by my reckoning. And we found out that Elle had a rough childhood.
That’s a good place to jump in. Dang, she’s creepy. I never thought I’d be writing that about an easy-on-the-eyes firestarter whose worst fault—aside from sociopathy and murder—is that she’s a little clingy. The way she slid up close to Peter from the first meeting and coaxed him into sharing a jolt with her was just plain creepy. Takes you right back to every bad relationship you ever had, don’t it? No? Um, me neither. Anyway…
She burned her house down and sparked a blackout, and The Company has been her custodian ever since. If her chilling demeanor didn’t tip Peter off that something was amiss, you’d think the way people lock the door after themselves every time they left him would have. The guy’s in prison and doesn’t even know it. Fortunately, there’s only a conveniently placed air vent between him and Hiro’s temporal nemesis. That allowed for useful exposition.
With a little convincing on Adam’s part, they make their escape, with a pit stop along the way to heal Nathan of his wounds. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that Nathan got singed by Peter’s little outburst over Manhattan. But Peter recovered immediately, lamely putting to rest all those questions. He flies his brother to a hospital with burns that look more like what you’d suffer in a house fire rather than at the heart of a radioactive chain reaction.
Meanwhile, down south, Maya is absolutely ruining her brother’s wedding. She might not have appreciated that the bride was tangoing with an old flame during the reception, but did she have to kill all the guests to make her point? Those magic tears are not to be trifled with. In my opinion, that was a bit of semi-interesting back story we could have used a half-dozen episodes ago.
When it came to Nikki, D.L. and Micah, they really stretched the episode title—probably should have gone with “Four, Three, Two and One Months Ago”. It was good to see D.L again—until he died. Again. Seriously, I feel like there were a few rewrites going on there as Tim Kring wavered on what do with the guy. At any rate, D.L. recovers from his injuries and the unlikeliest nuclear family sets down roots. Bob warned Nikki Jessica—or another personality—could resurface without The Company’s help, though.
Finally—FINALLY!—I get Nikki’s ability. It’s superstrengthy, as Kring has annoyedly clarified. But the split personality, Bob explains, is a side effect some experience with their abilities. It only took me over a year to be sure it wasn’t part of her abilities. A jaunt to L.A., a rescue by D.L, and a shot to the gut thrusts Nikki into Bob’s clutches. Why don’t bullets sail through D.L.? I guess he has to see them coming.
Hiro and the cheerleader took the week off—sparing us West, mercifully—as did HRG. And we only got a glimpse of present-day Sylar on the road with the Wonder Twins. I have only one question: What’s going to happen to Caitlin?
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“I have only one question: What’s going to happen to Caitlin?”
Thank you! I’ve been wondering the exact same thing since last week! Poor Caitlin, she’s stuck in the future, being deported to future-Ireland, which cannot be a good thing.
And I agree 100% about how creepy Elle is. She seriously gave me the willies during this episode.