‘Heroes’ recap, or â€” as I like to call it â€”Â Amy Was (Kinda) Right About Nikki

September

OK, first I have this to say: How awesome am I that I almost sorta kinda figured out the Nikki plotline? (By the way, do I even need to say that if you didn’t watch, don’t keep reading? I do? OK: STOP READING NOW IF YOU DIDN’T WATCH. OK, got that out of the way.)

So, Tracey’s not Nikki and Nikki is truly, madly, deeply … dead. In the coffin and everything.

But never fear, Micah can talk to machines and was able to inform Tracey that she and his mommy were born on the same day … in the same hospital … delivered by (dun dun DUN!!!!) the same doctor. Dr. Zimmerman.

Awww, Micah hugs his mom’s clone twin. Creepy.

I was glad they didn’t drag out the whole “is she or isn’t she” storyline like some other shows are wont to do. (Look, I’m a huge Lost fan, but they’re killing me! And don’t even get me started on the identity of the final Cylon.)

But I admit I was a bit surprised, and then not so much, when Doctor Zimmerman informs Tracey that she’s his creation. So are the Nikki/Tracey/Jessica line a series of clones? Or were they actual twins whose abilities were implanted in some way?

Obviously, the formula to create powers existed in whole at some point in the past. Or in the future and then the past. And we know that these mutant powers go way, way, back. Unless Adam, somehow, was sent back into the past and wasn’t really born way back in the day.

So this made me wonder, was Sylar “created” in the same way that Niktressica was? Is Mama Petrelli actually Sylar’s mother in the biological sense or more in the sense that she presided over however he was created?

On the one hand, it doesn’t make sense that she’d give up this son, when she kept two others. Unless he was the product of an affair with one of the Older Generation. Or unless they knew he had potentially fearful powers and as the son of a politician that wouldn’t be good? Or unless they purposely put him with a watchmaker, knowing that such detail work at some point would lead him to recognition of his power?

Seeing him trying to be “good” is kind of creepy, though. I was glad when he killed Sonic Boom guy (Black Canary, anyone?), indicating he wasn’t all sugar and spice, but I wasn’t clear if the other three bad guys are dead? I hope not. Their evilness and their powers promised lots of fun for future episodes.

Speaking of good vs evil, what’s up with Claire?

Her super-mom really did some number on her, but it probably was a good thing she admitted why she really wanted to learn to fight. I thought Claire couldn’t feel pain now, though, so her choking thing was kind of weird. I guess when you’re gasping for air, you’re gasping for air.

But on the sci-fi website i09, we find out the scene was written differently originally:

This scene originally took place in a deserted warehouse where Claire was surrounded by fire.

Ah, but budgets are taking their toll on Hollywood Boulevard, too, not just Wall Street and Main Street.

What, exactly, Claire thinks she’s doing and where she’s going, I’m not sure. Is she going to kill bad guys? Sylar? Her cheerleader nemesis back in Odessa?

As for Hiro and Ando, we saw Hiro’s mistrust of Future Ando sow the seeds of a split between the best buds. The question is, does Ando already have a power and just doesn’t know it because he hasn’t tried, or is he the beneficiary of Mohinder (aka The Fly) or The Formula?

Also, from i09, same link as above, we learn that the German movie theater scene was originally written differently:

The Hiro/Ando/Daphne scene, which currently occurs in a German movie theatre, originally took place on a train traveling through India, complete with Hiro and Ando on the roof of the train and Ando nearly falling out the side of a baggage car.

Again, too expensive. The bank robbery scene needed the big bucks, so the big bucks it got (though Current Peter in Evil Mutant’s body was supposed to be an Earthquake stomper, not a Black Canary, but oh well).

Anyhow, now Hiro and Ando are trapped on Level 5 (dun dun DUNNNNNN!), and Sylar is … accepting his confinement there?

And Daphne got away with the formula. To take it to … ??

So, what does anyone else think?

Photos courtesy of NBC Universal.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, September 30th, 2008 at 3:35 pm by Amy Vernon.
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