Heroes: Oh, daddy, where art thou?
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- November
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So, last night’s Heroes was all about daddy.
Not all daddies – mainly Papa Petrelli, with a side order of HRG.
We were due for this, of course, seeing as we have only just met Papa and didn’t even know what his power was nor how he didn’t actually “die” until just a couple weeks ago.
Long story short? WAIT – Have you watched it? If not, STOP READING NOW. There. You’ve been warned. STOP. Really. Now.
Papa is a baaaaaad man. What a freakin’ bastard.
Seriously, Linderman is basically redeemed. After one half-hearted attempt, he basically refused to kill Nathan. And Papa didn’t even blink an eye when it came to the decision to kill his first-born.
One question was answered for me, however: Peter’s abilities are natural. It seemed obvious from the convo that Mama and Papa had, where Mama was saying something about the man Peter 
would become once he came into his own. I think that’s why Papa, however, manages not to really care about Nathan — his firstborn was too weak to have natural abilities, had to be enhanced.
We now have the whole setup for this war between the Heroes, though. Papa’s side – not so good. Mama, who always seemed to be a really mean lady, appears to be the good guy, so to speak, in all this. Surprise, surprise.
Not everything else was at it appeared, either.
Would Sylar actually have died without Elle’s intervention?
Would Sylar have turned to good — or, at least, not to evil — had Elle not brought weird emo guy with the pretend handgun power to his apartment and played him like that? And why did Sylar not kill Elle?
We now also see HRG for the man we knew him to be at the start of the first season. He’s no innocent in Sylar’s rise to villainy.
One could even say he caused it. Not completely, not 100 percent responsible, for sure. But Sylar was trying to control his hunger. HRG got Elle to push him too far. And poor little Elle. She did like him, didn’t she? Is she the mom of Sylar’s Future Son, Noah?
I was curious, though, how Hiro managed to see all this? Was it the paste interacting with his time-traveling ability? And what about the poor unfortunate future-painter who gave the paste to Hiro. How do these guys who see the future manage to keep getting killed? First Isaac, now this guy? And now Papa can time-travel, having absorbed Hiro’s ability? Does that mean he’s gonna go back and kill Nathan?
By the way – I found it very interesting that Claire’s mommy is the big sister of that really evil guy. I can’t remember, is he dead? Did Sylar kill him?
And, Eric Roberts has a conscience. Gives a new perspective on the Company Man episode. He knows that Claire must be the missing daughter and doesn’t have much sympathy for HRG in that respect, eh?
And nice touch – Claire’s mom caused the accident that was in the very first ep?
Lots of questions. Answers to come.
On a side note, I honestly don’t really understand why so many people are hating on this season. I’ve enjoyed most episodes. I thought the last episode, two weeks ago, was rather weak, admittedly. I can’t even remember what specifically happened, and I think life got away from me and I never blogged about it.
But most episodes this season have been chock-full of Heroes mythology and action.
I’m interested in what’s going on. Anyone with me?
Photos courtesy of NBC Universal.
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This season is so twisty turny, but I am loving it. I have no idea why people are still hatin’ on Heroes. I am, however, having a wee bit of trouble remembering everything from week to week, but that’s okay.
I loved how they incorporated season one stuff into this last episode. Suprized I remembered all of it, but it was nice to see the ends all meet up.
Great episode, mostly because it harkened back to the awesomeness of Season 1. Here’s hoping that Brian Fuller returns to writing this show…
an interesting feature of stories involving time-travel is the notion of fate. very early in the heroes mythology, hiro saves his waitress girlfriend from sylar which provokes an alternate reality in which she promptly dies of an aneurysm. that supports the existence of fate within this particular story.
when he goes back in time to save his father, events unfold that preserve the original outcome. when the atomic explosion that destroys NYC is averted, a different catastrophe replaces it in the form of a pandemic. when that disaster is averted, a new one replaces it in the form of a “war of the mutants”.
i think this episode went more specifically into that. hiro goes back in time one minute to help himself not get assaulted, and in the process, is re-assaulted which preserves the original outcome. it’s really interesting, because the ability to manage spacetime is arguably the most powerful among the heroes, yet the apparent existence of fate renders it useless.