review of “cautionary tales”
if the quality of an episode of heroes is measured by the amount of times i giggle to myself with excitement, then this was a high quailty episode (despite its lack of peter petrelli). overall, i think i enjoyed it because it developed/complicated many of the relationships. and, WHAT a climax! elaborate, you say? i shall!
west has won me over. following his angsty aerial tantrum (which made me want to punch MYSELF in the face), he finally managed to prove himself. i was very impressed with the heroic swagger he showed in assisting HRG and taking claire to safety. furthermore, the playing out of the typical father-teenage daughter relationship in the context of our heroes plot proved rather clever.
hiro returned to the past to attempt to save his father, but then realized he cannot play God. but i ask, why not? i say, go for it, hiro, play God. see what happens. sure, it didn’t work out with charlie, but what are the chances that TWO people you are trying to save have a brain aneurysm? regardless of my rant, however, it is interesting to see the limits of our heroes’ powers. he can’t change the past, but evidently he can change the future. last, he stopped time which i ALWAYS love, because it is badass.
matt develops his powers and can now control people. all i could think when he discovered this was, “man, he’s going to get so much tail.” and i’m sure his thoughts were quite akin to mine, if not a bit more thorough. i think we can all guess that revealing his true inner monologue at this moment probably would have had the censors in a veritible uproar. plus, he’s kind of pudgy, so none of us really want to picture that. interesting to note that he did use his power to find out the final woman’s name from angela petrelli in the face of her assertion that to do so would make him just like his father. many of our heroes seem to be slipping to the darkside…
elle’s character is developed much more with HRG’s revelation that she was tested to an inhumane amount by her father, and then that she had her memory removed by the haitian. i found myself feeling rather sympathetic for her, and eventually rooting for her to join the light side. the resentment she displays towards bob in that final scene could foreshadow her eventual turn (or so i hope). all in all, i feel that she is a wonderful addition to the cast.
as for that climax: my, oh my! however, all i’m going to say is that suresh better have some gigantic act of redemption coming up in these final two episodes.
great episode tonight with the development of characters and relationships, as well as the coming together of several storylines. i’m still dying to know the powers of angela petrelli and kaito nakamura. at one point, i thought he had some developed ability to control time (as matt’s father had a developed ability to control minds), but this hope was shot down when kaito got all giddy and told hiro he had never time travelled before. although this episode was the same length as always, i find myself with so much more to say this week. all the better for you, though. all the better for you.
