I feel like sending Bryan Fuller a bouquet of flowers and a nice card.
THIS SHOW IS WATCHABLE AGAIN!!!! Thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou. Everyone tell all your friends who understandably bailed that it's safe to come back.
Very nice character moments. Peter and Nathan are back to their old selves. The damage to Nathan will take more time to repair, but the repair job is well underway. Angela's more fascinating than ever. Even Claire is far less dippy (and how sad that she'll never ever ever be able to get drunk
).
Sylar and Danko are a lot of fun, too. I was hoping they'd go with the "very sketchy alliance" angle and I got my wish. Danko is a moron of the first order if he doesn't realize that Sylar now has the perfect opportunity to take his place as the gumbint's prime mutant hunter but anyone as obssessed as Danko is bound to have a fatal blind spot like that.
Great stuff with Sylar teaching Danko how to hunt metahumans. Very smart writing - that's all stuff a guy who's been at it for years should know. Finally we have a guy in charge who can make sure the characters not only are not written as idiots, but actually pretty clever on occasion.
I was going to give this one Above Average for just the character stuff when they kicked it up to Excellent by giving Sylar one of the two scariest powers he possibly could have (the other being mind control). Now only Matt has the power to stop him, and only if he knows he better be scanning everyone at all times. Since Sylar is now "dead," poor Matt won't have a clue.
But that's my prediction - there will be a scene where Matt reads Peter or Mohinder's mind and gets a nasty shock when he realizes there's someone else in there, someone they all know. Matt can stop Sylar cold via mind control and then kill him if he knows the right place for the knife (does he?) Other than Matt, everyone else is helpless against Sylar. Peter better forget this flying nonsense and adopt Matt's powers permanently - those are by far the most useful set of powers, capable of detecting a shapeshifter and inducing him to commit suicide.
This is going to be great paranoid fun, worrying about who isn't who they are supposed to be.
It's like the good old days with the Dominion! Yay shapeshifters!
do you guys think HRG, will potentially risk, "reviving" Sylar by removing the knife from his head, to see if it is really him or not?
Or just steal the body, store it in his basement (while keeping Mr. Muggles out), and wait for it to decompose enough for the knife to fall out, to see if Sylar revives on his own. I've been curious about that - apparently you can be blown apart or burnt to a crisp and come back if you have healing power, so what's a little decomposition between friends?
