Re: Heroes 3x25 "An Invisible Thread" Discuss and Grade (SEASON FINALE
Wow, if anyone was wondering whether
Heroes was back, that episode had to have laid their fears to rest.
Nice move on Petey's part, doing the old Worf-switcheroo trick. (Didn't the Dominion try that with some other Klingons once upon a time?
) I did NOT see that coming. Makes up for all the stupid things he's ever done before. What a difference is makes for these characters to be written by good writers who can figure out intelligent and surprising moves for them to make.
The Sylar-Nathan switch pretty much happened like I expected, except that I thought they would leave Sylar conscious of his identity and have Nathan's persona gradually take over throughout the first part of S4. I didn't anticipate Matt's role in this scenario, very clever.
Of course the smart move for Angela now is to quietly arrange an accident to kill faux-Nathan. But she won't be able to bear losing her beloved son...argh! And Peter, I assume, is clueless. Holy cow!
Once again, we get another anticlimatic fight involving Peter and Sylar. They have to keep teasing us with this stuff, don't they?
I guess the Mother of All Battles has to be reserved till the series finale. I for one can't wait for the day when Peter realizes Sylar murdered Nathan.
And speaking of Peter, if Fuller is playing fair with the story logic, he has to start giving Peter a nasty case of creeping insanity. I guess if he's smart, he'll shuck the powers quickly by absorbing somebody else's. Unless of course the insanity kicks in quickly enough that he can't quite bring himself to do that.
Sylar and Claire...wow, off the ole creep-o-meter. What are the writers going to do when Nathan's personality starts reverting? I'm all for sick & creepy, but they're gonna have to be very careful how they handle that on prime-time network TV.
Even tho I thought the whole Gabriel Petrelli storyline was terribly botched, this episode did cap off that story with an ironic coda. Sylar's become what he wanted to be - the heir apparent to the whole metahuman dynasty. Isn't Nathan the de facto leader of the Petrelli family and by extension, everyone? He's got the family he wanted!
S4 is going to be one hell of a season. I just hope they don't make us wait till January!
There was an enormous amount of potential with Nathan's character (combined with Pasdar's abilities) that competent writers could have tapped into melancholymecha. Enormous potential. They had no f'ing clue how to write the character. They certainly didn't value the Peter/Nathan relationship. All they seem to value is Sylar.
Oh cmon, they've created new possibilities while losing nothing! Peter and Nathan will be all lovey dovey like always since neither knows the difference. Cept maybe Nathan will show a bit too much interest in clocks and such...and if Peter doesn't shuck Sylar's powers quickly, he'll be in trouble...and that's just the beginning of the fun.
I have this funny feeling that the ultimate ending of this story will be for the Nathan persona to be permanently locked-in and that is how Sylar will "die" - the perfect death for a character obsessed with the fear that he is "nothing." It will most likely take till the end of S4 for that to be resolved. No rush, it will be great fun to see it all play out.
However, as some (like Temis, I think) have speculated, after Sylar is subdued, Matt works some mental mojo on him to make him believe he is Nathan.
Matt was the part I didn't guess! I thought the Nathan-persona-takeover would be a natural by-product of two interacting powers - changeling and memory absorption - because I've been waiting for some of these powers to have bad interactions with each other, like taking the wrong drugs in combination.
WHAT ABOUT CLAIRE'S HEALING BLOOD!!!???
They just need to forget that ever was a plot element. It's too much of a cheap "out" every time anyone dies. At long last, this show had the guts to really kill someone important. Of course they can't give up Pasdar, and we might not actually lose Nathan in the end - at least not in some sense - I'm actually quite fascinated to see the reaction of Angela as she fights to "save" Nathan, or what happens when Peter gets over his incendiary rage at Sylar and realizes he could have his brother back instead - what does he choose, revenge or love?
honestly was he really a better choice to off than Mohinder?
Yes, he was. To kill Mohinder would not have had a tenth of the dramatic punch. Above all, this show needs guts. It's too easy and complacent, we need to have the sense that yes,
anything can happen. There are no fan favorites, there are no sacred cows. That's the
Heroes I want!
Except that they better never kill Peter.
Yes, I'm a hypocrite.
What happens when "Nathan" finds out he can't die?
That would be a good way to start making Peter and Claire (and Nathan) suspect something is terribly wrong - several episodes into S4 would be a good place for it. Of course Angela could spin some tale about how Nathan's powers, which were artificial all along, are somehow evolving. That's happened to other characters. Or that he's always been a power absorber just like his father and brother, and it's just now emerging or some hooey. That might keep the suspicions at bay for a while.
But it's Matt who's going to blab the truth in the end. His conscience will nag at him and he won't be able to bear the greusome sight of Peter and Claire being a happy family with Nathan. Matt's a family man himself and that's going to just gnaw at him. And Matt keeps saying how important honesty is to him (tho his powers are partly about deception, interesting).
Oh and let's not forget Mohinder! When Nathan starts exhibiting odd new powers, the science guy will certainly start examining him. I would hate to think we'd lose the Sylar-Mohinder relationship. Lots of creepy fun scenes for those two next season I'm sure.
In fact, they were more creative than me; I didn't think of adding Matt to the mix.
