Re: Heroes 3x25 "An Invisible Thread" Discuss and Grade (SEASON FINALE
Yes, but if the writers want to avoid a big plot hole and to avoid making Angela & Noah look like idiots then realistically they would not permit anyone to remember them including the President.
I just rewatched the finale, which unlike everyone else in the universe, I loved
, and at the faux-Sylar-funeral-pyre scene, Noah tells Angela they have "government funding" for the Company, so apparently Worfbama is okay with their plan and willing to turn Danko's operation over the "good" metahumans who can be relied upon to be both loyal and effective in keeping the bad ones at bay and presumably intervening before new metas go bad. Which is really the smartest way to handle the situation.
Also, presumably Worfbama was okay with Peter imitating him, or else what happened, did Peter and the gang conk the Prez over the head and hide him in a closet? They'd all have to be fleeing the country by now if they'd done that. (This does raise a disturbing issue - the plan presumed that Sylar would kill and replace someone in the Prez's entourage. I guess that's better than the Prez being replaced by a mutant psycho.)
It all makes sense. Danko's approach led to a situation where the Prez was almost killed, and he was rescued only by the good metahumans (Noah, Peter, Claire, after they were captured by the Secret Service) coming up with a plan to save him, which worked. Now Worfbama trusts them to handle things.
However, what Worfbama doesn't know is that Angela and Noah aren't telling him the whole truth. I'm certain he thinks, like everyone else, that Sylar is truly dead. When he learns that Senator Petrelli is the mutant psycho who tried to murder him, and apparently nobody has even been keeping an eye on the guy. except for his doting, willfully blind mother - wowee, watch out. The Prez would be fully justified in re-opening the concentration camps if even the "good" metas will double-deal like that.
If Noah were smart, he'd insist that Angela just get over it. They can stage a quiet little car crash and dispose of "Nathan" that way, before things get out of control. Is Noah really so naive as to think there's no possibility that Sylar will re-emerge?
How about Matt, how much faith does he have in his own powers? He's never been able to brainwash anyone long-term before - maybe he can in this case because his powers interact with Sylar's memory absorption - but that's terra incognita, and considering the immense consequences if the plan fails, Matt should blow the whistle on the whole operation right now. This plan is going to create the situation he fears, where his son and all the other metas are considered inherently untrustworthy and too dangerous to be allowed to live freely in society.
But Noah is loyal, and Angela is his ally. Plus if Noah tells the truth, Claire will find out he lied to her. Matt probably respects Angela and Noah's right to keep a secret from their own children - it will be hard for him to override their perogative and reveal it himself. Poor Matt doesn't have faith in his own intelligence, but I suspect he's actually wiser than either Noah or Angela. He's obviously uneasy about the situation and he needs to trust his instincts. His own self-doubt will be the very thing that threatens the future he is trying to create for his son.
But so far, only Angela has seen the veil slipping, and she won't say anything that will upset her fool's paradise. This is all going to go wonderfully to hell, and hopefully it won't require any iffy plot logic or bad characterization to get there.
Another thing I noticed in my re-watching the episode - Nathan has changed to "Mom" for Angela rather than "Ma." If he starts calling his brother "Peter" rather than "Pete," will he notice something is wrong?
Plus the Nathan-Sylar character - whatever the frak he is at this point - for another season - after which, I think they need to resolve the situation in some definitive way.
