Dragon Blogger Review of Heroes Volume Four Season Finale – An Invisible Thread
Posted by: dragonblogger // Category: HeroesAn Invisible Thread brings Heroes Volume Four: Villains to a close with a showdown between Peter and Nathan Petrelli against Sylar which has a completely unexpected twist. If you have not seen the Episode then watch the show first before you read my review of the episode and my opinions on the upcoming Volume 5 Redemption.
This episode had an extremely original way of dealing with the characters and closing the Season and was unlike anything done previously in the series. We see Hiro start having more bleeding and health problems from using his time stopping ability, Matt Parkman contacted by Angela to try and save Nathan Petrelli and Michael Dorn reprising his role as the President of the United States.
Sylar who is now proven to be virtually immortal by his shape changing ability to move the weak spot on the back of his head is dead set on becoming the president and has to get in close to him. It was kind of a shocking twist to see Sylar offer Claire a potential first lady seat as he had her captured in the hotel suite.
It was predictable about Danko getting outsmarted by Sylar and how he would quickly attempt to back stab Mr. Bennett only for Hiro to save his life at the expense of almost dying and with all people with special abilities freed from building 26 the show sets the stage for Volume 5 where The Company will be rebuilt to help round up and track people with abilities who are dangerous.
Now, for Nathan and Peter the plan was simple for the two of them. Distract Sylar so Peter can touch him and absorb his powers, this turned out to be a great idea, but Sylar was not so easily captured. We see Nathan meet a very grim end as Sylar kills him when the two get separated from Peter. Sylar who seemingly won the battle makes his way to the president and in an uncanny move is thwarted by Peter who had shape changed into the President to trick Sylar.
I was literally standing up cheering at how clever and happy I was that Peter now has a full range of abilities again, yet I was stunned that Nathan Petrelli was actually killed. What came next completely started me, Angela and Mr. Bennet convince Matt Parkman to wipe out Sylar’s mind and replace all of his memories and thoughts with those of Nathan. He is basically reprogrammed to become Nathan Petrelli in every way as the solution to get the president to shut down the hunting of people with abilities.
It was a very creative thing to do, but the moment they did this I knew it would never hold. Sylar’s regeneration would eventually repair the brain damage and his internal “person” would eventually come through is what I think will happen. We soon learn that this will be the case in the preview to Volume 5 where Nathan Petrelli is in his office and notices a clock that is one minute too fast.
I am looking forward to Volume 5 and the rebuilding of the company as the most fun aspect of the show was tracking down new people with abilities and seeing what they can do and how they interacted with society. With the real Nathan Petrelli dead and whats worse, it would appear that most of the family has no idea that it was done, we know that eventually Sylar will resurface and Peter will probably have to battle him again.
Now that Peter has so many abilities he can make a huge difference in the next Season provided he doesn’t touch someone and accidentally lose all the abilities for a single ability again. I thought Season 3 ended with a very strong finish and a nice setup to the next Season. I for one will be anxious to see the return of Heroes this fall, in the meantime there are many online webisodes to catch up on, and Nowhere Man is the current story about Eric Doyle the Puppetmaster and I will be watching them and commenting on online comics and webisodes in the comings weeks.
What was your opinion of the episode? Boring and dull storyline and pot, or were you surprised by the turn of events? Share your opinion with me.
-Dragon Blogger
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April 28th, 2009 at 8:35 am
You missed review one thing. The appearance of Tracy Strauss/Niki Sanders/whatever her name. What’s that suddenly she is appear. Is she Tracy or Niki or someone else. I think the next volume will be more complicated.
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April 28th, 2009 at 10:05 am
You are right, I will backfill that, it is Tracy. Heres what happened, when she fell to pieces and melted, because she can turn people into liquid nitrogen, I think she was able to exist as liquid form, this is proven by when she broke to pieces in the episode previously here broken face still blinked a tear and should have been impossible.
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April 28th, 2009 at 9:14 am
I’ve given up on Heroes. How laughably awful was that finale? It’s the last nail in the coffin. I’d already given up mid volume but was convinced to give it “one more chance.”
BIG. MISTAKE.
Just how far will these writers bend over backwards to keep Sylar, whose character should have died 2 seasons ago? He’s run his course, but they get rid of the fascinating Nathan instead. The first time Sylar cuts himself shaving and heals, he’s going to suspect something. Did the writers simply not think of this? Oh, and….Clare’s healing blood? Hello? Noah was shot through the eye and had a bullet in his brain. Her blood healed him. The writers conveniently forgot this as well. Why couldn’t Peter have shape shifted into Nathan temporarily to say what needed to be said to the president? Another plot point forgotten by the writers, which shocks me since they showed us Peter’s shape shifting ability in the limo with Sylar. Nathan could have officially “died” at a later date after Peter shifted back, but no. Angela is content to keep the incredibly dangerous psychotic who murdered her son around and–in a position of power to boot.
It makes NO SENSE. It’s a perilous, nonsensical course of action. Angela and Noah are too smart for that. Leaving Sylar in power? Are they kidding? It’s amateur hour storytelling. And Tracy is, of course, still alive. Mohinder the idiot is still alive. Clare (how I long for another piece of glass in the back of her character’s head) is still alive. Now she would have been a major character death that would have sent shock waves through every major player on the canvas and created major story. Two sets of grieving parents. A politically powerful grandmother set on revenge. A young life not yet lived, full of potential, gone–but TPTB killed Nathan instead in a vain attempt to keep Sylar on the canvas. So much for any real reunion between Peter and Nathan. The brothers’ relationship, one of the great strengths of season one, is finished. Sylar will eventually revert, of course. Nathan’s memories are only thought patterns. They’ll fade. It’s not as if there’s a second consciousness in there. Sylar will revert; Peter will vow to fight him, and there will be yet another fight that doesn’t live up to expectations. Perhaps another battle behind closed doors? This show has gotten so bad it begs for a revival of Mystery Science Theatre 3000. And they didn’t even cut Pasdar loose so he could find better work. How unfair is that?
Goodbye Heroes. You should have ended after season one.
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April 28th, 2009 at 10:00 am
I agree with you about the healing blood, why didn’t they just get a syringe and inject Claire’s blood into Nathan to heal him. I disagree about Sylar’s character being used up, Sylar was one of the most interesting characters on the show, but they should not keep putting him in the same role as ending a season with his showdown time and again.
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April 28th, 2009 at 10:10 am
I hear what you’re saying, draggonblogger. Really, I do. IMO the writers overdid it so much with Sylar’s invincibility (moving the kill spot in the back of his head?) that it’s overkill to me at this point. Less is more would have benefited Sylar’s story IMO. It’s not a problem with Quinto’s talent. It’s entirely a problem of the writing. I see so much unused potential with Nathan that will never happen now. It’s disappointing. Leaving a double in a character’s place seems so cheap to me. If you’re going to kill him/her off, bite the bullet and do it, you know. If not, keep the character alive. Why were they so anxious to chop Nathan?
Never mind me. I’m a huge fan of Dexter, The Shield, Big Love, Mad Men, and Supernatural so I’m spoiled by good writing, excellent character development, and a brotherly relationship that’s second to none even when those brothers are fighting. Heroes doesn’t seem to have much of any of that anymore. If only Peter and Nathan had been together long enough to have a real fight. *sigh*
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April 28th, 2009 at 10:40 am
The best thing about it is, I agree with all your points about the weaknesses in the show and the writing. However, I still enjoyed it nonetheless, even if it can be analyzed and faults found. It was still entertainment and enjoyable. I also agree Nathan was a great character with flaws and redemption and I liked the show had the guts to just kill him savagely, they should have just left it a tragic end, or had Claire’s blood cure him. This pretend dead but still in the show is pretty old, they did a great job with Mr. Linderman being dead, but still being in the show by being a figment of Nathan’s imagination at the begin of Season 3 though.
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April 28th, 2009 at 10:10 am
Good review, I agree, it was a good episode. The only problem is that Peter does NOT have a full range of powers. The only ability that he took was Sylar’s shapeshifting ability. Peter can still only take one power at a time. I think he took Sylar’s shapeshifting in order to full him, and then later on copied Claire’s ability to heal. But as far as what he’s doing now, we’ll have to wait until september.
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April 28th, 2009 at 10:38 am
Ah, maybe. I thought I heard him in the car say I bet your surprised I took that one from you too, but he may have just said that one from you.
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April 28th, 2009 at 11:01 am
By the way, Peter definitely doesn’t have his full range of powers. Two things confirm this:
1) When Claire walks back into the room after the Sylar-Nathan-Peter fight, she asks Peter to fly after them. Peter says something like “I can’t.” Sylar does fly so if Peter had all of Sylar’s powers, he would still be able to fly.
2) Peter’s face is all scratched up after the same battle. But the scratches don’t heal for the rest of the episode. If he had taken all Sylar’s powers, then he would have healing too.
I’m pretty sure that even though he touches Sylar, he is still able to only hold on to one power at a time.
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April 28th, 2009 at 1:02 pm
He has blood on his face, but it isn’t proven to be his, also doesn’t Nathan explain that when Peter touches him he will get all of his powers, that was the whole point. I still think Peter may have multiple powers now.
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April 28th, 2009 at 12:38 pm
Even though there were plenty of good points with what could have been done with Nathan, I actually think the best choice was made. (I think the healing blood just needs to be done away with, then nobody will ever die again, so kudos and not resorting to that.) As we’ve discovered with Sylar’s new shapeshifting ability they don’t know where his sweet spot is. He was going to wake up eventually and raise hell again, so instead they did the best they could and wiped his mind to make him think he’s someone else. Sure he’ll probably come back and square off against Peter but, every Hero needs his arch-nemesis. Don’t see anybody complaining everytime The Joker, Magneto, or Lex Luthor comes roaring back for more.
I don’t think Peter has his full range of powers simply because he wouldn’t have limped away after the fight in the hotel. However I do think he is blind to the fact that Sylar is capable of empathic mimicry as it seems on Arthur seemed to key in on that, otherwise we would have had our old Peter back. I thought killing Nathan was actually a decent way of killing off a main character yet still keeping the actor.
I personally thought the twists and turns were highly entertaining and look forward to Volume 5.
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April 28th, 2009 at 1:02 pm
At least some fans of the show and episode are coming out, all I had was negative comments so far this morning
Its funny how hit and miss these episodes are.
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April 28th, 2009 at 1:59 pm
I hope he did get the full range of powers, and I suppose if he did it would be a bit of a fake out like they had at the end of Villians. Everyone thought Peter was back to his normal self only to find out he could only hold one at a time, this episode could be the exact opposite. If you’re right and he got them all then he is definatly back in business for next season.
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April 30th, 2009 at 6:47 am
At first I was so angry and hated what they did with Nathan/Sylar… But then I realised that it sets the tone for the future we saw way-back-when, where Nathan(who is actually Sylar) is presidant and evil…
Give Peter his full power back tho! I’m getting annoyed by his crappy powers! And whats up with Hiro? I thought they were just weakening his powers by getting rid of time travel/teleporting but to make him nealy die from just freezing time seems a bit excessive to me!
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April 30th, 2009 at 7:19 am
I agree, I have no idea why Hiro is having side effects, it may have something to do with Baby Matt Parkman turning back on his ability instead of him regaining it truly.
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April 30th, 2009 at 6:49 am
Peter didnt get his full powers back! When he injects Sylar he says “Bet you didnt think that was the one I took”. One! He was only able to shape shift… Tho if he had control over which he took and why he didnt take Sylars original ability so he could cut open Sylars head and take ALL his aquired abilities is beyond me…
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April 30th, 2009 at 7:20 am
Yeah maybe you are right, he does say I bet you didn’t think I took that one, but that still leaves it open for interpretation, he could have meant that one in addition to others, or just that one. How would Peter have the ability to select which power he takes, that seems odd in itself.
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April 30th, 2009 at 7:06 pm
Here is what I don’t get about the way everything played out. Why did they not just use Claire’s Blood like they did back in season 2 to heal Noah. I understand it is just a writing thing but it kills the whole continuity thing.
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May 1st, 2009 at 6:52 am
I think they may explain a reason for it but I don’t know if it will be a good one, maybe they needed a way to write Zachary Quinto out of the show (maybe he’s leaving) yet they wanted to leave the Sylar character intact?
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May 6th, 2009 at 9:01 am
hello people… right just to note peter said when he stabbed sylar with the needle was “bet you didnt think i took that one from you” either indicating that he only took one or a few more then one power from sylar… sylar might have deceted him taking his powers and peter could only take a certain few powers….i believe that the fight in the hotel room peter started taking sylars powers and drained him sylar got the upper hand on peter and nathans plan was to fly sylar out of the window, sylar in my opinion did not fly he stopped himself from falling out of the window…..i`d make everyone right about claires blood but to be honest you they could have played that card when restoring peters or hiros powers, or the death of daphane….the death of linderman has always puzzled me he was a healer why could he not heal himself???? also a question for you all…how comes daddy petrelli couldnt take powers before angela posioned him then how could he have taken adams/kensei`s powers????
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May 6th, 2009 at 10:22 am
Linderman’s power could be only to heal others, he did not have any regeneration powers to heal himself. That was always the way his power worked. Also, Arthur could always steal others powers, but it had to be by touch. I agree, the show left it open, Peter may have one power, or he may have more.
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May 6th, 2009 at 4:38 pm
right going back to the peter thing…for heroes to be what it needs to be peter NEEDS his powers back….Sylar is the most powerful character at the moment and no one comes close since peter lost his original powers, i`m fed up with them keep coppin out of showing us the fight scenes between sylar and peter, heroes need`s to explode with storylines about the nemesis relationship between sylar and peter, i believe that sylar and peters core ability are the same… they have just manifested differently, i suppose due to the different upbringings, which gives these two characters the contrast they need, if peter gets his original ability back and if/when sylar appears out of nathan they have a battle that will last forever assuming peter will absorb claires ability again making peter the one thats gonna keep clare grounded when it comes to the relationship issues sylar was talking to her about on the last episode of vol 4…another thing is hiro…i believe 1 of 2 things have happened to him…1 when baby matt parkman started his powers he only started 1 out of the 2 maybe the powers just need to come hand in hand in order for hiro to handle it…..in which case ando should be able to restart or boost the rest of his powers….or the second which is the worse option to go for in my opinion is… i dont believe we ever found out what kido`s ability was…when hiro tried to save him from dying kido indicated that you cannot change these events…maybe kido had the same power as hiro but he got nose bleed`s etc like hiro and had to stop using them…tell me what you guy think…
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May 6th, 2009 at 7:01 pm
I agree wholeheartedly, I think budgeting is preventing the show from really adding the special effects needed for such a showdown, they are costly and take a long time to get right. I think they are conserving cost where they can, but they need to pay for a nice showdown. Also, I would like to see the heroes use their powers for good in other ways instead of just catching bad guys, more helping everyday people in the lives type of stuff.
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May 20th, 2009 at 4:48 pm
just to clear up this matter peters words were “bet you didnt think i took that one from you”
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May 21st, 2009 at 10:32 am
Yes, but we still don’t know if he stole more than 1 power, its a wildcard. Since his brother and Claire said seemed to think Peter can absorb Sylar’s “Powers” not power, we shall see in next season how it plays out.
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November 1st, 2009 at 1:16 pm
its just stuped with out peter’s full powers
let him have them back
let him have hiro’s power and go back in time to worn him self about his dad
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