After seeing how Arthur Petrelli met his end at the hands of Sylar last week I was predicting that Sylar would go after the other one of his so called parents that has lied to him. Angela Petrelli lied to Sylar just as Arthur had in claiming she was Gabriel’s parent and Sylar wants revenge for being used as a pawn in the Petrelli game.
This was the final episode of the Volume known as “Villains” and starts off with Nathan and Peter squaring off about the death of their father. Nathan has become so twisted and dead set on giving abilities to create a super army that he directly opposes Peter’s desire to shut down and destroy the formula. Peter again can’t bring himself to kill family and instead knocks his brother unconscious and works to destroy the formula in the lab. Mohinder who was trying to use the formula to save himself is thwarted and held to watch as Knox and Flint assist Peter in leveling the lab. Knox goes to subdue Nathan and meets an unfortunate end at the hands of Traci who freezes him and shatters him like glass shards. Nathan arrives at the lab but is too late to save the formula, Flint goes berserk and starts igniting the place and Peter injects himself with the formula as the only means to escape. He saves his brother by flying the two of them out of there, only to have Nathan reject him and say he would not have done the same.
Nathan was always a shady character since season 1 and the few glimpses of hope and good we saw in him were easily overcome by his character flaws. Peter is on the polar opposite of the spectrum, good to a fault and incapable of making decisions to cause harm and kill that would have saved lives earlier. Reminds me of the most recent Batman movie where Batman cannot bring himself to kill the Joker even after the joker killed the love of his life. That pretty much is the way Peter Petrelli is as well without as much darkness in his heart as batman.
Meanwhile most of the episode was about Sylar trapping Claire, Angela, Meredith and Noah hostage in Level 5 and attempting to play some twisted game where he can convince them to kill each other in order to escape, reminds me of a lighter version of the SAW films. One of the most clever moves was Noah releasing the other villains in an attempt to slow Sylar down, and Sylar wound up killing them all, running up against Eric Doyle the Puppet Master who temporarily held him only for a moment before Sylar overcame him.
In the end it was Sylar’s pride and overconfidence while interrogating Angela that allowed Claire to sneak up on him and deliver the glass shard through the back of his skull. Though this should not have happened as Sylar had the “Super Hearing” power acquired in season 1 and he should have been able to hear her, though he was screaming at the time.  The building was leveled by Meredith exploding after being injected by adrenaline and unable to control her powers.
One of my favorite sequences was when Ando injected himself with the formula and attempted to determine how to use his power, Daphne had stolen a vial from Mohinder’s hands just before Peter was destroying the lab and brought it to Ando. Ando’s power was to super charge other heroes and using this ability he enhanced Daphne so fast she can run through time to bring Hiro back to the present. The episode wraps up the volume with Sylar being buried by rubble while being debilitated by a glass shard in the back of his skull. Hiro ripping up the formula, Peter regaining his powers and gives the appearance that there may be order about to be established again.
The whole point of Volume 3 Villains was to try and show that there is a duality in each and every one of us and everyone has the ability to be both a hero and a villain, this is what I also believe in my personal life that there is no such thing as pure white/light or pure black/dark but everyone and everything is shades of gray to some degree.
The preview clip to Volume 4 Fugitives shows Nathan Petrelli speaking with the President of The United States played by Michael Dorn (Worf from Star Trek: The Next Generation) which was amusing since we are about to have a black president and one is portayed on the show. I also like the way Heroes taps into the Trek cast for guest appearances and everyone they have tapped has played a decent role although Nichelle Nichols had the shortest role in Heroes that wasn’t clearly defined much. George Takei I thought did a fantastic job as Hira Nakamura’s strict and disciplined father and enjoyed his portal of the character very much. Nathan is so hell bent on revenge that he convinces the president that the people who have powers should all be detained and locked up, but of course fails to declare that he has any powers of his own. This now looks like the future of Season 1 where Nathan was president and people with abilities were hunted down and locked up in facilities. I would hate to see the show keep going round and round in circles covering the same issues over and over.
If this volume is Fugitives and implying that all people with abilities are fugitives from the law, then the show now turns to where everyone is being hunted and constantly evades pursuers. With PineHearst and Primatech all but left in ruins, I am not sure what the plans of the company are and if there are any at this point at all. Since we have until February to mull this over, I am sure that NBC will release Graphic Novels weekly that will help fill in the gaps, since Volume 4 apparently takes place 3 weeks into the future. NBC typically uses the Graphic Novels to fill in gaps of time, and they have Web Episodes which parallel the show which I should check out and review.
Overall I was disappointed with the final episode as Sylar who is supposed to have the gift of “Understanding How Things Work” ultimately played into the role of a jealous, vengeful person bent on revenge and making critical bad guy type mistakes. Why is it all villains make the same mistakes constantly, they must spout epithets, final words, delays, pauses…etc. Ah well, I didn’t like the twist they were putting on Sylar, and instead liked it when he only killed for the sake of stealing powers and becoming the most powerful, when he became just a standard serial killer who took pleasure in it was when they weakened the character quite a bit. It was refreshing seeing Angela start telling the truth and we did learn that Sylar’s real parents were still not disclosed, if Sylar should return again which is very likely he could come back and seek more vengeance. My prediction is somebody will find the charred remains of Sylar and pull the glass from the skull and he will regenerate again.
-Dragon Blogger
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January 27th, 2009 at 9:37 pm
In my opinion, the only good thing that happened in this episode is that Peter got his powers back. I was wondering how that was going to happen.
Otherwise, I’m not sure how much more I can take. Sylar always dies at each season finale, Peter always saves the world… Hiro is always portrayed as an idiot… it’s getting old.
I hope next season will be good – although I don’t like the new twist.
Thanks for a great synopsis.
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