Review of Heroes Volume 4 – Episode 9 – Turn and Face The Strange
I had mixed opinions on my last review of Heroes “Into Asylum” with some people disagreeing with me and thinking it was a poor episode, and others thinking it was a good episode. We see in this episode how the last episode was needed to fill in the pieces and set the stage for what would be Noah’s torment throughout this episode.
This episode showed Sylar getting a slow and exacting revenge against Noah by leveraging his shape changing ability to impersonate his wife, and keep provoking Noah to make mistake after mistake in his quest to hunt Sylar down. When Noah finally revealed that Sylar was still alive, Danko was about to give Sylar up but found a way to double cross Noah again figuring if Noah killed Sylar, or if Sylar killed Noah either way was his gain.
Matt Parkman disappointed me how he was driven to almost harm Danko’s love interest, a former escort who was in love with Danko but the love was based on a lie, the fact that Matt Parkman couldn’t go through with it somewhat redeems him, but even a desperate man who can be driven to that point is not stable to be around his own baby one would think.
The comic antics of Hiro and Ando trying to calm the baby down, and the Japanese Truck driver with a Texas accent was a classic spoof on assumptions about nationality. I thought the elements were very well placed and offset the very dark and morbid tone of the rest of the episode.
Sylar is continuing to gain numerous powers and it is assumed he probably is consuming a new power with each successful mission for Danko, what is even more unusual is how he was able to over bleed, and suppress his healing until everyone left the building. My guess is Sylar learned some type of biofeedback power from a recent victim and was leveraging this new ability to accomplish this.
Finally everyone ends up in Coyote Sands where Nathan, Peter, Claire, Angela and finally Bennett arrive and start digging up skeletons. Here Angela claims she knew them all and this was the start of it all. She mentioned something about seeing her sister in the previous episode, one can only assume her sister is one of the corpses lying below the sands.
The preview to the next episode reminds me something like the Japanese film Akira, where Akira had to be separated into pieces with each piece held in separate jars, for he was so powerful if the pieces were all freed he would reform and come back alive. This makes me wonder if somehow by digging up the bodies one of them, possibly Angela’s sister may regenerate or come back from beyond.
One other theory is that everyone who has abilities is traced back to a secret government program where a group of people were tested on and then went about their lives to produce “hero” offspring, or that maybe they will do a crazy Roswell thing were an alien saucer came down and somehow powers were extracted and transfered to humans as a test.
Either way, somehow Heroes has to tie in this backstory and somehow finish out the Volume, or maybe the volume doesn’t finish out nice and clean, does Danko and Sylar get defeated? Or does the ending still leave the heroes trying to find their way back into society and is Volume 5 a type of “Return of the Jedi” type of thing?
I do hope that Sylar is the one who kills Danko, as it would be a fitting and ironic end to his character to meet his fate by bargaining with him. Meanwhile, Sylar is back to having zero compassion and every bit as glad to be a killer as he was in Season 1.
Here is my last crazy theory, if Baby Matt Parkman can turn on and off powers and abilities, it is possible the baby may have the ability to stop Sylar with his ability to shut off other’s abilities? We will see how it all plays out, in the meantime what did my readers think of the last episode, was it painful to watch the Noah / Sandra scene where he held her to the ground and assumed it was Sylar only to realize his horrible mistake?
-Dragon Blogger
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