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Is it just me or does it feel like Heroes has jumped the shark? Watching this episode was like someone had pressed the reset button. Everything was too immediate and kinda wtf. Maybe it's the distance between last season's finale and this season.
In a way, I guess it all fits the title.
The Second Coming implies a re-start/re-set through the end of the world. So maybe that Apocalypse that we've been waiting for is finally going to show up.
That Peter is going to be its catalyst seems to be a case of thwarted destiny coming back to bite everyone in the ass. That Sylar will have a part to play, too, reeks of S1's averted disaster returning with a vengeance. Old friends, oh how we've missed ye.
Nathan as the world's savior also gets recast from S1. Suddenly its all divine intervention and seeing ghosts. His god complex gets re-written on a tremendous scale. How can we be angels if everyone knows.
Most obviously, I suppose we can read all of our heroes being remade into villains as that second coming. There was something dark and narcissistic about every storyline, even Hiro's longing for adventure. He doesn't want to go back to being normal, to being nobody. The wackiness with Speed Racer that resulted was lame and stupid but that's not outside of my general opinion of the episode which was so filled with the wtf.
The Second Coming of Sylar. He's got his mojo back and his memories. What I don't get is how he went from NYC and murdering Maya (who miraculously survived) to hunting Clare in California. At Her House! Last we saw Clare Bear she was on the run from Bob and The Company, having swooped off with Super Emo Boy (who was also noticeably absent as she ran for her life in the house! Where *was* everyone, anyway).
That "Dad's Office" on the counter was such a gimme. Oh, hello, plot. Smack me upside the head, why don't you. I mean, I know that Clare and Mama Bennet aren't the brightest crayons in the box, but leaving uber super daddy secrets in a clearly marked box on the kitchen counter while everyone in the known universe is trying to hunt you down?! Really?!
Oh, and bye-byeplot device Molly, we hardly knew ye.
Mad Scientist!Mohinder was WAY with the WTF. Two seasons of searching for the answer and he figures everything out in, like, five minutes? And then he's all mad genius -- no cure for you Maya -- I'm going to revolutionize the world and make men into gods. (Cue lightening and maniacal laughter.) I'm not even going to comment on Mad Scientist!Mohinder injecting himself with mutant juice. Obviously he never got around to reading Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
Oh, future!Peter with your scar and jaded soul.
Mama Petrelli continues to be made of scary awesome!!
The closing sequence featuring Mohinder's voiceover reading Yeats's Second Coming was pretty awesome. That poem has been one of my favorites for a very, very, very long time. I went searching for it after reading Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart as a junior at the University of Stirling. That voiceover and montage very deliberately and heavy handedly set's up the way that things in Heroes are going to fall apart.
I loved that image of Mr. Bennett bouncing the ball against the window and waiting. The end of the world has always been inevitable. He's been resurrected. It's his second coming, too.
But what I love even more than Noah caged was Sylar walking in the sun. And Mohinder said:
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs,
LOVED THAT!!
Overall, I thought that the episode was abrupt and hamfisted. They steam rolled a lot of plot into place. It was generally startling and confusing.
In a way, I guess it all fits the title.
The Second Coming implies a re-start/re-set through the end of the world. So maybe that Apocalypse that we've been waiting for is finally going to show up.
That Peter is going to be its catalyst seems to be a case of thwarted destiny coming back to bite everyone in the ass. That Sylar will have a part to play, too, reeks of S1's averted disaster returning with a vengeance. Old friends, oh how we've missed ye.
Nathan as the world's savior also gets recast from S1. Suddenly its all divine intervention and seeing ghosts. His god complex gets re-written on a tremendous scale. How can we be angels if everyone knows.
Most obviously, I suppose we can read all of our heroes being remade into villains as that second coming. There was something dark and narcissistic about every storyline, even Hiro's longing for adventure. He doesn't want to go back to being normal, to being nobody. The wackiness with Speed Racer that resulted was lame and stupid but that's not outside of my general opinion of the episode which was so filled with the wtf.
The Second Coming of Sylar. He's got his mojo back and his memories. What I don't get is how he went from NYC and murdering Maya (who miraculously survived) to hunting Clare in California. At Her House! Last we saw Clare Bear she was on the run from Bob and The Company, having swooped off with Super Emo Boy (who was also noticeably absent as she ran for her life in the house! Where *was* everyone, anyway).
That "Dad's Office" on the counter was such a gimme. Oh, hello, plot. Smack me upside the head, why don't you. I mean, I know that Clare and Mama Bennet aren't the brightest crayons in the box, but leaving uber super daddy secrets in a clearly marked box on the kitchen counter while everyone in the known universe is trying to hunt you down?! Really?!
Oh, and bye-bye
Mad Scientist!Mohinder was WAY with the WTF. Two seasons of searching for the answer and he figures everything out in, like, five minutes? And then he's all mad genius -- no cure for you Maya -- I'm going to revolutionize the world and make men into gods. (Cue lightening and maniacal laughter.) I'm not even going to comment on Mad Scientist!Mohinder injecting himself with mutant juice. Obviously he never got around to reading Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
Oh, future!Peter with your scar and jaded soul.
Mama Petrelli continues to be made of scary awesome!!
The closing sequence featuring Mohinder's voiceover reading Yeats's Second Coming was pretty awesome. That poem has been one of my favorites for a very, very, very long time. I went searching for it after reading Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart as a junior at the University of Stirling. That voiceover and montage very deliberately and heavy handedly set's up the way that things in Heroes are going to fall apart.
I loved that image of Mr. Bennett bouncing the ball against the window and waiting. The end of the world has always been inevitable. He's been resurrected. It's his second coming, too.
But what I love even more than Noah caged was Sylar walking in the sun. And Mohinder said:
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs,
LOVED THAT!!
Overall, I thought that the episode was abrupt and hamfisted. They steam rolled a lot of plot into place. It was generally startling and confusing.
