One of the pleasures of Heroes is trying to predict which book or movie the writers will shamelessly rip off next. I'm trying to remember if they've pulled out The Manchurian Candidate before, and I don't think they have to the extent they did in last night's episode ("The Hard Part"). This was a nice episode for Cristine Rose -- sometimes she's a little too much for me, but scenes like the ones she had with Claire ("Now let's talk about gloves.") and Nathan (almost a complete paraphrase of the famous scene from The Manchurian Candidate) really highlighted her strengths. I'm kind of slow, though -- I guess I thought that she and Linderman represented rival conspiracies and that she was a force for good. Now it's clear that Claire escaping from Eric Roberts was really just slipping from the frying pan into the fire.
Elsewhere . . . no real forward momentum with Hiro and Ando. At this point, it's hard to feel a great deal of suspense because we know that nearly all of the characters have to be around for the big season finale conflagration/showdown, not just because it makes sense dramatically, but because we learned they would be in last week's episode, when Hiro and Ando traveled to the future. Any deviation from that version of the future would steal from the inevitability we're supposed to feel about the apocalypse. So, no, didn't really expect Hiro to be able to kill Sylar. Did enjoy seeing Ellen Greene (Sylar's Mom) again, however.
Where the Hell did that gun come from, though? Peter just found it in the sideboard, wrapped in a napkin, right? The Hell? Don't kids live in that house?
Was anyone else annoyed with the change in Sylar's character? I like my bad guys, um, bad and there are enough people on the show already who are half-n-half without them messing around with giving Sylar sympathetic qualities. It's a damn good thing he killed his mom or I would have been p.o.'ed. Otherwise, I was not super impressed with the episode, it felt like a filler until the big ending.
Posted by: Melanie | May 08, 2007 at 11:46 PM