Heroes – S04E17 – The Art of Deception

Volume Five: Redemption

I don't think I'm going to have time to watch last week's episde of Heroes before tonight. So I might be going in one week blind!

 

 

As always, I look forward to your thougths, opinons, gripes, live-blogging, etc.

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  1. Conor Kilpatrick conor (@cskilpatrick) says:

    I have NO IDEA what happened last week, but I’m going in anyway!

  2. Conor Kilpatrick conor (@cskilpatrick) says:

    I’m betting it won’t make a lick of difference.

  3. JesTr JesTr says:

    Nothing says evil like snake skin boots.

  4. zombox zombox says:

    Thank god. Conor is back so I can stop looking like a douche. SDamuel’s lady friend rejected him so he sank a whole town. Claire pretty much hooked up with her girlfriend after a Sylar torture scene. Hiro was healed of his tumor by his mother’s spirit in what was, actually, a pretty cool scene.

  5. Conor Kilpatrick conor (@cskilpatrick) says:

    Did they say there are only three episodes left in the season? I guess they aren’t coming back after the Olympics?

  6. Conor Kilpatrick conor (@cskilpatrick) says:

    It always sucks when your imaginary friends become corporeal.

  7. Conor Kilpatrick conor (@cskilpatrick) says:

    Especially when they are (mostly) psycho.

  8. Conor Kilpatrick conor (@cskilpatrick) says:

    Have we tied the Sylar story, the Peter story and the Samuel story together in a satisfying way?

  9. JesTr JesTr says:

    @conor: If my imaginary friends became tangible, I’d be more worried about my own psychosis.

  10. zombox zombox says:

    Not really. Sylar is tangentally related to Samuel. Samuel seems to want to use Peter’s cellist friend for mass murder. Again. tangental.

  11. Devastron Devastron says:

    Well Peter’s mom had a dream about the deaf chick destroying or killing a lot of people with her power. She told him he couldn’t help so he took her power and saw that Sylar offers to help her. I imagine they are all going to tie in together through that.

  12. Conor Kilpatrick conor (@cskilpatrick) says:

    @zombox: It’s the tangental nature of the connections (I totally forgot abou Hiro) that bothers me. Oh, well — there are still three (or I guess after this, two) episodes left.

  13. Conor Kilpatrick conor (@cskilpatrick) says:

    Man, in college I skipped class at the drop of a hat — oh! LAST CRUSADE is on! — and I would think that doing cool superhero stuff would have definitely qualified as skip-worthy.

  14. Conor Kilpatrick conor (@cskilpatrick) says:

    How many times is this that Sylar wants to change and/or get rid of his powers?

  15. Conor Kilpatrick conor (@cskilpatrick) says:

    I can’t hear "stone-cutters" without thinking of THE SIMPSONS.

  16. Conor Kilpatrick conor (@cskilpatrick) says:

    A bi-curious roommate WITH a car? Claire hit the college jackpot.

  17. JesTr JesTr says:

    Oh no not a car. Claire and cars don’t mix.

  18. JesTr JesTr says:

    @conor: "We do, We do!!!!"

  19. Devastron Devastron says:

    @Conor I totally thought Simpsons there too, lol.

  20. Conor Kilpatrick conor (@cskilpatrick) says:

    I went to college in the middle of nowhere. All of the people with cars were very popular.

    Cars and tool boxes.

  21. Devastron Devastron says:

    I’m really hoping the Sylar thing is a ploy of some sort on his part, but I don’t know to what ends.

    I’m afriad Claire is going to do something incredibly stupid. Just let Noah pop Samuel and the whole thing is done with. The Carnival can go on without him.

  22. Conor Kilpatrick conor (@cskilpatrick) says:

    @JesTr @Devastron I looked on YouTube for a clip, but it looks like FOX has been pretty diligent about making sure they get pulled down.

  23. JesTr JesTr says:

    I wonder if Parkman takes away Sylar’s powers can he transfer them?

  24. Conor Kilpatrick conor (@cskilpatrick) says:

    @Devastron: I would imagine that Samuel has to die at the end of the season.

  25. AztecLos AztecLos says:

    Is this all going to be a big show down with Samuel and the other Heroes?

  26. Conor Kilpatrick conor (@cskilpatrick) says:

    @AztecLos: I think so.

  27. JesTr JesTr says:

    @AztecLos I bet the whole carnival turns on him.

  28. AztecLos AztecLos says:

    I wonder does Samuel reprisent Magneto and Dr Sinaster?

  29. Conor Kilpatrick conor (@cskilpatrick) says:

    @JesTr: Yeah, they’ve been sowing the seeds of uprising all season. Plus, it would be more tragic for him to have his "family" take him down.

    @AztecLos: I don’t know enough about Mr. Sinister to comment.

  30. AztecLos AztecLos says:

    @ JesTr yeah his own peeps turn on him and Darth Maul returns totake his revenge.

  31. Conor Kilpatrick conor (@cskilpatrick) says:

    They always tease us with HRG and his big guns. He rarely ever shoots them.

  32. JesTr JesTr says:

    @AztecLos: Bingo. I thought about that last episode. Samuel = Magneto.

  33. Conor Kilpatrick conor (@cskilpatrick) says:

    Uh oh — is blondie about to be in trouble?

  34. zombox zombox says:

    @conor Where did you go to college? I always have difficulty picturing you outside of a metropolitan area.

  35. AztecLos AztecLos says:

    Syler might be the only one that can get close to fight Samuel. Samuel can use the whole Earth against him.

  36. Conor Kilpatrick conor (@cskilpatrick) says:

    @zombox: Josh, Ron, Gordon and i all went to Ithaca College.

  37. zombox zombox says:

    HRG’s GF going nuts?

  38. Conor Kilpatrick conor (@cskilpatrick) says:

    Well, that was unexpected.

  39. Conor Kilpatrick conor (@cskilpatrick) says:

    That was some bad shooting.

  40. zombox zombox says:

    @conor I always imagined you guys as Columbia boys.

  41. AztecLos AztecLos says:

    Soemone else is there then?

  42. JesTr JesTr says:
  43. Devastron Devastron says:

    If it were Noah shooting there is no way he would hit Claire. I’m guessing Samuel set it up, maybe using his multiple man guy to sneak up on Noah and take his gun and start shooting randomly. His speech stirred up fear in the Carnival and random shooting firmly puts them all behind him again.

  44. Conor Kilpatrick conor (@cskilpatrick) says:

    Was it the creepy, lurking Jamie Madrox guy who did the shooting?

  45. JesTr JesTr says:

    @Devastron: Agreed, good theory.

  46. Conor Kilpatrick conor (@cskilpatrick) says:

    @Devastron: Yeah, the classic "create a phony external enemy to keep the people behind their leader" gambit.

  47. zombox zombox says:

    Maybe Ray Park is shooting.

  48. AztecLos AztecLos says:

    The fake Multiple Man?

  49. JesTr JesTr says:

    Sylar and Parkman seem to have the same after effect that Peter Parker and the venom symbiote had.  Sylar is now immune to Parkman’s powers.

  50. Conor Kilpatrick conor (@cskilpatrick) says:

    Oh, Jamie Madrox guy!

  51. AztecLos AztecLos says:

    Yup it was him.

  52. AztecLos AztecLos says:

    There goes 2 hot chics of the show.

  53. JesTr JesTr says:

    Whatever happened to Claire’s healing blood? Does she not do that anymore?

  54. Conor Kilpatrick conor (@cskilpatrick) says:

    Hey, why not hold the gun in the hand on your not shot arm?

  55. AztecLos AztecLos says:

    @JesTr She had healing blood? When? Like Arc Angel?

  56. zombox zombox says:

    Oooo. Samuel set it up.

  57. Conor Kilpatrick conor (@cskilpatrick) says:

    Lucky for Samuel, the coup leader was killed in his attempted assassination! Diabolical!

  58. zombox zombox says:

    @conor Shooting with your off hand is hard to do. Very hard. In fact, shooting with one hand at all is a bit harder unless you’re using that old WW2 officer’s pose.

  59. JesTr JesTr says:

    @AztecLos: Yep, second season her and Kensei both could heal others with their blood.

  60. Devastron Devastron says:

    The dude was carrying Noah too, wouldn’t want to mess up that shot by shooting with your off hand.

  61. AztecLos AztecLos says:

    So now Samuel will mobilize his army.

  62. Conor Kilpatrick conor (@cskilpatrick) says:

    @zombox: Well, i imagine that when trying to save the guy you love from being carried away and the choice is off-hand vs. hand that cannot even support the weight of the gun, you’d give the off-hand a try, espscially on a TV show where the physics of shooting a gun don’t apply.

  63. AztecLos AztecLos says:

    I think only through transfusion then.

  64. AztecLos AztecLos says:

    WHoa they got a flame guy too.

  65. zombox zombox says:

    @conor The power of selective reality in our fiction. You can choose to see it as bringing suspension of disbelief back, or you can choose to say ‘But these dudes throw lightning?! WTF?’

  66. Conor Kilpatrick conor (@cskilpatrick) says:

    I honestly tune out when the Sylar/Parkman scenes come on.

  67. Conor Kilpatrick conor (@cskilpatrick) says:

    Okay, now I’ve tuned back in what with the tell-tale heart business.

  68. AztecLos AztecLos says:

    There goes Syler, but for how long?

  69. zombox zombox says:

    No effing way I leave Sylar down there alone. Powers or not. Also, no effing way Parkman is ever doing my masonry.

  70. Conor Kilpatrick conor (@cskilpatrick) says:

    @zombox: I know, right? Don’t you put a bullet into his head.

    Or ten bullets?

  71. Devastron Devastron says:

    Too bad for Matt that now Peter will come to Sylar’s rescue.

  72. JesTr JesTr says:

    I would not live in a house with a buried Sylar.

  73. AztecLos AztecLos says:

    Ah yes the classic guy behind the wall theme. But wouldn’t burying him or throwing him in the middle of the ocean be better? ANd here is Peter, soem how he got there fast.

  74. Conor Kilpatrick conor (@cskilpatrick) says:

    @AztecLos: He can still fly, can’t he?

  75. zombox zombox says:

    Speaking of Telltale Heart, sadly the Poe Toaster did not show this year.

  76. AztecLos AztecLos says:

    I the actress really deaf?

  77. JesTr JesTr says:

    @conor: No he absorped his mother’s power last episode. He can dream the future.

  78. AztecLos AztecLos says:

    @conor That should have gone with Nathan’s death.

  79. Conor Kilpatrick conor (@cskilpatrick) says:

    @zombox: Yeah, I saw that. Sad.

  80. AztecLos AztecLos says:

    Peter the the rescue of Syler.

  81. AztecLos AztecLos says:

    It’s weird Zac Quinto has played 2 character with 5 letters in thier names. Syler and Spock, both begin with "s".

  82. Conor Kilpatrick conor (@cskilpatrick) says:

    Darth Maul is gonna be pissed when he finds out what really happened.

  83. AztecLos AztecLos says:

    Oh is she calling The Haitian?

  84. zombox zombox says:

    He had a lot to say… he had a lot of nothing to say…

  85. AztecLos AztecLos says:

    And tune in next week…

  86. Conor Kilpatrick conor (@cskilpatrick) says:

    What they are is a lot of people who only own black, gray, and brown clothes.

  87. AztecLos AztecLos says:

    @conor it might be there version of costumes I guess.

  88. AztecLos AztecLos says:

    I would hope that if they get past this season they bring back Multiple mAn 2 as a regular as a good guy maybe.

  89. comixfan comixfan says:

    Im excited about the possibility of a huge showdown between the Carnies and the Heroes. Is that too much to ask?

  90. Conor Kilpatrick conor (@cskilpatrick) says:

    @comixfan: Budgets being what they are, probably.

  91. MisterJ says:

    Pretty good episode.  Very enjoyable.

    I am still really bothered by my favorite power (TP) belonging to one of my least favorite characters (Parkman).  But at least he used the powers in an interesting (but repetitive) way.

    Also what Parkman did was more like ‘Cask of Amontillado’ as opposed to ‘Tell Tale Heart,’ but the differences are small.

    Claire is still a 17 year old who screws everything up (figuratively) 

    Little disappointed that Tracy is coming back, but I have liked her character more this year than last.  Maybe she will get even better.

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