Heroes - S03E05 - Angels and Monsters
83 Posted on Oct 13, 2008 in articles by Conor Kilpatrick |
Volume Three: Villains
Tonight's episode - Angels and Monsters
The big reveal tonight is the identity of Peter, Nathan & Sylar's father. My money based on the preview is on it being Robert Forster. I haven't looked into it or read anything about this episode, but that's my best guess. I hope it is. Forster is awesome.
Remember last week when I said that episode three was the lowest rated episode of Heroes ever? Well, good news - it is no longer the lowest rated episode of Heroes ever. Episode four is. Can episode five jettison even more viewers?! If things continue at this pace (and they won't, it's got to level off at some point) Heroes will be pulling in basic cable numbers by the end of the season, and then next year we won't be spending our Monday nights together.
It's too bad the numbers are down so much, this season has been really good, even if Heroes still lacks a unifying plot or direction for all the storylines. Also, as much as they said they weren't going to keep everyone seperate this year (and thus repeating the big mistake of season two), so far the characters have been, for the most part, in their own separate storylines.
As always, I look forward to your thoughts, opinions, gripes, live-blogging, etc.
Comments
Why losing so many viewers Heroes? Whyyyyyyy?
Is good this season! People are jerks.
Although last weeks episode was probably my least favourite...
Posted by CAM on 10/13/08 at 08:10 PMDoes anyone know if Sylar has all of his pre-virus stolen powers like freezing and melting, or did he only retain telekinisis. I would think he would if the virus only repressed powers, but I've read he doesn't.
Posted by hbkhumanity on 10/13/08 at 09:01 PMNot a fan of all the voiceovers.
Posted by hbkhumanity on 10/13/08 at 09:05 PMLosing viewers, because no more cheerleader outfits. People are simple.
Posted by WonderManFan on 10/13/08 at 09:05 PMBubbles!
Posted by CAM on 10/13/08 at 09:07 PMWho thinks the drug dealer will appear next in a cocoon?
Posted by WonderManFan on 10/13/08 at 09:09 PMI actually liked the voiceover coming from Nathan.
Posted by CAM on 10/13/08 at 09:10 PMClaire's bio-mother better start actually using her power, otherwise its just a lighter.
Posted by hbkhumanity on 10/13/08 at 09:10 PMThat was the funniest nterrogation ever. "Wait!" "I have a plan!"
Posted by ReiMehari on 10/13/08 at 09:12 PM*interrogation
Posted by ReiMehari on 10/13/08 at 09:13 PMI'm loving the fact that Mohinder has gotten 500 times more interesting year season.
Posted by WonderManFan on 10/13/08 at 09:16 PMI love that black hole power that s..t is awsome
Posted by wilson6923 on 10/13/08 at 09:20 PMI knew Sylar was going to be the one to save her.
Posted by ReiMehari on 10/13/08 at 09:27 PMClaire got Poltergeisted.
Posted by hbkhumanity on 10/13/08 at 09:29 PMHow about Linderman and the Speedster?
Whew for a second there I actually thought Claire would go, and the plot would take a horrible turn for the worse, with her in another dimension or something. What a mess that would have been.
Posted by CAM on 10/13/08 at 09:30 PMadam monroe rules!
Posted by wilson6923 on 10/13/08 at 09:32 PMYou'll never find a more...
Posted by hbkhumanity on 10/13/08 at 09:32 PMAndo's "tough guy walk"... priceless.
Posted by WonderManFan on 10/13/08 at 09:33 PMI'm glad we are back to Hiro...the rest of this episode has kind of felt like a drag, but maybe it's just me.
Posted by mcbaker on 10/13/08 at 09:33 PMmissed the first half hour. How're things holding up?
Posted by Anson17 on 10/13/08 at 09:35 PMwht a lovely room of death.
Posted by wilson6923 on 10/13/08 at 09:35 PMJust in time for halloween Maya in the Web house!
And I missed it, nathan what?
Posted by CAM on 10/13/08 at 09:36 PM"Mohinder the Monster"... it does have a nice ring to it. Good episode so far, but I wish they would stay with one group of people for a little longer at a time. This episode has been bouncing all over the place.
Posted by WonderManFan on 10/13/08 at 09:38 PM@ Wilson6923: Nice When nature calls reference.
Posted by hbkhumanity on 10/13/08 at 09:39 PMI'm just excited that Adam is back. Not sure why I liked him so much. Just do.
Posted by Anson17 on 10/13/08 at 09:39 PMthanx bro. I wish they would stick to one or two stories a week insead of this all over the place shit
Posted by wilson6923 on 10/13/08 at 09:43 PM
... maybe these episodes just "read better in trade."
Posted by WonderManFan on 10/13/08 at 09:45 PMsuper hearing comes into play
Posted by mcbaker on 10/13/08 at 09:46 PMwow... interesting little suicide.
Posted by Anson17 on 10/13/08 at 09:46 PMwe are badasses now!!!
Posted by Anson17 on 10/13/08 at 09:47 PMhilarious!
Posted by wilson6923 on 10/13/08 at 09:47 PMwon't he just teleport him somwhere else??? oh shit... maybe not.
Posted by Anson17 on 10/13/08 at 09:48 PMNice time & space wave.
Posted by hbkhumanity on 10/13/08 at 09:50 PMtotally wondermanfan its like watching a grant morrison book without the awsomness
Posted by wilson6923 on 10/13/08 at 09:50 PM
Man, HRG is awesome. Not particularly *effective* but he does try.
That Ando thing has got to be some kind of fakeout.
Posted by ohcaroline on 10/13/08 at 09:51 PMMaybe he'll go back in time and move him.
Posted by hbkhumanity on 10/13/08 at 09:51 PMI was hoping Nathan and Peter would be from a purebred power bloodline, oh well.
@psyguy411, I don't know, I like to think Sylar didn't get all his powers back, I thought his power was figuring how things work. Sadly he immediately had telekinesis when he was fixed.
Whoop it's back on.
Posted by CAM on 10/13/08 at 09:52 PMreally liked HRG and Sylar's acting in that car scene.
Posted by Anson17 on 10/13/08 at 09:53 PMhaha "are you okay, if you aren't you are so grounded!"
Posted by Anson17 on 10/13/08 at 09:53 PMPurple man? Nooooo!
Posted by CAM on 10/13/08 at 09:54 PMcan i ask what the hell is up with purpleman knockoff?
Posted by Anson17 on 10/13/08 at 09:54 PMHmm guess not, more of a puppetmaster.
Posted by CAM on 10/13/08 at 09:55 PMHELL YES!!!!!!! NIKKIi's DEAD!!!
Posted by Anson17 on 10/13/08 at 09:56 PM@wilson6923, yea, they need to be a little more cohesive.
Posted by hbkhumanity on 10/13/08 at 09:56 PM"You won't even be able to move." That's real clever.
Posted by CAM on 10/13/08 at 09:58 PMBack to formula!
Posted by hbkhumanity on 10/13/08 at 09:58 PMreally confused about who this overwieght dude is. Did i miss something? oh so linderman is fake...? ugh. really confused now.
Posted by Anson17 on 10/13/08 at 09:58 PMOverweight dude is Parkman's father. He's bad news. But yes, Linderman is fake.
Posted by CAM on 10/13/08 at 10:00 PM
Oh, Lord, that guy is Purple Man. Great! I was just thinking, "None of the female characters on this show have had to suffer implied rape due to mind control. I hope they fix that soon."
Posted by ohcaroline on 10/13/08 at 10:02 PM
@Anson17, Nikki's dead? I think you mistook Claire's mom (Meredith, the biological one) for her.
Posted by CAM on 10/13/08 at 10:02 PMSo this episode was just the lead in for next week's. This kind of makes me agree with WonderManFan's commeny about it "reading better in trade."
isn't that exact scene in Alias? i could be mistaken.
Posted by Anson17 on 10/13/08 at 10:03 PMWell, THAT was a reveal that only took 3 seasons to get to. At least it gives a hope of structure for future episodes this season. I mean, my god, it's a show called Heroes in a season called Villains and this many episodes in we're still not sure who fits into each categories. Drama comes from conflict, not confusion!
Posted by Crippler on 10/13/08 at 10:05 PMSorry about my last comment. I left reload every on and it went off the same time I hit submit, so I think it freaked out.
Posted by mcbaker on 10/13/08 at 10:06 PMwhat......the.......fuck.....i dont even understand
Posted by rayclark on 10/13/08 at 10:07 PM@nbkhumanity: Sylar lost all his powers from season 1 except for TK because of an inject The Company gave him.
@Anson17: the fat dude was Parkman's dad, who is also a telepath like his son but has a decades more experience.
Posted by Brandino on 10/13/08 at 10:07 PMI was out having drinks with Ron so we came in late and missed all the fun. I thought this episode had a lot of fun moments but also a lot of weird/kinda laughable ones. I can see why the show's in trouble, there is a distinctive "flailing about" vibe to it.
Posted by conor on 10/13/08 at 10:08 PM@ brandino. He looks so different from last season. weird.
@ ohcaroline. No. I meant tracy. to me they were the same boring character. Hopefully she stays dead this time.
Posted by Anson17 on 10/13/08 at 10:09 PMSee, I think he's not quite purpleman, it looks like his powers are limited to a very specific control system to me. Always exactly controlling the victim, you know?
Posted by CAM on 10/13/08 at 10:10 PM@Anson Which scene is from Alias?
Also, general observation, Adrian Pasdar and Jon Hamm should play brothers in something.
Posted by ohcaroline on 10/13/08 at 10:10 PMTracey's not dead... neither is Nathan - that was Mother Petrelli seeing the future while she was sitting at her desk. Not to mention that Tracey and Nathan were both in next week's preview.
Posted by conor on 10/13/08 at 10:12 PM@CAM -Yeah, you got it - he's the Puppert Master. He controls people with his movements in the same way you would a marionette.
Posted by conor on 10/13/08 at 10:13 PMoooh... i thought he had astral projection or something and that he actually did that then locked her in her office or mind or... something. He said "you won't even be able to move" I thought he was doing some current mindscrewing. Too bad... i was hoping Tracy was gone.
Posted by Anson17 on 10/13/08 at 10:13 PM@Anson17 - If that were the case, two of the main characters (and arguably, the two most important characters on the show) would have been killed off-screen, which wouldn't happen.
Posted by conor on 10/13/08 at 10:22 PMI wonder if that was really Mr. Petrelli we saw in Mrs. Petrelli's vision. It seems more likely that it was Parkman's dad.
How was Hiro putting Adam back in his coffin? Reversing time locally or teleportation? We've never seem him teleport anyone else without being in physical contact, I don't think.
I'm actually digging the Triplets concept. And then can kill off Tracey and still have one last sibling. Hurray!
Posted by Brandino on 10/13/08 at 10:24 PM
I hope they can kick it into high gear now that the players are in place.
Posted by wilson6923 on 10/13/08 at 10:25 PM@Brandino - I assumed he was stopping time and putting Adam back in the coffin and then restarting time.
Posted by conor on 10/13/08 at 10:26 PMdon't people become unstuck in time when hiro touches them
Posted by wilson6923 on 10/13/08 at 10:29 PMno thats Evie's power.
Posted by bigyanks on 10/13/08 at 10:39 PMI hope Maya is dead, but alas, I fear she will be back to annoy me.
Posted by Kory on 10/13/08 at 11:33 PMI think this season is a building roller coaster. I really liked this episode for whatever reason. But Maya needs to find better hiding places after she dies because Mohinder eats her and then Mohinder needs to choke on her death gene powers and then die, cuz that storyline is possibly the worst going through the show right now.
There was a lot to like in this episode, and it's ratcheting up. The scene with Ando and Hiro in the bar at the end was fantastic. I'm excited to see where it goes, although some of these lines are just God awful.
Posted by GungaDin on 10/14/08 at 02:17 AMThis is quite possibly the best show currently on the air for a getting totally shitfaced type of drinking game.
Posted by mulletpeep on 10/14/08 at 06:37 AM
I'm finally done with this show. Too much meandering, random crap to hold my interest anymore.
Posted by OddsBodkins on 10/14/08 at 07:58 AM@Odds: Definitely agree with you; too much randomness with the show.
GungaDin also is right that this is a roller coaster of a season. There are some good stuff but then suddenly the show will get either too campy or too sucky for it's own good. That Mohinder/Maya storyline is some of the worst pacing and acting I've ever seen in a TV show. They are wasting in such a good character with Sylar by making him be a gray area instead of being pure evil. The Peter stuff is so boring, and the future elements of the show really has brought this series down.
I love the villains on this show; like the vortex guy, or the Banshee wannabe, and even this new villain with the Puppet powers looks good. Too bad all these villains are getting killed pretty easily so the threat of Mr. Petrelli will probably end by the time it's mid-season. Shame this was a good show the first season, but right now it's a huge puddle of mud in the NBC line-up.
It'll probably get cancelled after this season, especially with the low ratings week after week.
Posted by TheNextChampion on 10/14/08 at 09:48 AMI'm really about 2-3 episodes away from quiting.
My gripes with the show comes 1st from peter. Season 1 was awesome, Peter struggled because he was the most powerful. Now he gets the shaft, I really don't understand @ the end of season 1 why a bunch of heroes that have powers would all just leave at the end.. you'd think they'd start some sort of team..
Now nobody seems to know what they are doing.. Peter never actually gets to be the hero.. they have dummied down Sylar.. the ultimate badass. Hiro & Ando are no longer Batman & Robin they are the Chinese version of the three stooges.
Posted by MrPopular on 10/14/08 at 10:42 AMI thought that was part of Hiro's power, being able to teleport other people as well. Isn't that how Peter popped Parkman in the desert, using the ability he got from Hiro.
Posted by hbkhumanity on 10/14/08 at 11:34 AM@MrPopular Err, Hiro and Ando are supposed to be japanese (even tho the actor who plays Ando is Korean)!!
I'm not really liking where they are taking Peter, hopefully he can sort himself out before he does any real damage. I can definately see why they said there would be blurring of the lines between who's a villain and who's a hero.
Posted by Cheezdog on 10/14/08 at 03:16 PM@Cheezdog.. oops.
Posted by MrPopular on 10/14/08 at 04:24 PMisn't this storyline over mid-season then a new onw starts up? I thought they wanted to do it more like a comic in that they don't have to spread a story over 22 eps and can have smaller arches. Too bad it seems like the spreading over 22 eps worked better than this smaller archs in a season idea so far.
Posted by Ipitythefool on 10/15/08 at 12:52 AM@ipitythefool Well that's an interesting thing. The problem with season two is it was almost entirely set-up. The story never really went anywhere and there was just tons and tons of exposition with little movement until the end. Don't blame season two for being shorter. Imagine if they'd planned for 22 episodes with that season which went nowhere.
This season is much more focused. The first eleven or twelve (I dunno the exact numbers) will be this Villains story. The back end will be the naxt batch. It's a great way to structure the series. It keeps them from padding the story and having unnecessary filler.
Posted by GungaDin on 10/15/08 at 01:12 AMI tried to watch this series but failed miserably. I'm kind of disappointed in myself. I just never got into it. I don't like the characters. I don't really like the stories. The most important aspect to "getting addicted" to a show is if it has a hot girl that any hot blooded guy can crush on. Although the cheerleader was hot it was still kinda creepy in my "date-dreams". I'm a little too old to crush on a high schooler... and the dual personality chick is just too brutal.
I never really got into the show.
Ok... I just had to log in, because of the "Lawrence cornfields."
As a resident of KS, I can tell you that the city of Lawrence, as well as the surrounding areas are not farmlands. Leave it to these terrible writers to belong to the long list of ignorant writers who think Kansas = farms and fields, and nothing more. You'd think one of these days, someone would do a little research.
Posted by WonderManFan on 11/24/08 at 09:42 PM


Red 5 checking in. I thnk Dad is a balder actor.
Posted by SteveM on 10/13/08 at 08:07 PM