With the Sylar battle, I have a feeling there was a scene cut from the end of it. Every episode goes over and they have to cut a few bits to make it fit (especially since they have to fit in all these new commercials). I wouldn't be surprised if there was a tail-end to that battle that we just missed. Or even if there isn't, there's a perfectly logical reason for his actions.
He hit Sylar with a big plank of wood. That's not guaranteed to knock anybody out. Mohinder can't see camera angles. And even if he could, there's the chance that Sylar could just be faking. If he tried to use the gun and Sylar was conscious, it simply wouldn't work. Sylar has had a lot of experience stopping bullets. Plus he was wounded (badly) and Peter was either mortally wounded or dead. All he knew was that he knocked Sylar away for a moment. In that moment, he probably thought, "I could either use this chance to try and kill Sylar again or I could run away while I can. Hmm... I'm wounded, Peter's probably dead and if I screw up killing Sylar again, I'm dead too." If he knew that Sylar was unconscious, that would be a different story, but he didn't. He saw a chance to run from a psychopathic super-killer and he took it.
As for the Company being prepared for something like that, honestly, there was no way Matt or Ted could have escaped without HRG's help. The Company was as prepared as they needed to be for normal circumstances. And maybe they did have emergency plans or trump cards, but they all probably required electricity, which is kinda hard to use after an EMP. Besides, Matt and Ted still have the tracking devices, so they aren't necessarily in the clear yet.
Claire already had her "real family" moment when she met her mom. I think while she years to get closer to her biological family, after meeting her real mom, any more super emotional moments from meeting the Petrellis would be melodramatic and sort of out of character considering how underwhelmed she was when she met her real mom (who pretty much used her as a meal ticket and lied to her). She's probably hesitant to reach out to them for that reason and especially considering that she's in no position to (Peter's saving the world, Nathan's trying to win an election, and she's running from the Company). I agree that the moment could have been emotional and intense, but to me, it would feel gratuitous considering what Claire's been through and the kind of person she is.
I dunno, Nathan crying over his dead brother struck me as pretty intense. I mean, Nathan is a very stoic character. Seeing a normal guy cry over a lost loved one is expected. Seeing Nathan cry over anything is big and shows how much his brother means to him, which considering where the plot is going, is a very important thing to get across.
I will say that Angela's reaction was very weak considering her reaction to Peter's "attempted suicide". I feel like her character is changing a lot from where it started out and it does bother me. It's possible that she's just a manipulative genius, but I doubt it.
Peter's conversation with Nathan was very important. We saw Nathan realize that his brother could probably survive an explosion of that magnitude and that makes the .07@ seem a lot smaller since his brother (who as we found out earlier means a hell of a lot to him) isn't a part of it. And I'm pretty sure he only said "She's your daughter!" once.
Once again, Claire and Nathan are both very emotionally distant characters. Claire distrusts Nathan because she heard his conversation with her mom. She knows that he's not exactly excited to know that she's around and even says so when she says, "You don't have to pretend to be nice to me." As for Nathan, he's always emotionally distant particularly in scenarios where he's out of control. Especially right now because even if he wanted to make it up to Claire, he simply can't if he wants to be elected. Nathan did make an "Oh my god" connection with Claire when he talked to Claire's mom and first saw what she looked like.
Maybe this episode wasn't GREAT, but it was on par with an average episode of Heroes, the only difference being that we knew a lot of what was going on so it felt a bit cheapened in comparison.
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Date: 2007-04-25 06:38 am (UTC)He hit Sylar with a big plank of wood. That's not guaranteed to knock anybody out. Mohinder can't see camera angles. And even if he could, there's the chance that Sylar could just be faking. If he tried to use the gun and Sylar was conscious, it simply wouldn't work. Sylar has had a lot of experience stopping bullets. Plus he was wounded (badly) and Peter was either mortally wounded or dead. All he knew was that he knocked Sylar away for a moment. In that moment, he probably thought, "I could either use this chance to try and kill Sylar again or I could run away while I can. Hmm... I'm wounded, Peter's probably dead and if I screw up killing Sylar again, I'm dead too." If he knew that Sylar was unconscious, that would be a different story, but he didn't. He saw a chance to run from a psychopathic super-killer and he took it.
As for the Company being prepared for something like that, honestly, there was no way Matt or Ted could have escaped without HRG's help. The Company was as prepared as they needed to be for normal circumstances. And maybe they did have emergency plans or trump cards, but they all probably required electricity, which is kinda hard to use after an EMP. Besides, Matt and Ted still have the tracking devices, so they aren't necessarily in the clear yet.
Claire already had her "real family" moment when she met her mom. I think while she years to get closer to her biological family, after meeting her real mom, any more super emotional moments from meeting the Petrellis would be melodramatic and sort of out of character considering how underwhelmed she was when she met her real mom (who pretty much used her as a meal ticket and lied to her). She's probably hesitant to reach out to them for that reason and especially considering that she's in no position to (Peter's saving the world, Nathan's trying to win an election, and she's running from the Company). I agree that the moment could have been emotional and intense, but to me, it would feel gratuitous considering what Claire's been through and the kind of person she is.
I dunno, Nathan crying over his dead brother struck me as pretty intense. I mean, Nathan is a very stoic character. Seeing a normal guy cry over a lost loved one is expected. Seeing Nathan cry over anything is big and shows how much his brother means to him, which considering where the plot is going, is a very important thing to get across.
I will say that Angela's reaction was very weak considering her reaction to Peter's "attempted suicide". I feel like her character is changing a lot from where it started out and it does bother me. It's possible that she's just a manipulative genius, but I doubt it.
Peter's conversation with Nathan was very important. We saw Nathan realize that his brother could probably survive an explosion of that magnitude and that makes the .07@ seem a lot smaller since his brother (who as we found out earlier means a hell of a lot to him) isn't a part of it. And I'm pretty sure he only said "She's your daughter!" once.
Once again, Claire and Nathan are both very emotionally distant characters. Claire distrusts Nathan because she heard his conversation with her mom. She knows that he's not exactly excited to know that she's around and even says so when she says, "You don't have to pretend to be nice to me." As for Nathan, he's always emotionally distant particularly in scenarios where he's out of control. Especially right now because even if he wanted to make it up to Claire, he simply can't if he wants to be elected. Nathan did make an "Oh my god" connection with Claire when he talked to Claire's mom and first saw what she looked like.
Maybe this episode wasn't GREAT, but it was on par with an average episode of Heroes, the only difference being that we knew a lot of what was going on so it felt a bit cheapened in comparison.
Even so, next week should kick a ton of ass.