Heroes: Capturing HRG

Heroes: Capturing HRG

Posted by Dustin on 02.17.2009 at 9:02 pm

This past week’s episode of “Heroes” I feel got a bit off track. Where did it go off track? Sadly with Ando and Hiro of course. Hiro was in search of his destiny as foretold by Matt’s drawing. This lead him and Ando to some Indian woman, who was going to be married to a man she didn’t love or want to marry. It was an arranged marriage, she was doing it for her father. Basically through comical misunderstandings and kidnappings, they saved the day and the girl. In the end they were presented with another mission, another part of Hiro’s destiny according to him.

This story did not interest me in the least honestly. I even was zoning out during it. What I liked about the previous two episodes was the heroes working together, as well as the fact we only had a few stories going on. Now we have Hiro and Ando off on their own and multiple threads going on. I am just hoping this destiny Hiro is pursuing does link him back in with the others and the overall story somehow.

Nathan was holding Tracy captive in a room full of heaters to contain her powers. He was trying to get funding for the capture of the “fugitives,” but some government woman found out about Nathan holding “prisoners” and was appalled. She also knew Tracy, and when Nathan explained the whole powers thing, she thought he was nuts. Nathan orchestrated it so Tracy could get free long enough to freeze and kill someone, which convinced the woman to give Nathan all the money he needed. Tracy was pissed and offered a veiled threat to Nathan, that next time she would escape and he better watch it. Personally, I hope she grabs him in the balls and puts him on ice 🙂 I can’t believe how much I’ve come to loath Nathan, who was once my favorite on the show.

The Hunter was becoming more and more suspicious of Nathan as well as HRG. He was sensing Claire was being protected by both of them for some reason. Nathan even told him she was to be left out of his round-ups. It’s only a matter of time before the Hunter stops taking orders and goes out on his own. If Tracy hasn’t taken care of Nathan by then, I hope the Hunter rounds him up!

Rebel lead Claire to a guy working at a comic book store that was to be rounded up. She arrived right before her father showed up with men to take him. His power was basically like Aquaman’s, he could breath underwater. Please, that is no threat to humanity! Plus everyone knows that Aquaman was pretty much the lamest of the Superheroes 🙂 I mean all he could do was swim underwater and talk to dolphins.

Claire later told her mom what her dad had been up too. I was half expecting the mom to already know, but she didn’t. She was sickened and kicked HRG/Noah out! Woo hoo! At the end, HRG was captured in a bar by Parkman, Peter and Surresh, who didn’t appear much at all but for that final scene.

Meanwhile Sylar and his sidekick (when the hell we gunna learn they are brothers?) continued their journey to find Sylar’s father. Along the way Sylar was teaching him how to best use his powers, when to use them, when not to. It was very Emperor Palpatine and Anakin Skywalker-ish in a way. After a battle with agents Luke (yet another Star Wars irony) told Sylar where to find his dad . . . and Sylar ditched him! Luke was captured by the agents, but at the very end Sylar rescued him from them. Awwww . . . brotherly love 🙂

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  1. That’s so funny that you referenced the Emperor and Anakin, all my friends and i call the kid Vader!

    Comment by candescent siesta
    02.18.2009 at 11:51 am
  2. I thought that in the end Nathan confronted The Hunter and said he knew that he set Tracy up to get free? That it wasn’t Nathan afterall. And the Hunter admitted to doing it so that they could get funding.

    Comment by Beth
    02.18.2009 at 12:11 pm
  3. I must have missed that part or spaced out! But I guess you’re right, I remember Nathan yelling at the guy about how the guy who died had a wife and kids.

    I assumed it was Nathan because I think Tracy assumed it as well 🙂

    Comment by Dustin
    02.18.2009 at 12:22 pm
  4. I enjoyed this eppy a lot. Sylar again was my favorite part of the whole thing. I’m happy with what they’re doing with him thus I didn’t mind the redemption of Sylar last volume I just think it was executed horribly. At least here, he’s still the killer we’re just getting to see more of him. It’s nice to see the writers have finally acknowledged that with Sylar you don’t have to go to the extreme in one way to make him enjoyable.

    Luke, Hm I don’t know about him yet. Sometimes I like him sometimes he bothers me. He seems more off kilter then Sylar does but then I get the feeling he’s just trying to push Sylar’s buttons and that’s not very smart in the long run.

    I enjoyed HRG and I’m really looking forward to next week. The previews made him seem completely wacked and I’ve always enjoyed the character.

    I did snooze a little on the Ando/Hiro story but I get why they did it. Hiro hopefully will stop moping about. I wish he had powers again, but I was a little tired of sad face McGee.

    Hunter/Nathan/Tracy was well done. I like that it showed Hunter has n limits where Nathan does and that they clearly won’t be able to work together much longer. I have a feeling all this is going to blow up in Nathan’s face and hard.

    I think it was another good episode, felt way more compact then the last volume. I also feel like this time the writers have a destination while last volume seemed very much a day by day process with no planned ending.

    Comment by Malorie
    02.18.2009 at 2:45 pm

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