Heroes: The Prequel
Last night’s episode of “Heroes” served more as a prequel to the first episode. Hiro, taking his spirit walk, watched what had gone one in three different, but connected, stories.
First there was “the death” of Aurthur Petrelli. Nathan was getting ready to bring down Linderman, which was just one company Arthur had his hands in. When a staged accident failed to kill him, only crippling his wife, Arthur decided to kill him. Linderman told Angela of this plan, and she poisoned Aurthur. However he didn’t die, he used his powers to make the doctors tell Angela he did. He then had himself taken to Pinehurst, while the family held a funeral.
The second story was HRG, working with Elle, to discover how Sylar took people’s powers. Elle began to fall for Sylar and didn’t want to do this, but HRG pushed her. In the end it was HRG’s pushing that drove Sylar to kill. He killed once, but had it under control. In order to learn how he did it, HRG and Elle set him up to kill again. I think we might have also learned who Sylar’s baby mama was in the future! But that makes us wonder what happened that Elle wasn’t around? Hopefully that will change.
The final story involved Eric Robert’s character as an agent for The Company working with none other than Claire’s birth mom as a partner! She was brought in and trained, while her brother Flint was locked up. Flint was one of the prisoners who escaped and could shoot blue flames from his hands. Yup, Claire’s uncle is one of the villains. She hated The Company and in the end tried to break her brother out and escape. This lead to the fire that Claire ironically saved a man in and became a hero. Eric’s character let her go when she admitted that The Company came for her one day and set her house on fire, her baby burned alive inside. Eric realized The Company had lied to her and taken Claire, knowing she had powers, and gave her to HRG. He let her go and only told her she’d been lied to.
In the very end, Hiro woke up and he and Ando found Aurthur had decapitated the spirit guy in Africa and told Hiro he had to stop his dreams of him! I was a bit miffed, I like the spirit guy.
The show was pretty nifty as it set every story, well almost every story, up to where they began in the pilot. I thought that was cool as next week is part one of a two parter on a second eclipse which is going to do some havoc to the powers. I had vented this was frustrating me a few weeks ago when they introduced they “gave” many of the people their powers. It was like they had forgotten about the eclipse, yet they haven’t. I’m really looking forward to next week.
The eclipse thing could be the way that heroes with naturally born powers were activated. The synthetic powers, on the other hand, maybe were dormant until the extreme adrenaline rush (see Nathan flying out of the car, Tracy freezing the chap, Nikki going crazy on Linderman’s men, etc.) I don’t know if that’s all correct (a friend of mine was complaining about the slight discontinuity where Arthur was still alive while Claire saved the man in the train), but it somewhat fits.
11.11.2008 at 6:06 pm
It might also be the other way around though, that the eclipse triggered the given powers. Though that doesn’t make sense either 😛 Nathan was told he was given his powers, and yes he flew out of the car. Unless of course they are trying to hint that the eclipse had already begun at that time as well. Everything started happening right where the original episode picked up (Sylar had just gotten his ability too it seemed). But yet others clearly had theirs (Elle, the Hatian, Meredith and her brother)
Claire clearly had hers as a baby, that’s how she lived through the fire. As a baby though, I don’t know if her brain would have been developed enough to trigger her powers through a rush? Mama Petrilli also commented that Peter got his first power as a kid too, but in this episode she told Arthur when he came into his powers he’d grow.
11.11.2008 at 6:28 pm
As for the eclipse-trigger, there were other eclipses in these characters’ lifetime (like the one that gave Adam his powers in ancient Japan). What would make it special with that one eclipse? Maybe a specific arrangement of planets/celestial bodies?
11.11.2008 at 6:43 pm
I believe it was a total solar eclipse, which is much rarer than say a partial one or even lunar eclipses.
11.11.2008 at 6:49 pm
As for Peter, it’s possible that Angela was covering up Peter’s powers, so as to not let Arthur know he was coming into power (and hopefully cover it up to protect Peter).
11.11.2008 at 8:40 pm
What ever happened to Monica and the whole New Orleans family story line? I really liked Monica’s power and was hoping to see her go all St. Joan like the 9th Wonder comic predicted.
11.12.2008 at 3:14 pm
I think that story got dropped, unless they plan to bring it back at some point.
11.12.2008 at 4:17 pm
Loved this episode! Especially the storyline with Sylar.
11.13.2008 at 12:50 pm