What aunt_zelda Thinks: 'Building 26'

[aunt_zelda]

Pre-Show:

 

DAYUM, I don't even watch Chuck and the moment when Chuck gave Sarah the wedding ring back made me wanna cry.

Hey, the manager is gettin' some! And short-awesome-kid-with-beard is the son of that hot lady! Oh dear ...

And then Chuck brings me right back with the depressing. I don't think Sarah deserves him. His widdle geek heart is breaking, and she's still in Agent-Vaughn-pre-love-fest mode.

Next week a car will explode! Oh noes!

 

 

Previously on Heroes: The heroes (and villains) are on the run! Matt can draw ... India, and Hiro's gonna go there. Claire is mad at her dads. Tracey tries to get her life back and is double crossed. Peter is slashy. Sylar is funny and picked up a jailbait boyfriend. Claire got a message from a very angry texter with good spelling and grammar.

 

 

Ah, the titles are in a weird spot again! Everything is good in the world! [This was the first indication that this episode would be oodles better than last week’s. And oh, there were so very many. This is my favorite episode of V4 and S3, and quite possibly overtakes anything we got in V2. That’s how happy this episode made me. I didn’t even care that the budget was spent on ‘Sylar’s Great Escape’ and all of those headshots of the cast, and subsequently left Hiro and Ando holding the bag on a half-written, half-assed, half-finished Bait-and-Switch-Lesbian plotline in India – where, I may point out, Molly was NOT mentioned at ALL. Grrrrrrr, arrrrgh! She’s totally hanging out with Mohinder’s mommy, so why aren’t her two daddies worried about her safety? If the Hunter’s posse grabbed Hiro in Japan, I doubt they’ll have many concessions about grabbing a little kid in India. Run, Sanjog, run!]

Hey, Lyle's at the table too! He isn’t invisible this episode! And he gets a line! A good line! He wants to know what a consultant does. (So do I, it’s a question I’m forever asking my poor father when I get to talk to him.)

 

"Need your help. Must warn target." Rebel says, still in all-caps. I think Rebel is using a hacker-account as cover. They always use all caps. I wanna know who Rebel is … within three episodes or less. Otherwise I’m gonna pitch a fit. Is it Hana? Molly? Micah? Molly, Micah, and Monica? Angela? Charles Whitmore? It would just be nice to see things from Rebel’s POV after a while. I’m a patient woman, but not that patient, especially with Heroes.

 

HRG and Claire toss the elaborate-on-the-cover-story ball to each other. I think Sandra knows what's going down. *huggles her*

 

HRG warns Claire that she could just disappear if she deviates from the script. He's enrolled her in Community College. English Li, History, and Spanish. Nice ... it’s kinda creepy (and predictable) that he did that, but at least she got nice courses!

 

 

Evil Governor Devlin preps his troops and makes a joke about Nathan being the type to drink lattes. I’m not sure if Hunter Devlin was making a gay-joke (grrrr, another reason to hate him!) or implying that Nathan is a rich yuppie elitist (in which case, power to the common man, you go, Hunter Devlin!) But Nathan arrives with a decaf (lol, he could do coffee advertisements and I’d buy the evil stuff by the bushel) and starts drawing attention to the headshots of the main cast, and the crew’s family members, reminding everyone to bring these people in alive, because most of them are just scared, just like you would be if armed ninjas with tranq guns were storming into your place of residence and kidnapping you.

(On a side note, where the hell are they getting this info? Surely Nathan doesn’t have access to the List … Mohinder smashed the harddrive, didn’t he? Or is the Company’s system been modified to suit the purposes of the government? Did the government already have a super sekkrit database of superpeoples, but it was stuck in the X-Files until Nathan came along and helped them out of their basement? Mulder must have cried tears of joy! Please tell me get a flashback of this!)

 

 

LOL. The radio is playing 'Born to Be Wild.' LOL. I don’t mind that Sylar has been demoted to Comic Relief because really: he’s alive; his character is practically intact after the Season from Hell; and Zachary Quinto can do funny and scary seamlessly. Don’t complain, just count your blessings and sigh at the pretteh.

Sylar pulls the car over. Not for sex, though. Luke still thinks Sylar is cool, even when he grabs his throat, or perhaps because of it. He seems to be a little excited, like "I'm finally gonna get laid, woohoo!" excited. However, we all know that Sylar is only-gay-for-Mohinder, so that ain’t gonna happen. (At least, it’d better not, because Luke is still underage and is quite possibly related to Sylar in some way, so that could be squicky.)

"Ok, technically I'm a serial killer!" Sylar practically snaps, five seconds away from a crack fic. I am five seconds away from rofling when we cut to the next scene. Hee hee hee …

 

 

Claire finds a hot guy working in a comic book store. YUM. I wish more of those existed in real life. She warns him, and he thinks she's a prank, possibly ending in a lapdance, seeing as she's a "hot blond" in a comic book store and all. I toss my dirty-but-still-blond hair in distain and resolve to continue buying my GN at Borders. (Why is the show still holding fast to the stereotype that only geeky guys like comics? I’m a girl, a blond at that, who is considered to be kinda pretty by some, and I love comics! When we were shown cliques at Claire’s school in ‘Homecoming’ we saw the comic-book nerds, and there were girls in that! Continuity, please!)

Claire slices her palm open to convince him. YAY. HRG is the guy on the mission! Rut-row! Claire yoinks Alex out of the store. Claire's hair is sensibly tied back in a French-Braid. She calls her dad, Alex knocks over a rack, and flees pretty fast. It's always those skinny guys who are fast runners.

They flee in Alex's convertible. Hee hee.

 

 

Ando and Hiro are in India. Yay! They're gonna save a Bride! That means there will be a lot of orange! WOOHOO!

The Bride is very beautiful. Ando follows her and talks her into calling off the wedding, and gets her on board by making his hands glow. She thinks he’s a sign. I like her imidiately, perhaps because she isn’t rail-thin and blond.

 

 

Abby Collins, a pretty woman from Homeland Security, has arrived. Hunter-Devlin doesn't like her because she’s a ‘bureaucrat.’ So … common-man-against-the-world it is, then! Abby doesn't believe in the 'magic' people. Nathan wants more funding and wants to talk to the President directly, but Abby says that she’s his new boss. She demands to see the prisoner. YAY! Nathan's gonna get spanked soon!

 

 

"Luke, you're really going to stop trying to be my friend, or I'm going to have to kill you." Sylar, ILU. His attitude towards Luke makes the annoying kid bearable.

 

"You like birds?" Luke asks. No, dear, Sylar is into guys, isn’t it obvious at this point?

Luke spurs a memory for Sylar. Sylar delivers a pretty speech that people at TWoP are going to mock and Zachary Quinto lovers are going to melt into puddles over.

 

 

Abby is horrified by the sight of Tracey chained to a chair under Evil Orange Light Lamps. Compared to the stuff we've heard and seen from Guantánamo, I really don't understand her horror.

"'This woman' is Tracey Strauss, and you have her shackled to a chair!" Abby yelps, like being shackled to a chair in a warm room is the worst thing the government has ever done to suspected enemies of this country.

"That's why we need more funding." Nathan stupidly says, in one of the funnier rapports of this season.

Abby says she's gonna shut the project down and file Human Rights Violations. I can't wait for Tracey to try and freeze her arm off by the end of the episode. That always happens to the well-meaning government official in a superhero story.

 

 

Alex conspicuously peels his convertible into a parking lot. Claire finds out that he can breathe underwater. "Like a fish." He never told anyone. Naaaaaw. They bond. They ditch the car because of Claire's stellar spy skillz. Daddy would be so proud if he wasn’t on the opposite side right now. Wait a minute … can Claire put on a red wig and start knocking out Russian people now?!

 

 

Hey ... is Indian Bride a lesbian? She owns a restaurant with another lady ... and that lady doesn’t strike me as her sister …

She was engaged by her scared grandfather to a mean, dangerous man 'above the law.' [I’m torn on this. We don’t actually learn much about Deepak and his nastiness and where he kept Ando, but if we had, Hiro and Ando would have stayed stuck in India as the B-Plot for at least two more episodes, and this might have turned into ‘the Notorious Irish Gang of Four Dudes and a Chick’ plot from V2, and we don’t want that, do we?]

Hiro is being bitchy because he wants his powers back. I hate bitchy Hiro. Why isn’t he turning into Future!Hiro yet? He buried a man alive only three months ago! Why isn’t he getting more badass? Why must the show constantly pull him back to the beginning?!

"You can't stand the fact that you're the sidekick now." Ando points out, a bit too smarmy for his own good. Ando baby, I know where you’re coming from, but honestly? I preferred it when you were Unspecial Ando and Hiro was the Hero. 

Ex-groom comes in and starts kicking up a fuss. Ando gets hit on the head "and carried off." Yay? Why didn't Mohinder come on this mission, he can speak at least one of the languages!

 

 

Sylar coaches his young apprentice. I giggle because Luke called a guy with a huge beard ‘ZZ Top.’ "Emotions make you sloppy." Darth Sylar intones.

"What is it that you want?" Luke asks, almost hopefully. Mostly getting powers, but lately Sylar wants to find (spoiler alert!) John Glover his daddy.

 

Luke hands Sylar the address, it's a two-day drive.

Sylar tells Luke that he shouldn’t have done that. "Now there's nothing to keep me from killing you, is there?"

A bunch of soldiers bust in. Luke distracts the one with the gun on Sylar's head … and then this week’s budget is spent.

Sylar drives off ... without Luke. OUCH.

First of all: HA HA HA HA HA!

Second of all, I feel obligated to point out that Luke at least warranted a goodbye, and a backward glance, which is more than Maya got. [And at the end of this episode? HA HA HA some more! Luke warrants more than Maya EVER got!]

Poor kid gets tazered and captured, though. I feel that he, at least, justifies being locked up. Angsty teenagers with sadistic tendencies and microwave powers shouldn't be allowed to roam free.

 

 

Bride says that if she goes through with the wedding, Deepak will let Ando go. (Wasn’t Deepak the name of Maia’s brother in a S2 Life on Mars episode?)

Hiro interrupts the wedding anyway and gets Anna to call it off. She does, and comes to terms with her grandpa.

"Perhaps a traditional marriage is not for me." Oh, she's totally gay. TOTALLY. [And I am sooooo mad that she didn’t at least embrace her girlfriend in this episode. I know they were written as lesbians, I know it. Their plot got cut for time and budget and possibly evil executives! Shut up if you know otherwise!]

Deepak kicks up a fuss, grabbing Anna’s arm and trying to drag her off, which is the signature evil gesture for a villain to take in a network show.

"You leave her alone!" Hiro snaps, punching Deepak out. Deepak gives up, says he doesn’t want Anna anyway, and says Hiro can have his "lousy friend back." Hiro strikes his Yatta pose. Wahoo! (In the background I’m imagining, Anna and her girlfriend kiss. And Ando is tossed out of a van by some burly guys, one of whom blows Ando a kiss, much to Ando’s disgust. You see how the power of imagination makes shoddy plots soooo much better?)

 

 

Nathan tries to argue with Abby, futiely trying to get her to understand. Tracey gets free. Abby sees Tracey FREEZE A MAN and then watches him SHATTER ONTO THE FLOOR. Nathan looks at Abby like "NOW you understand, idiot?" Abby looks like she's ready to burn her Geneva Conventions handbook and dance around the fire hand-in-hand with Nathan. I fear for our heroes. Why the hell did Tracey freeze that man? Is she insane? Trying to garner favor with Nathan? Just angry enough to want one of them dead? Where is Magneto when you want Sir Ian McKellen to rant about Mutant Rights on your TV screen?

 

 

Nathan is dressed in comic book colors: black, white, and red. Yay!

Abby says Nathan will have all the funding he needs. Bitch! Don't back down on your position just because a desperate woman freezes someone in front of you! (This is the watchdog the President assigned to the project? She was the best Human Rights Lobbyist they could find? Aren’t Homeland Security people supposed to be, well, scary or at least steadfast to their beliefs? I honestly cannot comprehend how a woman who was just a few minutes ago going to shut this place down for human rights violations is suddenly ‘you can have all the funding you need!’ I know watching Tracey nitrogen a guy with her bare hands is scary and now Abby understand why she was chained up like that, but that doesn’t justify dropping your moral compass and morphing into Senator Kelly. 

 

 

Claire spills to her mom. Their scene is more powerful than anything we got in V3.

"It's starting all over again." Sandra says, my heart breaking.

"No, it's worse." Claire says, explaining that ‘they're’ taking everyone, not just the dangerous ones.

 

And then HRG walks in with Indian food. Sandra tells her daughter to go upstairs. Claire, half in tears, does just that.

 

"I really wanted to believe that you could change!” Sandra yells through a stream of tears.

HRG says that if he isn't on board with the heroes-roundup, Claire will get taken too. Sandra starts screaming at her husband. I think they're going to get a divorce, guys, really, I do.

Remember when HRG was a tragic character who made you wanna wibble? Remember, guys?

I think Sandra's gonna divorce, take Lyle and Claire into hiding with la Resistance, and sick Mr. Muggles on HRG so she gets more money in the settlement.

And nothing about that scenario is in the least bit funny to me.

 

 

Tracey knows that Nathan let her go to get funding. She says that next time she will escape. Nathan neither confirms nor denies this. Tracey smirks under her Evil Orange Lights.

 

 

The van with Luke starts shaking. Many, many dirty jokes are made, but then Sylar, clad in black fatigues, grabs Luke and carries him off, leaving behind a bunch of bloody soldiers. There's an awful lot of 'carrying off' going on in this episode. It's like they got the theory of some slash fics, but not the spirit.

On a side note, I love how we both saw the carnage and heard what the government people were hearing from their radios. Very nice.

On another note, I have high hopes that with all this carrying off, it’s only a matter of time before Sylar grabs Mohinder and starts up the slashy Mylar subtext posthaste!

 

 

Ando and Hiro make up. No kissing, but that's ok for now.

A fax form Rebel comes to Ando and Hiro, telling them an address in LA, with the message "Save Matt Parkman." Hiro is excited about a new mission. The lesbians are excited that they can go ‘celebrate’ Anna’s freedom now, if you know what I mean.

 

 

HRG comes up to Claire’s room with a suitcase and tells her that Sandra wants him to move out of the house for a while. Claire looks shocked. HRG looks like he's on the verge on tears. No, he IS about to cry. So is Claire. I suddenly remember why they were in place of a 'love story' plotline for S1. *sniffle* Noooooo ... the family is being torn apart ...

O.M.G. Alex is hiding in Claire's closet. She hands him a sleeping bag, as she's still mourning for Elle and it wouldn’t be right to a) let a guy sleep in her bed or b) sleep with him in the bed where she lost her virginity to Elle. (Oh dear, I’m projecting my own personal canon onto my recaps again, aren’t I? Sorry?)

 

 

Luke thinks Sylar came back for him. Sylar came back for a government laptop. In lui of talking about why he grabbed Luke, he turns on the radio. "Psycho Killer" plays. Luke laughs. I sporfle. Sylar glowers sexily. S’ all good. 

 

 

Nathan tells Hunter Devlin the name of the Mook who died, who left behind a wife and two kids. DEVLIN let Tracey out. O.M.G. No common-man support from me, Hunter Devlin!

 

 

At a bar, HRG drinks a drink, fiddles with his wedding ring, then passes out because he's been drugged. Instead of Claude materializing in the bar for some sexy payback, however, it's Matt, Peter, and Mohinder (who were taking Peter's hide-really-really-well plan to heart for a vast majority of this episode) who grab HRG and drag him out of the bar as bartender lady looks on. I laugh and laugh and laugh and cheer. It's the most fun I've had watching a Heroes episode in a good long time. *beams*

 

 

 

Next Week on Heroes:

Next week is all about HRG! YAAAAAAAAY! Arguably the best Heroes episode yet has been centered around him, and it looks like we get flashbacks next week too! YAAAAAAAAAAY!

Is he a hero, or a villain? Apparently he's gonna be laughing "you don't know anything about me." Expect torture, girls, and a shattering window and a solider flying through the air. And Hunter Devlin yelling at a radio to "take him now!" Will it measure up to 'Company Man' or crash and burn like most of S3 has? Tune in next week for the show that got aunt_zelda online, into slash, and robbed her of her life!

Comments

[aunt-zelda.livejournal.com]

Not really in a slashy way (though...who knows where my mind will take things later on) I knew Sylar was going to go back for Luke. And I laughed really hard when Psycho Killer started playing.
I try not to see the slash, but I can see potential even in ships I would NEVER EVER SHIP AS LONG AS I LIVE SO HELP ME GOD. It's a gift ... and a curse. But mostly a curse.
I didn't think Sylar was gonna come back for Luke. Even when I saw the van shaking, I thought Luke was breaking out the Evil Sith powers and not being emotional like his mentor told him ... but I was much happier when it was Sylar, carrying a guy off to his cave.
Oh, 'Psycho Killer.' I loled so bad I was surprised I didn't wake anybody up.


I also enjoyed the adorable comic book store guy. I want one!
Don't we all ... *sighs*