What aunt_zelda Thinks: 'The Eclipse: Part 2'

[aunt_zelda]

 

Hey, would you look at that! The show is actually improving! I mean, I would respect the show more if they’d killed off more characters (pissed and in tears, but respectful) but seriously, Heroes? You had balls. You killed Simone, and Isaac, and Niki. What happened to your nerve? All these pearl-clutching-shriek-inducing moments are great in the moment, but afterwards the audience feels cheated. You can get away with a few of those, but I can think of, oh, at least four off the top of my head this season? And we’re barely halfway through the season! Just … take a stand, Heroes. Choose a damn side.

 

 

Pre-Show:

Chuck's gonna track down his missing dad for his sister, so he can walk her down the aisle. Naaaaaw ...

 

Yay, more beatboxing! I love those boys!

"Never stare directly at an eclipse," says the promo man, wisely avoiding several lawsuits when the next real-life eclipse rolls around …

 

 

The Eclipse, Part 2:

 

Previously on Heroes: Mohinder is gross! Fix Hiro! Daphne has a crisis! Supernatural x-over! Claire was shot by her girlfriend! Sylar and Elle snog! The Haitian! YAY! *dances*

My TV is really crappy tonight …

 

The title is on a leaf, looking up at the Eclipse. Cool.

Peter mans up and talks the Haitian into not running into the jungle to hide and instead going off to fight his brother. It’s the first time that we’ve seen the Haitian look really freaked, even when Mohinder killed him in FYG. Yeesh.

 

Oooo, hey, a scene reminiscent of House! Apparently Claire's entire body is infected. Put that girl in a clean room, so House can compromise it!

 

 

OMG NO! EEEEEEW! *covers eyes* Blatant heterosexuality! *covers cat's eyes*

Ok, they are damn hot together, and we now have a post-coital Sylar to photoshop at our heart's content, and yes, they are damn hot, but seriously, I preferred it when Sark and Lauren were doing this.

 

HRG goes badass. Elle gets shot. HRG follows her blood.

Ok, I'm excited that the ooky lighting is back, but it's not doing any favors to my bad, antennae-boosted TV. I really need to start watching Heroes on NBC.com to truly appreciate how ugly/hot/sexy/scary/well-lit any given scene is.

 

 

 

I wish that the promos for Heroes: Destiny weren't so revealing of the six-minute plots. *sighs*

 

Heh, Keanu Reeves was MADE to play an alien.

 

 

 

Oh, heaven help us. Nathan is chained up in a shack in the middle of an outlaw’s lair. This is how some fanfics start. Nooooo, involuntary prossies! *huggles them*

 

 

Mohinder, I swear, if you go after Maya, I will KILL YOU!

 

Flint plays with a lighter, ala Pyro from X-Men.

 

Mohinder actually figures out that Arthur is paranoid. Arthur gets Flint to fling Mohinder over a desk and burn him. Oy vey, this is getting slashier by the minute, and Sylar and Mohinder haven’t even met since the last homoerotic-fight …  

 

 

Breckin' Meyer and Seth Green! YAY!

 

 

What's with all the French this season? Japanese first season, Spanish second season, and now French? *sighs*

 

Daphne has cerebral palsy. Thank you for prompt answers, show!

"I watched him kill your father … it's right up his alley." Thank you, Daphne, for

"How many times do I have to tell you, you are a good person!" Matt pleads. Daphne insists that he doesn't know her, which is kinda true.

 

 

Mohinder goes all badass, whaling on Flint something fierce. Flint whales on him, and he might actually be DEAD. Mohinder grabs Maya's info on a post-it-note, takes Flint's swipey-card, and flees, looking freaked at all the Sylar-parallels he's getting.

 

 

Seth Oz Green and that-other-guy-people-are-squeeing-about discuss the comic book. They're totally having the time of their lives, too. Hiro buys all the back issues of Ninth Wonders, as you do, and starts perusing them. Now this, I could get used to ...

"Best. Day. Ever." Hiro fanboys. Naaaaaaaw.

 

 

 

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button looks REALLY good.

 

 

 

Sylar patches Elle up in a supermarket aisle. Sylar wants to improve their chances by splitting up, Elle wants them to stay together, Sylar wonders whether he deserves to be killed by Bennet, Elle thinks he deserves to live, they flee through the back.

We fade from Sylar helping Elle out through the plastic screens, to Haitian's Bro dragging the girl into a room. Peter and the Haitian bust in.

 

"Are you going to kill me, brother? It's the only way to stop me." I don’t think the blatant brother-betrayal allusions were quite blatant enough, show, maybe more focuses on Peter’s horrified face?

 

 

"Who are these bozos?" Matt asks, indicating the guest-stars.

 

"That was Matt Parkman!" B. Meyer squeals as Matt leaves.

"I'm Matt Parkman," Seth Oz Green snarks. Heh heh heh …

You know what would make that store even more awesome? Buffy comics in the background.

 

Hiro is terrified by the images of stabbing Sylar, loosing Charlie, fighting Takezo Kensei, and his dead father. He flees and hides.

 

 

Peter stupidly forces Nathan, The Haitian, and Girl #2 off into the jungle and prepares to hold of the hordes of Haiti with a single gun. *sporfle* What was the point of this, exactly? Peter, there are less ridiculous ways to die, and if you hadn’t hung around to debate with Nathan, the D&D cell could have continued on intact and probably not been caught!

 

 

Hayden Panettiere and her bad wig look distressed and sweaty.

 

In another scene right out of House, Claire crashes. I seriously half-expected Chase to rush in and whip out the paddles.

 

HRG tracks Sylar and Elle into the back area of the superstore, he sends Elle down an elevator.

Sylar and HRG crash into a bunch of empty boxes. And then they fight. And lo, it is a good fight.

 

Ew! Tracheotomy!

 

Sylar makes a comment about Claire and looks damn hot in his white t-shirt. Good thing my mother doesn't watch Heroes, because she’s got this thing about men in white t-shirts and might faint at this.

 

And then ... then ... then ...

NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! AAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!! AYYYYYYYIIIIIIIIIIII!!!

*makes several distressed squeaking noises that draw glances from the cat*

Congratulations, HRG, you just crossed 'The Line.' I don’t care if Sylar is an over-all unrepentant serial-killer, murder is murder, especially if it’s done RIGHT IN FRONT OF ANOTHER MENTALLY-UNBALANCED PERSON WHOM THE PERSON YOU ARE MURDERING HAS RECENTLY HAD CARNAL RELATIONS WITH!

 

 

 

Most of the commercials were insanely inappropriate to my mood, except for a spot for The Dark Knight DVDs. WOOT! Hook me up with some of THAT this Christmas! *dances weakly*

 

 

 

*squeaks anew* Claire is DEAD? My god ... fantastic parallels, that scene …

*leaps back in alarm* Oh my GOD, Claire ISN'T dead! *gasps for breath*

Wait ... that ... makes no damn sense ...

[Also, that would have been a perfect opportunity to really screw with the fans and actually keep Sylar and Claire dead. Then HRG could have a nice moral crisis about his daughter dying when he was off on a killing spree. It could have been a fantastic, amazing scene that would be forever imprinted in our minds. And it didn’t stick. *shakes head sadly* It’s not that I want Sylar and Claire dead, but it would have been a pretty ballsy move (killing the unkillable-girl and the unstoppable-villain) that could have completely turned the show around.]

 

 

Matt makes some awkward niceties with Daphne's dad. Naaaaaaw.

Daphne made a scarecrow named Ray. Naaaaw. I know it’s a crummy storyline, but Matt and Daphne are just so good together …

"We're all flawed, powers or no powers," Matt says, again insisting that Daphne is good. He gets her to go up and apologize to her dad, or, at least, hug him and say goodbye before she takes off to save the world and right her past ‘wrongs.’ (Daphne, girl, compared to what everyone else on this show has done, your ‘fault’ of ‘stealing stuff’ really isn’t all that bad. I mean, put the Mona Lisa back, but you never killed anyone, and, like on Lost, that’s a pretty rare thing on this show.)

 

 

Milo Ventimiglia looks so ridiculous with that M-16 (or whatever it is, if it's not a shotgun I don't know what kind of gun it is.) If he weren’t trying to kill people, he’d look downright cute.

 

Nathan knows enough French to make threats. My Spanish teacher said that you aren’t completely fluent in a language unless you can tell a joke, but 'make a threat' could apply too. Nathan flings the Haitian’s bro into a truck. It does nothing, but it looked cool, and helped Nathan with some of his angst. Wish I had the power to fling people into trucks at a certain time of the month …

Then the Haitian mind-melds his brother to death, looking intense and tormented all the while. WHOO! (I don't know about you, but I'm exhausted.)

 

 

*groans* Not only is Mohinder at Maya's new pad, but his scales are back. He wisely flees. She wisely doesn't go looking for him. Please, gods above and demons down under the sea, let THAT be the last that we see of her!

 

 

Seth Oz Green says that everyone needs to grow up. Hiro points out that Seth Oz Green and his boyfriend never grew up. Hiro, dear, he’s a werewolf, what’s your excuse?

Seth Oz Green makes a fantastic speech that Ando translates, and Hiro mans up. Naaw.

Armed with a magnifying glass and looking through a back-issue, B. Meyer figures out that Hiro and Claire need to go back to the day that Kaito gave Claire to HRG (AND CLAUDE WAS THERE OMG CLAUDE PLEASE NOW!) *coughs* Ahem …

Hiro teleports away, Seth Oz Green says "Best. Day. Ever." I clap and squeal.

 

 

Claire bitches to her dad. He figures out that Sylar is alive, and they stomp downstairs (again, where are Lyle and Mr. Muggles in these situations?! Have they fled the country? Are they living with Micah and Monica? Are Heidi are her unfortunately-named sons indoctrinating them into their Resistance movement?) to find Elle holding Sandra at electro-point and Sylar in a blood-stained shirt. He flings HRG up against a wall and points out that he, Sylar, is really a lot more like HRG these days: doing bad things for the sake of his family.

HRG says that Arthur and Angela aren't Sylar's parents at all; they're manipulating him via his parent-issues; and that Elle knows that. WOW! *punches the air* YAY! Not everyone is a Petrelli, people! Joy to the world!

 

"You really think you two can have a normal life? He killed your father, Mohinder Elle!" HRG yells. (I can’t be the only one who heard it that way …)

Sylar goes to Sylarize HRG (and I scream, because I figured that at least SOMEONE had to die for real in this episode) but then Hiro teleports in, zaps Sylar and Elle away, then grabs Claire's shoulder and yelps "Cheerleader!" and teleports away with her. HRG and Sandra look bemused whilst I laugh and scream with relief.

 

 

 

Superstars of Dance looks good ...

 

 

 

Matt and Daphne arrive in the comic store.

Apparently Seth Oz Green heard a legend at a convention, several ‘dudes’ over, that a loose end guy has Isaac's final sketchbook! WOW! Continuity at last?! *falls down and begins praying in gratitude* Isaac sure was a busy little heroin addict, wasn’t he? Not only painting the eight linked paintings of S2, but also predicting a bizarre chain of events well enough to draw a whole slew of Ninth Wonders comics. I mean, at this point I’m willing to accept anything that leads to good artwork and flashback-land, but later on I’m gonna vent about this one …

 

 

Nathan attempts to apologize to Peter ... and starts getting creepy. He sounds an awful lot like Arthur ... but it's actually him. He suddenly wants to be a Senator and save the world via politics and powers combined. WTF, Nathan? Saving two almost-prossies in the jungle does not a humanitarian make! (Writers, might I suggest, I dunno, SAVING AN ENTIRE VILLAGE, thus giving Nathan a new outlook on life, thus gearing him to 'make a difference' and follow Bad-Dad's wishes?) Not listening to me, his brother, or common-sense, Nathan flies away, off to make a 'better' world by giving soldiers abilities. Joy.

 

 

Apparently Flint is alive, but in critical condition. Meredith’s gonna be mad at Mohinder …

Mohinder, it turns out, has stupidly returned to the lab, having nowhere else to go.

"We'll find a cure ...” Arthur promises, and I really hope they do, because the scales are starting to show up on Mohinder’s pretty face too. Ick. “But that monster in you, that's something you're going to have to take care of all by yourself." Ooooooo! Mohinder just got burned, and not by Flint’s lighter! (If you ask me, Mohinder is a more dangerous ‘villain’ this season than Sylar … but neither have very clear mindsets. We can’t predict either of their actions anymore, which makes me wonder if they’re gonna team up or something in the future …)

 

 

Oh my GOD! Sylar kills Elle whilst straddling her! *squeaks and screams into hands*

Ok, I'm horribly depressed that Elle is dead, but ... Sylar is back to his old 'consistent character' self; he's taking killing-for-powers over sex-with-a-girl (possibly the first sex he’s ever had, btw, unless you seriously think Maya slept with him); and Claire can now go on a brand-new vendetta against Sylar because HE KILLED HER GIRLFRIEND! Yowr.

 

[HRG, Nathan, Daphne’s awesome dad, and Arthur better watch their backs, because really, whose father hasn’t Sylar killed? Um … oh, right! Hiro’s dad! Adam killed Hiro’s dad! And Arthur killed Matt’s dad! But really, on this show, any dad who isn’t still breathing or DL has been killed by Sylar.

I seriously now want the EPIC SHOWDOWN next week to be a bunch of pointing around a circle of heroes/villains and yelling of ‘you killed my father/beat up my brother/slept with my sister!’ and massive hair-pulling and slapping on all fronts.]

 

 

On the Roof, Claire is shocked by the whole journey-to-the-past business, and Hiro points excitedly to the comic book. I just hope that this means we'll see Claude again. Please? Please? I've been such a good girl this year Mr. Kring!

 

 

Next Week!

 

 

Meet the future: an old plotline from the 4400!

 

Angela hands Peter a gun and says that he has to kill a male-someone. Probably Nathan, possibly Sylar, who the hell knows anymore?

 

Lots of characters, Peter and the Haitain walking down a hallway, Arthur saying "You came here to kill me" and ... *checks the Canadian/Mexican promos*

Angela is giving Peter a gun to kill his father, because Gaia didn’t have the time to craft a scythe, and the Haitian says that Arthur is dangerous.

Tracey explains to Nathan that once they perfect the formula, they can choose who gets what power. Kewl! That’s totally not gonna, you know, blow up in their faces, or something …

Claire meets her dad (PARADOX! NOOOOOOO! Don’t touch the baby, Rose!) and tries to get a young, sans-HRGs Noah to not answer a phone call, because it will somehow affect Baby!Claire. DO NOT SCREW WITH THE PAST LIKE THAT, you fools! SCREW WITH THE PAST TO BRING ADAM BACK TO LIFE AND KILL MAYA AND SAVE MOHINDER’S STORYLINE!

 

Also, lots of epic scenes and haunting musaq. I predict at least two more (permanent) deaths.

 

 

 

The Graphic Novel:

 

Ouch. Daphne didn’t want to go be tested by the Company (they pretended it was because she was cured of her cerebral palsy, but I don’t blame her for not trusting Thompson) and she actually told her father that she wished he’d died instead. She traveled, and eventually ended up in France, trying to get a job but not having the French to do so, living on the streets (Claude? You there, buddy?) So she started stealing. That awesome guy who can float through walls, Samir I think, hires her and lo, it is awesome. Back to the present, Daphne makes up with her dad, he wants her to stay, but she has to go.

 

 

Heroes, Destiny:

 

The good lighting and fast camera action from S1 seems to have migrated to this little web series. It’s actually pretty good. Santiago and Elisa escape! It’s very thrilling! Great special effects are had by all! They are in Chicago! Back in Peru, Santiago’s mommy reveals herself to be, not only a pyro, but a badass! Santiago gets a call on his SPRINT PHONE © and heads outside. Keychain Agent is approached by Santiago’s daddy, who kills her with electro-light-thingies. (OR DOES HE …?) Santiago sees his dad, who he thought was dead, they hug, and it turns out that Keychain Agent is not actually dead, just resting her evil, lesbian-vibe self.

 

 

 

Comments

[aunt-zelda.livejournal.com]

*huggles you* We'll get through this ... nothing is final on this crazy show, after ... *wibbles*

Yay for Seth Green! *dances* Apparently he and ... that other guy ... asked to be on the show because they like it so much. Hee hee. So cool.

And you quoted Doctor Who in this review! You rock hardcore for that!
Hee hee, thank you very much! (Which bit are you talking about?)

[aunt-zelda.livejournal.com]

I have a sneaking suspicion that next week's meta will be nothing BUT 'DON'T TOUCH THE BABY!' and 'WHERE IS CLAUDE?!'

[summers84.livejournal.com]

YES! I was waiting for someone to write a meta on this episode... I really like your reviews. Like you, I do agree that the pairing of Sylar and Elle were hot but overall, I am a Mylar fan. Mohinder needs to find a cure for his monster transformation and reunite with Sylar.

[aunt-zelda.livejournal.com]

*blushes* You're most welcome! (Thank you for reading and commenting!)

Yeah, Sylar/Elle is hot but ... Mylar trumps it.

Mohinder needs to find a cure for his monster transformation and reunite with Sylar.
AND have his baby! Don't forget that bit!

[misstitania.livejournal.com]

I just can't believe that Nathan played right into his fathers hand, he didn't learn anything from the past two seasons! And then to leave Peter in a jungle without powers.

I was a bit shocked that Sylar killed Elle. I was so sure she was going to be Sylar's baby momma.

I really hope that don't re-write that whole roof scene without Claude! If they can bring Arthur, Maya and Linderman back they can bring back Claude!

One thing I didn't really like was HRG being a voyuer. When last weeks epsiode ended he was watching Elle/Sylar through the scope and they kissed. When this week started they were post-coital which means he watched them have sex! Unless he left for a coffee break.

Breckin' Meyer played "Travis" the stoner in Clueless...the one who was going to jump on the window for bad grades and like Marvin the Martin. He was also in the movies "Rat Race", "Road Trip", and the live action "Garfield" movies. But Seth Green and him were my favorite part of the whole show. I had always wondered what happened to the sketch book and how there kept being new issues of the comic.

[aunt-zelda.livejournal.com]

Nathan's turnaround has something to do with his injected ability. I think there was a mind-control bit in it. Arthur's just gonna sit there and be all 'come to me, son ...' with his mind-powerz. That's the only way to plausibly explain Nathan being so stupid. Two almost-prossies in a jungle does not a humanitarian make. (Hmmmm ... maybe I should put that in my meta ...)

Pssssh, what are you talking about? Mohinder is gonna be Sylar's baby momma!

BRING BACK CLAUDE NOW PLEASE HE IS LOOOOOOOOOOOONG OVERDO!

I think that after kissing, Sylar and Elle immediately fell down to the ground (and out of range) and HRG had to get into a better position (he was rather far away) and they had one of the fasted sex scenes ever.

I never really saw ANY of those movies (apparently he and Seth Green did Robot Chicken together ... I never saw that either) but he's great.

[slavefaith.livejournal.com]

that's how elle dies...

...

lame.

[aunt-zelda.livejournal.com]

I concur! *grumps off*

But ... at least Sylar is back to 'normal' ... right? (He'd BETTER BE ... if Elle died for NOTHING ... *snarls*)

[slavefaith.livejournal.com]

yeah but how she died... SO LAME.

Seriously the writers of Heroes have serious women issues, women are either eternal victims (Claire), evil controlling mommies (Angela) or if you have a power there is a 99.9 percent chance that you are a blonde.

If your not a blonde chances are sylar just killed you.

But again thank you for watching the show so I don't have to. lol

[aunt-zelda.livejournal.com]

Heroes needs to take a leaf out of Joss Whedon's and make some more competent, non-evil women for the show ...

But again thank you for watching the show so I don't have to. lol
Naaaaaw ... I'll tell you when it returns to it's glory state. (I refuse to believe that this 'train wreck' can't be stopped and put back on the tracks ... I REFUSE!)

[lovemyfaceoff.livejournal.com]

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/c0cf508ff8/prop-8-the-musical-starring-jack-black-john-c-reilly-and-many-more-from-fod-team-jack-black-craig-robinson-john-c-reilly-and-rashida-jones

When you get a chance, watch this if you haven't seen it. Cause I think you'll like it a lot.

[aunt-zelda.livejournal.com]

I think I'm in love with you right now ... *flings arms around you*
Oh my GOD ... they're all my heroes! *dances about* That made my sub-par, teetering-on-bad, day SO MUCH BETTER! Hee hee, Jack Black, ILU!

[lovemyfaceoff.livejournal.com]

I thought of you as soon as I saw it.

[phoenixjustice.livejournal.com]

Actually, I REALLY think that Adam will be coming back, I truly do. You wanna know why? Because when we heard the spoilers (or at least *I* heard the spoilers) that two people (who we now know to be Maya and Adam) were never going to be heard from again, stuff DID happen and evil!Arthur hurt our Adam *sob* and Maya left (yay)! But, then we...SEEN MAYA AGAIN. And that wasn't 'supposed' to happen, and if she can come back, and did, then obviously Adam can too.

...I have no idea if that made any sense. I've been up since early this morning, lol, that's my excuse! =P

[aussievamp.livejournal.com]

ELLLLLLLLLEEEEE!!! Damn you Zelda, for making me love her, so they can take her away. *sniffle* I was reli beginning to love her, and was lovin on the whole GabriElle and then... and then... *sob* Whyyyyyyy??? Oh, Sylar, you had her power, why couldn't you just take her w3ith you on your power-taking, hero-killing rampage?!?!?! She was evil too! Stupid boy.
*le sigh* Anyways. Can't wait for the next ep! (Tho it'll be two weeks, cos of the stupid "Amazing race" finale. Grr.)
And Adam will return. It shall happen. I will make it happen. WE will make it happen. *nods*

[phoenixjustice.livejournal.com]

I was loving Elle too. And the GabriElle thing too. D=

We WILL make Adam, come back! You're right! :D xD

[aussievamp.livejournal.com]

As I keep saying, they listened to us and killed Alejandro. They got rid of Maya. They stopped Claire dating. (except slashy moments with Elle, which are completely fine). We have the power. And if we don't, we'll keep eating brains til we get it. *nods*
And I'm totes with the whole "they brought back Dania when they said they wouldn't, so they can bring back David." totes true. Why would he say no? I mean, reli?

[phoenixjustice.livejournal.com]

EXACTLY! =D