HEROES: The Hard Part

Another great episode.

Another great review.

No need to say anymore than this - I too am glad that they will have new storylines and new characters each season. Whether that means keeping most, some, or none of the characters from the current season matters little to me if they can do a similar job next year!

Man, I hope you guys don't actually get paid to write these articles and reviews! If you actually paid attention to the episode you reviewed, you'd know how it was that Claire and Peter knew where to find Ted. Might I suggest you start watching these episodes twice before you write your review.

Well, I wouldn't say that you shouldn't review the episodes, but you really should pay closer attention. I mean it is pretty clear that they know where to find Ted through Peter`s drawing.
And I think that DL`s character is only boring because the writers don't really write any good stuff for him. He is like a 3rd tier character only there as filler for the Micah/Jessica storyline. He is like Anakin Skywalkers mother in Ep 1. He is used as a catalyst. The rest of the heroes are pretty much on a mission and are parts of a puzzle they are bent on solving. Up until this point DL has only been worried about taking care of Micah and Jessica. Of course its going to be boring. They can`t have every character be a Wolverine or Cap. They need a Hawkeye or Nightcrawler.

I don't think Sylar was too powerful and able to break out of the time freeze, I think Hiro's concentration broke because he was about to kill someone. At the same time Sylar moves, his mother falls to the ground too.

Also, please, I beg you, stop with the HRG crap. He has a name. We've known it for a very very long time. You don't go around calling Claire "The Cheerleader."

Peter and Claire weren't going to the square with the fountain to find Ted. They went there because Peter's drawing showed the man exploding in that place and wether that man was Ted, Peter or Sylar they wanted to scope out the situation and try to take control of it and therefore stop it. It might not be the best judgement for Peter to go there if he thinks it might be him, but Peter acts from emotion not logic sometimes. And since the explosion isn't due to happen till after the election they think it's safe.

Peter and Claire did not know that Bennett, Parkman and Ted were going to be walking by that place at that time. But when Claire saw her father she ran to him and Peter followed her over, getting too close to Ted in the process.

For what it's worth, I don't think this causes his explosion. I still expect Sylar to be involved somehow and since he is on the move and devestated over his mother's death, who knows what he will do.

In that same scene just before Peter started to light up, did anyone notice the hard alpha dog looks that Peter and Matt exchanged? What was up with that? They've only met once before and now when they meet the looks they gave each other were downright hostile.
Was this a bit of foreshadowing by the writers? Could they be related?

Its kind of ironic that he went to his mother for love and a good reason not to be the psycho killer he is, but she`s more of an influence in actually wanting to continue what he is doing and even giving him the idea that we see come to fruition in the last episode(Him essentially becoming president).
We get a glimpse into the psychology of his world and where his motivation to become something more than he is comes from.

Of course, we won't see Peter explode in the next episode because it's still too soon. But, with the explosive power building up in him, he needs to find a way to control it quickly. My guess: Mr. Bennett will say something like "imagine putting your hands in a bucket of ice water" or similar. Then the power will recede in Peter. Bennett has already coached Ted and Matt to use their powers to escape from Primatech, so I'm betting that Bennett is starting to be a type of "Professor Xavier" type to the free Heroes.

Gotta agree with Nax37--Sylar didn't resist Hiro's time-freezing, Hiro broke his concentration thinking about killing Sylar. Sylar may be ultra-powerful, but he does not possess any powers that are remotely close to Hiro's ability to alter space/time.

I also agree that Hiro either lost his concentration or hesitated longer than he could sustain the time freez.

I loved this episode but it does raise. And just in time for mother's day.

What did writers' or producers' mothers ever do to them.

The messageof this ep seems to be: if you ever feel tempted to blow up millions of people or let millions of people to advance your political carreer, it's probably your mom'as falt.

Seriously, when is the most maturnal mother in the episode you know there's something wrong.

Okay, Sylar's mom's domineering just a little messed up. Given what we know about Sylar, not a huge surprise.
But Nate's mom boosting the Linderman plan and pressuring Nate to play his part. That's a little disturbing even given what qwe know about her.

I love the spin "Audrey" puts on Sylar's by the way, she gives us a wonderfully nuanced character in fairly breife time. Makes Norman Bates's seem TV sitcom like , by comparison. And we sort of get to feel for Sylar and understand how he got on the path he did.

Sentimemntal sap I am, I also liked the reunion between Claire and Bennet, and that she still calls him "Dad". I have to wonder if bennet knows the "Walker" system is actually a little girl, Molly Walker, being treated for a terminal illness and will there infiltration screw up her getting cured.

And does the Company really want the cure to the supers disease for her or do they want it so they can make a disease that Mohinder's antibodies wont work on. Maybe that's what Claude learned that drove him away from the Company.