I wouldn't have seen the Sylar-Nathan reveal at all except that last week, I stumbled across someone's spec, based on that snippet of preview where Nathan was all, "I'm the Prettiest Princess ever the most special person in the world," that it would turn out to be Sylar-masquerading-as-Nathan. I thought the spec was far-fetched, but the possibility had been laid out, so I was mostly impressed that the show went there (precisely because I'd thought it was far-fetched; the show still sold it to me, if that makes sense).
ANDO/HIRO FOREVER! I don't say it often that the subtext practically became text, but ... the subtext practically became text. Future!Peter's commentary on how losing Ando destroyed Hiro's very soul kind of, um, sealed the deal.
I'm a little afraid that Ando's going to end up dying anyway
So am I, especially because I feel like there is a suggestion that the future is immutable (I mean, the series could go either way, but it can't be said that the creative team has failed to lay out the possibility that the destruction of New York is inevitable). I think I won't breathe a sigh of relief over Ando until we get to the end credits of the season finale and he's still alive when they start to roll.
I hated Matt with a fiery passion, but we were supposed to, and his actions certainly seem like a logical outgrowth of the path he's on now, especially if he played any role in the transfer of Ted's powers to Peter and the explosion that blew up the city.
Oh, definitely. Part of Matt's characterization, at least in the last handful of episodes, is that he's teetering on the brink between being a good man and a good man who turns to bad because circumstances make him feel like being good nets him nothing worthwhile (I'm thinking of him taking the diamonds after failing to save his bodyguarding charge from Jessica and overhearing the criticisms of him on that point). Also Matt is easily led: if you can offer him something that's appealing or valuable to him, then you have an easier time of manipulating him or getting him to make questionable choices.
I kind of loved he was running the underground railroad up until the point I realized he was deliberately turning some of the heroes in so they'd turn a blind eye to him, and then I was very disenchanted.
I understand that reaction and I actually share it, for the most part. But the thing that still redeems future!Mr. B. for me is that he didn't have to go the extra step of trying to protect additional meta-humans. My impression was that his initial interaction with Matt may have been a one-to-one deal: protect Matt's son in exchange for Matt turning a blind eye on Bennet's harboring of Claire. Mr. B. could have stopped there, but for some reason he didn't. He went beyond merely protecting/helping Claire and that does count for something, I think, because the alternative is that no meta-humans had a chance (or a significantly lesser number of them did).
I totally went to the Sylar!Nathan/Mohinder place. Should I be at all shappalled that going there kind of made me smile? 'Cause it totally did. Sylar's kind of, um, fixated on Mohinder, what with the not being ready to kill him last week and then this week, keeping Mohinder in his pocket the whole time he was impersonating Nathan.
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I wouldn't have seen the Sylar-Nathan reveal at all except that last week, I stumbled across someone's spec, based on that snippet of preview where Nathan was all, "I'm
the Prettiest Princess everthe most special person in the world," that it would turn out to be Sylar-masquerading-as-Nathan. I thought the spec was far-fetched, but the possibility had been laid out, so I was mostly impressed that the show went there (precisely because I'd thought it was far-fetched; the show still sold it to me, if that makes sense).ANDO/HIRO FOREVER! I don't say it often that the subtext practically became text, but ... the subtext practically became text. Future!Peter's commentary on how losing Ando destroyed Hiro's very soul kind of, um, sealed the deal.
I'm a little afraid that Ando's going to end up dying anyway
So am I, especially because I feel like there is a suggestion that the future is immutable (I mean, the series could go either way, but it can't be said that the creative team has failed to lay out the possibility that the destruction of New York is inevitable). I think I won't breathe a sigh of relief over Ando until we get to the end credits of the season finale and he's still alive when they start to roll.
I hated Matt with a fiery passion, but we were supposed to, and his actions certainly seem like a logical outgrowth of the path he's on now, especially if he played any role in the transfer of Ted's powers to Peter and the explosion that blew up the city.
Oh, definitely. Part of Matt's characterization, at least in the last handful of episodes, is that he's teetering on the brink between being a good man and a good man who turns to bad because circumstances make him feel like being good nets him nothing worthwhile (I'm thinking of him taking the diamonds after failing to save his bodyguarding charge from Jessica and overhearing the criticisms of him on that point). Also Matt is easily led: if you can offer him something that's appealing or valuable to him, then you have an easier time of manipulating him or getting him to make questionable choices.
I kind of loved he was running the underground railroad up until the point I realized he was deliberately turning some of the heroes in so they'd turn a blind eye to him, and then I was very disenchanted.
I understand that reaction and I actually share it, for the most part. But the thing that still redeems future!Mr. B. for me is that he didn't have to go the extra step of trying to protect additional meta-humans. My impression was that his initial interaction with Matt may have been a one-to-one deal: protect Matt's son in exchange for Matt turning a blind eye on Bennet's harboring of Claire. Mr. B. could have stopped there, but for some reason he didn't. He went beyond merely protecting/helping Claire and that does count for something, I think, because the alternative is that no meta-humans had a chance (or a significantly lesser number of them did).
I totally went to the Sylar!Nathan/Mohinder place. Should I be at all shappalled that going there kind of made me smile? 'Cause it totally did. Sylar's kind of, um, fixated on Mohinder, what with the not being ready to kill him last week and then this week, keeping Mohinder in his pocket the whole time he was impersonating Nathan.