Monday February 9, 2009
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Our heroes truly become fugitives, and they are on the run from one of their own. Sylar begins the search for his father, and Matt's paintings reveal a dark fate.
Read Full Recap » (warning: possible spoilers!)After the plane crash, our Heroes run from Nathan's men. Tracy and Peter join forces, Matt finds that a dark fate awaits a person close to him, Claire is given a free pass once again and Sylar finds someone who knows where his father is. hide show
The second chapter of the fourth volume is clearly an improvement over the first one. After the plane crash, seen in the previous chapter, our Heroes run away from Nathan's men to avoid being captured. Peter and Claire run away when Noah catches up and threatens Peter. He lets him go but takes Claire with him. Peter leaves and finds a scared Tracy who he convinces to fight back and together find a way to escape. When they ambush one of Nathan's men, Tracy communicates with Nathan and arranges a meeting. She agrees to give Peter to Nathan and in exchange she would be left alone. Nathan agrees. At the meeting point, things turn ugly, when Tracy thinks Nathan is really trying not to hurt them but help them. Peter manages to escape with Nathan's power and with a little help from Noah (Noah pretends he can't shoot Peter and so he lets him escape, despite the Hunter's objections). Tracy is taken away.
Hiro, Mohinder and Matt join forces when Matt goes into trance mode and starts drawing pictures that might help them escape. The only picture that Matt first notices is that of a blonde woman being shot and is non-other than Daphne. Thinking he can save her from being shot, he runs back to the plane crash place followed by Hiro and Mohinder.
Meanwhile, Daphne meets up with Ando who exchange thoughts and realize that maybe both Hiro and Matt might be in the same danger and need to be saved. So, they join forces and arrive at Arkansas using Daphne's superspeed. There, Daphne sees Claire who was previously captured by Noah. There she superspeeds and saves her. Matt, Ando, Hiro, Mohinder, Daphne and Claire reunite but Nathan's men find them and commence shooting. Daphne is shot and so is Claire and Matt saves them by using his telepathy. Claire is re-captured by the Hunter and brought back to Costa Verde. There she receives a hopeful message by an unknown person who tells her that there is still hope and to keep her eyes open.
All of these, are told by Nathan to Angela 43 hours later, who tells him that he has brought this on himself.
Finally, Sylar is at the house next to his father's and tries to get some answers concerning his father's whereabouts from Agent Simmons (the guy who almost killed during last episode). When the inhbitants of the house, Mary Campbell and her son Luke return home, things turn ugly. Luke reveals a power of his own (microwave emission) to Sylar and even saves Sylar from Agent Simmons when the latter tries to shoot him. With Agent Simmons gone, Sylar realizes there is no way to find his dad and leaves. Luke follows him and tells him to take him with him as he can't stay at home now (he killed Agent Simmons with his power). Also, he reveals he knows where Sylar's dad is (something that is varified by Sylar's lie detection power) and so Sylar takes him along.
A quite impressive episode. I found it better than the previous one. I like the whole idea of our Heroes coming together and agree to run away. Sylar's story (although a different part than the rest) is also excellent and Dan Byrd is excellent as Luke Campbell. But the highlight of this episode and of the whole volume if I may is Zeljko Ivanec (aka the Hunter) whose portrayal is magnificent. Key facts: Angela's and Noah's involvement in the fugitives story which might be more than you think. Also, notice the message sent to Claire at the end of the episode by an unknown person. That person will be revealed later on and is one you already know. Enjoy!
Good Solid Episode. Jumps around a lot making it hard to follow at times, but comes together in the end. hide show
Pretty solid episode with the heroes and villain's on the run from Nathan Petrelli and his band of mercenaries. From the beginning Nathan is on the phone discussing the situation with someone in different scenes throughout the episode and it turns out to be Angela Petrelli. Nathan is asking her to take care of Peter when he comes to her as he always does.
The heroes are being hunted and killed by a group of mercenaries working for Nathan Petrelli. Daphne is shot and killed in the process. Parkman has visions and paints them. Peter rounds up the heroes and tells them that they can fight back and must fight back.
Sylar finds a family that knows where his father is and the son (Luke)agrees to take him to him if he can go with Sylar. Luke takes the keys to his mothers car and they go after Sylar's father.
Claire is rescued by HGR from the mercenaries in the beginning and sent home. She starts getting text messages from someone who says they can fight back. It is presumably Peter Petrelli.
As stated earlier a pretty solid episode, jumping around a lot, causing it to be hard to follow at times, but still leaves you able to follow the plot of the episode.
What a difference a simple production staff change makes, eh? hide show
What a difference a simple production staff change makes, eh? Please welcome into the fray Mr. Mark Verherden, the man responsible for penning some of the greatest (among many great) episodes of Battlestar Galactica in the last couple of years; thankfully, he's now been poached by Kring and is setting his mind to scribing beauties like 'Trust and Blood'. Granted, there's nothing particularly awe-inspiring about the plot: the premise retains the air of simplicity struck up in last week's volume premiere, focusing on individual efforts to escape the clutches of the dreaded Nathan/Andre Drazen machine (oh and Sylar's hunt to find his father) but this is, in itself, breathing life into the tapestry of the show. Verherden's script just orchestrates the whole thing with such flair and panache that you can't help but be impressed. I mean, check out the dialogue man! How much of an improvement is this! Aside from a slightly mawkish final scene between Peter, Hiro, Ando, Matt and Mohinder, the clumsy one-liners delivered cheesily to camera and coming across forced and unbelievable are gone. In their place, we have intelligent conversation (such as the social debate between Nathan and his Hunter) and words that flow from the actors' mouths and,, more importantly, that are damn well in character. Matt, Hiro and Mohinder's lines as a trio in particular are indicative of this but, to be honest, it's difficult to pinpoint specific examples because the quality permeates the entire script.
Verherden is a master at making something interesting out of the apparently mundane. His narrative doesn't simply coast along on fabulaic auto-pilot, revealing events in a standard syntagmatic fashion. Instead, he interjects the plot's development with flashes of a future (in terms of the story chronology) piece, in which Nathan is relaying the details of 'Trust and Blood's contemporary sequences to an unknown listener, later revealed to be the sinister Angela. This not only gives credence to some of Nathan's actions and begins to allow us to see why he's turned into a mini-Hitler (just without the blood-lust... yet), it also lends the narrative an original sheen that has perhaps been missing from previous episodes. It displaces the viewer for it is outside of the chronological story development and that's just the kind of thing the show should be doing more: surprising us in whatever ways possible.
Speaking of surprises, poor poor Daphne. Gone bye bye... well, we think. And we barely knew her. I quite enjoyed her character and I question the sense in getting rid of someone with so much potential so flippantly (shock value, much?) but, there again, the desired effect is achieved: it gives us all the opportunity to sit bolt upright and scream "you what?" at the TV. There's also the final scene with Tracey which seems a little ominous... what are they doing to her/where are they taking her? Nathan remarks 'don't fight it' and the anchoring/presentation of the scene seems to suggest there is something significantly bad going on: is it just that she's being carted off to some concentration camp or are they actually going to kill her? Nicely ambiguous that one. And so, for that matter, is Sylar's story which finally, after all these weeks, is actually becoming interesting again. His screen time is kept to just the right level and his dialogue is replete with the kind of unrelenting, warped malice that made us all love to hate him back in season one. No cheesy one-liners, no questioning his own innate evilness... just backwards psychology and manipulative b*****ddom. Zachary Quinto is wonderful when he's psychoanalysing the crazed mother/son relationship and thankfully, the child that he's been given to play off seems to be a very competent young actor too... so no cringe worthy moments to come, hopefully. I like this development in all honesty because it really is something completely new. It offers u a whole wealth of possibilities for Sylar's previously stilted narrative... oh, and how cool was the torture? That **** looked nasty...
Last week, I wrote that that I was fearful that 'Fugitives' might end up becoming a victim of its own simplicity, turning into one long, drawn out chase narrative that could bore the tweed off a Physics lecturer. While 'Trust and Blood' keeps the story simple, certainly, it circumnavigates this problem by keeping the writing strong, believable and, most importantly of all, finding fresh ways to present it. Well done Kring: poaching Verherden was a masterstroke. Now just get him to write the rest of the season. Ta.
The war has begun. Blood has been spilled on both sides and there's no going back. hide show
The episode starts 43 hours later… we've got fugitives! Check out the board behind Nathan with all the photos. Who got out? Matt, Mohinder, Hiro, Peter, Claire, Tracy. Bennet lets Peter go but keeps Claire with him. The crash site is blown up. It's turned into 'us vs them', even Mohinder tells Hiro to turn himself in, he's not one of 'us' anymore.
Danko tells Nathan the fugitives are now terrorists, shoot to kill. Nathan's plan just to detain them just blew up in his face.
Peter intends going back for Nathan and we learn the extent of his powers now – he can only have one power at a time. Daphne tells Ando Matt's missing and they go to the rescue, except Matt's painting shows Daphne shot. While Nathan and Bennet argue about Claire, Daphne rescues Claire.
Then the unthinkable happens – fight or flight kicks in: when Daphne is shot, Claire tries to protect her and is also shot, Matt gets inside the shooter's head and turns him on his men, who is then taken down by Danko and Claire is recaptured. Nathan is using his rapidly dwindling credit to keep Claire free but he's running out of time.
Sylar starts playing house, trying to get one of the soldiers to talk but instead finds a teenager with a microwave ability. Nathan doesn't realize this, he knows too little about the future, but more and more people are getting abilities, it can't be stopped by taking out some of the key players, this is evolution. The kid accidentally kills the soldier and wants to leave with Sylar, the one person who can understand his ability, even teach him to use it. We all know what happened to Sylar's last partner.
Tracy phones Nathan to ransom Peter to Nathan, who immediately is willing to negotiate. Peter, on the other hand, "He's not my brother anymore, Tracy." But Nathan's not doing this for warm brotherly love, he brought Bennet and Danko with him. Bennet won't shoot Peter, Claire would never forgive him and deep down, I think Bennet knows this is wrong. Even with a gun to his head, Nathan refuses to negotiate and Peter flies away, leaving Tracy to be taken. "This is the beginning." Have I mentioned how sexy Peter is when he's dangerous?! Nathan thanks Bennet for not killing Peter. Is our Nathan still in there? "Both sides have tasted blood, the next move is theirs."
The players are already aligning with Peter. It's starting. Peter is already taking up his mantle as leader and everyone is listening to him. They must abandon their old lives and prepare for the war that's coming.
Knowing the mess he's made, Nathan phones Mommy for reassurance but she tells him to get lost. He thought he didn't need her and now that he does, it's too late. Peter won't trust Angela, mother or not, he knows what she's capable of.
Seems there's a mystery player who's on our side, someone who calls themselves 'Rebel'.
I have to admit, I was a little worried at the beginning of season 3, wasn't sure where the story was headed and it even seemed as if it was a repeat of the 'save the world' storyline of season 1 but I'm not worried anymore. I love where this is going, the war that's coming, even Peter vs Nathan. I'm very relieved.
Keeps getting better and better! hide show
I liked this episode it was great but I view all the Heroes episodes as a great thrill to watch. We now know that Nathan has become a complete bugger and decided to lock up his old mates due to him viewing them as dangerous but here's the catch, he's one of em too! Why the hell did he want an army of them then? Well it now turns out since the plane with out super powered friends crashed all the heroes are now free and trying to escape but now as Peter put it 'their lives as they knew them are over...' Bit of a bummer but they have super powers so it all evens out in the end. While the heroes try and figure out a plan to escape and Hiro wishes for his powers back as do I :(, it seems that bloke with the gun, HRG and Noah are trying to figure out how to get them back blah blah blah. Sylar also got himself a new sidekick whom I found the most interesting part of the episode. Yes Luke is this cool new character who is like a young Sylar but he ain't got the serial killer part down yet and his ability is microwave emission. Sounds lame but in actual fact is a power I would be proud to have :D. So yeah its a cool episode I liked and Luke is proving to be one of my particular favourites so don't kill him off like you do with other cool characters I like >:(.
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