The Bottom Line: "Great"
Poor Mohinder, he's still paying the price for injecting himself with that syringe all those episodes ago. I don't blame him for wanting to be special but he's a smart guy. He knew the risks and in a way he's got no one but himself to blame for what's happening to him, what he did to Maya, his trouble at Pinehearst. It was nice to see Maya again though, if only for a second.
Hiro's still stuck in ten year old land but on the plus side he made some new friends Breckin Meyers and Seth Green! Yay!!! I'm hoping they stick around for a bit. So fun seeing them, they were so funny! I love that we're meeting new people but the show gives shout outs to the old, Issacc's comic 9th wonders lives on postumusly. But with only one more issue to go it better be a good, with some big reveals.
HRG is such a prick He has the nerve to be angry and vengeful against Sylar, to act like Elle was the only one who helped turn Gabriel into a monster. Yeah okay Gabriel's done a lot of bad things to Claire but HRG acts like he wasn't there, like he isn't just as responsible as Elle. If he and Elle had left him alone he probably wouldn't have even lived and none of this would have happened. In that respect he's almost more responsible. Gabriel developed powers and along with them the hunger, that's not his fault. HRG knew he was pushing him though, he knew something bad would happen and he did it anyway. At least Elle feels the guilt what about HRG? Like I said prick but more on him later.
Speaking of prick's Nathan is so a moron. Peter fights every step away. Fights to be a hero, fights against what's wrong, fights against villains, fights for the people he loves, he fights even when he has no powers to fight with but Nathan. Well I don't want to say he's a tool...but yeah I kind of do. I mean what is with this family? Do Angela and Arthur just inspire idiocy? How is that Peter, the youngest of the bunch is the strongest even without his powers. Both Nathan and Gabriel are totally open to persuasion at each and every turn. I mean after the whole Lindeman/blowing up NY thing I thought Nathan had learned. Guess not, apparently he's stupider then ever. What is it with characters thinking that giving everyone abilities is someone a magical solution? Have they not been watching their own lives? These powers create way way way way way more trouble then they are worth. Power trips, divisions of family, murders of every kind, vendettas. Oh yeah but let's give powers to everyone, we see how well that's working for Mohinder I can just see it working out wonderfully for the world.
But at least there's someone getting it right. Daphne's got her good two shoes on and it looks like she's not taking them off, thank god. I mean can no one be a good guy anymore? I know the volume is entitled villains but geez. After it's revealed that Daph has cerebral palsy I get what she was scared to go against Arthur, if she thought he could put her back in that life then I guess I'd be pretty scared to side against him. But Matt remains loyal to her, I would never expect anything else (he's one of the few good guys who has consistently remained good through all three seasons), even though he doesn't really know all that much about her yet. They have a life in the future but that hasn't happened yet still he's a good boy and helps her, he couldn't save her (though thankfully the exclipse took care of that), but he helped her plenty. Good for him, good being the appropriate word. Some of the other characters could take a lesson from his Daphne's examples.
But back to the Petrelli's, Nathan's not the only having some major troubles. I mean I never knew I could go free feeling so good to feeling so awful in a single hour. This one hurt, big time. A few things I must mention, I wasn't naive enough to think Elle and Sylar had a chance in hell of working out. They've both done so much, been so damaged, and have such complicated lives and situations (not to mention the fact that romances don't last on this show and Kristen Bell was only signed on as a guest star) that there was just no way. But I thought she was a device to save Gabriel not push him over the edge. I figured Elle was his big redemption not his damnation and I was not prepared, despite all that for what happened between them in this episode in more ways then one. But I must say that when the eclipse happened I was concerned that once it was over and Gabriel got the hunger back that it would overwhelm him...
The episode starts with them making love (WOW! And wow!!!) and my mind immediately flashed to little Noah, Sylar's future son. It was there, they had it (maybe not in the literal sense but they were so close). And it was so sweet, they were so sweet. I know it's not as simple as that given who they are and what they've done but they were there. Gabriel proved he cared for Elle, when HRG was hunting them down he stuck with her and when he saw there was no way out and HRG was coming for him specifically he saved Elle. And she could see him, she could see that he changed. She could see the difference between who he was and what wasn't his fault.
When HRG killed Gabriel I went nuts! I mean of course his powers, all their powers, would return after the eclipse was over but still it was jarring to see none the less. Then when he showed up at the Bennet house he let HRG get into his head. After all he has learned, after the time he spent with HRG this season, after all that had happened with Elle he let HRG get to him. I know in part what he said was true, he and Elle didn't have much of a shot but I couldn't believe that he was so easily swayed after everything. Over the years Gabriel has shown he is not a fighter, he's easily swayed and open to influence but I never thought he'd ever believe anything HRG said. Then again maybe he saw something, sensed something, understood something that we don't. It's possible but then again he is on Arthur's team right. He said before he wants to be a good person but in this episode he said 'not good exactly', more like HRG is the perfect way to describe it actually so I guess I shouldn't be surprised that he listened to him. Man I never thought that would happen but then again you could say that about a ton of things this episode. Whether HRG was telling the truth or was right about anything he said is important though, not so much about all the Elle/Sylar stuff but about who Gabriel's parents really are. That's one important fact that some people questioned from the start, I remember before the big reveal a lot of people here on the forums suspected that it was just way to good of twist to be real. I was convinced it was, I mean what about Peter? He and Gabriel are alike in almost every way you think, their powers are majorly alike (and this season almost exactly the same) and there's other small moments over the years looking back where it seemed so much like they were connected in some way (anyone remember their fight in Mohinder's apartment where Sylar cuts Peter's hair and killed him. He had Peter but then as he was slicing his head he hesitated for what seemed like no reason to me). Could all that be a lie? I wouldn't put it past Angela or Arthur but still....
It might not even matter though, Gabriel completely and utterly gave into the hunger. He cast aside everything he worked for this season, everything he had felt over these last eleven episodes and let himself be manipulated yet again. Over these past three seasons he has upset me majorly, killing and doing horrible things, but I could almost forgive him all that because it was his fault. Maybe not forgive but understand in a certain way, like Elle. Understand the difference anyway. But that he would surrender so completely to the hunger, to suggestion, to someone (HRG) who's done nothing but ruin damage and attempt to destroy I don't know how he can recover (especially if he's not a Petrelli). I don't know how he can come back from killing someone he clearly cared about, from killing Elle. From killing the best chance he had at best kind of future he could have had. All that died with Elle when he killed her. I don't know how he'll survive.
So I would definitely consider this one of the weirdest blogs I've ever done 
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