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Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Heroes Meets The L Word in 4.5

An excellent episode 4.5 of Heroes last night - in fact, the best episode of the new season - in which we get some good progress on Claire's story...

Turns out that Claire's roommate Gretchen (Californication's Madeline Zima) is the not the source of Claire's worst problems. Gretchen didn't kill Claire's original room mate, nor is she trying to keep Claire from making friends at school, nor is she stalking Claire for any reason other than -

Gretchen has a crush on Claire, and gives her a pretty deep kiss, which Claire - surprised but certainly not repelled - permits. Raises some interesting possibilities, and it's good to see that Madeline Zima is being true to her frisky Californication history.

But if not Gretchen, who is the potentially deadly adversary for Claire? A sorority girl, who is really working for Samuel's increasingly more nefarious carnival group.

Meanwhile, Peter's also finding romance, in a tender story with Emma, who sees colors for sounds, and at first has no interest in Peter. But he's picked up her power - an heroic kind of synaesthesia - and by the end of the episode, they're making nice music together. Just music for now.

And Sylar is slowly regaining his identity, after being apparently killed again, but recovering, because he does have Claire's powers. Will Sylar turn out a better person in his gradual self-reconstruction?

Not likely. On the other hand, Samuel's people may well be the worst threat.

See also Heroes Season 4 Premiere: Metaphysics, University, Carnival








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3 comments:

Joy Leftow said...

one of my fav shows. thanks for the update

Paul Levinson said...

My pleasure - and welcome to Infinite Regress.

Nick Leshi said...

The Invisible Girl subplot is interesting. I was getting worried that they were dragging out the Tattooed Man story, now we're finally getting somewhere. (I still wish they'd bring back the Invisible Man character that they introduced in season one before he "disappeared" for good.)

I'm loving the Sylar storyline and I'm curious to see where they go with it.

The deaf woman who "sees" sounds as colors is, in my opinion, unfortunately another example of them throwing unnecessary new characters into the mix at the expense of focusing on more captivating plots with the already established characters.

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