"UH OH".
...I got hooked on Ugly Betty Season 3.
And I will regretfully ignore any lame comments about me watching Ugly Betty, thankyewverymuch.
As for Heroes, I'm in the middle of my recap, for two days now, and I just can't bring myself to finish it. One, I'm lazy, true. Two, I don't have to use recapping as an escape from studying. Three, it was such a utter mess. So many characters were out-of-character.Although, that also meant Hiro was not his usual pain-in-the-butt self. And I didn't think this day would arrive so quickly... but at one point in the stupid episode, I honestly hoped Noah would just kill Sylar and Elle. Yes, you don't know how shocking that is for me. (Pun intended.)
Oh what the heck. I'll do a whole new recap now.
(and look what I've found! taken from watchingheroes.com)
Arthur Petrelli continues his prophe-drawing, and now has a portfolio of prophe-pictures, including, Claire dying, Sylar and Elle making out, Peter and Nathan falling out of the sky, and the Eclipse. (Which is already so near that the shadow is showing in the sky, so I have no idea why he needed to draw that. Even Angela has more sense to simply look out of the window.) Oh, and my personal favourite, the picture of Arthur dying.Both Papa and Mama Petrelli delegate jobs to their own team mates, and that sets the course for this week's episode. Claire, the catalyst, questions "why is it always [her]?", and so do the rest of us. Girl, do you seriously think we like seeing a whiner being the centre of the show? Angela places her in the care of her adoptive father, Noah, and they head of Stephen Canfield's now vacant house. Where Claire continues on with the daddy issues. Like, again?! How many times has she hated her father and loved him again and hated him and loved him again and hated him and loved him again and hated him and loved him........
Sylar and Elle have orders from Papa Petrelli to find Claire, seeing as she's the catalyst. Sylar is now a company tool. Yes sir, no sir, three bags full sir, kinda tool. And Elle was a three bags full tool before, so she's trying to make Sylar think for himself now and not be manipulated by them. Unfortunately, that means he presummably kills a car-rental store guy under Elle's manipulation. (WHAT?!) They find Claire and Noah, and are about to kill Noah, but the handy dandy Eclipse arrives just in time and they are left powerless. Of course, in the land of powerless people, Noah, the only guy with the gun, is King. He starts his "baseball fighting" skills and that's when I started to go, "KILL THEM NOAH! KILL THEM!" Elle gains control of the gun in the fight, and that makes her Queen, and she's about to shoot Noah, when Claire decides she loves her father again, and takes the bullet for him. But hey, she can heal so no problem right?
Wrong.
The eclipse took away her powers too. She has a hole in her shoulder, Noah works his own non-magically mojo and brings her back to Sandra. Noah runs off, to snipe Elle and Sylar.. Who have woken up, realised their powers were gone, and decided that making out the best thing to do. (WHAT?!) While Noah is gone, Sandra realises that Claire has really died. (But we all know that particular death will not stick. Because the show is "always about her". UGH! which is the same sound Matt makes somewhere in the episode, for real.)
Elsewhere, Nathan and Peter take a plunge, when the eclipse happens and Air Nathan runs into some turbulence. They're actually in Haiti, looking for the Haitian, who can neutralise Arthur's powers. Anyways, they fall into the jungle and begin to quarrel like siblings about something, I'm not sure what. I'm agreeing with Nathan regardless anyways. The Haitian finds them instead of the other way around, because they are making such a din. And then, Samedi, the Haitian's brother, shows up and takes Nathan hostage as the other two escape. Seems like Arthur got into contact with Samedi, who has the power to turn his skin impentrable. But with the (stupid) eclipse in effect.........
Matt and Daphne have been tasked to find Hiro, and by default, Ando since they are like two peas in a Japanese pod. Before they even leave Matt's apartment, Daphne starts worrying about being a villain and how Arthur will "return her to the state he found her before". LIKE... AGAIN. Whatever show, enough with the same scenes over and over again. And like it was with the Haitian and the Petrelli brothers, Hiro and Ando find Matt and Daphne instead. Angela should just fire all her team players, they're not very good at their jobs.
Daphne speeds off after she has more doubt and Arthur's-revenge issues, and Hiro and Ando save the day by refering to their prophetic comic book, which tells them they need to be at Lawrence, Kansas, where Daphne's home is. I'll put my qualms about who's drawing the stupid comic book aside, because Hiro is much wiser in this episode like he was in season 1. Plus, it's Lawrence, Kansas man. Maybe Daphne knows the Winchester brothers from Supernatural who lived there when they were young. Anyways, just as they teleport to the big corn field outside her house, the eclipse happens and they all lose their powers.
After more wise-sagey sayings from the 10yearHiro, Matt decides to press on and go in. Here's when we realise that Daphne, without her powers, suffers from polio or something, and she requires braces and crutches to walk about. Another pretty cool moment for me, if I don't try and understand how she got her powers in the first place. Because the graphic novel on the website says she got it through the eclipse. WHICH MAKES NOOOO SENSE AT ALL, SHOW, because then how would Arthur have had his hold on Daphne?!
Meh meh, Hiro and Ando try to figure out what's happening with everyone's powers, and Hiro brilliantly notes that it's wednesday -- New Comic Book Day! So they head off to Sam's comics in Texas to look for a new 9th wonders! comic book. The manager, or owner, or worker or whatever and his friend recognise Hiro and Ando from the comic books, and blah.. that's how we end the entire lame episode, which was not bad if you took it at face value. But if you tried to think about the science of it, it was an utter mess.
Firstly, the heroes did not first get their powers when the first eclipse happened. Case in point? Oh gee. I wonder who. I mean Nathan, Niki, DL, Micah, Elle, Adam, Claire, Peter, Eden and alot of other people gained their powers BEFORE the first eclipse in season 1. But I'm sure they're just the exception to this (STUPID) eclipse thing.
Secondly, the writers said themselves in an early interview, that the eclipse was just a good connecting point for all the different characters, who happen to see the same eclipse happening. Good for story-telling and linking scenes.
Thirdly... it just doesn't make a lick of sense. And what's up with Sylar and Elle. Here you have 2 great actors who did their parts really well, but the incredulous plot was just that... too incredible. Not the "WOW, that was incredible", incredible mind you. More like the, "I can't give you any credit" incredible.
No pictures this week. The episode didn't deserve it.
(And I'm lazy because I've procrastinated over the past 2 days and I just want to get it over with.)
And I'm not ready to accept whatever lame reason the show will come up with.
As Matt Parkman would say. "URG!"
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