If they were building a big lineup of villains, I would have rather seen Adam Monroe in there than the bald pyrotechnic. Tonight was a waste of the character. But I guess somebody has to go if they're going to keep paying Malcolm McDowell to guest star.
Adam Monroe was used as a severe example of how Arthur Petrelli's power works. He has the ability of Power Absorption and by removing Adam's power his body instantly ages hundred of years and he turns to dust. Its an interesting way to permanently remove a character but definitely a waste of a charismatic character. There were other ways they could have gone with it to keep Adam in. Of course this creates a huge plot hole. In Season 1, it was noted that Arthur Petrelli committed suicide six months before "Genesis". Then in Season 2, we learn that Adam Monroe was always a pain in the ass of the Company because of his immortal status and the inability to kill him, yet Arthur Petrelli, who would have always had this ability, finished him off in two seconds. There has to be more explanation on why Arthur let him live all this time when he could have killed him, we got some of that when he said "I could still be some use to you" before dying but its a hole that definitely leaves your head scratching.
One of the best episodes yet I thought. Too bad for Adam but I really like the new puppet master character. And I actually like the direction Syler is taking now.
They are definitely moving Sylar into the anti-hero position although they are allowing him to make too many fatal errors and flaws that we didn't see with Sylar before. He was always calculated and focused before, in part to his ability to see how things work, he'd have the superior intellect to figure out how plans would and wouldn't work and he has lost all of that with his turn towards the "Light Side".
I found it odd that the puppet dude didn't question why Claire's mom pulled the trigger until it actually fired though, or did he make her do that and I missed it.
No, she pulled it. Three times to be exact before getting the final shot. He could have assumed that she was trying to rid the bullet from the gun so then he has no weapon but it didn't fit with how sinister he was being. It didn't make a whole lot of sense in the grand scheme of things.
I didn't care for Hiro's stabbing Ando being freezing time, I'm not really sure how Daphne was unable to speed herself up to beat it, but I guess she already has to be in fast motion when he slows it down for her to be immune.
Exactly, she has to be in current quick speed in order to surpass and even then she can be caught off guard as we saw at Hiro's father's company. She didn't expect him to do it so she had no motive to speed up and catch Hiro off guard.
Peter Losing His Powers Again =
This is a sign that the writers have made Peter too powerful and need to contain him, the same to some extent is happening with Sylar. They don't know what to do with him. The thing is Peter has a huge Hero Complex and the ideals that make him kin to Superman in a lot of respects. Instead of focusing on the saving of humanity and bumping heads with others on how that is done and making Peter the Boy Scout of the crew, they went the other way and gave him a "bloodlust" that drove Sylar. The thing is with his powers coupled with a bloodlust it makes him too powerful so to continue to have the bloodlust storyline they need to "neuter" him.
The writers missed a golden opportunity by Peter not realizing that the future's destruction seems to always revolve around him and making him more of a tortured character, one who has all of these abilities but is afraid to use them unless absolutely necessary.
As for the episode itself, I enjoyed it, I liked the Sylar/Peter fight, well at least the beginning of it and liked the fact that the reason why Daphne and Matt get together isn't fate but his intervention from a future vision. A time paradox where it occurs because of the preview of a possible future and not always slated to occur without that piece. Suresh is continuing to get on my nerves by him being semi-evil as if the writers don't have the balls to just turn him into a villain and Peter's naive ways are starting to grind a bit. As an Empath if he felt something occurring, as Arthur's power drain took about a minute or two, he should have immediately countered by using Arthur's power which he would have already gained against him and just shot them away from one another like two magnets repelling. It was Peter's "even though I'm in the Villain's lair, this is my dad it must be alright" attitude that caused him to be punk'd for better lack of a word.
I liked those parts too. Hiro is such a fun character to have on the show but I look forward to seeing him as Peter did in the future on the train.
