So the frustratingly lackluster third season of
Heroes is now in the books. Though the season was largely a disappointment, “Fugitives,” the fourth “volume” of the series, ended on a (mostly) high note with surprise twists we haven’t seen since that stellar first season. (Has it really been just two years since we learned how to stop an exploding man?)
The big moment we've craved this season finally came in “An Invisible Thread” when Sylar, whose depravity seemed to grow with each new personality he shape-shifted into, sliced Nathan’s throat (why not his forehead?). The real twist, however, is that Company cohorts Noah and Angela enlist Matt’s (reluctant) help in mind-wiping Sylar — captured by Peter, of all people, who uses an uncharacteristic show of audacity to turn the tables on Sylar — into believing he’s Nathan. “Nathan” can use his clout as a Senator to convince the President to call off his crusade against the heroes and instead fund the Company, version 2.0.
On other fronts, Hiro finally shut up about "being a hero" and did something, shutting down Building 26. Most memorable was his awesome rebuke (translated from Japanese) to Danko’s stormtroopers: “Payback is very bitchy.”
In traditional
Heroes style, the episode ended with a tease of the next volume — the appropriately titled “Redemption” — complete with the return of Tracy, who is now a water-based killer. Yawn. And SyNathan, back in office, tells his mom that he’s not feeling like himself. Uh oh. Hopefully this doesn’t mean the status quo will be restored by the first commercial break in September.
Does this give the show potential to redeem itself? Or was this a case of too little, too late?
For Matt Roush’s take on the season finale, click
here.
To watch "An Invisible Thread," click
here.