Heroes: Nothing to Hide
Nothing to Hide continued the evolving plotlines of Heroes, but despite including an explosion did nothing to blow me away.
The episode did not contain the usual vague introduction by Mohinder (Sendhil Ramamurthy), instead opening inside a dream of Peter (Milo Ventimiglia). This subconscious interaction with Charles Deveaux (Richard Roundtree) must be linked to Peter's empathetic power. It has also been alluded to before, when Peter mentioned the Nathan's (Adrian Pasdar) accident. Since it seems that these dreams relate to things that are currently happening, rather than having a precognitive nature, I can't really see any practical application in them. Unfortunately for Peter, it seems you can't spell empathetic without pathetic.
Nathan's accident appears to be the one in which his wife Heidi (Rena Sofer) was injured. I'm not sure if her paralysis is going to have any further impact on the story - perhaps an island break will provide a wonder cure, a la John Locke. I'm not going to go into the Petrelli family brunch, except to say that certain people really need to lay off the snark and passive-aggressiveness.
Lyle (Randall Bentley) did his best to live up to the stereotype of the bratty little brother.
I'm not sure about anyone else, but even if I discovered that my sibling was indestructible, my first reaction would not be to put a staple in their hand. I did enjoy Zach's (Thomas Dekker) disparaging remark when Lyle mentioned YouTube. From the rather awkward hug that Claire (Hayden Panettiere) and Lyle shared, I'm not sure that this extreme example of sibling rivalry is resolved just yet.
Poor Officer Matt, through his telepathy, learned that his wife Janice (Lisa Lackey) had an affair. I'm not particularly surprised, given her previous coldness towards him. Add that to he fact that Matt is played by Greg Grunberg, who has a tendency to get the short end of the stick in every character that he portrays. I can see why she would get frustrated with him, though, as Matt is a little dim at times - as I've mentioned before, he is not a good communicator, evidenced by the fact that he punched Tom (Rick Peters) rather than verbally confronted him.
Agent Audrey (Clea DuVall) thinks that Sylar has struck again, but we discover that this latest death is actually the work of Theodore Sprague (Matthew John Armstrong) who has the ability to emit radiation. Once again, it is hard to see how this could benefit humanity, except maybe to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels - and anyway, who really wants a human reactor in their backyard? In fact, will he be the cause of the blast that Isaac (Santiago Cabrera) foresaw?
It is really awful that his power led to the death of his wife, and I can only imagine how this guilt and emotional distress is going to impact on the character. I can't really see Ted's new capacity improving his evolutionary fitness, and I doubt he will be a candidate for natural selection - besides, his radioactivity is likely to kill of any potential bearers of his offspring.
The scene at the hospital was actually quite touching, with Matt relaying Karen Sprague's thoughts. Since he seems intent to destroy his career as a cop, perhaps he should consider marriage counselling?
Niki (Ali Larter) finally revealed the name of her reflective self - Jessica. Thankfully, this means I no longer have to keep coming up with various synonyms for 'alter ego.' Hiro (Masi Oka), Ando (James Kyson Lee), Micah (Noah Gray-Cabey) and DL (Leonard Roberts) had a chance encounter, appropriately enough at the site of a collision. It was great to see DL and Hiro working together to save the crash victim, even if they weren't aware of it. We also discovered that Micah has the ability to manipulate electronic items, which links in with the reference at the beginning of the season to his fondness of computers. It certainly is a great power to have in this computer age, but I think even he would tremble in fear at the blue screen of death...
As for the title, it would appear on the surface that the Heroes have everything to hide, for fear that the world will reject them. However, secrets rarely stay secrets for long, and there is nothing left to hide when the truth comes out.
*Screencap courtesy of the Heroes Wiki, and used under Fair Dealing for identification and critical commentary.
The episode did not contain the usual vague introduction by Mohinder (Sendhil Ramamurthy), instead opening inside a dream of Peter (Milo Ventimiglia). This subconscious interaction with Charles Deveaux (Richard Roundtree) must be linked to Peter's empathetic power. It has also been alluded to before, when Peter mentioned the Nathan's (Adrian Pasdar) accident. Since it seems that these dreams relate to things that are currently happening, rather than having a precognitive nature, I can't really see any practical application in them. Unfortunately for Peter, it seems you can't spell empathetic without pathetic.
Nathan's accident appears to be the one in which his wife Heidi (Rena Sofer) was injured. I'm not sure if her paralysis is going to have any further impact on the story - perhaps an island break will provide a wonder cure, a la John Locke. I'm not going to go into the Petrelli family brunch, except to say that certain people really need to lay off the snark and passive-aggressiveness.
Lyle (Randall Bentley) did his best to live up to the stereotype of the bratty little brother.
Lyle watches Claire's tape*
Poor Officer Matt, through his telepathy, learned that his wife Janice (Lisa Lackey) had an affair. I'm not particularly surprised, given her previous coldness towards him. Add that to he fact that Matt is played by Greg Grunberg, who has a tendency to get the short end of the stick in every character that he portrays. I can see why she would get frustrated with him, though, as Matt is a little dim at times - as I've mentioned before, he is not a good communicator, evidenced by the fact that he punched Tom (Rick Peters) rather than verbally confronted him.
Agent Audrey (Clea DuVall) thinks that Sylar has struck again, but we discover that this latest death is actually the work of Theodore Sprague (Matthew John Armstrong) who has the ability to emit radiation. Once again, it is hard to see how this could benefit humanity, except maybe to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels - and anyway, who really wants a human reactor in their backyard? In fact, will he be the cause of the blast that Isaac (Santiago Cabrera) foresaw?
It is really awful that his power led to the death of his wife, and I can only imagine how this guilt and emotional distress is going to impact on the character. I can't really see Ted's new capacity improving his evolutionary fitness, and I doubt he will be a candidate for natural selection - besides, his radioactivity is likely to kill of any potential bearers of his offspring.
The scene at the hospital was actually quite touching, with Matt relaying Karen Sprague's thoughts. Since he seems intent to destroy his career as a cop, perhaps he should consider marriage counselling?
Niki (Ali Larter) finally revealed the name of her reflective self - Jessica. Thankfully, this means I no longer have to keep coming up with various synonyms for 'alter ego.' Hiro (Masi Oka), Ando (James Kyson Lee), Micah (Noah Gray-Cabey) and DL (Leonard Roberts) had a chance encounter, appropriately enough at the site of a collision. It was great to see DL and Hiro working together to save the crash victim, even if they weren't aware of it. We also discovered that Micah has the ability to manipulate electronic items, which links in with the reference at the beginning of the season to his fondness of computers. It certainly is a great power to have in this computer age, but I think even he would tremble in fear at the blue screen of death...
As for the title, it would appear on the surface that the Heroes have everything to hide, for fear that the world will reject them. However, secrets rarely stay secrets for long, and there is nothing left to hide when the truth comes out.
Overall Rating
*Screencap courtesy of the Heroes Wiki, and used under Fair Dealing for identification and critical commentary.
Passionate Apathy
His desire to learn the nature of his power and how to use it would make him the endearing underdog in most such series- not his fault that Hiro has more charm than the rest of the cast combined.
A little? Without telepathy, most of the time he'd have no thoughts in his head at all.
Why would it necessarily be a benefit to all of humanity? Genetic mutations are random events, and one would expect a fair number of them to work against species or even individual survival. Once/if Sprague learns to control his power, it would help increase his own chances of survival and reproduction, which is all that the genes in question care about.
Perhaps I did go a little easy on Matt, but it's only because I always have a soft spot for Greg Grunberg's characters. You're right though - he is as thick as a fortress wall.
While not relevant in a strict evolutionary sense, the show is called Heroes, which is why I mentioned the benefit to humanity - plus I also wanted to use the fossil fuels line
As I said in the post, Ted is going to have get a handle on that whole 'poisoning any potential mates' thing if he wants to reproduce!
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(but because I am infuriatingly impatient at times...I have cheated so.. yeah that's all I'm going to say...)
I hope you are well Ninabelle...
Just a quickie (it has its merits) to see how you are.
Dusk
I think Ikin is a much more fitting name, Jessica, whatever significance it has, seems a tad pedestrian.
Lovely to see you again.
Nina
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Agree that psychic cop boy is a hapless schmoe and Peter has a knack for taking the obvious route to try and solve his problems...but he is a kid.
I really want Officer Matt and Peter to take control and get themselves sorted out. Hopefully as the show progresses their development will progress also.
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