Trust and Blood

Just when I thought that Heroes has started to become more interesting and less boring, here comes this week episode, Trust and Blood, which completely disproves my previous thought.

Some of the questions I stated in my previous post has been answered. For example, Noah did agree to help out Nathan in exchange for the safety of his family, the government still has no idea that Nathan can fly and that Hiro has lost his power, etc. Peter's power was also briefly mentioned in this episode; he can now only acquire and use one ability at a time, which I think it totally sucks, for Sylar will now become the strongest meta human among all the others and no one can compete on the same level as him anymore. He would soon turn unstoppable and become the ultimate villain.

One interesting development of this episode, however, would be the storyline of Sylar and Luke. Luke is a troubled teenagers who has a crappy relationship with his mother. He can emit microwave radiation, which can melt, burn objects and potentially kill a man. Wait, he did kill a man in this episode. Sylar seems to be rather interested in Luke, perhaps due to his rebellious nature. It would be rather interesting to see how the relationship of the two of them would develop in the upcoming episodes. Sylar has finally got a sidekick. Ha.

One of the other things I hate about this episode would be the death of Daphne. It was really sudden and unexpected and I think it is just another desperate way of the writer to turn Matt into this person fulled of rage and wants only revenge, a character twist which is highly unlikely to happen on Matt should the tragic death of his lover has not occured. I love Daphne and I think her ability is super cool, not to mentioned she could travel back in time with the help of Ando. I like her hair too, short and white, kind of reminds me of Storm from the X-men. I would really miss her. But in Heroes, we would never know that one is truly dead, the writers of the shows has shown us a myriad of ways they could bring back the dead to the show, either through the regeneration ability or the infamous twin creations of Niki Sanders. Perhaps the gunshot did not really kill Daphne, one would never know, and we will just have to wait and see.

One small observation, I realised that Hiro's English has improved tremendously over the past seasons. The way he speaks English now is completely different from that of the previous seasons. He is now more fluent and the pitch of his voice seems to have become lower, not as cute and innocent as the Hiro we once used to see on the previous season.

Generally, this week's episode is kind of disappointing, mostly because we can not see much progress in the story line. Several questions are still not being addressed in the episode, i.e. the sudden change of Nathan and the Precognition power of Matt. I certainly hope that the next episode will be better scripted and more exciting.