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Heroes 1-18: "Parasite"

Heroes 1.18 - "Parasite"
Original Airdate: March 5th, 2007

Oh, God, Sylar�NOT THE FORELOCK! That’s right, folks. Despite the cries of anguish echoing throughout my household (and the households of other forelock-loving fans, I’m sure!), Sylar ends this eppy on a gruesome note, chopping off Peter’s lovingly gelled hank of bangs. And OK, I think he starts hacking into his actual head as well, but The Forelock got the big cliff-hangy close-up. It’s gonna be a long month and a half.

This week, Mohinder finally gets hip to Sylar’s shifty-eyed evilness, and actually attempts to be useful by offing the guy once and for all. Unfortunately, Sylar is still super-powerful and glues Mo to the ceiling. Things aren’t looking too good for Mo and his amazing cheekbones, but I don’t think he’s quite dead yet. Kudos to the writers for not dragging Mo’s stupidity out for episodes on end � although I’m not sure that this series’ lightning pace is always a good thing, it at least ensures that we aren’t stuck rolling our eyes over one character’s idiotic actions for too long.

Meanwhile, Nathan�Nathan does a lot in this episode. And let me just tell you, I didn’t really get the whole Adrian Pasdar thing before, but somehow, all the stuff he does in this eppy makes me get it in a big way. I can finally join my fellow fangirls in getting swirly-eyed at the very mention of his name (seriously, go stand in the middle of the show floor at Comic-Con and say the name "Adrian Pasdar." You will immediately be surrounded by a tornado of Firefly t-shirts and fashionably clunky glasses. I dare you!). Is Profit on DVD yet?

So first of all, Nathan gets Hiro into Linderman’s weird museum, which is being curated by none other than Javier from Felicity. Hiro finds his sword and almost gets arrested, but then Ando, masquerading as a security guard, totally saves his ass. Go, Ando! I’m so happy they didn’t ditch him for long. He looks pretty cute in his uniform. Anyway, Hiro transports them to a devastated New York. Oops?

We also find out that Nathan’s working with the FBI to nab Linderman, who is played by Malcolm McDowell. Of course. Nathan has a little encounter with Niki, who tells him he’s in danger, leading him to decide to kill Linderman. He wavers when Linderman tells him he has a good chance of becoming president one day. Linderman also talks a lot of nonsense about potpies throughout this otherwise tense scene, which is supposed to be cool, but is actually kind of irritating. I think I’m over the whole Crafty, Self-Aware Small Talk of Villains thing. Even when it’s Malcolm McDowell being crafty and self-aware. It just reeks of trying too hard.

As if all this weren’t enough for like five episodes of any other show, we also get some Claire stuff. Claire ditches The Haitian to try and find Peter (please let her find out he’s her uncle soon, because�gross) and winds up meeting Ma Petrelli, who apparently knows everything? Ma Petrelli just got a whole lot cooler.

Oh, and we get to know Candice a little better and I think I like her, even though she’s tight with Eric Roberts. Her power is that she can look like other people, so she appears as Mrs. Bennet to HRG, thereby getting him to reveal what he knows, and then impersonates Simone for a little bit. Simone is still dead and no one cares (oh, alright, I guess Peter and Isaac care. But I don’t!).

From an action-y, moving-the-story-forward-at-breakneck speed standpoint, this is a top-notch eppy. I’ll admit, though, that I miss the deep emotional currents from last week’s outing � when you couple that with the slambang stuff, I think you get the best of Heroes. As the series prepares to go into its final arc of the season, I’d love to see the emotional stuff woven in more thoroughly � perhaps we can open the next episode with a gripping scene in which Peter properly mourns his ill-fated forelock.

iTunes Links:

Heroes - Series
Heroes - Season 1
This episode - "Parasite"


Vern Seward is a writer who currently lives in Orlando, FL. He’s been a Mac fan since Atari Computers folded, but has worked with computers of nearly every type for 20 years.

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