The Eclipse: Part Two (Part 2)

I love how the writers have been reading this blog, or at the very least heading the growing sentiment on the internet - and had Claire proclaim on this episode [to paraphrase] "I have no business trying to fight bad guys...I'm just a stupid cheerleader".

Thank you, Claire, for your honesty.

That was a very feelgood moment for me. I felt vindicated. Like when you've been trying to tell a friend they don't look good in the color brown and one day, as if they figured it out all by themself, they state "ya know, I'm gonna stop wearing brown, I just don't look good in this color". Now I'm vaguely excited about where her storyline goes as it now appears she's gonna put the whole "fighting villains" thing down for a bit. Does she go back to school? Goes into hiding since every bad guy on Pineherst's payroll is out for her? I say with Sylar thisclose to killing her dad she goes back to trying to take down villains, in other words business as usual. Whatever happens I just hope this is the last season of this whole "save the cheerleader" theme. We get it. She's important. If she's that important she should be locked up in Level 5 where it's safe.

I'm still miffed at how easily Sylar has gone back to the old Sylar. That didn't last long. I already talked about this so I won't go there again. What a shame.

Let the records show Part Two of The Eclipse had the coolest moment in Nathan's Heroes career. Did anyone think a guy who could fly could really be a threat to anyone, let alone someone else with powers? But the way Nathan took out the Haitian's brother - flying at him and ultimately crashing him into a truck - displayed the awesome potential of Nathan and his abilities. Why haven't we seen this before? It really took 3 seasons to get this character to do something awesome with his power? Wth this latest episode it's hinted Nathan is going back to his old self - colluding with someone with bad intentions for some epic plan that will affect mankind. Only difference this time is Nathan has come to think this way of his own accord and not because someone higher up was pulling the strings behind the scenes. Sure seems like Nathan will be joining his dad's side as he thinks everyone should have a power. I applaud the writers for at least making it very plausible as to how Nathan would come to that conclusion (witnessing innocent people get abused in the village).

And let me just be the first to admit that now that Peter doesn't have any powers - and this has gone on longer than I thought it would - I actually don't find him to be as annoying these days. He doesn't have the ability to get in the way, can't shape things as he sees fit. Just as shame the writers have decided that they only way they can solve the problem of Peter being too powerful is to remove his powers. That's lazy. Tim Kring (creator of the show) mentioned that since he originally wanted new characters every season he didn't anticipate having to deal with this issue of an uber-power person walking among lesser-powered people - and I can understand that conundrum - but it just feels a little too "easy" to just remove all of his abilities. Listen, writers, at some point you're going to have to deal with Peter. Either you remove him from the show or you give him his powers back and let him run amok. Now is the perfect time. If I had to bet I'm going to say Peter will get his original power back (ability to absorb other powers) but will have lost all the powers he aquired. Kinda like a reset. Just like how Sylar doesn't use all of the powers he aquired since season 1. Right now all he uses is just his telekinesis and regenerating ability he stole from Claire. But I do think that's how the writers will give themselves a temporary out, simply letting Peter gradually build his powers back up again. Of course, that's basically how our government is solving our financial crisis - temporary wiping out current mistakes and delaying having to deal with the root of the problem. The root of the Heroes problem is the show doesn't want to have a bunch of Peter's and Sylar's running amok. I don't think everyone on this show was supposed to have these insane powers. I think it was supposed to be a bunch of Nathan's and Claire's, you know, people with simple abilities. It's costly to have mega special effects all the time to do all these powers. I don't think this was a road the show really wanted to go down. Don't get me wrong - it's exciting to have people with powers duking it out - but eventually it'll always come down to Peter and Sylar being too powerful for everyone else and the writer's having to think of new zany ways to limit the damage that Peter and Sylar can do. Look at what they've done to Hiro, to prove my point. Writers felt the best way to reduce the influence that Hiro can have on outcomes is to make him think he's a kid.