The more I think about it, Heroes might not actually be a show about saving the world. It's about the futility of trying to save the world, and the fact that we try anyway.
I didn't even mind the Tomorrow Land lead-up to the showdown at the Bennet house. Claire, Daphne, and Knox killed Future Peter; there was the revelation that Daphne is married to Parkman and they're raising both Molly and a baby of their own; we found out the fate of Mohinderfly, who was clearly not an insect at all; and saw that Claire's Hit Squad served at the pleasure of President Nathan Petrelli.
I've gotta say, I dug the transformation of Mohinder into a cross between Medusa and Voldemort. (And I really dug the little ''rattle'' cues on the soundtrack.) Watching He Who Must Not Be Named slither around his apartment, talking to/hunting Present Peter reminded me of Perseus navigating the Gorgon's lair in Clash of the Titans. And since I love Clash of the Titans to death, that worked for me.
As for the rest of the episode, parts of it worked, parts of it didn't. I like the idea that some of the heroes we know weren't born, but were made. (And I think that Hiro's one who came off the factory floor.) I'm gonna go on record saying that Tracy will be the key to Mohinder stabilizing the formula: she's walking, talking evidence that DNA modification can work.
Hiro was still in proud possession of the idiot ball — bumbling like a putz trying to escape from Level Two, painfully mending fences with Ando, and blindly following Angela's directive to bust Adam Monroe out of his tomb — but Parkman was frantically waving his hands that he was open. Get him back to reading minds and moping around the States, and take that stupid chipmunk make-up off his face.
Even for all of that, this hour of Heroes was head and shoulders above any in recent memory. For the first time in a long time, I'm actually looking forward to next week. And that's saying something.
So, what did you think? Were you as jazzed by the Peter-Gabriel pas de deux as I was? Is Dead-Head-Linderman a figure of Nathan's imagination or are there other forces at work? Dr. Zimmerman gave abilities to triplets — how long until we meet Barbara, and what surprises will she hold? If, in the future, people are flying around like so many pigeons or running off like the Flash, why are there still so many cabs in New York?
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