Heroes ~ The Eclipse Part 1
Heroes, The Eclipse Part 1, NBC TV series, Episode Recap & Blog
Arthur does some cloudy-iris prophecy sketching, revealing that Claire is gonna die and everything is about to change. Frankly, I thought the sketch looked inconclusive. It merely showed her bleeding and being carried (which is not an unfamiliar visual for us). Highly unlikely that they’ll ever kill her off. She’s far too integral to every facet of the show.
Interrupting Gabriel’s electro-slinging lesson, Arthur requests he go retrieve Claire. Non-Sylar snaps right to it, eager to prove himself. Elle volunteers to go, seemingly to look out for Gabie-poo, amid raised eyebrows from both men. They end up at a rental car agency where Elle has told the owner her companion is a serial killer. Her reasoning for this action is a bit muddled. She wants to see if Gabriel is a “monster or a boy scout.” Is she now daring a guy with a problem controlling his hunger to slice open people’s brains?
In super gooey news: Suresh is mad that they haven’t figured out how to cure him yet. He continues getting scaly and emitting stringy glop from his pores. It’s like he’s turning into a combo of Spiderman and the Fly, except he’s kind of an a-hole.
In the meantime, Noah has taken Claire to the abandoned house to train her. Finally! Too much of the show is taken up by Save the Cheerleader plotlines; it’s time she learned to save herself. She asks her father why things always happen to her. A question we’ve all been asking for a couple seasons now. Noah starts the lesson with a little floorboard swinging and she asks if this is a Tai Kwon Do technique. He replies, “No, it’s baseball.” So I guess she has to start carrying around large blunt objects. Do they make a holster for that?
Ando disrupts the Daphne/Parkman lovers quarrel (“You don’t trust me!” “Uh, sure I sort of do!”) to get help. Hiro still thinks he’s ten years old and would much rather hang out with the nodding turtle than participate in hero activities. Daphne has an episode of self-doubt and vanishes. The boys figure out that she went to her childhood home on a corn farm (of course) and blink their way after her. By the time they arrive, the eclipse has started, making them lose their powers. Parkman finds this out the awkward way when he tries to influence Daphne’s father’s mind and ends up looking like a head-tilting spaz. Accepting defeat, he trudges back into the corn field where Hiro inspires him to try again by throwing corn in his direction (huh?). Daphne’s dad leaves, Parkman pledges his love through the closed door. When he enters, he sees Daphne in leg braces and crutches. Is she devoted to Arthur because she thinks he’s responsible for giving her the gift of speed, thereby healing her busted up legs?
Nathan and Peter spent this week slogging through the jungle, looking for the Haitian, arguing with each other over who is the most needy and spineless. Hmm, tough call. When they locate the elusive Haitian, he tells them they must find his murderous brother (at least this sibling isn’t a Petrelli). Since they’re lost, have no powers, and are now competing with each other for the biggest tough guy trophy, they agree. Unfortunately for them, finding big bad bro also means finding a team of his soldiers who are armed with automatic weapons.
Elle and Gabriel/Sylar (can’t exactly refer to him as either since he’s sort of a mix now) find Claire. It’s the only fight scene I can remember where no one has any powers. Seeing Gabe/Sylar flicking his fingers to no avail was kinda funny. It shows how much they’ve all become dependent upon their powers. The rumble ensues, Noah bashes G/S around, Elle shoots the Cheerleader (she’s been itching to that for a while, eh?), Noah smacks Elle with a floorboard and carries his wounded daughter to safety. He tells his wife they can’t take Claire to a hospital since there will be questions. Shortly after he leaves, Claire becomes comatose and bleeds out. Uh-oh.
Back at the abandoned house, Gabriel screams like a sissy as Elle resets his bones. He’s relieved to be human since the hunger isn’t plaguing his senses. Elle feels guilty for pushing him to be naughty. And…they make out while Noah spots them through the scope of his gigantic gun.
This episode had a lot of heroes wondering… “What’s happening to us?” Why did most of them have so much trouble figuring out the eclipse was the cause?
“I hate heroes.” -Sylar
