Heroes #21:Into Asylum/Season 3/2009

[rowport]

At what point did Sylar get invisibility/super speed/teleportation or whatever to disapear from the backseat of Danko's car and reappear on a rooftop?

This was really bugging me, so I re-watched the scene online. There are tiny visual cues that Sylar was never in the car, and instead using Matt's projection power on Danko. Watch again, paying attention to Danko getting ready to light his cigarette.

Unfortunately, without any visual cues for the audience, some powers are really too subtle for the show IMO. I felt the same way in an earlier episode where Sylar was supposed to be getting "readings" from objects in the old diner, when it visually just looked like memory flashbacks.

 

[DonTadow]

Pretty much what most everyone else said: just not a very enjoyable episode.

Danko, especially, makes no sense whatsoever. He hates the people with powers, but teams up with one of the worst? Pffft - the show's never made any reasonable attempt to make that a believable action.

Twirl your moustache a bit more, Danko.

That was my thing as well. they made Danko out to be a cuthroat killer with one focus, killing supes. And the one supe that has killed 2 dozen of his men he seems to have no interest in. No bullet in the back after catching shape changer, no attempt to kill sylar at any point. It's almost like thier best buds by the end of the episode. Speaking of super powers, why didn't the guy revert back to his true form once he was killed and his power (brainwaves) stopped.

In any case, if they had portrayed Danko as a man who only wanted power or a man who would make such deals i'd buy it, but the minute he realized nathan was a supe he hunted him down.

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

That was my thing as well. they made Danko out to be a cuthroat killer with one focus, killing supes. And the one supe that has killed 2 dozen of his men he seems to have no interest in. No bullet in the back after catching shape changer, no attempt to kill sylar at any point. It's almost like thier best buds by the end of the episode. Speaking of super powers, why didn't the guy revert back to his true form once he was killed and his power (brainwaves) stopped.

The act of transformation is the power, but keeping up the appearance is effortless. It's clearly not an illusion.

 

[Man in the Funny Hat]

I was not terribly enthralled by the episode but not terribly put off by it either. I believe I said about last weeks show that it would take a number of episodes to get it turned around and back on the rails after the train wreck that it had become. If indeed we are seeing the work of a "new" lead writer then characters have to be killed off (STILL too many IMO), plots have to be set up that SHOULD have been set up at the beginning of the season, plots that WERE set up have to be altered or eliminated, and there will still be the perennial problems to be dealt with (undefined powers functionality, inconsistent character behavior, in short the apparant lack of ANY kind of show bible).

I just see it as somewhat tedious but necessary step in the continuing turnaround/salvation of the show.