Here’s a comic-book-movie analogy for you: if last week’s “Heroes” season premiere was “Spider-Man,” where we got all the back story and set up out of the way, then this week’s episode was “Spider-Man 2.” Or, in other words, it dispensed with all the boring crap and just set straight to kicking ass and taking names.
Note to self: if I ever get amnesia and end up tied up in the back of a bar in Dublin, remind me to answer all of my captor’s questions so I don’t get a fierce arse beating. Still, Peter managed a nice comeback right around the half-hour mark of the episode. And, y’know, it was right around then that I noticed something else: did Peter reform himself after he exploded and give himself a better build, or did Milo Ventimiglia just spend the summer working out? Either way, dude looked downright musclebound when he swaggered out of the back room. The whole “Peter’s identity in a box” thing seems odd, but I’m willing to wait and see how it plays out.
For one shining moment during this episode, you could almost believe that the Bennet family was normal…well, until Claire drove off to school, anyway. It was back to business when HRG and the missus started chatting about the death of Hiro’s dad. Looks like the search for the seven remaining Isaac Mendez originals is going to be an ongoing plot thread throughout this season. By the way, I couldn’t believe that Mrs. Bennett actually got a funnhis season that didn’t involve her being eccentric; I grinned when, after Claire reached into the boiling water to retrieve the wedding ring, she said, “We do have a colander, dear. No need to be flashy.”
It seems so weird that Ando and Matt have never before, given that we’ve watched a year’s worth of “Heroes” episodes involving both of them, but it looked like we weren’t going to get much in the way of development on the whole “who killed Mr. Nakamura?” storyline this week…but, then, there was the great scene when Mama Petrelli realized that Matt was reading her mind and promptly “yelled” at him, which was followed by our first official “oh, shit” moment of Season 2, courtesy of the unexpected attack on Mama Petrelli. The sudden cuts back and forth between the attack and Matt and Nathan running to try and stop it made for a highly disconcerting effect.
