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Heroes S3 E13 “Dual” Review Pt.4; Sylar a Fugitive? Sylar has Real Parents? Wut.

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REMINDER this is the 4th Pt. Review of “Dual.” Read the previous parts here:

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3

Now we are going back to focusing on the meat of this episode, Sylar and his little game of death. With Noah, Angela, Claire, and Meredith stuck in a building with one of the most psychotic monster on Heroes (or at least the Heroes’ writers would like us to believe), it becomes quite a different twist on the cat and mouse chase this time around. Where Noah, in the past previous episodes, has been hunting mercilessly for Sylar’s head, this time around it’s Sylar’s turn. All of this was made even clearer as Sylar psychotically states this in the P.A. system(paraphrasing), “Noah this time your not hunting me… It’s me hunting you.” This entire concept worked very well, and I thoroughly enjoyed the intensity of the situation. I could almost get the feeling that Noah’s group were feeling extremely claustrophobic, even though they were in such a gigantic building. Interestingly enough, Noah’s Crew split up with Noah and Meredith scouting the building, while Claire and Angela stake it out in a room. Sylar calls into Claire’s room and threaten to kill Noah unless she uses her shotgun to shoot a hole through Angela’s head. Obviously, Sylar’s real trap is all about pitting everyone at each other and making the most difficult decisions. It’s a great way of keeping the viewers at the edge of their seats. Though Claire decides to not shoot Angela and instead shoot the phone. Awesome, although Claire shooting a shotgun doesn’t come off realistic. I’m pretty confident that she would fly back a couple feet or at least lose her footing. What is up with all the Heroes going Rambo?

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Back to Nathan and Meredith in their journey to kill the Sylar. Instead of finding Sylar, Noah and Meredith finds three level 5 villains, The Puppet Master, Hobo-Colossus (ZOMG I guess he wasn’t that fugly beast that took the preliminary drugs), and some third dude that I can’t quite remember. Noah offers them their freedom to whoever kills Sylar, and just like that the villains are on their merry way to the wizard of SYLAR! Unfortunately for the puppet master, who thought he could handle Sylar, had his neck snapped by Sylar’s telekinesis. Yay! This episode is full of supporting characters death! So Sylar immediately takes Meredith and sticks her into a level 5 cell (along with a needle of adrenaline straight to the heart) and along with her, Noah. Sylar does one more of his Saw-ripoff schemes and tells Noah that if he wanted to live he would have to kill Meredith or she would kill Noah due to her lack of control of her ability from the adrenaline pump. What’s up with all the writers all of a sudden ripping off Saw? Not only do they straight rip-off the idea and concept, but we even get to see a detached arm, ew. To cut this scene short, Claire comes and saves the day by ramming her tiny body into the “unbreakable glass” which conveniently causes it to shatter. Claire becomes really useful when she’s throwing herself off of buildings and into glass walls  to help her partners escape.

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Returning back to Hiro and the gang as Hiro explains to Matt, Daphne, and Ando about his simple plan of destroying the formula once and for all. To our dismay, Daphne just happens to know the location of the formula. Huh? She knew all along about the location of the formula? Why didn’t she just let the group know that she knew when she actually became a goodie. This would of cut this season of Heroes in half and spared the retardedness all in between. For goodness sake, they even had Matt with his brilliant strategic mind and even the all-knowing Mr. Turtle!  They should of known to tear up the formula a lot sooner. Instead though they waited until Hiro mentioned to destroy it and then just like that everything just happens to go exactly as plan. WTF, end of rant. So as Daphne and Hiro head off to Pinehearst to retrieve and destroy the formula, they are confronted by Tracey Strauss. Who then calls Hiro, Pikachu. This was an absolutely hilarious scene to watch! I definitely had a nice lulz(curruption of lol, laughing out loud) from this. Hiro answers to this insult by bowing and punching her in the face, total pwnzer(ownage, owning). Did I mention Hiro is the coolest Hero ever? Afterward Hiro finally rips up the formula once and for all. The end. I knew it would be Hiro who would end up saving the planet from exploding in Season 3. After all, he saved the planet in Season 1 and Season 2, we all knew he was going to continue the trend. Though I don’t know how the planet would explode from all this mess… What a bucket of steaming pile of terdnugget. All of those paintings of the Earth exploding on those buildings pretty much meant nothing. Way to make the viewers fear the destruction of Earth and have nothing that serious ever happens at all. Oh, of course, unless those paintings are actually foreshadowings of future seasons. Dum, dum, duuuummm. Quick note WTF, Safari dude(Usutu) is back! Now why the hell is he back? If Usutu’s back that would make it pretty confusing if someone like Arthur doesn’t pop back in(he won’t because Heroes is nuts in the pants).

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While all of this is happening we find Sylar meeting up with Angela to find the real truth. The key moment in this scene is when Sylar really wanted to believe that he had any connection to the lies he had been fed, but he is only angered to find out that he was being used completely. Sylar in these scenes are pretty friggin’ awesome, you can sense his rage and anger. It’s nice to have Sylar become a badass again.  Surprisingly, Angela during all this interrogation reveals that Sylar actually has parents outside the ones he either killed or had passed away. Uh oh! This will be cool to see how this will be played out in the next season of Heroes (Fugitive). Sylar then continues to slice Angela’s head open, but not before Claire stops Sylar with a glass behind the head. As usual, the writers write in really coincidental or convenient ways for the main characters line-up not to die and lame ways for the supporting characters to be all wiped out just like expendable toilet papers.

Bonus pic for the lulz…

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So to wrap this review up, everything is now resetted back to status quo. All this friggin’ mess happen and in retrospect nothing has dramatically changed at all (yea, we trade out Jessica for a even more annoying Tracey). What a whole big pile of dumb mess. You guys will just have to forget everything about Adam Monroe and Arthur Petrelli, because after this episode it wouldn’t matter if they ever existed in the first place.

Though this episode was pretty solid. Yay for Sylar! Well I guess I’ll catch you guys next season! Peace! Catch Heroes Season 4 “Fugitive” January 21st, 2009!

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