Heroes: Five Years Gone...

[fajrdrako]

You can probably guess that I loved this one. Peter, Peter, Peter! If I loved him before, when he was inexperienced and frightened, how much more can I love him when he's experienced, authoritative, focussed, in control of his powers, and angry?

I loved the way we saw his epic battle with Sylar at the end, as bright lights through the crack of the door.

Loved the future Hiro, too, especially the reaction of young Hiro to him. "Talk to yourself." - "I can't. I scare me." Love it.

And Matt, not just stupid, but a cop with authority. The new Petrelli regime reminded me of the situation when Lex Luthor became president in Superman comics. As they were rounding up the 'terrorist' superheroes I was reminded of Children of Men (since I just saw it) and, of course, X-Men - the latter especially with the supposed cure for superhero powers - wasn't that both in one of the movies and in The Astonishing X-Men too?

But then, it was all reminiscent of "Days of Future Past", which is not a bad thing at all.

Scary, for a superhero lover like myself.

Which brings me back to Peter. Fun to see him with Niki - just another angle, perhaps, on the incestuous aura of the Petrelli brothers. I loved the way Peter dressed, and the scar - we'll probably never get the story of that scar. What I loved most was that, on the face of it, that scar is impossible.

Clarie and Mr. Bennet were great.

As usual, I love Mohinder, but with a large element of frustration. Will he never have powers of his own? Besides seeing an oracular boy with a football? Will he never stop falling for Sylar's tricks? I'd love to think he saw through Sylar and was being clever, but I couldn't see any evidence of it. And of course he jabbed the Haitian in the end, instead of young Hiro. Predictable but wonderful!

I like it that we returned to the phrase, "Save the cheerleader, save the world."

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It simplifies it in a good way.

Swoon.

and a shouty!Doctor

Swoon

v a scarred!Peter

Double swoon.

which was way too much fun

Wasn't it just!

Jack shagging everything in sight...

Including the Doctor? No, no, pretend I didn't say it.

I love post-apocalyptic stories.