Sisters, Socks & Stupid Sureshes
Posted by Nolebucgrl

Alice shows Angela that she has power over the weather.

I have to say, I wasn't too thrilled with Heroes latest episode. Oh, Angela's flashbacks were decent and I loved seeing a young DaVoe and Linderman and Bob Bishop, but the rest? A bunch of blah. Whining heroes do not appeal to me. At all. They better suck it up after this episode and stop being annoying.

Of course, my favorite thing about this episode was the solving of a minor mystery! Socks!!!! Now we know why Angela got arrested for stealing socks in season 1 and why she was rubbing socks on her face a few episodes ago. I'm glad she doesn't have some disturbing foot fetish. It's silly, of course, but I guess it made her feel close to her not so dearly departed sister.


The Petrellis continue to show inappropriate chemistry all over the place.

Peter got sick of playing Dig Up The Bones and demanded his mother tell him what was going on. While he was overly emo this episode, I appreciated this because, really, Angela, spit it out! So she finally told them all the story of how they went to Coyote Sands as part of a study for the government that was supposed to help them overcome their powers or some such thing. I'm not doing a whole recap here, so I'll just say that Mohinder's pop was involved, of course, and he was wrong, of course, and he escalated a situation and caused everybody to die. Everybody but Alice apparently, although Angela, future seer that she is, didn't know that.


Let's take bets, how many of the heroes did Angela nail?

Angela had lied to her sister about going out and getting her socks (HA) and such but instead was chilling in a diner with Linderman, Bishop and Charles DaVoe. She was quite clearly enjoying the male admiration (and I suspected she slept with all of those guys at some point, maybe not Bob) and she had a little dance time with Charles, which was interrupted by a bigoted cook telling them that blacks and whites don't dance together. Charles whipped out the mind mojo, so now we know what his power was. I don't think we ever knew did we? Another mind control guy. Definitely one of my favorite powers.

Anyway, Angela told the guys of her dream about them forming a company to cover up their powers for the greater good and they all seemed on board with it, so that's how the Company started as the rest of their powered people were being gunned down.


Note to self: 50 years in a bunker is not a good beauty regimin.

In present time, storms were whipping up and Angela disappeared into one of them only to resurface in a bunker with her nutty, scary looking sister, Alice, who had waited there for her for 50 years. Dear lord. Initially she is happy to see her big sister but then Angela tells her that she lied all those years ago and that pissed her off, so she let loose with another storm. Peter and Mohinder ran in to save Angela and Mo got zapped by lightning, which was awesome. My second favorite part of the night! He lived though, too bad. Alice disappeared and who knows when she'll appear again.

So that was all good stuff to know I guess but the question remains why in the hell Angela didn't tell Nathan this story when he decided to go to the government in the first place? Because, maybe, it was pertinent to the present day? Germane to the situation? Uhhh..yeah, I thought so! Oh, and Nathan, shut the hell up. It IS your fault they're all in this situation. YOU are the one who went to the president and exposed the secrets. It wasn't stupid Mohinder, it wasn't your mother, it wasn't HRG. It was YOU! So if Peter wants to blame you for that, he can. He should. Nuff said.


The Petrelli boys kiss and make up, though we don't get to see the kiss.

Peter, though he was right about Nathan, got a lot whiny this episode when Angela let him know that she wanted to start the company up again to protect them all. I can't blame him necessarily for that reaction but I didn't like the petulant way he reacted to the news. He was not the biggest whiner this episode but it took away from some of his pretty, dirty looks (loved that he was all sweaty and dirty in the beginning of the show, hot!) In the end though he was back on the Petrelli family love train.

In other heroes who annoyed me news, let's discuss Claire, shall we? Claire took it upon herself to whine about the fact that she hadn't read a book or gone to a movie or lived a life in ages. Um...yeah b*tch? And whose fault is that? Cause last time I checked, your two fathers both bent over backwards to make sure that you got to live a normal life, you just didn't play along. You decided to be a secret company agent, they didn't push you to. In fact, they begged you not to. So if you wanted to be a normal person, you should have elected to live like one. Suck it!


Like father, like son. Mohinder's dad made the same mistakes.

And back to dim but pretty Mohinder. He's all disheartened because his father turns out to be as dumb as he was. At least we know he came by it honestly, right? HRG tried to point out to him that just because his dad was working with the bad guys didn't mean he was bad, but Mo wasn't so receptive to this revelation. Well, Mohinder, YOU worked with the bad guys several times yourself and though you're a moron, you're not evil, so just suck it up and deal yourself. I should have titled this blog Suck It Up, Heroes, shouldn't I? Oh well, I am sure I'll get the opportunity to use that one again with all the self pity being displayed.


HA! He even looks Sylarlike as Nathan doesn't he?

My favorite part of the episode was at the end when the Petrellis and Claire and HRG were chilling in the same diner where Angela formed the company and Nathan resolved to go back to Washington to fix the situation HE caused. Cut to the television where Nathan is in Washington giving a speech. Everybody stares while HRG says, "Sylar". HEE! Now that's some shape shifting I can get behind. Go big, Sylar, mess with Nathan's agenda! Oh, and did everybody catch the way Angela smiled when HRG said Sylar? Damned if that woman doesn't still like him and have some kind of pride in him. Cracked me up.

Scenes ahead show Sylar throwing Claire into a wall and sharing some kind of forced meal with her, so I think I have something to very much look forward to. It sucks that she can't be killed. Sigh. I'm not spoiled but I know we have another Heroes death on hand and my gut says Nathan is going to go. It just feels like he has to sacrifice himself for starting this, doesn't it? I don't know, just my theory. Of course there's another Tracy triplet floating around that he hasn't slept with so maybe it's not allowed. hehe

I'm rambling but one other thing occurs to me. If Alice was living at Coyote Sands all this time she's probably not Sylar's mother. Unless Solomon came there and set up camp for a year or so and took him away. I guess it's still possible. She does have a certain brand of crazy going for her that could have helped make up our boy. I will continue to hold on to my shred of hope that Sylar is related to Peter, some how, some way!

Okay, I end it here, this was definitely not my favorite episode but I think we have some very good things ahead. Nathan vs. Sylar should be fun if a bit one sided. Sylar tormenting Claire is always a good thing. Bring it on!