There were high expectations for the second part of The Eclipse. But, despite following on from a solid and entertaining episode, there's always the possibility of a Heroes episode being just another disappointment. Hopefully, with the series seemingly going in the right direction again, this wouldn't be the case.
The episode opens with Hiro and Ando in a comic book store, owned by cameo kings Seth Green and Breckin Meyer. Believing he is still ten years old, Hiro frantically searches through the old issues of 9th Wonders, in an attempt to regain his lost memory. How 9th Wonders is still being published is still a mystery since the artist, Isaac Mendez, died over a year ago in this story arc. Maybe that one is best left unexplained. As per usual, the scenes with the ten year old Hiro are funny, charming viewing, and the cameos from Seth Green and Breckin Meyer (you know, that guy from er...what was he in again?) only add to the entertainment value.
We rejoin Sylar and Elle, who we saw through the sight of Noah's rifle at the end of the first part, curled up underneath a sheet after doing the super hero business. Despite having a perfect shot, it seems that the man with the horn rimmed glasses had instead opted for watching and having a brief self-fondle while watching the couple's antics. When he finally does take the shot (no, not like that), he misses, and is forced to give chase. Eventually he is confronted by a powerless Sylar, and wastes no time in kicking his arse and slitting his throat.
Meanwhile Claire, who has fallen into a critical condition, is dying in hospital, unable to repel the infections that swarmed through her body upon losing her powers. Nothing to do with the bullet wound though, obviously. Halfway through her stint in hospital, she codes and momentarily dies, in one of the most disturbing scenes in the show to date.
Conveniently, shortly after Claire and Sylar's death the Eclipse ends, conveyed oh-so-subtly with a hilariously overdone shot where the sunlight gradually creeps through the window onto Claire's unconscious body as she is revived. Conversely, the ending of the eclipse is a inconvenience for Mohinder, who finds his scales have regrown just as he is about to rekindle his relationship with Maya.
The eclipse brings back powers across the globe, which allows Nathan, Peter and the Haitian to fight their way in and out of Baron Samedi's military camp, saving the damsels in distress as they go. The fight scene raised a couple of questions; like when did Peter, a New York nurse, learn to fire a machine gun? However that question takes a back seat to asking why the hell the Haitian isn't included more in the series. Not only does he have a great power both in and outside of fights, he's a fairly complex and mysterious character, as well as being superbly portrayed by Jimmy Jean-Louis. Why he's constantly pushed to the fringes of the show to be replaced with girly-haired High School Musical rejects like West or yokel dullards like Flint is beyond reasoning.
With their powers back, Sylar and Elle do not hesitate in tracking down Claire, and hold the Bennet family hostage. At least, they do until Hiro Nakamura comically shows up and teleports the couple to a random beach. Then Heroes pulls off another one of it's famous dick moves, as Sylar decides that all his rehabilitation over the course of the season was pointless. Why does Heroes insist on developing characters or plots up to the point when it's about to get interesting, before doing another U-turn and wasting all of our time. There's no point, other than to continue to drag out the series with another season or two, and it's genuinely pathetic.
Even though the end of the episode was a heavy hint that the series is about to take yet another nose dive into the deep pits of mediocrity, the episode itself wasn't bad. It's a little heavy on the cheese sometimes, and as usual Heroes' trademark inconsistency is lurking around the corner of every scene, but that's to be expected. On the whole, it's still an enjoyable episode, and probably one of the better episodes this season.
3/5
Matt and Daphne also spend some time standing in a corn field talking about scare crows. Even the ass who wrote the Claire and West scenes was laughing at that.
Is thinking of starting a Haitian fan club - tomdoodle16@live.co.uk
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