The Eclipse: Part 1

I'm not even gonna talk about the Heroes-hating reviewers this time.

I thought last night's episode was very exciting and intense and it left me scared for my favorite characters.

- Peter is stuck in Haiti with one moderately scary Haitian.
- Sylar is in the sights of Noah's gun.
- Claire is in the hospital dying.
- Hiro is still ten years old, but he and Ando are in a comic book store in Kansas with Seth Green! So that's not as scary.
- Nathan is stuck in Haiti with a bunch of really scary Haitians.

Lots of crazy stuff was going on. There was also a solar eclipse, just like waaaaaay back at the beginning of the series when everybody realized their powers. Now this new eclipse comes and everyone loses their powers. It is just crazy stuff.

I was seriously hoping that the eclipse would take powers from the people who had powers, but give them back to the people whose powers had been taken away ... because I wanted Peter to get his powers back. But then I thought that that wouldn't be nearly as much fun as it sounds because (I assume) he would only get his original power back, which is to absorb the powers of others, and there would be no other powers to absorb. Sigh.

Let's see, who do I want to talk about? ... let's talk about ... well, I was just talking about Peter, so let's talk about him. I usually save him for last or second-to-last, but I've just been talking about him, so why not? He and Nathan flew off to Haiti to get that crazy Haitian to help them with crazy Arthur Petrelli and his scary powers. On the way there, however, the eclipse came and they fell in the water. Lucky thing that they were over water in Haiti, because landing in the sea wouldn't have been as fortunate. So there they were in the jungle, and it was really dark, and they were both soaking wet, and so I say that it could have been worse. Haha.
They started arguing about family issues, which was a scene that I liked. I thought Milo's acting was amazing in that scene. Of course, I think it's always amazing, but I think that scene in particular should have made some haters reconsider. Anyway, the Haitian showed up, and then his brother and a bunch of scary Haitians with guns showed up, chased them all around, and got Nathan. I am scared for him! Peter is still stuck in the jungle. I am scared for him too!

Hmmm. Let's talk about Hiro and Matt and Daphne now. Matt needed to find Hiro to help him out. Hiro needed to find Matt to help him out. So Hiro showed up at Matt's apartment right when it was needed the most. And Hiro really had to go to the bathroom. And I laughed, hahahaha. Anyway, Daphne was freaked out because Hiro was supposed to be her and Matt's only hope, but he was so childish, so she ran swiftly away to her house in Kansas. Hiro teleported himself and Matt and Ando there. Matt tried to get inside, he wasn't allowed, Hiro threw some corn at him (haha), Matt went back to the house, Hiro and Ando walked away. Here's where the story splits. I'll take Matt's path first.
Matt got into Daphne's house by professing his love for her again. Then he discovered that her legs were useless without her powers! That was very shocking for me. I didn't expect that. I liked how they revealed it, too. It was very suspenseful.
Hiro took Ando to the nearest comic book store because it was new comic day! Yay! And Seth Green worked at the store (actually, a character he was playing worked there, yes I know the difference between TV and real life), which was exciting! Yay! So they got the new 9th Wonders, which will tell them what to do. I wonder what it will say?

Next I will talk about Mohinder. That won't take long. He was very scaly ... or flaky ... or whatever. And it was scary. So he wrapped himself up in his spidery webbing stuff and was stuck to the wall. Then the eclipse came and he woke up, slipped out of the cocoony thing, and was no longer scaly! But he couldn't celebrate for long because Flint and Arthur wanted him to find out how to give the powers back. Uh oh. Poor Mohinder. At least there's the possibility he will be nice, normal Mohinder for a little while.

Now I will talk about Claire. Angela was telling her that she needed to lay low, since she's the catalyst and all. Claire didn't want to! She wants to fight. But then Noah showed up and he took her to that empty house to train. He made her hit him with a stick, but she wasn't very good at it. So she had to practice on the column. I thought she would get a splinter or something so she would realize that her powers were gone sooner. But she did not. I guess they weren't gone as soon as I thought or something. You'd think she'd notice pain from swinging those sticks around! I guess that proves that her powers were still there!
Anyway. She started swinging the stick at Noah again and she yelled at him for being gone all the time. Then Sylar and Elle bust in to shoot up the joint! Uh oh! Noah dislocated Sylar's shoulder, but I didn't catch that at first. I knew something had popped, but I was going, "What? Huh? What broke?? Arm? Back? What? No!!!!" It was very scary. I am so used to Sylar and Peter being invincible so now things are so scary for me! Anyway, there was fighting and a lot of excitement. Elle took a shot at Noah, but Claire - thinking she was still invincible - dove in front of the bullet. She blocked her daddy, but got shot and it hurt like a motha'!
After disabling both Sylar and Elle, Noah grabbed Claire and ran home with her. He didn't want Claire's mommy to call 911, which I thought was crazy at first, but then I understood his reasoning. Claire was in a lot of pain, but she kind of liked it. I guess I understand that, too. After Claire was all bandaged up, Noah left (I will talk about him more in a second). Claire's mommy went to check on her and found her bleeding and unresponsive. Uh oh! She called 911. Good choice. Next week looks like it will be so scary for Claire. Probably very intense. I do not believe she will die. It would be crazy if she did. But I think they're gonna make me think she is gonna die.

Next I will talk about ... Sylar and Elle. Elle was still teaching Sylar how to shoot electricity at the beginning of the episode. Then Arthur came in to send him to get Claire. Elle ended up going too. I think Arthur only let her go because he had drawn a picture of her and Sylar making out. Anyway, they left. They went to rent a car. While Sylar was outside being a hottie and talking to Arthur on the phone, Elle told the rental car dude that Sylar is a serial killer. Which is kinda true, but she didn't have to do that. I think the point of that was to help Sylar embrace his inner bad guy. But she really didn't have to do that. It didn't seem to cause too much trouble in the end. I mean, either they talked rental car guy out of shooting Sylar or Sylar killed him, because they got a car. Then they busted up Noah and Claire's training joint, which I've already talked about.
After Noah and Claire left, Elle was trying to pop Sylar's shoulder back into the socket. I thought Zachary's screaming during that scene was awesome. He's such a wonderful actor. I love him. Anyway. The shoulder was fixed. Sylar could not move the gun telekinetically! But he was happy not to have that crazy hunger anymore. Elle felt bad for making Sylar a monster, so he kissed her. That hurt me, but I knew it was gonna happen because of Arthur's drawing, so it could have been worse.
Anyway, while those two were making out in front of the window, Noah was aiming a really big gun with a really big scope right at them, and I don't know which one he is trying to shoot! Or, rather, which one he is trying to shoot first. So I am scared.

I am ready for next week's episode. The preview focused on Claire, and even though that will be a really tense story line, I really hope there's a lot of Peter in the episode (he needs to get out of the jungle!) and a lot of Sylar (he needs to not get shot!). And I want to find out what is going on with Nathan. And I want to see about Hiro in that comic book shop because Seth Green needs more than just one little line. So I am ready!

Bye!