Are the mad drawing skillz a side effect of the vision?
The moon was slipping in front of the sun, and that was important.
No one was sure why, of course.
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At least not until after he emerged from his slooge cocoon.
(And, seriously, how did he get up into that hanging on the wall position?)
The upshot of the eclipse was that it caused everyone to lose their powers.
All that was left was people making silly motions that didnt have any special effects attending them.
With the exception of Noah and Mohinder, none of the characters have character.
But try and describe Nathan without using the words politician or fly and see how deep you get.
Try that with any of theHeroesroster.
See what I mean.
Almost everyone is a placeholder, a cipher for something real that doesnt exist.
And I think the writers sorta realized that this episode.
Otherwise, why was everyone arguing with each other?
Ive been to Haiti.
And you, forest somewhere in the Hollywood Hills, are not Haiti.)
Why the sudden cases of uncontrollable honesty?
(Yeah, I went there.
How you like me now?)
NEXT: The deconstruction of Elle
So, besides the eclipse, what happened this week?
Or that the half-light that everything was shot in just made this episode tough to see.)
Parkman and Daphne had a fight and she ran home to daddy.
Then, he learned that before Daphne got her powers, her legs were all but useless.
And Tracys betrayal led to Nathans kidnapping in Haiti.
Elle continued to twist Gabriel in the wind.
Lets look at her history with Gabriel.
First, she saved him from suicide.
Then, she fell for him before pushing him over the edge into Big Badness.
Last week, she tried to kill him before Gabriel forgave her and they got all touchy-feely.
Such inconsistency is troubling, especially when theres been such progress.
Ultimately, how was The Eclipse, Part I?
Hell, I dont know anymore.
Each hour is a different shade of the same; some bits are cool, others are painful.
Every episode gives the impression that so much is going on, but it rarely amounts to much.
And even less happened here than normal, since its just a part one.Heroesis what it is.
If you love it, then you love it.
What did you think?
Will Noah take the kill shot and rid the world of Sylar and Elle?
Will He Whos Acting Too Stupid to Be Named find salvation in a comic-book store?
When will someone, finally, kill Mohinder?
