Jeremy's battle with his inner demons brought Noah down hard. Thinking Tracy could help, he called her in to give Jeremy a 'second chance'. However, the troubled teen had too much on his plate, too much going on in his head. He never stopped blaming himself for what had happened. He viewed himself as a monster.
The company man's sorrow poured out of him as Jeremy relapsed in the crowd scene. The slow motion shots of him repeating "You can save him!" over and over again were extremely well-done. The public's reaction to Jeremy's ability made it clear to Tracy that she made the wrong choice in ignoring Samuel's offer. She's come to realize that the old way of doing things, the Noah way of doing things, just doesn't work anymore. "I was wrong." He admitted. "I guess I've been wrong all of these years." Poor Noah. He seems to feel he can't help anyone anymore.
My heart split in two as Jeremy calmly prepared for his imminent death in the back alley. His anger, frustration, and fear were so accessible, so vulnerable. The image of his battered body resonated deep within me as I'm sure it did with the business woman and the company man. The rift between them after Jeremy's death leads one to believe that Tracy will venture back to Samuel and his carnival. That compass is looking more appealing by the second.
Peter is not featured in this episode, probably because he spent 17 hours driving from Georgia back to New York in Jeremy's dead parents' pick-up truck. I always love a good Peter plot, but he needs to drive.
Back in Los Angeles, Sylar sleeps with Matt's wife by taking over his body during their lovemaking. Our noble hero tries to leave the house to keep Janice safe, but ends up sending her away instead. Sylar continues to patronize Matt with comments like "You're the second Parkman I made scream today". Yeesh. Matt rebuts by drinking him into oblivion and subsequently... out of existence. Sylar seems to disappear as Matt gets more intoxicated. Too bad what he thought killed him actually gave him the opportunity to take over his body completely.
That's right, Kiddies. Sylar is now controlling Matt's body, and Matt's psyche is a mere figment of Sylar's imagination. Talk about Straight Edge Revenge for Sylar. Russel Crowe would shit his pants right now.
The end of this episode is really great. I know great sounds so vague like "nice" or "good", but this scene was actually... great. It starts off with the classic shoe shot of a man walking slowly down a dusty road. His snakeskin boots are weathered with who knows how many years of turmoil, and his vampire-pirate outfit is covered in dust. Samuel walks alone down the streets of Cainan like an outlaw in an old Western film and stops in front of the police station that is responsible for Jeremy's death. He raises his arms and, without a word, brings the building to the ground.
I am still trying to figure this guy out. He has moments like these where I think I really like him. Moments where I think there is so much to know about him, that he may be the Benjamin Linus of this series, and Noah Bennett has been John Locke this entire time. But that is a pretty bold statement, so let's not get ahead of ourselves. He seems to be old, maybe even infinite as my fiance suggested to me earlier. He seems to be from Europe, as he counts "one" with his thumb when talking to Tracy. And his accent is very ambiguous.What I really want to know about this guy is his angle. His game. Why does he want this family to grow so badly? What does it matter if everyone travels with him and the bearded lady? Does he truly care about them, or does he want them around for some grand scheme in the future?
Last year I did a paper on Jim Jones and his beloved Jonestown. Jones appealed to those that were different; the outcasts of their time. He was a huge activist on civil rights and preached to the poor, the racial minorities, and anyone else that was turned away by conservative churches.When the cops hogtied Jeremy to the back of the car it was very reflective of the racial intolerance of the fifties and sixties. They were in a small town and they weren't going to have someone who didn't fit in. So they killed him. I'm surprised they didn't lynch him from a God-forsaken tree! But the imagery was there, and it was very well done.
Last season was very Holocaust-driven. The Late Nathan Petrelli acted as our very own flying Hitler that wanted to lock up all of the people with abilities in internment camps. He even wanted to perform tests on them. This season is less dramatic but brings up issues of segregation in everyday life.Samuel capitalizes on this. He knows how our heroes feel. He knows how lost they are, how looked down upon and feared they could be. Like Jones, he offers a utopia for those that are different. No one to judge you in my carnival, it is so far away from the rest of the world and their judging eyes. Don't you want to belong to something where everyone is like you? Damn. I've got to keep an eye on this guy. The great manipulator can do many things, and take many forms. I just can't wait for the day when Sylar reaches his body and the two of them fight it out.
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