Episode 5: Angels and Monsters

This episode felt like a jagged broken toe nail you'd get from slamming your big toe into a door jamb in the middle of the night. The next morning, your toe doesn't really hurt anymore but the broken toe nail is tender, annoying, and it snags on the inside of your sock every time you take a step. While it didn't suck quite as much as the latest In The Future episode, I can't point to a single scene in Angels and Monsters that was really any good.

At least Peter has done something I fully support. He tried to kill his mom. She put him into a medically induced coma. I recall that they did this to Sylar when they first caught him. I'll have to look up how he got out of that, but you'd think that after a couple of years they'd have come up with a better way of keeping him in check.

When they reach Regretful Vortex Dude on the teacup ride or whatever he was sitting in, Sylar should have been able to hear Noah, Claire, and Vortex dude. He has super hearing! But he just stood there looking like he was trying to read their lips and figure out what was going on. Maybe Sylar didn't get all of his powers back, but so far he hasn't been unable to do anything else he's needed to do..


If what you say is correct, Mrs. Petrelli, and you truly did wish to stop the experiment and you can see the future wouldn't you have destroyed the formula instead of splitting it in to two halves? Splitting a terrible item into pieces and distributing them into the world is a textbook recipe for a questing hero or villain. How else could you have possibly thought it would turn out?

Momma, maybe your sons wouldn't be quite so unpredictable if you would tell them anything about themselves or the world they live in. This is what happens when you keep secrets within secrets within secrets.

Mohinder, where is your web coming from? And in the first season, weren't you working on a power formula in the future for President Nathan? If you couldn't get it working for four years, how did you suddenly get it now? Your scientific situation hasn't changed that much from one possible future to another. There is no "blurring the line" between hero and villain here. He went from naive and stubborn denial to eye-opening discovery used to heal a little psychic girl, to arrogant, overconfident, neighbor- and stranger-abducting alien queen spiderfly.

I can only hope that one of the people he webs up as a captive has a son teaching somewhere in the world who will come to New York to find his father's killer, only to discover that there is a world of genetic mutations out there that give people super powers. Then he'll confront his father's killer, nearly get killed himself, befriend some other superpeople who aren't out to kill him quite yet, travel around the country to find other superpeople, and then get a super power himself so that he can get someone else's father and... Something about this sounds eerily familiar. Maybe I saw it in an I Love Lucy rerun.

Pinehearst... If the not-so-late Mr. Petrelli is forming a superperson army to fight his former Company, where his wife still works, at least that tells me I am not the only person who truly can't stand her. It's kind of like an underground 4400 Center where they make you kill your friends to rise in the ranks.

Of course, Hiro wouldn't kill Ando. Even though he's been a whiny little twat about a future Ando potentially killing him, about Ando following him around and chasing women and money when they went to Vegas, about one of those possible future futures where Ando is killed, he would just as soon rattle off a little speech about how heroes would never kill the ones they love than actually hurt his bosom buddy. No matter how much I hope he actually kills him, we know he won't. Some sort of super trickery is going on here. No early-season episode can ever change anything so drastic.

Now Nathan has asked everyone he knows for truth and straight answers and nobody has complied. Every one of the little plots we've seen that the Company and Mrs. Petrelli come up with have ended in complete failure, wrecked by people whose super powers have only just sprouted up! Aside from maybe Connor MacLeod Adam, who used to work with Momma anyway, there haven't been any age-old rivals. It's just a bunch of kids running around, foiling plots set in motion by many old-school super people with money, connections, influence and what I presume should be a level of mastery of their abilities that this younger generation doesn't have. I don't see how after all of this failure she can still be quite so full of herself and her head full of secrets.

Claire said she can't feel anything, so why is she crying? I have to check exactly what she said earlier. I didn't think she just couldn't feel pain, I thought she had no feeling whatsoever and made some comment about some lack of emotion.

Of all of the escapees from Level 5 (we needed a name like Level 5 because The Company isn't imposing compared to Pinehearst, is it? Sounds like an organization from La Femme Nikita versus a conglomerate that manages shopping malls.), the Puppet Master may be the only one who really seems like a villain. Still, I didn't see any burns on his face. I wonder if he can control their powers like he is controlling their movements. Anyway, he's done something a little bit evil, abducting Claire's birthmother and forcing her to eat spaghetti. Still, it doesn't look like he had trouble making up for lost time with all of the puppets hanging around his place.

From the previews we can see that The Puppet Master captures Claire and mom. And we only have a couple more days to wait until we see what he makes them eat! I hope it's beef stew and cupcakes.