Episode Report Card Couch Baron: C- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Seth Green And Breckin Meyer…
By Couch Baron | Season 3 | Episode 11 | Aired on 12.01.2008
Elle materializes (without Hiro transporting her? Lame) to find herself on a beach at night. Sylar is already there, and as she limps up to him, he asks about what Bennet said. She seems severely weakened from the blood loss as she denies that what Bennet said is true, but when they sit down, Sylar reaches his hand to her head, and she understandably flinches. She lets him through the second time, though, and they fall to the ground as he kisses her. He then clasps his hand in hers and tells her that he's been contemplating what she said about finding themselves free of parents and powers, and she smiles as she asks what about it he was thinking. His tone turns dark: "You were wrong." He goes on that nobody ever really changes, and when she plays the only card she has left in her hand by opining that he changed, he demurs, looking evil as he says that was temporary, "and then I got my powers back." Well, no -- first you learned to control your "hunger," then you learned that you could use empathy instead of your finger, then Elle goaded you into killing someone, then the stupid eclipse happened, THEN you got your powers back. Shit, why did I start remembering things again? He says he understands now that he's never going to change, and neither is she, "because we're both just damaged goods." She tells him he's hurting her, and the old Sylar is back: "I know." He raises his finger, and she closes her eyes, which I took to mean as submission -- it wouldn't shock me if after everything this season and in her weakened condition, she wants to die, and it would explain why she didn't try to repel him with that burst of energy like she did the last time. Of course, he's already got her power, so I don't think he's feeding his hunger here, just killing one of the best actors left on the show. Sigh. I mean, the whole plotline has been awful from soup to nuts, but they could have separated these two without killing off Elle. But I'm too close to the end to mourn...
...so let's move on to Hiro and Claire popping into the greenhouse. The relevant part of the scene from the comic book plays out as expected, and as Claire starts to exclaim, "Holy sh__," Hiro claps a hand over her mouth as we're told the story will be continued. Don't remind me.
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