Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Taste My Soup!
By Couch Baron | Season 3 | Episode 8 | Aired on 11.10.2008
God, we get that Hiro is still tripping. Ugh. Elle is telling Sylar that everything will be okay, but he doesn't agree, so she urges him to talk about what's bothering him. He tells her that a man had something he wanted, but he took it at a terrible price, and if Elle didn't secretly know what was going on, I'd think her mind would go to a stranger with candy and a white van or something of that ilk. Elle sympathetically tells Sylar that he's going to get through this, no matter how unlikely it seems now: "Because you're not a bad person." Sylar, wanting to believe her, points out that she doesn't know anything about him, but she tells him she knows what she sees: "A man who deserves a second chance." She holds up the rope and tells him the fact that it broke was a sign. Either absent or unnoticed is a sign of a different type, those being the SCORCH MARKS on said rope. Sylar laughs, genuinely taken with her unrelenting optimism, and notes that he doesn't even know her name. She gives him the real thing, and they smile goofily at each other before he tells her she showed up just like an angel. She then pulls out the supposed errand that brought her there and responds: "An angel with a broken watch." I can see why she'd want to get that fixed -- God may be forgiving, but I still bet he hates it when people are late.
Let me just get this out of the way so I won't have to harp on it later -- this episode would be pretty good if you haven't seen the show before, but it takes so many liberties with continuity that I'm starting to wonder if the title card wasn't a joke and it's actually meant to be a totally different show. In the first place, if my recollection is correct, Elle hadn't even left the building for years until she went after Peter. More importantly, though, she was a sociopath with paranoid delusions who had no problem murdering someone who didn't even have powers. I don't really buy this whole crisis of conscience over Sylar at this point in time, not that Kristen Bell isn't acting the crap out of it. It's like they're rewriting history so when they inevitably throw Sylar and Elle together again in the present, we can be all, "Ah HA! They have a history!" Doesn't work if the past part makes no sense. Also, hadn't Sylar, at this point, killed not only Brian Davis but also Chandra Suresh and his supposed mother (although that last was an accident)? I just find it hard to believe that the twinkle in his eye he gets when he looks at Elle would be enough to stop this all-consuming hunger. I mean, Peter tried to kill his own mother because of it, and Sylar's like, "Cute girl, tee hee, problem solved?" Not that I really even buy the hunger idea anyway, but I could talk myself into oblivion here. Believe me when I say, though, that I haven't covered half of everything they're getting wrong here. Anyway...