Episode Report Card DeAnn Welker: C- | 1 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT "I Can't Bring Nathan Back, Peter. But I Can Sure as Hell Swing a Sledgehammer."
By DeAnn Welker | Season 4 | Episode 18 | Aired on 02.01.2010
ammer to start hammering, but Sylar says, "Wanna know something weird? Every time you pick up that thing, I think you're going to hit me with it, really hard." Peter laughs and says that is weird, "because every time I pick it up, I feel like I'm going to hit you with it, too. Really hard." Sylar asks why, and Peter says because Sylar is who he is. He wishes he could accept his apologies, but forgiving Sylar is not doing right by Nathan. Sylar asks if Peter's afraid he'll lose Nathan forever if he lets go of his anger. Peter nods. He says he feels the anger slipping away sometimes, but then he looks at Sylar, sees him killing Nathan. He took his brother away from him. Sylar looks sad and walks up to Peter, who's hammering now. He tells Peter they've been here for who knows how many years, and he's changed, repented, and is never going to hurt anyone again. And all this time, Peter was afraid to let him out? Peter just keeps hammering, and Sylar yells, "Peter!" Peter stops and Sylar tells him he's not that guy anymore. Peter says he knows he's not, and he hammers again and a piece of the wall breaks. They hammer together as they break through it. Here's what I don't get: If Peter didn't want to let Sylar out because he was afraid, why did he tell him when he figured out breaking down the wall was the way? I guess because it was his subconscious that didn't want to let him out.So, Peter wakes up outside the brick wall, which Parkman apparently really did actually finish and then leave. So dumb. He stands up and we can hear bricks breaking, then the wall comes flying forward. Sylar stumbles out, his hair all a mess, and they walk toward each other. Really, it's so gay. Sylar asks how long it's really been, and Peter checks his watch and says "a half a day." Sylar says it feels like it was years, and asks if it makes it any less real. Peter smiles at him, and says, "Let's go save Emma." But Replicator Eli's on the stairs as they try to leave the basement (WHERE IS PARKMAN? AND JANICE? OR EVEN BABY STOP AND GO?). He says, "Sorry to break up the love fest, but I'm here to make sure that doesn't happen." Uh, dude, the love fest cannot be broken up now that it's finally on. Replicator Eli surrounds them, but this is freaking Sylar and Peter. They win by default.
Meanwhile, cameras take us through the dirt at the now-gone Carnival, to where Claire and HRG are in the trailer. They turn on her phone as a light, until they find a lantern. They're both okay, but realize they're buried pretty deep. He thinks it felt like forty or fifty. They scream for help. But the screaming and the lantern burning are probably two quick ways to burn up all the oxygen that HRG, at least, needs to survive down there.
Okay, so the flashback stuff really ruined this episode. I didn't hate most of the Sylar and Peter stuff (other than that I think making Sylar a good guy is retarded; I mean that literally: It's like making Sylar mentally disabled, because he's not himself somehow). But (and it's a big but), if they're going to do it, and have him team up with Peter, it had to be for something big, like Peter thinking -- correctly or not -- that he needed Sylar to save the world, or Emma, or anyone who matters. And then they also needed enough time to elapse for them to build trust and friendship, and the only way to do that was the way they did it. It's weird, but actually the best part of the episode by a lot. The flashbacks and the Carnival stuff were all just filler, but the weird two-person dreamscape actually moved the story forward. And that's what we haven't had nearly enough of this season. Too bad it was a small part of this sucky episode, and that it ended by spreading everyone out, instead of bringing them together. I would have liked for the entire finale to have our core heroes together, fighting the good fight. But it looks like it's going to take at least half of the episode to even get them all where they need to be. How will Claire and Bennet get there in time (I'm assuming Lauren and Tracy will assist in their rescue? Maybe Hiro?)? I don't think it will take the Ambiguously Gay Duo long to take out Replicator Eli, if Sylar still has his powers.
So, next time: Bennet quickly realizes that if they dig, they'll lose air, and that Samuel's plan must have been for her to watch him die. Yep, sounds like our Samuel. Speaking of, he rallies the carnies, telling them they've come to save everything. Emma plays, and looks puzzled when Sylar says he's there to save her (so, no suspense: They make it). Doyle tries to puppet him, but he pushes Doyle back with his mind. Doyle: "Please. You're one of us." Sylar: "No. I'm a hero." God, they love Sylar. It probably should end this way, so that the writers can have their insane Sylar happiness. He's the HERO, you guys. See? That's where they were always going with this. Of course. See you then.