"Godsend" proved to be an interesting episode is several respects. The show's producers have obviously started writing scenes with Hiro's popularity in mind--the entire sword-thieving sequence was great fun. The fact that the mysterious puppet-master Lindermann already has the sword in his possession, and what Hiro stole was a mere replica ups the ante significantly. As does the recurring symbol that this time appears on the sword's hilt.
We finally get a little hint that Niki's "powers" consist of something more than a run-of-the-mill split personality. Apparently, super strength is part of her bad-girl persona. Nifty. And Cheerleader Claire, who tends to be a little more passive than I'd like, does a reenactment of her freefall splat from the pilot episode in order to convince her mindwiped former best friend of their, uh, former friendship.
Probably the most interesting part of the episode was the clarification in Peter Petrelli's coma dream that he does indeed absorb Fallout Boy's powers and can't control them, thus leading to the nuclear obliteration of New York. That's partly what I expected the situation to be, but I also suspect that there's more to it than that, since Peter's dream plays out more as prophetic metaphor than literal truth. And I have to say that his fight with the antisocial Invisible Man was great fun as well.
Again, we didn't see much advancement in the narrative this episode, but we did see a number of the characters' attitudes and understanding mature, so it'll be fun to see how those play out over the next few weeks. All in all, I'm quite glad Heroes is back.
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