Heroes: Chapter 3

On Monday night chapter 3 of Heroes was on. The title of this episode was Acceptance. This episode was centered around Nathan (Sylar) and Hiro. Claire, Noah, Angela, Peter, and Tracy were in the episode as well, but they did not provide much to the main story. Nathan started to show signs of having powers that were not his including shooting lightning from his hands and moving things with his mind. Hiro was trying to use his powers to try to stop a co-worker from killing himself and kept failing. This episode was not very good overall, but did have some interesting parts. The best part of this episode was the very end.

With Nathan starting to gain Sylar's powers his mother, Angela, starts to worry that he will become Sylar again so she brings him some of Nathan's old childhood things. Sylar had the power to touch an object and see the history of that object. Angela tries to use that powers to get Nathan to remember some of his past. He does not remember because it is not his past. Nathan (Sylar) goes through the entire episode trying to find out what happened to a old girlfriend after he touched a old baseball cap and saw her face down in a pool all most 15 years ago. He eventually got up the courage to go to her mothers house and start to touch the objects around the pool hoping that his new power would fill in the blanks of how she died. By doing this he learned that he chased her onto the diving board and accidentally made he fall and hit her head on the side of the pool and she died from bleeding too much. When Nathan went and told her mother what really happened she seemed fine with the fact that her daughter was dead and once Nathan left she started to plan to kill Nathan.

Hiro's new goal in life is to go back in time and right the wrongs in his life before he dies. Going back in time is what is killing Hiro, but he thinks that by fixing all of his wrongs he can make other lives better. Hiro and Ando were sitting in their office waiting for the dial-a-hero line to ring and when it did Hiro realized that the man on the other end was on the roof ready to jump. Hiro got to the roof in time to listen to why this man, Tadashi, is trying to kill himself. Tadashi was going to jump because he was fired for photocopying his butt at the end of the year office party. When Tadashi jumped off of the roof Hiro went back in time and stopped him from photocopying his butt. When Hiro returned he got a call from Tadashi and he was still on the roof. Hiro ran up to find out why he was going to jump that this time and was told that it was because he photocopied his butt at the Emperor's birthday party. After learning this Hiro went back in time and stopped him from photocopying his butt again. No matter how many times Hiro went back to stop Tadashi from photocopying his butt Tadashi still found a way to do it, he did it differently 40 different times different ways. After everything that Hiro tried to do Tadashi still ended up jumping off of the roof and Hiro learned the hard way that he can not change destiny.

This episode was not very good over all, but did have some amusing and interesting parts. I thought that it is good that Nathan is starting to get Sylar's powers because he is not really Nathan and it was a stupid idea for everyone ti pretend that Sylar is Nathan. I thought that Hiro's reaction to learning that Tadashi photocopied his butt was kind of funny. The best part of this episode was when Nathan was kidnapped and taken to a forest somewhere and thrown into a pit that had already been dug. After Nathan was thrown into the pit the man who took him shot Nathan three times and filled up the hole before he left. Once the assassin had left Sylar, reached out of the hole and pulled himself up. Sylar was able to do this because near the end of the previous season he took Claire's power to heal himself from any injury, including death. I thought that this was the best part of the episode because finally Sylar will not stop thinking that he is Nathan and can go back to everyone hating him. I thought that overall this episode of Heroes was not very good and would be rated 3 out of 5.