TV Review: ‘Heroes’ Episode: ‘1961’

Peter and Claire being bad by avoiding digging work.

After watching this episode of Heroes I had a very bittersweet feeling from the whole affair. I mean after the past couple of episodes I was expecting a really bad ass explanation for the whole Coyote Sands and origin story. The past few episodes have been pretty action packed and given us some sweet as twists and turns, what with Sylar now able to shape shift into whoever he wants, and the final revelation last week that we would finally get to the hear how this all came to be, I felt this one fell a bit flat. First off much of it revolves around flashbacks to when the facility was first up and running and when Angela was young and ended up there with her family. Now this could’ve been chock full of all kinds of cool back story and weird ass craziness, but too much of it revolved around how she apparently had a sister that was with her and how she died there along with everyone else.

Besides the flashbacks there’s not much going on with anyone else other than when a sand storm starts to brew up and Suresh shows up to join the crew and find out what was up with this place and his dad. I will say though that we do find out some cool information about the Company and how it was formed to keep such a massacre from ever happening to their kind again. Also that Bennet was only working for the new Agency so that he could bring it down from the inside but Dangko ended up proving to be a bit too strong. Now Angela apparently wants to start a new company with her sons, Bennet, Claire, and I guess whoever can be relied on to not turn into a douche and go all evil on everyone. But other than that we mostly get conversations between the characters more notably some pretty dull ones between Nathan and Peter, that fall flat and has an air of not meaning much of anything.

But back in flashback land we start to see things heading south between Angela and her sister Alice, who can control the weather like it ain’t no thing, as Angela starts to plan an escape from the facility with some other ability abled youngsters liker herself. Included in this group is a young Linderman that is not put to much use then using his power on Angela and talking all British like. Then we find Alice is the real cause for why everyone was shot up and killed as she accidentally killed a guard during an experiment and then all hell broke loose. But we soon find that her sister is still alive and hanging around the facility and is the one behind the big sand storm. After a bit of a show down with her that’s nothing too spectacular, she just kind of walks off and looks all deranged or something. She more than well should be after surviving a massacre, in which her parents died, and hanging out in an abandoned, creepy facility for close to fifty years.

Then we see all of them in a diner and they are talking about how they aren’t going to form a new company but a family. Luckily the sappiness gets slashed to ribbons as they see Sylar on TV pretending to be Nathan and is holding a press conference. So hopefully after this somewhat mopey attempt at a version of their origin we can now get cracking back to the action. We only have a few episodes left and I’ll be damned if they don’t do their best to blow me out of the water. At least give Dangko what he has coming to him. If they do that I can fully forgive them for past trespasses.