This week’s Heroes Reborn ended up being one of the revival’s strongest episodes so far. Things start to come together in “The Needs of the Many,” which interestingly enough, is very similar to the fourth episode in Heroes first season,“Collision.”
For those who didn’t see the original series and that particular episode, here is a short sum-up of what the episode did: Just like in this incarnation of the show, the first version featured multiple characters that weren’t connected to one another at all in the beginning. But at the end of that episode, one of the central characters got to play a huge part and started connecting disparate threads, which was the start of the main characters starting to come together. This fourth episode of Heroes Reborn has a similar feeling to it, which I enjoyed a lot.
We get to spend a lot more time with Malina at the Arctic Circle as she is still one of the bigger mysteries of the second Heroes incarnation. I don’t know who she reminds me of, but I feel that her powers are similar to someone in either the DC or Marvel universe. Even her powers is something that I’m trying to figure out, whether it’s bringing dead things back to life or just keeping some energy in balance. There is also the part when she is literally bringing a tree to life through the ground so it has to be something related to giving life, and perhaps maybe taking lives too? Time will tell.
Because this is a 13-episode season, it wasn’t a complete shock that Joanne learned about Luke’s secret of being an Evo. The shock however was the fact that she may be the worst wife I have ever seen on television as she abandons Luke. Also, how bad did you feel for that dog whose owner was shot by Joanne in the beginning of the episode, when he put his head on his arm? Nothing makes me hate a character more than when she puts a lonely dog through something awful. As you can tell, I’m 100% a dog-person. But yeah, I guess her leaving Luke was even worse, but it sort of bothers me that all the marketing leading up to the show was setting Luke up as being a baddie. Now we see that he is clearly not one at all which is a bit disappointing because I wanted to see Levi get to play this completely different role.
A lot went down in this episode as a whole. We have Tommy having to deal with agents that are threatening to prevent his mom to get the help she needs, unless he cooperates with them. Erica’s relationship with Taylor went exactly as I predicted: Taylor turns on her once HRG and Quentin talk sense into her. But sadly, their efforts in saving Molly ends up being a failure as Molly, who clearly went through something horrible on June 13, takes her own life after telling HRG to forget about the past, and focus on the future. Her death also brings down the E.P.I.C. system and also eliminates Noah’s only chance to find out what really happened. At least until he meets up with Hiro again in the coming weeks because I bet he will take Noah back to that day to learn what happened. I can’t imagine how much this is going to kill Matt Parkman, her adoptive father, when he finds out.
While this episode may not have had the exact same type of connectivity that “Collision” did, it still had that feeling that we are seeing these characters, with no connections to one another at all, starting slowly to come together in order to save the world.
Heroes Reborn airs on Thursday nights at 8/7c on NBC.
[Photo credit: Christos Kalohoridis/NBC]
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