Friday 26 February 2016

Heroes Reborn - 'Odessa'

Mr and Mrs Collins. He's an all-American dad who lost his son, and is
therefore tragic. She's British, and thus evil.
Tommy and Emily discuss his powers, but her boyfriend sees a demonstration. He blackmails Tommy to make his stepdad disappear, and when Tommy's mystery hypno stalker sends the stepdad away swears eternal brohood.

Luke and Joanne Collins find themselves in Tommy's old observation room at Primatech, where Luke soul searches until Joanne shuts him down and they break out, killing the half-dozen staff at some sort of monitoring station. On their way out they steal Noah Bennett's car, along with files detailing the addresses of all known Evos.

Noah came to Primatech's mostly abandoned facility to get those files in order to find the finder Molly Walker (who is going by the name Zoe and hustling for a living, until she is captured by a telekinetic craps hustler and his goth girlfriend, who turn out to know exactly who she is*.) He suspects that his daughter may be alive, but needs Molly to prove it. A dying staffer at the site tells him that Molly is also needed by Primatech's new parent company Renautas to 'monetise Evos' to 'save the world'.

As powers go, this one is a weird mamajama.
In LA, Carlos takes up his brother's mantle as he discovers that Oscar was running down corrupt cops - almost certainly the same people who set him up and killed him - and also working an underground railroad for Evos with their Evo parish priest.

And in Evernow, Ren uses his knowledge of the game to aid Miko/Katana Girl in infiltrating the tower where her father has been imprisoned. Surrounded by goons, she sheathes the sword to return to the real world, emerging not where she began, but in the lobby of a real-world skyscraper.

Heroes Reborn has the classic Heroes problem of being hella unwieldy. It's more of a feature than a bug, but it's hard to get involved in any one story when we spend so little time with each, nudging forward a few steps at a time, then jumping forward in the most unlikely fashion (such as the grand coincidence of Noah Bennett and Beardy Conspiracy Theorist being at Primatech at the exact time that the Collinses break out (also, the Primatech facility being a going concern, but with no internal alarms. What? Did they rule out teleportation as a threat? Because that's pretty dumb.)

* Sadly we have a change of actress here, but since the original is taking time out to go to university I can't really fault her.

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