trickykitty | Heroes Reborn

First, Rene (The Haitian) is never fully explained. No, he's not even half-way explained. He's a ridiculous plot hole that I just can't ignore, and I'm otherwise pretty good about ignoring plot holes.

How the hell did Tommy know where Noah was in order to find him during the tornado and save him from the car? I mean, I guess if he just thought about Noah in general, that would have gotten Tommy to him, but he got to him in the past at a particular point in time, not in what would have otherwise been the present, HELE-moment time.

Also, are you telling me Tommy manages to go his Whole Teenage Life NEVER touching another Evo and absorbing their powers? And the one time Angela Petrelli puts them in a room, he doesn't absorb Malina's powers? I call BS! Lest we forget, Tommy's ability isn't being The Master of Time and Space. Tommy's ability is absorbing other's abilities, which I actually hoped would have presented itself when Erica put Tommy in the machine. I was hoping it would boost his Steal Powers From Others ability rather than boost his current Time and Space ability.

People who randomly disappeared: Hiro, Erica's daughter Taylor, her Baby Daddy Francis (He's presumably dead, but then that wouldn't make any sense. Why knock him unconscious and stick him on an expensive lab table for Evos if you were just going to kill him later?), Noah's fiancee (You totally forgot about her or just wrote her off completely, didn't you?)

People who made little sense: That entire El Vengador Meets Iron Man saga. It's like it was ultimately an excuse to get Farah back just in time to take a bullet for Malina and to introduce the weird-shit levels Erica has gone to hunt down Malina (and what brief connection it all has with the Hero Truthers), but otherwise that whole sidetracking business with a guy with no powers, yet who can build an Iron Man suit faster than Tony Stark, finding himself stuck in the mansion always seemed like a whole separate story that had no real place in this series. It wasn't horrible. It was just a lonely little story plot.

Anyway, that whole BS about the Hyper-Twins Activating is such an annoyingly ridiculous deus ex machina that had no place in the story. Neither did Tommy's magical (and I do mean magical) Double Split Twin ability. I had fun watching the exceptionally sexy Harris clones running around, but smirky fan-boy proud of himself for doing something he could have done by himself in the first place is yet a second contrivance that irks me to no end.

The big focus on Tommy's training from Hiro was all about not making too many butterfly waves by going into the past, and there's more than one mention in the season about not running into your old self. That latter advice gets thrown out the door when he runs into himself in Evernow, but they at least make it turn in on itself, with the audience getting to witness him becoming the future him that the old him previously saw (although, admittedly, the conversation seemed to get cut off shorter than expected the second go round, but I'll have to rewatch to confirm that).

I would rather there have not been a focus on him being able to split himself in two, which as mentioned above makes no freaking sense whatsoever with his power. Instead, with little-to-no changes to his digital-world sequences, Tommy could have instead focused on the fact that his current self was allowed to see and interact with his future self, so long as his future self still came back and did the same as he had previously seen. It's the same sort of bootstrap paradox that Doctor Who mucks about with (to my gratitude) all the time. Tommy wasn't in two places at one time, as he surmised, but rather was in one place two times. The writers got that one backwards.

So then, Tommy could still get right back to where he was, with a gun pointed at his head by Erica, who's too stupid (or, I'd actually venture to say, too desperate) to understand that a gun might not work on Tommy unless it's at point-blank range. He could still stop time, send all 30k people back himself (no self-splitting ability required), and then show up back at the scene with Malina, still at a loss with how he's supposed to help her. All that background time spent showing the twins touching each other inappropriately back at the lab (yeah, I just did that) could have been spent better understanding Rene's role in all this. I imagine Tommy thinking to himself that maybe he can go to the soon-to-be future if he thinks about it hard enough to talk to his future self and find out what he did and how it worked. He's right, he can manage to peek into the potential future world that's coming, but this time he finds his future self at Noah's grave, since Noah died during the tornado. And WOW, that could be one hell of a turn out of cast, couldn't it? A nice little boon to our season finale, wouldn't you say?

At this point, Tommy goes back in time to rescue Noah (stepping on those butterflies again), and just like that we're back at the same exact tornado scene shown in the series. Now where would they have gone, if not the sibling-touchy-lab? Let's say Tommy merely transported them a few yards away so they could keep watching Malina do her thing, because DUDE, your sister/granddaughter is fighting a TORNADO and who wouldn't stick around to watch that??? During the watching party tornado debris flies over and cracks Noah's glasses. Tommy sees that Noah's glasses are cracked, but Noah reassures him that he knows just the man who can take care of it for him, would Tommy mind giving him a ride? Noah still doesn't know why in the bloddy-fucking hell Rene tried to kill him, because in his mind it doesn't add up, especially when all Rene had to do was brain-squeegee him, not go all old-skool gangsta on his ass, so Noah figures now is the time to get a peeksee. The tornado looses its battle, and Tommy and Noah pop away proud of Malina's accomplishment (and just before either of them bear witness to the crowd violence about to ensue). [Insert your own story fodder here explaining Noah's and Rene's interactions which lead to Rene's attempt to kill Noah, but that should be a rather easy fill-it-in for just about anyone.]

Either way, Tommy still saves Noah and then returns to Malina at HELE-time when, DING, he suddenly remembers the lesson he learned. Malina can't do this on her own, but maybe she could have some help? Maybe...she could have a whole lot of help. He's only got a moment to explain it, but he says that if he's right, in just a moment there's going to be another US showing up right over there, and he points. He'll know that it's going to work because they'll be here in 3...2...1.

POP

Standing next to them is another Malina and another Tommy. 2nd Malina gets right back into what she was doing, adding more of her own force to 1st Malina's. 2nd Tommy looks at 1st Tommy, and they exchange nods, acknowledging that this is going to work just as he said it would (which I do beleive would be that same exact smirky nod he gave himself when he split himself into two in the real episode). 1st Malina comments to 1st Tommy that it couldn't possibly be just her and the other Malina. She can feel the drastic difference, as though it's many, many more people also adding the same kind of force. "It is," Tommy says. "It's us. We're all over the globe, doing this same thing. As soon as it's over, we'll jump. Heck, we can even take a breather and get a snack if you get hungry." "A snack? We don't have time for a snack. Besides, where would we get a snack right now?" "No, not now. When? ... I'm thinking the Caribbean. How does a year or so ago sound to you?"

"Wait a minute. So THAT'S why she was giving me a lecture for spending money on some foreign island like, 'she doesn't know what's going on,' and that one day I'll look back and remember that conversation."

"Looks like today's the day. So, are you ready?"

"It looks like the flare is almost done, and considering I've already gotten in trouble for using great-gran's credit card without knowing how or why I got in trouble, I'm as ready as ever!"

Last-minute loud yelling from Malina as she puts her last drop of effort into it. There's a moment's reprieve with a clear sky overhead during which the 1st and 2nd sets look at each other. The first set pops off. The 2nd Tommy looks at 2nd Malina and asks, so where to now? I'm thinking about 25 stops around the world should take care of it, don't you?

Let's see how many countries I get tired of.

This time, it's all over the news, images of the twins popping up all over the world to push back the solar flare. Additional news soundbites stream while images of happy main characters living out their days show on screen; there's news like maybe Suresh being acquitted after being found in a stasis chamber in Renautus along with other people being held captive (flash of Taylor and Francis together again), and no sign of Erica despite all the other smart-timepiece band wearers returning from their brief visit to the future. Many of those people are interviewed, and they tell of how Erica was sending them to their doom in the desert wasteland of the future, but these Evos saved the future and are the True Heroes.

The day of the Evo has arrived yet again.

And Hiro gets up to turn off his TV.

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Either that, or Malina could use her awesome plant growth ability to make all the trees grow suddenly all over the world and provide a natural barrier against the massive solar flare. Oh wait, that's another series (that hasn't been cancelled - neener-neener).

The Fifth Element - Wonder Twins Activated ending is so 1900s.

And I'm not afraid to spoil it for you if you haven't seen it. It's annoying as hell.