Volumes

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This article contains spoilers for those who haven’t watched the entire volume 3 yet.  It also has some speculation and is not simply a recap.

Volume 3 began with Peter, future Peter that is. We start with a future where everyone is powered, Claire works for Pinehurst and is shooting Peter. Peter has to stop it from being revealed that there are powered people in the world and the mutants are being hunted so he goes back in time to kill Nathan so he won’t reveal his powers to the world. Volume three ends with Nathan revealing people with powers to the President and then starting a campaign to hunt mutants. So despite everything Peter sets in motion, the basic result is the same and perhaps accelerated as people now know of the powers and are hunting them.

This article is not going to be a simple recap of all episodes. Rather, I intend to highlight important facts and order events into an easy to understand grouping. Before I begin though, I will put in my two cents about this season. I liked this season. I thought it was better than season two and not quite as good as season one. I also felt it had potential to be better. Looking back, it truly feels like the writers took 1000 ideas, threw them against the wall in the first few episodes and then realized they had too much for a 13 episode arc so they hurriedly weeded out the less important ones. There was so much hype over 12 villans but several were killed at the first meeting, some we didn’t see until the last episode, and only 2, Knox and Flint made it to the end of the arc. I got the feeling they had wanted to do more with these villans but decided to streamline the story a bit. The writers also admitted that they have waffled on Gabriel, attempting to make him good and then switching at the end. It almost seemed like a waste of time except that Zachary Quinto is such a good actor that he made the story work. Here is hoping that Volume 4 is more focused yet keeps up the energy.

After a disappointing filler feeling episode last week, we were treated to an amazing episode this week.

For the first time, we see the meeting of arguably the two biggest players to the series. Hiro time travels back with Claire to stop her from getting the Catalyst in the first place.  Masi and Hayden have a great chemistry, even when Hiro didn’t speak  English. Taking it waaay back to when Hiro was young, and Claire was a baby, we see different sides of characters.
Sandra as a new mother,  Noah before he was  HRG, and Kaito as his wife is dying. Hiro’s mother was incredibly touching. She was a sweet woman who carried a burden. The catalyst that can change the history of the world. It’s her hope and faith in her own son that’s brought Hiro where he is. When he regains his memories and tells her that she was his guiding light,  the sheer joy and pride in her face was enough make things all better.