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Good, Evil and Love are the focus of 'Heroes' 'Once Upon a Time In Texas'
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*SPOILERS*
This season of Heroes has been heavy on character development but has seemed to struggle with clueing in the audience to the plot. Despite this fact, fourth season of Heroes has show marked improvements over the previous, disappointing seasons. As each episode has progressed it has been more and more apparent that there is a plan, though the writers haven’t yet revealed it to the views. In Once Upon a Time in Texas, the audience finally begins to get an inkling of where things are going.
It’s not very often that the lines are clearly drawn in Heroes. HRG (also known as Noah Bennett) became one of the biggest supporters of the bad of struggling heroes. Danko believed he was doing the right thing for the majority of humans by taking out those with powers. And the Carnival, even though we get the feeling they are supposed to be the villain, hasn’t even done anything completely evil up to this point.
Yet, in Once Upon a Time In Texas there was a moment in which a young boy tells Hiro that good guys wear white hats and bad guys wear black ones. As Hiro stood outside the diner where Charlie worked wearing his white shirt and the boy’s white cowboy hat, Sylar appears in all black. It’s as if the writers are drawing a line in the sand for the viewers to see. All the pieces are in motion, and it’s obvious from the beginning that there will be a battle to follow.
Another important idea in this episode had to do with tiny ripples in the pond. A seemingly small thing such as saving one person among billions on this planet starts a chain of events that pits Hiro and Sylar against each other in the battle that we’ve all wanted see. In the end, the lines between good and evil are blurred as Hiro alters the future only in the way that he most desperately wants to. Only when Hiro has achieved goal, does Samuel reveal his true self and take away the thing that Hiro loves most.
For Noah Bennet, this episode was about choices: the choice to meet a woman in a hotel room, the choice to save his marriage, the choices he had to make to protect his daughter. This brings up another theme that is important to this episode. Sacrifice and risk are necessary to protect those things we love. For Lauren it was the sacrifice of her memories of happy moments she’d shared with Noah.
In the end, as Noah said all we really know is, “The course of true love did never run smooth.”
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