Heroes – Episode 8 (Season 4): “Once Upon a Time in Texas” – A Medical Review
I’ve been a viewer of Heroes since the first season, and it’s been going downhill for a while now – though, this latest episode (Once Upon A Time In Texas) is the best in a while, mainly because Hiro stopped acting like a moron. Thanks, Heroes writers! Anyway, the latest episode deals with Hiro’s attempts to save his one true love (Sorry, Yaeko from season 2! You were just a fluke!), Charlie, from being killed by Sylar, the ‘brain man.’ Anyway, he succeeds, but Charlie has an aneurysm (thinning of the blood vessel walls due to blockage of blood) caused by a blood clot in her brain. As a last ditch effort, Hiro gets Sylar to ‘fix’ Charlie, and this involves Sylar telekinetically crushing the blood clot and draining it out of Charlie’s tear duct.
Now, depending on where the blood clot is, this can range from being completely absurd to somewhat plausible… but only somewhat. The bigger problem here is that the aneurysm had already ruptured. Right after Sylar took out the clot, Charlie’s back up and about as if nothing happened. Uh – she still has a blood vessel spilling blood into her brain! This is called an intracerebral hemorrhage. This is not a good thing! Charlie should be at a hospital instead of prancing around and getting pissed at Hiro.