TV: Heroes

[Yukimura]

I think Nathan is getting a raw deal here. While he is a pompous ass, we really shouldn't expect him to act like any of the others with respect to his powers. The people in the show that embrace their powers are the ones who are 'freaks'. Claire and Nathan are approaching the problem like I think I would, they are trying to keep it hidden and live like normal people. Nathan admitted to Peter that he knew he could fly, but he also made a good point, that that realistically that ability wouldn't be useful to him and thus he doens't care about it. As to ruining the painting I guess he just wants Peter to stop wasting his life on unrealistic pursiuts and do something useful, which makes much more sense than supporting the notion that a guy travelled back in time to warn him that the world would end if he didn't save a cheerleader.

From our perspective Nathan is a jerk, because he is not acting like a hero when he has heroic powers, but from his perspective, even with the knowledge of his ability, it's preposterous for people to run around like super heros trying to save the world. That just isn't reality for him and he won't accept it.

[Stoopider]

Yup, I agree

I like Nathan Petrelli. I think from a realistic point of view, he's probably the right one. He's actually pretty cool. A good politician that hopefully he has the best intentions for New York.

Why did he destroy the painting? To save his brothers life. Because none of the other picture tells which highschool it is, or what homecoming they were having. Nathan was trying to save his brothers life.

Now that Peter has been arrested by the police with a pool of blood on him, I can only imagine poor Nathan's candidacy. How is he going to bail out his brother out of this mess without the press knowing about it.

[Yukimura]

I think the blood was all his so at least he won't be in jail for too long, though I doubt the Odessa, Texas crime lab is all that prompt in turning around DNA results. However someone will ask how so much blood was lost with no discernable effect on Peter.

[Winged Dancer]

Well, if they allowed Claire to leave the hospital after such a flashy crash, while she was covered in blood even though she had no discernible wounds, why should Peter have troubles? Besids, I'm sure Mr. Bennet will help him when Claire explains to him what happened, and hey - it's another super-ability guy for him to study!

On Nathan, well, I just can't decide. I liked him on that chapter where his wife first appeared - he was very human there. Some other times he just comes off as a jerk. I understand that he can't be exactly flying around, but he could at least stop treating his brother like an idiot.

If I had super-abilities, man I would embrace them very soon. Not like Hiro - his innocence is such that he tells everyone of it and expects them to believe him. But I definitely would be flying around

[Knives122]

Forgot to post this last week, but here's a picture of the "heoes" taken from Mohinder's comp.

[Winged Dancer]

I hope they don't really introduce every and each of them. As much as I like The 4400, I don't want Heroes to be like that... "New Hero is introduced! He dies in the same chapter, but it goes to show how evil are the bad guys."


By the way, wouldn't it be funny if the cheerleader they had to save was actually the one that was killed? I mean, the pictures showed Claire pretty clearly, but the prophecy didn't really mention her name....!

[Stoopider]

I think the blood was all his so at least he won't be in jail for too long, though I doubt the Odessa, Texas crime lab is all that prompt in turning around DNA results. However someone will ask how so much blood was lost with no discernable effect on Peter.

Male PMS. I reckon.

[High Wind]

Damn that was an awesome episode. Focused more on the actual characters themselves rather than the powers. I thought the whole thing with Hiro was pretty sad. Poor Hiro T_T, does he not have powers anymore?

Some of my main questions:

So what exactly is Sylar's power? The power to permanently steal other peoples powers?

Also, probably the biggest one for me, WHO THE HELL IS MR. BENNET? As in, what role is he going to play in all of this? He seems to be knowledgeable of "gifted" people, apparently even before being introduced to Chandra Suresh. So seriously, what the hell is he?

Looking forward to the next episode, hopefully we learn more about the Haitian.

[FrogKing]

Yeah, that was a pretty cool episode. I liked how they used Hiro's going back in time to parallel the other events that were happening at the same time to introduce the other heroes back stories.
I think the reason Skylar removes the brain is to somehow see into their souls and figure out how they work. In that way, he can steal other's powers when he can study their brains. It's a long shot, but that is my theory.
As for Bennet, he seems to have a pretty extensive operation going on. Maybe he's a government agent that has been aware of and studies 'gifted' people. Maybe he was apart of the project that may be responsible for the marks left on a couple of (if not all) of the heroes.
And yeah, I think that in some ways time is inevitable for some people. It seemed that he wasn't able to beat time with his current knowledge of bending time. Maybe by the time NY goes BOOM, he will...
Next weeks episode promises to be a good one with another good ending; too bad it is the last of the year.

[Yukimura]

Another Excellent Heros Go here if you missed it. It seemed like Syler had the power of insight into how things work, and I guess he was also able to duplicate things he had perceived already. Micah also seems to have a similar power, but it seems to be more tied to technology. In the next ep it looked like they were all together but it didn't look like Odessa (Claire's town) it looked more like NY, which implies we just might get to see the big boom again before the true season finale next year.

[iLoveHotCoCo]

We finally get to see the man behind the shadows. IMO old Sylar reminded me of a Peter Parker type person, you know the whole nerdy look with super powers, but minus the whole being crazy part. Yea...
Anyways that whole scene with Hiro and Charlie made me tear-up.. Poor Hiro, I hope he gets his powers back soon..
And Mr. Bennet definitely has to work for the government or something. Maybe he's in charge of a capture and tag operation, like they do with wild animals. Like the catch them, mark them and study how they interact in the world or how their powers are developing or something like that.
Oh and almost for got all about Nikki.. So her alter ego is her sister.. Strange.. And kinda makes no sense whatsoever. But oh well..

[Knives122]

He still has his powers, I think it was just that he subconciously turned them off knowing that he couldn't save him no matter what he did.

[Munsu]

Here's an article I recently read on tv.com
http://www.tv.com/story/7385.html

It may contain some possible spoilers, especially for tonight's episode... but it mainly talks about how to handle their return in January while competing with 24.

[darkmetal505]

Things just got a lot more interesting.

I wonder what the Haitian guy's agenda is.

[Yukimura]

Intense...very intense. We've got treachery, deaths, visions, and power boosts all over the place and this is only the fall finale.

As to running Heros against 24 I can only imagine that they are idiots. It wouldn't be that hard to put Deal or No Deal against 24 since the markets for those shows probably don't overlap as much as Heros and 24. While I know the 18-30 year olds are the advertisers wet dream, I think it's better to have as many viewers as you can get, which means planning around power houses like 24 instead of trying to unseat them. I wonder how the ratings will turn out.

[iLoveHotCoCo]

Damn that was a good episode. Heck of a cliffhanger too..
The Haitian guy seems like a good guy, letting Claire keep her memory and all. But I kinda still feel bad for her since now she knows her father is doing some shady stuff and she 'lost' her friend Zach, he seemed like a cool guy too.. =[
Hiro, Ando, and Isaac teamed up.. should be very interesting..
And poor Peter.. I feel so bad for the guy... Can't wait till January!

[Winged Dancer]

This was looking to be such a happy episode, what with DL and Nikki making up and Sylar being caught and the budding romance between Claire and Peter, and Issac being able to paint without drugs.

I also love hoe he turns to his latino accent when saying Hiro's name. He sounds more Japanese than Hiro and Ando, hah.

then Eden died. Poor Eden. I liked her. Her death, while unexpected, was handled a little better than the waitress. It was still kinda stupid. How come Sylar was able to resist her? And smash the crystal, too? Because the Haitian wasn't there? Maybe people can resist Eden when they know what may happen? Well, not that we'll ever find out.

And Hiro battles a dinosaur! lol, "I really need to get that sword." I wonder if that means he'll travel to the past to battle dinosaurs, or maybe someone will bring the dinosaurs here. Or maybe Issac was just painting unrelated stuff.

I liked Peter's dream sequences, or whatever they were. The series is taking a Christmas break or something, right? Aw... it was a hell of a cliffhanger, for us to wait a month or so....

[High Wind]

then Eden died. Poor Eden. I liked her. Her death, while unexpected, was handled a little better than the waitress. It was still kinda stupid. How come Sylar was able to resist her? And smash the crystal, too? Because the Haitian wasn't there? Maybe people can resist Eden when they know what may happen? Well, not that we'll ever find out.

I just thought Sylar could resist Eden because of his power. From what I can tell, his power is to be able to perceive the nature of things and how they function. So wouldn't it be reasonable that once he realizese how Eden's power works he'd be able to counter act it? Thats my reasoning for it anyway. I also thought her death was kind of sad because I liked her too.

Also, regarding the Peter dream sequence thing. What the heck triggered something like that? It seemed so out of the blue, with no warning whatsoever, besides the slight cough he had. My theory on the whole New York explosion thing is that Peter some how comes into contact with Ted the Nuclear power guy and absorbs some of his ability. Then, when he Peter absorbs Teds power, he won't be able to control it and then explodes.

Looking forward to January. (Man that seems like a long way off)

[Munsu]

Also, regarding the Peter dream sequence thing. What the heck triggered something like that? It seemed so out of the blue, with no warning whatsoever, besides the slight cough he had.

I don't know about the cough, but Peter having a dream about a future event is not out of the blue, he's done it quite a few times already... Mainly in the first episode when he was thinking he could fly.

[Assassin]

I may be reading too much into it, but during that dream sequence nathan had a wierd look on his face as he approached peter. He wasn't scared like the rest, or worried, or even sad like hiro and ando. He seemed to have this wierd look of determination on his face. Not the mention that he was the only one going towards peter while everyone else was running away, and as i said, he didn't look too worried about his brother.

Think maybe nathan has something to do with peter going nuclear?