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He Said: Heroes 04/30/07

Claire, Bennett, The Haitian, Micah, Hiro, Ando, Nathan…. All Dead!

If you haven’t watched last night’s Heroes. Stop reading!

Last night’s episode of Heroes gave us a look 5 years in the future. That is 5 years from the day of the bomb exploding in New York. What do we learn from the future. We learn so many things.

First up we will deal with Hiro, he is the linchpin in this whole thing. Hiro has spent the past 5 years attempting to find the exact moment to return to the past to change the fate of the future. The giant timeline that is in Issac’s apartment is more of a time web. If Hiro changes one event then he can move the web to show how that event changed things. When present day Hiro and Ando arrive all hell breaks loose.

Parkman is now working for the government rounding up the special people. He has become a hard ass and is working with the Haitian. He is in charge of the task force to round up the Special people so they can be cured of the genetic trait that makes them special. Parkman captures Past Hiro while Future Hiro and Ando escape.

Future Hiro and Ando travel to Las Vegas to seek the help of Peter Petrelli. They arrive at a strip club where Nikki is dancing under the name Jessica. She is not happy to see Hiro and a humorous exchange between Ando and Nikki ensues, or at least on Ando’s part. When Hiro and Ando leave Peter, who was sitting at the bar invisible the whole time, de-cloaks and talks to Nikki. They are lovers now. Micah is dead and D.L. is either underground or dead. D.L.’s fate is not truly revealed however I tend to believe that he is dead because of events later in the show. Peter has a huge scar across his face. Looks like it was put there by a sword…

We catch up to Bennett (Sans HRG) who is helping specials hide from the government. He is still protecting his baby girl Claire (sporting auburn hair). Claire is working as a waitress in Midland Texas.

Nathan Petrelli is now the President of the United States. He is forcing Mohinder to come up with a cure for the specials, however that is not possible so the plan is to round them all up and kill them.

Apparently what happened in the past was that Sylar blew up New York and killed over half the people who were there. The day that Hiro returns is 5 years to the day of that explosion. And throughout the course of the show we hear about what happened to each hero.

During the round up of the specials Parkman comes to Bennett. They both know that Claire has been protected in the past five years. There is a nice exchange between Parkman and Bennett and we learn that Parkman’s wife had a baby boy named Matthew. Then Parkman executes Bennett. I was not happy to know that.

Then Parkman captures Claire, she was supposed to get out of town with some fake credentials that her father, Bennett, gave her. But instead she is returned to her father, Nathan. And in one of the biggest reveals ever on the show we find that Nathan is actually Sylar in disguise. Sylar then kills Claire. I now understand the twisted painting of Nathan Petrelli in the Oval Office that Sylar painted. That was a very cool twist. So we know that Nathan died, Sylar also must have killed the shape shifting chick too.

We also learn that Peter Petrelli was the man who blew up. And his brother Nathan covered it up. So in the next 3 episodes we will either see Nathan killed or saved from Sylar.

Future Hiro and Ando are captured and are rescued by Peter Petrelli. Peter has certainly gotten a control of his powers in the Past 5 years. Peter, Ando and Future Hiro attempt to save past Hiro so he can go back to the past. However Mohinder is ordered by Nathan Petrelli to kill past Hiro. Luckily Mohinder has actually wised up in the past five years and he realizes that the last issue of 9th wonder comic book is actually a prediction of what should happen. So at the last second Mohinder kills the Haitian, and sets Past Hiro free.

Future Hiro and Peter take on all the guards in the complex. Rather than stop time the opt to fight it out. It was very difficult to see a hard Hiro, a desperate Hiro and not the idealistic Hiro we know and love. That Hiro died with the death of his best friend Ando in the Bomb Explosion.

Just as Future Hiro is about to tell Past Hiro how to get back he is shot and killed. Peter is suddenly ripped through the doorway by Nathan Petrelli. Nathan then reveals himself to be Slyar and a great showdown is about to begin between Peter and Sylar. One thing I noticed that was pretty cool was that Peter’s hands started glowing orange/red and Slyar’s were glowing blue/purple. I found that cool because those were the colors for Optimus Prime’s Vibro Axe (Orange) and Megatron’s Energon Mace (Purple) in one of the first episodes of the Transformers.

The whole episode was very very cool. Allison has been reading the online comic and told me that there is much more backstory on the characters within that comic. I need to go and read it.

In the end Hiro returns to the present. Can he change the future. The previews of the next three weeks were very cool and we learn of another new Hero. A you g girl named Molly. Could she be pivotal in the race to stop Sylar. Does Hiro Kill Sylar, 9th wonder seems to say that he does, but then how could that be accurate and keep our attention?

Till next week. That was He Said Heroes 4/30/07.

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Drive 4/23 and Heroes 4/23 – He Said

Drive – Last night we experienced another fast paced episode of Drive. This show is a an interesting mix of Survivor, The Amazing Race, Lost and the Cannonball run all rolled into one slick package.

Last week we saw our hero Alex Tully get a new car, his old car actually a 1972 Dodge Challenger. We also found out that Alex used to be part of a bank robbery gang. He agave all that up and tried to put his past behind him. Well, I think we know why Alex was pulled into the Race. This week Alex was the most improved driver so he gets to take a detour to pull ahead of all other drivers by 750 miles, after he completes a certain task. Tully says go for it Corinna says no. They go for it.

Winston and Sean Salazar follow Alex and Corinna. And it is a good thing because the task that Alex must perform is to rob a bank to get a specific safety deposit box. They pull this off but not without casualties. Sean kills a security guard and Sean also happens to get shot by the security guard’s gun. This happened while alex was struggling with the guard.

Rob finds out that Ellie trashed all his mail from the army and has been deleting his messages. Rob also finds that he is AWOL and can be found a deserter and executed for deserting during wartime. Things are not going well in that car.

John and Violet Trimble were in the show for mere moments. John’s illness is catching up with him and he is still hiding it from his daughter.

Ivy and Wendy are at odds because Wendy must return to protect her son and Ivy pulls a gun on Wendy demanding that she keep driving. Wendy refuses and we learn that Ivy cannot drive.

Susan and Leigh show up to the drive in and they are out of the race. Mr. Bright confiscates the cell phone. Undeterred Susan and Leigh continue on and try to get back into the race. They see Rob and Ellie’s car as Rob tosses out the cell phone. Susan and Leigh stop and pick up the discarded cell phone. They are back in the race. This doesn’t last long as a giant truck rams them off the road. Susan and Leigh spin in the tiny car over and over but are slightly hurt. The truck then smashes them again.

Susan dies and Leigh is determined more than ever to get back into the race and win. She hitches a ride and heads to the Appomattox Court House in Virginia.

We end on Alex dropping Winston and Corinna at a motel while he goes to find help for the dying Sean Salazar.

Heroes: %0.07

We see Linderman make an offer to Nathan and we see a revelation of Nathan’s future. This comes in the form of a painting that was done by Issac. We also learn that Linderman has the power to heal things. Interesting that the character who is designated as the big bad has the ability to heal. Very interesting.

Peter and Sylar face off, Sylar kills Peter with shards of glass but Mohinder knocks Sylar out and escapes with Peter’s body. Mohinder brings Peter to the Petrelli House and he is greeted by Nathan and Peter’s mother. We also have Claire in the house and we learn that Grandma Petrelli may have powers, but we do not learn what they are.

Claire finally meets her father, Nathan Petrelli, and she removes the glass from Peter’s head and Peter comes back to life. Claire apparently is being shipped off to France.

Hiro and Ando are 5 years in the future. The final moments of the show were cool where Future Hiro and present Hiro in the future meet. Hiro and Ando go looking for Mr. Issac at his apartment, there we see a timeline, but it is not a line, the information is strung out all over the room. It looked to me like multiple paths for the same reality, or it could be how all the events are intertwined together. By the way, Future Hiro is not happy to see his past self.

Issac is killed by Sylar. He is nailed to the floor by his paintbrushes. Sylar has Issac’s ability at the end of the show and we see Sylar paint the same painting that Nathan Petrelli now has from Linderman. The painting style of Sylar reflects the evil nature of the character.

We also see Matt Parkman escape with H.R.G. and Ted the nuclear guy. H.R.G. is revealed to only be some sort of middle manager and this tickles Parkman to no end. We learn that Ted can not only go radioactive but he can produce an EMP. The scenes between H.R.G. and Matt were some of my favorite ones.

We also see the shape shifter attempt to trick H.R.G. and then succeed in tricking Micah. Linderman no has Micah and Jessica/Nikki are not going to be pleased.

Heroes is back and the story was worth the weight, just disappointed that we only have 4 more episodes till the end of the season.

Till next time This is what He Said.