You Can Probably Call Him Super Hiro Now

Heroes

By admin | Tuesday, October 17, 2006 | 9:19 pm | 42 Comments

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One of the best parts of picking up a new TV show is when you figure out that the show is so much more than you expected. Heroes is one of these shows. At first, I expected it to be like The 4400 meets X-Men, and while a lot of that is true, the quality of the show goes beyond the obvious science fiction/comic book crossover geekery to give us a number of great story elements. It’s great seeing people get their powers and figure out ways to use them, but it is even better to see how all of their stories are interconnected, and you know that it’s going to be just as interesting watching how they all get together to save us from the impending nuclear apocalypse in New York City.Once again, we are forced to deal with the narrator. I’m not at the point where I feel like I am going to have to figure out who this guy is and tie him up until the show is over, but I figure that it would be just as easy to pull off justifiable homicide since I am guess about 41 million of the 42 million viewers NBC touts as watching Heroes would probably testify in my favor. However, I am not in the habit of breaking necks, just hearts (yeeooow!), so I’ll leave that to somebody with closer ties to NBC-U.

This week’s educational lesson from Mohinder was “Sometimes questions are more powerful than answers”, which is also a good way of describing the allure of this show. It’s one thing to know that a bunch of people have powers, but there are so many questions, like how is it happening, why is it happening to some and not others, why at this point in time, and what is it all leading up to?

There are a number of powerful questions that we have to deal with from last week, and to start, we checked in with Matt Parkman. We saw from the previews last week, that the mysterious black guy and Claire’s father, who we still don’t have an official first name for; even the imdb calls him “Horn Rimmed Glasses”, so unless I suddenly get creative, that’s how I’m going to refer to him. HRG has Matt strapped to a bed and attached to a number of medical instruments.

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In the past few weeks, I have been coming up with an alternate theory to HRG. I think that he might actually be a good guy. He’s creepy and secretive, that’s for sure, but if he had wanted to kill anybody, he would have done so already. At first, I thought he was holding back only because he had reservations about killing his daughter, but now that I see he has this black guy who obviously has an ability, I think he has been holding out for a reason. Yes, that reason may be that he wants to get as much information from the heroes that he captures before killing them, but it might mean he doesn’t actually want to kill anybody. Matt asks him if he is FBI or CIA, and Claire’s father says that he is not part of any organization that has initials.

Saying that his organization doesn’t have initials is probably his way of saying that he doesn’t work for the government, which probably leaves us with some sort of international brotherhood or cabal, like the Stonecutters, that are secretly pulling the strings with one hand, while keeping the metric system down with the other. It sounds far-fetched, yes, but why not? If there is secret society created to protect the Holy Grail, couldn’t there be some society out there watching over the heroes? Now, it doesn’t explain why the creepiest guy on the planet was picked to keep the traditions going, but it does add a nice little level of conspiracy not seen since Sydney Bristow and The Alliance.

Horn-rimmed glasses doesn’t really interrogate Matt, but it is clear that Matt is becoming a little more powerful. At first, the mysterious black guy was able to block all of Matt’s attempts to get into HRG’s head, but at the end Matt says “Who’s Claire?” which doesn’t really faze HRG, but he does tell mysterious black guy to “go deep, and clean him out”, which, besides sounding kind of gross, kind of puts a dent into this whole “HRG is not really that bad theory.

Speaking of Claire, I think we can all admit that the scene at the end of the last episode where she sees herself split down the middle on an autopsy table was one of the best twists in a long time. It was just gross enough that you wanted to look away, but it was also so gross that you really needed to know what happened next and didn’t actually pull away.

This week, we are treated to the shot of Claire getting her incision and her chest being exposed. The medical examiner, who appears to have no idea who Claire is and has not one clue that Claire is special in anyway, is dictating her findings, which are that Claire was found in a river, naked, and they could tell she was dragged a long distance. The base of her skull was punctured by a tree branch, which we all saw last week, but before the ME can continue, she receives a phone call. Hey, its’ late, and it’s not like the body is going anywhere, so she might as well answer the phone, which is conveniently placed in another, room, which gives Claire time to wake up, realize where she is, pull herself together (literally) and sneak out.

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The ME comes in to find that Claire is missing. I am not sure how often this happens in this small Texas town, but it seemed like the Medical Examiner reacted with an “Oh, now where did I put that girl that was murdered and thrown into the river?” instead of “OH SHIT! Who the hell walked in here and stole that dead body? Man, I have to stop drinking.” Claire gets home and her parents didn’t know that she was gone, and she is even able to sneak in wearing nothing but a lab coat. I have to say, Claire’s little brother kind of sucks. Aren’t younger siblings supposed to tattle on you if you are out even five minutes past when mom and dad said to be back? He not only completely missed that his sister was out all night; he completely missed it when she snuck in THROUGH THE FRONT DOOR. This kid really needs to go to younger sibling re-education camp.

Sibling re-education is a perfect way to segue into Nathan and Peter’s story. Nathan so desperately wanted his brother to change that he fabricated a case of depression as a way of preemptively explaining away any crazy things that Peter may do in the future. Peter was upset with how his brother threw him under the bus, but it’s not like Peter’s night ended horribly. He not only got a kiss from Simone, he even convinced her to go back to his apartment, and yes, he sealed the deal.

I am actually very impressed with how well Peter is handling things. Simone is attractive, has a job, and didn’t leave screaming when she woke up and realized that she just slept with her father’s nurse. Things are going well until Peter suddenly turns into a retard and starts asking about Simone and Isaac. They are just about to get into the “what does this all mean” talk when somebody rings the doorbell. Peter goes to answer it there and finds his brother is there, and his brother is pissed.

When Mohinder left Sylar’s place after the police came and found it had been cleared out, he wasn’t left with much to continue the investigation about his father’s death and the whole dramatic paradigm shift in the history of man’s evolution thing. He did, however, have the name of Nathan Petrelli and went to find him. Mohinder found Nathan, but Nathan didn’t want to hear what he had to say. In fact, he thought that Peter had said something, and told his security guys to keep an eye on him.

Nathan went to Peter’s apartment to confront him about it. Peter has been acting strange lately, but he didn’t tell Mohinder about Nathan. And honestly, what if he did? When Nathan arrived at Peter’s place, he was practically foaming at the mouth with anger. But really, how can Nathan be upset after what he did to his brother the day before? Peter denied anything happened, but his brother gave him some money and told him that he could spend his own time chasing down Dr. Suresh.

I am sure that most of you reading are really upset that I haven’t mentioned the studliest man of the show, Hiro, until now. When we last saw Hiro, he was making his way to Las Vegas. Because of the way things were working out on the show, I thought that he was going to bump into Niki and somehow save her from her predicament, but that was not the case. Hiro does walk past her, but he has no clue that he is supposed to help her. Hiro does know that he has to get in touch with Isaac, and has been leaving messages for him Japanese, but until he figures out how to say “You are going to die in five weeks and then New York will explode” in English, I am sure Isaac is going to have trouble figuring out what to do.

Hiro wants to get in touch with Isaac for not just to save his life, but because he needs some direction. Ando may be content to sit around and spend his money on gambling, but Hiro really wants to start saving the world. They have less than five weeks to save Isaac and New York City, so there really isn’t that much time to sit around playing roulette, but that is what Ando decides to do. The good news is that Ando won’t be playing for long; the bad news is the only reason he would think about stopping is that he is out of money. He is actually about to lose the last of their money, when Hiro stops time and intervenes.

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Ando is so excited that he won, and is really even more excited when Hiro tries to tell him that he helped him win because they were about to lose all of their money. Hiro was completely conflicted with his decision, but Ando saw it as an opportunity to really make a lot of money. Although Hiro was opposed to using his powers for anything other than helping people was cheating, Ando reminded him that Peter Parker sold pictures of Spiderman, and that wasn’t considered cheating, and Hiro decides that maybe it wouldn’t be so bad if to make a little money before they get on their way to New York. They make a ton of money and even though the cameras don’t catch them actually doing anything, the casinos really don’t like how well they are doing and decide to throw them out, Rain Man style.

Hiro and Ando’s Vegas Vacation ends with the two of them outside, confronted by a couple of people that they swindled at Black Jack[actually that would be poker, thanks Sholia]. Ando, feeling invincible knowing that Hiro can just stop time if they ever get in trouble, basically tells the guy that Hiro will kick his ass. Unfortunately, Ando neglected to tell Hiro about his plan and before he can lift a fever, Hiro is knocked out with what is really nothing more than a slap to the face.

Niki’s time in Vegas was a little more interesting. Mr. Lindermann, the guy pulling all of the strings in this town, is actually going to give Niki a way to undo all of the trouble she has caused him. Considering Niki’s husband stole millions from him, and she killed a couple of his collectors AND owes him some money as well, you almost start to think that this guy Lindermann isn’t so bad. Then you hear what she is asked to do. There is somebody coming in from New York and he needs to protect one of his investments. In other words, Niki is being asked to sleep with this guy. Lindermann will have a hidden camera and take incriminating photographs to use against him.

We all know that Niki is a sex worker, but her show is mostly soft core, and doesn’t involve her having to risk disease in order to satisfy her customers. What she’s being asked to do now is something different, and although she doesn’t want to do it, Lindermann is threatening Micah, and so she decides to seduce this guy and get it over with. You feel really bad for Niki, and you feel even worse for Micah. His mother has tried to shield him from the sort of life that put his father into exile, and has sort have been able to keep things from unraveling, but the deeper she gets into some of these schemes, the closer it all gets to just falling apart.

Wow, yet another great opportunity for a segue. Another young woman trying to keep things together after a tragedy is, of course, Claire. It’s hard enough that she was raped, but because of her ability, she feels like she can’t tell anybody. She was able to fool her brother, but her dad is no fool, and he notices that her feet are dirty. She tried to lie at first, but then admitted that she was with the quarterback, and you can tell that her father is pissed off, but he is going to miss his plane and has to leave. Once again, he tells Claire that she can always be honest with him because he loves her, and again I am starting to think that perhaps he isn’t the most awful person on the show.

As I said before, I thought that the medical examiner would have made a little bit more of a fuss about a missing body, but Claire seemed to get by that with no problem, but what about school? If she’s worried about her secret, she can’t just show up and go to class next to the person that stripped her naked and threw her in the river to cover up his crime? Can she? Yes she can. Claire goes back to school, and now that the popular boy has proven himself to be capable of rape and murder, she is back to talking to unpopular Zach, who tries to tell her that she has to tell somebody. Claire reminds him that she doesn’t have a scratch on her, which means no evidence. The quarterback, Brody, was so drunk that he probably doesn’t remember what happened. I don’t think he could have been that drunk because alcohol affects certain, uh, “motor” functions, but I guess with everything else going on, it makes as much sense as anything else.

Now that Peter has a fistful of cash, he decides to track down Dr. Suresh. Now, when Peter mentioned that Dr. Suresh had come up and asked him questions, he never thought to think that perhaps there were more than one Dr. Suresh, because honestly, Mohinder looks nothing like his father. Therefore, when Peter shows up at Mohinder’s door, everybody is very confused, including me. You see, before Peter showed up at Mohinder’s door, Eden showed up at Mohinder’s door, with a package. Their are many things wrong with this scenario: 1) Mohinder still hasn’t figured out that Eden is evil and now shows up unannounced with packages for him 2) The package contained his father’s ashes. I know that Mohinder is bitter and all, but is it too much trouble to pick up your own father’s ashes? 3) If Eden wants all this information from Mohinder, I wish she would just start sleeping with him and move this little charade along a little bit until a) she reveals that she has been spying on him or b) falls in love with him and decides she doesn’t want to spy any more or c) all of the above.

Receiving a parent’s ashes can be a downer, and Mohinder started to wonder why he even bothered staying in the states. To be honest, if I was in Mohinder’s position, I might have been a little skeptical at first, but how can he give up after finding Sylar’s apartment? Isn’t that like a huge clue that shit was going down? And if that wasn’t a big enough clue, how about a guy faking that he is a repairman just to tap your phones? Where there’s smoke, there’s fire, and there is a ton of smoke surrounding Mohinder right now.

Both Peter and Mohinder failed to realize that they had met each other only a few weeks back, and Mohinder probably would have left if it wasn’t for Peter, who tells him that he is special. The only problem, of course, is that Peter doesn’t seem to have any powers right now. Like many of us have been speculating, Peter believes he only has powers when he is around other people with powers, which would explain his ability to fly when his brother was around, and draw the future a short time after he met Isaac. Peter’s brother is going to be in Vegas, so that won’t work (even if Mohinder could get through security), but Isaac is in town and although it’s always awkward to talk to the guy that used to be going out with the girl you just had sex with the night before, this heroes work is more important than some silly feud.

Wait? What was that? Nathan went to Vegas? Yes, that’s right. We learned that Nathan’s opponent is named “Lindermann”, and although Nathan is up in the polls, Lindermann has enough cash to buy some of those numbers back. You can probably guess a little bit of what’s going on from here. That guy that Niki was supposed to get in a compromising position? Well, that’s Nathan. And although I thought that Nathan was a smart guy, how can he be so stupid as to fall for that trick. He bumps into Niki and, I shit you not, ruins her ticket to Celine Dion. I think he did her a favor, but she is upset.

When I go to Vegas, I play a game that is literally called “Hooker or Skank”. This game involves find the girls who dress like hookers and walk around the casinos and trying to determine if they are actually prostitutes, or just normal girls who decided that it would be unfair for them to try and make people guess what color their underwear was or if they were wearing any at all. Niki says that she is a businesswoman that is on a business trip. She’s alone because she doesn’t like her co-workers. Everybody has co-workers that they can’t stand, so that’s believable, but take a look at that dress and those heels. What kind of businesswoman wears that for a conference? It just screams prostitute.

At first, I thought that nothing was going to happen. Niki and Nathan started talking, but then the conversation slipped to their spouses and their kids, and I thought that had killed the move, but Nathan proved politicians are the biggest whores on the planet and starts to kiss Niki, but she decides she is not going to be a whore and leaves. Unfortunately, this entire plan is not just up to her. When she takes the elevator down, she is met by one of Lindermann’s men, who politely remind her what will happen to her or her son if she doesn’t finish what she is supposed to do. Yes, that was a threat, and you know what happens whenever Niki is threatened: Niki 2.0 comes out! And this time, they didn’t cut away before we got to see her.

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For the record, I am still trying to figure out what Niki’s power is. I know Niki 2.0 is powerful, but it’s still just a multiple personality, no? Niki 2.0 beats up the security guard, and then warns him if he ever threatens “our” son again, she is going to put a heel through his skull. But you know what? It didn’t matter. Niki 2.0 didn’t leave the casino; she went right back to Nathan’s room and threw him on the bed. I guess that means Niki’s power is an angrier, sluttier version of herself, but that’s still doesn’t make her a hero, does it? I can tell you that she has that hero symbol thing on her back. Take a look:

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Yes, I know you can’t see it in the picture above, but I thought that Ali Larter’s posterior should be saved for posterity’s sake. Here is a shot of that tat:

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Peter and Mohinder took the subway to Isaac’s place, but they knocked and didn’t hear anybody, so they just turned back. I think they should have been a little more persistent because Isaac was inside doing his business. Just imagine, if Mohinder broke in like he broke into Sylar’s apartment, they could have seen Isaac. Instead, they just return to the subway. More on that in a bit, but we should talk at least a little about Isaac. Simone went to Isaac’s apartment earlier in the day, where he confronted her about Peter. He drew a picture of her and Peter together months ago, but since it only rained the night before, he wanted to know if what he drew was true. Simone didn’t know what to say other than she doesn’t know how she feels about either of them.

Simone’s main issue is, of course, Isaac’s paintings. Before, he was upset that he couldn’t stop himself, but now he wants the drawings to come to him. Before he thought they were an accident, but now he believes that he can save the world. He doesn’t tell us how it’s going to happen, but we know that it is going to happen. For now, he just gets high and paints. And his eyes literally glaze over when it happens. He has the same look in his eyes as Claire did when she was dead on the autopsy table, if you ask me, although I can’t say if that is just a coincidence. When Mohinder and Peter stop by, he is painting a picture of Claire. She is sitting on some random set of steps somewhere, and there is a huge shadow looming over her. Is she in trouble?

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Not really. Claire wanted to pretend that nothing happened the night of her rape, but when another girl came up to her and said that the same thing happened to her as well, Claire started to think that maybe Brody shouldn’t be left alone. She decided to pretend that she needed a ride home after school, and after finding out he owned a stick shift, asked if she could drive. As they are driving, Claire lets him know that she remembered what happened that night, but instead of apologizing, he says that it was her fault, she was drunk, and, of course, she “wanted it”. If “it” was a sweater massage, maybe, but that is not the “it” that Boyd is talking about.

Did anybody else find it sort of strange that Boyd was as arrogant as he was? Like I said, I am not sure he was drunk enough to forget stripping Claire down and dumping her in the river, so he had to think it was strange that she, you know, came back to life. Then he had to find it strange that Claire didn’t remember any of this, and wanted a ride home from him. Then he had to find it strange that she was driving 80 miles an hour and blowing past red lights, but even then, when Claire asks him about Laurie Trammel, the girl that said Boyd attacked her, Boyd says that she is a slut. When Claire asks if Boyd is going to call her a slut as well, Boyd said, “I already do. And there’s nothing you can do about it.”

When Claire realized that Boyd wouldn’t admit that anything happened, was not at all remorseful, and clearly wasn’t going to change his ways, she decided to get a little bit of vigilante justice. She put her foot on the pedal, got Boyd’s Camaro into 5th gear, and then crashed the car into a wall. Wow. I don’t want to condone murder, but is there anybody who is going to say that Boyd didn’t get exactly what he deserved?

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Earlier, Claire’s father said that he would be late for his plane, but there would be a throw down when he got back. It made me think that they were on a different timeline because why would he have to get on a plane? The only place I could think for him to go would Los Angeles, but didn’t we already see what happened. Well, I was wrong. I am not sure how he knows who has powers before anybody else, but he decided to fly to Vegas. The next time we see him he is in Nathan’s room, looking at Niki and Nathan. The mysterious black guy is with him, and HRG tells him to take one but leave the other. But who are they going to take? And why do they want them?

I was just trying to figure out that one in my head when we cut back to Peter in New York. As he and Mohinder were traveling back from Isaac’s, the train suddenly stopped and so did everybody else inside. It was almost like Hiro was pulling it off, but how could he be pulling it off when he is in Vegas. Was there somebody else who had Hiro’s power? WAS IT SYLAR?

No, it was Hiro. Yes, Hiro. But it wasn’t the Hiro that we know. This Hiro knew English, didn’t wear glasses, and looked to be dressed in some sort of ninja get up. You have to admit, it was a pretty nice upgrade, but Hiro wasn’t there to pick up chicks. He looked at Peter told him that his name was Hiro Nakamura, mentioned something about you look different without your scar (I noticed Nathan had a big one on his chin), and then said “I have a message for you”.

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As far as the twists go, this would have been much better if we didn’t see so much last week, but it was pretty good. I thought this might have been the best episode of the season. Claire seems about to lose it, so I wonder how she’ll handle being a killer, even if it was justified. I think the way that we left Matt Parkman, we are supposed to believe that he is dead, but I really don’t believe that is the case. Most importantly, I need to know what Hiro told Peter! That’s going to be killing me for a week.

What did you think of this episode? Is Horn Rimmed Glasses really evil? What is Hiro going to tell Peter?

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42 Comments

  1. 1
    HoneyBunny
    Posted October 17, 2006 at 9:45 pm

    Thank you for the timely recap JoJo. I can’t get enough of this show. I swear that hour goes by so quickly and when it ends I am craving more.

    I am so going to draw that “f” thing on my right shoulder blade, put on some stilletos and go as Niki 2.o for Halloween!

    Save the Cheerleader!

    hb

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    campfiregirl
    Posted October 17, 2006 at 9:56 pm

    I don’t think my husband would like a HIRO IS MY BOYFRIEND T-shirt, but he would love Niki 2.o Thanks for the idea!

  3. 3
    urbangypsy
    Posted October 17, 2006 at 9:59 pm

    I freakin’ love this show! I want Super Hiro! I can’t wait till next week!

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    pearlblackdragon
    Posted October 17, 2006 at 10:14 pm

    Great recap J-Unit. Thanks. All the pics you posted were of my favorite moments.
    I had a light go on when I read what you wrote about Niki.

    Quote – I guess that means Niki’s power is an angrier, sluttier version of herself, but that’s still doesn’t make her a hero, does it?

    No, but it does tell us that she has two personalities, NOT(as I suggested)a DL possesion. Niki and Niki 2.0 are polar opposites. She is literally two. Now what I want to know is who is really in charge since Niki 2.0 seems to be able to take over whenever she wants, while Niki doesn’t even realise that 2.0 exists.

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    Shollia
    Posted October 17, 2006 at 10:58 pm

    Ando and the cowboy weren’t playing blackjack silly! They were playing poker!
    The Cowboy had 3 aces while ANdo only had 2 queens.
    Hiro did his thing and gave Ando the 3 aces… which I thought was pretty retarded since he could’ve just given him cards from the stack instead of stealing the other guys cards.
    *shrugs*
    Whatever though!
    I’m surprised you didn’t find that ending more exciting!!
    OMG I got goosebumps when I realized it was Hiro!
    It was just so awesome!!

    I also don’t think Claire’s father is as bad as the show is making him SEEM. He hasn’t really done anything evil.. he’s just been creepy :P heh

    Anywho.. I can’t wait for next week!!

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    JBJS
    Posted October 17, 2006 at 11:30 pm

    Awesome episode!!! Heroes is now, by far, the best new show of the season.

    I too have been thinking that HRG isn’t bad. He seems shady as hell, but the fact that the creators seem to be pushing so hard for us to think he’s evil makes me doubt it. On previews for two seperate weeks now, the voiceover has said something along the lines of “evil has a face” while showing a shot of him. They are trying way too hard to make us suspect him. It kind of reminds me of the beginning of the Harry Potter series when it seemed so obvious that Snape was trying to kill Harry. Yeah he was an asshole, but at the same time, he was actually trying to protect him.

    Anybody remember when Hiro first traveled to NYC and to show he was in the future they showed him the newspaper dated in November? The main story was Nathan winning the election. If Linderman uses that video of Nathan and Nikki well, the victory might not be so likley. The future is beginning to change already…

    Finally, a few small things that bothered me:

    They have noted several times that Hiro’s boy Ando speaks English. Why, then, does Hiro keep calling Isaac and speaking to him in Japanese? If it’s so important for him to get in touch with Isaac, why not put Ando on the phone as a translator?

    I am also interested to see if they have an explanation for the fact that Hiro was speaking English without an accent. It’s one thing for him to have learned English, but to speak it with a perfect American accent seemed wrong. This show has done a pretty good job so far of paying attention to detail, so I have faith that there will be an explanation.

    Also, Isaac is only able to paint the future when he’s high. Why was Peter able to draw the future after meeting him without the aid of drugs?

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    IJustWatch
    Posted October 18, 2006 at 1:34 am

    I think HRG told MBG (mysterious black guy) to take Niki. He probably saw the work she did in the elevator. Plus, she has to get to NY somehow, right?

    Since Nathan is already from NY, he will return. Then, somehow, Ando and Hiro will follow her out there. Save the cheerleader!

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    Court_Love
    Posted October 18, 2006 at 5:09 am

    Mohinder is really starting to bug me. And so his is little sidekick. Ugh.

    Anyway, I am disappointed that Matt didn’t have more airtime. Besides Hiro, Matt is my favorite super power.

    And here’s my theory on Peter: He can only fly when he’s with his brother, can, he can only draw the future when he’s been around Isaac, so I think Peter is the ultimate super hero. Whomever he comes in contact with, he get’s their power. Makes sense yes?

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    pbjunkie
    Posted October 18, 2006 at 5:19 am

    I’m so glad others are geeking over this show as much as I am.

    I have to confess that I find Milo Vewhatshisname sexy. Even with his mouth deformity and his constant brushing his hair out of his eyes. There’s something wrong with me.

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    minda07
    Posted October 18, 2006 at 6:58 am

    pbjunkie – there is nothing wrong with you – I have been thinking he is hot since Gilmore Girls!

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    wniffene
    Posted October 18, 2006 at 6:59 am

    I don’t think Isaac is only able to paint the future when he is high, he just thinks he is only able to paint the future when he’s high. A lot of creative people use that excuse to explain away their habits, “I can’t paint/write/play if I’m sober” but it’s never really true.

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    cruella_deville
    Posted October 18, 2006 at 7:02 am

    This show is awesome! Hiro is by far my fave, like everybody else, but DAMN!! I wish I was Niki 2.0. And, usually I hate cheerleaders, but Claire is great.
    In the previews for next week, it looked like they took Nathan, because it looked like they were at some camp or something in the desert, and he flew straight up away from HRG & MBG. Also, why was Claire in the hospital and bloody in the previews? Even if she was hurt in the accident, wouldn’t she have healed and not NEEDED to go to the hospital? So many questions……

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    missjeanbrodie
    Posted October 18, 2006 at 7:16 am

    I love this show!

    I think Niki 2.0 came out BEFORE the attack in the elevator–her face was wicked in the elevator doors. I think she is Niki’s id (versus superego) and was coming out because she really wanted to sleep with Nathan–whether to be wicked or because Niki 1.0 wanted to. 1.0 seemed to actually be into him back when she said goodbye.

    Niki and Nathan both have 2 sides, a public one and a private one. They agreed that parents have the side that their kids see and “who they actually are.” I think her bad side really wanted to be bad with his bad side, so 2.0 just took over. Also, in people with multiple personalities, isn’t it often the case that the “real” self/ego is unaware of the other more dominant personalities, but those personalities are usually aware of the ego and intervene as they see fit?

    Re: Matt Parkman, I hope that “clean him out” doesn’t mean “scoop out his brain, Sylar style.” I don’t think this is the last we’ve heard of Matt, though. I think they’ll wipe him memory of Sylar and send him home, where he can use his mindreading powers to satisfy his wife and try to mend his marriage. The non-initialed agengy could observe him and then fetch him again when they need him–it would be stupid to just kill such a talented and potentially useful person, especially since they are some kind of intelligence agency and he READS MINDS!

    I thought the “scar comment” foreshadowed that Matt will be injured badly in the future but live, and that’s when he’ll meet Hiro in the future. I like Court_Love’s comment that he can be a potential match for Sylar, and that would fulfill the ugly-duckling little-brother plotline that’s developing. Also, unlike Rogue, he doesn’t seem to hurt/rob the other Heroes near him, so if they all got together to face Sylar, would Peter become some sort of super-super-hero, having all of their powers at once?

    Now that Simone is getting evidence that Issac is not crazy (an addict, yes, but actually able to see the future), I think she’ll go back to him. Besides, if she were to continue to date Peter (rebound), she’d have to start believing in powers anyway.

    Whew!–this is long. Last point: I liked how the heroes are using their powers as most normal people would–that is to say, selfishly. Comic book heroes often have lofty ideals about how to use their power ethically among normal people, but people have to grow into a moral compass liek that, if they ever do reach it. Nathan mentions flying to hit on Niki and cheat on his wife, 2.0 comes out to get laid, Claire (probably jusitified) serves vigilante justice to the rapist QB, and even the idealistic Hiro uses his powers to cheat at cards. I think this is how normal people would respond to suddenly waking up with a huge secret advantage. Sylar is just a few steps further along, using his abilities to turn regular people into meat.

    Great show!

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    fieldboy22
    Posted October 18, 2006 at 7:38 am

    Love, love, love this show – might be the best thing on TV for me (save for Phil and The Amazing Race, of course). Great recap too J-unit and you are my new hero for mentioning the Stonecutters – but why did they have to make Steve Guttenberg a star??? :) .

    I so look forward to Mondays now, because no matter how bad the day sucks at work, I have 8:00 PM(CST) to look forward too. How much of a geek does that make me???

    fb22

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    Jyoti
    Posted October 18, 2006 at 8:11 am

    Just because Niki was dressed in a gown didn’t mean her cover story wasn’t believable. She wasn’t in the middle of a conference then was she? It’s not farfetched that a business woman would change into something nice after hours, especially if they were going to a concert later, like Niki indicated.

    The reason Claire stayed ‘dead’ was because the thing that caused her to die remained in her head. Once it was removed it allowed her body to repair. A stab wound isn’t going to heal if the knife is still in your ribs now will it?

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    jordo
    Posted October 18, 2006 at 8:12 am

    Yes, I agree. At first I thought just another 4400 show, but this last episode was just awesome. It looks like Hiro will end up a changed battle hardened Super Hero after all.

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    ravenmad
    Posted October 18, 2006 at 9:08 am

    okay, so im not sure if anyone else noticed this, but when nikki was in bed asleep with nathan, she didnt have the tatto anymore. I suspect HRG doesnt know about her having powers and when he said “just take the one”, he meant nathan. this may also be an advantage to her if she is still off the radar.

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    blackburnbob
    Posted October 18, 2006 at 9:33 am

    As for Mohinder’s sidekick, it can be assumed that she is bad. According to my husband, women in comics with short hair are usually bad.

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    masterspy
    Posted October 18, 2006 at 9:41 am

    I may be wrong, but that looked like a samurai sword strapped to Hiro’s back in the subway scene. If so, I think this references the anime series Dragonball Z (yes, I know that makes me a pathetic geek, but it really is a super cool show!), especially in regards to the DBZ character Trunks (aka “Future Trunks”) who journeys to his own past as a Samurai sword wielding superhero in order to warn his present day fellow heroes that they need to step up their powers to prepare for the calamity to come. Heroes is definitely best new show this season.

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    Strock9
    Posted October 18, 2006 at 9:49 am

    Nathan is not running against Linderman. He’s going to borrow a couple million dollars from Linderman so he can win his campaign. Linderman wants Nathan to win, and is setting him up with Nicki so that Linderman can use the photos to control Nathan after he gets into office (and he apparently did the same thing to Nathan’s dad back in the day).

    If Hiro doesn’t let Ando do the talking next time he calls Isaac I am going to scream.

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    soflat
    Posted October 18, 2006 at 10:02 am

    Was that definitely Nikki 2.0 and not 1.0 sleeping with the politician?

    Because it didn’t make sense to me me why she would do that after she beat the thug up.

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    Cody M.
    Posted October 18, 2006 at 10:04 am

    “I am also interested to see if they have an explanation for the fact that Hiro was speaking English without an accent. It’s one thing for him to have learned English, but to speak it with a perfect American accent seemed wrong.”-JBJS

    I’m thinking that this Hiro we saw at the end has been around a long time. Moving through time at will, he can go anywhere, spend any amount of time there, and then come back at the exact moment that he left. He almost looked a little older in that end shot. He’s probably spent years (to him) honing his powers, fighting evil (or…whatever), and learning English. But, as you said, I’m sure they’ll explain it somehow.

    Also, about Claire’s father catching a plane, what town is Matt in? I’m beginning to think that there are a lot of timelines here that we are jumping between without much of an explanation. Like at the end of last week, we never heard a phone ring while Claire’s on the table, and she wakes up to say “Oh shi-”. This week, the phone rings, she wakes up and says “Oh my God!” Could be nothing, but still, it might be…something.

    Great recap yet again, J-Unit. And I agree with a number of my fellow commenters, this is definitely my favorite new show this fall. Definitely one for the DVD shelf if things keep moving along like they are.

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    YouWannaBMe
    Posted October 18, 2006 at 10:05 am

    My favorite part of the re-cap although truly ignorant…

    Peter’s brother is going to be in Vegas, so that won’t work (even if Mohinder could get through security)

    (LOL He’s INDIAN not an ARAB!!)

    I hope this was inserted as a purely satirical stunt in reflection of the dude that was fired from Fox for claiming that “Lou Piniella is habla-ing some espanol and I’m still looking for my wallet.” Another FUNNY comment, but truly ignorant.

    Whew, ok, back to Heroes-one of the greatest shows of all time. I loved the ending with Hiro showing up and giving Peter a message. That one really got me. Oh, and another ignorant cultural observation was made by someone who posted a comment… Hiro was not dressed like a NINJA – he resembled a Samurai was more like it. Not to mention the fact that I think it was a really racist remark to think that Hiro couldn’t learn how to speak English so fast and without an accent… Uh, well, genius who made that observation… He’s FROM THE FUTURE!! AND!!! People who are surrounded other people who speak English WITHOUT accents are more likely to lose their accents fairly easily.

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    dumbanddumber
    Posted October 18, 2006 at 10:13 am

    I think that Niki 2.0 is looking out for Niki at all costs … maybe sleeping with Nathan really is the simplest way to get the mob guys off of her back, so 2.0 just did it. We don’t know yet if HRG and MBG know that she has powers or not; I guess we find out more next week.

    Anyone in a major car accident is going to be taken to the hospital to be checked out, even if they say that they’re fine and don’t seem to have a scratch on them. So I don’t think that it was a big deal that Claire was in the hospital in the previews; plue, even if she heals, she’s still gonna be all bloody, it’s not a cleaning power too!

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    dumbanddumber
    Posted October 18, 2006 at 10:20 am

    p.s. I also thought that the Rain Man scene was hilarious.

    Also, I think that it’s kind of an inside joke that Hiro’s not using Ando to call Isaac … after all, he said the phrase in perfect English, and then said, “Now I’ll teach you how to say it!”

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    Rick D.
    Posted October 18, 2006 at 11:01 am

    I love love love this show. First of all I have a question. Did anyone notice what Niki’s son said when someone came to the door before she left for the hotel? I could have sworn he said “mom, Sylar’s at the door” or something like that. Anyone have it taped and can tell me if I’m right?

    I also think that little brother can assume other people’s powers and has to be in recent contact with them to be able to use them. He could draw the future after contact with Isaac and could fly after contact with his brother. Maybe he’d be able to read minds after contact with the cop, or stop time after contact with Hiro.

    Rick D.

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    wylderwolf
    Posted October 18, 2006 at 11:23 am

    I am loving this show… the way the characters are being introduced bit by bit is phenomenal. I’ve been a fan of Hiro since the start, and I think that his return to the past (present) at the end of this episode proves he’s the one with the key. Even if Peter can use the powers of the others, he doesn’t seem to be as strong as they are with them. He gets a piece, but not the full potential.

    With regards to Mohinder not being able to get past security, wouldn’t that be because of the problems he’s already caused Nathan?

    Oh, and is anyone reading the comics on the “Heroes” webpage? They actually are important to the story, and the most recent one is the follow-up Claire this week…

  28. 28
    may1
    Posted October 18, 2006 at 1:00 pm

    Great recap. I loved Hiro 2.0 at the end. Campfiregirl, he is still my boyfriend – get over it.
    I think HRG is evil. I don’t know who he is working for, but he is evil.
    Funny, when my hubby and I go to Vegas, we play slut or hooker too!

  29. 29
    IJustWatch
    Posted October 18, 2006 at 2:20 pm

    After meeting Hiro from the future, will Peter Petrelli now be able to teleport himself?

    And I was under the impression that Peter didn’t take the money from his brother.

    YouWannaBeMe – hey hey before you jump to conclusions, J-Unit only meant that Mohinder couldn’t get to Vegas because Nathan told his men in suits to “keep an eye on him” after being approached by the crazed scientist. Not because of his ethnic background.

    Anyone else kind of annoyed by Mohinder’s sudden skepticism towards Peter, when he hasn’t even shown any towards his Pixie friend? Kind of extreme, if you ask me. What happened to being consistent?

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    juddfan
    Posted October 18, 2006 at 2:20 pm

    Thanks for the great recap Junit (but couldn’t you have capped Matt full length as you so loving captured Niki 2.0–she is so fine!!!! (but you know the Matt’s the one for me!!! If he can read my mind . . . just kidding!)

    great show and great comments here. I’m finding the show well written as well, to have the coroner mention she was found in the river told us a lot about the rest of that night! Loved Claire asking for the ride, coolest cheerleader ever!!!!

    I was so wrapped in the show I’m missing so many things you are all pointing out, but Mohinder is bugging me too, as is pixie bad girl (so funny–the short hair comic reference!)

    Good to know I can be so dense when wrapped up in my favorite new show in a long time.

    ps. I think the announcer is the same one from Surface last year (but not the one on the geiko commercial!)

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    juddfan
    Posted October 18, 2006 at 2:40 pm

    Thanks for the great recap Junit (but couldn’t you have capped Matt full length as you so loving captured Niki 2.0–she is so fine!!!! (but you know the Matt’s the one for me!!! If he can read my mind . . . just kidding!)

    great show and great comments here. I’m finding the show well written as well, to have the coroner mention she was found in the river told us a lot about the rest of that night! Loved Claire asking for the ride, coolest cheerleader ever!!!!

    I was so wrapped in the show I’m missing so many things you are all pointing out, but Mohinder is bugging me too, as is pixie bad girl (so funny–the short hair comic reference!)

    Good to know I can be so dense when wrapped up in my favorite new show in a long time.

    ps. I think the announcer is the same one from Surface last year (but not the one on the geiko commercial!)

  32. 32
    IJustWatch
    Posted October 18, 2006 at 8:57 pm

    Rick D. – Niki’s son Micah said “They sent a limo” or something like that.

  33. 33
    bdos88
    Posted October 18, 2006 at 10:29 pm

    Great recap. Great show. This is fast becoming my favourite show on television. Yet another killer ending, Future Hiro is one sexy beast.

    Comments:

    1 – JBJS, did they show Ando speaking English before? I thought Hiro looked surprised when Ando spoke English. Why he didn’t drop everything right then and there and have Ando leave the message is another question.

    2 – JBJS, maybe it does take drugs of some sort for Isaac to access his power. Just a thought but wasn’t Peter probably hopped up on morphine when he was in the hospital and mimiced Isaac’s power.

    3 – I really don’t think Matt is dead. Mysterious black guy can apparently dampen powers and erase memories.

    4 – IJustWatch, thank you! All of a sudden Mohinder is this big skeptic when one of the heroes lands on his doorstep. That was completely ridiculous. Peter not only says he has powers (ok, he can prove it at the time) but he also reveals the truth about his brother and Isaac. That should have had Mohinder salivating not doubting him at every turn. The Mohinder character storyline is easily the weakest part of the show.

    5 – wylderwolf, your theory about how Peter’s powers work kind of leads into another theory that I saw floating around on the net that stood out to me: that in the future Peter becomes Sylar. In an effort to retain the stolen powers permanently he takes the brains of other supers. I’m not sure I agree with this theory but it is interesting. Maybe that’s why future Hiro came back to warn him about what he might become. And the scar comment, maybe Hiro injured Sylar in the future with his sword. Anyway, I thought it was an interesting theory.

    Question, did it look to anyone else like some weird cirular chain-like impressions were coming out of Niki 2.0 skin when she took off her clothes? Is that part of her power or was that some clothing she had on? Do they appear and then disappear like the tatoo once Niki 2.0 goes away?

  34. 34
    bdos88
    Posted October 18, 2006 at 10:38 pm

    Correction, for comment 4 it should have been ‘(ok, he can’t prove it at the time)’.

  35. 35
    geewits
    Posted October 18, 2006 at 11:53 pm

    “He bumps into Niki and, I shit you not, ruins her ticket to Celine Dion. I think he did her a favor, but she is upset.”

    hee hee

    I was reading all this and was confused because I heven’t missed any episodes and then I remembered that I saw last week’s episode after spending the day at the state fair.

    But seriously, is there really a narrator?

  36. 36
    Fitz
    Posted October 19, 2006 at 9:51 am

    Thanks for the recap, I am loving the show and reading up on everyone’s theories!
    One thing has been bothering me, and I realize this is minor, but was wondering if anyone else had noticed. Just how many cheerleading outfits does Claire own? If I remember back to my HS days cheerleaders had 2 maybe 3, Claire has been wearing nothing else and has destroyed or lost, at least one an episode.

  37. 37
    silentfire
    Posted October 19, 2006 at 11:36 am

    I love this show, and in my opinion is going to give lost a good run for its money. I too was shocked about claire maybe killing someone and hiro all decked out in ninja gear. When the train froze I thought perhaps sylar was in the train and peter mistakenly absorbed his power.

  38. 38
    masterspy
    Posted October 19, 2006 at 1:14 pm

    I’m starting to believe that Claire’s true power is super seamstress/drycleaner for all the bloodied, scorched & torn cheerleader outfits she goes through.

  39. 39
    Fitz
    Posted October 19, 2006 at 2:18 pm

    masterspy, good I am glad I am not the only one wondering about this.

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    Elder Young
    Posted October 20, 2006 at 9:49 pm

    I love this show. This is the first show in a long time that leaves me smiling at the end, not necessarily because good things happened, but because the show is so entertaining. Anyway, I thought it was pretty ridiculous that future Hiro was dressed like a samurai from the future. Also, the way that Mohinder did a 180 when it came to believing Peter seemed too sudden.

    I kept wondering who pixie girl was, and I remembered (or IMDB remembered for me) that she played Laura, the femme fatale character in my favorite movie of the year, Brick. Now I know that she really can’t be trusted.

    The narrator reminds me of, “Terrorists are plotting to assassinate a presidential candidate. My wife and daughter have been kidnapped…and people I know may be involved in both. I’m federal agent Jack Bauer and this is the longest day of my life.” A narrator intro didn’t work for 24, so Heroes should give it up early.

    As long as the writers keep thinking up good stories, and putting Ali Larter in lingerie all the time, I’ll keep watching.

  41. 41
    JBJS
    Posted October 20, 2006 at 11:42 pm

    “Not to mention the fact that I think it was a really racist remark to think that Hiro couldn’t learn how to speak English so fast and without an accent… Uh, well, genius who made that observation… He’s FROM THE FUTURE!! AND!!! People who are surrounded other people who speak English WITHOUT accents are more likely to lose their accents fairly easily.”
    -YouWannaBMe

    Racist??? Are you kidding me? It is extremely rare to learn a second language past the age of 5 and be able to completely lose your accent. Try it sometime and maybe you’ll see what I mean. I’m not sure exactly how it’s racist to recognize the fact that not only learning a language, but doing so without an accent doesn’t exactly happen every day. All I’m saying is that I think it warrants an explanation.

    “1 – JBJS, did they show Ando speaking English before? I thought Hiro looked surprised when Ando spoke English. Why he didn’t drop everything right then and there and have Ando leave the message is another question.”
    -bdos88

    In the episode where Hiro found Isaac dead and got arrested, he told the police to call his friend Ando because he spoke English and would be able to explain everything. Good point about the morphine… I hadn’t thought about that.

  42. 42
    Ubiquitous
    Posted October 24, 2006 at 12:37 pm

    They have noted several times that Hiro’s boy Ando speaks English. Why, then, does Hiro keep calling Isaac and speaking to him in Japanese? If it’s so important for him to get in touch with Isaac, why not put Ando on the phone as a translator?

    I’ve been wondering that myself for a couple weeks now!

    I have to confess that I find Milo Vewhatshisname sexy. Even with his mouth deformity and his constant brushing his hair out of his eyes.

    And his character’s whining. But yeah, Milo certainly brings The Pretty, doesn’t he?

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