Roly-Poly brings up Molly and the Walker System, explaining that he knows Molly is living with Mohinder and Parkman. It's so "Jennifer Has Two Daddies." He offers to help with resources, to fund Mohinder's research on the plague and the virus. Mohinder laughs because only the trifecta of Steve Jobs, Warren Buffet and Rupert Murdoch could possibly have enough money to do the impossible. Throw in Richard Branson and Bill Gates for good measure, too.
Roly-Poly is amused. "Trust me, that won't be a problem. Let's just say we have our own private Fort Knox," as he transforms a metal (or sterling silver, you never know) spoon into gold. From now on, Roly-Poly will be known as Fat Midas.
The golden spoon found in Lindsay "not my pants!" Lohan's pocket.
"So, can we count you in?" asks Midas. "Sign me up!" chirps Mohinder.
San Cristobal, Honduras
We're introduced to our newest heroes, "Maya y Alejandro", who are being chased down a dirt road by La Policia.
Running from the law is a bitch. However, it's time for the obligatory fence jump, and I'm surprised there aren't any shards of glass or barbed wire to prevent them from doing so. Never mind, now they're smashing in a window, and breaking in through a door. "We've got to keep going," pants Alejandro. "We've been running for 800 miles," pleads Maya. 800 miles is a long-ass way to run. This brother and sister duo should get sponsored by Nike.
"If we get caught, people could die."
"They'll die if we don't run."
More panting, tortured looking faces, weary eyes. This segment is like a watered down telenovela, and I'm just not buying it. I'd rather replace their scenes with performances by the guitar duo Rodrigo y Gabriela. Cut to a wanted poster in Spanish -- they're wanted for homicide. Dun dun dun.
I don't think that wanted posters are printed on such nice paper at such high resolution in Honduras.
Costa Verde, California
(somewhere near the town of Neptune, probably)
Claire and Bennet are having a little pep talk before the first day of school begins. "The electives I wanted filled up last semester," complains Claire. Oh, public school, cramming kids in like sardines. Not everyone can take 6th period photography, you know.
"I have one friend. I'm shark bait," she moans. "Oh, they don't look any different from the kids in Texas," Bennet says reassuringly. He stops in his tracks and eats his words as an Amazonian socal hoochie mama saunters past them.
I thought everything was bigger in Texas, not California.
"Okay, except for her," he admits. Hee. "Maybe they're a little more sophisticated here..." Bennet goes on to warn his daughter that the Company is still out there, and that she has to take measures to not get noticed. "From now on, you have to be entirely unextraordinary.Don't raise your hand in class, don't even try out for cheerleading." Sounds like an open invitation to be perfectly mediocre and not stress about getting into Stanford or Harvard. Take it, Claire! You have your whole life to live, and you'll never really have to worry about slaving away so you can get hired by a company who can give you good health benefits, not with your regenerative powers and all.
"We may want to start by you not driving me to school...and don't you think it might be easier on all of us if I had my own car?" wheedles Claire. Bennet can't keep a secret for much longer, and hands over her keys as an early birthday present. OMG, it's the brand new Nissan Rogue! It's so new I've never even heard of it! Is all of Heroes happening in the future or something? Did Hiro zap everyone forward?
Barry Shabaka Henley would not drive this car.
"Oh my gosh, the Rogue?!" she gasps. For a second, I thought she said Rove, as in a cutesy new abbreviation of Range Rover (or heaven forbid, Karl Rove), the pinnacle of "My Super Sweet Sixteen" gifts. The Rogue is totally the new Versa. "I'm so sorry for everything I've put you through," says a teary-eyed Bennet. Well, a car totally makes up for at least a third of all the crap, Dad! Extend the curfew a bit, and we'll call it even. This scene is underwhelming and cheesy as an extended plug for Nissan, definitely not as good as "Company Man" last season. Claire and Bennet say their goodbyes and she skips off towards school.
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1 of 27 | Posted by shawnster | Posted on September 26, 2007 7:08 PM
T.Vo!!! Great recap and i officially love the new word EMOTARD!!! that described that kid to perfection. Sort of a slow episode, but i figure they are setting up the future eps storyline. The best part of the ep? No Niki/Jessica...can we have more eps without her puhlease!
2 of 27 | Posted by lloyd dobbler | Posted on September 26, 2007 7:10 PM
T.Vo.!! Great recap and i officially love the new word EMOTARD!!!(its right up there with CELEBUTARD) that described that kid to perfection. Sort of a slow episode, but i figure they are setting up the future eps storyltne. The best part of the ep? No Niki/Jessica...can we have more eps without her puhlease!
3 of 27 | Posted by lloyd dobbler | Posted on September 26, 2007 7:14 PM
I started reading this earlier, but had to stop, and now I want to finish reading it, but it's only showing me the first page...what's happening?!
4 of 27 | Posted by spreadhead | Posted on September 26, 2007 7:16 PM
Hey all,
I have no idea what's happening, the recap published just fine (since at least lloyd dobbler got to read it in its entirety, the thing took me about 12 hours to complete, don't laugh) -- and now it disappeared. Maybe I got punked by TVGasm for my 23rd birthday? But that's not until tomorrow...
Hopefully it'll be back up soon, we've got ghosts or something on this site.
Thanks for the support, it means a lot!
5 of 27 | Posted by T.Vo | Posted on September 26, 2007 7:19 PM
Great recap, T.Vo! I almost fell out of my chair when you called Mama P part manbearpig. Where's Al Gore to hunt her down when you need him?
They better be planning to do something super kickass with Maya y Alejandro because I'm all ready skeptical about that developing storyline.
And I had never realized the smoking hotness that was Milo V. until I saw him on a talk show last year with his hair slicked back and not all in his face like Peter has it. I'm glad they let him cut it off.
6 of 27 | Posted by SnackyCakes420 | Posted on September 26, 2007 11:24 PM
And happy birthday, (even if it is a little early)!
7 of 27 | Posted by SnackyCakes420 | Posted on September 26, 2007 11:28 PM
Great recap. Yeah, Roly-Poly Midas will always be Ned Ryerson to me. I knew emotard was going to have some sort of "talent." I bet HE can backflip off the tower. I thought it was a good show. It's pretty obvious that Hiro himself will make the legends that he knows. And I that means it was his sword all along. Sort of. I think.
8 of 27 | Posted by geewits | Posted on September 27, 2007 1:33 AM
Great Recap!! But alas, i too found the season opener lacking a little. I kinda felt out of the loop a bit there with all the changes that were going on AND for the first time i kinda got bored of Hiro (can u belieive that!!!).
AND is it just me or does West (emotard! haha) kinda looks like a young Peter P / Ralph Macchio?....just a thought...
But i'm totally looking forward to next week, hopefully it will be a lil bit more exciting....BTW....I LOVE Peter P's new look....mmmmmm yummy yummy, i likey dat tummy....!!!
Twnny.
9 of 27 | Posted by twnpeeks | Posted on September 27, 2007 11:45 AM
Geewits, excellent "Sneakers" reference for that you should be commended.
I enjoyed this one, though I am missing the token hotness of Ali Larter, and I am not so much into the Hondurians. Not yet anyways. Do you think Senator Petrlli went diidling his little pilot into some Costa Verde woman? Makes you wonder how many more of Claire's pseudo-crushes will be related to her? Some sort of Elenaor DeRoosevelt syndrome.
I thought it was a cop-out to have the Ginsu Master as an Englishman, I think it was an obvious plot device because they know most americans can't/won't/don't read. Other than lookign forward to next monday. Good recap.
10 of 27 | Posted by mattypopo | Posted on September 27, 2007 12:39 PM
Loved the Recap! I liked this episode, except for all of the Nissan Rouge commercials.
When I saw Nathan looking in the mirror and seeing the burned person, I immidiatly thought "Nathan is dead and that is Peter". Then they showed Peter in Dublin, and I thought "Syler"! They both have the power to change into other people, and the image could have been Peter's guilt at killing Nathan? Just a thought.
11 of 27 | Posted by haloeight | Posted on September 27, 2007 9:37 PM
Loved the Recap! I liked this episode, except for all of the Nissan Rouge commercials.
When I saw Nathan looking in the mirror and seeing the burned person, I immidiatly thought "Nathan is dead and that is Peter". Then they showed Peter in Dublin, and I thought "Syler"! They both have the power to change into other people, and the image could have been Peter's guilt at killing Nathan? Just a thought.
12 of 27 | Posted by haloeight | Posted on September 27, 2007 9:38 PM
Loved the Recap! I liked this episode, except for all of the Nissan Rouge commercials.
When I saw Nathan looking in the mirror and seeing the burned person, I immidiatly thought "Nathan is dead and that is Peter". Then they showed Peter in Dublin, and I thought "Syler"! They both have the power to change into other people, and the image could have been Peter's guilt at killing Nathan? Just a thought.
13 of 27 | Posted by haloeight | Posted on September 27, 2007 9:41 PM
Thanks for the recap and for noticing the pencil in West's ear at gym class.. so weird. Anywho, I heard that Maya kills people with a virus of some kind spontaneously when she gets freaked out, and that her brother is the anti-virus which is why they need to stay together to prevent her from wiping out everyone.
14 of 27 | Posted by rayne888 | Posted on September 28, 2007 10:50 AM
Sorry for the multiple posts! Computer problems.
15 of 27 | Posted by haloeight | Posted on September 28, 2007 11:52 AM
excellent recap, had me giggling! I think the new girl from across the border is HOT HOT HOT, and I'm not even straight . . . imagine . . . but T.vo, why hold out on the girls, like me and not, who want to see the real haircut--just be careful where you place that arrow . . .totally thought the Hiro story too much comic relief and lame . . . I thought the daughter was going to be the hero, and history wouldn't write it that way, as they never give women credit, but I guess it'll just be Hiro and a few face scrunches . . . oh well.
Guess his dad could have picked a better spot to await death . . . no one would look for superpowered humans on that roof, would they!?
16 of 27 | Posted by juddfan | Posted on September 28, 2007 2:36 PM
Good post- though you should leave out words like "fruity" - makes you sound like a jerk
17 of 27 | Posted by lestat1966 | Posted on September 30, 2007 8:08 AM
Good post- though you should leave out words like "fruity" - makes you sound like a jerk
18 of 27 | Posted by lestat1966 | Posted on September 30, 2007 8:09 AM
good post - but you should leave out words like "fruity" - makes you look like a jerk
19 of 27 | Posted by lestat1966 | Posted on September 30, 2007 8:15 AM
good post - but you should avoid words like "fruity" - makes you sound like a jerk.
Hey - does anyone know what happened to "Moon over Sun", the Heroes fansite?
20 of 27 | Posted by lestat1966 | Posted on September 30, 2007 9:09 AM
sorry about the multiple posts - thought the new posts were on top
21 of 27 | Posted by lestat1966 | Posted on September 30, 2007 11:58 AM
"Are you there God? Its me Margaret" LOL, That was great. Throwing a Judy Blume book in there! Actually this epsiode way too much going on trying to catch up for the last 4 months we missed.
22 of 27 | Posted by wincha | Posted on September 30, 2007 2:49 PM
"Are you there God? Its me Margaret" LOL, That was great. Throwing a Judy Blume book in there! Actually this epsiode way too much going on trying to catch up for the last 4 months we missed.
23 of 27 | Posted by wincha | Posted on September 30, 2007 2:51 PM
"Are you there God? Its me Margaret" LOL, That was great. Throwing a Judy Blume book in there! Actually this epsiode way too much going on trying to catch up for the last 4 months we missed.
24 of 27 | Posted by wincha | Posted on September 30, 2007 2:58 PM
Okay, is it just me, or did this recap feel rushed. I know you've got it in you, just have some one read over this before you post it. Lots of errors, made it real hard to enjoy.
25 of 27 | Posted by neillfilm | Posted on October 1, 2007 9:53 AM
Not that good of a recap. I noticed a lot of missed words, and it's just distracting. I know you've got the comedy in you, but just have someone read this over before you post.
26 of 27 | Posted by neillfilm | Posted on October 1, 2007 4:23 PM
great recap! though i think missed words and distracting format should be taken up to high brass in the IT department. hey, tech nerds, clean it up a bit so that the gems of the internet like T.Vo can be presented in a nice space!
t.vo rocks -- i lol'd my loller self off!
hugo
27 of 27 | Posted by jooce129 | Posted on October 1, 2007 10:18 PM