Heroes Episode Guide - Chapter 12: Godsend

As usual, this episode guide will tell you more, although the last couple of reviews have tended to be slightly negative. While everyone’s entitled to an opinion, it moans about the behind the scenes goings-on and clips that have been airing in America so it spoils the episode - that’s not the creator’s fault, more the American TV networks who sometimes even show you the best bits of the episode before it begins (see Battlestar Galactica for that).

Anyway, I finished this episode thinking that not a lot had happened when on reflection it did. Matt gets discredited, Sylar didn’t escape afterall, Claire and the Haitian continue to talk (although not much happens), Claire lets Zack know her secret again, Hiro finds the sword and loses it to Mr Linderman, Nathan and Hiro meet, Niki/Jessica story actually becomes interesting - super strength may be her power now, DL and Micah might be in trouble with the egnimatic Mr Linderman, Ted explores his powers, Mohinder and Claire’s dad meet and Peter wakes up and finds the invisible guy (Christopher Eccleston), who seems visible to Peter at least.

It’s a great introduction to the invisible guy (Claude) and I’m intrigued to see if whatever he touches becomes invisible or Peter has absorbed his powers. Also Peter seems to be predicting the future again, seeing Claude in his coma before actually meeting him.

I enjoyed the bits with Claire and Hiro’s search for the sword the most. I still have no idea where the series is headed, but I’m enjoying the ride.

Heroes Episode Guide - Chapter 11: Fallout

They should have called this episode “Fall Apart” as things start going a bit crazy. We find out Mr Bennet isn’t in charge, Eden and the Haitian rebel, Claire starts to panic as her father becomes controlling and Issac shows Hiro he’s going to face a dinosaur.

But that’s not all, Eden stupidly lets Sylar free (as we knew he would - he’s meant to kill Issac) and we learn that it might be Peter, not Ted that blows up New York.

However all might not be what it seems. Unless either Hiro encounters a hero who can change shape or goes back in time, when’s he going to fight a dinosaur. In Peter’s vision, Issac is there but Hiro saw him dead at the time of the explosion and how come he’s having visions anyway?

All questions that keep getting raised and making the series addictive. the only storyline I’m a little bored with is Niki/Jessica, DL and Micah. I’m sure their powers will come to be useful in time but for now they don’t interest me. I’m interested in Issac’s new found role, what will happen to Hiro, what will Peter do and how Mohinder will help everyone.

Heroes Episode Guide - Chapter 10: Six Months Ago

Probably one of the best episodes yet. It had a lot of answers while still driving the story on. We now know who Sylar is and what’s driving him to kill, although the fact he’s been captured means I can’t help thinking that they’ve got the main bad guy a bit too early. Maybe he’ll absorb some of the Haitian’s powers or Eden’s, but I think he has to go into their brains to do that.

So if he’s been captures, what’s next? Well the big bang’s still going to happen and Ted’s on the loose so the focus will be back on that.

I enjoyed this episodes so much, seeing what happened before we met the characters - why Nathan doesn’t like his ability, what happened to Jessica, how Claire realised she was different and how Eden came to work with Mr Bennet. We don’t know much about the Haitian guy yet and I think he may prove to be the most powerful hero yet.

Apart from Hiro of course. His storyline continues to be the most intriguing and emotional. His ’saving’ of Charlie was heartbreaking as in a way he did save her, but not in the style he wanted to. It did raise a few questions though. If he really can’t go back and change things how come he could go and see Peter and shape what he did from then on? Now he’s back in the present will the staff at the dinner remember him? I suppose he explains the waitresses response when Ando asked if she knew Hiro - “He disappeared from here weeks ago”. I did like it when he phoned himself too.

Although I was worried the story wouldn’t progress from last weeks as it was set in the past, I found it almost better. It filled it gaps and made the show even richer than it was before. When I started watching the show I found it a bit like Lost, raising questions at every turn, but I find it more rewarding than Lost - it answers questions and develops characters much further. I can’t see why anyone wouldn’t love this show.

Heroes Episode Guide - Chapter 9: The Homecoming

Save the cheerleader. Save the world.

That’s what we were promised and it finally looks like the time has come. But where’s Hiro? I watched this in two parts and the first 25 minutes was incredible. I loved it and had to tear myself away from it.

I worried about Hiro throughout the episode so it was nice to know we’ll get to see what happens at the end, although that may mean the Homecoming storyline may be hold for the next episode.

So many great things happened, first of all Isaac looks better cleaned up and no longer like Gaius Baltar from Battlestar Galactica. But my favourite was the humanising of all the characters - Nathan’s meaness, Ando’s realisation he depends on Hiro, Peter’s acceptance of his powers and what he must do, Mohinder realising he had a sister and his father protected him (by the way I paused the computer screen and there are at least 40 names on there, 10 of which are deceased and six our heroes we know), DL realising he must do what his son says, Claire accepting herself etc etc. It was all brilliant.

After each episode I realise lots of my questions are being answered, but new ones pop up. Peter is really a hero now but gets arrested, we see Eden’s power but it doesn’t work well on Sylar until the Haitian comes into it, Sylar’s powers seem unstoppable - he resists Eden but both the fall and the Haitian hurt him. What happens next? Has Peter already changed history and Sylar won’t be able to kill Isaac? I’m sure there’s a lot more to come.

Did I mention I want to know what happens to Hiro? It’s becoming a cliche, but I can’t wait for the next episode.

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Heroes Episode Guide - Chapter 8: Seven Minutes to Midnight

A cracker. It really was an amazing episode, the most revealing yet. One thing when I’m reviewing these episodes is that I’m a bit lazy and give you a link to another site which reviews them, and thank goodness I do as it would take a while to write down everything that happened. Actually it seems www.heroestheseries.com had the same problem.

I like hearing what other people think about the series and their theories and one I hadn’t thought of was the fact that it may be Ted who blows up New York. He seemingly can’t control his powers and is being locked up so he may go a bit mad and explode. I liked how him and Matt connected and decided to find “the Haitian” (bald guy) who’s been absent in the past few episodes. But we do get to see what Eden can do. Some kind of power of persuasion as she gets Isaac to paint again. We learn more about glasses guy/Claire’s dad/Mr Bennett too and his motivation. His pleading with Isaac seems genuine, as does his ruthlessness later on - he seems a complicated man and could be a hero himself - helping people with special abilities. How many has he helped? How many has he destroyed like Claire’s mother?

It’s all intriguing stuff, we don’t get to see Peter, Nathan, Mr Linderman, Simone etc but we dos get a new hero - for a bit anyway. We meet Charlie - a charming waitress who takes a shine to Hiro and can learn incredibly fast. Watching her and Hiro chat is great but the tension is ramped up with Sylar sitting in the background (amazingly in shadow on a sunny day). Sylar’s abilities seem endless though - how did he kill Charlie? I thought for a moment he might have stopped time and absorbing Hiro’s abilities but think they may have been just showing the watch which Mohinder saw in his flashback/vision (he’s bound to carry on the research isn’t he? And who’s the kid? And what about his sister?).

Again it was a fantastic ending with Ando wondering why Hiro hasn’t come back and focussing in on the photo of Hiro on the noticeboard. How far did he go back? How come he wasn’t only gone five seconds? Answers next week hopefully. Can’t wait.

Heroes Episode Guide - Chapter 7: Nothing to Hide

I think we’ve been spoilt. Even a really good episode like this makes me wish for a big thing happening at the end. Actually to be fair we do get a big thing when Hiro and DL team up, but then go their separate ways. You’d think they’d realise and join forces or something but I suppose each have their own problems.

But the rest is little things like Claire’s brother finding the tape (could be a problem in the future), meeting Nathan’s wife, the missing painting etc. All important stuff that helps the story move along but nothing wildly exciting happens. But some important things do.

Ted and his powers for one, the mark on his and Matt’s necks, Mr Linderman’s name popping up again (will we see him before the season finale?) and Peter realising that he can absorb powers. I presume that’s what he was doing when he grabbed hold of Nathan - daring to fly in front of the reporter.

A decent episode and I love the series, but it just makes me want to see the next episode, which I suppose is the makers’ job!

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Heroes Episode Guide - Chapter 6: Better Halves

A quieter episode this week, with Nathan and Matt being ignored altogether, but I still found it interesting. Hiro continues to be my favourite character, the smile on his face when he realises he had a sword in the future is great, as is his struggling to cope with the fact he couldn’t save the guys at the poker game, yet Ando is there to support (and translate) for him.

This episode is all about Niki and how she is coping with her evil side. It’s great that they finally get to meet and the majority of the questions that this episode raised are answered within the show which makes a nice change. It turns out that Niki’s evil half set up her husband, D. L. Hawkins, and slips out in the night to kill the guys that DL was going to see in the morning. The same guys who were playing poker with Hiro and Ando. The way these heroes (or evil vililans maybe?) lives intersect is really interesting.

I felt a bit sorry for Niki as she tried to explain to DL what was happening but her evil side asserts control over her. But we do get to see DL’s powers in action and it makes you wonder what powers Micah might have.

My suspicial that glasses guy/Claire’s dad isn’t necessarily the bad guy gains momentum when although he brings fake biological parents to meet Claire, his reaction to hearing the words “save the cheerleader” shows that maybe he’s not in control of everything. He may just be testing and cataloguing the people with powers as he let Matt go. I’m not sure what the significance of him having another pair of glasses is either, but who he was talking to on the phone is important.

In one of the only predictable things about the programme, Mohinder’s friend in New York, Eden, turns out to be working with glasses guy. Despite Mohinder going back to India, she seems to be using him to find people with powers and they both seem used to dealing with these people, using the term pre-cog to describe Issac. I’m intrigued to see if Eden has powers as she’s tasked to go and collect Issac so I’m not sure how she’s going to do that.

Roll on next week.

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