Building a Blog Cabin

So I am going to be building a blog cabin, log by log... episode by episode. I'm new to all of this actual blog site business. I've used Facebook notes, Myspace profile blogs, message forum profiles, etc. to get a steady blogging network, but no one really cares on those sites. No one really blogs on them. They are all just trying to see who can look the cutest and post a bunch of silly pictures.

Sure, I love posting pictures as much as the next girl, but when I see my favorite shows (Heroes, LOST, The Office, etc.) I want to write in detail about it and not feel like I am the only one doing it, or paying attention, for that matter.

Even if no one reads this, I am still really excited to start up this blog. I've transferred my current Heroes blog which was in a Facebook note format onto here in hopes of continuing it. Other topics are sure to litter my blog in the future, but until that amazing thing happens, please enjoy the entries below.

Thank you and goodnight,

Brittany

Brother's Keeper

Mohinder Suresh opens the episode in his native India, teaching students about plate tectonics and Pangea. His girlfriend finds a box of his fathers research films from the 1960's and pitches a fit. She explains that Mohinder goes to a "Dark place" when he gets involved in his fathers work. Good thing he doesn't listen to her, and studies the LOST-y film reels anyways.
Mohinder discovers that Samuel caused earth quakes even while in the womb. He discovers that Samuel's power can be magnified "a thousandfold" if there are enough people with abilities within close vacinity to him. Shazam! Finally, the answer! I knew he had evil, selfish, alterior motives this whole time.
Mohinder goes to the U.S. to find Samuel, but talks to his brother, Joseph about how he has been spending 40 years keeping this secret from his brother. Joseph seemed to be trustworthy and very intelligent. Maybe he has the power of persuasion? Who knows, but it was nice to put a face to a name finally.
Joseph tells Mohinder to leave and never come back, and Samuel is revealed to have heard their entire conversation. He follows Mohinder back to his hotel and demands to see whats on the tape, how he can increase his power. Respectfully, our Indian professor declines, and is riddled with crushed rocks (not bullets like I previously thought). Samuel freaks out and says "I'm sorry" before running out of the hotel room.
Mohinder gets up from his wound, revealing a bullet proof vest and a happy Hiro hiding behind the bed. Samuel told him to get the film for him, but not to save his friend's life. Hiro decided to do both. He switched the original Suresh film out with a decoy when he stopped time before Samuel arrived.
Hiro tells Mohinder of Samuel's blackmail with Charlie, and tells Mohinder to hide for 8 weeks so it looks like he let him die. Mohinder refuses, and Hiro places him in a padded room in an insane asylum with a fake name. Sounds like something Bennett would do. But hey, Hiro has to do what he has to do.
Hiro goes back to the present time where Samuel is sitting at the head of the dinner table like a king, and hands him his precious film. Hiro asks him where Charlie is, and, like an asshole, Samuel says "Soon."
What? Soon? He just potentially let his friend die, and risked his own health for a stupid film and he says "Soon"?
He pats Hiro on the back and says "Sorry your friend had to die," and just walks away. Jesus, Samuel. You are positively prime evil.
Back in Virginia/Washington, Claire does laundry at Noah's apartment in some booty shorts. Clearly it was laundry day. She finds the door busted with ice and finds an unstable Tracy Strauss freaking out about her powers. She can't control them, and ends up freezing Claire solid. Oops! She forgets that Claire can heal, and she ends up being fine. The two of them talk things out and have a girls night in. Tracy talks about Samuel and his carnival and how she really wants to start over. Claire tells her to do it, that maybe it is what is best for her.
Does Claire not remember last week's stream of events? Oh well, Tracy isn't Claire, I guess. Noah comes home with groceries and he's all "Hey ladies". Like it is normal for Tracy to be there. Like Tracy didn't tell him to 'Never call me again." last time they hung out and got a teenager hogtied. Forgive and forget, I guess.
Tracy ends up meeting Samuel in a diner ready to start a new life. Should be a good edition. I like the two of them together, especially for how close she is to Noah. I hope she talks about Noah while she is with Samuel and he gets jealous. LOL.
Anywho, the big deal of this episode is that Peter can heal, and he thinks Nathan is still Nathan. The Haitian pays him a visit and gives him the location of a locker with Nathan's dead cold body inside. That's odd, my brother is right next to me.... "it must be a shape-shifter." He tells himself. De-Nial. Sylar/Nathan touches Nathan's body and sees flashes of Nathan's death. He hears Matt Parkman's voice in the flashes and decides to go to him for answers. Great. Just what we don't need. Peter and "Nathan' find out Matt's been shot, and go to the hospital. Peter heals him and Sylar convinces Nathan to touch him for just a second. An exchange of energy is distributed, and Sylar leaves Matt's psyche. Sylar is supposedly back into his body but still looks like our politician. He takes Peter and flies out the window, feeling all of this conflict and self-pity. He clearly still has a lot of Nathan in him. Which can be good, but there is no telling how long it will last.
Peter is in denial throughout the entire episode, even though his own brother says that Nathan is dead, and he is just shadows of different memories from these two people. The episode ends after this revelation with a black screen and the words "To be continued..." written in white text. Really? You're going to continue this story? I had no idea. I don't see why they even bother putting that there. Maybe it's a comic book thing that i should get, but don't. If that is the case, I apologize.
The Sylar Peter Nathan plot was kind of expected and boring in this episode. Samuel's past and motives being revealed really got me excited. I have never had to wait this long for a character/plot reveal in an episode/volume of Heroes before. Sure, it happens in LOST, but that is part of the beauty of its immaculate storytelling. And it is done on purpose. Here is was just irritating and almost maddening. Phew!
Now all of these thoughts of Samuel gaining this power are rushing through my head. I can imagine this beautiful battle between him and Sylar. Or Peter. Or him, Sylar, and Peter. Whoa. I wonder what he's done to Charlie if he doesn't want to reveal her to Hiro just yet. I wonder how many other people he's killed in his past. i wonder if he was the one to actually kill his brother, Joseph. Maybe he foud out he was being betrayed this whole time and flipped out on him. Only time will tell, but the bar has been raised. Samuel will be our new super villain. And he will have Tracy on his side. I am satisfied.For once (this season).

Shadow Boxing

The last episode left us with Samuel blackmailing Hiro with Charlie stuck in time. Now all of the sudden he has free time to get a Visitor's badge at Claire's college and find his niece, Becky. How this makes sense, I don't really know. One could argue that Hiro was stuck three years in the past, and all that is water under the bridge by now. If that is the case, then I digress. I just thought it was worth mentioning...
Claire's storyline has been sporadically missing from my blog due to the extreme impertinence of sorority life. If I wanted to learn how to try to fit in to college, I would just rent a bunch of shitty movies with Sean Williams Scott in them. But that is neither here nor there. Right now, Claire's roommate (the one she kissed, revealed her identity to, and developed feelings for) got scared and moved back home. Why was she scared? Was she afraid she might not be able to control herself around the adorable Hayden Panatierre? Hardly. An invisible sorority sister has been trying to kill Claire's new girlfriend to isolate her. She wants her to lose everyone around her so Samuel's carnival looks as appealing as a backrub after a hard day's work. Or does she?
Isolation is not the only motivation for our disappearing friend. When a make-upless Samuel awkardly knocks on Claire's door and gives her the "Be a part of my special family" spiel, he reveals that Becky is a "very disturbed girl". Yeah, I've figured that one out on my own. He goes on like he always does as Claire tactfully listens in the doorframe, her back to no one. Meanwhile, Noah has come to Haitian the two girls that saw Claire heal in the sorority hazing. Seeing Gretchen run away in fear of her invisible enemy, he searches Becky's room. He holds a tazer at the ready and she manifests herself after he threatens to hurt her. Nice. It is then that Becky reveals her alterior motives for targetting Claire.
Mr. Bennet had burst into Becky's house as a child, and as her father defended his home, Noah took his life. "Shoot now, ask questions later" Samuel mocked him. She hid under the bed and made it her personal vendetta to kill the man that caused her so much pain. Kind of sweet. Kind of cheap. I've seen this in Sawyer from LOST and Oren Ishii in Kill Bill. But whatever. It's kind of cool to see Noah's past catch up to him again.
Samuel explains this to Claire as Becky explains herself to Noah, and then Samuel challenges Claire's loyalty by asking what Mr. Bennet would do in her situation. Out of nowhere, Noah comes in with a gun and says "Yeah, what would Mr. Bennett do?" So badass. I want it as a ringtone. Noah keeps his gun pointed at Samuel and demands answers. This cuts to them somehow in a parking lot with handcuffs and an SUV? I dunno, it was kind of silly. Becky comes in all invisible and saves the day (Samuel) and gets out of control. Samuel ends up tazing her to stop it. Claire ends up stopping Noah from shooting them, but gets pushed to the ground by her own father. What the fuck, Noah? Samuel and Becky run away.
Peter and Emma continue to get closer in the hospital. Emma is becoming more confident in her human abilities (a la medical school), and Peter uses his Jeremy power to heal patients on their way to the emergency room. The downside? The healing power drains all of the energy out of him and he ends up looking like hell after each heroic act. Emma notices this, and they both encourage each other to... whatever, be good characters on the show. They end up saving some 5-year-old girl in a princess outfit in a supply closet (yeah, I don't know either), and have another heartfelt moment by the piano. "You saved her." Peter tells Emma.'You saved me." She tells Peter. Damn. Kiss him already!
Back in Los Angeles, Sylar/Matt goes on a trip to New York to visit Peter and attempt to kill him. Even though we all know it probably won't work, Sylar can at least try. Although Matt is no longer in control, he can mess with Sylar enough to postpone Peter's fate. He puts guns in Sylar's luggage, makes him get flat tires, all sorts of comical travel annoyances we dread when travelling cross-country. But you know what they say, "It's all fun and games until someone gets a tire iron to the skull." Or something like that. Sylar figures out that whatever he does in Matt's body gets blamed on Matt, so he isn't afraid to kill anyone and everyone. He claims that the world is his hostage. Ass.
The two of them end up at the same damn diner Charlie worked at in the last episode. He reminisces about it in a way that only Sylar could, "I almost killed a waitress here once." So much for my theory that that act could change his outlook on life. More like a knotch that never made it to his bedpost.Matt holds back and goes along with everything Sylar wants to do to prevent any more deaths. Or does he?
At the end of this episode Matt does what he should have done a long, long time ago. He sacrifices himself. While Sylar was busy thinking of Hiro and Charlie three years ago, Matt was controlling his hands and his doodles on the napkin in front of him. Matt/Sylar hands the waitress her money and a note that says "I have a gun and I'm going to kill everyone in here." Yes. As Sylar/Matt leaves the diner, a nice cutaway shot shows the waitress calling the police. By the time SyMatt reaches his car, he is surrounded by cops, weapons drawn.
Matt motions inside his pocket which makes Sylar do the same. It looks like he is reaching for a gun and Sylar pleads with Matt. "You'll die with me."
"I know." Our noble hero takes one for the team and pulls his hand out fast, getting riddled with bullets. Sylar falls to his knees, and Matt fizzles into nothingness. A shot later shows Matt in an ambulance, the paramedics stating that his heart isn't beating, and that he won't make it. But they never tell you for sure. I just hope this works out better than the Get Drunk To Kill Sylar idea.
Godspeed, Matt Parkman. You were always nice to me in those Mcdonald's commercials about online monopoly.

Once Upon A Time In Texas

Hiro's quest in this episode is pretty simple; save the woman you love by going back three years in time and prevent destroying the time-space continuum in the process. Okay, maybe not so simple. But that is what Hiro aims to do when he accidentally teleports himself to Odessa, Texas three years in the past.
The show decided to use actual music besides the orignal score designated for each character. It started with Fleetwood Mac last season for Sylar's childhood flashback, and this time included some southern country song as Hiro entered the small town. Very fitting. Very funny. Hiro quickly realizes he is still in his hospital gown and finds some clothes hanging on a line. There he meets a young boy dressed as a cowboy with toy guns who tries to stop him. Hiro is obliged to fill the boy in on his noble quest, and the boy lets him take some of his father's clothes. The cowboy follows Hiro to the coffee shop, asking him questions about his quest. When they reach their destination, Hiro crouches down and says 'Don't worry, I'm the good guy!" The child smiles and places his white cowboy hat on top of Hiro's head.
"Good guys wear white hats; bad guys wear black hats."
It is then that a stranger says "Do you mind?" as the two of them are blocking the door. That person is Sylar, who in fact, throughout the entire first season, wore a Black Baseball Hat. Nice imagery, Heroes. Hiro backs away from the door and quickly remembered that three years ago, Sylar had no idea who Hiro was, and no one knew what Sylar even looked like. he had to let him pass.
In comes Charlie, our beloved waitress with an "Internet Brain" as Tony likes to call it. She has enhanced memory and doesn't forget a single thing she reads or sees. God, if only I had that in my classes! Anyways, like most blessings, she has a curse as well. There is an aneurysm in her brain that could kill her at any second due to her vast knowledge of the world. As we learned long ago, she has accepted death and is living her life in peace and happiness until it takes her away. This girl is my hero.
Back in Season 1, Hiro and Ando travel to this time in place to help Peter "Save the cheerleader, save the world". They stop at this diner and Hiro falls in love with Charlie, and goes back 6 months to try to save her from her brain aneurysm. He cannot save her, but ends up spending those 6 months with her in love and happiness and all of that. Upon his return, Sylar had split her head open in the back room and went off to collect Claire's ability at Homecoming.
Alright let me try not to screw this up. So now, 'Future Hiro" goes into the bathroom before Charlie is killed, and tells 'Past Hiro" that the Brain Man (Sylar) has already killed her. He tells Past Hiro to go back and save her, but it is really so that their relationship can happen. Past Hiro disappears, and everything is right as rain. So far.
Hiro returns to the rest of the diner and watches Sylar interact with Charlie. Talk about creepy. I miss the old Sylar. I mean he looked like a serial killer. He kept to himself, wore baggy clothes and a hat, was just plain firghtening. Now he wears DKNY shirts, slicks back his hair and has sex whenever her loses his powers or something crazy happens. I'm not really afraid of him anymore. I don't know, maybe it's just me. Charlie asks if she can take Sylar's order and he asks her what's the best thing on the menu. She tells him after rattling off everything she knows about his World War II Sylar watch. He figures out she has an excellerated memory and then asks her how her brain clot is doing. He gets rude and makes a sound of her head exploding before ordering the Tahitian Pancakes she mentioned before. A little frightened, Charlie takes his menu and walks away. Awkward.
We cut to other people in the diner, and look who it is. Noah Bennet! He is there with the lovely Elizabeth Rohm from Angel (Hell yeah, Angel) having breakfast and lying to Sandra on his phone for the eightieth time. Rohm's character is clearly into Noah and presents him with a motel key to 'stop this dance" or whatever people say. He doesn't deny her, but he doesn't agree either. He gets a phonecall from Eden at Primatech and rushes there to talk with Isaac about Claire. Old footage with new Noah close ups? Who knows. I guess it's not that important. Sometimes I forget all about Isaac.
Samuel made his grandpa-like friend send him back in time to antagonize Hiro in his quest. While Hiro tries not to be seen by the others, Samuel talks to him and asks him if he is making the right choice, if Charlie is worth all of this trouble. Hiro responds with a resounding yes. He leaves Samuel's side and freezes time right before Sylar kills Charlie. He moves Sylar into a storage compartment in a bus, and then returns to his love's side. She looks terrible and tells him that her aneurysm burst and she could die at any moment. Fuck. Maybe Sylar killed her at just the right time, originally. Maybe he shouldn't have gone back at all.
Hiro freezes time once again and tries to find Sylar. Sylar finds him and threatens to kill him for what he did to him, but Hiro is too fast for him. He toys with our villain for a while and they end up in a back alley "fighting" each other. Hiro is all in white, Sylar is all in black. Very Western, very symbolic. Hiro says he knows Sylar can fix things once he knows how they work. He makes a deal with him, saying that he will tell him everything he knows about the future if he can save Charlie's life. Sylar greedily agrees, and they go back into the diner together, claiming that Sylar is a doctor.
Although Sylar is still greedy and evil, he finds Charlie's aneurysm, and squishes it. The blood clot seeps out her eye and she is healed. Healed! Who knew Sylar could do that? I didn't! he smiles and then quickly asks for his part of the bargain. He wants to know his future. Hiro reluctantly tells him that he will kill many people with abilities, and become the most powerful of them all, him alone. He tells him that all of his kind will rise up against him, and that no one mourns his death.
Sylar's face drops. He is clearly sad about this news.
"No one will shed a tear when you die. No one." Hiro finishes.
This part gave me hope. Sylar's face had a shit ton of regret on it. Very foreboding. Was saving Charlie going to be a milestone in a completely different turn of events? Was he going to change his mind? No. He ends up leaving with his black hat on his head and that evil Sylar Smirk on his lips. I guess I was just too hopeful. He needs to go to homecoming and try to kill Claire for everything else to happen the way it does. Peter needs to find a purpose and get Claire's power, and Isaac's paintings have to come true, right? Damn the time-space-continuum.
We cut again to Noah and his life. He has a chat with Claire earlier about always wanting to be a Shakespeare teacher before she runs off with her cheerleading friends. He then goes to said motel and meets up with Rohm. The both of them look at each other and talk at the same time. She says "I'm glad you came", and he says "I can't do this". Thank God, Noah. I was getting worried for a second. They talk about thier "relationship" and why it shouldnt exist even though it never really did, and she ends up getting the Haitian to erase her memory anyways. Kind of a lame subplot, but nice to see that Noah is still of upstanding moral character.
At the end of the episode, Charlie agrees to go on a time-travel vacation with Hiro and they leave the diner together. Only Charlie is one step ahead of Hiro and he looks away for one second and she disappears. Samuel walks up to Hiro with a long face. Dammnit, Samuel.
Samuel somehow brings Hiro to the carnival like he does to everyone, and tells him that his grandpa took Charlie and put her in a place in time and space that only Samuel knows. He told him he did it because he needs Hiro's powers to help him, and he had to manipulate him somehow. He said that the trip with Charlie killed his grandpa. Hiro calls him a murderer and he just kind of shrugs like he could care less. He tells Hiro that he needs a few butterflies of his own stepped on, and that he did something terrible 8 weeks ago.
Having no choice really, Hiro agrees to help Samuel. He asks him what he did and a flashback of Samuel shows him standing over a bullet-ridden body of the one and only Mohinder Suresh! So that's where Mohinder's been; dead. I just don't see how you accidentally kill Mohinder. But whatever. I'm sure they'll explain it later, they always do.

Strange Attractors

Jeremy's battle with his inner demons brought Noah down hard. Thinking Tracy could help, he called her in to give Jeremy a 'second chance'. However, the troubled teen had too much on his plate, too much going on in his head. He never stopped blaming himself for what had happened. He viewed himself as a monster.

The company man's sorrow poured out of him as Jeremy relapsed in the crowd scene. The slow motion shots of him repeating "You can save him!" over and over again were extremely well-done. The public's reaction to Jeremy's ability made it clear to Tracy that she made the wrong choice in ignoring Samuel's offer. She's come to realize that the old way of doing things, the Noah way of doing things, just doesn't work anymore. "I was wrong." He admitted. "I guess I've been wrong all of these years." Poor Noah. He seems to feel he can't help anyone anymore.

My heart split in two as Jeremy calmly prepared for his imminent death in the back alley. His anger, frustration, and fear were so accessible, so vulnerable. The image of his battered body resonated deep within me as I'm sure it did with the business woman and the company man. The rift between them after Jeremy's death leads one to believe that Tracy will venture back to Samuel and his carnival. That compass is looking more appealing by the second.

Peter is not featured in this episode, probably because he spent 17 hours driving from Georgia back to New York in Jeremy's dead parents' pick-up truck. I always love a good Peter plot, but he needs to drive.

Back in Los Angeles, Sylar sleeps with Matt's wife by taking over his body during their lovemaking. Our noble hero tries to leave the house to keep Janice safe, but ends up sending her away instead. Sylar continues to patronize Matt with comments like "You're the second Parkman I made scream today". Yeesh. Matt rebuts by drinking him into oblivion and subsequently... out of existence. Sylar seems to disappear as Matt gets more intoxicated. Too bad what he thought killed him actually gave him the opportunity to take over his body completely.

That's right, Kiddies. Sylar is now controlling Matt's body, and Matt's psyche is a mere figment of Sylar's imagination. Talk about Straight Edge Revenge for Sylar. Russel Crowe would shit his pants right now.

The end of this episode is really great. I know great sounds so vague like "nice" or "good", but this scene was actually... great. It starts off with the classic shoe shot of a man walking slowly down a dusty road. His snakeskin boots are weathered with who knows how many years of turmoil, and his vampire-pirate outfit is covered in dust. Samuel walks alone down the streets of Cainan like an outlaw in an old Western film and stops in front of the police station that is responsible for Jeremy's death. He raises his arms and, without a word, brings the building to the ground.

I am still trying to figure this guy out. He has moments like these where I think I really like him. Moments where I think there is so much to know about him, that he may be the Benjamin Linus of this series, and Noah Bennett has been John Locke this entire time. But that is a pretty bold statement, so let's not get ahead of ourselves. He seems to be old, maybe even infinite as my fiance suggested to me earlier. He seems to be from Europe, as he counts "one" with his thumb when talking to Tracy. And his accent is very ambiguous.What I really want to know about this guy is his angle. His game. Why does he want this family to grow so badly? What does it matter if everyone travels with him and the bearded lady? Does he truly care about them, or does he want them around for some grand scheme in the future?

Last year I did a paper on Jim Jones and his beloved Jonestown. Jones appealed to those that were different; the outcasts of their time. He was a huge activist on civil rights and preached to the poor, the racial minorities, and anyone else that was turned away by conservative churches.When the cops hogtied Jeremy to the back of the car it was very reflective of the racial intolerance of the fifties and sixties. They were in a small town and they weren't going to have someone who didn't fit in. So they killed him. I'm surprised they didn't lynch him from a God-forsaken tree! But the imagery was there, and it was very well done.

Last season was very Holocaust-driven. The Late Nathan Petrelli acted as our very own flying Hitler that wanted to lock up all of the people with abilities in internment camps. He even wanted to perform tests on them. This season is less dramatic but brings up issues of segregation in everyday life.Samuel capitalizes on this. He knows how our heroes feel. He knows how lost they are, how looked down upon and feared they could be. Like Jones, he offers a utopia for those that are different. No one to judge you in my carnival, it is so far away from the rest of the world and their judging eyes. Don't you want to belong to something where everyone is like you? Damn. I've got to keep an eye on this guy. The great manipulator can do many things, and take many forms. I just can't wait for the day when Sylar reaches his body and the two of them fight it out.

Tabula Rasa

I'm pretty sure 'Tabula Rasa' is the title of a John Locke-centric LOST episode, but whatever. Tabula rasa means "Blank Slate" in Latin, which is what the narration talks about halfway through the episode. Sylar has a blank slate because he lost his memory, Noah has one because he's no longer working, Tracy has one because she no longer sucks,yadda yadda yadda.This episode was really important. Sylar finds his Little Shop of memories in a room of mirrors with a rastafarian guy. (See what i did there? Look up his mother, she was in Little Shop Of Horrors).

Anyways, Sylar pouts about his past and his new friends set up traps and keep him company with the circus bicycle, the badly tattooed girl. Once she starts talking to Sylar all the guys get mad and have testosterone-fueled hissy fits. Jesus, you are the guys that invited him there in the first place. Get over it!The trap Samuel (the Motley Crue guy) sets up for Sylar only half works. Sylar hurts, but does not kill his target. A badly Affliction-donned Ray Park has to come in and finish the job. Lame. But the circus family accepts Sylar for earning his keep, and throws a bonfire for him. The really messed up part is that Samuel baptizes Sylar. What? That's right, I said BAPTIZE. Whose name is he baptizing him in? They even had him dressed all in white and he came up looking all enlightened. I almost threw up. I had to put my hand over my mouth when I saw this and was just speechless. If you're going to baptize him for being a killer, baptize him in blood so it makes more sense and looks badass.

Even though this scene made me sick, I think it was supposed to. These carnival people are clearly not good. I think the baptism was supposed to drive the point home that these people might be representing a cult such as Jonestown or something of that nature. It seems like a good idea at the time, but wait, I don't want to drink this Kool-aid. I think the name Samuel is significant as well, the biblical prophet? But let's not give Heroes that much credit. I leave my deep spiritual references to the men who created LOST.

Meanwhile, in Happytown, there are no blasphemous baptizings. Peter brought Hiro to the hospital and introduced him to Emma. They are really cute friends. I really hope Hiro doesn't die, but he gave a really inspiring speech about living out your death with joy and dignity. Peter took Hiro's power to go find Noah again to see if he can find a healer for Hiro. Him and Noah (my favorite crime-fighting duo) go to this kids house and find that everything he touches is dead. The healer is a troubled teen with a shotgun, and in an attempt to save Noah's life, Peter's chest gets obliterated with a shell. Noah talks th kid down and he heals Peter. Thank God. Not like we didn't see that coming. If Peter died, I don't know what I'd do.

Anyways, Peter drives back to New York to get Hiro and heal him. Only they never tell you where they teleported to. As a matter of fact, they often leave that out and I always wonder how Peter, Noah, and Sylar always end up in the same rural neighborhoods at the exact same moment when they were in New York or Washington D.C. the day before. Oh well. When Peter returns to Hiro, he has disappeared back to the time when he met his girlfriend Charlie, and the episode is over. Maybe he can hurt Sylar in the past or something. Pray for peace.

Acceptance and Hysteric Blindness

Combining two episodes, we discovered Nathan's seedy past. What a brilliant way to end this limbo his mind and body were in. The call Millie received while she was dining with Angela was the chilling cherry on top of the whole murder sequence. What perfect revenge. I am kind of glad it is all over with him, but a flash into his past was kind of nice.

Peter is once again being neglected by Mom who knows something is up with Nathan. Too bad he got stuck with Emma's power after saving her from almost getting hit by a bus. He can't run fast anymore, but composed a very cute duet with our hearing-impaired heroin. I think they might amount to something. And she finally found out how to do something productive with her power; splitting her apartment in two! Yes!

Nathan crawled out of his fresh grave as Sylar, and can't remember who he is. He is like a scared little puppy in desperate need of a haircut. Found by the police and believed to be an insane drunk, he accidentally uses his powers to break out of the interrogation room. Guess the fingerprint results came back. Whoops. He runs away with a therapist in her car and manages to find the Motley Crue Circus just in time. Our sink-hole expert welcomes him with open arms and the cops never catch him.

Hiro finds the importance of truth and reality by telling his sister of his illness in a very heart-felt moment. He then accidentally teleports himself to Peter, who can no doubt help him more than any of his friends could right now.

Noah, Tracy and Claire are all trying to live normal lives. For Noah this includes ordering takeout and being unemployed, for Claire this involves joining a sorority and experimenting with her roommate. For Tracy this means getting her old job back and then when she does... growing a conscience. Hell yeah. She wants to help people and not be a super slut anymore, so she walked out on a big opportunity and it ruled. Claire needs to be more cautious, though. There is an invisible girl in the sorority working for the Motley Crue. And she's a bitch. Not only that, but her bio-Dad is dead for real this time. Whoops.Stay in school, Claire.

Ink

This episode was a little boring. Not all of the characters were included, but it was nice to see them take the time to really focus on the few they did, and really dig deep.

Sylar using Matt's own powers against him was pretty intense, but nothing I would ever put past Mr. Gray. The comparison of him using his powers to abusing alcohol is really awesome. Everytime he uses them he considers it a relapse and gets down on himself. This, as Sylar mentioned to him, could be his downfall since he lacks self-confidence.

Claire told her new roommate about her powers after she saw her fall. They both went out to lunch with Dad and he could tell something was up. Still boring. They are just building up to the lesbian kiss I keep hearing about. I think Claire is settling and coud do a lot better. That's just my opinion.

Peter is facing a fake lawsuit from our Motley Crue friend. After he talks to Peter, he shakes his hand and says 'you're just like I thought you'd be". or something like that. Then drops the lawsuit that never made sense to begin with. Asshole. Motley Crue then goes to his old house where his brother and him grew up. (His brother died at the beginning of the season, but we have yet to meet him or flash back to him.) He asks the owner to look around and she pompously declines. In a fit of rage he makes a giant sinkhole and kills all of the rich people inside. Then Peter sees the crazy compass tattoo on his forearm. Lame.

A new hero is introduced in this episode. I forget her name but she is deaf and can "see" sound as light in different colors. Like Beethoven or something. She shows promise to being a worthwhile character, although her power seems sort of useless. I am also kind of peeved that all of the female characters are progressively Blonde. The new Motley Crue girlfriend character is blonde, Claire is blonde, Nikki/Tracy is blonde, Elle is blonde, and this new deaf girl is blonde! What the hell? Arian nation much? Even the black girl that was Micah's cousin or aunt or whatever just "stopped hanging out" with everyone. Did she get scared? She can do anything, she should be in the main storyline! And the other brunette, Maya, was annoying as hell and had the dumbest power invented. "Oh, I get angry and everyone dies with ink in their eyes." Stupid. We need an equal playing field. Just saying.

Whoa, I got carried away. This episode was lackluster so I had to go somewhere with it. Basically I like Matt parkman's character more and more with each episode. The Motley Crue guy is growing on me I guess. Everyone else stays the same on my Like-O-Meter. Step it up, Tim.

Heroes: Orientation/Jump.Push, Fall

I started doing a Heroes blog at the beginning of the season, and will post all of them up-to-date on here.

I had a LOST blog on there a while ago, and will continue the tradition with Heroes. I will also start up LOST again once it airs in February. Then I'll probably compare and contrast until my head explodes. But for now.... Heroes. I have finished Season 3 and watched the first episode of Season 4 which is currently airing. So far Nathan is dead after trying to play Hitler and then redeeming himself shortly before his passing. Sylar is now "permanently" shape-shifted into Nathan with all of his memories so the world can be a better place. Or whatever. Peter lost his powers to his asshole of a father, but can absorb powers one by one as he touches people. Claire is in college (boring). Noah and Sandra are divorced (saw it coming). Angela is the same, Hiro is slowly dying as he uses his power, and Matt is back to being a cop and a dad. Only Sylar is in his head due to shape-shifting anomalies from last season. Creepy.

Besides all of that hoopla, ther is a slew of new characters that I don't trust. They are Carnies, first of all. And they all look like they are on drugs. The legendary Ray Park is one of them so that sort of gives me hope. But the leader does bad tattoos, is using Hiro for his own personal devices, and looks like a washed-up Motley Crue member with a bad accent. I don't like him. Not one bit. I hope he dies. Noah got sliced up all for some compass that belonged to Ray park and friends, but he is okay. Him and Tracy seem to have a bond that may go further. Who knows. I guess I approve. I approve of almost everything Noah does. He is my favorite character.

Claire's rommmate killed herself at college and i am kind of relieved because she was super annoying. Her and her other friend are beginning to investigate it because they suspect foul play. Claire's storyline is remindind me a lot of Buffy The Vampire Slayer, but I'll give it time. And I like Buffy. I just want some originality. Mohinder is nowhere to be seen which I also don't mind. I could care less what happens to him. I do care about Nathan/Sylar realizing who he is, though. The shots of Zachary and Adrian almost simultaneous in mirror shots are really erie and well-done. I can't wait to see what happens in episode 2.