HEROES TO ZEROS

Somebody just told her they ordered more episodes.

Ha, you like that title? Well, you may have liked the title of this entry but the show, not so much. I was excited for the new season. Why? I don't know. If the first season hadn't knocked my socks off, black argyle by the way, I wouldn't be here yelling and complaining and stomping my feet because of the vast suckiness that is every season since. I don't even know what season we're in because of the long hiatus, writers strike and two volume season last year.

My idea for the next season of Heroes... kill everyone and start the frak over. I could give a crap about these people anymore. Honestly, they're all so different from what they were when I loved them. They've gone through so much stuff that now their lives, especially the ones that are trying to be normal, are just silly.

Claire is in college (got her GED, y'all) and, as expected, runs out of a calculus placement test because it's too hard. Granted, it was hard, but I wouldn't have even looked in the door of that class. She has a semi-psycho, i.e., stereotypical, first college roommate who has her whole life planned. How opposite of Claire, she has no idea what she's going to do. At least she figured out what to do with her hair. Whatever she does with her life though, it will not involve her lame ass power. Or will it? Ugh, I just intrigued myself more with that sentence then the show did. I'll just continue on this ridiculous storyline. During her first day at school she also meets some Goth chick named Gretchen who is played by an actress I've seen before and actually really like. Look out though, Gretchen is from Texas and when she hears Claire's name and where she is from in Texas wonders if she's the same Claire Bennett from the infamous cheerleading murder. Oh, you mean the one from season 1 when the show was still good? Oh that one, yes, she is. Claire's like, "ixnay on the urdermay!" and doesn't want to talk about it.

Some stuff not worth mentioning happens and at some point Claire finds her annoying roommate dead, did a Greg Louganis out of her bedroom window. Claire's real torn up about it, but not really. She thinks it was murder, although really Claire, she spent a few minutes with you. That alone is enough to want to slam face first into a slab of concrete from 50 feet above. Gretchen thinks it was murder too and she wants to investigate it. Gretchen, seeing as Claire ran out of the first taste of college she had, let's let her concentrate on some classes before we go and do that, mmkay?

She falls pretty.

Claire at first rebuffs this idea, but since it's been six weeks since she's been shot or broken in some way she decides to test Gretchen's theory of gravity and how people who are pushed bounce farther out then people who jump, and jumps out of her window. She lands all broken and nasty and then puts her humpty dumpty ass back together just in time for Gretchen to see that she's not like a normal girl. Let me also point out that Claire landed almost identical to where her rommie's chalk outline was so the girl jumped. I mean, that doesn't mean she didn't have a gun to her head, but still.

Hello, kitten.

On to other, more attractive things, Peter. Peter is an EMT. Remember that season where he was an EMT? Yeah, we're back to that. Peter still has that copy cat power where he can steal the person's powers that he's with but ONLY that power, not like when he was all bad ass and had every power imaginable. He's currently holding onto Mohinder's power which is speed and strength and douchy-ness. He's running around New York City saving people and having no life besides that. That's really sad. He's a handsome guy, you'd think that he would be dating. I'm sure there are a bunch of nurses at that hospital that would certainly hook up with him. In fact, I just came up with a much better show then what's currently on.

Meanwhile, Noah is still working for the government, it seems, but is also communicating with Momma Petrelli. We'll get to her in a minute. Noah finds out that Tracy/Jessica/who cares is still around killing people. Remember the only cool scene last season when she froze the water in the parking garage, but then it became uncool when Danko shot her and she shattered into a million pieces. Ok, that was cool too, especially because I was hoping that Tracy was really dead. But then after we saw that she wasn't dead, just in a bunch of pieces. She apparently didn't die and is going around killing Danko's men out of revenge. Revenge for what? Ugh, hasn't even had screen time and I already hate her this season.

Noah gets into his car and the car suddenly fills with water. Then Danko shows up and shoots the window so Noah doesn't die. Let's break down what just happened and why it's so stupid. First off, was that water Tracy? Does she put water in some place and then remotely make it come out? He got in the car with no trouble. The water also started freezing the doors, so was she doing that? Ugh. I hate you. Secondly, the last I remember seeing Danko they were carting him away because they thought he'd killed someone. I don't have the mental strength to look up who it was but I believe Noah framed him and he got arrested and taken away, no? I was going to say he escaped but later we see him return to his old apartment from last season. If someone cares enough to remind me...

Noah tells Danko that he will talk to Tracy and not to hurt her. Huh? Maybe I don't remember correctly. Anyway, he then meets up with Tracy and tells her that he'll take care of Danko, for her not to kill him. Again wondering why he's all buddy buddy with Danko. To ensure Tracy's safety (why???) he has the Haitian erase Danko's memory of Tracy. Later when Tracy goes to his apartment to kill him, she sees he doesn't remember and doesn't kill him. But someone does kill him. It's Darth Maul from Star Wars and Toad from X-Men! Love this guy! He has this super sexy speed that he chops Danko up and kills him. Tracy runs in (again, why??) and I pray to baby Jesus he does away with her too but he tries, and she's made of water so she doesn't get chopped. Suck! She calls Noah and he comes over and realizes that Toad wanted something and Tracy interrupted. He wanted a key that was in Danko's body that he finds very quickly with a baggie covered hand. Wow Sherlock!

He traces the key to a safety deposit box (of course!) and finds Peter and asks him to go with him. Basically Noah's a puss and wants a "Hero" with him. Peter gets a hard on when Noah says Toad has super fast speed. We know Peter's only going there to steal this guy's power. When they open the box they find it has a compass in it (more on all this later). Toad shows up and Peter (hotly) steals his power and the only cool scene of the first two hours happens as they slow motion/fast speed fight. Peter gets a few cuts but eventually Toad runs away. They look at the compass some more and in Noah's hand it looks broken. In Peter's hand it starts going around in circles. Obviously this thing is attracted to or only works for "Heroes", although they sorta blow it off as nothing.

Unfortunately Toad catches up with Noah (duh!) and chops him up a bit. Peter hears the call over the radio and uses his new found power to run the frak over there and realizes it's Noah and probably feels like crap for leaving after he got the power. Noah's okay and Tracy visits him in the hospital and they exchange some looks that make me gag. Please don't pair her with anyone. She needs to stop having sex with people, it's gross. I know all the fan boys want to see this chick half naked but I just want to see her act. Is that too much to ask for? I guess so.

I'm going to dedicate the next paragraph to the most boring part of the show, Sylar. Yes, he's the most boring part now because he's NOT IN IT. Remember how last season Sylar killed Nathan Petrelli and then Matt Parkman turned Sylar into Nathan? Yeah, that's still going on except Nathan isn't feeling like himself and is acting strange. He goes to see his mother who is really no help at all. He then starts realized he has other powers, like telekinesis and that lightening power Sylar, thankfully, cut Elle's head off for last year. I guess all of Sylar's powers are leaking out now. If Matt has to do the little mind thing on him every six weeks that'll get tiring. Why can't the Haitian come in and do something? Ugh.

Okay, one more paragraph about this because it involves Matt. He's not been using his powers for the last six weeks. Has just been working as a cop in LA. You know, because strapping a bomb to yourself and threatening New York doesn't leave a stain on your record. I know it wasn't his fault, and maybe he had Nathan speak up for him, but still. Anyway, Matt starts having visions of Sylar that happen at work, at home with his wife, anywhere that's inconvenien and awkward. Apparently when Matt did that to Sylar some of his brain got stuck in Matt and now he's "haunting" him. Really? He wants Matt to use his power, which Matt refuses. I guess he thinks of it as a drug? Yeah, why would you want to catch drug dealers and bad guys in an efficient way? Eventually he does use his mojo and Sylar is happy. Who cares?

Unfortunately they teamed the most interesting part of the show with the least interesting part. New this year to Heroes is Robert Knepper. He was on Prison Break and should have gotten an Emmy. He's an amazing actor with chilling performances. And he's hot in a sadistic "beat me now" sorta way.

When we first meet him at the beginning he's narrating and burying his brother, Joseph. And when I say burying I mean he moves his hands and the dirt falls over the casket. Joseph apparently had a compass that he lost and Samuel (RK) wants to get it back. Samuel and Toad work at a carnival or Carnivàle. A tattoo lady who takes her shirt off and walks in Sammy's tent. He takes an ink pen and pokes her with it on her back and blows the ink into her. It forms a picture of Danko. A bad one at that. He wants Toad to go get him, but Toa'd tired of killing people. Aw. But Sammy is not having that shite. He uses the pen to shoot some ink in Toad (yowza) and it forms a hand that starts strangling him. Huh? What the hell is this guy's power? He's moving dirt, making ink move...

Also working at the Carnivàle is an old man who seems to be the head honcho in the little group of freaks. He doesn't look like he's doing too well. Sammy uses the ink again and it forms a picture of Hiro. Another bad rendition.

So are you honey, so are you.

Hiro and Ando are in Tokyo working at a newly formed business whose name I don't remember and don't care to look up. Basically they put up a bunch of banners around town telling people to call them if their in trouble. So they get some little girl who needs help with her cat... you know what, whatever.

Exactly!

Basically Hiro tells Ando that he is "dying" but doesn't elaborate. Boy would I like to know how the eff my best friend in the whole world was dying. Ando says he wishes he could go back in time and change it so he's not dying. Okay God, ya can't do that. Although Hiro conveniently whips out a picture of himself, Ando and his sister and a Carnivàle. You see where this is going right? It's from fourteen years ago. It was where it all changed. It must be real important to NEVER MENTION IT BEFORE. Hiro saw a fortune teller that night that told him he would be a hero one day. So he's saying he based all of his yearning to be a hero on this one moment that we've NEVER MENTIONED BEFORE? Okay. It just also happens to be the night that Ando knocked a slushy into Hiro's sister. Ha, that sounded so pornographic. Sister Hiro then hated Ando for the rest of her life while Ando pined for her. Give it up Ando, if she's mad because you spilled a slushy on her then she's a bitch anyway.

Ando says Hiro could just go back in time to fix it. Hiro doesn't like this idea because of the butterfly effect. You know, when you change something in the past and everything else changes. It's that little thing that this show shites on every chance it gets. Hiro decides not to go but the glitch in his powers take him back to the Carnivàle anyway. Hey, and while he's there...

Sammy asks the elder freak to send him back to the fair and he goes back to talk to Hiro. Hiro sees his young self and freaks out, although hasn't he run into himself a few dozen times now. His younger self says he thinks he recognizes him. Um, maybe that's because this weirdo shows up every few years? Like at your house pretending to be your cook??? Why doesn't Hiro go back then and get his freakin' powers righted by his mother. Dear God am I trying to rationalize this?

Sammy befriends Hiro and basically says he knows what he's up to, but in a friendly way. Hiro tells him about the butterfly effect and Sammy thinks maybe just one thing won't hurt. He pushes Hiro into Hiro's sister and takes the slushy for her. How noble. Hiro then goes back to the future (hah!) and sees Ando. Nothing looks different but wait, Ando and Hiro's sister kiss. Somehow I think the butterfly effect with that would have been greater, since it would have changed Ando's participation is just about every hair brained scheme Hiro has come up with. But I guess not. Sammy also goes back to his boss, who is dying, and says he's found a replacement in Hiro. Um, he's dying too dude. He also does some ink blowing on the chick and pictures of Peter, Claire and Sylar come up. I think, they look like my 4 year old cousin drew them.

On the bright side, no Mohinder aka The Fly. Not even in the narration.

So, I just spend way too much time on that. I will try and get some pictures, but again, too much time.

HEROES (REALLY?)

If I went to church this is what I'd pray for.

Ugh. I hate being wrong about something so good. Although, I wasn't really wrong wrong. The first hour of the new season of Heroes was frakin' amazing. But the second hour, and the episode after that had me doubting my own sanity.

Go away.

I hate Nikki, or whatever her name is now. Her story is stupid. She was one of triplets that got DNA modification and they all have abilities. What? And Nikki is really dead, so no more Micah, the only thing (person) interesting in her entire storyline. Blah, done, who cares. And she's teaming up with the other non-story. Nathan. By some odd ass rule, after he's blown up and shot, he's able to take a Senate seat that's vacated by someone. What? Silly Washington. And Nu-Nikki recruits him and then tries to quit and then unfortunately is unsucessful in killing herself and is saved by a flying Nathan. Oh, and Nathan has gone batshite crazy and is seeing Linderman, who may or may not be alive but nobody else can see. This story is so stupid. Hopefully it makes sense soon. Oh, and just like Nikki's useless ass power, Nu-Nikki can freeze things. But it seems she has to be touching them, unlike Iceman on X-Men who can actually throw his ice. But don't worry, as is ALL of the characters on this show, she will soon be able to do something one of the X-Men does. I won't go into the "German" in the second hour and second technical episode that could bend metal. Really Heroes? Really?

Run, girl. Run!

The other person who is working my last nerve is Mohinder. You know I'm all about Mohinder and his sexy ass, but he has gone nutso. He injected himself with experimental hero-juice because his new girlfriend (wtf?) Maya wants to get rid of her evil eye power. Now, because he's injected himself he can scale walls, hang upside down on rafters and has super human strenghth. Oh, and he's a tool. This all sounds so familair. Hmmm. The best part, just to make sure you're paying attention, Mohinder starts to get disgusting wing-like, skin-like flakes on his back that he peels off. I think, like the Sarah Palin/Tina Fey split screen, I'd like to see a split sreen of The Fly and Mohinder. Because seriously, really? Really Mohinder?

One other story that is so not floating my boat is Hiro. His father died, he got put in charge of the family business, just to reiterate the fact that society in a whole is completely misogynistic because why wouldn't his amazingly smart/business school educated/basically running the company before sister ever be considered for this? Wasn't Hiro just a regular business man before, not even working at his father's company? I'm confused. Anyway, in probably the most interesting part of this story Hiro goes four years in the future and sees Ando kill him with kick ass electric powers. Seriously, they were kick ass. But since then he keeps doing stupid stuff, like disobying his father's wishes and taking out of the safe half of a formal that could destroy the world which the new character, super fast Daphne steals. He and Ando go through trying to get the formula back only to be captured by The Hatian, and thank God he's back, I love him. You know who else is back??? Adam aka Kensei aka Julian Sark aska The Hotness aka My Future Boyfriend. Mamma Petrelli tells Hiro he has the key to saving the world and guess what that key is? That hot hunk of man he buried in the the family plot who is still alive since, like Claire, he can never die. You know what else can't die? My love for him.

As you can tell I'm going from worst to best. The next is Parkman. At the beginning of the season future Peter teleported Parkman to the middle of nowhere. He comes across a guy who tells him he's in Africa and has been basically waiting for him. The guy can, get this, draw things in the future and has been doing this, outlining Parkman's life. Now the show is copying itself. Anyway, Parkman sees that the world is in deep doo doo and sees that the African (don't black people get real names on this show???) has painted a moment that looks like Parkman is holding a dead woman. Intrigued, and who wouldn't be, Parkman takes some of the man's juju paste and puts on the man's headphones and sees the future himself.

In the future Parkman is hot.


In the most random and and another WTF moment, it's four years in the future and Parkman's married to Daphne. Huh? They have a baby and are still taking care of Molly. Oh right, Molly, you remember, the one who can find the heroes? And speaking of Molly, with Mohinder freaking the eff out and turning into the Fly, and Parkman doing a walkabout in Africa, who the hell is taking care of her in the present?



Sarah Palin as Mamma Petrelli.


Meanwhile, Mamma Petrelli has a secret. And this secret is huge. Sylar is her son. Seriously, that was another WTF moment. I'm totally confused. Wouldn't Nathan have noticed if his mother was preggers and didn't have a baby when he was like 10? Whatever, I've decided not to question minor things like that with this show. MP seems ot think Sylar can be taught to be good. Has she ever seen that video of that guy getting eaten by his pet lion? Anyway, she sends him out on a mission with the newly reinstate Noah Bennett. Is it just me or he looking hotter these days? The guy is hot, but hasn't been given the ability to show his full hotness potential on this show. Trust me on this though, he's tall, lean but in that musclar way, and without his classes he is classically handsome. Yum. Sorry, lost my train of thought.


Hey honey, there are worse things you could look like.

MP is mad at future Peter because, as he sent Parkman to Africa, he also sent present Peter (PP, hahahah) into some deranged killer from Level 5. They all escape Level 5 and go on a murder spree. This is PP (trapped in some hot Latino's body), The German, some other guy, and then some cute little black man, double yum.


Anyway, PP wants to stick with these guys because he thinks he can help them. What he doesn't realize is Jesse, the guy he's in, told his crew the plan of breaking out and then robbing a bank, forcing Noah Bennett to come get him so he can kill him. Rut-roh. MP sends Noah and his new partner, Sylar, into the building, hoping this new structured life will make her crazy baby not as crazy. Doesn't work. Future Peter shows up and grabs PP out of Jesse's body, leaving Noah vulnerable, but of coures, Sylar saves him, only to kill Jesse for his cool ability to yell at people and knock them over. No joke. Cute black man gets away. Oh, come to find out, cute black man's power is that he gets super human strength from people when they're scared.



Sylar in a suit. Yum.


Anyway, MP puts Sylar back into jail because it's not time yet. PP is taken to the future with future Peter because he wants him to see how jacked up things are now. He tells him that everybody basically went loco and he needs to stop that. Oh, and also, everybody in the future has powers. Like everybody. Someone created a formal to give them powers and people are using it to go crazy and steal things, kill people, etc. Basically it's what they feared would happen in X-Men and that the big blue furball became a Congressman to stop. I loved that movie. Take that critics!


FP tells PP that the answers lie in Sylar, who is in Costa Verde, in the Bennett's old house. Huh? Before PP and FP can find anyone to back up his story, Claire kills FP. That's a bummer, I was getting a little excited watching the two Peters together (that's what she said!). Anyway, future Claire is a bitch. Well, present Claire was a bitch too. Peter goes to see Mohinder because (what?) he's still in that G-D loft of the painter's. Who the hell is paying the rent on this place? All Isaac's stuff is still there? And he was KILLED in it, why wasn't this a crime scene. I'm confused. Anyway, Peter goes there and Mohinder is hidden away, breathing all heavily, he scurries around the floor. He says his formla was wrong. DER! He again says Sylar has the answers.





Little Sylar. Hey! Get your mind out of the gutter.


Peter zaps himself to Costa Verde, ready to fight Sylar, but Sylar's not Sylar, he's Gabriel. Gabriel is a daddy now, to little Noah. Yes, his kid's name is Noah and he's living in the Bennett house. WTF?

FC is in a gang with cute black man and Daphne. Oh, and right, now it's time for us to see Daphne with Parkman. They have a kid, which is cute. She wants to use Molly to try and find Peter. Future Parkman's not happy about this, but since he's always been sorta ball-less, he agrees and tells Daphne to be careful. So FC, CBM and Daphne all go to Costas Verde.



There are so many things wrong and wonderful about this picture.

Peter and Sylar are catching up. Peter's still not buying this Suzy Homemaker routine, even though Sylar is wearing a cute "kiss the chef" (or something) apron and cooking pancakes for his ridiculously adorable kid. Sylar takes Peter aside and tells him that he's not a crazy mofo anymore. Of course Peter doesn't ask the one question I think was weighing on all of our minds... Who is the mommy???? Anyway, Peter wants Sylar powers, all of them, so he can go back to the past and save the world. Sylar warns him that his power is dangerous, because, like being a vampire, once you get the "hunger" you can't control it. Luckily in the future he's learned to control it. Peter doesn't care, he wants it anyway because he thinks the only way he can win is if he has his power. How stingy is Peter. He just needs to stand next to somebody and he gets their power. He already has a bunch of powers. I do think it's interesting thought that they are Ying and Yang. Oh, maybe they're twins. I love that idea! I'm calling them now. How Sylar has to kill people to get their powers and Peter doesn't. Oh, and while they're taking a trip down memory lane, Sylar tells Peter that they're bros. Peter is flipping the hell out. He eventually takes Sylar's powers.



She's like 3 1/2 feet tall. She does NOT scare me.

Anyway, while they're discussing it the crew shows up and grabs little Noah. I wonder if Claire knows that that's her cousin. Anyway, they threathen the boy and Peter tries to reason with Claire, says that she was never a biatch like this before. She's not having it but Peter distracts her and punches her like she needed to be punched and Daphne and Peter fight. Cute black guy is fighting with Sylar who tell LN to go hide. Cute black guy pushes Sylar and he flies into the table LN was hiding behind and kills him. Daddy Sylar does not like this at all and goes nuclear on them, like Peter did, and basically effs Costa Verdes up.

Parkman and Molly are concerned for Daphne who shows up (instead of going to the hospital?) and dies in Parkman's arms. Parkman then comes out of his funk and wonders if it was all a dream. Haven't you been paying attention!? He figures he should find this chick. The African tells him to find his power animal, which Parkman quickly and idiotically decides is a turtle. There is a lot of symbolism in this episode.

Present Peter's in the morgue with his dead future self. He can't teleport out because The Haitan is there. But Nathan comes in, he's President now, and Nu-Nikki is his first lady. I hate her. He tells Peter he's going to take the blue furball's advice and set up some rules for these crazy ass people. Peter starts to get all Sylar-psycho and does that thing where he lifts them up and takes off the top of his head. He just killed his bro. That is not right. He freaks out and teleports back to the present and into Sylar's holding cell in Level 5, grabbing him. Sylar kind of chuckles at the idea that Peter now how the "hunger".

Like I said, the second hour of the premiere and the second episode were shite. But the first hour of the premiere and the last episode (3rd) were amazing. I'm all over it again. And any time Peter wants to walk around without his shirt with his cute little cocked smile he can feel free to do so.

HEROES: FINALLY

Three episodes of Heroes sat on my Tivo (actually, it's a Time Warner DVR, but that's too hard to say) for a few weeks. The first few episodes were just so bad. I hate Nikki, the whole Hiro in Fuedal Japan thing was kinda stupid, and Peter without his memory was just not hot. Of course, things were made a lot better in old time Japan (OTJ) when David Anders, the lovely and amazing Stark from Alias showed up. Can this dude get any hotter? First off, he's from like Iowa and talks with an immaculate British accent, and he was talking Japanese, which seriously, what's hotter then bilingual British guys? Nothing really.

But then he became all bad, which I didn't particularly like, although he played an amazing bad guy on Alias. But that was Alias, he was dressed in suits, and was shooting guns, and that was hot. I really need to get out more. To top it off, we realized he was a "hero" himself, and had the power of regeneration, that Claire has. That kind of confused me, since he was a warrior and would have noticed this before Hiro showed up. Maybe Hiro showing up is what did it.

The moment I knew Heroes was back though was when Peter, who had lost his memory for some reason, went to Montreal and teleported ahead to 2008 where 93% of the world's population was lost to a mysterious virus. Mrs. Petrelli showed up and told him what happened and that he had the power to go back and stop it. He was able to remember her and believe her, thank the Lords of Kobol. He then sees his Irish girlfriend who he teleported with and she's being herded somewhere with other "surivors", but before he can get to her, he accidentally teleports back to '07 Montreal. Damnit!

In the room they were in before they went into the future, there was a note from "Adam" who made it sound like they were cohorts, but of course Peter doesn't remember. As he's in the room trying to figure out what the hell just happened he hears something and does his little lightening bolt trick, which he must have learned from Elle (I'll get to that bitch in the minute) and a hand comes out, being burned. But then it regenerates and my heart starts pounding. Out steps my lover, David Anders, who we've known all this time as Kensei, Hiro's hero, and he tells Peter that HE is Adam. Holy Moses. LOVE THIS!

The best episode of the season is a flashback to the moment Nathan grabs Peter and flies away with him before he explodes. We see what's happened to our group since that moment. Nathan is carrying Peter as he's burning up and Peter is yelling at him to let him go, but Nathan wants to make sure he's okay, since Peter can't fly and he can. Technically that's not true, but I like the whole brotherly love thing they have going on. Peter insists and Nathan, who's burnt pretty badly, finally lets go. We see the huge explosion we saw before and Nathan is unconscious, falling to the ground. Suddenly, before he hits, PETER comes in and swoops him up, taking him immediately to the hospital. He then runs out, after the doctor's take him, and Elle lightening bolts him, knocking him out. Bitch. I hate her.

When Nathan comes to, all messed up looking, he asks about Peter, who they claim is missing and they're searching for in the water. Um, didn't anybody identify him as the person who came in with Nathan to the emergency room? Because not that many people fit the "un-Godly hot" category.

Hate her, but this is HOT.

Peter is then put in a room and told he was given the "cure" and that his power are dormant. They mindfrak him a bit and say his brother's jacked up because of him, and he should want his powers gone. He agrees and for the next few months start taking pills. This is when the hotness, Adam, shows up. He's a prisoner too, has been for 30 years, because they think his blood can heal. Really? Because they don't seem to have been using it since the show started. Adam convinces Peter, rightfully so, that they're in a prison with no hopes of escape, but that he can help them both get out, and they can go visit his brother and give him his blood to heal him. Love this idea.

I had a dream just like this last night.

They do just that, Peter takes the medicine Elle gives him, who is truly a freak. Seriously, this girl has some problems, and I really hate her. She's psycho, and not in a good way. Eventually Peter's powers return and he uses the power he got from D.L., walking through walls, to get out and go to the hospital where Adam gives an unconscious Nathan his blood. He starts healing in seconds and they leave. Unfortunately Elle and The Haitian show up and Adam and Peter split up, with instructions to meet up in Montreal. The Haitian finds Peter though, in a shipping yard, oddlly right next to the hospital, and because he's around, Peter can't use his powers. Instead of taking him back though, the Haitian handcuffs him to inside the container, where we found him a few episodes ago. He tells Peter that his (Peter's) mother helped a long time ago, and he's returning the favor by sending Peter away from these people, so he can lead a normal life. So he can do that, he takes his memories away. We see how well that planned worked out. Kinda cool though.

Back in present day Montreal, Peter has finally regained his memory and remembered all of this, using his healing powers to heal his brain. Sexy. Adam tells Peter it's time to save the world. Okay, let's admit it, that whole storyline is sorta bad ass. I'm disappointed that this isn't the real Adam though. Or is it.

When he was Kensei back in OTJ, when Hiro was around, Hiro encouraged him to be a hero, but he didn't really have it in him. He was selfish. For awhile there though it worked, because he fell in love with the princess. Unfortunately, so did Hiro, and when Kensei sees them kissing, he goes apeshite. He betrays them, kidnaps the girl, and is about to unleash some craziness on OTJ. Hiro stops him though, and blows up the tent he's in. I knew he wasn't dead. I mean, Stark doesn't die that easy, just ask Sydney. You know usually I'm not into thin lipped guys, but somehow he makes it work. Sorry, a little aside there.

When Hiro returns to the present, he finds out his father was killed. He goes back to that moment, but his father doesn't want him to change his future, and to let him die. After some nice scenes, Hiro agrees and let's him die, but not before seeing the face of the man who kills him, Adam, Kensei, hotness, whatever. This confuses him, sorta. I'm really holding out hope that Adam isn't bad. I mean, these people held him captive for 30 years, so he could just be seeking revenge, which, eh, I'm kinda okay with that.

Matt Parkman though is on his way to figuring this thing out. He's put two and two together and realized that everyone that was in this "class" picture of sorts is being killed. Mrs. Petrelli confessed to killing Hiro's father, to protect her kids, or for some reason I'm blanking on now. He finds out that the person who made her confess is none other then his dead beat dad, who low and behold has the same power as Parkman. Of course he's honed his skill and can no not only manipulate someone into doing what he wants, but he can trap them inside their head, like he did Molly, who is in a coma.

Mommy and Daddy

Molly's been living with Parkman and Mohinder in Mohinder's NY apartment while Parkman's a NY detective. It's a sweet little relationship, the three of them. MOmmy's not home much, so Daddy the cop has to take care of Molly mostly. MOmmy's out working for the Company, trying to get the good on them while Daddy tries to find the people in the picture that keep getting knocked off. MOmmy's been working with Bennett, Claire's dad, to find out the dirt on the Company and to make sure they're not coming after Claire.

Unfortunately MOmmy starts to think maybe working the Company isn't such a bad idea and turns on Bennett, but in a sweet innocent, hot, way. Bennett finds the last of Isaac Mendez's paintings and in them we see Peter in front of a backwards HazMat sign, which we see when he's in the future. We also see a picture of MOmmy with a bandage on his nose and a gun pointing at the viewer. And the last one is of Bennett on the ground, with a hole in his glasses, apparently shot.

MOmmy wants everyone to just get along and goes to California to find Bennett. Unfortunately he takes the Company man, Bob, and that whackjob Elle, who we learn is Bob's daughter. She's been living at the Company facility for 16 years. Whatever, I hate her. Bennett figures out though that MOmmy is working with the company, but Bob kidnaps Claire. Luckily Bennett is helped by West, Claire's boyfriend who we learned can fly and Bennett kidnapped years ago. Talk about "Daddy" issues. Anyway, Bennett, who's kidnapped Elle, makes a switch for Claire, who's blood Bob has already taken.

In the switch, West flies away with Claire only to be "shot" down by Elle. Bennett shots her, only in the arm unfortunately, and in a standoff MOmmy shoots Bennett. IN THE EYE! We see the prophecy of Isaac's seemingly last picture. It was good having you in the story Isaac, see ya! But all hope isn't lost, because Bob gets Bennett's body back to the Company and puts in some Claire juice. Bennett's eye heals and he sits up, alive. Yes. Can we just talk about how hot this guy is? Bennett. You really wouldn't think unless you really looked, without the glasses. I've seen him in person and damn, yeah, it's nice.

The other story lines are DUMB DUMB DUMB. There are twins from Mexico who discover she has the power to kill people. Boring. She gets mad and her eyes tear up with black tears and anyone around her dies. Her brother can calm her down and help her stop it. It would be cool if he HAS to be there, but as we've learned he doesn't. She can do it herself. They're running from the law because at her brother's wedding she found the brother's new bride going at it with someone else and got pissed, killing everyone in a two mile radius except her brother. Argh, I'm bored talking about these two. The ONLY glimmer of hope is that they found Silar on the side of the road and he's hitching a ride to America with them. Yawn.

And then there's Micha and Nikki. Love Micha, he's adorable. But Nikki, we know has volunteered to be tested at the Company. Why? You may ask? Well, D.L. survived that night in the square when Peter blew up. Bob found her and offered her a cure. Since her ability was having a really strong split personality, she was happy to accept. But like most schizophrenics, she felt better so stopped taking the pills. Then, instead of Jessica showing up, some ho who's name I can't remember showed up. She left D.L. and came to LA. D.L. in the few months since being shot, has turned into a well respected, heroic firefighter, rescuing people by walking through walls an stuff.

D.L. though can't live without crazy in his life, like most men, I guess, and goes to LA to find her. He does find her and interrupts her and her pimp or whoever. He takes Nikki out of the club but not before the pimp comes over and shots D.L. point blank in the chest, killing him. This is so stupid I don't even wants to talk about it. This is when Nikki decides to turn herself over to the Company. While she's there Bob tells MOmmy that there is this cure. Matt's dad manipulate's Nikki into trying to kill Bob. Instead though she injects herself with the "cure" to take her powers away. We learn the cure is actually a virus. MOmmy's blood was supposed to be the antidote, but oops, it doesn't work. Wish I could be sorry about that. Through the power of deduction, I've realized the virus that kills most of the world's population is this virus. I put two and two together when the guys from the future called it the "Shanti Virus" and remembered that's what MOmmy's sister's name was.

The last new character is Micha's cousin. At least I think that's who she is, I don't remember he name, and don't really care until she does something interesting. They're in New Orleans and they discover she has the ability to see something on TV and mimic it. Do you see my eyes rolling? This is the dumbest power ever. Actually, she doesn't have to see it on TV, she can just do it from seeing someone do it. It'd be cool if she kept the knowledge, like Neo downloading stuff in The Matrix, but it's not made clears. So she either has a potentially kick ass ability or a real lame ass one. My head hurts.

All in all, the season, with only 2 (which includes the one in my Tivo) episodes left until the fall finale has gotten stellar since that flashback episode. Between Peter and Adam, I'm good to go. Let's hope they keep up this pace of actually making good shows.

NEWS: HEROES RECAP ON NETFLIX

In case some of you didn't watch the first half of Heroes season in the fall, Netflix is offering a chance to see a recap. You can order the recap, which also has full episodes of two new shows they're touting, Raines, staring Jeff Goldblum. I have it but haven't watched it. I think he talks to the dead or something. Nothing like Medium though, I'm sure. Also on the DVD is a show called Black Donnellys. I have no idea what it's about but the people aren't black at all, which I'm kind of offended by. It was created by the guy who brought us Crash, so again, surprising. Of course, they were going to air that show in the ER timeslot, but the show did so well, it kept ER where it is and put Black Donnellys in limbo.

The main reason for me telling you this is Heroes, I could really give a crap about the other stuff. Sci Fi has also been running a few marathons, but I'm not positive when the next one is. Heroes starts up again in two weeks (January 22). You can also watch the episodes online at http://www.nbc.com/Video/rewind/full_episodes/heroes.shtml or on iTunes, but iTunes costs money, although it is a little easier to watch it.

HEROES FOR SURE

When I first watched the Heroes pilot a few months ago I was like, eh, whatever. I mean, it was good, don't get me wrong. Wait, maybe "good" isn't the right word. It was intriguing. Yeah, that's what it was. I'm a big X-Men, Spiderman, Superman fan and when I think "heroes" that's who I think about. I would love for there to be an X-Men live action show on television, and I was hoping this would be it.

The first show was all about establishing these characters. We have a heroine addict that paints the future, a stripper who has some sort of alter ego, a cheerleader who's invincible, a guy who can fly, and an Asian guy who can teleport. We also have a professor that's investigating the death of his father. His father was researching a way to track these people who have powers. Also in the mix is some sinister looking guy that has been following the professor and who happens to be the cheerleader's father. Okay, reading that back that actually sounded interesting. Unfortunately, the first episode showed very little of their powers, which is all I was waiting for.

Then, something magical happened. In the middle of the last (second) episode, shite started to come together. Greg Grunberg, who we know and love from Alias, plays a cop. He showed up and things started to get better. His power is he hears people's thoughts. There's a serial killer loose and he struck again. Greg is just a patrol cop, but when the victim's child is missing, he hears her crying in his head, from a crawl space. He thought everyone could hear her so it makes the FBI a little suspicious. When he speaks to them he says things only they (or the killer) would know because he's reading their thoughts. They arrest him.

My biggest complaint about the show is no one believes these people. I mean, truly, if someone you knew told you they could paint the future, it'd be a little hard to believe. But when they showed you a picture they painted three weeks ago that matched something that happened just yesterday, you'd think you'd try to believe them. That's what's going on with the painter. The painter, Isaac, even painted what looked like the end of the world. New York in a ball of fire. He then tried to kill himself. From the end of the pilot it looked like he did die, but then in the second episode we realize his high class girlfriend just let him sleep it off. Um, ok. She's not very supportive, even with all the evidence.

Claire is a cheerleader in Odessa, Texas. Which is awesome because the movie, Friday Night Lights is set there. Anyway, she recruits some reject to video tape her trying to kill herself. She can't though because she's invincible. She pulls some guy out of a burning train and they come looking for her at school. Some dumb girl who's supposedly her best friend or something, claims it was her who did it, because she's a jealous biatch. She doesn't know it was Claire who did it, but she gets commended for doing it. Claire's reject friend, Zach, approaches her and tells her that the tape of her trying to kill herself all those times was stolen. They're both nervous about what could happened. At home, she's asked her father if she could research who her birth parents are. She doesn't tell him about the powers. Turns out though that her father is up to no good. In fact, later that night he tells her he's started the process to try and find her birth parents, and when she leaves the room, he plays the tape of her Zach lost. I'm not convinced he's all bad, but they're definitely setting him up to be.

Niki's a stripper. Wow. She actually strips on the Internet, so that's a little better. She has a kid, Micah, who's just adorable. Anyway, Niki owes people some money or something and when they don't get it they come after her. She's been spooked lately anyway because sometimes the imagine in the mirror looks at her funny or doesn't follow her normally. Anyway, these guys start to make her strip and plan bad things for her and she has a black out moment. When she wakes up the guys are dead. Driving in her car later to pick up her son she watches the video from her camera of when she killed the guys. Next thing she knows she's in the car in a clean outfit and it's probably been awhile. We find out it's been four hours. She gets her kid and goes home where, I bet you didn't call this, the garage she killed the guys in is all clean. The bodies are in the trunk of some car that she doesn't know but's registered to her. The bodies and a map leading to a spot in the desert where she's supposed to bury the bodies. I'm thinking I'd want my alter ego to take care of this part. She realizes there are other bodies in the ditch, probably from another killing spree she went on. Very Fight Club.

Peter's brother Nathan is running for some office, I think it's the Senate. Peter's the black sheep type, embarrassment to his brother. Peter also thinks he can fly. We think he may be able to fly too because Isaac painted a picture of him flying. He calls his older brother Nathan to watch him jump off the building and as he does his swan dive down, Nathan flies up and catches him. Next thing he knows he ends up in the hospital with Nathan trying to convince him that he fell onto a nearby landing and didn't get hurt because he was flying. Peter doesn't want to leave this alone though and invites Nathan back to a roof to make him fly to save him again. Nathan finally admits that he can fly, but he also admits that Peter can fly too. Peter doesn't believe him until he walks towards his brother from the ledge, without having to step down. So he's levitating above the rooftop. It's kinda bad ass.

The one non-Hero (we think) protagonist, Mohinder, is investigating what happened to his father, the researcher who was trying to find a way to track all of these people who had powers. Mohinder knows there's something up with what happened to his father because he found some mysterious guy, Claire's father it turns out, in his father's apartment. Again, in his own apartment he found some guy who pulled a gun on him. The guy got away and Mohinder wasn't hurt, but he met his neighbor and started a friendship with her. Mohinder's father and this chick were friends and she apparently told him about his research. She's helping Mohinder find out what happened. I can't say I trust her completely. They come up with the name Sylar, someone he knew his father spoke to from time to time, that's also who the FBI is investigating for all of the recent murders, like the one Greg Grunberg was at. He's some mad man.

Hiro is a cute little guy who can teleport. In fact, he teleports all the way to New York from Japan. He goes around the city and while he's walking around he spots a comic book. He's on the cover of the comic book. He begins reading it and realizes it's verbatim what happened to him that day while in Japan. He looks at the writer's name and address and it's Isaac's. Curious, Hiro makes his way there. When he goes there it's not like how I remember it from earlier. Especially since a dead Isaac with the top of his head cut off is there. In fact, that's the way this Sylar guy kills people too. There's a gun on the floor and Hiro picks it up. At this point I'm screaming at the television for him to throw it down. Of course the cops come in at this moment and almost shoot the poor guy.

He's trying to tell them what's going on but with the few words he knows of English it's not working out very well. Eventually a translator shows up and to prove his story, Hiro tells him to call his buddy, he can tell them he was in Japan earlier that day. They're still not buying this teleportation thing. They get the friend on the phone and he says no, he hasn't seen Hiro. In fact, Hiro's been missing for five weeks. They tell that to Hiro and he says that no, it's October 2nd (which it totally was when this played). The cops show him the paper, which is coincidentally announcing Nathan's win of the Senate seat or whatever. It's November 8th, not October 2nd. He's accidently teleporter way into the future. Suddenly, there's a loud boom and everyone looks out the window. It's a nuclear holocaust and right before the cloud gets to them, Hiro closes his eyes and teleports his ass out of there. Bad ass!!!

I'm ALL IN. Plus, the previews for next week look amazing. They start realizing there's a connection, which was also my fear, that it would take forever for them to come together. We see Peter at Isaac's and he's looking at a bunch of paintings lined up. It's of all our Heroes and he points to Claire and says something that made me believe he's starting to figure out what's going on. There are some other flashes and the one I really remember is either Peter or Nathan levitating. I can't wait!! Yay!