LOST Season 4 Info

We interrupt the start of Heroes with some LOST news. The guys over at SCI FI Wire interviewed the producers of LOST and got a few spoilers. I won't post them here, but if your interested, here's the article: link .

Lizard -or- "Claire, keep your body parts off the floor!"

So,

We've seen the second episode, and sadly, the teaser from last week showed a lot of stuff that wasn't in this week's episode...

Like Sylar...
or Nikki/Jessica (not that we really miss her/them)

I had to digest it for a bit, mainly because I was trying to remember why Parkman, Nathan, and Ando don't remember each other -- They were all in the finale, right?

Not really... Ando was in Japan at that point. Parkman had been shot long before Nathan dropped in and flew off with Peter. So, they may know names, but not faces.

The bad guy who is after the nine (er, eight - almost seven) - appears to be another person with multiple powers.

But the most startling revelation of the show: Nathan & Peter's mom was getting it on with Sulu at some point!!! And do we get a glimpse of her power? I'm not sure. I would argue that her statement to Parkman could be simply that she's been exposed to mind readers in the past and knows how to resist them.

Nice to see more of the Peter story developing. At this point, to me, it's the only interesting story arc. Plus, we have a cute Irish lass in the story now as well. : )

Right now, I'm hoping Hiro's story has a twist somewhere. The Claire storyline is waiting for something to happen (although we got our first clue about more paintings this week). Claire gets bored and tests her powers (again), and gets caught by her new stalker. And, I am very "meh" about the twins.

What about the car? Apparently the new Nissan Rogue is so hot that people can't wait to steal it. I would think that if it has a nifty system to detect when you have the key in your pocket to unlock the car, the same would work in reverse (automatically locking the car when you were far enough way).

Oh, here's something to ponder. There's a shot of Peter looking in the mirror. Is it just me, or does the new haircut now give him a striking resemblance to Sylar?

Thoughts on the Premier

It's been a week since my wife and I watched the premier and I've used that time to think over how I felt it went. I think that overall, it was "uneven". I say that because after my somewhat let-down at the ending of last season, I was hoping for a nice explosive jump from the gate. It seemed more like a "hey, we're back, and here's a bunch of new questions...and oh yeah, here's Peter."

I'm not that excited about Hiro's storyline, but I do have some hope for it. I think the best part so far was that his hero is actually English and not Japanese. It was fairly weak to use Molly's teacher to let us know Matt was divorced. How should she know all the things she knew about Molly's homelife?

Shouldn't Nathan be in Congress or something? I've talked to a couple of people who are having problems with him dropping straight down into a deep depression like that. I can see it though with a character that was high strung, having the things happen that happened, causing him to downward spiral.

They are definitely pushing this new boogeyman and whatever is going after the old generation. I'm going to go out a limb and say they are one and same. The new twins and their powers will be focus of this week's episode I believe, that should be interesting. Oh, and the plot with "midas", or as I can only think of him "NED! NED RYERSON?", seems also promising.

I guess in the end, I didn't feel like the plot made and leaps forward, just kind walked out of the gate. Things need to pick up this week since this volume is supposed to wrap by Christmas.

On the eve of Volume 2

Here we sit on the eve of the Volume 2 premier of Heroes. We have some unanswered questions going into it like what happened to Nathan and Peter? What happened to Sylar? Who's the big bad boogeyman? WHo has Hiro run into in ancient Japan? How did Linderman know that having Jessica and DL have a baby would create the power in Micah?

I'm hoping the intro episode takes care of several of these, but I figure the boogeyman question will be the focus of this volume. And since it's being called "Generations", I'm also hoping we learn about the abilities of the parents of those heroes we currently know.

What are you guys ( and gals ) looking forward to this year?

Unaired Pilot Episode

If you have bought the Heroes Season 1 DVD set, on the first disk is the unaired original version of the pilot. About 85% of this episode is the same as the first episode ( but it contains parts of the first 3 ), which one major plot difference. In this version, there's a whole terrorist angle for the cause of the bomb in New York. This replaces the Molly Walker portion of the plot, but leaves in Matt Parkman. In this version, Parkman finds a terrorist hidden in the house where he will find Molly in the actual version of the show. In fact, they apparently recast his wife and cop buddy for the final version of the show. And instead of Detective, he's trying to make the SWAT team.

My wife and I both agree this version of the story is not nearly as interesting as the one that aired. Having the terrorists being the source of the bomb would have been very tired. The one thing that struck us is that they went through all this production and after viewing realized they needed to change it. I need to listen to the commentary on that episode to see what they might have to say about why they changed it.

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How to Stop an Exploding Man

So, that's the end of the first season, er, Volume. So my idea didn't come to fruition, but I'm still confused how Hiro, with the changes made in the past by saving the cheerleader, still went to a bad future?

Most everything was resolved, except for a few minor things, like, who can't Molly think of? What went down the manhole? What's Hiro doing in ancient Japan? ( seriously, he really needs to hone his use of time travel ) What exactly happened with Nathan and Peter? Why do all the people who can see the future see the bomb still going off and it being Peter? Or were the flashes in Sylar's eyes that vision that he knew he would be killed?

This has been a great week catching up. It's like how my wife and I got sucked into LOST. We missed the first half the season, but caught up mid-way through via the magic of Tivo ( we had every episode but the pilot, and it re-ran during the winter break, so over Christmas we caught up ). The rush is being able to immediately go to another episode after a good cliffhanger helps hook you even better than having to wait the week.

But this season, we'll be watching in time. Can't wait until the 24th.