Well, it’s that time of the year again. It’s a sad day, but still a great day. Any day Heroes is on is a great day. Terminator too…sometimes. Heroes and Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, will be airing their final episodes of the year, tonight.
That doesn’t mean the season is over, the networks are just waiting to finish airing the rest of the season until early next year. I’m not sure of the dates when they will return, but I’ll post it when I am. I read that Terminator is returning in February, on Friday nights instead of Mondays. We can only hope the show doesn’t get canceled though.
At least we have Lost and 24 to look forward to in January. Heroes airs tonight at 9PM EST, on NBC and Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles airs tonight at 8PM EST, on Fox.
If you have not watched this episode yet, or are not this far into the series, you should NOT read the rest of this post, as it most definitely contains spoilers.
So, the episode starts off with Hiro and Claire in the past, 16 years ago, overseeing the point where Claire is given to her adoptive father, Noah Bennet. Hiro witnesses his mother’s power to heal, and gets her to restore his memory, as well as give him the catalyst.
While Hiro is off changing the past, Claire goes and changes her own diaper when she acts like a neighbor and helps her mother with the new baby, which is her, in the past. Yeah, I know, all the time traveling can get a little confusing sometimes.
So now that Hiro is the catalyst, and Claire is not, who knows how their lives changed, if at all? We’ll never know because the show decided to make a big decision in the past, but have no consequence in the preset.
Claire and Hiro meet back up but Arthur Petrelli shows up. I didn’t even know he had time traveling power. He sent Claire back to the present, then he took Hiro’s powers, as well as the catalyst, and threw Hiro off the building.
Ando, Matt, and Daphne find Isaac Mendez’s old sketchbook, which shows the future, but in this case, it is showing the past, as it shows Hiro hanging from the building, from a flag pole. Yeah, like I said, all the time traveling can get confusing. So now Hiro is stuck in the past, with no powers, hanging on for his life.
Peter and the Haitian head to Pinehearst to kill Arthur Petrelli, Peter and Nathan’s father. Arthur senses Peter coming and confronts him. Arthur releases his powers are gone and the Haitian walks out. Peter aims the gun at Arthur, he battles himself to pull the trigger as Arthur tries to persuade him to join his cause. The Haitian can barely hold back Arthur’s powers, Peter finally pulls the trigger, the bullet stops in mid air. The camera pans over and it’s Sylar! Sylar stopped the bullet, talked a little, then said, “Peter, you’re not a killer.” Sylar then used his powers to make the bullet shoot right through Arthur.
So, some pretty big things happened in this episode. Hiro is stuck in the past, without his powers, Peter almost killed his father, but Sylar took the kill instead, and the catalyst is gone, as far as we know. With Arthur dead, I’m worried that Hiro and Peter may not get their powers back. I sure hope they do.
Heroes airs on Mondays, at 9PM EST, on NBC. There is only 1 episode left this year, and season 3 will conclude sometime early next year.
If you haven’t watched this episode yet, or are not to this point in the series, I suggest you DO NOT read the rest of this post, as it may contain spoilers.
So, in the first part of the Eclipse, all our Heroes and Villains lost their powers. In the second part of the Eclipse, all our Heroes and Villains regained their powers. Yes, it is as simple as that. A few pretty big things happened while the powers were gone though.
Claire was shot, and without her healing powers, she became infected, and she actually died for a little while. Noah Bennet shot Elle in the leg as he aimed for Sylar. Sylar helped Elle get away, only to get a beating by Noah, and get his throat slit with a box cutter. When the eclipse passed, Claire came back to life, as did Sylar. Sylar and Elle went to get revenge at the Bennet house, but Hiro shows up, teleports them to a beach, them takes Claire into the past to see when she was a baby, being given to Noah.
Other than that, Nathan ditched Peter in Haiti, and it looks like he’ll be joining the “dark side”. Hiro is still trying to regain his memory, and it looks like the eclipse passing didn’t give regain Peter his powers.
I have a theory that Peter’s main power has returned, but all the powers he has gained over the first 2 seasons are gone. His main power is that he can absorb the powers of those around him. So hopefully he’ll start regaining his powers, and it looks like he’ll need to do it fast as Sylar looks like a bad guy again, and Arthur Petrelli is still a threat.
Oh, and as the episode ended, Sylar held down Elle on the beach, and started to cut her forehead open. This angers me as Elle was the hottest thing on the show. Sylar already has her power, so why he did this, I do not know…
This episode aired on Monday, November 24th, 2008. If you haven’t seen this episode yet, or if you’re not this far into the series, I suggest you do not read the rest of this post, as it may contain spoilers.
So the eclipse came, and I want it to get the hell out! In season 1, when the eclipse occurred, our heroes and villains discovered their powers for the first time. When the eclipse came on Monday, in season 3, everybody’s powers went away. Suresh is no longer a mutant freak, Elle can longer shoot electricity, Claire can no longer heal, Hiro can no longer control the time-space continuum, Matt can no longer read thoughts and control minds, Daphne is no longer a speedster, she is crippled, Nathan fell out of the sky, and Sylar and Arthur are no longer godly. There is no change for Peter, as his father, Arthur, had already taken his powers, and Hiro still has memory loss, and believes he is 10 years old.
Since this is a two part episode, I’m hoping this Monday, the eclipse will pass, and the powers will return. Hopefully Peter will get his power back as well. The preview for the next episode shows Claire on the verge of death after a bullet wound, and it also shows Noah Bennet looking at Sylar and Elle kissing through a sniper rifle. Since Sylar has no powers, including his healing power he took from Claire, if he is shot, it’s over, he’s dead, same for Elle. Please, please don’t kill Sylar or Elle, they are falling in love, and a great duo.
This is the episode that aired last night, and is the 9th episode of the 3rd season. If you haven’t watched it yet, watch it before reading the rest of this post.
There is a lot of talk about Heroes losing it’s ratings, and having a bad story going on right now. I have to say I agree for the most part. Peter has lost his powers, Hiro has lost his memories, and Sylar and Elle are still hanging out with the villains.
I think Sylar and Elle will eventually join the Heroes, as Sylar pretty much already has, and they’ll fall in love, which looks like has already started during this episode. I think we need some new, more dangerous villains. I don’t care much about Arthur Petrelli, and the guy who shoots fire, and the guy who can punch holes through people are all pretty much insects compared to the godly powers of Sylar and Peter. If there isn’t a new super villain soon besides Arthur Petrelli, the Heroes won’t have anybody to have an epic battle against in the future.
Then, the preview for the next episode, with everybody losing their powers. If nobody has powers, the show is over, nobody wants to see a bunch of normal people with issues, we want to see super powers. I have a feeling everybody will get their powers back with the formula Suresh is making, but it won’t be the power they had before, it’ll be something different.
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