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‘I’ve Got To End It!!’ Penultimate HEROES!!

Published at:  Apr 20, 2009 7:30:24 PM CDT

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I am – Hercules!!



Why is Sylar so keen to become U.S. president? Does he have a plan for tax reform, or is he just determined to put together a universal health care plan that both houses of Congress can ratify?

And do you need nuclear codes when you’ve already absorbed the powers of the nuclear man?

If you were invulnerable, could kill your enemies with a thought and could shapeshift into Zac Efron or George Clooney, how high would impersonating the president be on your to-do list?

NBC says of tonight’s installment, “I Am Sylar”:

Sylar (Zachary Quinto) continues his unusual partnership and begins to have an unexpected identity crisis. Hiro (Masi Oka) and Ando (James Kyson Lee) take measures toward bringing down Building 26. Meanwhile, Matt's (Greg Grunberg) new found fatherhood changes his priorities. Elsewhere, Nathan (Adrian Pasdar) sets a plan in motion to right the wrongs of his government operation. Jack Coleman, Hayden Panettiere, Sendhil Ramamurthy, Cristine Rose and Milo Ventimiglia also star. Lisa Lackey and Ellen Greene also guest star.


After tonight, one more third-season episode.

9 p.m. Monday. NBC.




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  • Apr 20, 2009 1:46:38 AM CDT

    Blech ...

    by heroic_duo

    Heroes pretty much sucks and makes no sense anymore.

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  • Apr 20, 2009 1:46:51 AM CDT

    There have been massive improvments

    by mr cairo

    so i hope it will continue t the end of this season

    They still need to kill off a few more of the cast though

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  • Apr 20, 2009 2:20:23 AM CDT

    I still haven't watched last week's.

    by shermdawg

    I should get on that.

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  • Apr 20, 2009 2:41:05 AM CDT

    Rick Roll'd

    by bewareofdogpoo

    this show become an abortion after season 1 ended. If you still enjoy it you have major problems. please do the rest of the world a favor and stop watching it so it can reach even lower ratings and die. thanks.

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  • Apr 20, 2009 2:48:54 AM CDT

    Rick Astley had your mom

    by bewareofdogpoo

    It became an abortion too. true story.

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  • Apr 20, 2009 2:57:36 AM CDT

    Shermdawg

    by jaymrobinson

    Last week's episode was really bad.

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  • Apr 20, 2009 2:58:46 AM CDT

    God this season is taking forever to finish...

    by prof. pop-cult

    Am I the only one who feels this season has been totally drawn out? HEROES is a strong argument that most shows should not have more than 13 episodes per season.

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  • Apr 20, 2009 3:27:40 AM CDT

    RE: Prof. Pop-Cult

    by onyx390

    That's a really unfair generalization to make. Don't use shows as inconsistent as Heroes to make that argument.

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  • Apr 20, 2009 3:52:44 AM CDT

    Nope the change in writers hasnt helped.

    by wowsah156

    Heroes has just lost its potential. Still no Copycat. Still no better use of CGI. Still no better use of extended characters. Still stuck in the same rut with Sylar and HRG.

    The writing is going around in circles. Heroes needs put out of its misery and cancelled.

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  • Apr 20, 2009 4:49:21 AM CDT

    Predictable.

    by v'shael

    Nathan will claim that he was impersonated by Sylar, and that he can't really fly, (that was Sylar) and they'll put the genie back in the bottle and hit that giant red reset button.

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  • Apr 20, 2009 5:08:09 AM CDT

    What an ironic title

    by the mcpoyle clan

    Who is Sylar? Does anybody, including Kring, know?

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  • Apr 20, 2009 5:29:51 AM CDT

    Dartboard Storytelling

    by ooggbboo

    >Am I the only one who feels this >season has been totally drawn out?

    It seems long because we've had 15 awful, boring, incomprehensible storylines all struggling to catch our interest. It's like the Taco Bell of network television; 20 different menu options, all indigestible.

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  • Apr 20, 2009 5:57:55 AM CDT

    sylar has "an unexpected identity crisis"

    by cohjam

    oh! an unexpected one this time.

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  • Apr 20, 2009 6:51:33 AM CDT

    I don't know why I still watch....

    by bangoskank

    So much squandered potential. Half the showers I really enjoy are likely to get the ax, and yet this turd continues to float.

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  • Apr 20, 2009 7:12:18 AM CDT

    This show is an unflushable.

    by v'shael

    No matter how much it continues to stink up the joint.

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  • Apr 20, 2009 7:24:04 AM CDT

    The only part I've really enjoyed this year

    by christian_bale_trashed_my_lights

    ..is Parkman going batshit crazy and telepathing the SWAT guys into shooting the shit out of each other. Could have been cool to see him go down the dark path, but no... they had to go and give him a fucking baby with touch & go powers so he can go all i-wuv-you-little-me.Fuck.

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  • Apr 20, 2009 7:24:29 AM CDT

    Hopefully we won't have any arguments over

    by pennsy

    '(fill in latin word here) ultimate. ;) I think for just about everyone concerned that this season can't end soon enough.

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  • Apr 20, 2009 7:26:44 AM CDT

    TOUCH AND GO BABY GOTTA EAT.

    by pennsy

  • Apr 20, 2009 7:26:44 AM CDT

    TOUCH AND GO BABY GOTTA EAT.

    by pennsy

  • Apr 20, 2009 7:27:22 AM CDT

    Oops...sorry about that...

    by pennsy

    And needs to be fed and changed, while he's at it.

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  • Apr 20, 2009 7:37:54 AM CDT

    Herc, Sylar doesn't have Radioactive Man's powers...

    by turketron

    Just thought I'd say it before the apologists for this show come in pissing and moaning. He lost those when he lost all his powers in season 2. Now, why he managed to go nuclear in the flash to the future last fall is beyond me. I think they said in one of those retarded "Beyond the Eclipse" Q&A's that he probably took them from another person with radioactive powers...ugh.
    Sylar having an identity crisis? YAWN YAWN, FUCKIN YAWN.

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  • Apr 20, 2009 8:03:36 AM CDT

    HEROES?!

    by dead_geek

    It's still on the air? I thought it was cancelled.
    Oh, that was a dream I had.

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  • Apr 20, 2009 8:20:14 AM CDT

    I don't know if Heroes is fixable anymore

    by vorlonkosh

    All these flashback episodes, re-writing characters pasts, idiotic coincidences and artificial plot twists (identical twins, I'm your father, and I'm your mother, too, and she's my sister, I'm evil, now I'm good, now I'm evil again, blah, blah)has destroyed this show. I think they need to do a Bobby Ewing on the last 2 seasons, and start fresh after the Exploding Man episode. Really, do we care anymore about where these characters came from? We had enough backstory in Season 1, we don't need anymore. All the writers are trying to do with these damn flashbacks is create relationships between characters that didn't exist, and were never intended to exist. Let's move forward, or not at all. I'm still hoping for the Bobby Ewing fix, however.

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  • Apr 20, 2009 8:36:51 AM CDT

    A mock 2009-10 schedule floating around

    by pennsy

    has Heroes returning at midseason, and on Sundays at 8PM. So it would be against Extreme Makeover and Cold Case. With Dateline as a lead-in, it looks like the end is nigh.

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  • Apr 20, 2009 9:04:26 AM CDT

    Pennsy

    by therocker

    I don't see that happening somehow

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  • Apr 20, 2009 9:16:40 AM CDT

    You haters are insane

    by ebrown2112

    The last few eps have been amazing. Stop whining.

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  • Apr 20, 2009 9:20:27 AM CDT

    no subject

    by candafilm

    Last week's episode sucked. I am enjoying the current season despite that however. I'll wait until the end of the season before passing judgment though.

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  • Apr 20, 2009 9:38:07 AM CDT

    Sylar's Identity Crisis...

    by pogue__mahone

    So... he's having trouble differentiating between his own persona and those of people he's absorbed? AWESOME! I've never seen that before. Oh. Wait. I have. Rogue had that exact same problem in X-Men and Jericho is having that same problem over in Titans. Original is something that Heroes is NOT! It's shown some improvements - I TOTALLY dug the stealing socks reference from last weeks episode that was dropped waaaaaaay back in the very first episode ever - but they need to start fresh. Clean the slate. And get writers who can create well crafted INTELLIGENT comic type stories (they exist!) with characters that evolve and act like normal people would... not 'good guy' one week... then back to 'bad guy' the next. It's like a car wreck. My friends and I sit and mock it every week yet we can't turn away. Um... not that we mock car wrecks - but you know what I mean.

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  • Apr 20, 2009 9:50:56 AM CDT

    It is a crime...

    by adam_worth

    ...that this show is still on and there is talk of ending TSCC

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  • Apr 20, 2009 10:16:19 AM CDT

    "The last few eps have been amazing."

    by ashokzero

    Yeah, if you mean LOST or Supernatural.

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  • Apr 20, 2009 10:17:43 AM CDT

    Nothing Can Save This Abysmal Show

    by coffeeandpie

    I don't think anything will end the misery of watching this show until NBC cancels it. Last weeks episode? Unbearable. The writing hasn't improved and the characters still have no depth or motivation aside from the week-to-week assignments given to them by the insipid writers.

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  • Apr 20, 2009 10:20:21 AM CDT

    Here comes the parade of haters....

    by thecomedian

    Yaaaawn. Seriously, why are you still watching if you hate this show and it sucks so much? Because you wuuuuuv this show but you've gotta follow all the cool kids and shit on it. You're all a bunch of tools.

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  • Apr 20, 2009 10:29:41 AM CDT

    "ive got to end it"

    by supercowbell4therequestformorecowbell

    god the writing on this show is awful

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  • Apr 20, 2009 10:37:56 AM CDT

    stop the embarrassment

    by altoandando

    get this show off the air and put everyone involved with it on 5 years of creative probation. KILL IT WITH FIRE it is an affront to us all.

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  • Apr 20, 2009 10:37:57 AM CDT

    stop the embarrassment

    by altoandando

    get this show off the air and put everyone involved with it on 5 years of creative probation. KILL IT WITH FIRE it is an affront to us all.

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  • Apr 20, 2009 10:38:40 AM CDT

    Pretty bad when...

    by mrfan

    the commercials bore me. Glad I gave up on this show some time ago.

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  • Apr 20, 2009 10:47:44 AM CDT

    Reset Button

    by sharkboy_shellyeah

    I'll be the first to admit the beginning of this season ate balls. Personally they should bring in a true comic book writer to turn this thing around. Geoff Johns would be my pick 'I mean if that guy can get you to give a shit about the Flash i'd love to see him take a run at this show. And to the dickfaces whining about TSCC, that show was fucked as soon as David Silver showed up, if i wanted to watch horrible 90210 actors i'd probabley just wait for that asshole to just show up on the new show. Oh wait , nobody watches that shit either. Quit hijacking the TB to bitch about that piece of shit.

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  • Apr 20, 2009 10:48:12 AM CDT

    I made the comparison

    by fain88

    to a friend that Heroes is like nerd flypaper. The same way magpies are attracted to shiny objects, nerds are attracted to superpowers (or hell, anything in the sci-fi/fantasy genre; for me I'm a comic nerd, so superpowers just sort of exemplify that). Pogue's comparison to a car wreck is apt, but even more-so since the car wreck was caused by a dude flying by shooting lasers out of his eyes.

    So for that reason alone I'm sticking with it at least through the season. I thought the characterization was spot on and really tied some old threads together last episode...but it's the drifting plotlines that are still bugging me. Last episode we finally got the Petrelli family together with Suresh, working for one cause (and did I make this up or were Hiro, Ando and Parkman headed for Coyote Sands, too? I kept waiting for them to show up...). But by the end, Mohinder's off again, following some other story thread that'll most likely keep him seperated in some other random plot thread.

    I can see the writers working to turn this around, I just wish we could get a central story arc that actually involved all the main characters in the show.

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  • Apr 20, 2009 10:58:26 AM CDT

    THREAD

    by fain88

    Didn't use it quite enough in my last post. Heh.

    Also, I know people have been complaining that the show basically just riffs on X-Men, but the concept of a super-team as a family introduced last episode screams shades of Fantastic Four. It'll be nice to get some fresh ideas in there, and perhaps that's how they can centralize (is that word?) the plot.

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  • Apr 20, 2009 11:16:25 AM CDT

    better, but let's face it . . .

    by seteger

    . . . Heroes suffers from existing in the same television space as Lost, BG, etc. Heroes isn't some big, deep, dramatic classic. It's pulp. It can be fun, it can be crap, but it's had enough good moments to make it worth watching. Like Smallville.

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  • Apr 20, 2009 11:27:40 AM CDT

    Turketron

    by nicegoogly

    Sylar got the radioactive powers in the end of season one. He attacked the SWAT van that had the white trash guy with the nuclear power was found upside down in the truck with the top of his skull cut off. For once, this was not the usual retconning bullshit this show usually does. Great, Sylar with an identity crisis is like Peter with amnesia. How many fuckin' sharks does this show have to jump?

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  • Apr 20, 2009 11:35:13 AM CDT

    "I Am Sylar"...

    by gob adama

    Quinto plays Sylar and also Spock...
    Nemoy wrote "I Am Not Spock" only to eventually write "I Am Spock"...
    Is this what passes as funny over at "Heroes", these days?

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  • Apr 20, 2009 11:39:32 AM CDT

    nicegoogly

    by fain88

    Yes, but Sylar also lost all of his powers in S2, only to regain his 'Clockwork' vision of the world and telekinesis in the teaser for S3. So, no radioactive man powers anymore.

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  • Apr 20, 2009 11:54:03 AM CDT

    re: nicegoogly (thanks fain88)

    by turketron

    Yes, I'm well aware of how Sylar got radioactive man's powers. I also know that he lost them along with all of his other powers in season 2, and regained telekinesis and intuitive aptitude, and has since been building a new skillset.

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  • Apr 20, 2009 11:57:09 AM CDT

    Kill off Sylar already! And keep him dead.

    by drpain

    this character is becoming as much fun as watching Lex Luthor plot and plan to destroy Superman for the millionth time over.


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  • Apr 20, 2009 12:06:55 PM CDT

    Tips cap to Dr. Pain

    by pennsy

    Amen to that; he should've been killed off in the first season finale.

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  • Apr 20, 2009 12:59:32 PM CDT

    loved their explanation to how sylar surived the fire

    by turketron

    "The glass melted". I know the explanation was delivered by Noah Bennett (how the hell would he know?) but come on, assuming this is truly how Sylar survived it's fucking stupid. With the glass in his head, all powers (including regen) are apparently halted. Glass (and in this case, glass that was used to trap a fire-user) has a melting point much higher than that of human flesh. Before the glass would have melted, Sylar's brain would have turned to boiling soup and leaked out of his head, right?

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  • Apr 20, 2009 1:06:06 PM CDT

    CHILDREN OF FUCKING LOST!!!

    by hobocode

    Pull my smoke tendril.

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  • Apr 20, 2009 1:06:33 PM CDT

    "Sylar (Zachary Quinto) continues his unusual partnership...

    by jor-el23

    Why are all the NBC press releases with the synopses for these Heroes episodes so cloak and dagger? We know who Sylar is working with, he's been working with Danko for weeks. Do they think they can trick viewers by phrasing it like that?

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  • Apr 20, 2009 1:55:28 PM CDT

    I know that it's cool

    by officerjunior

    to shit on this show, but I think Brian Fuller has done a hell of a job turning the ship around. His fingerprints are all over the show now. The show is getting better. Maybe you can polish a turd.

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  • Apr 20, 2009 2:00:53 PM CDT

    I Am Sylar

    by splatomat

    ...may as well be entitled "I Am Dead Weight"

    Just vaporize that caricatured POS already.

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  • Apr 20, 2009 2:06:29 PM CDT

    Here's hoping

    by rocknroll_pirate

    Fuller gives us a good finale, i might miss Heroes until season 4 but at least we won't have the "cool" talkbackers bitching about it for a while

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  • Apr 20, 2009 2:16:04 PM CDT

    Sylar may be annoyingly powerful, but at least..

    by turketron

    When he's around there's something INTERESTING going on. Whether he's flinging around his enemies, chopppin open some heads, or morphing into someone (which they do have a cool effect for on the show).
    I never understand why people continue to try to attack him with guns... He can disarm opponents with a thought and we've seen him stop bullets in mid air.

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  • Apr 20, 2009 2:17:02 PM CDT

    The problem with Vol. 4 is simple

    by filmstu2005

    There's been no buildup to this storyline. No high stakes thus far. Its supposed to be about the govt rounding up "heroes" (am i the only one who thinks this show has the wrong name? It should be called "Selfish Assholes." Thats more like it!) and locking them up. Except we've barely seen that all season. There's been no "Grand plan", the govt is just rounding them up with no clue as to where to even put them. *Scratches head* did the writers even think that far? And then Sylar suddenly shapeshifts into Nathan but it was established the week b4 that he had to touch the person b4 he could transform into them. Correct me if im wrong, but i never saw Sylar touch Nathan, and the writers are really stupid for not shadowing that at all. Everyone's just all over the place. I really want to like this show, i really do, but its workin my last nerve. I have never seen writing for a tv show as ATROCIOUS as what I've seen on Heroes. Its mind boggling. No offense, but a kid with down syndrome could write better shit then this.

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  • Apr 20, 2009 2:21:34 PM CDT

    I agree. Enough with Sylar

    by filmstu2005

    Sylar is a villain. Enough with his daddy issues that went totally nowhere. Completely useless and retarded. Enough with him trying to figure himself out. ENOUGH with the identity crises. HE's a FUCKIN VILLAIN. He knows his shit and he's gonna fuckin kill. And its not only Sylar. Every character is acting at a complete 180 degree to what they were originally established as. Parkman going to kill some helpless escort chic in cold blood? He's cop, its not like him at all, and it makes him a douchebag. Not even Daphne's death should've pushed him that far. If he wanted revenge he wouldve went after Danko himself. Seriously. And Greg Grungberg plays the character annoyingly anyway. I wish they'd just kill him off.

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  • Apr 20, 2009 2:26:01 PM CDT

    The problem with Vol 4 is it was preceeded by 2 and 3

    by stormwatcher

    Which blew. No better word for it. They write this thing like their slammin' redbull. Slow the F Down and develop an idea instead of tossing it after less than an episode. Christ Sylar with HRG was a good concept but lasted like what? and Holy Shit it was this SEASON! Not to mention Sylar and Elle or Sylar as a brother to Peter or Peter from the future ect.... What a mess. This show is just a total mashup and I don't think even Fuller can save it. CALM DOWN YOU ADD TWITS!

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  • Apr 20, 2009 2:42:41 PM CDT

    Unhappy the land that has no Heroes!

    by rosasaks

  • Apr 20, 2009 2:43:07 PM CDT

    No, unhappy the land that needs heroes.

    by rosasaks

  • Apr 20, 2009 2:43:54 PM CDT

    Bertolt Brecht was right....

    by rosasaks

  • Apr 20, 2009 2:52:19 PM CDT

    what was the deal with...

    by stlost

    Sylar at the end of season 1, intro into season 2? At the end of season 1, they showed a blood trail into a sewer system, showing us that sylar slipped into the sewers to escape. And there was a cockroack involved or something and then he appears in mexico with that one chick keeping care over him. Did they ever explain any of that? Especially the cockroach.

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  • Apr 20, 2009 2:54:16 PM CDT

    sylar touching to morph re: filmstu

    by itrainmonkeys

    "And then Sylar suddenly shapeshifts into Nathan but it was established the week b4 that he had to touch the person b4 he could transform into them. Correct me if im wrong, but i never saw Sylar touch Nathan, and the writers are really stupid for not shadowing that at all."

    I know they made it clear that they original shapeshifter needed to touch Danko in order to change into him, but maybe there's something to this power we don't understand. Some theories as to how Sylar can shapeshift into Nathan:

    -You can shapeshift into someone you've touched in the past. Just because Sylar hasn't touched Nathan since he got the power doesn't mean that's how it definitely works.

    -Sylar has mastered this ability in a short time. Just like with other abilities, Sylar gets the most use out powers. Maybe he's learned how it works and can do it based off of looking (there are images on the net of Sylar holding a framed photo of Nathan in upcoming episode(s).
    -Sylar shapeshifted a few times, tracked down Nathan, touched him quick, and left unnoticed. Kinda like how the original shapeshifter turned into Sylar at the club.



    I do agree with the other criticisms - what was the government going to do with these detainee's? Was there a plan?

    I'm still watching though.....I enjoy the show.

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  • Apr 20, 2009 2:56:40 PM CDT

    re: STLost

    by itrainmonkeys

    I can't remember exactly but I think that Sylar in Mexico thing was the girl that could make illusions and that they (the company?) were holding onto Sylar. I may be wrong.

    The cockroach hasn't been explained yet but the writers have hinted to some kind of meaning.....don't know what it is.

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  • Apr 20, 2009 3:02:41 PM CDT

    one more filmstu2005

    by itrainmonkeys

    "Parkman going to kill some helpless escort chic in cold blood? He's cop, its not like him at all, and it makes him a douchebag. Not even Daphne's death should've pushed him that far."

    Wasn't that the whole point? He didn't go through with it. He couldn't....it was against his character. He wanted revenge but didn't have it in him. Also he's not a cop anymore and Daphne's death didn't push him far enough to kill the helpless escort chick - it pushed him to wanting revenge. Too bad he went about it in a stupid/badly planned way.

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  • Apr 20, 2009 3:05:40 PM CDT

    heroes sucks balls

    by supercowbell4therequestformorecowbell

  • Apr 20, 2009 3:17:36 PM CDT

    "round robin" series scripwriting

    by prof. pop-cult

    What's baffling is that this series, like any show production, has a writers room -- well, it's supposed to. It's where the producers and writers gather to pitch, discuss, coordinate and assign episodes to be written. The odd thing is that the way the episodes of HEROES turn out (with character actions contradicting prior episodes, and plots going nowhere) it doesn't seem like this series production has a writers room or meetings en masse about the episodes and overall season plotting. Instead, it feels like a "round robin" system, where a writer writes an episode, then the next writer reads it and bases his episode on that, and so on. Other times, it seems like writers of two separate episodes have no idea what the other person is writing, so then you wind up with characters acting inconsistently (either in terms of their personality or what their power can do). But it's not the writers who are necessarily to blame for this -- it's the series show runner, whose job it's supposed to be to keep things coordinated.

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  • Apr 20, 2009 3:25:05 PM CDT

    At least they stopped having Parkman paint the future

    by turketron

    For now at least. I remember him painting one of an explosion or DC blowing up or some shit... what happened with that? Will they shoehorn that in to these last two episodes or will there be another "stop the bad shit from happening in the future" storyline next year?

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  • Apr 20, 2009 4:23:41 PM CDT

    "I've got to end it."

    by jedihillis

    Anyone see the irony in this title?

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  • Apr 20, 2009 4:28:18 PM CDT

    Umm..."Penultimate" means the opposite of ultimate

    by fish tank

    Many people make that mistake. Hope that's not what you were going for.

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  • Apr 20, 2009 4:47:24 PM CDT

    @Fish Tank

    by bob c. cock

    The ultimate is the last and final item in a series. The related words penultimate and antepenultimate refer to the second-to-last and the third-to-last item in a series, respectively.

    Love, the dictionary

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  • Apr 20, 2009 4:47:27 PM CDT

    "Penultimate" means next to the last

    by turketron

    "next to the last: the penultimate scene of the play"

    So sayeth dictionary.com...

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  • Apr 20, 2009 4:48:41 PM CDT

    oops, i fed the troll...

    by bob c. cock

  • Apr 20, 2009 5:01:03 PM CDT

    sylar touching nathan

    by mateomcd

    Yeah, didn't Sylar get his shapeshifting power AFTER Nathan was driven away by Danko? Fishy...

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  • Apr 20, 2009 5:02:14 PM CDT

    Opposite of "Ultimate"

    by mateomcd

    Wouldn't "First" be the opposite of "Ultimate"?

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  • Apr 20, 2009 7:10:51 PM CDT

    Sylar turning into Nathan

    by danthemagnum

    Sylar mentions early in the episode that he needs their DNA to become them. He turns into Nathan by rubbing the toothbrush in his office. I thought it was rather simple.

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  • Apr 20, 2009 8:46:05 PM CDT

    Sylar going Golem

    by dookiemercury

    The conversations with himself just bloody bizare

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  • Apr 20, 2009 8:53:36 PM CDT

    Sylar having conversations with his dead mother...

    by marco segrain

    Norman Bates, anyone?

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  • Apr 20, 2009 9:04:41 PM CDT

    Golem and Bates

    by nudeandaroused

    It was also Norman Bates from "PSycho." Really great episode. Loved the last line. Yes, overall the show is absurd like 24, but I have enjoyed this season very much. These last few eps have been very strong.

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  • Apr 20, 2009 9:07:58 PM CDT

    People get paid to write this shit?

    by sifodyasjr.

  • Apr 20, 2009 9:09:50 PM CDT

    3 comments(!!!) the whole episode?!~?

    by wcme

    Thecomedian must be beside himself. (Is this the DOLLHOUSE talkback?") A deader show there never was. Meanwhile, on 24, Jack found out he needs to stomp a mudhole in Tonys ass. (You know, on a real tv show with a fwd moving plot that hasnt once circled back on itself the entire season, and a ton of characters died and stayed dead?!?)

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  • Apr 20, 2009 9:29:44 PM CDT

    wcme, I remember there were 300+ real-time comments

    by pennsy

    for the beginning of Heroes' season opener just last September. Oh, how the mighty have fallen. :|

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  • Apr 20, 2009 9:51:47 PM CDT

    Wow. Matt got over Daphne pretty fast.

    by lonegun

    He's already considering how to get back with his ex-wife?

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  • Apr 20, 2009 10:13:46 PM CDT

    I haven't seen it yet, is why I'm not commenting

    by badmrwonka

    some of us live on the west coast, people!!

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  • Apr 20, 2009 10:28:34 PM CDT

    I have no idea what this show is about anymore.

    by lonegun

    And neither do the writers, apparently. More self-referential details at the end, with Suresh narrating, "Each of us needs to ask ourselves the question: Who are we?" You can just sense the creative powers behind this series straining to find some new dramatic angle. Meanwhile, HEROES is dying a slow death, and I don't say that with any satisfaction. It's genuinely sad to witness the deterioration of this once truly entertaining and surprising show.In Season One, I didn't know which character was my favorite, as I liked so many. Now, I'm at a loss to name even a single character that I actually like. Sylar was kind of the last good thing, until tonight. Now, it seems like he's just being used as a plot device. His character is all over the place, as are all the others!

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  • Apr 20, 2009 10:28:34 PM CDT

    Just watched last week's episode.

    by shermdawg

    Not great, but it's nice to see another Pushing Daisies vet showing up as Alice.

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  • Apr 20, 2009 10:36:13 PM CDT

    24 killed HEROES yet again tonight.

    by lonegun

    24 has been unstoppable this season, completely re-energized and kick-ass! Every episode is a grand slam.

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  • Apr 20, 2009 10:45:07 PM CDT

    When Claire Bear Moonface Fivehead...

    by melvin_pelvis

    does anal, I'll tune back in

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  • Apr 20, 2009 10:47:13 PM CDT

    Lone Gun - I am sooooo with you...

    by fish tank

    Last episode ended and I had NO clue what the threat is, what they're running from, and this ep made the same amount of non-sense. WHAT is the point of this show? All over the place is a perfect description. I keep watching out of habit, but I'm not liking it.

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  • Apr 20, 2009 10:53:26 PM CDT

    Kring wrote the finale next week....

    by pennsy

    So take that however way you want it.

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  • Apr 20, 2009 11:30:28 PM CDT

    nothing happened

    by prior walter

  • Apr 20, 2009 11:54:00 PM CDT

    Danko is weighing this show down.

    by lonegun

    Nothing against the actor; he's fine. But the character has gotta go and fast. It would be different if this hunter of "Heroes" was fascinating or scary. But Danko is just dull and depressing to watch. He never has anything interesting to say and he never has any cool tricks up his sleeve. He just feels like dead weight on the show.I'm surprised Noah Bennet hasn't outsmarted him yet and usurped his position of power...

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  • Apr 21, 2009 12:57:16 AM CDT

    Hiro never uses his sword.

    by lonegun

    There's just gotta be some unconscious phallic significance in this sad fact.Of course, neither Hiro or Ando act like grown men. They are basically four-year-olds dressed up as adults. I know they're supposed to be cute and all, the comic relief of the show. But their scenes have only grown increasingly uncomfortable to watch. They seem like bored tykes wandering around the sandbox with no toys. Ando shows absolutely no curiosity about his own powers. Hiro has simply lost his mojo. The chemistry between the two has nearly died completely. And neither of them seem to have any dramatic significance - not since Season One, anyway, when Hiro at least had the mission to "Save the cheerleader".

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  • Apr 21, 2009 1:01:09 AM CDT

    LoneGun

    by filmstu2005

    He did. Until Danko outsmarted Nathan by pushing him out a window to get him to fly. Lol. Like i said. There is no grand plan. Y has Sylar become the main villain AGAIN this season? Rehashing old storylines much? Better yet, why OH WHY is Tim Kring the writer of next week's finale? Must I remind everyone that he also wrote the catastrophically bad S1 finale that reeked of pure camel ass? Remember the awful line, "All you need is love, Peter." Yea, like love is the only thing thats gonna stop an Exploding Man. Peter can have all the love in the world. Mofo still exploded anyway. Ugh...I feel the finale will end in tragedy. In this episode, its odd how at the end of episode every last one of the Heroes got captured, even Lizard Mohinder at Coyote Sands, with no explanation as to what gave them away. They just got captured. Someone forcibly raised the stakes....

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  • Apr 21, 2009 1:12:20 AM CDT

    I think I'm quiting after the finale...

    by prof. pop-cult

    If the finale doesn't turn things around, I'll really have to ask myself at that point why I should check out Season 4. I doubt Bryan Fuller has any pull on next season. It wouldn't surprise me if he manages to bail out of Heroes to show-run a new show coming this Fall instead. I can't blame him if he does this -- he should be looking out for his own career anyway.

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  • Apr 21, 2009 1:28:40 AM CDT

    Goodbye

    by blackguard

    I kept waiting for something big to happen and it never did. I'll watch the season finale but that's it. I'm done.

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  • Apr 21, 2009 1:28:53 AM CDT

    I will give it this though

    by filmstu2005

    It was one of the better episodes of the season, even if it did feel out of place. Esp as an episode b4 the finale. But it was way better than most of the episodes we've seen this season. Esp last episode.

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  • Apr 21, 2009 1:39:20 AM CDT

    This show is limping to its season finale.

    by lonegun

    There's no sense of urgency or danger. It's ending with a whimper...It already feels over.

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  • Apr 21, 2009 2:53:24 AM CDT

    this was a fine episode

    by badmrwonka

    not great, per say...
    but it was not bad at all, and a great lead-in episode...

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  • Apr 21, 2009 3:03:50 AM CDT

    i liked it

    by darkpassenger

    it was good to micah again the last seconds with sylar and danko was pretty awesome i thought

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  • Apr 21, 2009 4:11:50 AM CDT

    I woke up and found that I had morphed into

    by gotilk

    someone who wants this show to stop sucking while I was sleeping. Then I lost a tooth. Man, things were starting to look up there.

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  • Apr 21, 2009 4:21:37 AM CDT

    Rehash

    by rinse

    How many times can Suresh be captured and recaptured in one half-season? How many times can Nathan do some stupid shit and apologize for it? How many times can Sylar play mind games that go nowhere with Claire?

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  • Apr 21, 2009 5:14:12 AM CDT

    Is next season going to be all written and run by Bryan Fuller?

    by amy chasing

    If so wake me up then. I doubt anything happened this season that I need to know before watching the next.

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  • Apr 21, 2009 5:40:00 AM CDT

    One to go.

    by the mcpoyle clan

    Unless there is a reboot in S4, it's the end for me. I've stuck with it since the beginning, but the bad (S2, S3) clearly outweighs the inconsistent (S1). I think this show has gotten way more slack than it deserves, and that's a feeling not confined to the people here.

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  • Apr 21, 2009 6:08:50 AM CDT

    Is Michael Dorn going to be Vol. 5's Big Bad...

    by kevin holsinger

    ...given that he was the President in the Vol. 3 finale?Also, I for one liked Sylar's Norman Bates breakdown. The head-stabbing thing, again, bothered me. Any of the other healers would stay dead if you did that, but not Sylar for some reason.Overall, it's been one of the lesser Heroes volumes, but not so horrible that I can't see myself watching Vol. 5.

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  • Apr 21, 2009 6:13:02 AM CDT

    Danko was the man for a good two seconds

    by antimcgyver

    at the end with sylar. then he went back to being bilbo baggins

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  • Apr 21, 2009 6:14:44 AM CDT

    Ditto

    by freekydeeky

    Seems I'm not the only one who's giving up, that's the end for me. Gonna watch S3 finale out of loyalty but then that's it. Shame, been big fan since S1.

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  • Apr 21, 2009 8:46:34 AM CDT

    President Pitrelli?

    by john-video

    Come on. I know this is a fantasy show, but who would believe that a first term junior senator with ties to domestic terrorists could actually become president.

    Really? ;-)

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  • Apr 21, 2009 8:49:52 AM CDT

    I"m done after next week

    by jccalhoun

    After watching the latest episode I've decided to give up on this show. Nothing that has happened all season matters. The whole rounding up people with powers? Rebel? Daphne's character and especially Parkman's relationship with her? Hero losing his powers? The African painter? The Cheerleader's whole storyline? None of it matters. The show is pointless and after the season finale I'm through.

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  • Apr 21, 2009 9:00:02 AM CDT

    What will save this show

    by melvin_pelvis

    Claire Bare needs another daddy
    Yeah, that kind of daddy

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  • Apr 21, 2009 9:04:30 AM CDT

    Chuck is more satisfying

    by stlost

    Sorry, it's true. I bailed on Heroes after the last season finale (right before the heroes were being hunted down.) I don't miss it at all.

    Chuck has been the opposite. Engaging, funny, dramatic, and I actually care about the characters. Plus their winding down the season in thrilling fashion. Hopefully this show comes back next season.

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  • Apr 21, 2009 9:08:37 AM CDT

    OH WHO FUCKING CARES

    by spud mcspud

    How boring has this show gotten? I'm out. How a series about superheroes can turn into a fucking soap, I've no idea, but this did.

    Make the fucking movie version of the novel SOON I WILL BE INVINCIBLE. Make realistic superheroes great again.

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  • Apr 21, 2009 9:17:29 AM CDT

    Ever 4 episodes

    by melvin_pelvis

    it's like a new *What If* episode
    They reboot the same lame faces into a new scenarios.
    The problem is there was never a base 'verse or characters that anyone gives a fuck about.
    It had potential, but you blew it.
    Let it die already.
    Quit fucking the corpse of an abortion.
    STOP!

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  • Apr 21, 2009 9:57:26 AM CDT

    Myths and other things...

    by thepoohguy

    Global Warming...Americans don't make quality vehicles...Heroes sucks

    That's right. I said it. They are all myths. For those of you who are saying that you will watch the finale and then stop, you're wrong. Next week when Sylar thinks he has killed Peter and Claire will be mad, you'll see that he's still alive. And when Ando dies next week, which forces Hiro to start down the path of future Hiro from season 1 that we all loved, you will return. Mark my words. Fuller is turning this ship around, and next year it will be all engines full steam!

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  • Apr 21, 2009 10:44:23 AM CDT

    This went from "Better than Season 2" to "Just as Bad as Season

    by snake foreskin

    and I for one do not hold out much hope that Bryan Fuller's return to the show will make any improvements. I think anything he has contributed so far has been sub-par. I bet he's still pissed off about Pushing Daisies and isn't giving Heroes much of his creative best. Or maybe he's just not all that good after all.
    Whatever the case may be, Heroes Season 3 has gone from a promising start at the beginning of the season to pointless in the middle of the season to downright dismal in the last few episodes.
    If there is a Seaon 4, it better follow a lot more logic and have a specific through line figured out for all the characters. No more of this flying by the seat of your pants, writers. It makes for crappy TV.

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  • Apr 21, 2009 10:46:25 AM CDT

    "Just as Bad as Season 2". Damn character limits.

    by snake foreskin

    Anyway, I hate NBC. If they get rid of Life and Chuck and keep Heroes, the people in charge need to be fired. And bring back Journeyman, dammit!

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  • Down a full 10% from last week's 4.1/8.

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  • Apr 21, 2009 11:26:28 AM CDT

    I bet Ando will

    by rumpel tumskin

    supercharge Parkamn and mind fuck everyone who knows about people with abilities

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  • Apr 21, 2009 1:11:14 PM CDT

    Sylar failure

    by sammiedog123

    So Sylar has two opportunities to get powers this week. One power gives you the ability to break glass, the other gives you the ability to interface with any and all machines. hmmmmmmmm.....I can break glass already. Sure would be cool to be able to hack into any security system in the world. Transer a few billion dollars around via electronic wire. Destroy a country's economy by stealing all their money or shutting down their electric grid.

    Naaaah....I want to be able to shatter glass.

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  • Apr 21, 2009 1:47:05 PM CDT

    I'm willing to eat some crow....

    by thecomedian

    Last nights episode sucked. It reminded me of something from "Villains". Mostly I've never really liked Zachary Quinto as an actor. He was the worst actor(in a cast of really bad actors)in the 1st season until Milo surpassed him and stunk his way through season 2. To that extent I've never gave half a shit about Sylar as a character once he was revealed in the middle of the 1st season. The stuff they did with him and Elle in Villains was fucking awesome but then they pissed all over it. Anyhow, I still like this show. I'll watch it next season. The only way to make it truly great again would be a revamp with a new set of heroes OR put the current set in a completely different situation. That's why fugitives has worked for the most part since it didn't involve them saving the world from some future threat yet again. Like I said last week the best bet would be a back to basics showing the heroes actually, you know, doing superhero stuff, with costumes even; Only it's all a front for something more clandestine. They can cry realism all they want but there is nothing remotely realistic about this world they've set up anyhow. Oh, and if anyone's gonna die next week, I hope it's Hiro. I know the fanboys love him but he's always annoyed me from day one with that squeeky little voice. You'd think he'd have some pathos and gravitas having lost both his parents and knowing his one true love died and there was nothing he could do about it. Every time he raises his arms in the gay squeeky little voice I want to kick in my TV set.

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  • Apr 21, 2009 3:10:24 PM CDT

    in case no one noticed

    by evil dead 3d

    sylar needs DNA to become someone. that's what that whole thing was about with his mom, he needed the blood on her clothing to ACTUALLY sorta become her, psycho style...

    so at the end he touches nathans toothbrush to become him , once he has the dna map he can become that person again and again. of course the dna woulnd't hold memories and with his 'mom' coming back tha't's all supposed to be his id and superego sparring it out..

    not that it matters, but it DID clearly show that DNA wasn necessary (which a touch gets ya) or and old dna will do it appears.

    now don't get me started on hiro and ando and their power changes du jour yipes!

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  • Apr 21, 2009 3:11:42 PM CDT

    also filmstu 2005

    by evil dead 3d

    that' Selfish Assholes comment is still killin me..

    i would tune in to see season one of selfish assholes next year..

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  • Apr 21, 2009 3:28:59 PM CDT

    Great espisode!

    by squarebird

    This episode was excellent, I don't get the criticisms .. and the final episode of Season One was dead-on perfect ... I also don't get the criticisms of that. but then again, many of the complainers are fans of LOST .. which is just remake of Gilligans Island without Gilligan.

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  • Apr 21, 2009 4:35:33 PM CDT

    ...and yet

    by ooggbboo

    >sylar needs DNA to become someone.

    But he can somehow change clothes when he morphs. No internal consistency ftl.

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  • Apr 21, 2009 4:54:20 PM CDT

    Just watched it.

    by fain88

    To quote Dwight Schrute, "Good, not great." And all I could think at the end of the episode is, "Why the hell are you standing there, Danko, Sylar's getting up! Run, motherfucker, run!"

    C'mon, finale...

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  • Apr 21, 2009 4:56:27 PM CDT

    Heroes S1 finale

    by filmstu2005

    was complete utter shit. A terrible way to end a season. The only thing good about it was Nikki punching the daylights out of IllusionGirl and beating Sylar with a parking metere for no damn reason. She didnt even know who the guy was, lol. I was laughing at the stupidity. Esp when Peter, with all the damn powers he had, proceeded to punchING, yes PUNCHING, Sylar. Lol, what a joke...

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  • Apr 21, 2009 5:04:52 PM CDT

    Evil Dead 3rd

    by filmstu2005

    Then look out for that new tv show called Bitches. I kid you not. Think of it as mix b/w Werewolves and Sex and the City. Awkward.

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  • Apr 21, 2009 5:18:17 PM CDT

    I can take the illogical plot points

    by obese_wan_kenobi

    But this isn't even entertaining anymore. It's talky talk talk talk. You see, sometimes in comic books, people with superpowers actually fight other people that have superpowers. Sometimes they are called supervillians. On this show, called Heroes, no one seems to do anything all that heroic. I sincerely hope next weeks episode is good, but from the rumored Sylar/Claire proposal I'm not holding my breath.

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  • Apr 21, 2009 6:34:23 PM CDT

    Sylars Petrelli Sees the Return of Jim Profit!

    by krazeyivan

    Yes I won't let you down ma!

    I'll sleep in the cardboard box!

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  • Apr 21, 2009 7:37:21 PM CDT

    Sylar as Nathan

    by death_by_powerpoint

    No one noticed the *ENTIRE SCENE* where Sylar rooted through Nathan's office searching for a source of DNA? He finally found a travel toothbrush, rubbed his finger on the bristles to collect the DNA sample, then was able to shapeshift. If you're going to criticize the writing, at least focus on actual poor writing - not on your own lack of attention to the level of detail they put into it.

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  • Apr 21, 2009 7:50:12 PM CDT

    This is shit do they ever do anything anymore

    by kingoflight

    Remember when peter and hiro were bad ass in the future for that short time i was hooked on heroes expecting more of that.

    BUT NO

    FUCKING WANKERS !

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  • Apr 21, 2009 9:17:32 PM CDT

    Don't expect Bryan Fuller to fix much next season...

    by jim jam bongs

    Word is that he may be hired to run a new series next season, and, thus, he could leave Heroes by mid season (by the end of show's Volume 5 arc). He's not contractually obligated to stay with the show for any set period of time.

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  • Apr 21, 2009 9:55:01 PM CDT

    hmm

    by slkboxrman

    Obese, I bet u are obese, its boring cuz people talk ? Sammiedog, sylar himself explained why he didn't want micah's power....STlost....well u may b dillusional and think CHUCK is great, but its soon to b cancelled...guess what show won't b? That's right, heroes.....as for everyone else saying week after week how ur bailing on heroes, just do it, stop crying how ur going to week after week after fracking week...just go so we don't hav to read how the show is not meeting your high standards and dissapointing u... we don't care...we like the show...

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  • Apr 21, 2009 10:00:38 PM CDT

    umm silk....

    by jay2517

    if everyone who has a logical complaint about heroes went away..... then there would be like 40 posts here max. sorry, its true. its a BAD show we're just hanging around HOPING it would get better. its not...

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  • Apr 21, 2009 11:06:16 PM CDT

    jay

    by slkboxrman

    Logical is a very subjective word, its not logical if its a rant about how the show isn't meeting a persons own definition of what a show called heroes should b. And I wasn't referring to the comments week after week after week that say things like "I haven't watched since episode 3 and just watched last nite and it still sucks" or "heroes has one more episode to win me over" etc... nothing logical or constructive there, just a waste of space...if u don't like the show, don't watch it....

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  • Apr 21, 2009 11:39:21 PM CDT

    i DONT like it anymore and that makes me mad

    by jay2517

    im trying though.... dammit im trying

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  • Apr 22, 2009 6:00:56 AM CDT

    slkboxrman

    by spud mcspud

    I'm glad you'll be one of the last few still watching HEROES. Personally I feel much better knowing I can form perfectly punctuated, long and complex sentences without feeling the need to turn everything I write into a FUCKING TEXT!!!

    Bottom line: LEARN TO WRITE, FUCKER!

    And HEROES is still shit.

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  • Apr 22, 2009 6:35:03 AM CDT

    slkboxrman

    by the ageless stranger

    "Logical" is not a very subjective word. In fact, it's probably the total opposite of subjective, because it's, y'know, logical, as in logic, a form of reasoning, science, etc.

    Also, this show needs to be put down. I haven't watched it since I realised how stupid it had become in the "Eclipse" two-parter, but everything I hear about it since then doen't make me want to come back. And I've just recently re-watched season 1 and it breaks my heart.

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  • Apr 22, 2009 7:42:32 AM CDT

    I love people who brag about...

    by mrfan

    how they think Heroes is better simply because it has lasted longer than other shows. These are the same people that must watch According to Jim.

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  • Apr 22, 2009 8:43:08 AM CDT

    slkboxrman

    by stlost

    Just because "Heroes" gets renewed doesn't mean it's any good. "According to Jim" was renewed for what, eight seasons? I just think "Chuck" is just consistently better than "Heroes". Hey, I used to watch Heroes, but what I thought was so great about it is sorely missing now.

    And spud is right. Learn to type. You shorten "be" to "b". Are you too lazy to type the "e" ???

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  • Apr 22, 2009 10:11:54 AM CDT

    How I would make Sylar more interesting

    by silentgunman

    I'd have him bump into Adam Sandler on the street, so he absorbs Sandler's DNA. Then Sylar could morph between himself, his Mom, and Sandler's Buffoon character (from They're All Gonna Laugh At You). It makes the scenes way more entertaining:

    "Mother, I'm sorry I killed you."

    (morph)

    "Oh son, I forgive you."

    (morph)

    "Fuckin shit, man!"

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  • Apr 22, 2009 1:15:45 PM CDT

    Heroes

    by squarebird

    A great thing about Heroes is that we know the characters so well that a natural suspense builds up in every situation when we try to guess whether they are going to follow their instincts and personality or whether they are going to resist them. Also, the show has been very consistent in its theme - which is the ironical take on "Heroes". They are not heroes despite having super-powers, they are real people who's natural range of quirks suddenly MATTER because they suddenly have more power than evolution has prepared them to handle. This is the only decent critical treatment, other than "Unbreakable" of the idea that super abilities does not somehow magically create a desire to become a super-cop. Thus the necessity for the Parkman and Hiro characters - as they are the ones who, perhaps partly because of their relative immaturity, struggle with a sense of obligation to be super-cops - and thus demonstrate how foolish normal people trying to be super-cops can appear.

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  • Apr 22, 2009 1:47:20 PM CDT

    no subject

    by silentgunman

    I get the impression that the characters on the show were never meant to be around this long, and the writers have just struggled to come up with things for these characters to do. So they either repeat the same old stuff (Clarie is pissed at her dad(s) or Hiro quests to be a hero) until it loses its charm, or stick the characters with stupid storylines. The Parkman/Daphne lovestory should never have made it past the writing stage.

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  • Apr 22, 2009 2:35:31 PM CDT

    Sylar is still a great chracter...

    by laza-rus

    .. but he's really the only one. Lately, I've been forcing myself to watch the show if only not to squander the 3 year investment I have in it. But it has become a challenge to watch. The last few episodes have actually been the best in a while, but since a solid first season, its been all over the place and just not fun to watch.

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  • Apr 22, 2009 2:36:52 PM CDT

    Oh....

    by laza-rus

    And is Hayden 18 yet? Because I should have been mentally incarcerated about a hundred times by now...

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  • Apr 22, 2009 2:44:38 PM CDT

    no subject

    by silentgunman

    Danko: Sylar, I need you to be Agent Taub!

    Sylar: I don't need to do what you want anymore.

    (morph)

    "I bet you got really hairy balls!"

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  • Apr 22, 2009 4:23:28 PM CDT

    Beyond stupid

    by spiceybiscuit

    isn't the cheerleader like 40 years old at this point? I wish Sylar would take everyone's brains away so they would all die. OH wait, that would take him away since there are 150 Heroes on this show

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  • Apr 22, 2009 4:32:04 PM CDT

    UGH

    by splatomat

    I was so impressed with the show for about 5 seconds there.

    Then Sylar got up.

    Ugh.

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  • Apr 22, 2009 11:57:27 PM CDT

    I keep watching Heroes...

    by big_dumb_bunny

    I've watched Heroes since day one. Why? Don't know. Probably because it's a show about superheroes, although I don't really think that's even a fair description at this point. I'm always hoping that at some point the show will pick up and get better. There have been some pretty awesome episodes, but those were in season one. Season two was a joke. This season has been better, but not by much. I thought the last two episodes were a little more focused and I dug that. But then I watched last nights episode. The part where *spoilers* Sylar morphed into Micah to save his life while Micah looks on was lame, but but then two minutes later when Micah is watching Sylar "talking" to his mom and then says, shocked, "You're a shape shifter!?" or something to that effect, made me want smack my fucking head against a wall. I mean, really? You didn't fucking notice that it wasn't you that got shot 10 minutes ago!? Shit like that honestly makes me wonder how something goes from a script to a finished scene without someone pointing that out. Maybe the writers. Maybe the director. Maybe the actors. But no. Heroes is so poorly put together that something a five year old would notice makes it on the air. I'm going to finish this season because I've already wasted another 20 hours of my life, but that's it. You hear me Tim Kring, I'm done!

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  • Apr 23, 2009 12:01:49 AM CDT

    Oh, and Tim Kring...

    by big_dumb_bunny

    You totally ripped off Rising Stars and you know it!

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  • Apr 23, 2009 4:17:35 AM CDT

    SilentGunman

    by the ageless stranger

    You're right; When season 1 was still on TV, the Kring was saying that season 2 would focus mainly on a different set of characters. But then the viewers liked the characters so much that he decided to keep the main ones, and made it very clear he has no idea what to do with them.

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  • Apr 24, 2009 11:34:03 AM CDT

    this. show. is. absolute. SHIT.

    by turketron

    WHY THE FUCK DO SYLAR'S CLOTHES MORPH!? HOly SHIT. Not to mention the dumbass scene with Micah "YOU'RE A SHAPESHIFTER!?". FUCK THIS.

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  • Apr 24, 2009 2:24:39 PM CDT

    If he's going to morph into his mother

    by silentgunman

    couldn't we get just one "NO! THEY'RE ALL GONNA LAUGH AT YOU!"

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