Still wondering if the guy who played Clairemont (the sword repairman) really was Chris.

monday can't come soon enough...

Look, Hiro Nakamura is a screw up. He couldn't save Charlie. He lost his powers once he convinced himself he needed an arbitrary good luck talisman (the sword) to make them work. He couldn't kill Sylar with a sword to his neck.

And future Hiro spent years constructing his 3-D time line to determine the exact point to change past events, and the best he came up with was accosting Peter on a subway? And we're supposed to believe he got that one thing right?

Once Future Hiro appeared in the past, the future he came back from became a lock; otherwise he never came back from it to try to prevent it. He screwed up. People have free will and can change or determine their own futures, but when Future Hiro showed up, the present became his past; unchangeable.

Superboy tried to save Abraham Lincoln and failed. In Moorcock's "Behold The Man" an atheist went back to disprove the life of Jesus, was mistaken for the person he was seeking, performed some modern scientific "miracles" and was killed on the cross, creating the past he doubted. The past can be rewritten, but never changed. (he proved his doubts right, but created the religion he questioned.)

Superman did not literally spin the earth backwards; doing that would not reverse the flow of time, just wreck the planet. He did go back in time and save Lois, because Puzo needed one big 'miracle' to top anything in the comics - so he did the one thing the comics said he couldn't do.

That's the difference between hard science fiction and sci-fi super-hero comics.

Of course, "Heroes" isn't hard science fiction, it is a super-hero property. So maybe future Hiro was right, saving Claire was the key and Peter and/or Sylar don't blow up and New York isn't destroyed after all.

See, I told you it wasn't a spoiler.

good stuff. great for ipod music while jogging...

Sci-Fi is NOT starting the marathon with the Pilot episode at 9AM Saturday. At 9AM "Homecoming" (episode #9) is the first episode of the marathon, then the eps. run in order all the way til 10PM with "Landslide" (episode #22), the most recent episode. After that, at 11PM, the Pilot, "Genesis" Episode #1 airs, followed by Eps. 2-7 in order.

And if you want to complete the marathon yourself, you can watch Ep. #8 "Seven Minutes to Midnight" (and all eps. actually) online at: http://www.nbc.com/Video/rewin d/full_episodes/heroes_02.shtm l?show=heroes08

The pace really picked up once everyone knew what they could do. Once they introduced Sylar. The build up to the introduction of Linderman.

it is interesting, though, that the two best episodes of the series were the two oddball change of pace episodes. "Company Man", that went the L*** route and dealt with one set of characters and used extensive flashbacks. And "Five Years Gone", the speculative possible future episode. The two bet episodes were completely atypical and non-standard for the usually formulaic series.

I figured this was the appropriate talkback for a series overview, and that's how I saw it. Best new series of the year, but with some minor flaws that prevents it from being the best show on TV.

Good weekend for TV, the season finale of SNL, Simpsons 400, Bree's back on DH... But I'm really looking forward to Monday. *** (and then, Wednesday. Because, if Heroes isn't the best show on TV, do I have to tell you what is?)

And it was a nice tough: Ando called Sylar the 'boogeyman'; I had forgotten about that, ties in nicely with Molly Walker.

BTW, my memory was faulty ... 6 months ago happened after Sylar was captured so the pic HRG shows Eden is not proof Sylar still kills Charlie.

Friends and family will soon be unable to remember the last time they saw you. You will be unable to watch a show without simultaneously TalkBacking. The Life you knew is gone.

You will get over feeling cheap eventually. But you will meet cool people like Chrth and Mr. Nice Gaius (MNG) and others....

I am told that if you keep a separate computer to use ONLY for online porn and Talkbacks, it will help you compartmentalize your new dark nature, while pretending to lead a normal existence in the daylight. It is too late for me, though. Maybe if you hide in a closet and use a laptop for the TBs, you can avoid my fate.... ;-)

Those jerks who post to talk-backs just to say they've decided to stop watching a show were almost justified in the first month or two - you had to be a comics enthusiast and know how it takes time for these things to develop in order to be patient with the crawling pace. But the drop-outs won't know what they're missing until they see the DVDs, because the second half of this season turned the show into riviting "must see" appointment television. I feel sorry for the "24" fans who both missed out on this show but, from what I hear, got handed a rather poor follow-up to last years blockbuster season. If "24" had another "best season ever" they'd be justified in missing out on "Heroes", but as it is, well, they just missed out.

(I checked out the Sarah Connor Chronicles" clip posted here; when she says "Save me, save my son!" I'm hearing "Save my cheerleader, save my world!")

If masi ever gets a movie deal and decided to move on, here's his final scene: Hiro is in a fight with a superior swordsman, barely holding his own, when suddenly he sees himself materialize behind his opponent and attack. the foe turns, strikes and future Hiro dies. Present Hiro sees himself die, then strikes his foe down from behind while his back is turned. Now Hiro goes on with his life, making his rounds, saying his goodbyes, knowing that sometime in the near future he HAS to go back and join the fight... and die... in order to distract his enemy so he can defeat him. Hiro gets final scenes with peter, Claire, Ando, saying his farewells. Very touching. He doesn't want to go into the past to die, but it's a closed loop; it's locked, he's seen it happen.

Actually, she's just surrendering to the inevitable; as she herself said, if I love the show she probably will like it as well (X-men fan, and she admits I was right about Firefly). Since they're not showing Ep 8, I taped the first 7 for her to watch (since she'll have plenty of time at home over the next several months) and if she wants to continue -- although I'll encourage her to reach at least through episode 11 -- she'll watch them online.

And, yeah, a totally in your face to all the "hope they acknowledge Days of Future Past" whiners. Wonder if they'll slip the John Byrne, Terry Austin and Alan Moore tributes into chapter two?

al so true for L***

If you tape or Tivo "Heroes" bcause there's nothing else on Monday night and you can't be bothered to sit down and watch TV for just one show... or if you watch "24" and tape "Heroes"... of if you're collecting the series so you won't have to buy the DVDs... be warned that this will be one of those episodes that runs a few minutes long for no apparent reason. Has there ever been one of these shows so tightly constructed that every moment was essential and it would be impossible to find a couple minutes of material to trim? I think not, but then that's a pet peeve of mine.

Anyway, "Heroes", NBC, from Nine O'Clock (9:00 pm est) until whenever they feel like ending it. About five minutes overlap should be more than enough.

You won't want to miss the big explosion. Not that anyone believes they're actually going to do that.

But this may be the cliffhanger that keeps fans of the series talking all summer; it has been reported widely enough that this isn't really a spoiler, that the final three minutes of Chapter One (the first season) will be repeated in the fall as the first three minutes of "Chapter Two" (the half season story arc before the hiatus that leads into the spin-off "Heroes: Origins" series that fills the gap until the post-hiatus "Chapter Three" concludes the season.)

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