The Eclipse: Part 1

I'm not even gonna talk about the Heroes-hating reviewers this time.

I thought last night's episode was very exciting and intense and it left me scared for my favorite characters.

- Peter is stuck in Haiti with one moderately scary Haitian.
- Sylar is in the sights of Noah's gun.
- Claire is in the hospital dying.
- Hiro is still ten years old, but he and Ando are in a comic book store in Kansas with Seth Green! So that's not as scary.
- Nathan is stuck in Haiti with a bunch of really scary Haitians.

Lots of crazy stuff was going on. There was also a solar eclipse, just like waaaaaay back at the beginning of the series when everybody realized their powers. Now this new eclipse comes and everyone loses their powers. It is just crazy stuff.

I was seriously hoping that the eclipse would take powers from the people who had powers, but give them back to the people whose powers had been taken away ... because I wanted Peter to get his powers back. But then I thought that that wouldn't be nearly as much fun as it sounds because (I assume) he would only get his original power back, which is to absorb the powers of others, and there would be no other powers to absorb. Sigh.

Let's see, who do I want to talk about? ... let's talk about ... well, I was just talking about Peter, so let's talk about him. I usually save him for last or second-to-last, but I've just been talking about him, so why not? He and Nathan flew off to Haiti to get that crazy Haitian to help them with crazy Arthur Petrelli and his scary powers. On the way there, however, the eclipse came and they fell in the water. Lucky thing that they were over water in Haiti, because landing in the sea wouldn't have been as fortunate. So there they were in the jungle, and it was really dark, and they were both soaking wet, and so I say that it could have been worse. Haha.
They started arguing about family issues, which was a scene that I liked. I thought Milo's acting was amazing in that scene. Of course, I think it's always amazing, but I think that scene in particular should have made some haters reconsider. Anyway, the Haitian showed up, and then his brother and a bunch of scary Haitians with guns showed up, chased them all around, and got Nathan. I am scared for him! Peter is still stuck in the jungle. I am scared for him too!

Hmmm. Let's talk about Hiro and Matt and Daphne now. Matt needed to find Hiro to help him out. Hiro needed to find Matt to help him out. So Hiro showed up at Matt's apartment right when it was needed the most. And Hiro really had to go to the bathroom. And I laughed, hahahaha. Anyway, Daphne was freaked out because Hiro was supposed to be her and Matt's only hope, but he was so childish, so she ran swiftly away to her house in Kansas. Hiro teleported himself and Matt and Ando there. Matt tried to get inside, he wasn't allowed, Hiro threw some corn at him (haha), Matt went back to the house, Hiro and Ando walked away. Here's where the story splits. I'll take Matt's path first.
Matt got into Daphne's house by professing his love for her again. Then he discovered that her legs were useless without her powers! That was very shocking for me. I didn't expect that. I liked how they revealed it, too. It was very suspenseful.
Hiro took Ando to the nearest comic book store because it was new comic day! Yay! And Seth Green worked at the store (actually, a character he was playing worked there, yes I know the difference between TV and real life), which was exciting! Yay! So they got the new 9th Wonders, which will tell them what to do. I wonder what it will say?

Next I will talk about Mohinder. That won't take long. He was very scaly ... or flaky ... or whatever. And it was scary. So he wrapped himself up in his spidery webbing stuff and was stuck to the wall. Then the eclipse came and he woke up, slipped out of the cocoony thing, and was no longer scaly! But he couldn't celebrate for long because Flint and Arthur wanted him to find out how to give the powers back. Uh oh. Poor Mohinder. At least there's the possibility he will be nice, normal Mohinder for a little while.

Now I will talk about Claire. Angela was telling her that she needed to lay low, since she's the catalyst and all. Claire didn't want to! She wants to fight. But then Noah showed up and he took her to that empty house to train. He made her hit him with a stick, but she wasn't very good at it. So she had to practice on the column. I thought she would get a splinter or something so she would realize that her powers were gone sooner. But she did not. I guess they weren't gone as soon as I thought or something. You'd think she'd notice pain from swinging those sticks around! I guess that proves that her powers were still there!
Anyway. She started swinging the stick at Noah again and she yelled at him for being gone all the time. Then Sylar and Elle bust in to shoot up the joint! Uh oh! Noah dislocated Sylar's shoulder, but I didn't catch that at first. I knew something had popped, but I was going, "What? Huh? What broke?? Arm? Back? What? No!!!!" It was very scary. I am so used to Sylar and Peter being invincible so now things are so scary for me! Anyway, there was fighting and a lot of excitement. Elle took a shot at Noah, but Claire - thinking she was still invincible - dove in front of the bullet. She blocked her daddy, but got shot and it hurt like a motha'!
After disabling both Sylar and Elle, Noah grabbed Claire and ran home with her. He didn't want Claire's mommy to call 911, which I thought was crazy at first, but then I understood his reasoning. Claire was in a lot of pain, but she kind of liked it. I guess I understand that, too. After Claire was all bandaged up, Noah left (I will talk about him more in a second). Claire's mommy went to check on her and found her bleeding and unresponsive. Uh oh! She called 911. Good choice. Next week looks like it will be so scary for Claire. Probably very intense. I do not believe she will die. It would be crazy if she did. But I think they're gonna make me think she is gonna die.

Next I will talk about ... Sylar and Elle. Elle was still teaching Sylar how to shoot electricity at the beginning of the episode. Then Arthur came in to send him to get Claire. Elle ended up going too. I think Arthur only let her go because he had drawn a picture of her and Sylar making out. Anyway, they left. They went to rent a car. While Sylar was outside being a hottie and talking to Arthur on the phone, Elle told the rental car dude that Sylar is a serial killer. Which is kinda true, but she didn't have to do that. I think the point of that was to help Sylar embrace his inner bad guy. But she really didn't have to do that. It didn't seem to cause too much trouble in the end. I mean, either they talked rental car guy out of shooting Sylar or Sylar killed him, because they got a car. Then they busted up Noah and Claire's training joint, which I've already talked about.
After Noah and Claire left, Elle was trying to pop Sylar's shoulder back into the socket. I thought Zachary's screaming during that scene was awesome. He's such a wonderful actor. I love him. Anyway. The shoulder was fixed. Sylar could not move the gun telekinetically! But he was happy not to have that crazy hunger anymore. Elle felt bad for making Sylar a monster, so he kissed her. That hurt me, but I knew it was gonna happen because of Arthur's drawing, so it could have been worse.
Anyway, while those two were making out in front of the window, Noah was aiming a really big gun with a really big scope right at them, and I don't know which one he is trying to shoot! Or, rather, which one he is trying to shoot first. So I am scared.

I am ready for next week's episode. The preview focused on Claire, and even though that will be a really tense story line, I really hope there's a lot of Peter in the episode (he needs to get out of the jungle!) and a lot of Sylar (he needs to not get shot!). And I want to find out what is going on with Nathan. And I want to see about Hiro in that comic book shop because Seth Green needs more than just one little line. So I am ready!

Bye!

It's Coming

It's Coming!!!!!!!!!

I thought last night's Heroes was amazing. I seem to think that of every episode, and I seem to be the only one. I think Entertainment Weekly's reviewer liked it a bit more than they have liked the last few. Rickey of rickey.org either hated it so much he didn't even bother to review it, or he's been too busy with all of the exciting David Cook album release day stuff to worry about it. I'm guessing it's a little bit of both.

I did love it, though. And I found another recap written by someone else who didn't hate the episode! Thank you, TV Squad!

Let's see. I'll talk about Matt's story line first. It was my least favorite, but I didn't hate it. He found Angela Petrelli lying in a hospital bed, catatonic and thinking craziness. Daphne ran off to "get a nurse" (AKA go rat on Matt to Arthur Petrelli). Of course, she came back nurse-less, so Matt had to get inside Angela's head and save her! That was actually very creepy stuff, the inside-Angela's-head scenes. Anyway, while in there, Matt found Angela handcuffed to a chair, put there by Arthur so she couldn't meddle up in his business. Then Daphne showed up and stabbed Matt! But it wasn't really Daphne. It was Arthur, camouflaged as creepy-Daphne! Aaaaahh! Then real Daphne came in and she and Matt had a touching "I love you" moment, which was a little strange, but still sweet. And then they got out of Angela's head, Angela was free, and more crazy stuff happened but I will talk about it later because it overlaps with other story lines.

Hmmm. Then there's Mohinder's little story line, which I liked a little better than Matt's because it had a really creepy guy that Mohinder and Arthur had used as a guinea pig for the power-giving serum of doom. Turns out that they need a catalyst - a human! - to complete the serum. Dum dum dum! (Dramatic music.)

I'll talk about Nathan's story line next. He went to see his daddy, mean old Arthur Petrelli. When Arthur told Nathan to give him a hug, I yelled "Noooooooooo!" at the screen. Because the last time a Petrelli son hugged Daddy P., bad things happened. And I love me some Petrelli sons, so I want to protect them. And guess what? Nathan listened to me! It's because he knew what happened to Peter. Nathan's smart like that - he's not a senator for nothin'. So he was talking to Mr. Petrelli, who pulled the whole "Join me, son, and we can rule the universe together" on him. Seriously, this dude is running out of sons. Haha. So Nathan went flying away to save the day (woohoo!) and Tracy went back in to talk to Arthur. It seems she's gonna help him by trying to get Nathan to be on his side. Uh oh. Don't do it, Nathan! He's crazy!!!

Okay. Next I will talk about ... Hiro! Whose story line I finally liked! Before he was trying to get Nathan to help him rule the universe, Arthur was in Africa, taking the last 18 years of Hiro's life away from him - not his powers, as I'd presumed last week. So Hiro was a ten-year-old, which was pretty darn funny. It's a little sad, though, because he basically has to start anew and he has no recollection of all the adventures he's been on ... but it still made for some funny TV. It reminded me of season one, when Hiro was everyone's favorite, when he was just figuring out his power. Only this time, he used his power to cause all sorts of mayhem. After teleporting from Africa to a bowling alley in Japan (because they sold his favorite waffles there, and that's what he was thinking about when Ando squinted his eyes for him, haha), Ando helped Hiro re-learn his power. Then Hiro went crazy, squirting ketchup on chairs and tying shoelaces together, just going crazy. And I laughed. Then he and Ando teleported to a comic book shop, where they found a new issue of 9th Wonders. But ... how? Meesta Eesaac is dead! Did Meesta Afreecan Eesaac carry on the comic before he was decapitated or what?! I am confused. Anyway, Ando was trying to convince Hiro that the comic would tell them what to do next, but Hiro was so not buying it. It's a little frustrating ... but Hiro's story line was still more entertaining than it has been in a while.

My second favorite story line was ... Peter and Claire's. It might have been my favorite if it hadn't been for ... Claire. I'm sorry. I still like her, but the whole, "I'm the defensive player of the year" and jumping out of the window thing ... though it accomplished what she wanted to do, I wasn't crazy about that part. And then in the sewer when Peter was trying to protect her and she just wouldn't listen to him ... I am REALLY glad that she was trying to protect Peter because I was worried about his powerless-ness, but still ... if she'd just listened to him, she could have saved them both a little trouble, you know what I mean? The part where Peter broke the gas line so Flint's flames would backfire on him was awesome, though, so I guess it was okay. Peter was trying to help Claire not become a killer, though - she did kill future-Peter in the future, you know - and she wasn't having it. Sigh. Listen to your uncle, Claire! Haha. Okay, so Peter and Claire ended up in Angela's hospital room - after Matt got all up in Peter's face for sending him to Africa (it wasn't Peter, it was future-Peter!!). Angela told them all about the serum and the missing catalyst and it's a person and Kaito Nakamura was the only person who knew who it was. I thought right then, "Oh, it's gonna be Claire" and then Claire took the long way to say that, but she said it. And I thought, "Okay, a little predictable, but it makes sense."
But then Entertainment Weekly's reviewer brought up a good point. They said,

Claire thinks that because Sylar told her she was special she's the catalyst. Isn't it just like her to think the world revolves around her? That whole ''save the cheerleader'' business must've gone to her head. (Me, I think it's Ando. He's the only straight-up human left on the show, and he's the only person that Kaito would've known that no one else did.)

I think it would be more interesting if it was Ando, and it does make a little more sense than if it was Claire. We shall see. Oh, and I didn't really agree with the "isn't it just like her to think the world revolves around her" part.

Finally, my favorite story line - just barely, but still my favorite. Sylar and Elle. I was mad at first because Elle was zapping the crap out of Sylar - electricity was coming out of his eyes, for crying out loud. I got a little reward for having to sit through that madness, for Elle's electricity zapped the shirts right off of Sylar's back (and front). So there was a shirtless Sylar and I was happy. He forgave Elle for making him a monster and said that she needed to forgive herself - not before she took out all her frustration on him. He didn't ask her to forgive him for killing her daddy, which I thought was a really great choice for him. Then Sylar learned to take a power without killing for it! And then Elle was trying to teach Sylar to use his new electricity powers, which was "aww, sweet" and all, but seriously? She went from "ARRRRRGGGGGHHHHHH YOU KILLED MY DADDY!!!!!!!!! NOW YOU DIE!!!!!!!!!!" to "Oh, let me show you how it's done" *wink wink* just like that? I'm not buying it, writers. I thought it was way too sudden. There should have been more tension there, you know?! And I'm not saying this because I'm anti-Sylar/Elle relationship (sorry, I am, I have to be honest). I'm just saying it because that's what I was thinking while I was watching it. I was REALLY hoping they wouldn't kiss - and they didn't, at least not on screen. If they had, then it wouldn't have been believeable at all. Sorry. Other than the way it ended, I really enjoyed that story line. And Entertainment Weekly kinda agreed with me! Kinda. Yay!

Actually ... Sylar was all shirtless ... and he's a total hottie ... so maybe that's why Elle was all "Oooh la la, let me show you how it's done" because she finally realized how hot he was after he took away her pain ... I mean, I guess I can't really blame her. But still. Too soon!

Okay, that's it for now. My dinner is ready. Bye!

Villains

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Sigh. Once again, everyone is being mean to Heroes. And by "everyone," I mean Rickey and EW. They just don't even know.

I happened to love this week's episode. And it's not just because Peter had his season one hair back, it's also because it was an awesome episode. It explained a whole lot and answered some questions. I do not agree with some people who believe it was unnecessary.

Hiro takes his spirit walk and we get to see what was going on with the villains 12 to 18 months prior to present time on the show. Pretty much all that happens to Hiro is that his eyes go all smoky and he falls over a few times, so his story line doesn't really pan out like I was hoping it would yet, but the end of the episode was certainly interesting. Hiro comes out of his spirit walk and then he and Ando find Meesta Afreecan Eesaac sans head. Then they find the head. And then Arthur Petrelli finds Hiro and (presumably) takes his powers. That was a crazy ending and I am very much ready to see what happens to Hiro next time.

Hmmm. Now let's talk about ... Claire's mommy Meredith. We find out that orange-flame-girl Meredith and blue-flame-boy Flint are siblings, which means Flint is Claire's uncle, which means yet another character can be linked to the Petrelli clan. Fun! Meredith and Flint rob a convenience store. Flint is stupid (apparently). Eric Roberts is also there and gets Meredith in order to train her to be an agent for the Company.

After Meredith and Eric Roberts (I know his name is Thompson) nab metal fist man (crazy power, by the way), Mer finds Flint has been locked up in the Company's prison place, so she busts him out and they run away to a freight train. Well, Eric Roberts hops the same train and a fight ensues.

Flint escapes the train, there is a little more fighting, and then Mer sets the train car ablaze before she and Eric Roberts jump out. And then the train explodes! And guess where they end up?! Odessa! And guess who runs into the burning train to save people?! Claire!! Her mommy exploded that train that she ran into in season one. I just love things like that. It reminds me of the Back To The Future movies, how everything is connected and intertwined. Oh, Eric Roberts ends up feeling sorry for Meredith because she was talking about how her baby, Claire, had died in a fire, but Eric Roberts knows that's not what really happened, so he lets Mer go. So that's that story line. I liked it.

Now let's talk about ... hmm. I'll save my favorite story for last, so now we will talk about Arthur Petrelli. If Peter had been in this episode more, this might have been my favorite story line. Haha. This was the part where I got to see Peter and his awesome hair! Not for long, but still, it was there and it looked great. So. Back before he was REALLY scary, Arthur Petrelli held lavish parties. Linderman attended at least one of these parties, the one that was on the show last night. Arthur Petrelli was still scary back then, apparently, because he got Linderman to hire someone to run Nathan off the road - another question answered! We saw this in season one, the crash that crippled Nathan's wife, Heidi. So now we know Linderman was behind it, but Arthur was REALLY behind it.

But why did Nathan's daddy want that to happen? Because Nathan was the assistant district attorney investigating Linderman and Arthur didn't want Nathan uncovering all the super secret, scary Linderman-Petrelli connections!

That's not all of Arthur's mean-ness for this episode. He also plays crazy mind games with his wife, Angela, messing up her memories and altering her thoughts and stuff so that she agrees that Nathan has to die! Uh oh! But Linderman ends up helping her out by repairing the parts of her mind that Arthur had altered.

So Angela loves Nathan enough to kill her husband, because that's what she did. Well, she tried to. She poisons his Italian lentil soup and has the Haitian there so Arthur can't do anything about anything! Then Arthur keels over and Angela orders the Haitian to take the body to the incinerator post haste! But there's one problem! Nathan comes to visit and finds his daddy lying on the floor, still breathing, and calls 911.

Here's another question answered: Arthur played mind games with the doctor and got him to tell Angela that Arthur was dead when he really wasn't! So that's why everyone thought he was dead but he was hanging out at Pinehearst! Crazy stuff. Then there's a nice scene with Nathan and Peter at the funeral. Poor Petrelli boys. If only they knew what was going on ...

Now, my favorite story line! Gabriel!! He totally wasn't Sylar in this episode. Well, not until the end. His story line starts out with him in his clock shop, holding what?! A noose! Uh oh. He was very upset that he killed that guy, Davis, to get his telepathy powers, so he was going to commit suicide. And he really went through with it! He was hanging from the ceiling with the rope around his neck and everything, but he didn't die. Guess who saved him? Elle. She zaps the rope, it breaks, and Gabriel falls to the floor.

(Random side note: I just wrote a story about a character named Gabriel, and there was another character that called him "Gabe-y Baby" every time she spoke to or about him. I seriously almost just called Gabriel Gray "Gabe-y Baby." Geez.)

So I liked Elle a little more in this episode. At first, I didn't know if I was going to like her because, even though she zapped the rope (though she told Gabriel that it just broke), she was working with Noah Bennet to get Gabriel because he was one of those dangerous folk - a villain. But she ended up liking him and wanting to help him rather than help Noah! But her job is to help Noah so she is so confused!

She bakes Gabriel a peach pie. Another question answered: Gabriel's favorite pie variety is peach. Yay! Gabriel shows Elle his power - the telepathy one, not the head slicing one - and she is VERY excited. Well, she was acting that way.

Anyway, Gabriel and Elle become best buddies! They cook and stuff! But Noah is not interested in ziti. He wants Elle to get Gabriel to transform into a villain so he can be studied. That is not very nice.

Elle finds Gabriel's piece of paper that has the names of other "people like him." He is very defensive of that paper. He throws it in the garbage! But Elle secretly gets it out of the trash and brings it to Noah. They then get another dude with powers to visit Gabriel. It's a dude named Trevor that can ... shoot invisible bullets? It was pretty cool.

But Gabriel gets REALLY mad when Elle tells him that she stole his paper. He slices Trevor's head and Noah watches on the secret camera monitors. Question: how did they get all of those secret cameras into Gabriel's apartment? Maybe I missed something. Anyway, Elle was really mad at Noah for making Gabriel be a villain. And I kind of liked Elle for that episode.

Alright, so that's that. I love Peter Petrelli! I love Gabriel Petrelli! Yay Heroes!

Bye!

Close to obsession, at least.

I love this photo. Not only is Nicholas Brendon insanely smokin' hot here (um, when is he not?), but Sarah Michelle Gellar's hair looks like my hair when I was a hobbit for Halloween. But my love for this photo is mostly caused by Xander. Mmmm, Xander.

Haha. I'm crazy.

Anyway, I'm writing a story for creative writing class. It's my big final project. The main character is named Gabriel - as in Gabriel Gray Petrelli, as in Sylar, from Heroes, but also because it's a Biblical name and my story has Biblical undertones (it's called Plague). Gabriel's brother is named ... can you guess??? Nope, it's not Peter or Nathan. I thought that would be a little too much like stealing, haha. Gabriel's brother is named Nicholas! I don't know if I'm gonna reveal their last name or not, but if I do, it's gonna be Alexander. Clever me, huh? I figured that I gave my hamster the first name Pippin and the middle name Milo, so I needed to give a little love to my other obsessions with this story.

Uh oh! Am I obsessed with Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Xander/ Nicholas Brendon?! I don't know!!!!!!!