Heroes Season 4 Hints, News, and Firings

April 28th, 2009

Heroes Season 3 has come and gone with last night’s “An Invisible Thread”, which means it’s time to look forward to what lays ahead in Heroes Season 4, starting with the volume “Redemption”. First of all, to get it out of the way (and to lessen the emails I’m still getting), Yes, I am aware that Heroes Season 4 will have fewer episodes (18-20 was the last word), because we reported on it LAST MONTH. Now, let’s move on to what we can expect in Season 4, as well as other cast/crew news.

Quickly, some bad news to report, as Heroes has fired another producer/writer/director in Greg Beeman, who made the announcement on his blog that he will not be around for Heroes Season 4.

Dearest readers, this is a sad moment for me, as it will be, not only my final blog for Season 3, but also my final blog for HEROES.

You see, I will not be returning to HEROES for Season 4. Ultimately this was a financially motivated decision made by NBC. They no longer want to have a Producer/Director position on the show. But it coincides well with my own innate wanderlust, and so, while sad to leave so many friends and comrades, I am excited for the future.

Beeman adds that this doesn’t mean he’s shutting down his blog, but it will just be less Heroes-centric from now on.

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The usually spoilerific Watch With Kristin didn’t have a whole lot to say about what to expect in Heroes Season 4, except that the new version of The Company will now protect and help normal people and those with abilities. I.e. They won’t be nearly as evil, and may even be benevolent. The rest of the article is pretty much a recap of last night’s episode.

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Here’s the Season 4 “Redemption” clip at the end of last night’s “An Invisible Thread” in case you missed it:

Cast/Crew Updates . Heroes Season 4 Spoilers/News

timetravler

How much would you bet that there will be a time where Hiro or some other Hero goes back in time and kills Sylar before his hunger begins... that would be just like the new direction of the writers, I am a huge fan of Heros and I am very dissapointed at the new line that they are folowing.

The headaches that Hiro is experiancing may be the result of over using his abilities, or it may be that these abilities have a time limit.

Claire still has the possibility to become the bad ass hunter of the future, probably when she finds out that NATHAN is Sylar and her "dad" and grandma have once again did some double dealing and disception, Peter will get his scar when he discovers the Nathan/Sylar plot. Nathan becomes Pres. than Sylar come out and destroys it all. Because in all the FUTURE flashes Nathan becomes president, whether by manipulation or by choice. In the first one, Sylar is Nathan is President, which is where we are going with this current installment. So in my humble opinion we havent changed the future for the better quite yet.

I think Heros has the potential of a really great and unique show the writers need to get some fresh ideas, maybe from their fans, who actually pay attention to the plot lines.

Davidrab

i hope Peter will get his powers back

robert

they need to give peter his full abilities back and then have a real showdown with him and sylar. It's like they cut him down right when he was actually getting the hang of his powers

heroesfan17

uhh. someone asked earlier if peter is in on the nathan/sylar issue.

i think he is. he was the one who tranked sylar,so he was the one who had to bring back the body, so he must know about the change.

And in season 4 it could be either tracy or the other triplet, barbara. tracy's power was to freeze, so either it works both ways, or her sibling has the opposite power.

Roundlittledog

I'm pretty pleased with the clip of Volume 5.

Some people find the conversion of Sylar into Nathan to be somewhat weak; I disagree. Depending on how strong Matt's abilities are, he could have repressed all those extra abilities and even possibly the healing. (It's kind of like how a person can convince their self into a symptom-filled illness despite being physically healthy.) As for Tracy's watery revenge... well, that feels very "comic book" to me. The series feels like it's getting back to feeling "comic book" like it was in the 1st season. I like the direction. :]

Also, more opinions:
I think Peter only stole shape shifting (and only temporarily.)

I think Noah was dead for a short enough period of time to bring him back (after the shot to the eye), whereas Nathan had been dead for longer while.

I think Hiro's revived power was different from his original powers; like he only recovered one piece of a bigger machine. As a result, there's some issues where a fan-belt hits a piston in his brain.

I think it's Tracy, not Barbara.

I think tranquilizers worked on Sylar because they injected directly to the blood, whereas Claire had to filter the alcohol through her liver first.

Finally, I wish they would further the "Matt is a prophet" and Nathan's mysterious healing plot points. :/ Adding (and sticking) to the show's mythology = step in the right direction.

Ben

Regarding Peter having all of Sylar's abilities versus just shape shifting: I believe he only has shape shifting, seeing as the cuts on his face were still quite visible when they were burning the fake Sylar body.

As for Nathan not being healed by Claire's blood: first off, we've never seen it heal someone that was already dead for sure and secondly, the Trump card of being able to bring any character back with an injection needed to go, even if it meant a slight contradiction.

Sylar was definitely flying when he came in the window after Nathan. Go back and watch it and you'll notice the flying sound effect was being used. My theory is that he acquired it through empathy by a combination of having most of Nathan's memories and having shapeshifted into him, giving him a deep understanding of his feelings.

Here's a question I haven't seen anyone address that REALLY needs answering: How the hell did Nathan heal from his gunshot wounds at the beginning of season 3, since Linderman was an illusion???

me,me and me

It's Sylars body on the Barbeque it will convince Nathan/Sylar that he truly is Nathan and Sylar has been killed.
They probably burried Nathan in an unnamed grave.

I also wonder what will happen when Tracy is trying to attack Nathan/Sylar, i think that's why Tracy will be marked the villain next season because if she attacks Nathan and finds out he can'tget hurt the lie will come out ....and the new company doesn't want this to happen.
I think the new company will eventually be as bad as the old one, it starts with a lie and people will kill and lie to protect it when it comes to it.

peterfan

its the shapeshifters body on the barbeque that convinces sylar/nathan. the one that sylar took the power from.

me,me and me

I don't think peter has all of sylars powers, only that chameleon power/shapeshifting so no IA.

I think they ended it pretty neatly, uncommon perhaps but because of that, it's refreshing.
I do believe however that Sylar will emerge eventually probably towards the end of this season if not the season after that and he will fight Peter who at that time will be as strong as he used to be and wisened up some more so he can level with Sylar.

Tracy isn't to bad as a villain at some level i don't even think she is the villain, all those people who robbed people of their lives and can carry on as ussual, should be punished if not by law then by vigilante.
In some ways i think HRG/Angela, Nathan and other (deceased) old company members are more evil then she is.
I hope Claude comes back and maybe some other new cool characters (like Adam and Knox those were great characters)
Whatever happened to Usuntu and Matt seeing the future storyline?

Tarot

I really hope we at least see Claude in the GN's if not on screen.

peter is the key

Peter might not have all the powers back yet, but he should. Sylar is going to come back with a vengence we all know this. I don't know if/how Sylar got the flying ability. If he had taken it from a different person with abilities, or absorbed it from Nathan. I do remember when Sylar got out of the cab with Danko, he was on a roof top in seconds. He also got to Mika real fast too, so my guess is he already had it from a previous kill. I just liked Peter's old ability better because it was more innocent/good guy ish. It should be like He-man and Skeletor (Peter and Sylar) both equally powerful, but the good guy just a little more powerful. Peter would be more powerful than Sylar if he had his original absorbtion power. Taking that power away from him almost ruined the show, although I know why they did it. They did it so they could get rid of the hunger peter obtsined from Sylar. In seasdon five I think they should make Sylar meaner and darker than ever, and make Peter more powerful than ever, and show the damn fight scenes.

LIBNI

Can someone explain to me HOW the HELL did Sylar survived the end of the previous volume, cause they never explain how sylar survived the piece of glass Claire inserted in sylars back head.

I think that was a slap in the face from the writers.

Abriction

Uh..they did explain, noah says the glass melted in the fire.

Danielle

They burned the real Nathans body so unless they were actually burning someone else its going to have to be a big plot twist.. mind you most there who watched him burn didn't even know he had died and all assumed it was sylars body but nathan was the one killed. I can see the Sylar/Nathan thing going on for a while next season but eventually they will bring Sylar back. They would then either need to go back in time and bring back Nathan or go another route with him but I hope they don't leave him dead.

peterfan

they said they were burning the other dead shapeshifters body because he died in the form of sylar. they replaced the shape shifters body with nathans in the freezer.

Hoan

Uh... dude, it was the shapeshifter's body. The one that looks like Sylar. Go to Hulu, skip to that scene and watch it again.

Danielle

I watched it already thanks

Hoan

Well then I don't understand why you think it's Nathan's body. As Noah stated, they took the shapeshifter's body out of deep freeze in Building 26 so that nobody would suspect Sylar's alive. It makes no logical, symbolic, or emotional sense for that to have been Nathan's body on the barbecue.

serb26

here we are again with a new seson 4 but first off all let me say that am a fan of heroes , but only the first seson it was amazing i have never see a seire so attractive and so emotionel like the first season also the music evrything was fine and in the right place ,but smothing have change from the second and the 3 th seson from up to down big diception to me and many fan of this amazing serie so let see what will bring us he 4 th season ,i beg the producer and the maker to return to hsi magical way to make heroes like the first season ,please so more boring things ,and lear from your entree in the first seson of heroes

Boogieman

As Sylar starts to emerge he will be fighting in the mirror like Jessica and Nikki for control of the body...Sylar will try and use Nathans life to carry out his plan but by staying Nathan he will start to assume his DNA and before it's said and done Nathan will be reborn in the Sylar body inheriting all of Sylars powers this way all Petrelli are super impossible to beat...Die...hahahah Petrelli's don't die they comeback and scare the hell out of everyone while becoming gods. it's in their blood like revenge.

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