[BaseballerX]

# new 05/03 - Entertainment Weekly went to the set during the shooting of the final three episodes. Their article reveals: Here's Hayden Panettiere, waving away offers of a stunt double as she runs and vaults through a fake window — the front end of a stunt that will send her indestructible cheerleader Claire out of a skyscraper and leave her splattered on the sidewalk. Here are Ali Larter (the schizoid superwoman Niki/Jessica) and Leonard Roberts (the walk-through-walls ex-con D.L.) flooded with emotion over being repeatedly manipulated by an underworld puppet master, Mr. Linderman (Malcolm McDowell). And here's the behind-the-scenes ringleader of this fantastic flying circus, Heroes creator Tim Kring, sauntering onto the set just minutes after writing the final sentence of the season's final episode, in which the show's sprawling, far-flung cast of next-gen X-Men will finally come together Super Friends-style in an attempt to save New York from being torched by a human A-bomb. [...] The finale — right down to its eye-popping last scene — sets the stage for a second season designed to expand the show's creative horizons and commercial potential even further. [...] "I thought I was signing up for a show called Heroes," says Adrian Pasdar, whose morally shaky politico Nathan Petrelli will make a choice in the finale that will affect the destinies of every character on the show. "I didn't know I was going to wind up on Survivor." [...] Kring admits he and his staff "struggled" with Larter's story line but insists "we're going to earn back a lot of goodwill when you see how she's connected to everything." Lessons have been learned, adjustments are being made. Next season, instead of one epic yarn stretched across an entire year, there are likely to be two tighter sagas, or "volumes" in the Heroes parlance. There will be more episodes that burrow deep into a single character — outings like "Company Man." [...] This is the present — a subterranean parking garage, where the Heroes gang is shooting some walk-and-talk that will address a key point in the final episode: Will Claire get sucked into the crazy-corrupt whirlpool that is her newly discovered kin, the Petrelli clan? "I get the sense there will be a lot of objects flying around," hints Quinto [about the finale], who won't comment on rumors that his breakout bad guy will indeed return next season. However, Sylar's Freudian-fraught fight with his mother does ignite the finale's apocalyptic endgame and puts him on the presidential path suggested by April 30's noodle-cooking "possible future" episode. "It's a bad day for the world," says Quinto. "I'm not going back to the watch shop anytime soon." The May 21 season capper will set up two big ideas for the second volume of Heroes, to be titled "Generations." The new saga will focus on putting the Heroes mythology in a grand historical context of superpowered family dynasties. "I know exactly where season 2 starts," says Oka. "It focuses on heritage, the family line, and the source of the powers." That means the "older" generation of heroes — including George Takei's Papa Nakamura and especially Cristine Rose's Mama Petrelli — should expect more screen time. [...] Then again, maybe it will: Instead of just a cheerleader or a city, "Volume 2: Generations" will concern a plot to save the entire planet. "All I know is that I'm going to be all over the world next year," says Sendhil Ramamurthy, whose nonpowered (or is he?) scientist Suresh will learn crucial info about his Indian past and his dead (or is she?) sister in the finale that helps set up next season. [...] Source: Entertainment Weekly

[Hero]

They have "hidden" clues about the season finale in their 5 collectible covers, and in the swf files, they'll slowly provide the details of their clues... The files are:
http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/static/fl...02/intro_a.swf
http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/static/fl...2/heroes1a.swf (click on the Vote Petrelli campaign buttons)
http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/static/fl...2/heroes2a.swf (click on the bloody piece of glass in front of HRG)
http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/static/fl...2/heroes3a.swf
http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/static/fl...2/heroes4a.swf
http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/static/fl...2/heroes5a.swf (click on the flower petals)

[BaseballerX]

Nathans face looks weird in the second link....

also, in the paper niki is holding on her cover with DL, it looks like its a MISSING flier with micahs picture on it...is that because he was taken by linderman or because she doesn't get him back afterwards?

[Hero]

Originally Posted by BaseballerX

Nathans face looks weird in the second link....

also, in the paper niki is holding on her cover with DL, it looks like its a MISSING flier with micahs picture on it...is that because he was taken by linderman or because she doesn't get him back afterwards?

Well, since Candice was impersonatin' Niki/Jessica, it's probably 'cuz Micah's parents don't know where he is...



Link to The Bomb Squad article. Also, for those interested in buying all of the covers, you can buy all 5 for $10 at this link: http://subs.timeinc.net/EW/ew_sc_heroes.jhtml

[Ikin]

Originally Posted by BaseballerX

Nathans face looks weird in the second link....

It's actually a really bad Photoshop of Sylar as Nathan.

[The_Heroic_Loser]

lol. Adrian and Zach's faces should never be spliced together like that.

And as for next season, I think it's cool how it's gonna be on a more global scale. I'm also looking forward to learning more about past generations of superpeople.

[BaseballerX]

Originally Posted by Ikin

It's actually a really bad Photoshop of Sylar as Nathan.

yeah thats what i thought at first too.

[cabri]

Hunh. Apparently Peter meets up with Claire's mom before he gets a new hairstyle. That's too bad, I was hoping those bangs were gone for good.

[Emerson]

OK, maybe someone more informed than me can explain this:

For a while, interviews have referred to a 2-hour season finale. Are they talking about this idea, that 3 40 minute episodes actually make 2 hours, or were they talking about an actual 2-hour last episode (episode 23) like LOST has?

[The_Heroic_Loser]

Good question. I think they mean a Lost-like two-hour episode at the end of the season. The three-part finale is probably Chapter 22 and then the two-hour long Chapter 23.