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Watch with Kristin - Heroes Redux: Ka-Boom, Boom, Boom
Kristin's latest blog coverage of last night's episode is posted. In it she confirms what most of us here has kinda figured out. Eden WAS indeed the character with contract disputes and left six episodes earlier than planned.
Mostly everything else seems like speculation on her part. She seems to hint that the "familial bond" that Pasdar hinted about in her interview with him revolves around Claire. She comes back to state that unless they're planning on going the incest route (god please no) that it's not the Petrelli family she's tied to - further hints of a Claire / Peter romance.
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"Superheroes aren't what they used to be. What happened? It's like saving the world is a huge hassle or something? No one wants to take charge anymore and there's just lots of finger pointing and "he said she siad". Not to mention vests to stop speeding bullets, elevators for tall buildings and villains running amuck (insert evil laugh here)."
-VitaminWater / Charge
Milo is the bomb. As we've seen before on this show, Peter's dreams are actually reality.
This is interesting twist in that he is a "dreamer" and that his dreams are prophetic in nature. Like "dreaming" of his girlfriend's father, and dreaming of flying even before he did fly. He also was dreaming of his brother and then that turned into Sylar. This kind of showed the evil nature of his bro Nathan.
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The one hint I'll give is that I believe it's significant that Nathan Petrelli was not running away from Peter like the others.
She knows something here. I was wondering if Nathan was going to fly away with Peter to save everyone from the bomb. Should be interesting to see how this is a big hint.
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Claire and Peter have crazy hot chemistry. In the Q&A, Adrian teased that surprising "familial" connections will be revealed. One theory was that Claire and Peter might be siblings. But unless the show is going the route of incest (and I highly advise against it--it killed the WB's Young Americans!), the genetic link must be elsewhere, 'cause these Claire and Peter have some serious zazazing together. My guess the family bond is with Claire and another Hero. Who do you think it is? Make your comments below!
Oh boy. Please. To go from Simone to Claire? Come on. He loves Simone. Simone loves him. Oh wait I just read that Isaac and Simone hook up again. Crazy love twists.
Again, Molly is the sister. and Haitian could be Simone's brother.
Also, my earlier theory that D.L. is Simone's brother.
Also have a theory: if Devereaux indeed had the dream power which Nathan would temporarily absorb, then when Devereaux died, the power became permanent! Which is VERY similar to Sylar's power!!
Heroes: Chapter 11: Fallout
Recap by Dr. Anna Graham
Isaac is off the junk, gets his precog juju back and uses an assist from Eden to connect with Hiro and Ando. He paints Hiro on the set of Land of the Lost (T-Rex alert!), and the three of them begin deciphering the messages in the paintings. The one with the dinosaur is pretty much a gimme.
Jessica shoots D.L., but thanks in part to his powers, he gets away. Jessica and Niki wrassle over who gets to use the brain that day, and mama bear Niki eventually wins. Niki realizes that Jessica is a bigger threat to Micah than D.L., so she finds a cop and confesses to murder.
Mohinder returns to New York and finds a "welcome home" Post-It note from Eden. Awww…
Parkman and FBI Agent Audrey Hanson (aka Special Agent Invisible Girl) investigate Sylar's murder of Jackie, the cheerleader he killed thinking it was Claire. During an interrogation of bloody-but-unbruised Peter Petrelli, Parkman tries to read Peter mind and kicks off a telepathic feedback loop. Parkman vouches for Pete, but they keep him locked up all the same. Pete looks downright consumptive as he waits in jail for a bailout from Nathan. Claire stops by thank him for his heroism. Parkman, meanwhile, connects Sylar to Bennet and the Mindfreak, and gets a nosebleed for his trouble. I liked Bennet up until the minute he hurt Parkman by forcing him to bleed from the noise while trying to overcome your Mindfreak-installed telepathy condom. So now Bennet joins Mrs. Parkman on My List. My List is not a happy place. Shape up, dude.
Bennet, meanwhile, has gone from superduper nefarious spook type to hapless schmuck. He's got Sylar locked down, and short of keeping him in the dark, seems to have nothing on hand that controls his fiendish fiendosity. We also get a hint that there's a boss of him, someone on the other end of a phone line who just doesn't grok the realities of Bennet's ground war. Linderman? Benry? Bush?!
Suffice it to say, the paper-factory people (Eden, Bennet and Mindfreak) are enjoindered from nuking Sylar, and instead devote lots of resources to isolating Claire from her sympathetic sidekicks and then preparing to wipe her mind clean of the past few days of distasteful superpowerdom. Oh, and Mindfreak finally speaks up. Dude earned his SAG card—congrats, man! (Misc. theory: When/if Mindfreak dies, all his brain interference measures fail, and Pandora's box opens…)
Anyhoo, just about the time Peter Petrelli is collapsing on the steps of the county jail and dreaming the impossible dream of spontaneous human fission (he dreams he's the bomb that blows up New York), Eden takes Sylar matters into her own hands. She tries to persuade him to kill himself, but he uses his ill-gotten telekinesis power to grab her from across the room. He says he's going to take her powers—the old Bond-villain mistake of explaining his diabolical scheme—which grants her a split-second opportunity to ruin his plan: She shoots herself in the head before he can stick a fork in her. She's done. Dammit! (The kiss! Did the Mohinder kiss mean nothing to you people?!) Stinkerbell, R.I.P.
Next spring on Heroes: Lists! Everybody's making a list, checkin' it twice, some are naughty, some are nice. You know the drill. (Happy holidays!)
^MBG (Haitian Guy) is HRG's "telepathy condom" Oh, that was priceless! Oh, and apparently Eden's death was sad for some people, which is good to know.
As for familial connections to Claire, I think if Nathan and Peter are ruled out then the most likely possibilities are Matt or Niki. Isaac Mendez/Santiago Cabrera is Hispanic and although that doesn't mean they couldn't be related, she's just too blond and white for me to think that is most probable. My guess would be a relation to Niki, but others have hypothesized that months before an episode ever aired. Of course, anything is possible since it could be written that DL is Claire's half-brother. Or maybe Sylar is Claire's bio-dad! Why did I just pry open Pandora's box again?
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