TV Tuesday: Heroes

Note to reader MSM: You don't have to wait for the DVD...all episodes are posted on the NBC web site!

It's bad enough that I'm watching this on a 21" television, and the show is shot in low light, but we were having thunderstorm warnings last night and the local station reduced the size of the show by several inches on the bottom and right side of the screen to keep everyone informed as they tracked the rain.

**SPOILER ALERT FOR REST OF POST**

• Clash of the Titans: Picking up from the cliffhanger of the last episode, Peter took on Sylar, with Mohinder hanging (bloody from the ceiling) in the balance. Sylar overcame Peter going invisible by swarming shards of glass through the room. After Peter is stabbed of a thousand cuts, Sylar gets knocked out by a rejuvenated Mohinder. Mohinder brought Peter's "dead" body to his mother's house (Angela) who, in the meantime, has been busy trying to spirit her granddaughter Cheerleader (Claire) off to Paris to lay low. Oh, and grandma has powers too but we haven't seen them yet. Claire spotted a large piece of glass sticking out of Peter's head when she hugged him to say goodbye. When she yanked it out, he regenerated back to life.

• Linderman has powers too, as we saw him revive a dead phaleanopsis orchid to a beautiful blooming plant in seconds. He explained to the Flying Politician (Nathan) that the impending explosion in NYC will allow Nathan to become the leader of the city, the country, and the world. Linderman sees the calamity in NYC as a world unifying event. But we know his powers are not omnipotent when he revealed later in the show that his plan had gotten off track. The future is not inevitable. We also found out that Nathan's brother Peter will "go nuclear" and destroy NYC the day after Nathan wins his election.

• The Shapeshifter (Candice) is going to be a tricky character indeed. Last episode, she fooled HRG into thinking she was his wife. This week, she tried it again posing as his adoptive daughter Claire. And later in the show, she fooled the boy Micah by posing as his mother so he'd go with Linderman. Jessica/Niki had refused to cooperate so this was a convenient way to get around her opposition.

• HRG and the Mindreader Cop (Parkman) were locked up together in adjoining, yet soundproof, cells at Primatech Paper Company. They were able to communicate by HRG thinking thoughts the cop could read and he responded with "yes"/"no" by banging on a pipe. HRG guided the Cop through the building with his thoughts to spring Radiation Man (Ted) from his holding cell, too. Ted emitted an electro-magnetic pulse that disabled the alarm system and facilitated all of their escape. So Ted is getting more control of his power, rather than causing cancer and radiation burns to everyone near him. The three are headed to NYC to disable the tracking device implanted in some of the heroes. Remember those two marks near their necks?

• When Sylar awakened from the conk on his head, he realized his list of heroes has been stolen. He decided to head over to Future Painter's (Isaac) studio. [I love the ticking clock sound effect whenever Sylar is up to no good.] Isaac had painted the scene of his own death by Sylar and spirited away his next issue of the comic book, featuring Time Traveller (Hiro) and his Sidekick (Ando), via his most trusted courier. When he gave his sketch pad to the courier, he said, "Promise you won't post any spoilers." Nice! Sylar ended up finishing off Isaac. Or did he?

• So, is this the end of Isaac? Who knows, as Hiro and Ando jumped to the future and have a theory that they can jump back and save him. Although, Hiro tried that with his waitress friend in Texas with no success. And Ando, trying to figure out what is happening in the time continuum (as is the audience), said, "I'm confused." Nice twice! Still in the future, they went to Isaac's studio looking for clues and discovered an odd array of items, photos, and news clippings that seemed to form a timeline. Who created it? Does Hiro jump forward and backwards through time to construct it? How does time bending work so that Hiro could run into his future self in the studio as the night's cliffhanger?

Anything I missed?
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