And before anyone mentions it, I was supposed to post an article about my frustration with the lack of action in the Hiro story arc on Friday, but my financial priorities (a.k.a. the day job) got the best of me and I wasn't able to finish it.

Even though we did get to finally see a little Samurai action this week, I may still try to wrap it up and post it soon anyway, because I think it's still a solid concept.

Also: Favorite line of the week?

"I know, it's really not fair."
-Takezo Kensei after being stabbed in the gut by a Japanese guard.

Well looks like a don't have to have a whinge about the shite I just watched this week (ok i was a little harsh there)as Pete, you have voiced my thoughts in a far more amusing and legible manner than I could.

I can see that the writers are setting up an eventual tie in of all the different plot/character arcs (I heard someone mention that the car Tits McGee, 'no hablo inglés' and the deliciously evil Sylar are in is Claire's car that got stolen....*crickets*) but for the love of god hurry the f*ck up.

I refuse to believe that they've misunderstood the target audience as that would mean they surveyed a whole bunch of people who all ticked the box marked 'The Awesome' to the question 'What would you like to have removed from season 2 the most?'. If it's the writers guild strike, I'm not a member of any guild, real or fictional, so I'm more than happy to serve up something other than tripe.

Side note: Dexter...awesome again... thought you would have got a kick out of the comic book/superhero theme of last ep Pete.

Keep up the great work. Look forward to the infamous Hiro article. Review Dugg.

@Tron - I also heard that rumor about the car being the same one, and although it hasn't been 100% proven yet, they have hinted at it in both the show and in the graphic novel. The car Mylar and M.M.R. (male Michelle Rodriguez) are in has a "Go Conquistadors!" bumper sticker (that's the mascot of Claire's school), and Derek mentioned that he "picked up" the car in Cali.

And yes, Dexter was again awesome this week, especially the dream sequence. Why is it that for a moment I expected Peter Petrelli behind the hood? I may have to start paying for Showtime so that I can review that show on time too.

After reading a few more stories about the impending Writers Guild strike, there's a few interesting tidbits. Lost (thank God) has it's entire season and NEXT season banked as first drafts in preparation (a result of last seasons definitive plotting of the entire story arc), so nothing to worry about there. Heroes, on the other hand, has been rushing it's scripts out and doesn't even have this season finished yet.

Let me repeat that: they don't even know how this season is going to wrap up yet.

Yikes. Part of it is due to the strike, part of it is because the guy who plays Sylar had to be written out of the majority of the season due to filming the new Star Trek movie (he plays Spock). Sylar's parts over the next two months had to be taken out and in return they have written more Kensei storyline, which only further strengthens my suspicion that he's going to turn out to be a major villain in the present as well as his current betrayal in the past.

What's really going to be hit the hardest are sitcoms and live TV like SNL, Talk shows, Late Night TV (minus Conan O'Brien, who will probably go back to writing the entire show each night to keep it going if there's a strike).

More importantly, if there's a strike, there will be a sudden influx of new writers in the market as people who never got a shot before will be hired to fill in. I know I'm already thinking of plot ideas, just in case.
;)

I'm losing interest in this show. I hate to say it but it's true.

One thing though...Peter met this Adam guy at some point after his explosion? That doesn't make much sense to me. If there was a period of time after the explosion where he still had his memories (knows his name is Peter and about the Company) then why wouldn't he contact Nathan and his mother to let them know he wasn't dead?

I wonder if his amnesia was brought on by the Haitian before he came down with the virus? I hope things pick up soon.

@manzy - In the Heroes mobile game, it was revealed that Adam Monroe is actually one of the "Group of Twelve", the original founders of the Company. In the photo, I believe he is the gentleman with black hair and the moustache. After Peter survived the explosion (the explosion wouldn't have affected him, and he could have survived the fall with Claire's healing power or Nathan's flying power), he probably laid low just in case someone came looking for him.

In the events of "Four Months Ago" (episode eight, airing in two weeks) we'll see what happened to Peter during that time, what happened to Nathan, how Parkman came to be single again and in NY, why Maya and Alejandro are wanted for murder, and Elle is supposed to play a heavy part (Milo Ventimiglia did an interview directly after a scene with her and he was wearing a wig with the Season One bangs). My guess is that Adam Monroe may have tried to recruit Peter to help bring down the Company. When Peter realized that Monroe actually wanted to kill the original members (I think he's working with Maury Parkman) he bailed, and Monroe turned on him. I also think that Elle may turn out to be Monroe's daughter, not Bob's as I previously thought, and that's why she's chasing Peter. It was also obvious from the interview Milo did that he was fighting her, as his clothes were all singed and burnt.

As for the amnesia, if the Haitian had something to do with it HRG would know that Peter's alive, which I don't think he does or he'd enlist his help. I have a feeling it's either going to be something normal (aka trauma to the head) or something none of us expect (maybe he tries to access the Haitians powers and it backfires?)

Wow. Thanks again for your summary, Peter. Sophomore slump? Definitely. Lulling me to sleep? Absolutely.

I used to look forward to each episode of this series. I fell asleep 15 minutes before the end of last night's episode. I've seen enough green screens this season to fill my quota.

Can you imagine being the child actress playing Molly? What has she done? Her character is in a parking lot previously occupied by Nikki / Jessica last season. They don't know what to do with her.

Sylar and the wonder twins need to be completely written out of this show.

And Noah Bennett. Someone does *not* understand his character at all. He was loved after "Company Man". Great character. Now? He's killing people in Russia? Come on.

I'm pretty much done giving this show a chance. I just don't care about any of these characters any more. Except maybe Anod. Sigh. Sad, sad, sad.

@tom - You're very welcome. I just wish I had a better episode to review. I feel bad just bashing away at these. If it was me writing the show I would have Sylar kill of the twins next episode and take their powers, HRG would go back to "concerned father" now that he has the paintings, and I'd have the Heroes group up as quick as I could. Oh, and no more amnesia.

I just read that the 90% of the Writers Guild voted to strike if their demands are not met by the end of their current contract (which is November 1st), so you never know, maybe I will actually get a shot at writing the show (just kidding, but oh how I wish).

Well........ I'm not 100% sure on how or why but don't you have some sort of beef from the past with the dude who's playing Kensei? I seem to recall something about a punch to the face if you ever saw him in person again. Anyway, why not bury the hatchet with him in order to get a shot at a writing position?? Eh? Eh?

What would I have happen? Pete realises he's just wasted a large amount of time with a Guiness swilling minger bringing about a massive trauma induced flashback sequence of the last 4 months (coz really, he's the only one we want to know what happened in the interim period). After the flashback Pete ditches the bitch and flies back to the US but a little too quickly and ends up going hyper-hyper sonic, loses control and crash lands on the mexican border right on the car containing the mexi-cant's and Sylar and obliterates them. Pete gets up brushes himself off but a piece of debri falls down from the sky and it's a singed photo of Claire (since it was her car). Pete, thinking he has killed his little sister, shoots straight to NY to find his bro.
Since Hiro is never seen in a battle and we probably won't see him battle (last ep wasn't a battle scene, it was ...well... it just wasn't a battle scence) he comes back to present day NY and we get the story of what happened in a brief recap to Ando.
Now we have everyone back in the same place, (oh and the mimic chick gets offed in a drive by in keeping with the stereotype the writers gave us) in the same time frame with the same goal. Kill Nightmare Man and his band of evil minions. /rant

Anyway, now that pete can use his time travel powers i want to see more shit like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRsCjxout40.

@Tron - Ok, that's twice now that Heroes has been schooled in how to accomplish teleportation/time travel fight. First it was Jumper, now it's Timeshift (which looks awesome, by the way. Haven't seen that before).

And yes, David Holt (now David Anders) was a year younger than me in high school and we had some... issues with each other (although now that he's a famous TV star, I highly doubt he even remembers it). I, however, have nothing to do but work and write for this site, so I can hold a grudge as long as I'd like. :)

Would I let it go if he got me a job writing for Heroes? Yes I would. Hell, I'd chaffeur him to and from set in a limo if he got me a job there. I would sing his praises from the highest mountain top and build a lifesize statue to honor him if he got me a job there. I want that job.

Of course, then this site wouldn't be the long, verbose rants about how bad the show is anymore. It would become long, verbose rants about how bad I'm messing up the show. Haha!

Also, if you didn't catch it: This weeks issue of the graphic novel features a younger Noah Bennett going on assignment with his mentor, Ivan, and Ivan's unnamed partner. His partner can control fire and...

...just happens to have black hair and a moustache. Adam Monroe, possibly?

See for yourself at: http://www.nbc.com/Heroes/novels/novels_display.shtml?novel=57

Yeah I checked out some of those graphic novels and they're pretty cool even though they're short and only offer a small bit of extra info from the show.

I recalled hearing Ivan mention a past event with HRG and a 'water man' in this episode so it was good to see that encounter, but honestly, I be pissed if my power was water ... wasn't the asian chick from Captain Planet the water one? Anyway it's second only to 'heart' as the worst power to have.

It's also now very evident that there are 2 of every power [fire control of claire's mum and this adam guy] so I wonder why the writers have done this? Surely it's not lazyness.

I'm bored here at work today so here's a link to something any male aged 20 will enjoy. It made me cream my pants: http://www.themovieblog.com/2007/10/he-man-animatics -

@Tron - That Masters of the Universe animatic was friggin' sweet! If the upcoming live action version sucks, they should just do it in 3D like that.

And yes, it's gotta just be laziness. There are a million superpowers out there, yet Heroes keeps recycling the same ones.

The problem with this seesion is that the main stroy arcs are too short and the side arcs (monica, claire) way too long. It feel defused as a result. The ending of "The Line" is disappointing as it does feel like a plot repeat.....oh, just another "super power" disaster whether it came from Company created disease or from Maya/Sylar :(
Hope the show pick up the main plot soon.

By the way, there is a painting of peter there as well (right hand side and shown only for less than 1 sec) Any idea?

Last week almost had me taking back everything bad I said about Heroes, but this week has just made me start splurting it out again.

I think Hiro's going to wake up, realise what Kensei did, go in and save Yaeko and her father, be the hero, become his own great-great-grandfather, etc.

Hiro just made a man very angry and that means that Hiro possibly caused a chain reaction that led to the death of his father/great-grandson. Nice one *ultra-sarcasm*

Maya and Alejandro going to get killed by Sylar, but not quick enough. His power might be quite useful if it doesn't just work on Maya's power [i.e. Mohinder will steal Alejandro's blood and then mix it in with his to create a cure for the virus].

In response to the latest Graphic Novel, in "Five Years On", Peter had control of what looked a lot like fire, possibly from a certain Adam Monroe, who conviently left him a note etc.

Also, Peter's amnesia is really trivial now. It's just getting boring. Come on, Heroes writers! Make him meet Claire/Nathan/Hiro/Sylar and suddenly get all his memories back.

@FsBot: I noticed the painting too. Looks like Peter standing in New York Maybe. There looks like a biohazard sign there.
@David885: I think your right about the Hiro Storyline I bet he will be come Kensei and take up the name thus creating the strong pull to the sword and why his father told him all the Kensei stories.
@Peter: Another great review but I disagree about the Mr. Bennett storyline. He was a darker man when he worked for the company and he cared about his family very much. He has done some "less then noble things" working with the company now we get to see him us those things for the good of his family. I much rather have him Shooting Ivans and Igors on green screens then grabing pubscent managers fingers in the break room at Kopy Kingdom.

Thank you, thank you, thank you Tron for saying what I so desperately want to see happen with this show.

@David: You may be right. The first time I saw Five Years Gone I thought that it was just an offshoot of his Nuclear Ted powers, but it could be a combination.

@Ash Bringer: It was definitely Peter Petrelli with a Biohazard sign in the back (probably of his trip into the future). I'm putting together some pics of the paintings right now for everyone to see. Also, WoW ftw.

Well, i'm not sure if you go through the numerous Heroes forums, but there is this guy called the "Insider" who posted what will episode 10~11 will be. Don't know who this "Insider" is (maybe an extra, crew member, etc) but he posted an extensive spoiler about episode 10~11 which he claims to know. Some of the spoiler includes who Adam Monroe is, how Adam knows Peter, how Peter ended up in that container in Ireland with the Haitian's necklace, who the hoddie is, and what the final battle will be like (which he says he saw). The final battle is of interest actually because it doesn't make sense.

Anyway, if you are not to bothered about future spoilers, google him up ("insider") and all the current episodes will make sense. There were a lot of skepticism at first on his "spoilers" but after the last 2 episodes, it is starting to make more and more sense. I admit, if i didn't read the spoilers, i would have found the last two episodes pretty boring.

If you are too lazy to find the spoilers, let me know. I'll post it up. :)

Thanks for the great info, Ken!

I try to troll the forums as much as I can but I hadn't seen these until now. It's some very interesting stuff he mentions (I love spoilers), but I don't know that I'm entirely convinced. One on hand, they're just off the wall enough to actually be true, but on the other hand if they are true, I'm not so sure I like where the show is headed.

As for the identity of Adam Monroe, it's very possible for what "insider" says to be true. The actor in question has been picked up for the entire season and with the majority of Sylars parts in the show being replaced due to his commitment to the new Star Trek movie, he could have been written into the part.

As for posting spoilers, I don't generally like to post them here unless it's in an article with a "possible spoilers" tag for readers. While I love a good spoiler, there are those that enjoy being surprised, so I try to respect that.

If you look at the picture of the man who pushes Kaito off the building, and you concentrate, it looks like David Anders. This could just be coincidence, but that proves that it could be Kensei who is commiting the murders.

http://www.nbc.com/Heroes/photos/season2/28323.shtml

@David885 - You're the man.

I hadn't seen that picture yet and with a little photo adjusting, I got this: http://www.bleepinggeek.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=84&Itemid=28

Gives a whole new credibility to the "insider" spoilers, and I think fairly proves that the killer is Kensei.

Unless, of course, they turn it into something stupid like Maury Parkman just making Kaito Nakamura think it's Kensei.

Excellent catch, and glad to have you as part of the community.

Now, everyone get the word out. I feel like seeing if my site can handle a huge influx of visitors. lol!

i'm so tired of peter's amnesia, let him get his memories back already. the twins are getting to me and so is sylar. i use to actually like his character but not anymore. he needs to kill the twins now, if not just to make me feel better at least to save the show because i am losing interest.