Preview for NBC's Third Season of HEROES - Aug 14, 2008 - 10:27am
tbones, good for you. I don't think I'd have that kind of control. Personally, I thought this was one of the best season premiere's I've ever seen. My brother-in-law, who attended with me, agreed. It was awesome!

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Preview for NBC's Third Season of HEROES - Aug 14, 2008 - 09:47am
For anyone that is interested, here is everything I remember from the 3rd season premiere. *** MAJOR SPOILER WARNING!!! - I give away pretty much everything from 3rd season premiere below. If you'd rather be surprised, don't keep reading *** I can't remember it all in order, but here are the basic plot lines from the 3rd season premiere episode. The episode started with a confrontation between Claire and Peter in the future (5 years, I think). Claire is hunting Peter. Peter tells her that he is going back in time to fix things. She fires, he freezes time, steps around the bullet, takes her gun, and leaps back into the past. Peter appears at the end of last season, right when Nathan is about to tell the world about the Heroes. Future Peter dons a hat, pulls out a gun and shoots Nathan, fully expecting to kill him. Present Peter chases Future Peter. When they reach the end of the hallway, only Peter of the past is there (it is pretty quickly revealed that it is actually Future Peter who now has the ability to alter his shape - Future Peter is scarred). In the meantime, Sylar, who has his powers back but is dying, catches Claire at home and they start a cat and mouse game. He eventually catches her and cuts off the top of her head like he wanted to do to begin with. We are then treated to a scene of Sylar examining Claire's brain while they talk together. This led to the greatest lines of the episode, which was his response to Claire asking if he was going to eat her brain. Back in Japan, Hiro has inherited his father's company and is bored. You first see him playing with a clock, making it go forward and backwards. There is a very funny scene where either Hiro or Ando says that destiny won't knock on the door and a courier knocks, delivering a video from Hiro's father. The video tells Hiro that he is the guardian of a secret that can destroy the world and that it is locked in a safe that Hiro must never open. Of course, the moment the video is turned off, Hiro opens the safe and discovers part of a formula and a note telling him to turn back on the video, where his father scolds him for being disobedient and then tells Hiro that he must not lose the formula. Immediately afterwards, a super-fast person races through and steals the formula. Hiro freezes time and chases her. They have a confrontation and she gets away with the formula. In the meantime, Nathan wakes up in a kind of daze. No one can explain how he lived. Peter (who is the one from the future) can't figure it out. Nathan gets up, walks out of the hospital and across the street to a church. He becomes something of a preacher, telling people that God has saved him and stuff like that (can't remember his exact speech), and then collapses. When he wakes up, he can't remember it all but says that God saved him. Mohinder's part is pretty much already known. He figures out how to give people powers (it has to do with adrenaline) and injects himself. He gains super strength and beats the crap out of a couple of guys. Matt is searching for Nathan's shooter (they don't know it was Peter). Future Peter goes back to where he ditched the gun and Matt catches him. There is a confrontation and Future Peter send Matt to the middle of the desert somewhere. As he searches for help, Matt sees a symbol that is repeated through the episode a couple of times but its meaning is never fully explained. Niki is living with some powerful guy (no explanation as to how she lived). They see Nathan's "God" moment on TV and decide that he is the one they need for something. It looks lik she doesn't recognize Nathan but she may just be pretending. Back at Claire's house, Sylar finds what he is looking for in Claire's brain and uses it to heal himself. He then reseals her head and tells her that she is "special" and that she can't die. "And now," he says, "I guess I can't either." And then he leaves. Future Peter's mom confronts him. She knows he's from the future and that he came to kill Nathan. She tells Peter that her power (also his first power, if you remember), is to see the future. Peter killing Nathan did change things, but now the future is worse than before. It is also revealed that Present Peter is now kept in a prison of the "Company" with other villains, some of whom are shown. In Nathan's hospital room, he hears a familiar voice telling him that he is destined for great things and, from behind the curtain steps LINDERMAN! It is revealed that Linderman is the one who saved Nathan. After losing the formula, Hiro decides to go into the future to see if the formula really will cause the destruction of the world. He sees a world in chaos but catches a scene between himself and Ando. They are fighting about the formula. Ando is trying to take it from Hiro (to destroy it, if I remember right), but Hiro won't give it to him. Suddenly Ando blasts Hiro with red electricity! That's right Ando has powers!!!! So there it is. As I said before, if the 1st episode is anything to go by, this season will be awesome!

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Preview for NBC's Third Season of HEROES - Aug 14, 2008 - 09:35am
I caught the Heroes panel at the SDCC. They showed the entire 3rd season premiere and it was FREAKIN AWESOME!!!!! Yes, Niki and Nathan are both back, but the episode only explains how Nathan lived. In a non-spoilerish way, time travel has *something* to do with Nathan but it isn't the reason he's alive. I'm not sure how they will explain Niki but it looks like she has an interesting role as well. Mohinder getting powers was pretty awesome and I am very interested to see where they go with it. But his powers aren't the BIG surprise. Also, the first episode finally revealed what Mrs. Petrelli's power is. If you think about it, you can figure it out, but it added a nice twist that works well in the seriese. Hiro's part in the episode was fun and also had the biggest surprise. But it was Sylar who had the best lines of the episode. I will say that it was an awesome episode. I thought it was as good as the series has ever given and I am very excited to see Season 3. If the 1st episode is any indication, it will be 100% better than Season 2. In the words of the Jeph Loeb (the panel moderator): "Tell everyone! Heroes is back!"

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