There is something very odd about these photos. I thought that H.R.G. will host a thanksgiving dinner to get his family back. Boy, was I so wrong.

Mom Sandra (Ashley Crow) brought her boyfriend, Doug Douglas (“what kind of name is that?! – H.R.G.) (guest star Hank Stratton). And Noah (Jack Coleman) also brought an old friend/partner – Lauren (guest star Elizabeth Rohm) – from the Company days, who had a serious crush on him three years ago. So now Lauren is back and I’m not sure what Bennet is trying to pull here, but this ought to be awkward. Lyle is missing but at least Claire (Hayden Panettiere) showed up.

So check out the rest of the photos after the cut.

Images: NBC/Justin Lubin

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In my mind, the Thanksgiving Holiday is a day to make amends as you thank the people you love and loved you. And this HEROES episode looks no different than what might be happening in real life. Like the Bennet family for instance. H.R.G. will host a thanksgiving dinner for his family! And that means Lyle, mom Sandra and Claire will all be at the same table so this is a chance for H.R.G to redeem his life back.

And it looks like the Petrelli family is about to have their own celebration as well. Nathan has showed up again and Angela’s world is now complete. Poor woman. Her world has continued to revolve around this one son to the complete ignorance of another.

Although now that Sylar knows who was responsible for his split “personalities”, he might be hunting down Nathan Petrelli and try to get his body back, and he’s going to end with destroying the Petrellis.

Here is the episode description for HEROES 4.11 “Thanksgiving” (I don’t have to remind you. An episode description contains SPOILERS! so let me put this after the cut.)

THANKSGIVING UNITES FAMILIES TOGETHER AND BRINGS NEW REVELATIONS — H.R.G. (Jack Coleman) hosts an untraditional Thanksgiving dinner. Elsewhere, the Petrelli family gets a surprise guest at their table. Meanwhile, Samuel (Robert Knepper) continues to hold Hiro (Masi Oka) hostage, as Lydia (guest star Dawn Olivieri) goes in search for the truth. Greg Grunberg, Hayden Panettiere, Adrian Pasdar, Zachary Quinto, Sendhil Ramamurthy, Cristine Rose and Milo Ventimiglia also star. Ashley Crow, Jimmy Jean-Louis, Madeline Zima, Ray Park, Harry Perry, Elisabeth Rohm, Andrew Connolly also guest star.

I won’t be surprised if Sylar turns up at the Petrelli place. Unfortunately, he might come as Matt Parkman and that can throw off Angela completely. Where’s the Haitian when you need him?

As for the Carnival… Samuel is getting dangerously close to snapping. That’s just my opinion and nothing anywhere in the show indicates this. But the man has become reckless and desperate and I still can’t get why. I thought he was grieving his brother’s death. And then it was about bringing everyone in to the fold, which also didn’t make sense why he wanted to do that. So now is it about murdering Mohinder (which could make someone act like he did), and perhaps asking Hiro to cover it up or go back in time to change it.

One of these days, Samuel will make a really big mistake and bring his own demise.

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Here you go! If you saw tonight’s episode on HEROES you would not want to miss anymore of this show! The stories are riveting, and it’s keeping us on the edge! What will happen to Claire now that her powers are exposed? How will Matt Parkman regain his body back from Sylar? The sneaky psychopath tricked him! And if you recall from two episodes down, Peter acquired Jeremy’s powers of death-and-life. Can Peter handle that kind of power to give life or take it?

Check out the episode summary for HEROES 4.09 “Shadowboxing” –

CLAIRE LEARNS THE TRUTH BEHIND THE ATTACKS AND SYLAR TAKES MATTERS INTO HIS OWN HANDS – JIMMY JEAN-LOUIS, MADELINE ZIMA, DEANNE BRAY, DAWN OLIVIERI AND TESSA THOMPSON GUEST STAR — Claire (Hayden Panettiere) is determined to get to the bottom of the Sorority Rush attacks on her own, until H.R.G. (Jack Coleman) intervenes only to realize he may be the source of her troubles. Meanwhile, Peter’s (Milo Ventimiglia) new ability is a perfect fit for his job and gives him the opportunity to help Emma (guest star Deanne Bray) accept her new life. Elsewhere, Sylar’s (Zachary Quinto) battle at gaining full control over Matt’s (Greg Grunberg) body escalates — with potentially dangerous implications at stake. Robert Knepper and Adrian Pasdar also star. Kat Purgal, Carlease Burke, Danica Stewart, Candice Patton, Sally Champlin and Assaf Cohen also guest star.

Let’s speculate! Peter’s first patient will be Emma and of course he restores her hearing! But would that remove her powers? Emma isn’t someone who is very open to change, so I wonder how she will take this, or if Peter will get to use his new powers on her.

I wonder what the writers mean that HRG is the cause of Claire’s trouble? Samuel had mentioned Jack previously as someone who had been on their tail. Is Samuel’s intentions for Claire because of her dad?

And of course, there’s Matt versus Sylar. This is just scary to think what Sylar can do to Matt’s body now that he owns it! I don’t like the sound of “potentially dangerous implications at stake”. When it comes to Sylar, you just know it’s catastrophic.

[This post was corrected to show that Emma is deaf, not blind. Thanks RP.

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The tension on this episode is increasing in notch! HEROES has worked very hard to restore it’s season 1 feel and it is absolutely working for me! The storylines keeps unfolding to keep us watching and and each episode is tight and moving fast.

 So, here’s a highlight of tonight’s episode, titled “Strange Attractors” –

• Claire is busted! Fellow pledge of her sorority now know of her powers, after an encounter with lead girl Becky (Tessa Thompson) , who attempted to kill Gretchen (Madeline Zima) while remaining invisible. Claire (Hayden Panettiere) fought back and Becky rammed her to a post with a huge nail. Unfortunately, two other girls saw Claire hanging by a nail (literally) when Gretchen pulled her down.
• Sylar traps Matt inside his own body! Desperate to get rid of Sylar (Zachary Quinto) after Sylar used Matt’s (Greg Grunberg) body to have sex with Janice (Lisa Lackey), Matt tried to intoxicate Sylar by downing alcohol till he got drunk and they both passed out. Unknown to Matt, Sylar slipped into Matt’s mind while Matt was unconscious and “took over the driver’s seat”. So now, they’ve exchanged places – Sylar has control of Matt’s body, and Matt is the schizophrenic half.
•  Noah Bennet fails and a healer dies. Thinking he can handle Jeremy’s (Mark L. Young) case and make the kid disappear from radar, Noah (Jack Coleman) asked Tracy (Ali Larter) for help in relocating the boy. Unfortunately, Samuel (Robert Knepper) got to Tracy first and casted doubts about those with abilities remaining invisible to society. When Noah and Tracy tried to get Jeremy to safety, the townsfolk tried to stop them and Jeremy used his “death-power” to kill someone on the spot. This angered some cops so much that later, secretly, he had Jeremy killed. Tracy was so heartbroken about failing to save Jeremy that she now thought of joining Samuel’s Carnival and live in the open.
• Samuel raises hell. Angered by failing to get Jeremy alive, Samuel moves the earth around the Sheriff’s office and the entire building crumbles. I doubt anyone would have survived that!

So, how did you like tonight’s episode? Let’s talk about it! I have questions to get some discussion going –

1. What should Claire do now that her secret has been exposed?
2. Matt is really in big trouble now, and I think this is more than he can handle. What should he do now?
3. I think Sylar’s powers are still limited (although it’s already so scary what he did to Matt), so he still needs to find his body. But I wonder why he just doesn’t rummage through Matt’s memory/mind for it?
4. Should Tracy take up Samuel’s offer and live in the Carnival?

Images: NBC/Adam Taylor

[This post updated to reflect missing text in the first paragraph. - October 29]

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What did you think of tonight’s episode on HEROES? I thought it was clever how of the writers to make you think one thing and then to bring out something else you didn’t expect. And “Tabula Rasa” had several of those tonight. Like Sylar/Gabriel for example. And Hiro’s illness.

OK let’s recap first and you’ll know what I’m talking about.

Sylar/Gabriel in the Carnie family. So Samuel (Robert Knepper) “adopted” Gabriel (Zachary Quinto) in he knew instantly there was something wrong about Sylar’s personality. Samuel has heard of “Sylar, the most powerful among us” and the person standing in front of him felt anything but. Although Sylar displayed his powers unintentionally, he was really more confused, scared and depressed than ever. So Samuel thought he would jumpstart Sylar’s mind. Samuel asks Damian (guest star Harry Perry) to show Sylar who he really is. Inside the House of Mirrors, Sylar was shown his heinous crimes – killing his mom, taking people’s brains out. But Sylar saw himself as the monster that he has been afraid of all this time! Instead of opening his mind and embracing his identity, Gabriel was even more confused and scared. Samuel even manipulated Gabriel to kill the detective who was tracking him. Instead, Gabriel warned the man to get out of the carnival as fast as he can. Unfortunately, Edgar (Ray Park) got to the cop and killed him. At the end of the night, Samuel took Gabriel in and baptized him into the Carnival family. Edgar complained that they have a tiger in their midst who doesn’t know how to kill, but Samuel took that as an opportunity to mold this new Gabriel/Sylar into their liking.

What Samuel never realized (and of course the viewers do) is that the man inside Sylar’s body is not him – it’s Nathan Petrelli (Adrian Pasdar). When Samuel had asked him what he wants to be called, Sylar first thought of “Nathan, call me Nathan”. Sylar identified with the sounds of military planes passing by – he recalls flying an aircraft like that, and for a fleeting moment, Sylar’s face shifted to look like Nathan’s. Sylar also thought he might have been a politician before. Plus, Sylar got attracted to Lydia (Dawn Olivieri), a trait that is more Nathan than Sylar.

So this gets really interesting! Nathan’s memories are inside Sylar’s body, and yet previously when Sylar took on Nathan’s form, it felt foreign to think of Nathan’s memories as his. Weird twist but very interesting.
I was waiting for this episode to get Sylar-the-villain back, but that would have been too easy (and too early in the season). This twist gives the writers opportunity to weave Sylar and Samuel’s fates – who is the real villain. We’ll have to see who emerges out of Sylar in the end.

  Hiro, Peter and Emma and Noah. Hiro (Masi Oka) teleported to Peter’s (Milo Ventimiglia) apartment just before fainting. It’s not clear yet why Hiro went toward Peter – did Peter need help? “No.”(“Yes, really, c’mon). Maybe Peter is supposed to help a dying Hiro. So Peter absorbs Hiro’s powers and teleports to Noah’s (Jack Coleman) house to ask help from the Company man. Funny thing is, Peter ends up in the bathroom (his teleporting skills are rusty!). It just so happens that Claire (Hayden Panettiere) is in her dad’s apartment to do laundry. Peter explains Hiro’s condition and Claire volunteers her blood to heal Hiro (the same question on every fan’s mind!). Noah advises against that idea since Claire’s blood is regenerative – it will only make the tumor grow faster. Oh. But Noah knows a boy – Jeremy Greer (guest star Mark L. Young)- who can help Hiro, so Peter and Noah vanish into thin air and teleport to Georgia.

Earlier, Peter had introduced Hiro to Emma (Deanne Bray) as someone who can answer all her questions about powers and abilities and Hiro gets ingenious in teaching Emma that her abilities are not a curse but a gift to help others. Pretending to be Hiro the Magnificent, Hiro performs magic tricks in front of patients and hospital staff. He stops time to make Emma see that his powers can be about helping people. When Emma asks him how he keeps such a positive attitude, Hiro remembers Charlie, who taught him about joy in the midst of adversity. And that’s when Hiro had an epiphany!

Meanwhile, Peter and Noah arrive in Georgia and find Jeremy Greer’s house to be in shambles. Plants and animals around the house were either dead or dying. Inside, Noah and Peter find Jeremy’s parents dead in their seats. Something had happened to Jeremy’s powers so everything he touches dies! Noah tells Jeremy he has both powers – to give life and take it back. The frightened young boy has a big rifle aimed at Noah and unfortunately, it goes off and hits Peter right in the chest! Noah pleads with the young man to heal Peter – that he has it in him to do it – and Jeremy does! Whew. I thought Peter was a goner.

Peter absorbs Jeremy’s healing powers and goes back to New York (this time, the normally slow way). Noah asks to be left behind and get Jeremy’s life in order. He had bagged and tagged Jeremy four years back and erased his memories so he can’t use his powers, but Noah never thought to help the kid. Now is Noah’s chance to finally do something positive in his life.

Back in New York, Peter learns from Emma that Hiro has vanished. And the only clue left is a note from Hiro – “Save Charlie!”. The next thing we know, Charlie is in Texas, back at the Burnt toast diner and Charlie is alive.

To be continued… Next on HEROES, episode 4.07 “Strange Attractors”, next Monday October 26.

Images: NBC/Adam Taylor

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Wow, there are over 20 images for this episode!!! There are definitely SPOILERS here so I am putting most of the images after the cut. There are scenes involving Claire, Noah and Tracy and Samuel.

Mark L. Young (as Jeremy Greer) and Tessa Thompson (as Becky) guest star in this episode.

Well, go on, jump the page to get to the good stuff!

So in the scenes with Claire (Hayden Panettiere) and Gretchen (Madeline Zima): It looks like the new BFF got more than they bargained for with the new sorority. They couldn’t have known that president Rebecca was a Carnie and she’s out to push Claire to do something stupid.

And this is the heartless Becky.

In the scenes of Noah Bennet (Jack Coleman) and Tracy Strauss (Ali Larter): It would seem Noah and Tracy are now partners – it’s back to the Company policy “one of us, one of them”. But this time they’re not out to tag-n-bag someone. Pictured below is Jeremy Greer (Mark L. Young) and I suspect he is the healer that Noah was looking for.

And then, there is Samuel (Robert Knepper), patiently waiting.

Images: NBC/Adam Taylor

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So you know by now that Hayden Panettiere has a kissing scene on Monday’s episode, and a lesbian one at that, with Madeline Zima’s character Gretchen!

NBC released a preview clip of the scene, but for some reason it was cut short! Well, thanks to YouTube, here is the entire scene (2 minutes long!)

Firs the NBC clip (aka teaser) –

Wait… here is the rest of the scene…

Well, what do you think? Will Claire Bennet change her feelings for Gretchen?

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There are several shocking scenes in the episode this Monday, and Hayden’s kissing scene is just one of them! So, aherm, SPOILERS ahead.

Sylar (Zachary Quinto) got his body back, but he doesn’t seem to know who he is. At least that he has powers.

And then there is that surprise kissing scene between Hayden Panettiere and Madeline Zima… well, it’s really between Claire Bennet and Gretchen, but hey, Hayden was the one to suggest that spark into her character!

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After seeing the preview of tonight’s episode (“Ink”) on HEROES, I’ve been trying to look for more sneak peeks and I just can’t find any.. well, except for a promo of the premiere of TRAUMA, which comes after tonight’s HEROES.

But there is a new thing at HEROES. Recurring guest star Ray Park spoiled it in my interview last week – it’s a series of webisodes featuring him, Dawn and Robert, and it’s all about their back stories. Those should be really cool to watch, huh?  (By the way, check back later for part two of my interview with Ray  Park).

ODI referred that the NBC/Sprint “media episodes” will be 90 seconds, with the first 30 seconds airing during the commercial breaks and the final minute to continue online at NBC.

Meantime, there are some things we already know (aka spoiled!) for tonight:

• Emma (Deanne Bray) guest stars as a deaf heroine, or heroine-in-the-making, and Peter Petrelli (Milo Ventimiglia) will become part of her life.
• Gretchen (Madeline Zima) pushes Claire (Hayden Panettiere) to reveal her secret abilities.
• Samuel (Robert Knepper) has an inside person to mess Claire’s mind up. Guess who that is! I bet it’s the same person who betrays Claire.
• Sylar is beginning to resurface away from Nathan, thanks to Matt Parkman (Greg Grunberg)
• PHOTOS!

HEROES is at 8pm already, OK.. Still at NBC… And I’ll meet you later here to talk about volume 5’s episode “Ink”.

Image: NBC/Justin Lubin

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New abilities, wow. The latest addition to the summaries is for HEROES episode 4.05 “Accidental Blindness” and the heroes will encounter new abilities, plus an “unexpected kiss”!

Read on –

SELF-DISCOVERY ROCKS THEIR WORLD AS OUR HEROES ENCOUNTER NEW ABILITIES, TRY TO RECALL PAST LIVES AND STUMBLE UPON AN UNEXPECTED KISS — MADELINE ZIMA, DAWN OLIVIERI, DEANNE BRAY, TESSA THOMPSON, ERNIE HUDSON, RAY PARK AND ACADEMY AWARD-WINNER LOUISE FLETCHER GUEST STAR — Samuel (Robert Knepper) prepares for new additions to his family, while Lydia (guest star Dawn Olivieri) warns him of the consequences. Claire (Hayden Panettiere) discovers that her roommate Gretchen (guest star Madeline Zima) may have a hidden agenda. Meanwhile, Peter (Milo Ventimiglia) finds an unexpected way to connect with Emma (guest star Deanne Bray), who would prefer to stay distant. Elsewhere, a different side of Sylar (Zachary Quinto) emerges as he desperately tries to remember the person he used to be. Masi Oka and Cristine Rose also star. Rachel Melvin and Jack Wallace also guest star.

If previews give us any clues, that kiss could belong to Claire (Hayden Panettiere) and Gretchen (Madeline Zima). This is a bold move, don’t you think? There’s got to be a reason for their mutual attraction. I’m totally guessing but I just watched X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE where Wolverine’s love interest had the power of persuasion? So what if Madeline doesn’t only have a hidden agenda but the same powers too! And then again, Claire could just be experimenting. Oh well. Who knows for now, right?

Image: Newscom

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