According to the data by Big Champagne, the majority of downloads were from the United States and only 4% came from the  UK.

OK I’m not sure exactly how to feel about this. On one hand, having that many people download HEROES mean only one thing – the show is very much alive and people are interested to watch it. It’s what I’ve been saying all along – the weekly ratings and numbers from TV watching is a poor estimate of the number of people who still watch the HEROES. I watch the series online most weeks, because of Monday night commitments (which I’m happy to report are no longer there!) so the pollsters don’t get to count me as a TV viewer for HEROES. And so those numbers are good, right?

Well, on the other hand, these are illegal downloads! And there’s really no need to explain why those numbers are bad. I mean, c’mon, NBC already lets us watch the show online for a whole week of its airtime. And it’s not like the illegal file sharing come from countries who haven’t seen the current season. Not excusable but perfectly understandable. Well, the study said  about fifty-percent of illegal activities track back to the US, and that’s just plain shameful.

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Heroes – Season Three (DVD)and  Heroes: Season 3 [Blu-ray] will be released on September 1, 2009, and both are available for pre-order at Amazon.com.

The five-disc set will contain two volumes – Villains and Fugitives plus some behind-the-scenes and bonus features. As of today, there is nothing specific about the disc contents just yet, but I’m sure that will come out. Who knows it might be right before the San Diego Comic Con.  I’ll update this post once I get specifics.

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Given by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Film, the Saturn Awards is one of the genre’s premiere awarding bodies, recognizing excellence in science fiction, fantasy, action and horror films and television series for 30 years.

This year, the 35th Saturn Awards gave “Heroes” its nods for six categories:

• Best Network Television Series
• Best Supporting Actor in Television– Milo Ventimiglia and Adrian Pasdar
• Best Supporting Actress in Television – Hayden Panettiere
• Best Guest Star Starring Role in TV – Kristen Bell and Robert Forster.

Awarding will take place on June 25, at venue to be announced.

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Hayden Panettiere will present at the Golden Globes! The “66th Annual Golden Globes” award show will air live on NBC at 8 p.m. from The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills on Sunday.

Zachary Quinto and Chris Pine (of the upcoming “Star Trek” movie) were also asked to present at the Golden Globes awards.

Masi Oka was signing autographs when someone heckled him. This happened when Masi appeared in the Regis and Kelly show late November 2008.

Greg Grunberg has a really cool website, greggrunberg.com. You have got to see it!

Zachary Quinto was asked how he got the part of Spock (Star Trek), and what the hairstyle did to his image.

Season 2 villain David H. Lawrence XVII is on Twitter! David will be back on Heroes Fugitives as the Puppet Master Eric Doyle. In fact, he talked to ODI about the set pictures taken of him and Claire.

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  Sylar becomes ‘Joker’. All traces of hope and the chance of a new life disappeared when Sylar learned that the Petrellis were not his real parents. Being a “hero” sounded too good to be true, and it was. And yet for Sylar, it wasn’t enough to accept that he is a monstrous killer; he wanted to prove that everyone else is the same as he is. Didn’t the Joker did the same? At the Company headquarters, Sylar baited and trapped Angela, Claire, HRG and Meredith along with the remaining Level 5 villains, testing their vulnerabilities and limits of humanity. Sylar taunted Claire about Noah and Angela’s scheming lies. Why should Claire save either one? Sylar injected Meredith with an adrenalin that jacked her system so much that she could not control her fire. And then he locked HRG in a cell with her to test how far Noah would go to save his own skin. But Noah would not shoot her. Claire came just in time to save Noah, but Meredith could not be saved. It was only unfortunate that the farewell between mother and daughter was hurried and forced. Sylar confronted Angela with the truth, and she could no longer hide her schemes from this villain. And yet though the matriarch was afraid for her life, she seemed to just wait for events to play out. And play it did, in her favor. Claire stabbed a piece of glass into Sylar’s nape, and the killer dropped dead. Was Sylar able to prove the kind of people Claire, Meredith, Noah and Angela were? Oh, I think so, although the evening’s surprise was Claire. She had it in her all along.

Who’s got the coolest powers now? Saving a powerful Hiro from the past took more than just speed and brains, but this was one of the cool surprises of the season. Daphne turned from villain to hero because someone cared enough to believe in her goodness. Matt didn’t get to use his powers to its full potential, but he was more heroic than ever, at least in the eyes of his new love interest. Ando proved how far he’s willing to go to save his friend. Daphne took Mohinder’s vial right out of his hands and offered it to Ando, and the coolest surprise happened. Ando acquired the powers of a super-charger – touching him can amp someone else’s powers. And that’s how they saved Hiro from his own father’s blade: Holding onto Ando, Daphne juiced her speed faster than the speed of light and went back into time and back again to the present.

Nathan is dark. I wasn’t too surprise that Nathan turned out like the way he did. He has always been weak and dark and he hasn’t completely changed since season 1. He was still easily manipulated by those he considered important. But because his own driving force is self-ambition, one can not predict his next move or alliance. And that’s what makes this character pivotal in the series. He’s not a good guy, but he will do good things to the point that it serves his purpose.

Nathan took the chance at fame when his father and Tracy suggested that the formula would right the world at the hands of a capable leader. Nothing was going to stand in his way, not even his own brother. A powerless Peter destroyed the formula with the help of unlikely heroes – the last villains of Level 5. Nathan tried to kill Peter when an uncontrolled fire trapped him. Peter didn’t hesitate to inject himself back with powers to save his brother. Unfortunately, Nathan confessed that he wouldn’t have done the same.

The next volume is even more intriguing. Nathan talks to the US President and proposes to round up everyone with superhuman abilities, to his own exclusion of course. But I don’t think the President knows that. It will be interesting to see how Nathan plays his cards in the next volume, as the mastermind of this new operation.

In the final take, “Heroes volume 3: Villains” proved that the series still has what it takes to be the great show that it was conceived to be. The opening scene of “Heroes Fugitives” only serves to whet that anticipation. It’s time to go back to the formula of season 1.

“Heroes” comes back on February 2, 2009.

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Just when things really got exciting at "Heroes", we’re now in the last episode of the volume Villains. Sylar is back to being bad and maybe even more dangerous now that he can sense the truth. He goes after Angela for using him, but is that really all he wants?

Arthur Petrelli is dead (after a shot between the eyes, not at the back of the head). Delusional Nathan and his new woman Tracy take over Pinehearst and inject marines with the ‘perfected’ formula. Peter thinks that the formula will wreak havoc in the future, and he’s out to stop his own brother and Dr. Mohinder. Meantime, Ando wants to save Hiro and thinks that being injected with the formula makes him a time traveler.

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  With his time warp powers gone, Hiro is stuck in the past, at the same night that his mother has just died. So Ando, Matt and Daphne decide they must get Hiro back to the present! And the perfect solution? Inject one of them with the formula to create a new time traveler.

So the trio search for Mohinder at Isaac’s apartment in the hopes that he would have perfected the formula and willingly give one of them a shot. Matt can read minds, ("only" adds Ando) and Daphne can run (really, really) fast. Ando wants to be guinea pig, since of course he has no powers, and OK Hiro is his BFF.

OK, slow down there, folks. Let’s think through what these three people are doing and think back. Angela Petrelli asked Matt and Daphne to get Hiro into the Company, so that, presumably everyone would have worked together to stop Arthur Petrelli from perfecting the formula! Unfortunately, Hiro appeared at Matt’s apartment thinking like a kid, and Daphne wanted to go home. They all traveled to Daphne’s home in Kansas and end up at the comic book store, where Hiro learns he has to take Claire back in time, to get his memories back again. That’s when Hiro decides he’s wants to be the catalyst, and Claire was more than happy not to let her babyself be it. So, now the past has changed. Enter Arthur Petrelli who gets the catalyst and all of Hiro’s powers. Meanwhile, Ando, Matt and Daphne are reading all of this from Isaac’s lost sketchbook.

So, they want to save Hiro by asking to be injected with the same formula they were supposed to destroy. That doesn’t make sense to me, not in the smart way at least. If they want to know how to save Hiro, why don’t they just read the sketchbook and find out. Besides, was there ever a guarantee that an injection creates a certain power?

I hope these loopholes get answered next week. "Heroes" has gotten a lot of criticism this season for being too confusing and leaving so many unanswered questions. I still have hope, I still love the show, but I’m really hoping things properly get wrapped up.

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The GN "Truths" is Arthur Petrelli’s last moments in life. His memories take us back to when the Petrelli boys were still young. Peter has always been the softhearted brother while Nathan was calculating and the take-charge oldest son, but has no abilities.

Arthur took them deer hunting and Peter couldn’t muster to kill a deer, much to his father’s disappointment. Angela suggested that they ask Dr. Zimmerman to give Nathan powers instead, if Arthur believes his son will get the job done.

In his last moments in life, Arthur proves that Peter has the guts to take a life, after all, and that "was the best feeling in the world… Now I know my sons are strong enough to do what must be done."

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The Canadian trailer of "Heroes" final episode for volume 3 gives us a longer shot of the scene between Nathan and Peter, and it looks like they are bent on killing the other person. There has always been a tension between these brothers, and their decisions clash all the time. Now, there is no backing out.

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The final episode of the year pits heroes against each other, and central to it are the Petrelli brothers. It’s inevitable that Peter and Nathan are going to try to kill each other as they choose opposite sides.

The rest of the Heroes are fighting for their lives as well – Claire, Hiro, Sylar.

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