Heroes: Nothing to Hide

Matt Parkman punches his best friend in the Heroes web comic

Damn last week’s Entertainment Weekly for starting off a Heroes cover story with spoiler warnings! I couldn’t even read the article for fear of tainting my own discovery of what is happening. I stated previously, in my first dedicated post about Heroes I think, that I don’t read message boards, etc. about the show because I want to figure this stuff out on my own. The same can be said of Lost.

Since no one answered my question at the end of my last post about Chapter 6, I’ll just forgo any full recap and just drop my thoughts and ponderings on Chapter 7, especially since I just typed up most of the content after this sentence and lost it due to stupidly using the “Undo” feature of the TinyMCE editor control in WordPress. That makes twice over the last few weeks I have lost content because I chose to not type in Word first. Frak!

I wrote quite a bit about Nathan Petrelli… let’s see if I can remember it all… he’s a d!ck. Yup, that sums it up nicely, but there’s so much more there. First of all, they had to have cast Adrian Pasdar simply for that damn grin. I am so sick of that grin already!

He is an evil bastard, but he still can’t quite make up his mind, or can he? It would seem on one hand that he is looking out for Peter by warning him about H.R… heh, Daddy Bennet and the Mysterious Man. BTW, where does he get “spooky Euro dude” from a guy that didn’t say a word? Just because he looks a bit like Seal? Did he get a whiff of some heavy cologne that somehow overpowered his own heavy scent (even after a night of wild monkey sex with Niki… I mean Jessica)?

No, I think he’s definitely an evil guy. He justifies sleeping with Jessica because he feels too guilty when he looks at his hot, wheelchair bound wife, who he happened to place in that position? Hell no. Bastard! Peter then saves his bacon multiple times over brunch — did Mommy invite Petey in hopes he’d hurt Nate’s interview? — and even secured the missing Isaac painting from Linderman, but tells him he could not obtain it.

Speaking of Petey, it was obvious it was a dream at the beginning, but I’m willing to bet that what Simone describes to him later will really happen. I think Pete will have access to Hiro and Matt’s powers at the same time at some point in the future and travel back to the past to mind meld with Deveaux and relate events that happen in the future, which he told Simone before passing. Would it be for the sole purpose of hurrying up the acquisition of the painting from her? But, wouldn’t future Peter know this or did bad things happen in the future because they didn’t secure the missing painting? Hmm…

Back on Linderman, I think he may turn out to be the leader of “bad guys” with Nate as one of his henchman along with Sylar. If I go with that, I am going to put Horn Rimmed Glasses as the leader of the “heroes.” Damn you Nathan for being the first to coin it in a show. I guess, I’ll start using it, but it will never be as cool as C.S.M. or Cancer Man.

Let’s go from Linderman and Nathan to Niki, as that is a logical segue way in my mind. As I already wrote, “Other Niki” is named Jessica and thankfully I don’t have to write Other Niki anymore. What up with the gat? I thought she liked tearing people apart with her paws? Random thought, but do you think Niki/Jessica got super strength from resorbing a fetus while in the womb so that she has the strength of a grown woman and a baby? Hmm…

On to D.L. and Micah… well, I guess you have to include Hiro and Ando since they meet up on the highway. D.L. and Hiro do the hero thing by rescuing a woman from a burning car accident. I thought the Hiro and Micah conversation was more off than the Hiro and Nathan convo that had Joe up in arms, so I am coming over to his camp a bit. I am not totally convinced this is a way off thing, but this one seemed weird to me for some reason.

As for Micah, I posited back in my Hiro’s post that he’d have a power and this episode would prove me right. I was slightly off on my prediction on what it would be as I thought it might be something like a super learning ability since he was so smart for such a young kid. When he was rebuilding his motherboard before school in one earlier episode, I did have a thought that he might be like Forge of the X-Men where he can make, fix or invent things that he simply thinks about and then does. Micah’s ability to reactivate a broken pay phone to call his Mom would seem to be some kind of ability to manipulate machines or possibly some kind of electrical ability. Time will tell, but I might have been closer with the Forge thought, but I didn’t write it at the time.

As for Matt, well he’s dyslexic and that is why he has been failing his detective exams because he sure proved to what’s-her-name that he is a better one than her. I never thought the radioactive dude was going to be Sylar simply because I don’t think Sylar would be careless enough to leave a fingerprint behind, radioactive and on a bone or otherwise. You knew that Matt’s wife had to be having an affair, but with his friend, that has to really kick a guy while he’s down. Check out this week’s web comic for (not much) more on that.

As for Sprague, what little we know of his story so far is really awful. The poor guy gets his power, can’t really control it that well and gives his wife cancer. His tragic story of power obtainment (is that a word?) is straight out of a Marvel comic. Do you think he’ll be the cause of the nuke-u-ler explosion in N-Y-C or will it be Sylar after he brain scoops him?

Finally, what’s with Sprague and Matt both bearing the same mark on their neck/shoulder? Do you think it was done by H.R.G.? That he has picked them both up? If it is a branding, then why not give them the other symbol? The branding is something else out of a Marvel X-Men book.

the marks on Sprague and Matt

Man, recap or not, this is still a too long post…