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It was hard not suspecting that something was up with Eden--she has a great, but complex, part in the movie "Brick"...

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OK Michael time to start paying attention. when the next door neighbor in a rundown building just happens to be a cute pixie haired girl really interested in a scientist, time to call BS. The fact that she also has one of the only fake sounding names on the show "Eden" is another clue. I guessed it on FJZ three weeks ago.
And I totally disagree with you, I thought the episode was one of the worst yet with very little meat to it. Everything seemed drawn out especially the Claire stuff. They could have skipped the entire bio-parents and just had her mom blurt it out while making cupcakes. Would have saved us about 20 minutes. we already know HRGG is bad. By the way the official character name for him is Horn Rim Glasses but I recently stumbled on who will play Sylar...and it ain't him.

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So Nikki and DL had a kid and DL has a superpower... so is Micah the uberHero? Does evil Nikki (with the bad hero tattoo) want the kid for the bad guys? This is fun.

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We had the closed captioning on the show last night, and I was delighted to see Claire's dad referred to (on the closed captioning) as H.R.G.

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I have a theory about Peter... I think his "power" is that he can temporarily acquire another super power if he is near it. ie. he was with his brother who can fly when he sorta flew. And he was with Isaac when he painted the future. Maybe when he gets with the cheerleader, he will be invincible.

I'm not sure what Niki's "power" is at this point. She has split personalities. Big deal? Or is it that her alter ego knows the future and is telling her what she should do in present day? But then again, why is she framing her seemingly innocent husband?

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Got to agree with Dave T. This episode was just dull. I do still really like the show, but this one was just dull from start to finish. What are we now... 6 episodes in? Have any of the 'heroes' done anything vaguely heroic yet? All we keep hearing is 'save the cheerleader' with very little progress. The show has got to start moving along soon or people are going to begin losing interest.......

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This show has the overall feel of the comic Rising Stars. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rising_Stars I like the show so far, it's creative and they've been revealing just enough information each week to make it interesting. Having read that comic, and X-Men for years though it seems a bit more generic and not as stand out as NBC would like.

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#5 Tara - "I have a theory about Peter... "

I don't think it's a theory since in the last episode (s01e05) Peter already said, whenever hes around someone he can tap into their power.

Now to throw out a theory of my own even if someone mentioned this already, I think Horned Rim Glasses Guy is a good guy, the tricky writers are setting him up in suspicious and ambiguous situations, but never actually showing him kill anyone, the fat telepath cop seemed fine except for headaches after being kidnapped, and I believe after hearing "save the cheerleader" his reaction was more of shock knowing his daughter would be in danger, maybe pointing the gun at the flying politian seems evil, but (going off in a direction with no basis of facts) i think hes gonna end up beign some government agent profiling all the heroes and trying to find syler (cyler, cylar? whatever..)

speculating is fun!

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I think HRGG is more a shade of gray. Sylar is the bad guy ... I wouldn't be surprised if HRGG is part of an organization that wants to *use* the Heroes for their agenda (e.g., truth, justice, the american way ... at least as they perceive it).

At first I thought HRGG is bad, but last week's episode should have made it clear that he's protective of his daughter (adopted or not).

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My fav part: when Ando said "ITS HOW WE ROLL!"
(When Ando n Hiro went to the bathroom together.

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Ok Still getting into the show and haven't watched them in order, but is DL the same guy who's been mind wiping people with HRG? I'm confused...

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Tara, where have you been? It's been pretty obvious (since the second or third episode) that Peter's special power is acquiring other heroes' powers that he is near. On Nikki's split peronality thing, I think it's more than that. After the first episode, I too thought it seemed like all she had was a split personality. But it's pretty clear that she has super strength (and maybe faster than the average person), whether it's just her twin that has it or only her twin who knows how to "tap into it" I'm still not sure.

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yes, this ep was slow, but of all the shows on TV right now, it's the only one I want to watch a second time, just to make sure I've caught everything.

The last time that I noticed watching a show twice on purpose was during the first season of LOST.

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Another great episode (though I'm disappointed that this week's and last week's cliffhangers haven't been as "OMG! WTF!" as before. Loved that we finally got our first superpowered fight between Nikki and D.L. Hiro was great as always, both with the dramatic part when he fails to save some people and his brilliant reaction to finding out his future self has a sword. A reference to Hiro was also the funniest moment of the episode.

Eden: "He claims to have made contact with someone who can stop time."

Horn Rimmed Glasses: "Really? That's cool!"

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I am curious, how can Nikki commit these blood fest COPIOUS killing without getting any blood on herself.
Are there two DISTINCT individuals???

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So is Nikki dead, or is one of her personnae dead? That was sweet, the whole hand in the chest thing. When Isaac was finishing the painting, it revealed that the unconscious body was that of Evil Nikki; is that to suggest that if she wakes up, Evil Nikki will be in complete control? I could also see why they'd kill her off, setting DL up as a hero who has to overcome some tricky obstacles (already set in place) to make sure his son is safe. But then again, he 'fisted' her out of rage that she stole from him and set him up, not because he thought she would endanger the kid. So there's unfinished business there and an interesting twist on the timeless child-of-divorce TV conflict. I could see it going in any direction from here: Nikki passed out, Nikki dead, or Nikki only evil.

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I hate my TIVO!
NBC ran the episode long, without warning!
What happened after the girl arrived at Issac's place?
This normally wouldn't have been a problem because I record Studio 60 and it would have carried over. But I'd rather watch real football than drama HS angst football.

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I don't thing HRGG is necessarily as bad a guy as we've been made to assume, either. And he's clearly very protective of his daughter in a non-calculating, emotional way. The look on his face when he heard Eden say "Save the cheerleader" on the phone was just like when he confronted Jock the Rapist last week--he's a caring, protective dad at those moments.

I'm not even convinced that Sylar is a big villain. Yes, he cuts off people's heads and eats their brains, but he's really conflicted about it. I mean, he had that room full of "I'm a sinner" and "forgive me" all over it. No, the only flat-out bad-ass we've seen so far, frankly, is ikiN (as she's called at TWoP). I wouldn't put it past her to be the one bombing NYC.

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Count me in for the 'Mr Bennet isn't evil' camp - my guess is he's doing whatever it is he's doing to protect Claire from Sylar (or whatever Sylar represents or he thinks he represents). It could be that he works for some government agency that's dealing with the various heroes, and he doesn't want them to know his daughter is one of them.

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Karen - NBC posts the full episode at http://www.nbc.com/Video/rewind/full_episodes/?show=heroes. You can watch it there.

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