I watched FOUR episodes of Heroes last night. Didn’t mean to, but a TV-less friend showed up and the episodes were still on the TiVo, so we watched them all, plus the new episode.
I really feel bad for Matt Parkman.He’s on suspension from the police force, his first security client got torn in half, everyone thinks he’s a loser. Not only do most people he interacts with think he’s a loser, he can hear them thinking it! But, maybe most people walk around thinking everyone around them is an idiot. I do, sometimes.
What is going on with Claire’s adoptive mom? There’s some indication that her brother, Lyle, is having some further memory disintegration as well. The way Mrs. Bennett walked in after her appointment with the neurologist, I thought she had a cancerous brain tumor from too many Hatian interventions. Or maybe the Haitian’s abilities are getting a little out of control. The memory disintegration could have been intentional, too; the Haitian is a devious, secret keeping guy.
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I’m not sure what to make of Nuclear Mom, other than opportunist white trash.
Last week, I suggested that the heroes may all be related somehow. Say there was a Patient Zero, a Hero Zero, as far back as 1962, the year Primatech Paper was founded. Maybe, the hero strain isn’t only genetic, passed down from parent to child. Maybe it can be passed from person to person, like an STD. Then it goes from Nathan Petrelli to Nuclear Mom to Claire. The question then becomes, how did Peter get it?
Now, I have another idea. Two strains of heroes: one genetic, the other transmitted like a virus. I’m not sure what that means yet, but I really think I’m on the verge of a breakthrough.
Back to Hero Zero. I have a theory on who Hero Zero might be. There’s a character we’ve heard a lot about, but haven’t seen or heard, who holds a lot of influence over a lot of Heroes. DL and Nikki worked for him. Jessica is doing hits for him. Isaac sells paintings to him. The Flying Senator took campaign money from him.
Yeah, I’m talking about Linderman. He was a friend of Nathan and Peter’s dad, which would put him in his 60s at the very least, which would be the right age to launch Primatech Paper in 1962. And he’s located in Las Vegas, which is the perfect free loving place to spread his abilities around. What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.
On a totally unrelated note, I’m getting a little tired of the catch phrases. “Save the cheerleader, save the world.” “Are you on the list?” “Someone flies, someone dies.” Lost’s “What’s in the hatch?” is the closest thing to “Who killed Laura Palmer?” viewers have had in years, and even that wasn’t very compelling. So, here’s a suggestion to the Heroes marketing department: stop with the catch phrases. It’s annoying.
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Lisa Fary's earliest influences are Princess Leia, Rainbow Bright, Astronaut Barbie, and her 6th grade teacher, Ms. Palmer. She's angry that it's 2011 and she still doesn't have a hovercraft, but will accept a jetpack as consolation. That jetpack had better be pink with a rhinestone monogram. 
Maybe Peter got it from his father, who commited suicide. Perhaps, and this is a stretch, Peter and Nathan's papa had a power similar to Peter's. Petrelli papa foresaw evolving into a human bomb and killed himself, therefore, saving the world.
I think that the Linderman character is going to be like a "Lex Luthor" of the Heroes world. He's the seedy underbelly that funds a lot of the experiments that goes on and he keeps people quiet. Or, and this is another stretch, the first Heroes were made in a lab owned by Linderman. Some escaped or were released and they started to procreate. Hence, having little Heroes. Wow, I'm blowing my own mind.
Orrrrrr. . . . . Linderman clearly has some moral flexibility. Maybe he got too close to Mama Petrelli. . .
And something I didn’t put in the review. . . I’m getting the feeling that this samurai that Hiro talks about is actually Hiro himself. He still has limited control over his powers, so he may find that he has to go back in time to get this sword. Those paintings in the museum looked a lot like him. . .
AAGGGHHH! Hiro could be his own ancestor!!! It’s Commander Sinclair and that Valen thing from Babylon 5 all over again!!