November 5, 2007, 8:28 pm : Episode 7: Out of Time
Filed Under: Season 2Discussion:
Hiro comes back! Hiro comes back! Hiro comes back! Hiro comes back!
This episode was by far the most explosive and most revealing episode of the season, so far. For the rest of the season, we are going to see some really cool stuff, I am predicting.
So one commenter from a few weeks ago predicted that Kensei was the one killing the modern Heroes. Guess what…. we find that to be true at the very end of this episode. Adam is Kensei. That was cool, and a great way to end the episodes… leaving me wanting for more.
Hiro wakes up in the past, sniffing Opium fumes and finds that Kensei has teamed up with White Beard. The princess gets free, takes away the Opium and Hiro gets them all out of there. But Hiro remains loyal to Kensei and tries to save him, but we see them sword fight which was predicted in one of Isaac Mendez’s paintings. Hiro teleports out of there and watches Kensei blow up, which of course we find out doesn’t kill him. So our prediction earlier this year that Hiro was the real Kensei was partially right.
Mohinder and Noah Bennett get into an argument and Mohinder ends up turning against him towards the end and telling Bob that he has been working with Noah to bring down ‘The Company’. All of this after Niki breaks his nose and he tapes it up, which is predicted in another painting of Isaac’s. So the next thing we will have to watch for is to see if Mohinder really ends up shooting HRG.
Parkman and Nathan show up at the company to protect Bob from Parkman’s father, Maury. Niki and Mohinder join the fight, but ultimately Parkman finds out that he can put other thoughts into people’s minds also and he traps his dad in a nightmare, thus releasing Molly. All of this while Niki injects herself with the virus to get the nightmare out of her head, only to find later that Mohinder’s blood can’t cure her. But Bob says that Claire’s ability could cure her. I’ll be interested to see how that goes.
In the future we find that Peter and the Caitlin are captured by the CDC, Peter meets up with his mom and after a few minutes, he remembers her. And she refers to him as “the most powerful of all of us”… I really want to know what her power is. Peter finds out that on March 20,2007, the first case of the Ashanti Virus is discovered and about a year later it had whiped out 93% of the worlds population. Peter travels back to the past accidentally because he can’t control that power yet and he leaves Caitlin behind. That is when he meets up with Adam/Kensei.
Bob says that Adam was one of the ‘original’ Heroes… and he tells Nathan that he knows Adam was the one killing all the originals. Bob also tells him that Peter is alive and shows him a video which looks like it might be a preview from next week’s episode.
West learns that HRG is Claires dad and gets mad, which I also predicted. But that was obvious. Noah gets mad and tells his family that they are all moving, but Claire says she isn’t going with them. Which I can’t blame her for, Noah is still lying to them all and being a complete jerk. I originally thought that Noah was the main bad guy last season. That turned out to be wrong, but now it might be coming true.
Next Week:
Next week is the ‘6 Months Earlier’ episode where we will find out what happened right after Peter explodes at the end of last season. It should tie-up some strings, but it will probably open alot more questions also.
November 6th, 2007 at 8:40 am
Luvvv’d the first season. Story had direction, character empathy, well paced and well written. What happened this season? It seems as if Tim Kring replaced his writing team. So far, in my opinion, this season has been reduced to a haphazard bunch of unrelated scenes in efforts to get all the characters some screen time. I’m giving this show one more shot. If it is as boring next week as it has been this entire season, they have lost a viewer.
November 6th, 2007 at 9:55 am
Actually, since it happened in the past, Isaac couldn’t have predicted it, so chances are, another Adam/Kensei-Hiro duel is in the future.
November 6th, 2007 at 3:48 pm
That makes some sense, I guess.
November 6th, 2007 at 4:32 pm
That’s great, I’ve been wondering what happened with Nathan, especially since it seems like he’s going to die soon from the virus.
November 7th, 2007 at 12:50 pm
I can’t wait for ‘6 months earlier’ episode….I’ve been waiting for it since the 2nd season has started…Hope it’s not as disappointing as the earlier episodes though…
November 7th, 2007 at 1:27 pm
I had a thought. It appears that there are at least three pairs of characters that share the powers - and one of those pairs is a father and his son, Parkman and Maury. This appears to suggest that at least some of the powers are inheritable from father to child, or maybe even mother to child. If so, then possibly Claire may have the same powers as Adam/Kensei. Could he in actualitybe her true biological father? The same reasoning would make Nathan the biological father of West. I know the plotline has already established Nathan as Claire’s father - but what if the writers are planning the following either this season or next: 1. West and Claire find out they have the same father? 2. They tearfully break up. 3. Much later Claire finds out that Nathan is not her real father. 4. They get back together again. What do you think?
November 7th, 2007 at 1:44 pm
All I have to say is West (Claire’s boyfriend) is not what he seems. I am convinced this kid is hiding something.
Mark my words… he is a bad man.
November 7th, 2007 at 6:35 pm
Vantage,
Interesting idea. I have noticed that there are a few characters that have the same powers. What you are saying it possible, but I don’t think that they would change what we have learned about Claire. Just my opinion.
Bryan,
I haven’t thought about that. I don’t see him as a bad guy, but you never know.