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Later, Emma plays the piano as Hiro watches. Emma tells him to head back to his room, but as Hiro turns to leave, he vanishes. Hiro is then shown to have traveled three years back in time, standing outside the diner where Charlie worked. Steve Heisler of The A.
Robert Canning of IGN gave the episode 8. Heroes TV series — Heroes is an American psychological thriller science fiction television drama series created by Tim Kring that appeared on NBC for four seasons from September 25, through February 8, The series emulates the style and storytelling of American comic books, using multi-episode story arcs that build upon a larger.
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Four complete seasons aired, ending on February 8,, the second season of Heroes attracted an average of An online extension of the series, Heroes Experience, later rebranded as Heroes Evolutions, was created to explore the Heroes universe, other official Heroes media include magazines, action figures, tie-in and interactive websites, a mobile game, a novel, clothing and other merchandise. A episode miniseries entitled Heroes Reborn premiered on NBC on September 24,, additionally, comic book writer Cullen Bunn will be writing an ongoing comic book continuing Heroes, called Heroes, Season Five, a release date and artist has yet to be determined.
Originally, Kring designed the series to have an ever-shifting cast, in its first season, the show features an ensemble cast of twelve main characters making it the third largest cast in American primetime television behind Desperate Housewives and Lost. In episode eleven of the first season, Jack Coleman, who portrays Noah Bennet, was upgraded from a role to become the twelfth full-time cast member.
Simone Deveaux was the first major character to be written out, DL became a guest star after the events of the first seasons finale, making two appearances throughout season two. Isaac Mendez was also written out, dying at the hands of Sylar, Two recurring characters from season one, Sylar, portrayed by Zachary Quinto, and Ando Masahashi, portrayed by James Kyson Lee, were upgraded to main characters in season two.
Starting in season two, recurring character Angela Petrelli, portrayed by Cristine Rose, was promoted to a main character, Elle, Adam, and Micah were removed from the main cast. Monica Dawson did not appear after scenes including her were cut, Niki was also written out but actress Ali Larter remained on the show portraying a new character Tracy Strauss, Nikis triplet sister with the power to freeze objects with a touch. For season four, a new character Samuel Sullivan, portrayed by Robert Knepper, was added, originally cast as a recurring part, the part was changed to a starring role.
Deanne Bray was also added as Emma Coolidge, the woman who had enhanced synesthesia including the ability to create a siren song. The plot of Heroes is designed to be told in a way similar to the way books are told. Each season of Heroes contains one or two volumes, there are several main story lines in each volume.
As the main plots develop, smaller, more stories are told within them. Following the acquisition by GE, Bob Wright served as executive officer of NBC, remaining in that position until his retirement in In , French media company Vivendi merged its entertainment assets with GE, Comcast purchased a controlling interest in the company in , and acquired General Electrics remaining stake in WEAF maintained a schedule of radio programs, including some of the first commercially sponsored programs. The early effort fared poorly, since the telegraph lines were susceptible to atmospheric.
The Orange Network name was removed from use in , at the same time, the Gold Network became part of the Blue Network. In the s, NBC also developed a network for shortwave radio stations, in , NBC moved its operations to Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, occupying the upper floors of a building designed by architect Floyd Brown.
Science fiction — Science fiction often explores the potential consequences of scientific and other innovations, and has been called a literature of ideas. Science fiction is difficult to define, as it includes a range of subgenres and themes. Author and editor Damon Knight summed up the difficulty, saying science fiction is what we point to when we say it, a definition echoed by author Mark C.
Glassy, who argues that the definition of science fiction is like the definition of pornography, you do not know what it is, in or William Atheling Jr. According to science fiction writer Robert A, rod Serlings definition is fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science fiction is the improbable made possible, Science fiction is largely based on writing rationally about alternative possible worlds or futures. Science fiction elements include, A time setting in the future, in alternative timelines, a spatial setting or scenes in outer space, on other worlds, or on subterranean earth.
Characters that include aliens, mutants, androids, or humanoid robots, futuristic or plausible technology such as ray guns, teleportation machines, and humanoid computers. Scientific principles that are new or that contradict accepted physical laws, for time travel, wormholes. New and different political or social systems, e.
A product of the budding Age of Reason and the development of science itself. Isaac Asimov and Carl Sagan considered Keplers work the first science fiction story and it depicts a journey to the Moon and how the Earths motion is seen from there. Later, Edgar Allan Poe wrote a story about a flight to the moon, more examples appeared throughout the 19th century. Wells The War of the Worlds describes an invasion of late Victorian England by Martians using tripod fighting machines equipped with advanced weaponry and it is a seminal depiction of an alien invasion of Earth.
In the late 19th century, the scientific romance was used in Britain to describe much of this fiction. This produced additional offshoots, such as the novella Flatland, the term would continue to be used into the early 20th century for writers such as Olaf Stapledon. In the early 20th century, pulp magazines helped develop a new generation of mainly American SF writers, influenced by Hugo Gernsback, the founder of Amazing Stories magazine. Drama — Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. The term comes from a Greek word meaning action, which is derived from I do, the two masks associated with drama represent the traditional generic division between comedy and tragedy.
Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the mode has been contrasted with the epic. The use of drama in a narrow sense to designate a specific type of play dates from the modern era. Drama in this sense refers to a play that is neither a comedy nor a tragedy—for example and it is this narrower sense that the film and television industries, along with film studies, adopted to describe drama as a genre within their respective media. Radio drama has been used in both senses—originally transmitted in a performance, it has also been used to describe the more high-brow.
The enactment of drama in theatre, performed by actors on a stage before an audience, presupposes collaborative modes of production, the structure of dramatic texts, unlike other forms of literature, is directly influenced by this collaborative production and collective reception. Closet drama describes a form that is intended to be read, in improvisation, the drama does not pre-exist the moment of performance, performers devise a dramatic script spontaneously before an audience.
Western drama originates in classical Greece, the theatrical culture of the city-state of Athens produced three genres of drama, tragedy, comedy, and the satyr play. Their origins remain obscure, though by the 5th century BCE they were institutionalised in competitions held as part of celebrating the god Dionysus. The competition for tragedies may have begun as early as BCE, tragic dramatists were required to present a tetralogy of plays, which usually consisted of three tragedies and one satyr play.
Comedy was officially recognized with a prize in the competition from to BCE, five comic dramatists competed at the City Dionysia, each offering a single comedy. Ancient Greek comedy is traditionally divided between old comedy, middle comedy and new comedy, following the expansion of the Roman Republic into several Greek territories between — BCE, Rome encountered Greek drama.
While Greek drama continued to be performed throughout the Roman period, from the beginning of the empire, however, interest in full-length drama declined in favour of a broader variety of theatrical entertainments. The first important works of Roman literature were the tragedies and comedies that Livius Andronicus wrote from BCE, five years later, Gnaeus Naevius also began to write drama. No plays from either writer have survived, by the beginning of the 2nd century BCE, drama was firmly established in Rome and a guild of writers had been formed.
Sylar — Gabriel Gray, more commonly known by his pseudonym Sylar, is a fictional character and a primary antagonist of the NBC drama Heroes. Portrayed by Zachary Quinto, he is a serial killer who targets other superhumans in order to steal their powers. He served as the villain of the first season and then as a recurring antagonist.
TV Guide included him in their list of The 60 Nastiest Villains of All Time, in an interview with series creator Tim Kring, it is asked if Sylar eats brains, and he merely states Thats the popular speculation. Theres a connection between the powers and the brain, and Sylar has found it, the question is addressed in the season three premiere, when he is depicted in the act of acquiring Claire Bennets regenerative powers through examination of her brain with his hands. When Claire asks him the question, he sounds surprised. The writers never bridged the gap between the early insinuations regarding what Sylar does with the brains and the final incarnation they reveal in his encounter with Claire.
Prior to Quintos first appearance in the episode Seven Minutes to Midnight, Quinto himself played the role with his face hidden in the same way until Six Months Ago. In the second episode of the first season, Dont Look Back, his voice is heard in a phone conversation on Chandra Sureshs answering machine. Part of this conversation is heard again in Six Months Ago, Sylar was raised as the son of a watchmaker, but was indoctrinated by his mothers repeated assertions to believe that he was special and deserved more in life.
This and the imperative to acquire new abilities are what drive him to kill the victims with powers. Taking the name Sylar from a brand, he has shed all connections to his former life as Gabriel Gray to the point where he angrily lashes out at anyone who calls him Gabriel. In addition to the above, Sylar shows a lack of empathy. This was seen with Mohinder Suresh, when Sylar tried to impersonate Zane Taylor, Sylars dominant trait was his innate desire to be recognized as special and admired. This was fueled by his mothers disappointment in him for perceived failure and his own feelings that he did not get a chance to choose his destiny.
He spent his life hoping to learn something extraordinary about himself, Sylar is repeatedly shown as desperately looking for a family and parental figures due to his own unhappy home life, desperately wanting to be loved. The flip side of this is that he can react with violence when his emotional needs are exploited by others. Sylar is also known for his voracious appetite and he can constantly be seen snacking or looking for food and he has even taken time during his murders to eat, such as when he reacted with joy at a birthday cake of the woman he just killed.
Samuel has the ability of terrakinesis and he is the mysterious leader of a carnival ring, Sullivan Bros. Chandra Suresh who recorded much of his research as part of Project Icarus. Even at birth his ability was present, during his birth, he produced a seismic event. Knowing this, Samuels mother asked Joseph to keep Samuel under control by limiting his closeness to other evolved humans and it is unknown if Samuel and his family got out of Coyote Sands before Hurricane Alice or survived the massacre of evolved humans on May, Whatever the case, he and his family were released at some point according to Joseph, after Coyote Sands, the Sullivan family lived and worked on the Wheelers estate, NY.
Young Samuel fell in love with the Wheelers daughter, Vanessa and spent a lot of time with her, later, the Sullivans moved out the manor, and eventually opened the Sullivan Bros. Tina opens the door and asks how long, Nikki replies a few hours. Linderman and that she's late repaying the loan. She also says she's seeing things and that someone is following her, someone she can't see. Nikki asks Tina if it makes sense, and she says no. Tina advises her to get the money plus intrest and pay him back, Nikki leaves.
Back in Odessa, Claire and Zach watch some firefighters trying to put out a massive fire from a train derailment. Claire tells Zach to turn on the camera and runs into the accident. Inside a boxcar, she finds a man trapped and helps him out. When Claire brings him out, she's on fire, and when a firefighter looks at her, he finds no burns, while the other man is badly burned. Claire then runs off. Mohinder arrives at Chandra's apartment in New York City to find it in wrecked with items all over the place.
Mohinder rents his father's apartment and tells the super that he's got a job driving a taxi, just like his father did. Mohinder sees a cockroach and squishes it. As he looks around, he sees another map on one of the apartment's walls, just like the one in Chandra's apartment in Madras, along with another large folder with the word "Genesis" on it. He looks at a folder containing information about radiation.
Using the picture he took of the map in Madras, he puts pins and links them with strings to make it look exactly like the map in Chandra's Madras apartment. Once he's finished, he finds a cassette on the floor with the word Sylar on it. Back at Nathan's office, he's busy talking on the phone about covering up his mom's arrest.
Peter arrives, he and Nathan talk about their parents. Nathan offers Peter a job as a coordinator to help organize volunteers since Peter has nice guy instincts. Nathan says it's to help him look good since he's a shark, showing he's largely thinking of himself.
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Nathan explains he's trying to do the right thing, but Peter tells him he has a job already. Nathan shows him some tough love by telling him that it's not cute for him to still be acting like a dreamy kid. Peter leaves telling him he doesn't want his pity. He then catches a cab, which is driven by Mohinder. As he's being driven, he looks out the back window and looks at the sun and seeing the solar eclipse. They talk about the solar eclipse and introduce themselves. Peter asks Mohinder about being "special", and Mohinder gives a evolutionist response. Zach catches up to Claire and can't believe what she did.
Hiro is shown exercising on top of a building with others exercising, looking at the sky, seeing the solar eclipse. Niki is back at her house and finds it wrecked, just like what happened to Chandra's house.
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As Mohinder continues driving Peter, he continues looking at the solar eclipse. Claire also sees the solar eclipse. Hiro still gazes at the sky. Isaac is struggling with whether to get high and paint or not. Niki also watches the eclipse through Micah's pinhole camera, then she hears and sees one of Mr. Linderman's people in another room. She tries to leave but is grabbed by a man. They take her to her garage and talk about the money she owes.
She now owes Mr. They want her to strip for them in order lower her debt. One man turns on the camera. She reluctantly starts, but stops when she looks in a mirror and sees her reflection staring at her. One of the men insists she contiinue, she says screw you, he then asks "screw me? In Japan, Hiro continues to tell Ando he has powers, but Ando still doesn't believe him.
An group of asian guys sing kareoke in the background. Hiro explains that as he develops his power, he can eventually bend space and time and be capable of teleporting himself anywhere on the planet. Ando teases him by comparing him to Star Trek. They head to a bar where Hiro explains his theory of time. When Ando asks Hiro how he knows this, he explains that it was in the comic book "X-men , when Kitty Pryde time travels".
Ando tells Hiro to try and teleport into the woman's bathroom. Hiro agrees, and as Ando goes for more beers, Hiro starts concentrating. Niki is woken by an answering machine message Micah leaves in which he asks his mother, Niki, to pick him up. Niki surveys the room and finds that Mr. Linderman's thugs have been brutally murdered and ripped apart and their blood covers the room. She grabs the video camera the thugs had been using to record her strip tease.
Niki then notices her reflection in a nearby mirror. Niki is clean and does not have any blood on her clothing; however, her reflection in the mirror is covered in blood stains. As Niki stands motionless trying to comprehend what she is seeing her reflection places a finger over her lips telling Niki to remain silent about the gruesome scene she has awoken to. Peter, still in Mohinder's taxi, receives a call from Simone asking him to meet her at her dad's place. He tells Mohinder to stop.
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He pays him and walks off. Meanwhile, another man enters Mohinder's taxi and asks to go to JFK airport, claiming he's finished a business trip and is going home to his family. The man continues talking to Mohinder, noticing his last name is Suresh. He says he knew a professor in Madras with the last name Suresh and that he was a geneticist with interesting theories. He also says that he doesn't think he's teaching anymore. Mohinder swerves crazily and stops the car. He then runs off, with the man in the taxi getting out, revealing it's the same man who was searching Chandra's apartment in India earlier.
Back in Odessa, Claire, her brother , and her mother with her dog are having dinner.
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Her mother goes on about her fued with a friend of hers about their dogs. Her mother states their dad will be coming home today. When her mother asks them what they did today, Claire says she walked through fire and didn't get burned. Her mom thinks she means something metaphorical.