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He Said: Lost 05/02/07

Last night’s episode of Lost was explosive. We learn so many things to make us keep guessing. This episode focused on Locke’s time with The Others. Sawyer played a major role in the episode as well. We learn why Nadia (Sanjaya) is on the Island and also that Jack and Juliette are keeping secrets.

So much happened in the episode. I loved it. We are down to the last three of the season now and things are heating up.

Sawyer and Kate are still having a tryst but Kate still pines for Jack, you know she does. Kate up and leaves in the middle of the night and Sawyer heads off to attend to nature’s call. He is startled by John Locke. Locke has come back to get Sawyer. He tells Sawyer that he has captured Ben and needs Sawyer to kill him.

You really felt for Sawyer in this episode. He ends up finding out that Locke knows all about his past and ultimately he gets to confront the man he swore he would kill. This man was the one who seduced his mother and swindled her out of their life savings. This enraged Sawyer’s father and he killed Sawyer’s mother and then himself. Young Sawyer was under the bed when his father pulled the trigger. Sawyer wrote a letter to the man called Sawyer who conned his family. Sawyer (James) then became a con man of his own but all the while he kept that letter to give to the man who conned his family and robbed him of his parents.

as luck would have it the original (Tom) Sawyer happens to be Locke’s father who happens to be on the island. while Locke was at the Other’s camp Ben tried to get Locke to kill his father in front of everyone in the camp. He did this to embarrass and humiliate Locke. (Lock is told this later by Richard). We are still left wondering why Ben did this to Locke.

So eventually the Other’s Camp is on the move but John must stay and he cannot follow them unless he has the dead body of his father on his back. Locke takes his father to the Black rock slave ship and locks him in the brig. He goes off in search of Sawyer.

Locke has left his father in the brig with a bag over his head. He urges Sawyer to go in, then locks the door behind him. He takes off the bag over Locke’s father’s head. Sawyer is confused. Shortly thereafter Sawyer learns that this is the man he has been searching for. Sawyer gives Locke’s father the letter and commands him to read it. Locke’s father read the letter a little ways and then taunts Sawyer. He makes Sawyer so angry by ripping up the letter that Sawyer chokes him with his (Locke’s Father) chains.

While this was such a brutal death in the show it was something that Locke’s Father had coming to him. Rage and years of revenge poured out of Sawyer as he choked the life from this con man who ruined his family. And immediately afterwards Sawyer throws up and is racked with emotion just like he was when he killed the man whom he thought was the real Sawyer.

I have really started to feel for Sawyer, here is a person who we can see has the potential for redemption. He can show remorse and has deep emotion. Sawyer has even started trying to do things for the good of the group. He is becoming my favorite character on the show.

I fear that John Locke is trading one evil manipulator in his life or another. Locke’s life s marked by the evil that his father visited on him. But that the same time Locke still wanted to reconcile with his father, he thought it was possible. I fear that he is looking for that same sort of validation from Ben and Locke will once again be victimized. I hope I am wrong but I don’t think I will be in this.

Back on the beach Hurley, Jin, Desmond and Charlie are sneaking food and supplies to Nadia like she was a stray dog that they found and are hiding from their parents. Eventually they involve Sayid and Katie into this plot. They are hiding Nadia from Jack because they do not trust Jack anymore. Kate eventually spills the beans to Jack and Juliette and we learn that those two have been keeping a secret from everyone else.

It looks like next week we will learn what that secret is and we will learn what the original mission of the Dharma Initiative was. It looks to be a great episode.

If you are not listening to it yet, I suggest that you subscribe to The Official Lost Podcast on ABC.com. There is some good insight from the Producers Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof.

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He Said: Heroes 04/30/07

Claire, Bennett, The Haitian, Micah, Hiro, Ando, Nathan…. All Dead!

If you haven’t watched last night’s Heroes. Stop reading!

Last night’s episode of Heroes gave us a look 5 years in the future. That is 5 years from the day of the bomb exploding in New York. What do we learn from the future. We learn so many things.

First up we will deal with Hiro, he is the linchpin in this whole thing. Hiro has spent the past 5 years attempting to find the exact moment to return to the past to change the fate of the future. The giant timeline that is in Issac’s apartment is more of a time web. If Hiro changes one event then he can move the web to show how that event changed things. When present day Hiro and Ando arrive all hell breaks loose.

Parkman is now working for the government rounding up the special people. He has become a hard ass and is working with the Haitian. He is in charge of the task force to round up the Special people so they can be cured of the genetic trait that makes them special. Parkman captures Past Hiro while Future Hiro and Ando escape.

Future Hiro and Ando travel to Las Vegas to seek the help of Peter Petrelli. They arrive at a strip club where Nikki is dancing under the name Jessica. She is not happy to see Hiro and a humorous exchange between Ando and Nikki ensues, or at least on Ando’s part. When Hiro and Ando leave Peter, who was sitting at the bar invisible the whole time, de-cloaks and talks to Nikki. They are lovers now. Micah is dead and D.L. is either underground or dead. D.L.’s fate is not truly revealed however I tend to believe that he is dead because of events later in the show. Peter has a huge scar across his face. Looks like it was put there by a sword…

We catch up to Bennett (Sans HRG) who is helping specials hide from the government. He is still protecting his baby girl Claire (sporting auburn hair). Claire is working as a waitress in Midland Texas.

Nathan Petrelli is now the President of the United States. He is forcing Mohinder to come up with a cure for the specials, however that is not possible so the plan is to round them all up and kill them.

Apparently what happened in the past was that Sylar blew up New York and killed over half the people who were there. The day that Hiro returns is 5 years to the day of that explosion. And throughout the course of the show we hear about what happened to each hero.

During the round up of the specials Parkman comes to Bennett. They both know that Claire has been protected in the past five years. There is a nice exchange between Parkman and Bennett and we learn that Parkman’s wife had a baby boy named Matthew. Then Parkman executes Bennett. I was not happy to know that.

Then Parkman captures Claire, she was supposed to get out of town with some fake credentials that her father, Bennett, gave her. But instead she is returned to her father, Nathan. And in one of the biggest reveals ever on the show we find that Nathan is actually Sylar in disguise. Sylar then kills Claire. I now understand the twisted painting of Nathan Petrelli in the Oval Office that Sylar painted. That was a very cool twist. So we know that Nathan died, Sylar also must have killed the shape shifting chick too.

We also learn that Peter Petrelli was the man who blew up. And his brother Nathan covered it up. So in the next 3 episodes we will either see Nathan killed or saved from Sylar.

Future Hiro and Ando are captured and are rescued by Peter Petrelli. Peter has certainly gotten a control of his powers in the Past 5 years. Peter, Ando and Future Hiro attempt to save past Hiro so he can go back to the past. However Mohinder is ordered by Nathan Petrelli to kill past Hiro. Luckily Mohinder has actually wised up in the past five years and he realizes that the last issue of 9th wonder comic book is actually a prediction of what should happen. So at the last second Mohinder kills the Haitian, and sets Past Hiro free.

Future Hiro and Peter take on all the guards in the complex. Rather than stop time the opt to fight it out. It was very difficult to see a hard Hiro, a desperate Hiro and not the idealistic Hiro we know and love. That Hiro died with the death of his best friend Ando in the Bomb Explosion.

Just as Future Hiro is about to tell Past Hiro how to get back he is shot and killed. Peter is suddenly ripped through the doorway by Nathan Petrelli. Nathan then reveals himself to be Slyar and a great showdown is about to begin between Peter and Sylar. One thing I noticed that was pretty cool was that Peter’s hands started glowing orange/red and Slyar’s were glowing blue/purple. I found that cool because those were the colors for Optimus Prime’s Vibro Axe (Orange) and Megatron’s Energon Mace (Purple) in one of the first episodes of the Transformers.

The whole episode was very very cool. Allison has been reading the online comic and told me that there is much more backstory on the characters within that comic. I need to go and read it.

In the end Hiro returns to the present. Can he change the future. The previews of the next three weeks were very cool and we learn of another new Hero. A you g girl named Molly. Could she be pivotal in the race to stop Sylar. Does Hiro Kill Sylar, 9th wonder seems to say that he does, but then how could that be accurate and keep our attention?

Till next week. That was He Said Heroes 4/30/07.